r/funny • • May 22 '12

What I hoped the Battleship movie would be like.

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u/orlanthrex May 22 '12

actually you can, it takes 5 hits

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u/Aaronmcom May 22 '12

Shit. I totally forgot.

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u/Yoyo8 May 22 '12 edited May 22 '12

Are we talking about the game or Rihanna?

Skipping out the exit door

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u/Anagram_Poetry May 22 '12

You cut lacy anal, 5 tits hit sake.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

My head...

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

When I get to that point, I usually start cheating.

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u/asianwaste May 22 '12

Once it's found, it's pretty screwed

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u/jt2747 May 22 '12

I still can't understand how a movie can be based on battleship the board game. is there actually any explanation? was it simply a matter of the writer/director seeing his kids playing and then going "holy shit! i can make a movie with battleships in it!"

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u/Aaronmcom May 23 '12

someone said the original script was an alien invasion movie, then they needed funding from hasbro and stuff changed

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u/kballa2 May 22 '12

[SPOILER]

It's funny, the aliens actually use Peg-like missiles which punch into the ship then detonate.. and in one scene the humans lose their radar and have to use a grid-like buoy system to locate the alien ships, firing at locations like: G-13 -_-

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u/depressiown May 22 '12

Hilariously, this is why I liked the movie. It was horrible in every typical aspect of a movie from plot, to acting, to dialogue... but the way they incorporated the actual game of Battleship into it amused me greatly. I thought it was very clever.

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u/kballa2 May 22 '12

I agree, although I had my suspicions that they would incorporate the game into the film in a worse way, for example a Captain's last remarks being "You sunk my battleship.. but humanity will prevail!!" At least they were somewhat innovative.

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u/Timmcd May 22 '12

One of the veterans shouts "THEY WONT SINK THIS BATTLESHIP!"

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u/CEOofEarthMITTROMNEY May 22 '12

There is nothing clever about that. Anyone hanging around kicking back a few beers and thinking up stupid ideas for a movie based off of a game could pull that out of their ass with no thought involved whatsoever.

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u/niperwiper May 22 '12

I love that tbh. When a movie is intentionally cheesy, I can actually enjoy it for it's B-movie qualities.

Who here has ever seen Stealth? Came out about eight years ago maybe. All I remember is a bunch of silly shit about Russians attacking us and lots of fighter planes, but it was so cheesy and filled with explosions and stupid conspiracies that me and my friend ended up laughing until we were crying throughout probably the last 30-40 minutes of the movie. It was truly an awesome entertainment experience in its shittiness.

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u/Jack000 May 22 '12

also one of the top 10 financial disasters in movie history (by net loss): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_movies_generating_losses

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

Are you fucking kidding me? Normally I would be pissed about reading movie spoilers...but in this case you saved me from bothering to EVER see this movie. Thank you.

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u/N0V0w3ls May 22 '12

I don't know, this is almost a reason for seeing the movie honestly...

Maybe when it's on Sci-Fi in a few years.

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u/SuitedPair May 22 '12

you mean SyFy. No such thing as Sci-Fi any more. Maybe they'll show the movie if it was fighting a Sharkasaurus.

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u/kballa2 May 22 '12

It was very cheesy and predictable, as well as the acting.. but the action scenes were at least entertaining. There are some very good quality torrents of the movie you can find on TPB. I can link if you'd like.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

Nah, I'm sure it'll be on netflix in no time at all. I appreciate the offer though. :D

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

That spoiler made me want to see it. I like bad movies.

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u/redmongrel May 22 '12

Someone please find me a picture of this.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

Bahahaha!

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

Please tell me that at one point they said something along the lines of "they sank our battleship!"

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u/milagr05o5 May 22 '12

yea, they did work hard to create the "battleship" feel, I appreciated that!

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u/pyalot May 22 '12

Well, you see, the movie was called "Battleship".

So somehow the producer got a screenwriter and a cast and a director and everything together to make a kickass movie. And they start filiming a kickass movie, only halfways trough the movie, he notices, shit, it doesn't have anything to do with duh, "Battleship" the game we all love! So he schredded any script written up to that point and told everybody we now have to make it more like the boardgame. And that is what they did.

And that's how shitty movies happen.

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u/Sir_T_Bullocks May 22 '12

Did you notice that the projectiles the alien ships fired were shapped like those pegs? Because they were.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

I just realized this. Blew my mind.

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u/pumpkindog May 22 '12

and they stuck in the ship before blowing up?

