Battleship

[protocida]

 

[Mrs. Sawyer]

Yea but it has big explosions and great CGI! Who cares about characterisation and plot!?!?

Well, it's someone's thing.

I'll probably get hammered and go watch this movie.

 

[ThePowerCosmic]

Aliens Featurette

 

[dark_b]

Clip 1

this is official a 100% Michael Bay copy. let me explain.

we could say that the action,cgi and cinematography was inpired from Bay. but there was something in this clip that only the crazy Bay would use. and its the weather and sun. it jumps from a clear middle sun day to a sunset to a cloudy rainy day ,to sunset to clear weather. they also used specific shot where a metalic part breaks and jumps in slow motion .

yes i understand to use some parts from Bay. but a direct 100% copy? meh

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

Empire and Total Film both give the movie 2 out of 5, a few other reviews on RT seem to love it though, I think fans of Transformers movies may like this.

 

[Micromind]

This movie is getting an early release, where I live, on 13th April.

If I see it (depending on the local wom), I will post a spoiler free review.

 

[vanson]

i'll watch it tomorrow too.. will write something here then..

 

[obin_gam]

Have tickets for it tonight, looking forward to the epic discussion afterwards with my friends about how much it sucked

 

[obin_gam]

Okay, we'll take the good parts first. Action scenes, naval battles and that it is NOT shaky-cam and NOT 3D made ​​me positive! This is really well done and especially the last act when the movie lives up to its name is pretty damn cool.

The problem ... comes with that this is only 50% of the film. The other half of the two and a half hours long borefest is spent with a blond goose (which of course is the main character's girlfriend), the token black guy and the nerd. Who do not have anything to do in the movieat all. They're on one of the islands and do something with the communication or the like but in the end they're totally useless.

The director makes good action and useless drama. Sadly, good action cant save a movie this long. One must be able to have a movie where you do not sit and sigh all the time when it breaks from the good parts to totally f***** bland stuff.

2/10 (becasue of good action sequences and that it's NOT IN 3D )

 

[TheVileOne]

I love how Peter Berg at WonderCon makes it sound like this is a "smart" movie in how he's using ideas with Stephen Hawking and Goldlilocks planets when all the reviews point out how dumb and without personality the aliens are.

 

[Lencho01]

Various reviews...

http://www.slashfilm.com/early-buzz-battleship-splashy-mindless-entertainment-transformers-mold/

Early Buzz: ‘Battleship’ is Splashy, Mindless Entertainment in the ‘Transformers’ Mold

Posted on Wednesday, April 11th, 2012 by Angie Han

On the one hand, Universal’s Battleship looks, frankly, kinda stupid. It’s an adaptation of a Hasbro toy, along the same lines as Michael Bay’s dumb (but occasionally fun) Transformers franchise, and early spots and footage did nothing to suggest it’d be anything more than an uninspired, cynical cash grab.


On the other, there’s some promising talent both in front of and behind the camera: Friday Night Lights director Peter Berg at the helm and his Friday Night Lights stars Taylor Kitsch and Jesse Plemons in the cast, plus Liam Neeson, Alexander Skarsgard, Hamish Linklater, and Liam Neeson. And while I wouldn’t go so far as to say the film looked smart, I respected that it seemed perfectly aware of what it was — mindless popcorn entertainment, no more and no less.


But all of that ambivalence was based more on the marketing team’s efforts than on the film itself. Now that the first early reviews are rolling out, however, we’re getting a much better sense of what, exactly, Berg is offering us next month. Read all about Battleship‘s early buzz after the jump.
One of the more negative reviews I’ve read comes from The Playlist, which gave Battleship a D-:

[Berg] is channeling Michael Bay at every possible opportunity, from the leery eye he casts on the female characters and the frankly-kind-of-racist humor to Steve Jablonsky’s horrific Zimmer Factory score (quite literally: the alien’s theme is a straight lift from “Tron: Legacy&#8221 to the omnipresent teal-and-orange color palette.[...]
[E]ven the brains-off crowd will struggle to find anything to enjoy here. The film is so overlong (130 minutes) and sluggishly paced that the heartbeat never gets raised, and the effects never look anything other than plasticky.
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Ouch.

