This looks interesting and certainly nothing like the classic game.
Battleship Trailer HD (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-7qNVet5HM#noexternalembed-ws)
Hmm, looks like the video is blocked :(
That's a bummer.
http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/battleship.html?showVideo=1#belowNav (http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/battleship.html?showVideo=1#belowNav)
I was thinking this would be something to do with 'Battleship Yamamoto' - or 'Starblazers' as it was known here. Any ever see that great old Anime show?
Quote from: Bromptonboy on July 28, 2011, 06:09:02 AM
I was thinking this would be something to do with 'Battleship Yamamoto' - or 'Starblazers' as it was known here. Any ever see that great old Anime show?
You bet, they even have filmed a live action version in Japan a few year back.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Battleship_Yamato_(2010_film) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Battleship_Yamato_(2010_film))
Quote from: Rico on July 28, 2011, 04:21:13 AM
http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/battleship.html?showVideo=1#belowNav (http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/battleship.html?showVideo=1#belowNav)
Bah! When are these sites gonna realise that everybody has an iPad these days? ;)
Quote from: Bromptonboy on July 28, 2011, 06:09:02 AM
I was thinking this would be something to do with 'Battleship Yamamoto' - or 'Starblazers' as it was known here. Any ever see that great old Anime show?
Oh yeah!!! I LOVED Starblazers. I used to watch it every day when I was a kid. Awesome show.
Quote from: QuadShot on July 28, 2011, 09:44:16 AM
Quote from: Bromptonboy on July 28, 2011, 06:09:02 AM
I was thinking this would be something to do with 'Battleship Yamamoto' - or 'Starblazers' as it was known here. Any ever see that great old Anime show?
Oh yeah!!! I LOVED Starblazers. I used to watch it every day when I was a kid. Awesome show.
Check it out! It's like no one in the US is aware this even exists!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Battleship_Yamato_(2010_film) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Battleship_Yamato_(2010_film))
Quote from: Bromptonboy on July 28, 2011, 06:09:02 AM
I was thinking this would be something to do with 'Battleship Yamamoto' - or 'Starblazers' as it was known here. Any ever see that great old Anime show?
I love Star Blazers! The SyFy Channel was showing it at 2 am Friday, until they took it off the air a couple of weeks ago. I wouldn't mind seeing the new movie.
D@mn! I am going to be singing that Starblazers song now all day.
Hmm, it has Liaam Neeson in it.....and warships shooting......sold.....arghhh I'm such a sucker for those two things.
King
Hmm. Got a weird feeling about this...looks like it might cross the line from good-bad to bad-bad, but who can tell from a teaser trailer. I'm sure I'll see it anyway, but I'd rather watch that live action Yamato that I saw the trailer for a while ago.
I read about this a couple of weeks ago, seems like board game movies are on the up...
CH-CH-CHeck it out:
http://blastr.com/2011/06/game-on-7-classic-board-g.php (http://blastr.com/2011/06/game-on-7-classic-board-g.php)
How can it possibly top Clue?
finally watched the trailer.. not sure how I feel about this.. at first looked like a top gun kind of thing but with the navy.. then turned into Transformers and then the ship started to drop those pegs used in the Battleship game. This is a wait and see for me.
Yeah a little cheese factor there...
"Prepare to fire"
"Which weapons?"
"ALL of them"
Dun dun DUNNNN.
New trailer is out. This movie is looking pretty fun. Almost could call it Transformers 4 by the looks of this preview.
Battleship - Official Trailer #2 (HD) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YatZXieJsL4#ws)
Quote from: Geekyfanboy on August 03, 2011, 03:41:49 PM
finally watched the trailer.. not sure how I feel about this.. at first looked like a top gun kind of thing but with the navy.. then turned into Transformers and then the ship started to drop those pegs used in the Battleship game. This is a wait and see for me.
Dude, Top Gun is the Navy...:)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkZeUa53Jyg# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkZeUa53Jyg#)
This is definitely looking like Transformers: The Water Battles. I'm still interested. But if this were Michael Bay behind it I would skip it, still looks like he is though =\
King
I think this looks cool! I will be seeing this one when it comes out! And it has Liam Neeson in it so how could you go wrong.
