Battleship

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Thundercrack85 said:
Usually, yeah. Which is a very dumb reason, since there aren't any resources you can find on Earth you can't find in space (and get them more easily). That's bad writing 101 right there. Unless they've come for the cows.

But most movies at least give you a reason, even if it's a very dumb one like Independence Day, or the dumbest I've ever seen, Cowboys and Aliens.
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I never got around to seeing Cowboys & Aliens. But with Independence Day, they actually want to live on the planet. Then they will leave and go elsewhere when Earth eventually becomes inhabitable. Much like us, there are probably only a limited number of worlds they can survive easily on.
 
Kahran Ramsus said:
I never got around to seeing Cowboys & Aliens. But with Independence Day, they actually want to live on the planet. Then they will leave and go elsewhere when Earth eventually becomes inhabitable. Much like us, there are probably only a limited number of worlds they can survive easily on.
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In Cowboys and Aliens they came to Earth to get gold. If you know anything about astrophysics, this is hilariously dumb, because you can find gold in greater quantities in space. One decent-sized asteroid contains more gold than all the gold we have mined in human history.
 
Kahran Ramsus said:
I never got around to seeing Cowboys & Aliens. But with Independence Day, they actually want to live on the planet. Then they will leave and go elsewhere when Earth eventually becomes inhabitable. Much like us, there are probably only a limited number of worlds they can survive easily on.
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actually in ID4 they were here for our resources:
"I saw... its thoughts. I saw what they're planning to do. They're like locusts. They're moving from planet to planet... their whole civilization. After they've consumed every natural resource they move on... and we're next. Nuke 'em. Let's nuke the bastards."
 
roach said:
actually in ID4 they were here for our resources:
"I saw... its thoughts. I saw what they're planning to do. They're like locusts. They're moving from planet to planet... their whole civilization. After they've consumed every natural resource they move on... and we're next. Nuke 'em. Let's nuke the bastards."
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He uses the word resources, but he could just as easily be talking about things like oxygen and liquid water. Regardless of the resources in question, they clearly planned to be invading and moving in, not just using it as a mining colony.
 
Friday's gross should tell us a great deal about how much this movie will generate over the weekend.
 
Got back from seeing this and I really enjoyed it. A masterpiece it isn't but it was definitely entertaining IMO, lots of cool action scenes. I'd give it about a 7 or 8/10, teetering between those scores right now. I went in expecting harmless Summer blockbuster fare and it delivered for me.
 
It wasn't a bad movie it wasn't a great movie neither.There are things they could of done better to make it more enjoyable. Rhianna wasn't as bad as some ppl thought I really didn't care for the lead guy( guy who played Gambit?).
I think for me the most enjoyable was when they brought out USS MISSOURI from museum duties(I'm from Missouri so its kindof cool).
I also actually liked the aliens they had a good look to them and did enjoy their mechanical armor suits. It was a nice touch that they didn't harm anyone who didn't attack them first, knowing they were superior. Maybe it was just that tactic of being a recon-force, don't attack or engage unless u have too?
 
Saw it earlier also. It wasn't horrible, just basic summer fluff. Universal basically told Berg to give them a giant Emmerich/Bay-ish spectacle and that's what he gave them. He can do much better, but that's what they wanted. I did like how they managed to incorporate the tactics of the game into the climax.
 
Thundercrack85 said:
Gotta love how they don't even give a reason. Just a random alien invasion.

"Hey, we just got this signal from Earth, let's go wreck it!"

I guess I gotta give Bay some credit, at least his aliens have something resembling a goal.
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The evil transformers had goals? I thought all they wanted to do was "Hey there are autobots in major cities here, let's go **** their **** up!" :awesome: :oldrazz:

I haven't seen Battleship, but it seems like the same idea.
 
I'm seeing this movie is doing terrible numbers. How bad is it?
 
Hasbro - "Yeah there's nothing special about Transformers. We can just throw aliens and explosions into any movie and achieve the same success."

How about no.
 
MessiahDecoy123 said:
Hasbro - "Yeah there's nothing special about Transformers. We can just throw aliens and explosions into any movie and achieve the same success."