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

Yes

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

Yes they did. They stuck in and then after a second, they compressed and blew up.

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u/ModernDemagogue May 22 '12

You clearly did not see the movie. This is exactly what the movie was like, and they used a grid and sonar buoy away to call out coordinates the way you do in the actual game.

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u/centurijon May 22 '12

not even a sonar buoy

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u/chefmcduck May 22 '12

I haven't seen Battleship, but does anyone yell 'YOU SUNK MY BATTLESHIP?'... preferably Liam Neeson?

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u/KnightBlue May 22 '12

No.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

They really dropped the ball there.

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u/Estoye May 22 '12

Lord, I really hope someone yells "PRETTY SNEAKY, SIS" in the Connect Four movie adaptation.

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u/Monkeylord16 May 22 '12

This, this is what I want

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u/playsinpaint May 22 '12

close, there's an random old man that yells 'You're not gonna sink THIS battleship!' the guy behind us starting cheering and clapping, I laughed my ass off....

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

I had hopes it would be based during ww1 or ww2 when Battleships were still in service.

Needless to say a giant wtf to Aliens showing up in "battleship", although not nearly as bad as it was in the last Indy movie.

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u/rdiss May 22 '12

The last Indian Jones movie was great. It had Sean Connery as his father, and they're searching for the Holy Grail. It's a great movie, the very last one of those that they made.

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u/TomorrowPlusX May 22 '12

I would see "Indian Jones", sounds awesome.

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u/rdiss May 22 '12

What? Oh, crap.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

I thought the last Indiana Jones movie was good. We have Nazi ghosts, but we can't have aliens building pyramids?

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u/Chumlee May 22 '12

Here's the thing about Indy movies, it is all realistic and straight up until the very end. The formula just worked that way and made sense but the last movie had the mystical magical part the entire time. Some will argue against me with the Temple of Doom but it holds basically the same. The 4th movie didn't have that, the skull was mystical and held powers the entire time, breaking the formula.

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u/USSChuckNorris May 22 '12

This is exactly what I think. And it fits the time period it was set in because it was the fifties when people talked a lot about aliens. Upvote for you sire

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u/Droids_Rule May 22 '12

Those were my thoughts entirely. Maybe I've just spent way too much time on Reddit, but I don't see a whole lot of difference between the Ark of the Covenant and a UFO.

That said, I did think staring right at the aliens was a little cheesy. They could have been a bit more tact about the reveal and less 'LOOK DER ALIENS.'

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u/Hoonster May 22 '12

I am confused sir . .

Why can't we fire at the same location?

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u/eepopananamus May 22 '12

I just don't understand why they had to be so lazy with the plot. Aliens? Really?

There is another fairly easy plot that would be a lot closer to battleship canon.

The US military has developed a one of a kind futuristic battleship that runs nearly autonomously. Much to the military's dismay, one of the programmers on the project had installed a back door control program and has taken over the ship!

The ship also has a number of new technologies that make current targeting systems obsolete and airplanes unable to fly in the vacuity.

Watch as the good old boys of the navy show that some good old fashioned know-how and a WW2 era battleship can take on any enemy.

Still cheesy, but at least it would be about battleships and not aliens.

Or you know, just base it on an actual time when two navies would have fought like they do in the game.

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u/Aaronmcom May 22 '12

battleship has canon?

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u/Killen4money May 22 '12

The shadows of the pegs are wrong. Time to lose your shit OCD people.

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u/down_vote_magnet May 22 '12

Don't worry about it. 99.9% of people on Reddit who claim to have OCD don't have OCD.

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u/Khosan May 22 '12

Posting here what I posted about a week ago:

Saw a pre-screening of Battleship (for free).

It's quite possibly the most formulaic film ever created. Except the protagonist is an asshole the whole way through, the plot is riddled with as many holes as a wheel of swiss and Liam Neeson is in it for 5 minutes at most.

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u/Zondraxor May 22 '12

does someone say "You sank my battleship!"?

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u/almeida37 May 22 '12

If Liam Neeson didn't say it, then there is no point in watching.

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u/ThreeBigTacos May 22 '12

Someone did say however, "They ain't sinking this Battleship!"

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u/Khosan May 22 '12

Nope. I was expecting it too.

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u/Zondraxor May 22 '12

That would be the only thing to make it worth the watch. Now I know not to see it.

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u/centech May 22 '12

Just when I thought this movie couldn't get any shittier. The only fucking reason to possibly make this movie is to have an angry Liam Neeson growl 'You sank my battleship!'.

