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Cheesecat wrote:When I picture the game "Battlship" I always pictured WWII over WWI battleships.

This. This exactly. I dont want aliens of any sort in what should be a movie about awesome boats knocking 7 shades out of each other. If i wanted to watch something big randomly destroying warships i'd just watch Godzilla V Biollante and skip to the part where the Japanese Navy tries to stop him landing on the shore of Osaka.

Still i'll probably end up going to see this so meh.

sebster wrote:There also aren't any aliens...

And you have empirical proof of this?

Well it is written on the internet right there.

sebster wrote:

Cheesecat wrote:Fine then, World War I it is.

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.

There's already a film about the sinking of the Bismarck, unsurprisingly called 'Sink the Bismarck!' It's very good. It is from 1960 though, so your mileage may vary.

What I don't get is that it's supposedly an international fleet... And yet so far I've only seen loads of Americans and one Japanese bloke.

Is there enough resonance in the Battle of Jutland to make a good film?

n0t_u wrote:Well it is written on the internet right there.

Yep, saw it too.

I have my doubts about the Battle of Jutland as a movie. Did ships back then even carry anti-aircraft armament? What are they going to be shooting at fast-moving alient VTOL's with? Although a transforming battleship with an urban\hip hop styling and street smarts does sound compelling.

fire4effekt wrote:In a land filled with ladders...

There can be only one who makes it...

To the top!
*cut to people screaming on a slide descending into hades.

Don't be the one to Chute first and ask questions later!

Chutes and Ladders the MOVIE
Only one can climb the ladder of success! This spring.

Also watch our feature short
Ants in the Pants!
Now with 50% less pants!

This movie demands the sizable acting talents of either Sam Worthington or Shia LaBeouf.

sebster wrote:

Cheesecat wrote:Fine then, World War I it is.

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.

There already is a film about the sinking of the Bismark....called, strangely enough, 'Sink The Bismark!'



Next thing you'll be telling me is you've never heard of 'Tora Tora Tora'.....

And its excellent.

Absolutely Frazzled, it's one of the best WWII movies of the era.

aliens ruined it. yeah the girl might be hot but you're never gonna get a good look at her boobs.

Of course you won't, why would you want to walk around a movie theatre afterwards with a loaded weapon pointing around?

You watch the movie for the credits that tell you her name which you then give to the internet in return for boob images.

mattyboy22 wrote:Personally I'm waiting for "Battleship: The Movie: The Board Game"

That's a pretty awesome idea! I'd love to see a movie about that game!

I'd prefer to see the game based on that movie, or perhaps the tie in movie for it.

Has anybody seen the newest incarnation of Battleships (the actual board game)?

It's electronic and includes a UAV

Avatar 720 wrote:Of course you won't, why would you want to walk around a movie theatre afterwards with a loaded weapon pointing around?

You watch the movie for the credits that tell you her name which you then give to the internet in return for boob images.

Exalted

Lux_Lucis wrote:Has anybody seen the newest incarnation of Battleships (the actual board game)?

It's electronic and includes a UAV

Link pl0x?

Of course you won't, why would you want to walk around a movie theatre afterwards with a loaded weapon pointing around?

You watch the movie for the credits that tell you her name which you then give to the internet in return for boob images.

oh god I loled. Exactly what I did after seeing captain america. I was obsessed with Hayley Atwell for a couple weeks afterwards

Ouze wrote:I have my doubts about the Battle of Jutland as a movie. Did ships back then even carry anti-aircraft armament?

Only at the very end of WWI did ships carry any kind of AA armament, and even then it was heavy caliber 76mm stuff and only mounted on convoy escorts. No ship in Jutland had any kind of dedicated AA, though they could (and did) fire their 20mm & 76mm smaller guns at aircraft.

Jutland would be a fairly boring war movie as it's the ultimate historical anti-climax. You have these 2 massive fleets of imposing battleships charging towards each other in the ultimate showdown, firing a few shots, something like 10 ships are lost, and then the Germans bug out. It isn't cinematic material unless they change it so the entire German navy is wiped out.

Really this is a rather bizarre movie considering there hasn't been an actual Battleship in US Navy service (or indeed any navies service) for about 30 years. Modern naval combat is all out of visual range and launching missiles at each other by pushing buttons. The only big-gun ship left in service is this Heavy Cruiser in the Peruvian Navy and that thing is really only ceremonial by this point.