How about no.
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more like

Hasbro - "Transformers made us a ton of money...everything should be like it from now on"
 
Hasbro was over reaching they were thinking we got GI Joe Transformers lets get Battship going lol.
 
roach said:
more like

Hasbro - "Transformers made us a ton of money...everything should be like it from now on"
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Yeah but they also under-estimated the appeal and fandom of Transformers if they thought they could copy it's success by simply by throwing aliens and transforming machines in a Battleship movie.

Nope, won't work. No one cares.
 
terry78 said:
Saw it earlier also. It wasn't horrible, just basic summer fluff. Universal basically told Berg to give them a giant Emmerich/Bay-ish spectacle and that's what he gave them. He can do much better, but that's what they wanted. I did like how they managed to incorporate the tactics of the game into the climax.
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any other director would simply be called on making a poor movie, but when it's someone one has an affinity for, we get this sort of response. "He was paid to literally make a bad film...he probably didn't want to tho.."

nah.
 
^Hey, that's how it works. Your portfolio speaks for itself.
 
I just saw the movie...

it's definitely a rental... not a movie to rush out to theaters to see...

some thoughts:

1. According to this movie, it only takes 10-12 people to run a battleship, since the third act has the main characters (Gambit, Rhianna, Blonde-hair guy, Japanese guy) and 4-5 old people run the entire ship and beat the biggest and baddest of the alien space craft.
2. Brooklyn Decker is almost made to be even LESS USEFUL than Michael Bay makes his women in his films... at least Megan Fox (and whats-her-face from Transformers 3) had more to do... the blonde chick in this movie literally walks up a mountain, spies on some aliens, drives a truck. She does those three things in that order. And that's all she does. However, her rack is AMAZING!
3. I totally thought Liam Neeson was gonna die. I was surprised he lived.
4. I also found the ending to be mind-boggling... why is everyone celebrating? Obviously, this first batch of aliens was just on a recon mission... that's why they only defended and didn't set up any offensive strikes... they went down to get information about the planet, their communication ship was damaged, and their only mission throughout the movie was to set up the satellite link so they could message back to Planet-G they needed help getting home... so now Humans are TRULY going to look evil to Planet-G's people. I also felt the aliens may not have been as hostile as we were made to believe.... which would be a GREAT JOKE if true lol
 
GregComicFan said:
I just saw the movie...

it's definitely a rental... not a movie to rush out to theaters to see...

some thoughts:

1. According to this movie, it only takes 10-12 people to run a battleship, since the third act has the main characters (Gambit, Rhianna, Blonde-hair guy, Japanese guy) and 4-5 old people run the entire ship and beat the biggest and baddest of the alien space craft.
2. Brooklyn Decker is almost made to be even LESS USEFUL than Michael Bay makes his women in his films... at least Megan Fox (and whats-her-face from Transformers 3) had more to do... the blonde chick in this movie literally walks up a mountain, spies on some aliens, drives a truck. She does those three things in that order. And that's all she does. However, her rack is AMAZING!
3. I totally thought Liam Neeson was gonna die. I was surprised he lived.
4. I also found the ending to be mind-boggling... why is everyone celebrating? Obviously, this first batch of aliens was just on a recon mission... that's why they only defended and didn't set up any offensive strikes... they went down to get information about the planet, their communication ship was damaged, and their only mission throughout the movie was to set up the satellite link so they could message back to Planet-G they needed help getting home... so now Humans are TRULY going to look evil to Planet-G's people. I also felt the aliens may not have been as hostile as we were made to believe.... which would be a GREAT JOKE if true lol
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I was in the Navy for 11 years...it doesn't take many people to run a ship
 
roach said:
I was in the Navy for 11 years...it doesn't take many people to run a ship
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So 4 people and 5 old men can do it? okay. cool. I learn something new everyday. lol (not being sarcastic... just surprised)
 
GregComicFan said:
So 4 people and 5 old men can do it? okay. cool. I learn something new everyday. lol (not being sarcastic... just surprised)
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we used to play this game on watch during the night where we'd come up with hypothetical situations and we figured we could run an aircraft carrier(just the ship) with about 7 people
 
roach said:
we used to play this game on watch during the night where we'd come up with hypothetical situations and we figured we could run an aircraft carrier(just the ship) with about 7 people
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okay. Well then the ending to this movie became a bit more believable.

However...

I don't think the Missouri was still equipped with ammunition and missiles and stuff... they were luckily still aboard that "museum" ship
 
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