I saw the movie this afternoon and enjoyed it. I thought the first part of the movie was a little slow, but when it got going... :metallica:
Is this the new trend in Bomb proofing summer movies?
"Battleship" Avoids U.S. Release and Makes $170 Mil Around the World
UPDATE: Sunday, April 29th: "Battleship" is now up to $170 Mil worldwide without US release until May 18th.
"Battleship," Universal Pictures' big summer entertainment, cost over $200 million to make. You know it's cheesy and not very good, so why subject the studio to American reviews? Very wisely, Universal has been opening "Battleship" around the world in advance of its May 18th U.S. landing. And the result: already $129 million in the bank. And more to come. These numbers are from Boxofficemojo.com. And they tell you why Ron Meyer is so good at his job running the studio. The movie has terrible reviews–it's scored a 48% on Rotten Tomatoes. One British reviewer simply called it "trash." Universal calls it "money" and there will enough of it by May 18th to avoid a "John Carter" disaster. This is the new trend. If your movie is bad, play for it people who just need to see explosions and special effects. The movie stars non-actor Rihanna, and "John Carter" hero Taylor Kitsch.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/rogerfriedman/2012/04/25/battleship-with-rihanna-has-already-made-129-mil-before-landing-in-u-s/ (http://www.forbes.com/sites/rogerfriedman/2012/04/25/battleship-with-rihanna-has-already-made-129-mil-before-landing-in-u-s/)
The Avengers is doing the same.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/rogerfriedman/2012/04/29/the-avengers-skipping-us-in-new-trend-makes-178-abroad/ (http://www.forbes.com/sites/rogerfriedman/2012/04/29/the-avengers-skipping-us-in-new-trend-makes-178-abroad/)
It does seem unusual to release such big, high profile summer movies overseas first. Especially weeks ahead as in the case of "Battleship" - a movie partially about an American battleship! They better hope the tech heads don't just download these off torrents, etc. before they show up in theaters over here.
Quote from: Rico on April 30, 2012, 05:11:18 AM
It does seem unusual to release such big, high profile summer movies overseas first. Especially weeks ahead as in the case of "Battleship" - a movie partially about an American battleship! They better hope the tech heads don't just download these off torrents, etc. before they show up in theaters over here.
Hey! Who are you calling "overseas"? ;)
Quote from: Feathers on April 30, 2012, 08:04:41 AM
Quote from: Rico on April 30, 2012, 05:11:18 AM
It does seem unusual to release such big, high profile summer movies overseas first. Especially weeks ahead as in the case of "Battleship" - a movie partially about an American battleship! They better hope the tech heads don't just download these off torrents, etc. before they show up in theaters over here.
Hey! Who are you calling "overseas"? ;)
Better then undersea :)
Quote from: billybob476 on April 30, 2012, 08:12:24 AM
Quote from: Feathers on April 30, 2012, 08:04:41 AM
Quote from: Rico on April 30, 2012, 05:11:18 AM
It does seem unusual to release such big, high profile summer movies overseas first. Especially weeks ahead as in the case of "Battleship" - a movie partially about an American battleship! They better hope the tech heads don't just download these off torrents, etc. before they show up in theaters over here.
Hey! Who are you calling "overseas"? ;)
Better then undersea :)
With the rain we had over the weekend, that's probably coming!
Kid's TV over here is full of advertising for Battleships (the board game) as a tie-in with the film but the ads for the film itself seem to have gone away pretty quickly.
Unless the board game versions now come with alien invaders too!
Quote from: Rico on April 30, 2012, 08:28:17 AM
Unless the board game versions now come with alien invaders too!
Funny you say that, I was playing X-Com over the weekend and it kind of resembles Battleship with alien invaders :)
I thought Forbes was a little harsh with their review of a fun summer popcorn movie but it's hard to miss the point that these movies have gotten really, really expensive to make.