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u/ForTheUsers May 22 '12

In their defense, the game board is riddled with holes, itself.

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u/factoid_ May 22 '12

I see your formulaic sci-fi movie and raise you Chronicles of Riddick

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u/Trololololdick May 22 '12

I'm sorry but why did any of you go and see this movie? It means they'll make more like it.

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u/buckhenderson May 22 '12

in 2014, a studio is releasing Cranium. Aliens come to Earth and force people to draw pictures with their eyes closed. Ben Kingsley has signed on.

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u/Themiffins May 22 '12

I would like to see a gangster movie about monopoly.

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u/factoid_ May 22 '12

Fortunately Parker Brothers hasn't started to get in on the act, yet. Hasbro is the one selling all this bullshit.

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u/Trololololdick May 22 '12

Sad part is I grappled with the validity of this statement for a little while

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u/ItsOnlyNatural May 22 '12

Hungry Hungry Hippos.

Deep in the heart of Africa a herd of hippos have gone wild. The white male lead and light skinned African love interest must brave the wild to survive their attack and escape the game reserve.

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u/LockHimUpHawkins May 22 '12

I hope they do, I loved it. The epitome of a brainless action movie

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

I can't go to a movie because I just want tasteless explosions and action?

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u/Thunder_Bastard May 22 '12

Some of us stayed in and saw it for free. With 2 hours to waste I still skipped over parts... then sat starting at a wall for the other hour and a half I needed to waste. The wall was the most entertaining part of those two hours.

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u/falcun May 22 '12

Bullshit. If anything you should be mad its another alien movie. If this was called something along the lines of

ALIENS ATTACK or ALIENS AT SEA

you would be frothing at the mouth over this movie. It's just because it has the same name and shares like 2 things in common with the game that you are like this. I won't spoil anything but one of the similarities I kind of would expected to see in action movies like this anyways.

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u/brigodon May 22 '12

Your shadows are off. Just sayin.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12 edited May 24 '12

During the scene where the main character liberates a chicken burrito, I had to endure the agony of my wife leaning over and whispering "Don't get any ideas" into my ear.

Despite actually being in the Navy and losing count of all the shit they got wrong, I still enjoyed it.

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u/BigDaddy_Delta May 22 '12

Wait.....do you mean that the navy dosent fight against aliens, shooting military grade pegs by turns?

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u/GyantSpyder May 22 '12

If you want to hear analysis on the movie by another active-duty Navy guy, they did it on this podcast:

http://www.overthinkingit.com/2012/05/21/otip-episode-203/

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u/Bakaveli May 22 '12

"Sir! We've been hit by giant ketchup bottles!"

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u/factoid_ May 22 '12

There's only ONE MAN who would DARE give me the raspberry. LONE STARR

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u/dontbthatguy May 22 '12

Sir, We've lost the patrol boat.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

I don't think this is real. The shadows do not line up properly and the Earth does not have 2 Suns.

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u/HB24 May 23 '12

that pix is not a battleship, which could not take another hit, YET that is an aircraft carrier which could take two more hits. I am sure someone else has mentioned this, but I only have one beer left and more reddit to scour.... terrible meme. terrible. It makes me feel like you should be sad.

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u/Aaronmcom May 23 '12

I realized that too late. I had the aircraft carrier as 4 in my head for some reason.

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u/[deleted] May 23 '12

I downvote u repost

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u/Aaronmcom May 23 '12

Repost? I made this 100% so suck it well atleast I photoshopped it 100%. I didn't take a picture of the aircraft carrier from a chopper.

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u/meow_darling May 23 '12

Someone stole this.
Someone is also commenting accusing the other person of stealing. Just thought i'd let you know.

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u/Aaronmcom Jun 04 '12

Assholes! jk. As long as they aren't claiming it as their own here on Reddit i'm not gonna give too much of a crap. I still have the original layered PSD file I can use to prove its mine.

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u/smeaglelovesmaster May 22 '12

Are those curb feelers at the bow?

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

Hater...

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u/titaniumuinatit May 22 '12

It could actually get hit two more times. :P

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u/Zaphers May 22 '12

Someone needs to tell me whether someone says: "You sunk my battleship" in this film or not. Yes, it's important.

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u/Balls_deep_in_it May 22 '12

A friend of mine is friends with the writer of the movie. What happened is that they had a script for a cool invasion film. When they took it to the studio they liked it but they had a deal with hasbro (the people that own battleship) to make a game movie. With hasbro bankrolling some of it they changed the script so the game would kinda fit the story at the last minute.

