someone_else wrote:
Also I wonder if such an obvious approach would not prompt an ABM barrage whenever the alien craft get in range.
I mean, if they are supposed to stop nukes they should be ready to launch anytime.
Blasting approaching carrier sized pieces of metal into smaller pieces. Well, it worked for Hong Kong...
Last but not least, the shield-thing does not appear to get into water as well. Bypassing it by going underwater (like say with submarines) or even getting close to it with a rubber dingy sounds slightly smarter than flying an aitrcraft through it.
They actually do say that the field penetrates several klicks below the waves, practically into the mantle. No dice.
Really, I had to think about this. I came out of the film laughing at the various things I expected. Then I thought a bit more about it, and while it still had the stupid in there (and a war vet with zero acting potential), I felt the SA.com review shed light on some of my quandaries.
NecronLord wrote:I actually liked Battleship. I went in with low expectations, and it exceeded them in every way. What the hell were you people who go on about it being 'an action flick' or whatever, expecting? Goddamn Hamlet? Terminator 2? Are you retards? It promised cool alien space boats, and the US navy fighting it, and some female leads who are easy on the eye. That is what it delivered, and it did so very well.
evilsoup wrote:Does anyone at any point say a variation of 'you sunk my battle ship'?
Like, for example; after the captain's Battleship has been sunk and he's about to set off a bomb to take out an alien thingy
CREWMAN: Sir! Come on, we've got to go!
CAPTAIN: They sunk my battleship
That sort of thing?
Because if it doesn't, there's no reason for me to watch this film.
This comment had me cracking up and wins the thread tbh.
Simon_Jester wrote:I wonder. Did they just write a fully generic "aliens invade" script, then look around for some IP they could buy the movie rights to for a title and arbitrarily settle on Battleship?
No. Universal signed a deal with Hasbro to make a bunch of movies based on games.
Holllly shit I can't wait to see Connect 4
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Simon_Jester wrote:I wonder. Did they just write a fully generic "aliens invade" script, then look around for some IP they could buy the movie rights to for a title and arbitrarily settle on Battleship?
No. Universal signed a deal with Hasbro to make a bunch of movies based on games.
Holllly shit I can't wait to see Connect 4
Hasbro killed the deal when Battleship was pretty close to done.
Since we have apparantly reached the point where turning board games into movies... I look forward to seeing Command and Conquer being turned into a movie.
Sooo many questions! I can live with the aliens, they are actually less stupid than most alien invaders simply because we don't know why they are here, although their whole not shooting unless shot at except by airfields and freeways rule is weird. But the Missouri, my god the Missouri. Why was it fuelled? Where did they get shells? Do its retired crew members squat on board or something? And can someone please explain to me how the hell an Australian F-18 reaches the coast of Hawaii?
Alkaloid wrote:Sooo many questions! I can live with the aliens, they are actually less stupid than most alien invaders simply because we don't know why they are here, although their whole not shooting unless shot at except by airfields and freeways rule is weird. But the Missouri, my god the Missouri. Why was it fuelled? Where did they get shells? Do its retired crew members squat on board or something? And can someone please explain to me how the hell an Australian F-18 reaches the coast of Hawaii?
That said, fun movie.
Australian F-18's? Where were there australian F-18s? If its the one that crashed into the barrier, then it might have been already in the air from the bases on hawaii. If it were the ones at the end,I guess someone goofed and forgot to digitally replace the RAAF roundels since those were obviously supposed to have come from the Carrier.
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The ones at the end. It close ups on the pilots helmet, and he has the Australian flag on his forehead and reports 'taaaarget destroyyyed' in a manner that makes Steve Irwin sound positively British. It was weird.
mithie wrote:
Why wasn't the film over in the first 10 minutes since the aliens clearly had technology that was centuries ahead of us? Because the aliens are blinded by sunlight and so have to resort to firing unguided salvos. Yes, that's right. These aliens, who supposedly came from a planet much like ours, orbiting their own sun at a similar distance, are fucked by sunlight.
Man, and look at those "human" creatures. Their planet is dark half the time and they're almost blind without a convenient light source! Seriously, what idiot thought that up? I mean, what a dumbass weakness. How are they supposed to fight if their soldiers can't see anything half the time?
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Alkaloid wrote:Sooo many questions! I can live with the aliens, they are actually less stupid than most alien invaders simply because we don't know why they are here, although their whole not shooting unless shot at except by airfields and freeways rule is weird. But the Missouri, my god the Missouri. Why was it fuelled? Where did they get shells? Do its retired crew members squat on board or something? And can someone please explain to me how the hell an Australian F-18 reaches the coast of Hawaii?
That said, fun movie.
Australian F-18's? Where were there australian F-18s? If its the one that crashed into the barrier, then it might have been already in the air from the bases on hawaii. If it were the ones at the end,I guess someone goofed and forgot to digitally replace the RAAF roundels since those were obviously supposed to have come from the Carrier.
If I remember correctly the war games involved a dozen countries or so, so I supose there could have been an Australian contingent involved.
It interesting that I though I saw the union flag on that fighters helmet and though it was strange at the time, What country do you live in Alkaloid. I wonder if they changed to the flag to match the country the film was released in?
Err-human soldiers are virtually blind half the time too-it's called 'night'. To compensate for that we give them NVGs, the aliens gave theirs really bulky sunglasses. That was quite possibly the only part of the movie that actually made sense.
Let's see-an interstellar vessel that is clearly capable of not only moving at considerable fractions of C but surviving atmospheric entry comes apart thanks to crashing into one of our satellites (despite the surviving wreckage still being sufficient to massively fuck up HongKong).
