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Originally Posted by Yomo_Kimyata
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).
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Money > no money.
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Originally Posted by BrandX
They could just agree with Christopher Walken.
"I can either stay home and do nothing or I can accept a job and the paycheck." |
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Originally Posted by Amy_Amp
Money > no money.
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Though there looks to be those who disagree.
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saw the trailer.... actually want to see this flick ... wonder if this a set up / prequel for Battleship Galaxies - The Movie 
Yep, that's another Peter Berg masterpiece.
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Originally Posted by BrandX
"I can either stay home and do nothing or I can accept a job and the paycheck."
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Did you call..
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It's a clip from The Simpsons, a trailer for the movie "Tic-Tac-Toe: X v. O."
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Originally Posted by Nos482
The video you are trying to watch cannot be viewed from your current country or location
Now there´s a surprise -.- |
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Why not? We're getting Rock 'em Sock 'em Robots really soon....|
Originally Posted by SolarSentai
Now we just need an epic alien Connect 4 movie!
And for giggles... Hungry Hungry Hippos! |
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Exactly. When you stop answering the phone, they stop calling.
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Originally Posted by BrandX
They could just agree with Christopher Walken.
"I can either stay home and do nothing or I can accept a job and the paycheck." |
Loose --> not tight.
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I saw an interview with Liam Neeson and there's two reasons he's been so busy recently. The first was Taken, once he did that film he was kinda rejuvenated into an action hero in the eyes of a lot of people in Hollywood.|
Originally Posted by White Hot Flash
Exactly. When you stop answering the phone, they stop calling.
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The second was that he's admitted to burying himself in work as a mechanism for dealing with the shock death of his wife a few years ago.
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Best Quote from Caine on Jaws IV:|
Originally Posted by Defenestrator
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.
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Originally Posted by Captain_Photon
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.
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Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill
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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Originally Posted by Father Xmas
Well they came in handy during the first Gulf War launching cruse missiles as well as using their big guns.
As for the fact they are on standby, you can't jam, cause a premature detonation or easily deflect 1.2 metric tons of metal tossed over 20+ miles. Who knows when it's unique abilities could come in handy again? Also hasn't Space Battleship Yamato taught us nothing? |
Based on changes in technology battleships have be relegated to being used as coastal bombardment support ships and/or cruise missile launch platforms. No modern navy would ever expect them to be used toe-to-toe against other navies as "frontline flag ships" the way they were used 100 years ago.
I suppose that makes this upcoming movie that much sillier because the role battleships play today is completely mismatched to anything this movie is going to try to show us.
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Could go for a 1942: Axis and Allies movie myself. Set it as an alternate timeline. I suspect though, it'd have to be a trilogy to fit a global story.
For a more narrowed theater of war, Stratego might make a good period piece.
I'd also think there's good potential for a racing movie out of the Milles Bornes card game.
This phenomena of "movies based on board games" is weirdly amazing.
At this rate I fully expect a live action movie based on the Magic: The Gathering card game within the next few years.
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Actually, I could go for Stratego and Milles Bournes, because they could basically just be a good period war movie and a good racing movie.
A Magic the Gathering movie I could actually see as well, the game has a lot of good stories that the expansions were built around.
Battleship could have been just a good WWII period piece about fogbound bombers or something. Not Battleship: From Space! With a romance and manchild-earns-respect story tacked on.
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I want them to make a movie out of the Steve Jackson game S.P.A.N.C. ('Space Pirate Amazon Ninja Catgirls')
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It is true that the Iowas have unique capabilities that can be highly useful. Unfortunately for them, their chief disadvantage is that they are very, very expensive to operate. Their crew size is immense, the older systems require a lot of upkeep, etc. And as we found out the hard way, the inside of the big turrets can be really dangerous.|
Originally Posted by Father Xmas
As for the fact they are on standby, you can't jam, cause a premature detonation or easily deflect 1.2 metric tons of metal tossed over 20+ miles. Who knows when it's unique abilities could come in handy again?
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That said- in my PnP Superhero RPG, a few Navy-oriented super-gadgeteers fixed a lot of those problems by installing robotic automation on the Iowas. They're useful for shelling giant monsters :-)
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*sniff* I had a character in a Champions RPG game get killed just from the shrapnel of a 16" shell fired by the New Jersey. 16D6 AOE Killing Attack messes up a lot of things, except of course the supermunchkin hero it was aimed at and hit. I didn't bother making a new character for that campaign; the over-the-top nature of the Game Master was just too much.
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Originally Posted by ThugOne
It is true that the Iowas have unique capabilities that can be highly useful. Unfortunately for them, their chief disadvantage is that they are very, very expensive to operate. Their crew size is immense, the older systems require a lot of upkeep, etc. And as we found out the hard way, the inside of the big turrets can be really dangerous.
That said- in my PnP Superhero RPG, a few Navy-oriented super-gadgeteers fixed a lot of those problems by installing robotic automation on the Iowas. They're useful for shelling giant monsters :-) |
Um...
Whaaaat?
No, I think next up is Candyland.
Wonder if anyone will be doing a 5-hour movie of Monopoly?
And, no, I'm not making that up.
Edit to add: http://www.slashfilm.com/worst-idea-...ting-monopoly/
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