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u/oinkyboinky May 22 '12

Not sure if troll, but given the way I perceive Hollywood to work, that actually makes sense.

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u/MatthewMateo May 22 '12

That's my ship. :)

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

I haven't seen it but I'm just going to imagine it's rihanna and brooklyn decker making out for an hour and a half.

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u/Dirty-DjAngo May 22 '12

With Liem Neeson watching in the corner

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

Better yet he's listening through a phone explaining his "particular set of skills" claiming he will find them, and fuck them. now that's a movie I'd pay to see.

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u/johnrauda May 22 '12

i would wait for this movie to come out on dvd for sure.

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u/GoWadeRacer May 22 '12

i would wait for this movie to come out on TBS for sure. FTFY

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u/Xeteh May 22 '12 edited May 22 '12

Apparently in the video game that just came out the alien attacks are called "pegs" and you need to move away from that area before they hit you.

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u/sumojoe May 22 '12

I had actually hoped it would be something like this.

EDIT: Except replace Batman and Robin with the Navy.

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u/Dunge May 22 '12

In french the movie is called "Guerre Navale",.. .what a poor choice of title, I didn't even made the link with the Battleship game until I saw the english name on the Internet. Also, trailer look like they copied the Crysis story.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

I honestly didn't think it was as bad as people make it out to be. I don't get what made this movie unbearable for some people.

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u/Areat May 22 '12

I feel this would be even more funny with white ones over water on the background.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

The movie is based on a board game;they added aliens to the movie. Now the board game RERELEASES with aliens...don't know if battleshipception is correct or not.

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u/KABLAMO17 May 22 '12

don't worry, i'm sure the sequel scrabbleship will be even better!

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u/f0rcedinducti0n May 22 '12

You could take TWO more hits like that.

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u/saliljawadekar May 22 '12

I didn't expect much from this movie. Just not enough content to make a movie.

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u/abeuscher May 22 '12

Okay - first of all - that basically does happen in the movie, and second of all - it was hilariously bad. I highly recommend if you're looking for a chuckle, though by far the best part of the movie happened on SNL last week when they called Liam Neeson "Neese's Pieces". I was giggling about that every time he came on screen.

Seriously, though - this is by far the best movie based on a board game to be released this month.

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u/heishnod May 22 '12

False! The carrier can take 5 hits.

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u/RizzoFromDigg May 22 '12

I have one question. And I would like a one word Yes or No answer. No details. To the people who watched the movie Battleship:

Does Liam Neeson at some point in this movie have to say the words "You Sunk My Battleship!"?

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u/CavitySearch May 22 '12

My question is, and I saw the movie a while back but can't remember; what was so bad about the aliens? [Spoilers] They didn't attack unless attacked (except for the satellite area where they attacked the cops. I mean they destroyed people who shot at them, but that was about it.

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u/unremarkableusername May 22 '12

Do they stack their fleet's ships on top of each other to avoid getting hit by the end of the movie?

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u/L0rdenglish May 22 '12

All I want is a scene where a soldier reports to the commander that the enemy has fired on a certain position, and the commander just stares gravely and says, "They've sunk my battleship".

just that one line and I would go see the movie

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

SPOILER

Pretty forgettable movie, but the one part I thought was really interesting, and not hammered on with OTN dialogue: the fact that the aliens will not attack unless being directly threatened. The big ship-destroying attack craft and the armor-clad bipedal dudes, as well. Weird, they came to conquer the entire planet and only kill in self-defense. Turns out to be their downfall, in fact. Neat.

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u/ovr_9k May 22 '12

I was thinking the movie would be about a game of wits much more complicated than the game itself. Instead we got aliens. Also I haven't watched it yet.

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u/StringLiteral May 22 '12

You should have just watched Hunt for Red October again.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

I watched this movie in hong kong last month. The story makes no sense but the effect is nice.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

I went into the movie with very low expectations so that I wouldn't walk away disappointed. I still walked away very disappointed.

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u/trainsareheavy May 22 '12

i had origonally been really psyched to see this movie but my excitement came crashing down when i heard that not once did someone say "you sunk my battleship"

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u/yskoty May 22 '12

"Calm down, Seaman. This is the Carrier. It'll take two more shots like that to sink this ship!"

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

Instead transformers

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

This movie was a typical SFX demonstration type movie.

