The Transformers 2 Trailer a Day Early and 63 Degrees Off
Someone put up a bootleg of the new Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen trailer that’s supposed to debut tomorrow afternoon, so I figured I’d run it for the few of you that will get to see it before YouTube takes it down. Don’t worry, I’ll run the real thing as soon as it pops up on the tubernet.
As for the trailer, Bay has made the bold choice of focusing on the movie’s human characters and not, say, the fucking Transformers. A good call — I’m really hoping we get to see more of Shia the Beef’s dorm life and college classes instead of all those pesky giant robots! Now that’s entertainment!
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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.