Three flops in a row would probably devastate a studio.
Now I wonder if the next Trek movie will follow the same strategy.
For now on:
Any new movie based on a board game get's a per-worldwide release.
New movies based on comics book super heroes gets a simultaneous release.
And if the studios are smart - The next few Trek movies and the Forbidden Planet remake must have a per-release advance screening on Treks-in-scifi.
They really have to be careful about having the releases spread out too far - especially in the age of digital movie distribution. Pretty darn easy to have these movies "leak out" on to the net if you hold them back from the people who want to see them. A couple of days - maybe a week I can see, longer than that will only cause trouble.
Quote from: Rico on April 30, 2012, 08:47:40 AM
They really have to be careful about having the releases spread out too far - especially in the age of digital movie distribution. Pretty darn easy to have these movies "leak out" on to the net if you hold them back from the people who want to see them. A couple of days - maybe a week I can see, longer than that will only cause trouble.
I am shocked that the film has yet to be released in the States! :jawdrop
I agree that film studios need to be careful otherwise our old friend 'Bit Torrents' will become more popular! ;)
Quote from: Rico on April 30, 2012, 08:47:40 AM
They really have to be careful about having the releases spread out too far - especially in the age of digital movie distribution. Pretty darn easy to have these movies "leak out" on to the net if you hold them back from the people who want to see them. A couple of days - maybe a week I can see, longer than that will only cause trouble.
I assume that there's some sort of 'science' to this whole phased release thing, but I can't work out what it is.
What's the point of holding back the release anywhere. Surely it's better just to let what money you're going to get roll in as quickly as possible?
I'm hoping to go see this on Sat. Liam Neeson is in it so it should be a good one. I read about this in the Sci-Fi magazine and it had some interesting things to say about how they tried to get game elements into the movie. Should be something fun to watch for.
The wife and I did see this yesterday. We both enjoyed it but I did like it more that she did. I give the movie a 9. It was very well done and there are some great special effects and I thought the story was good with some of the people that showed up to help. They did get elements of the game into the movie but it wasn't over done.
There is an actor in this named Gregory D. Gadson and he is an acual Army vet who was injured in battle. He had a great part in the movie. Here is a link for info on him. Check out the video clip.
www.imdb.com/name/nm4748971/ (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm4748971/)
[spoiler]Brooklyn Decker is in the movie so thats nice for the eyes. Also there is a Battleship in this movie and it's used in an awesome manner![/spoiler]
Just saw this today and enjoyed it. Definitely a popcorn movie and lots of fun. Not a deep plot obviously but some amazing visuals and most of the characters didn't act dumb - which is refreshing. Worth a look see if you enjoy this type of movie.
I saw it this afternoon as well. I really enjoyed it. Definitely a popcorn movie. Lots of fun.
Looks like this one is not doing very well revenue-wise.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/20/entertainment-us-battleship-idUSBRE84J0AS20120520 (http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/20/entertainment-us-battleship-idUSBRE84J0AS20120520)
Bad luck that it's competing against two juggernauts, Avengers and MIB.
Hope this doesn't stop production of any new projects.
I'm still waiting for a 'Forbidden Planet' remake.
U saw this movie today and enjoyed it. Lots of Action and the effects were great. I found the pace of it pretty good as well, it seemed to move fast for the length it was.
I am going to have to see this one afterall.
Quote from: Rico on May 20, 2012, 01:38:07 PM
Just saw this today and enjoyed it. Definitely a popcorn movie and lots of fun. Not a deep plot obviously but some amazing visuals and most of the characters didn't act dumb - which is refreshing. Worth a look see if you enjoy this type of movie.
Oh good, I was worried they borrowed too much from Transformers ;). I'll try and see this one in theaters, but...unsure.
King
I read somewhere there is a scene at the end of the credits. I didn't stay for it. Did anybody stay or hear about this?
Battleship: Hidden scene (after credits) 2012 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrzwGRUBTxM#ws)
Thanks for posting that Rico. Didn't really make any since to me though.