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I absolutely loved battleship as a kid. Although I always thought the sub was too easy to sink. Whatever the case may be, they're making a movie of it. Seems like one gigantic recruiting add to me, but I'll probably watch it.
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I absolutely loved battleship as a kid. Although I always thought the sub was too easy to sink. Whatever the case may be, they're making a movie of it. Seems like one gigantic recruiting add to me, but I'll probably watch it.
I stopped caring for this movie after they fethed it up by adding aliens (I don't recall see that in the board game), really how hard is it to make a battleship movie just show a bunch of battleships duking it out (which is
what the actual boardgame is about) seriously this isn't rocket science. One good thing I can say is Brooklyn Decker is in it and she's hot as feth.
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It's stupid, but I really want to see this crappy looking camp-fest.
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I think its based on war games, as apposed to the board game. I'm losing interest in action movies, but I might watch it to see if that really was the Normandy.
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Cheesecat wrote:I stopped caring for this movie after they fethed it up by adding aliens (I don't recall see that in the board game), really how hard is it to make a battleship movie just show a bunch of battleships duking it out (which is
what the actual boardgame is about) seriously this isn't rocket science.
I think the aliens, force fields and everything else is a big list of contrivances to justify having battleships firing at other battleships in a modern war setting. I mean, even in WWII they were no longer primarily ship to ship combatants.
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Cheesecat wrote:I stopped caring for this movie after they fethed it up by adding aliens (I don't recall see that in the board game), really how hard is it to make a battleship movie just show a bunch of battleships duking it out (which is
what the actual boardgame is about) seriously this isn't rocket science.
I think the aliens, force fields and everything else is a big list of contrivances to justify having battleships firing at other battleships in a modern war setting. I mean, even in WWII they were no longer primarily ship to ship combatants.
Yeah, like has already been said, the Battle of Jutland would make for a fine film. Then again, so would the Sinking of the Bismarck, and that was WWII.
But this film isn't a war story, it's a big dumb movie in the style of that other Hasbro toy license, Transformers. So you get impossibly pretty people battling space aliens, with a couple of insane heroes pulling off a crazy plan in the last couple of minutes of the movie. It even looks to be pretty close to Bay's style, just hopefully without all his weird baggage.
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Adam Smith, who must have been some kind of leftie or something.
The ships in this movie are most likely destroyers. The USN doesn't currently use any "batleships", although that one ship near the end looked pretty battleship-ish.
They didn't have subs or carriers in the first world war
Samus_aran115 wrote:The ships in this movie are most likely destroyers. The USN doesn't currently use any "batleships", although that one ship near the end looked pretty battleship-ish.
There also aren't any aliens, so I think they're just going to pretend about the battleships
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Adam Smith, who must have been some kind of leftie or something.
Personally I'm waiting for "Battleship: The Movie: The Board Game"
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sebster wrote:But this film isn't a war story, it's a big dumb movie in the style of that other Hasbro toy license, Transformers. So you get impossibly pretty people battling space aliens, with a couple of insane heroes pulling off a crazy plan in the last couple of minutes of the movie. It even looks to be pretty close to Bay's style, just hopefully without all his weird baggage.
In the last few minutes, do you think there will be a slow, panning shot from the floor up as the hero looks up and gathers their inner courage, set to a slow, moving orchestral score, with explosions and destruction in the background?
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Ouze wrote:In the last few minutes, do you think there will be a slow, panning shot from the floor up as the hero looks up and gathers their inner courage, set to a slow, moving orchestral score, with explosions and destruction in the background?
I already saw one shot from beneath a character, panning across them as they looked dramatic
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Adam Smith, who must have been some kind of leftie or something.
One can only assume he went into the Eye of Terror because he still hadn't had a chance to punch enough Primarchs yet. 
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