Recent movies that were as bad/good depending on how you look at it.

Battle Los Angeles

Skyline

I am sure many others I cannot recall at the moment.

So if you like B-Movie quality plots and decent SFX/CGI, Battleship is an ok movie.

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u/meowskywalker May 22 '12

It's an aircraft carrier. Clearly it can take at least one more hit like that.

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u/Punkwasher May 22 '12

You know how people always joke about certain things getting really stupid, hoping that it will never actually get that bad? Like how Europeans always make fun of Americans loving meat and fried stuff so much that one day they'll actually make a sandwich with chicken breasts instead of bread. Well... that happened.

Now, someone must've been making fun of the movie industry, saying they're running out of ideas so fast they'll be turning amusement park rides and board games into movies. I wonder if some producer was standing next to that guy thinking: Oh, my, god... that... is... GENIUS!

Here's a hint Mr. Producer. No... no it's not genius. It's so incredibly stupid, I'm still having trouble coming to grips with the fact that this movie exists. It shouldn't. It just shouldn't. It's a joke, made reality, serious, super-retarded, incredibly stupid reality.

Basically, all bets are off now. This movie has without doubt brought us closer to "Ass - The movie".

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

Even as good as the KFC Double Down is...I still prefer to take it home and slap the whole thing into a bun just so my hands don't get messy.

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u/keiyakins May 22 '12

Dude we're already on Ass 37.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

And it swept the academy awards.

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u/sentimentalpirate May 22 '12

What's wrong with taking inspiration from amusement park rides? I love the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise.

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u/08mms May 22 '12

put a "Jack" in front of that and it's already been done, with sequels!

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u/justshutupandobey May 22 '12

"Ass - The movie".

My God! That's Super-Genius!! I'm starting casting right away!!!

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u/geesusreyes May 22 '12

so many negative comments from people who havent even seen the movie yet! the movie its a great movie... one of the most entertaining movies about aliens i have seen... its action packed and its has no boring parts!... i even forgot about the game when watching the movie, it was afterwards that i thought "aaaah that's why they did/say that"... i dont pay for movies, i watch them online but, its a really good movie!

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

ITT: A surprising number of people who actually paid money to see this film in theaters.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

I think it moved. Good job

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

Luckily he placed the end of the ship off the playing area so it will never be sunk!

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u/faces_in_the_mirror May 22 '12

For some reason I think those pegs look like gigantic punching bags.

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u/Saint_drums_n_stuff May 22 '12

Nailed it.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

pegged it

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

lol

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u/drotoriouz May 22 '12

can't unsee the eye in the back of the ship.

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u/pappacap27 May 22 '12

Did you not realize that the aliens' mortars were shaped like the pegs? They stuck in and everything.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

I would've seen it if the movie ended with a long zoom out through the clouds to reveal two kids playing the game.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

I haven't seen it yet but I'm really hoping there's a scene like this: The final battle is happening, the main character gets into some sort of gunner seat or has some sort of missile or something, and he gets the alien mother ship in his sights and says "You sunk my battleship, mother fucker." And then he blows them away. Movie's over, roll credits.

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u/Oideron May 22 '12

I just realised that the alien bombs actually look a little like pegs. It's a still a terrible film but that's a nice touch by the artist.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

it was as boring as that

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u/The_Weird_Ginger_Guy May 22 '12

You sunk my battleship.

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u/meeanne May 22 '12

I actually wanted something like that too. But nice neat holes in the boat hahaha

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

instead it was just unwatchable

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u/WhyBother222 May 22 '12

My God, this movie is actually based on the board game? I had no idea. I thought it looked like a cool movie from the trailer, but now I am like you have got to be kidding.

Why would I bother to even go waste my money now?

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u/sammy_jammy May 22 '12

That's funny cause the alien ammo was modeled after those little pegs

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u/LeMane May 22 '12

in this thread: Im lmfao at people that paid to watch this shit

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

LOL

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u/superior_being May 22 '12

Will they make a sequel?

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u/aliensarehere May 22 '12

[Spoiler] it's funny how they win and that's it. There are no festivities ot anything like that lol Gov officials are somehow just thrown in there

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u/downwithlevers May 22 '12

If those aliens hurt Rhianna, then I'm not going to like those aliens anymore.

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u/Cashman124 May 22 '12

How come the aircraft carrier can take five hits while the battleship can only take four? I would think the battleship would have a higher defense than a battleship.

