Battleship

So this trailer started playing at the beginning of an Iron Maiden song on youtube today and I heard some explosions and looked at it, and I was all

Hey, this looks kinda cool

Then I saw the title and I was like

wut

They should have just called it Battle: Hawaii.

I haven't seen Transformers, so to me, this is Mass Effect AT SEA!

...on that random thought, Rihanna in fatigues reminds me of Dualla. BSG AT SEA!

If only it were that cool. For some reason after seeing the trailer I couldn't help but think of Atragon.

I saw Sherlock Holmes 2 last night and this was one of the previews. My friends and I were watching it and all "HOLY SHIT THAT'S AWESOME AS FUCK!"

And then at the end they came up with "Battleship: the Movie" and we were like "THE FUCK?!"

Bleh... it's probably going to suck. But it shall suck gloriously.

At least we got the new trailer for The Dark Knight Rises after it.

Football field being bombed while wide receiver is chased > anything in the Battleship trailer.

i'm just hoping this will start a trend in hollywood of board game based movies

Settlers Of Catan could be this generation's dances with wolves.

^ You haven't heard about the Monopoly movie yet, have you? Or the Risk movie, or the Candyland movie? (Then again, the Monsterpocalypse movie might actually be good—they managed to get Tim Burton for it.)

I almost wonder if Monopoly will cut too close to the bone. The studio said it was a study in wealth and capitalism...

how can a shoe be a landowner?

Them top hats are taking our jobs.

I remember seeing this trailer, and at one point thinking "Wouldn't it be funny if this was a trailer for Battleship?" I shrugged it off.

But then I saw the title and I was all like WHAAAAAAAA

It has ships and shit blowing up, and the aliens have apparently managed to jam the radars on the DD Gs, meaning that it's guns only.

Well, that's why the Iowa-class has a fifteen-gun broadside. (9x 16 inch guns, 6x 5 in guns on each side).

Wonder if it's New Jersey or Wisconsin - IIRC both ships are maintained in the Naval Reserve and are intended to be capable of being restored to duty if need be. I doubt they'd recommission Missouri first, given that it's a memorial ship.

The Missouri already got its moment in Under Siege. They'll probably pick a newer ship.

Every time I see the trailer for this film, I increasingly think that this movie will fail, but it will fail spectacularly. It has the beautiful woman and the crazy special effects (plus Liam Neeson) to pull it off even if it does suck.

What do you guys think?

It's opening between Dark Shadows (Tim Burton and Johnny Depp) and Men In Black 3 (Will Smith). Battleship is basically this year's Cowboys And Aliens: an ordinary gross but it will never make a profit.

Since you think everything will fail spectacularly, now I'm starting to have my doubts.

Meh, spectacularly doesn't have the right connotation.

How about gloriously?

• loads trailer*

• expecting tense naval warfare set during the cold war, with epic fleet raids*

• Trailer is basically Transformers 4*

Then I turned 360 degrees and walked away...

So you walked into the trailer?

He could have walked backwards...

I'll see it.

Sadly the odds are I will be too, despite it killing the mountains of madness I take what I can get

I'd look forward to a Monopoly movie so that they can proceed to make crossovers with every other movie in existence.

And Hollywood has thus run out of ideas. Hoooorrrrraaaaaayyyyyyy! Now us Tropers can take them by storm! Y'all bring out your best stories. It isn't like we can't top this. XD