Battleship Trailer

In no small part because they were decommissioned, well, shortly after WW2.

$200M (number shown in linked article) for Battleship is jaw dropping. Also - Liam Neeson likes cashing checks. I don't blame him, but he seems to be closer to Nick Cage than Daniel Day Lewis for how selective he is.

For values of "shortly after" that include 1992, anyway...

I think of him as more akin to greats like Michael Caine and Christopher Lee, neither of whom have ever let the possibility that a movie might suck dissuade them from taking the job.

And like Michael Caine and Christopher Lee, as opposed to Nick Cage, the involvement of Liam Neeson always makes a movie better. Doesn't necessarily make 'em great, but better.

Also, Daniel Day Lewis is ridiculously overrated.

http://www.fox.com/thesimpsons/clips...-o?sortby=date

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http://www.navy.mil/navydata/ships/b...ps/bb-list.asp

If that's incorrect please let the navy.mil website know.

On closer inspection of the "disposition" column I see ships that were recommissioned later than what the "decommissioned" column states. Not sure why they wouldn't put the most recent dates in. Whatever.

The U.S. Navy's WWII-vintage Iowa-class battleships were modernized and recommissioned in the '80s as part of the Reagan-era "600-ship navy", then put out to pasture again in 1991-92, when it became clear that the Soviet Union had been perfectly capable of destroying itself without the Navy's help. Entertainingly, though they're not in commission and are being converted into museum ships now, they're still being kept on the books in some nebulous bureaucratic state of readiness-for-readiness, just in case we should suddenly happen to need a decisive advantage in a re-enactment of the Battle of Jutland. Or be invaded by aliens, I suppose, as we see here.

Why the Navy's website should choose not to reflect this I couldn't say, though one wonders cynically whether it might have something to do with the brass hoping people will forget about that disgraceful episode in 1990 wherein one of those ships suffered a serious accidental explosion and the Navy tried to blame it on one of the dead sailors being - hmm, I bet I can't say that on this board - Not Quite the Thing. (This was both irrelevant and, as it turned out, untrue.)

Aw, it does, though! Check out those peg-shaped alien missile things and that aerial shot at the end. Someone tried really hard to make those bits have a Battleship flavor. Which is very silly, but then, it looks like it's supposed to be a pretty silly movie, so it's all good.

Stop giving them ideas!

They tend to be very useful still in some instances. Those shells cause *quite* a bit of damage when they land, after all, and are a tad harder to shoot down or otherwise disrupt than, say, a cruise missile (which, IIRC, they had also been updated to launch.)

They're essentially amphibious assault support. Very heavy support. (I believe the Wisconsin is one of the ones kept in or near readiness. Or was. Rather surprisingly, given historical significance, they pulled Missouri out for use during the first Gulf war.)

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I dunno, Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis (crap this guy has a long name) seems to be the go to guy for mustache twirling bad guys.

No, I think next up is Candyland.

Wonder if anyone will be doing a 5-hour movie of Monopoly?

Well, OK, I'll grant you that, although last time I checked we didn't really have re-enacting the Normandy invasion on the to-do list either, particularly since we've lately developed the interesting habit of only getting into fights with landlocked or near-landlocked countries. But hey! That could change. We might stop fooling around with these desert nowheres and go after North Korea someday. They've got a coast.

I'll tell you what, one of those old girls would sure give those Somali pirates an unusual day at the office. 9x16"/50-caliber naval rifles: 1, Zodiac full of AK-47-toting speed freaks: 0.

Only five hours? That'd be the television edit.

Christopher Lee is great for a character actor in a bit role. Liam Neeson was put on the front stage after Schindler's List and then did various degrees of declining nothing. Don't you DARE put Michael Caine in that same category (although now he does take a lot of jobs).

Caine doesn't really do much currently unless it's Christopher Nolan on the other end of the phone, but there was a time that guy would do anything for a paycheck (see also: Jaws IV: The Revenge). He was always a solid actor, even in bad roles.

As far as Neeson goes, he's been hit or miss. I wouldn't call "Batman Begins" or "Taken" a varying degree of nothing.

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