Empire was pretty disappointed in Berg, too:

Battleship is an event movie so lunkheaded – both in concept and execution – that it’s hard not to suspect director Peter Berg of playing a prank.[...] Battleship seems geared squarely towards gun-toting rednecks. Is Berg, the intelligent filmmaker behind Friday Night Lights and The Kingdom, a Michael Mann protégé no less, daring to spoof the blockbuster?
Evidence, sadly, indicates that both he and his film are in earnest.
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It gets harsher:

As insane as it sounds, Battleship could see you yearning for the character development of Transformers.
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Quickflix wasn’t so into it either (‘an early contender for “eye-rollingest film of the year,’&#8221, but were surprised to find themselves actually liking the board game connection:

Ironically, the aspect of the project that has been so emphatically mocked since its announcement – the board game connection – is what works best. The scenes in which the crew of the USS John Paul Jones use radar to predict where their enemy might be laying in wait, and bombing them accordingly (with a helpful checkerboard to assist), are the most thrilling by far.
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Hey U Guys says that not only did they not like it, no one else in the theater did either:

The audience I saw the film with reacted with disbelieving laughter at the serious moments and with outright incredulity at one particular moment towards the end when the final plan is revealed. The tone is so uneven that you have no idea if the filmmakers are serious at any time but tongue remains firmly out of cheek and we’re deprived of even a good laugh at the silliness of it all.
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But it wasn’t all bad. Plenty of people reported having a good time, too. On the Box criticized Battleship‘s hilariously bad dialogue, but enjoyed it overall:

It may look like the kind of big-dumb project that Dwayne Johnson wouldn’t be seen dead near – and some of the time it is – but with a touch of charm, pace and wit, Peter Berg has created something sharper and funnier than many will give him credit for.
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Digital Spy found Battleship a bit lacking in originality, but fun nonetheless:

Admittedly, the whole endeavour is one big cheese-fest and somewhat akin to shoving 10 different movies into a blender and throwing the results up on screen. Top Gun‘s volleyball scene is substituted for a football game, the film’s sci-fi disaster element is ripped straight out of Independence Day and Transformers, and there’s a hefty dose of James Cameron in Rihanna’s tough chick Raikes. Despite all that, this is still high on entertainment value and gives plenty of bang for the buck.
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MovieWeb reaches a similar conclusion, even though they though the action compared unfavorably to Transformers: Dark of the Moon:

Hey, everything up on the screen is silly, but “Battleship” is guilty fun and the effects are awesome! Now, will you pass the popcorn, please?
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Matt’s Movie Reviews liked the VFX-heavy action sequences, though they found the script “tiresome.” They also seemed to like its “unapologetic pro-military stance”:

An unapologetically patriotic, mammoth sized action spectacle, what Battleship lacks in smarts and innovation it makes up for in pure popcorn entertainment.
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Urban Cinephile‘s Louise Keller was definitely on board…

With an onslaught of jaw-dropping visual effects, non-stop action and a narrative that delivers some surprises, Battleship booms onto the screen with style and scale. For the genre and its target young male audience, it’s got a bit of everything – an alien invasion, antihero who saves the world, personal conflicts, a splash of romance and sprays of humour to relieve the tension. There are good contrasts of tone and the characters are well established – or well enough – to give the story ballast.
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… whereas her colleague Andrew L. Urban found some aspects of the film “underdeveloped,” but liked the “superbly written, choreographed and directed climactic sequence.”
Like so many of the others, SFX thought the whole thing rather silly but had some fun with it as well:

Impressive effects sequences, ingeniously entertaining nods to the game and solid performances (not that singer Rihanna is actually required to act at any point) fight against a plot that descends into setpieces and cliché.
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Battleship drew comparisons to Bay’s Transformers in nearly every writeup I read, which suggests that how much pleasure you derive from Battleship may be predicted by your feelings on the Transformers franchise. (Independence Day and Top Gun also got name-checked a few times.) Overall, almost everyone agreed that Battleship wasn’t so smart, but those who enjoyed giant, expensive, explosive set pieces seemed to find the film’s action satisfying, whereas those who didn’t merely found the whole picture tedious. That divide is especially clear in the way some reviewers talked about the splashy climactic moment — either they found it audaciously over-the-top, or completely ridiculous.