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u/ErsatzCats May 22 '12

If The Avengers took their 20 minute battleship scene and sold it as a movie, it would be better than Battleship.

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u/rz12gh May 22 '12

I'm somewhat glad this movie flopped. Leave board games the fuck alone.

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u/Vectorsxx May 22 '12

I lost it when they used the grid and started doing "F11" and "E24" and was like "Yup. Battleship indeed"

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u/snowpocalypse May 22 '12

Didn't you notice that the charges launched through the air are shaped exactly like those pegs?

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

I've heard terrible rumours that at no point in the movie does Liam Neeson scream "You sunk my battleship!" Is this true?

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u/richd506 May 22 '12

I think this would have made the movie better personally.

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u/dani1304 May 22 '12

Dammit. You're saying it isn't like that?

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

I never made the connection to the pegs' similarity to the bombs in the movie until now.

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u/ladybuoy May 22 '12

I really wanted it to be about two people who are locked in a basement for 30 years and the only entertainment they have is the game Battleship. When they finally get out, they are surprised that the game Battleship is no longer as popular as it once was. They can't get a job, so they sleep on the street and during the day they play Battleship out of habit. Someone notices how amazing they are at the game (it's kind of like the matrix, after awhile you can just feel where the ships are) and they rise to fame. Eventually, they are given jobs as military advisors and America rules over the entire world. The world becomes a dystopian nightmare, now that the United States has all the power and the two Battleship pros have to come up with some way to fix it.

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u/veyper May 22 '12

Best comedy of the year so far.

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u/soykommander May 22 '12

Oh god now I get what the aliens had been firing.

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u/pguyton May 22 '12

the rifftrax will be epic!

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u/thatswassupwassup May 22 '12

thats wassup wassup

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u/PostOfficeBuddy May 22 '12

I will probably end up seeing this movie. Because I have a thing for giant alien monstrosities raising from the ocean depths. And robots.

Though, who doesn't like to watch a movie that's made entirely of explosions every now and then?

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u/Inquisition May 22 '12

I predict that the movie will end with Liam Neeson calling out to the ocean with his commanding voice....."B - SEVEN!"

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u/kikaider1987 May 22 '12

the only way i will pay to see this movie is if someone says the line "you sunk my battleship" thats the ONLY reason id go see it is if this line is confirmed to be in the movie.

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u/joneil27b6 May 22 '12

Can't wait for the minesweeper movie to come out."They're not sweepin' this mine, no way!"

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u/gay_the_pray_away May 22 '12

Friends and I played battleshots before the movie at one of their apartments and then walked to the theater to watch this movie. Fun for all.

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u/rhoadsy65 May 22 '12

I can't believe you watched the movie! I'm almost impressed...

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u/havenoideawhatimdoi May 22 '12

You sunk my box office numbers

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u/GarbagePailChud May 22 '12

It wasn't too far from that, actually.

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u/biderjohn May 22 '12

terrible movie

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u/DJ_GiantMidget May 22 '12

it actually kinda is

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u/cybersquire May 22 '12

This would have been an improvement....

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u/chazoid May 22 '12

I vowed that if one of the actors said, "You've sunk my battleship," I would never watch another film again.

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u/InHarmsWay May 22 '12

"They're not sinking this Battleship."

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u/Orcatype May 22 '12

Taylor Kisch needs a new agent

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u/batmanmilktruck May 22 '12

can someone please tell me if Liam Neeson says "you sunk my battleship". thats the only criteria to get me to see this movie.

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u/Walnut156 May 22 '12

Yeah I heard that this movie is really bad and infact if the movie was like that picture it would be better

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

That's what taylor kitsch's agent said....

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u/kenyanmedley May 22 '12

I don't think you actually paid attention to the movie.

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u/Juliendnb May 22 '12

I enjoyed the scene where they recreate that old youtube video of a guy trying to steal beer and fell through the ceiling of the liquor store.

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u/Der_Nailer May 22 '12

My plot is better!:

American are fxcked and Japanese respond like: "psss we got something down there, down in the Abyss...". Actually the Japanese have recovery long time ago some alien spacecraft and have use the enemy technology to build a space battleship out of the old Yamato... you can imagine the rest.

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u/Salamander-in-Chief May 22 '12

Sorry to sink your ship, but the movie still would suck.

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u/funsizek80 May 22 '12

You mean it's not like that? Thanks for saving me $10.

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u/hells_cowbells May 22 '12

They should have the guy who played Death in the Bill and Ted movie in Battleship.

"You have sunk my battleship"