Robert Rodriguez Makes a Strong Argument for Not Watching Predators
Actually, the footage of Predators shown in this behind-the-scenes video from SXSW this weekend looks pretty good. Apparently the real, full trailer is coming out later this week, and I bet it ends up looking pretty fun, if not blazingly original. But that will be in spite of non-director Robert Rodriguez here, acting like a total douchekoala, and apparently trying to make Predators sound as lame as fucking possible. Wait until the end, when he calls the Predators — and I swear to god I’m not shitting you — predators. Guh.
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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.