So Battleship trailer

[Aerozord]

Watching youtube, and it popped up (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xl1tZna3ws)

All I have to say is, I have absolutely nothing to say. Yea I know we aren't supposed to just post links but reason I felt compelled to share is that was the most incomprehensible trailer I had ever seen. It looked like a cliche alien invasion movie, but from the sea, so we need to use the navy instead of the airforce, maybe?

[Osterbaum]

It felt like a weird combination of Transformers and Battle: LA.

[Aldurin]

Just saw it too, and I'm not really sure what to make of it. I might see it in the theater if any of my folks are interested, but I'll probably hold off on it.

[Locke cole]

OK, now that it's out, and someone's seen it, I need to ask a question. This is important.

Does someone, at some point in the movie, scream "You sunk my battleship!"? If so, does he preface it with something like "You alien bastards,"?

[Ryanderman]

What I can't figure out is, whose battleship does the title refer to? It certainly isn't the US's. Our last battleships were decommissioned in 1992 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battleship).

Battleships are entirely obsolete.

[The Sevenshot Kid]

OK, now that it's out, and someone's seen it, I need to ask a question. This is important.

Does someone, at some point in the movie, scream "You sunk my battleship!"? If so, does he preface it with something like "You alien bastards,"?

Tight close-up of Liam Neeson with all the sound muted until he says, "By god, you sunk my battleship..."

[Solid Snake]

You know what's even more strange than the concept of this movie?

...Rihanna.
Appearing as an actress.
In the same movie as Liam Neeson.

Also why has Neeson been in such crap movies lately
He totally has the chops to just deny anything but AAA offers

[The Sevenshot Kid]

You know what's even more strange than the concept of this movie?

...Rihanna.
Appearing as an actress.
In the same movie as Liam Neeson.

Also why has Neeson been in such crap movies lately
He totally has the chops to just deny anything but AAA offers

Ever since his wife died, the man just doesn't seem to want to stop working. Make of that what you will.

[Arhra]

Watching youtube, and it popped up (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xl1tZna3ws)

All I have to say is, I have absolutely nothing to say. Yea I know we aren't supposed to just post links but reason I felt compelled to share is that was the most incomprehensible trailer I had ever seen. It looked like a cliche alien invasion movie, but from the sea, so we need to use the navy instead of the airforce, maybe?

This will be the greatest bad movie ever made.

I mean it starts off looking like Naval Top Gun, suddenly aliens and then it rounds things off by revealing it is based on Battleship, the board game.

Also Liam Neeson!

[3stan]

This will be the greatest bad movie ever made.

I mean it starts off looking like Naval Top Gun, suddenly aliens and then it rounds things off by revealing it is based on Battleship, the board game.

Also Liam Neeson!

Agreed. It's totally impossible to take seriously. I'm almost hoping it has shitty War On Terror commentary woven into the story, just to make it even more ridiculously overblown.

Now I'm going to make up ridiculous taglines for it.

"They sunk our battleships... So we sunk into despair."

"You'll get that sinking feeling."

"They fired everything... but the kitchen sink."

[Magus]

What I can't figure out is, whose battleship does the title refer to? It certainly isn't the US's. Our last battleships were decommissioned in 1992 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battleship).

Battleships are entirely obsolete.

There has been at least one article or other who pointed this out, forget who. But it has been one of the many things making this movie the internet's punching bag. That and the absolutely ludicrous adaptation elements, such as the force field that goes up to keep the battleships from escaping, or the giant red bullets the aliens fire that are similar to the red pegs in the game.

I don't expect another Clue out of this, but it might be okay if it is self-aware like that movie.

[synkr0nized]

Didn't we make fun of this when the trailer first came out?
Not that it isn't deserving of more ridicule.

[Flarecobra]

So, how about a sequel to 300 then? (http://www.worstpreviews.com/headline.php?id=22831)

[Locke cole]

300 Other Guys.

'cause didn't 299 of them die?

[Osterbaum]

They fought for Democracy and Freedom, so that means they were resurrected by God.

[Satan's Onion]

They fought for Democracy and Freedom, so that means they were resurrected by God.

