Battle of the TV Spots: Star Trek and Terminator Salvation
If you had told me a year ago that I’d be more excited about McG’s Terminator: Salvation movie than J.J. Abrams’s Star Trek relaunch, I’d have punched you in your face. And it would have done no damage, because I’m a muscle-less nerd, and you would have gotten mad and chased me, and eventually I would have fallen down, exhausted, begging for mercy and weeping uncontrollably.
But ccomapre these new TV spots for the two movies, and tell me you that Terminator doesn’t look like the cooler film. I’m not saying Trek looks boring, but unless you’re a huge Trek fan (that doesn’t loathe Abrams and his attempt to make Star Trek exciting), I think you have to give the nod to Bale and all the robots that are trying to kill him. Maybe it’s not fair to compare Christian Bale and Sylar. Okay, it definitely isn’t. Still, it’s not like I’m the guy who cast the two. (Via io9)
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Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.