You Sank My Battleship
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Posted on: 2012-05-30 20:27 in Comic and Hero-Villain Culture
:O I thought it was a fun movie.
What exactly was your complaints on it? I'm curious!
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Same. I thought it was a decent enough summer popcorn movie. Not deep by any means, but still fun. I did like how they translated the pegs and the grid of the game to the movie. I laughed pretty good at the initial setup with Hopper and the girl.|
Originally Posted by BrandX
:O I thought it was a fun movie.
What exactly was your complaints on it? I'm curious! |
And to me, those aliens reminded me a LOT of a combo of Jiralhanae (face features) and Sanghelli (the hands).
There was just so much stupid. The plot was inane. The aliens and their tech was just flat out bizarrely stupid. So much was just done in an over the top fashion that it grated. I mean it was like if someone tried to rip off Transformers 3. Now why in the hell would someone try to rip off an awful movie?
To an extent I tried to give it the benefit of the doubt, but it was just too bad. Too many cheap shots at low hanging fruit. Too many contrived sequences. Too much ignorance of anything in the way of weapons, physics, hell, reality.
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Same on that initial setup. And then at the end with Liam.|
Originally Posted by Dark One
Same. I thought it was a decent enough summer popcorn movie. Not deep by any means, but still fun. I did like how they translated the pegs and the grid of the game to the movie. I laughed pretty good at the initial setup with Hopper and the girl.
And to me, those aliens reminded me a LOT of a combo of Jiralhanae (face features) and Sanghelli (the hands). |
It was pure popcorn flick for me.
I didn't even find the tech all that bad. And I squeeled at the grid setup
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I've seen far worse movies in the theater than Battleship. Superman Returns, Cloverfield, Watchmen, District 9, and others. I didn't go in expecting high cinema, I went in with the idea that if I get some laughs and see some stuff going boom, I would get my money's worth (it didn't hurt that I had a free pass).|
Originally Posted by docbuzzard
There was just so much stupid. The plot was inane. The aliens and their tech was just flat out bizarrely stupid. So much was just done in an over the top fashion that it grated. I mean it was like if someone tried to rip off Transformers 3. Now why in the hell would someone try to rip off an awful movie?
To an extent I tried to give it the benefit of the doubt, but it was just too bad. Too many cheap shots at low hanging fruit. Too many contrived sequences. Too much ignorance of anything in the way of weapons, physics, hell, reality. |
Battleship delivered on what I was expecting from it.
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Originally Posted by Dark One
District 9
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Funny thing about District 9, it is so far the only movie to date that made me sick to my stomach..
It wasn't the content, or anything like that.. I think it must have been the camera work, since it was kind of a "shaky cam" approach, which somehow made me nauseous..
I actually had to walk out half way through the movie because I was about to keel over and lose my dinner lol (and no it wasn't the dinner's fault, I felt better shortly after leaving
For the record, I generally do not get sea sick, or motion sickness in general.. so I dunno xD
Anyway, to keep myself sort of on topic.. Haven't seen the movie yet, and my nearest cinema is like 25 minutes away.. So I only go see movies that really interest me.
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Do you live in a small town? I'm just curious, because that seems to be such a small town way of thinking.|
Originally Posted by Primantiss
Funny thing about District 9, it is so far the only movie to date that made me sick to my stomach..
It wasn't the content, or anything like that.. I think it must have been the camera work, since it was kind of a "shaky cam" approach, which somehow made me nauseous.. I actually had to walk out half way through the movie because I was about to keel over and lose my dinner lol (and no it wasn't the dinner's fault, I felt better shortly after leaving For the record, I generally do not get sea sick, or motion sickness in general.. so I dunno xD Anyway, to keep myself sort of on topic.. Haven't seen the movie yet, and my nearest cinema is like 25 minutes away.. So I only go see movies that really interest me. |
When I lived in San Diego (now in a small town), it was all "Hmmm...gotta go all the way there...lets go!"
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Well I used to live in a small town, but not anymore..|
Originally Posted by BrandX
Do you live in a small town? I'm just curious, because that seems to be such a small town way of thinking.
When I lived in San Diego (now in a small town), it was all "Hmmm...gotta go all the way there...lets go!" |
Oddly enough, when I did live in a small town we had our own local cinema.. It wasn't grand or anything, but it worked well enough.
Now I live in Southern California along the coast, lots of people and stuff here.. just no cinemas.. go figure.
All I wanted from Battleship was one thing. Liam Neeson to say "You sank my battleship."
I was disappointed.
Hell, the battleship was only in the last 15 minutes of the movie.
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But it had a nice fight scene with it!|
Originally Posted by DLancer
All I wanted from Battleship was one thing. Liam Neeson to say "You sank my battleship."
I was disappointed. Hell, the battleship was only in the last 15 minutes of the movie. |
And the movie's soundtrack was great!
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Saw it, enjoyed it, will see it again.
Favorite scene
When they are on the deck of the Missouri and the grizzled vets walk up and volunteer to help.
Maybe it's because I'm a Navy vet myself
Maybe it's because I saw it on Memorial Day Weekend
Maybe it's because the movie took place in Hawaii and I was reminded of another sneak attack
But that scene brought a tear to my eye and a HELL YEAH!!! to my heart. That feeling alone is worth the admission fee.