You mean, like, to do it all over again? 'Cos if so, then that God's a real asshole.

[Shyria Dracnoir]

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[Jagos]

Also why has Neeson been in such crap movies lately
He totally has the chops to just deny anything but AAA offers

Are you speaking ill of Liam Neeson? ILL?!

We must expunge the evil.

RELEASE THE KRAKEN!

Oh wait...

[Melfice]

Are you speaking ill of Liam Neeson? ILL?!

We must expunge the evil.

RELEASE THE KRAKEN!

Oh wait...

... no, you misunderstand.
Snake's totally saying that Neeson is so top notch, that he should (be able to) just decline every offer, except for AAA titles.

The movie is just crap. Not Neeson.

[Tev]

OK, now that it's out, and someone's seen it, I need to ask a question. This is important.

Does someone, at some point in the movie, scream "You sunk my battleship!"? If so, does he preface it with something like "You alien bastards,"?From what I've read in interviews with the producer and director.....no. And they are complelty unapologetic about it too. I forget which one of them said it, but it was basically "Look, we just took the name of a favorite nostalgia game and made a movie about the Navy vs. aliens. There is no connection between our movie and the game other than the name and the fact that we also have boats! Stop nerd-raging at us because we left out cliche throwback one-lines that you wanted to see!"

At which point, I wrote the movie off as a failure and decided that I'd wait until it ended up on HBO to see it.

[RobinStarwing]

... no, you misunderstand.
Snake's totally saying that Neeson is so top notch, that he should (be able to) just decline every offer, except for AAA titles.

The movie is just crap. Not Neeson.

Yeah and it isn't like Neeson has a Monopoly on being in crap movies. This was probably a "Pay-the-bills" thing and he figured have some fun. He might even say Sorry for causing us so much Trouble if it's as bad a crapfest as we think it will be.

I mean seriously, come on...all the aliens gotta do is Connect Four in a row somehow to win and so do we.

[The Artist Formerly Known as Hawk]

I mean seriously, come on...all the aliens gotta do is Connect Four in a row somehow to win and so do we.

What if they have to face an aircraft carrier? Or what if the ships are placed in really odd spots and they keep making the wrong choices on which side to shoot at? Or what if the Navy guys CHEAT and keep repositioning their ships?

[RobinStarwing]

What if they have to face an aircraft carrier? Or what if the ships are placed in really odd spots and they keep making the wrong choices on which side to shoot at? Or what if the Navy guys CHEAT and keep repositioning their ships?

Or what if there are no ships on their field!

And what will the aliens say when we sink something of theirs?

"THEY SUNK MY WHISKEY TANGO FOXTROT!"

[Flarecobra]

How do you sink a what the fuck?

[RobinStarwing]

How do you sink a what the fuck?

I think we just did.

[synkr0nized]

Are you speaking ill of Liam Neeson? ILL?!

We must expunge the evil.

RELEASE THE KRAKEN!

Oh wait...

Put yourself in crap and you kind of are crappy. What's his great skill? Talking menacingly? Pro actor.


@Tev's post: That just emphasizes how dumb this is. Why use a well-known board game as your foundation if you've no intentions to build upon it at all? It's like making a movie using the name of, say, Candy Land because the main character owns/likes to shop at a candy store.


Tic-Tac-Toe: the movie -- the protagonist likes to sometimes wear a shirt with an X or an O on it!!


Operation! The main character is a doctor but never operates in the movie, nor is that a central theme!


I mean this makes me angry a little. I get angry at dumb things. Why strive to make an awful movie but balk at taking it all the way and capitalizing on it?!!

[Azisien]

I'll go see this movie if it has the following scene, approximately 3/4's of the way into the movie near the climax:

Marine Guy: They've deployed some kind of jamming device that's playing havoc with our targeting software!

*long silence as bridge crew, stern thoughtful looks by Captain Liam Neeson*

*Captain turns, looking at big lit-up glass wall showing the positions of allied ships*

"I guess" *Liam Neeson looks at camera and smirks "we will just have to guess where they are."

[Magus]

Liam Neeson doesn't just talk menacingly. He is menacingly.