The alien ships dolphin-hop around instead of actually flying because apparently somebody thought that would look cool (which it not only didn't but made no sense to boot).
Battleship is one of those movies that is best not thought about. It does work as a mindless action flick if you don't. It completely falls apart if you do.
As for them having fuel, that might actually be the case. Those battleships used crude oil and emptying her tanks might simply not have been worth the effort. As long as it's in the ship the stuff at least isn't contaminating any beach somewhere.
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PREDATOR490 wrote:Any indication why they killed the deal ?
Since we have apparantly reached the point where turning board games into movies... I look forward to seeing Command and Conquer being turned into a movie.
If I remember correctly the war games involved a dozen countries or so, so I supose there could have been an Australian contingent involved.
There was definitely an Australian contingent, there were Australian flags all over the place. Australian F-18's though, no. They don't operate off carriers, ever.
It interesting that I though I saw the union flag on that fighters helmet and though it was strange at the time, What country do you live in Alkaloid. I wonder if they changed to the flag to match the country the film was released in?
Well British fighters makes even less sense. I'm in Australia though, so you might be right, they might just be changing it to whatever region it's being shown in, which is just sad. But funny. But sad.
If I remember correctly the war games involved a dozen countries or so, so I supose there could have been an Australian contingent involved.
There was definitely an Australian contingent, there were Australian flags all over the place. Australian F-18's though, no. They don't operate off carriers, ever.
It interesting that I though I saw the union flag on that fighters helmet and though it was strange at the time, What country do you live in Alkaloid. I wonder if they changed to the flag to match the country the film was released in?
Well British fighters makes even less sense. I'm in Australia though, so you might be right, they might just be changing it to whatever region it's being shown in, which is just sad. But funny. But sad.
Maybe it's a F/A-18D/F and that's actually the backseater who is a foreign pilot on an exchange program
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Watched it few hours ago. Well, it was better than Battle LA and some other alien invasion movie that was released few months before Battle LA that I don't reacall name. At least Battleship had some cool naval porn.
Just came back from watching it with Chris O'Farrell - was entertained! No Avengers, but I thought it was pretty fun. I was surprised by the aliens, in that I was fully expecting the cliched "tentacled naked monster" shit - and it was dudes in armored suits. Cool.
I just got back from seeing it and thought it was an interesting flick, entertaining as well.
For the Missouri's fuel I believe they said they had enough for a maintenance cruise or something like that, the shells I dunno. Willing to forgive it though because it was awesome.
I'll echo the comments on how generally non-hostile the aliens were. Everyone is browning their shorts that they might be summoning an invasion force but really the closest thing to a hostile action they perform is when they launch the shredders at the marine base and the roads, though in that case they weren't deliberately aiming to kill humans, but rather to isolate the mountain where the Beacon transmitters were so they wouldn't be bothered while they setup, and when their Security guys smash up the cops.
Wouldn't it be awesome if everyone in America was celebrating their defeat of the evil alien force, only for another fleet to arrive five years later, which opens tech transfer talks with the Chinese?
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Dunno.. I myself would find it highly amusing if it turned out that everyone screaming about how the aliens are trying to summon an invasion force was wrong and it turned out they were trying to send a message that said something like..
"We're aborting the contact mission, these crazy assholes started shooting at us!'
NecronLord wrote:I actually liked Battleship. I went in with low expectations, and it exceeded them in every way. What the hell were you people who go on about it being 'an action flick' or whatever, expecting? Goddamn Hamlet? Terminator 2? Are you retards? It promised cool alien space boats, and the US navy fighting it, and some female leads who are easy on the eye. That is what it delivered, and it did so very well.
You know for a fact that none of us were expecting that so fuck off. Why do people always have to go to that extreme? Give me a competent action flick with likable characters, some fun moments, intentional funny jokes, and some nice set pieces. Battleship barely did 2 of the 4.
PeZook wrote:Wouldn't it be awesome if everyone in America was celebrating their defeat of the evil alien force, only for another fleet to arrive five years later, which opens tech transfer talks with the Chinese?
No, I think stupid would be a better way to describe that.
It looks like the movie might be rather underwhelming in terms of box office returns, taking in only about $25 million this weekend:
LA Times wrote:
The box-office debut of "Battleship" looked like a very different board game: Trouble.
Universal Pictures' $209-million alien invasion spectacle fizzled badly in its domestic premiere, grossing just $25.3 million and finishing a distant second to the third weekend of Disney's "The Avengers," according to Sunday estimates. The debut of "Battleship" — whose ticket sales were about 40% lower than some predictions — was even worse than the $30.2-million March opening of"John Carter,"one of the biggest fiascoes in Hollywood history.
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In American and Canadian theaters, "Battleship's" audience was 57% male and 55% age 30 and older, the latter number a worrying sign of how little interest the film sparked among young moviegoers, the drivers of summer box office. The movie received a B grade on CinemaScore, another dire sign for the film's long-term prospects. Given historical patterns, "Battleship" could struggle to gross $60 million in domestic release.
The movie has brought in about $215 million overseas in ticket revenue, but that's not as impressive as it sounds. The distributors usually get even less money back from those ticket sales than they do from domestic box office ticket sales, although there's some variation by country*. When you figure that the movie cost $209 million to make, and probably another $80-100 million in marketing costs, they'll be fortunate if this thing turns a profit before the sales of DVD/BRD. Although . . . it might not be as bad as that, if Milton-Bradley paid for a cross-marketing campaign for the movie, defraying some of the marketing expenses (which are particularly brutal because they have to be paid first, before the studio-distributor can take their cut out of what's left).
* Just look at John Carter, which also brought in $200 million overseas and still was a massive flop for Disney.
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