I watched Battleship

[Lumenskir]

Snuck into this right as the aliens crash landed. It's pretty much what Bells has said, except he neglected to point out that about a third of the movie is dedicated to the love interest taking a (real life) double amputee up the mountain and then having to delay the alien's back-up communications plan, which...I mean, the fact that he's an actual vet who has given up a lot for this country is inspiring, but he cannot act and the entire section is like some long ad for why you should join the military even with the threat of losing limbs, because you'll still totally be able to kick some ass with the skills they teach you.**

*Don't see The Dictator, kids.
**Really, this entire movie feels like the director saw that old ad where a Marine kills a lava demon and decided to make a 2 hour ad where the Navy battles aliens.

there is one micro-scene that kinda, maybe suggests that they are fleeing their planet and looking for a new one to live... but if you blink y'll miss it. Also, the same scene kinda, maybe, sorta suggest that the aliens have some sort of Telepathic ability... i dunno.

Yeah, I wasn't sure if that was meant to suggest that they were refugees looking to find a new home, or conquistadors looking for a new place to ravish.

In fact, there were whole stretches of the movie where I thought it was attempting some sort of psuedo-Starship Troopers anti-fascism statement because of how weirdly the aliens acted. If they were meant to be just slaughter bots with faces there were too many scenes where they could clearly and easily kill humans and instead chose other non-living targets or waited to act in self-defense, and then by the end they were just baddies killing indiscriminately.

Also fun is how by the third act they are forced to bring in a bunch of really old guys to run a old battleship instead of their super modern destroyers.

The best part of that scene isn't that they have to round up a bunch of old sailors, it's the fact that the old sailors are already on the ship in the early morning waiting around to be pressed into service. And they aren't even standing together, they seem to have positioned themselves at completely opposite and high parts of the ship, again just waiting around like near-senile ninjas.