Eh, its watchable. Its mindless in a Michael Bay sorta way but definitely more watchable.

It got a very glowing review on Half in the Bag. I have not seen it, but Mike and Jay said it was a lot better (in the sense of being enjoyable to watch) than it had any right to be.

Thing is Michael Bay gets credit for movies he didn't even do, except for help produce. And while I do wonder why Hollywood has resorted to making games out of board games with little or no plot, I kind of understand: they're a billion dollar industry whereas making your own indie film about a down on his luck alcoholic who gets busted for breaking into a convenience store would be hard to find backing for. Just make sure there's something about Battleships in there and you're good to go!

"making movies out of board games," that is.

Actually, that's pretty much the plot to Les Miserables. But nobody wanted to read that long and boring book. Put it to music though and you've got Broadway Gold! But that was the 80s. This time around you've gotta put it to battleships.

It's definitely on the fun-awful end of the terrible scale.

I didn't hate it.

Lord knows, it isn't a good movie, but it's sort of fun.

For reals! If I eat a peanut butter cracker after 7 pm, I'm up all night with the acid. Never mind a big fat convenience store burrito.

Who says they're going to bed? It's only midnight. That's sort of my dinner hour and I'm up until 7AM most days, sleep until 1, go to work.. but then again I'm not supposed to be on a battleship.

In the screenwriting trade, that's what is called a reverse deus ex machina.

Montezuma's Forgiveness?

Think you mean this one? Cause this is what I immediately thought of too.

http://www.poetv.com/video.php?vid=75750

There's another one showing a guy breaking in through the roof, then falling through, then falling again then resigning himself to waiting for the cops. All the angles are the same as Peter Berg uses in Battleship. Maybe I'll try to find it, but I've only been a lurker here since almost day one, never a good submitter, and only intermittently good at participating in the Hopper, so I dunno how I'll find it.

I just love you guys and the stuff you put up. I'm a leech of sorts, I admit it.

love you too, hon.

It could happen! Convenience stores sort of thaw their frozen product so it's ready in about a minute, maybe a bit longer. I've known people who have gone on beer runs from a convenience store 4 blocks down the street at less than 5 minutes to beer o'clock.

But most convenience stores that close a little early do that to avoid drunkies at last call; since they're not doing food service of any kind anymore, that means it's last call so you've gotta get out of there anyway. Would've been easier if you just offered to take her to Taco Bell, bro.

#whitelivesmatter

heh.. I think this is all of the movie that I want to see. This actually happened to me, sort of. I left something at the store I was working at but I had a key so it wasn't a big deal, just walk in and grab it. My backpack got caught on the candy thing so there were all these tootsie roll pops and other shit all over the place. And as luck would have it I didn't think to disable the silent alarm. So all of a sudden there's cops there wondering what I'm doing putting a whole bunch of candy back into a thing. I knew I was going to get fired for this but my boss thought it was the funniest thing ever. I miss that store.

I should mention that I was pretty drunk at the bar across the street too.. my life plays out just like Battleship! What happens after this I can't wait!

AC/DC montage.