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Trailer 2 should be online today! Yeah!
 
Kewl! Looking forward to it. :D
 
http://collider.com/battleship-new-images-editing-room-visit/131224/

Here’s 18 things you should know about Battleship:
  • 1. The film has a very strange sense of humor. During the meetcute between the romantic leads, a down on his luck Taylor Kitsch breaks into a convenience store and steals a frozen burrito in an effort to woo Brooklyn Decker. The burglary goes horribly awry and ends with repeated tasing. The scene is bizarre indeed, but it’s also fairly charming, at times even recalling the tone of Raising Arizona.
  • 2. Kitsch’s protagonist may be a ne’er-do-well, but he is also the fastest promoted Naval Officer in the history of the United States of America.
  • 3. The beginning of Kitsch’s character arc also reminded me of Don Quixote. The phase, “Tilting at windmills” appears several times in my notes. The angle of a rugged individual who saves the day through determination and pluck mixed with a quixotic archetype actually plays fairly fresh in the scenes we saw.
  • 3. Kitsch has two primary dilemmas in the film. Obviously, he has to contend with the alien invaders, but he also has to get a marriage blessing from Decker’s father, Liam Neeson, who is also his commanding officer.
  • http://collider.com/wp-content/uploads/battleship-movie-poster-01.jpg4. Needless to say, Neeson doesn’t approve of his daughter dating a man with a criminal record who also regularly picks fights on the ship. The dynamic between Kitsch and Neeson is established by way of a clever quote from Homer.
  • 5. There is a scene with Kitsch and Decker on the beach where Decker looks Bridget Bardot hot.
  • 6. During development of the film, Berg became fascinated by the interactions between Japanese Naval ships and their American counterparts as they sit docked next to each other as allies right next to Pearl Harbor. The ways in which bitter enemies become friends plays out in the film on both a macro and micro level with Japanese characters playing significant roles.
  • 7. Despite the notorious history of Hollywood movies attempting to film at sea, the first week of Battleship included several sequences shot on the water.
  • 8. The early interactions with the alien ships were filmed practically. The production built a giant set in the ocean allowing for massive vistas of the horizon and strange, slightly surreal cinematography assisted by the natural wave current.
  • 9. During these scenes some of the cast members quoted Godspell in place of their dialogue during wide shots.
  • 10. The alien ships, which also have cloaking devices, override compasses, radar and other reconnaissance tools, thus leaving the navy to shoot in the dark.
  • 11. In the few moments shown, Rihanna proves herself to be a better actor than her ex-beau Chris Brown.
  • 12. Berg is unafraid of the recent onslaught of alien invasion films. He saw and enjoyed Battle: Los Angeles and took from it only that the genre works when it is well executed.
  • 13. Though there is a long tradition of alien invasion narratives functioning as a metaphor for international war and elements of imperialism, Berg, who previously directed The Kingdom, says that politics never crossed his mind during filming.
  • 14. However, Stephen Hawking’s theory of “Goldilocks Planets” was an influence.
  • 15. Berg on how the game influenced parts of the movie: “There’s actually a very interesting component of playing Battleship which is, if we’re playing against each other, you start out calling, “G8!” and random, and eventually something happens, and what that phenomenon is, is you go from being an unknown enemy to a known enemy and there’s a point of discovery in battleship and it’s actually kind of, it’s a hook and it’s actually why the game’s been around for so long. if you and I are playing I have absolutely no idea where you are and suddenly I start to realize where you are and it’s very satisfying. And the second I realize, ‘Oh that’s where he is! That’s his strategy!’ and as soon as I figure out where you are, what do I do? I try and destroy you as quickly and violently as I can before you kill me. There’s something very inherently dramatic about that.”
  • 16. There are several different types of alien ships shown in the film and several types of aliens.
  • 17. The aliens will not hidden in the shadows, “We’re a movie that puts it out there.”
  • 18. Berg already has plans for a sequel. “I never go one and done. I’m always thinking, ‘Lets keep going!’ I love these characters and I love these [aliens] and I love the world they come from and I love the idea of the goldilocks planets.
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...but i still think that anyone who is looking forward to Battleship, should just go out and buy the bord game right now, asap, if there is nothing stopping them.
just wanted to say that in case anyone tried to make out i was scared of these bored games.
 
Wow, all of that actually makes it sound really good.
 
Nothing in that description sounds like it has much story substance. Plenty of it is prone to nitpicking, like the unlikelihood of a guy with a criminal record, prone to fights, and unliked by his commanding officer getting promoted instead of drummed out of the service.
 
similar posters were used before Dark knight and Inception. just so you know Nolanfanatics
 
Something between Fantastic Four and Transformers with Master Chief. But Brooklyn Decker + Rihanna = no bikinis? Like really?! C'mon, Universal? :whatever:
 
I think Berg talks a pretty decent game. He made a fun movie, maybe with a little substance, out of the board game. Not expecting much else, but maybe it's not the utter crap everyone thought it would be.
 
This feels like a mix of transformers with a vibe of the video game crysis. I can't lie, I actually want to see this.
 
I get a feeling this might actually be this summers sleeper hit. The one noone thought would actually be good.

But at the same time... I'm predicting a 15% average at RottenTomatoes and a horrible horrible wreck.
 
If I didn't know I'd think this was the trailer for Transformers 4. It looks like the type of film that if you are gonna check it out it's gotta be on the big screen to get the full effect.

I was hoping for some cool shots of us fighting back but maybe that will come in the next trailer, I'm also wondering if one of the guys takes that Crysis suit off the alien and uses it.
 
Not bad, could be fun. At the very least the action looks pretty.
 
CelticPredator said:
^ Why did Berg steal Bay's style? He has his own....I don't get it.
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this was an order from the studio. i feel bad for Berg. he was hired to make a Bay movie. because Berg is cheaper then Bay. it doesnt look inspired by TF. it looks 100% like a Bay TF movie.its crazy

thank god that they used ARD to change Rihanna's voice
 
Which sucks. Bay makes Bay movies. Berg makes Berg movies.

Hasbro also made GI-Joe. So....
 
I wasn't really expecting much, but I really enjoyed that.

It looks like it could be a decent, entertaining summer movie.
 
What's the point of casting Rhianna if she isn't going to sing in this film?
 
That trailer was hilarious, it feels like a really expensive parody of the Transformer films.
 
Am i the only one that thinks a movie about 2 supposed enemy boats trying to find each other in an ambient of depression and fear could be interesting?
 
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