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Battleship - Trailer #3

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TUROK

TUROK

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I love the Transfomers movies because they blow everything up, but this doesn't look good to me at all. CGI looks pretty, though.
 
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CrAzYLeGzLU

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I just can't understand how the board game ends up with a movie like this...it's crazy.

I'll be the first to admit I enjoying the occasional mindless action movie but aliens in a battleship movie...what?!
 
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DMczaf

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The trailer for this before Avengers felt so derivative and uninspired, I can't believe this actually exists. At least it looks like America isn't falling for it based on tracking numbers. Europe gets the blame this time!
 
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Busty

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All the predictions for this weekend's films are coming in and apparently one tracking service has Battleship opening as low as $35m over the weekend!

Yikes.

While that might be on the low end of expectations the higher predictions for this film have it opening at $55-60m which would still be poor given it's sizeable budget.

All in all this is shaping up to be a major misfire.

....., pun sort of intended.
 
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Busty

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In other news the Battleship press tour continues to be an unqualified success.

(..., strong language within.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRa4AoQYgV4&feature=player_embedded

Discotheque said:
Poor Timothy Riggins

TV forever going by his big film debuts here.
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Pffft. At least he's getting work. And, I imagine, all the ass he can handle.

Though in saying that starring in two of the biggest flops of recent memory, released within a few months of each other, must be hard no matter the amount of chicks* he gets.





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...., assuming he's into chicks of course.
 
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James Woods

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John Carter better hope Savages doesn't tank too or he's so amazingly fucked when it comes to film. Holy shit.

Savages is going to tank though. Oliver Stone films don't have box office. I'm going to see it looks like my type of thing but it isn't going to play.
 
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lazybones18

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It nearly put me to sleep

What a disappointment. At least I was awake for like the last 30-45mins of it, including the after credits scene
 
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Ashhong

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CaptYamato said:
She's about an 8. Some would rate her higher. Still not going to see a shitty movie for anyone that isn't my kid. Shit, I was pretty close to disowning him when he wanted me to watch Avengers.
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Whoa, you have a kid? Didn't know that.

Oh and you have weird priorities man =P
 
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Busty

Banned
CaptYamato said:
....I was pretty close to disowning him when he wanted me to watch Avengers.
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The Avengers might be based on a comic book characters but it's still a good movie mang.

Just sayin'.

Scarecrow said:
Saw it last night for my theater. Needed more Liam. DBOX was pretty sweet, though.
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When all you can say about a movie is that bass coming from the chair you were sitting in was good you know we're all in fucking trouble.
 
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THE-Pink-Dagger

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Movie is just pure badass and kickass fun, with great action, VFX and soundtrack (hell yeah AC/DC track on last battle scene), it does not pretend to be more.
 
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Lionel Mandrake

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Well, I saw it.

Things in this movie:

-An opening action scene involving stealing a burrito from a convenience store
-Liam Neeson having roughly five minutes of screentime
-Subway and Coke Zero
-People who are clearly not actors who are, for some reason, acting
-A montage of living WWII veterans taking over a decommissioned battleship cut to AC/DC's Thunderstruck

-And most importantly, at one point, the Japanese captain shows the ship that they can use buoys to monitor movement and pinpoint the enemy position. In other words, they play THE FUCKING BOARD GAME for one of the action scenes. They use the phonetic alphabet, but we all know that "ECHO NINER" is the same as "E9! You sunk my battleship!"

I actually had to walk out of the theater, because I couldn't stop laughing at the absurdity that I was watching a game of Battleship played straight in a big blockbuster movie.
 
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Dany

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Lionel Mandrake said:
Well, I saw it.