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I would have liked the sceen had it not been so contrived. The whole appearing at random places in the superstructure just made it over the top. I appreciated the sentiment, but it was very poorly executed. |
Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
Saw it, enjoyed it, will see it again.
Favorite scene When they are on the deck of the Missouri and the grizzled vets walk up and volunteer to help. Maybe it's because I'm a Navy vet myself Maybe it's because I saw it on Memorial Day Weekend Maybe it's because the movie took place in Hawaii and I was reminded of another sneak attack But that scene brought a tear to my eye and a HELL YEAH!!! to my heart. That feeling alone is worth the admission fee. |
That was really the problem with a lot of the movie. Not all the ideas were bad, but the actual execution of getting them on the screen usually fell through.
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Well, it did use the rule of cool. |
Originally Posted by docbuzzard
I would have liked the sceen had it not been so contrived. The whole appearing at random places in the superstructure just made it over the top. I appreciated the sentiment, but it was very poorly executed.
That was really the problem with a lot of the movie. Not all the ideas were bad, but the actual execution of getting them on the screen usually fell through. |
I fully admit the scene had a "not a realistic approach" to that scene.
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You mean nobody says, "You sank my battleship!". Awww that kinda sucks.
Cancel the kitchen scraps for widows and lepers, no more merciful beheadings and call off christmas!
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Well it doesn't get sunk, so there was no call for it. |
Originally Posted by 2short2care
You mean nobody says, "You sank my battleship!". Awww that kinda sucks.
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Admittedly this was probably poor planning.
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What was contrived about it? The battlehip was a museum and the sailors worked at the museum at various locations on the ship. Just like when you go to the USS Constitution, there are real Navy sailors working there.
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Originally Posted by docbuzzard
I would have liked the sceen had it not been so contrived. The whole appearing at random places in the superstructure just made it over the top. I appreciated the sentiment, but it was very poorly executed.
That was really the problem with a lot of the movie. Not all the ideas were bad, but the actual execution of getting them on the screen usually fell through. |
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But...how can you have a live action movie based on the Battleship board game where the battleship sinks but nobody ever says, "You sank my battleship!"? I don't understand this...it doesn't make any sense.
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Originally Posted by docbuzzard
Well it doesn't get sunk, so there was no call for it.
Admittedly this was probably poor planning. |
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One of the old men say "They're not going to sink this battleship"
But they use the Battleship last, as Battleships aren't in use anymore.
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Uhm, the battleship didn't get sunk.
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Originally Posted by Frosty_Femme
But...how can you have a live action movie based on the Battleship board game where the battleship sinks but nobody ever says, "You sank my battleship!"? I don't understand this...it doesn't make any sense.
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Maybe the aliens should have said it |
Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
Uhm, the battleship didn't get sunk.
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I think they did but we couldn't hear it over the sound of their eyeballs exploding from exposure to unshielded sunlight. |
Originally Posted by BrandX
Maybe the aliens should have said it
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It is readily apparent that we're not going to agree on this, so I won't bother to try an explain why I thought it was contrived. |
Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
What was contrived about it? The battlehip was a museum and the sailors worked at the museum at various locations on the ship. Just like when you go to the USS Constitution, there are real Navy sailors working there.
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Honestly I'm actively trying to forget the movie as is.
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How do we know we aren't going to agree if you won't explain what it was that felt contrived.|
Originally Posted by docbuzzard
It is readily apparent that we're not going to agree on this, so I won't bother to try an explain why I thought it was contrived.
Honestly I'm actively trying to forget the movie as is. |
Was it the fact that there were actual sailors on the battleship museum?
Well it's a military museum and who better to be assigned to work at the museum than the sailors who actually served onboard the battleship who can share first hand knowledge of what it was like to be assigned to the ship.
Was it how they all showed up at roughly the same time?
Onboard ship the crew can be called to muster at any location on the ship over the ship's intercom.
The only really unbelievable things that happened that were immersion breaking occurred during the montage where they were getting ready to set sail.
1. The boilers in the Engine Room were cold an we watched them get lit. There is no way that they could have gotten hot enough and built up enough power to set sail that fast. They also wouldn't leave it's fuel tanks filled. They'd be running power lines from the pier to run the onboard equipment.
2. There is no way in hell that a decommissioned museum had live ammunition onboard.
3. You don't just drive a battleship like a speedboat away from a dock. The bigger the ship the more tugboats are required to get the ship away from the pier and underway.
In regards to 1), they said they had enough fuel in the tanks for maintenence runs, whatever that means. They didn't have a full load.
The ammo bit? Ya, that raised my eyebrows a bit. I wouldn't think they'd have full rounds plus the powder charges all ready to go. Maybe they brought some in from offsite? I seem to recall them saying they scrounged up some ammo.
Having spare time today between things I had to do (I'm on vacation), I decided to use that downtime to see Battleship.
I've already seen Avengers twice and took in MIB 3 over the weekend, so it was the remaining flick I had any interest in.
I should have saved the six bucks.
Good lord that was a bad movie. I didn't go in with high expectations, but it dashed even those. I'm not that even checking your brain at the door could make this one tolerable.
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