Battleship opens May 18.

 

[Liam_H]

So basically if you liked the Transformers movies you'll enjoy this.

 

[ThePowerCosmic]

Destruction Featurette

 

[BrollySupersj]

So basically if you liked the Transformers movies you'll enjoy this.

That works for me. I love destruction, and aliens. t:

 

[Lencho01]

Another...

http://badassdigest.com/2012/04/11/movie-review-battleship-is-sunk/

 

[dark_b]

Devin said that its like fast food? it looks like fast food in the trailer.

hey i am watching this hahahahha

 

[obin_gam]

So basically if you liked the Transformers movies you'll enjoy this.

I love the transformers films. I really disliked this one. Bays films atleast has charm. This one doesnt.

 

[vanson]

just saw it

- i dont think its that bad as everyone says.. and i dont like transformers 2 & 3.
- it certainly delivers on the action part.
- the introduction to hopper and how he hooks up with brooklyn decker is quite funny.
-the aliens are cool but they could have done some creepier stuff with them i think (maybe because they wanted a pg13 rating)
- its quite visual. you know these shots in michael bay movies where he shows off military equipment..well you're in for a treat ...
loads of those.

so but there are of course some flaws..
- the story is predictable ( even one character says it 1min into the movie "when we send
that signal out we are going to hell when someone comes here.." and guess what happens
- it totally unclear how the aliens decide to kill one and dont harm someone else. There is a small
"explanation" which is:[BLACKOUT]if you dont attack them they wont do anything. but they kill you when you are trying to interfere. so logic would suggest, when you try to invade the
freaking planet why not kill everybody in the blocked zone and do your thing to get rest of the planet.. and they could easily do that.[/BLACKOUT]
- the biggest flaw for me was a scene involving .. lets just say some elderly gentleman. i mean i wanted do disappear
when that happened, its so ridiculous... :[BLACKOUT] at the end all ships are destroyed... all ships ? oh no, the museum ship is still there. but damn ..thats all analog **** nobody can
operate that... oh wait guess who's comin. 20 vets all in their 80's help run the ship and give snappy onliners to the other crew members.. [/BLACKOUT]
i dont know if that supposed to be funny, for me it was awkward as hell..

few last things:
-rihanna feels just out of place in this.
-there is a scene where they do the boardgame pretty much for real which is very well done in my opinion.
- no 3D and no shaky cam.. i really digged that..

6.5 / 10

 

[obin_gam]

- the biggest flaw for me was a scene involving .. lets just say some elderly gentleman. i mean i wanted do disappear
when that happened, its so ridiculous... :[BLACKOUT] at the end all ships are destroyed... all ships ? oh no, the museum ship is still there. but damn ..thats all analog **** nobody can
operate that... oh wait guess who's comin. 20 vets all in their 80's help run the ship and give snappy onliners to the other crew members.. [/BLACKOUT]
i dont know if that supposed to be funny, for me it was awkward as hell..

That was the best part of the whole movie to me t: It is cheesy and dumb as hell. But in the context of the movie, and well, probably because at that time I didnt care anymore, I had aldready said "f*** it movie do what you want". So that part became easily the highlight. Its so wrong and bad that it becomes downright awesome

 

[The Morningstar]

That part sounds like it'd make me throw up from the cheese.

 

[Marvin]

When this bombs, Michael Bay's vindication will be complete.

 

[terry78]

It's summer, it's blockbusters season, and I usually try and see most movies that come out during this time frame at least once, no matter how stupid.

 

[terry78]

It's summer, it's blockbusters season, and I usually try and see most movies that come out during this time frame at least once, no matter how stupid.

 

[nite-owl]

Does anyone actually say 'they sank my battleship'?

 

[obin_gam]

Does anyone actually say 'they sank my battleship'?

Possible spoiler so I'll hide it: [blackout]No.[/blackout]