Harriticus wrote:

Ouze wrote:I have my doubts about the Battle of Jutland as a movie. Did ships back then even carry anti-aircraft armament?

Only at the very end of WWI did ships carry any kind of AA armament, and even then it was heavy caliber 76mm stuff and only mounted on convoy escorts. No ship in Jutland had any kind of dedicated AA, though they could (and did) fire their 20mm & 76mm smaller guns at aircraft.

Jutland would be a fairly boring war movie as it's the ultimate historical anti-climax. You have these 2 massive fleets of imposing battleships charging towards each other in the ultimate showdown, firing a few shots, something like 10 ships are lost, and then the Germans bug out. It isn't cinematic material unless they change it so the entire German navy is wiped out.

Really this is a rather bizarre movie considering there hasn't been an actual Battleship in US Navy service (or indeed any navies service) for about 30 years. Modern naval combat is all out of visual range and launching missiles at each other by pushing buttons. The only big-gun ship left in service is this Heavy Cruiser in the Peruvian Navy and that thing is really only ceremonial by this point.

Do Leyte Gulf, with Ghost fleet crossing the T on evil Japanese battleships. Oh wait, In Harm's Way covers a lot of that.

Samus_aran115 wrote:

Lux_Lucis wrote:Has anybody seen the newest incarnation of Battleships (the actual board game)?

It's electronic and includes a UAV

Link pl0x?

http://www.hasbro.com/games/en_us/battleship/battleship_live.cfm

I don't think it's out yet, looks like it will be around the same time as the film, unsurprisingly.

We should go further back and have more Napoleonic naval warfare films.

If it hasn't got a Frigate hiding in the most obscure part of the sea ever, then it 'aint Battleship.

That new Battleship game looks pretty sweet!

Shame it dosnt appear to be available in the UK and Europe though. (except France)

While actually trying to find that I came across another one that's made by the first company to make a Battleships like game (apparently Hasbro wasn't it). It has a hex shaped map and involved islands and the pegs were men. It was electronic as well. I didn't really have a close look though.

Lux_Lucis wrote:

Samus_aran115 wrote:

Lux_Lucis wrote:Has anybody seen the newest incarnation of Battleships (the actual board game)?

It's electronic and includes a UAV

Link pl0x?

http://www.hasbro.com/games/en_us/battleship/battleship_live.cfm

I don't think it's out yet, looks like it will be around the same time as the film, unsurprisingly.

We should go further back and have more Napoleonic naval warfare films.

Looks too complicated to me. I think a lot of people will notice the lack of pegs

I thought it looked pretty complicated. And not much like Battleships. Then again... Naval warfare doesn't really involve guessing where the enemy is and firing in that general direction anymore.

Lux_Lucis wrote:I thought it looked pretty complicated. And not much like Battleships. Then again... Naval warfare doesn't really involve guessing where the enemy is and firing in that general direction anymore.

Ahhh, but it should!

At first, I thought it was a joke, till Liam Neeson showed up

Honestly, I can't wait

DeathReaper wrote:And you have empirical proof of this?

I don't have empirical proof that Liam Neeson and Rihanna aren't presently fighting an alien menace in the middle of the Pacific, but I'm going to go out on a limb and say I'm pretty sure it isn't happening.


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Lux_Lucis wrote:There's already a film about the sinking of the Bismarck, unsurprisingly called 'Sink the Bismarck!' It's very good. It is from 1960 though, so your mileage may vary.

Yeah, I've seen it. Disappointed by the tacked on romance and other needless personal stories, but otherwise a pretty solid movie. More than anything though, I think the immense destructive power of battleships could really be delivered with today's technology, imagine the spectacle of the Hood opening up with a full salvo. Imagine when rounds smash into it.


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sarpedons-right-hand wrote:There already is a film about the sinking of the Bismark....called, strangely enough, 'Sink The Bismark!'



Next thing you'll be telling me is you've never heard of 'Tora Tora Tora'.....

Yes, I've seen it. Of course I've seen it.

Next you'll be telling me there's no point making a film about a D-Day, because we already made one.

Asherian Command wrote:Oh dear god no...

Ummm.... ever heard about what happened to the Lusitania?

They had subs.

Aircraft carriers, not in the form we know and love them. They had seaplane tenders.