Nerd Movie Reviews

Battleship movie: greatest navel film ever or is the whole country getting RickRoll’d?

So Dave was telling me about some of the trailers he saw the other night and one of them was for a live action movie based on the game Battleship.  I had to check it out, and after watching it was left scratching my head in confusion.  I played a lot of Battleship as a kid and honestly, don’t remember anything about aliens in it anywhere.  In fact, I don’t remember anything more than yelling out random letters and numbers and trusting my friends to not lie about what I did or did not hit.  One guy in particular was famous for cheating at Battleship.  Personally I always like Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots, as it was hard to cheat, had violence built it, and involved robots.  Also I was able to find a Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em image in among the vintage t-shirts, and Dave has nada for Battleship.

The thing is, the trailer actually looks kind of cool.  Big ships, bigger alien ships, lots of guns going off, and some decent action.  There doesn’t seem to be much at all related to the game Battleship aside from the name, although I did see some alien weapons hitting a ship that looked suspiciously like the marking pegs from the game.  So is this movie really supposed to be based on the game, or are the movie producers heartlessly trying to take advantage of all the novelty children of the ’70s might feel for this game in order to scam a quick buck from our pockets?  If the later the chance of it sucking horrible seems pretty good.  Dave has a pretty critical eye for alien invasion movies, so I am sure he will ferret out any suckage with the tenacity of a terrier and then clamp onto it with the jaws of a pit bull.  Should be interesting.

By the way, if you want to check out the trailer I watched and see for yourself watch it here.  Thanks

Jason

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