Things in this movie:

-An opening action scene involving stealing a burrito from a convenience store
-Liam Neeson having roughly five minutes of screentime
-Subway and Coke Zero
-People who are clearly not actors who are, for some reason, acting
-A montage of living WWII veterans taking over a decommissioned battleship cut to AC/DC's Thunderstruck

-And most importantly, at one point, the Japanese captain shows the ship that they can use buoys to monitor movement and pinpoint the enemy position. In other words, they play THE FUCKING BOARD GAME for one of the action scenes. They use the phonetic alphabet, but we all know that "ECHO NINER" is the same as "E9! You sunk my battleship!"

I actually had to walk out of the theater, because I couldn't stop laughing at the absurdity that I was watching a game of Battleship played straight in a big blockbuster movie.
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I just won $50 bucks!
 
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Diggeh

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Battleship: The Movie |OT|
Of Chicken Burritos and Alien Fishmen
 
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Dan

No longer boycotting the Wolfenstein franchise
Someone tell me which Parks and Rec actor makes a cameo. People on Twitter were talking about it, but refusing to spoil what apparently was just a few seconds of screen time. I highly doubt I'll ever even rent this.
 
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Lionel Mandrake

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Dan said:
Someone tell me which Parks and Rec actor makes a cameo. People on Twitter were talking about it, but refusing to spoil what apparently was just a few seconds of screen time. I highly doubt I'll ever even rent this.
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Perd Hapley shows up as a newscaster. I'm pretty sure that he plays newscasters in a lot of movies.
 
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JdFoX187

Banned
Such a fucking terrible movie all the way around. The only redeeming thing aspect was the special effects. Good job Xia and the others at ILM. But holy shit this was bad, and I'm one that usually enjoys popcorn CG fests. The theater was packed, but this is a military town so I'm not surprised they turned out to see military porn. I almost left during the scene when the fighter jet shows up and this one guy in the audience yells "Don't mess with America!" and people started cheering and shouting. THE FUCKING PILOT WAS FUCKING AUSTRALIAN! I didn't pay to see it, but I want that two hours of my life back. It's a real accomplishment to completely waste Liam Neeson and they achieved that.
 
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JdFoX187

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No, no it wasn't. I went in expecting a terrible script and I left with the biggest facepalm imaginable. Revenge of the Fallen and Devastator's balls were more plausible and enjoyable than the shit in this film.
 
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Avixph

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JdFoX187 said:
No, no it wasn't. I went in expecting a terrible script and I left with the biggest facepalm imaginable. Revenge of the Fallen and Devastator's balls were more plausible and enjoyable than the shit in this film.
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Everyone has their own opinion.
 
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JdFoX187

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If that's your disclaimer for every post, we might as well shut down all messageboards in general since there's no point in discussion since everyone has their opinion.
 
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iammeiam

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Avixph said:
It was actually pretty good in all honesty.
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I'm with you. It was a perfectly tolerable, if largely unremarkable, Big Dumb Action Movie. The whole chicken burrito thing at the beginning was actually kind of entertaining in a way I wasn't expecting, and while things got ridiculously predictable once Riggins got into the military the movie was always pretty much exactly what it pitched itself as. They also put a ridiculous amount of effort into coming up with the whole homage to the Battleship game, which was entertaining in a meta way. It was loud and dumb and the lines were cheesy as all hell, but it managed to be big and dumb and somewhere-close-to-amusing without turning into a mess of incoherent action and a plot that made no sense, so it's a pretty well executed example of its genre. It also helped that my theater (which, for some reason, was packed--I think we got a bunch of overflow from Avengers, since it kept selling out and this was the last matinee of the day) didn't devolve into stupid cheering. I caught one guy doing a fist-pump out of the corner of my eye at one point, immediately before the characters did it, which was kind of funny, but beyond that it was mostly scattered laughter.

In all fairness, I think the last two Big Dumb Action Movies I saw in theaters were Transformers 3 (which was awful in pretty much every way and easily the stupidest movie I've seen in the past few years) and Cowboys and Aliens (which was thoroughly meh) so my standards are pretty low. But still, both I and the person I was with were sort of surprised it wasn't bad.
 
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