I'm on board with Candyland if Guillermo del Toro directs. Lord Licorice used to horrify me.

I'm on board with Candyland if it's a porno.

The Hungry Hungry Hippos movie had a lot more realism.

:D

But Clue was awesome.

It is also probably the only board game in history that would make a good movie. Aside from Go, which is even now being adapted into the tragic tale of a land war fought along racial lines.

Nope, as a matter of fact there's a remake of the Clue movie in the works.

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118000533?refCatId=13

I guess some genius at Hasbro thought if they could do it with action figures they could do it with board games too.

Also, I could stop laughing throughout this trailer because it's a trailer for a 0 million film by Universal Pictures, yet it looks like a movie by The Asylum.

But Rihanna will be in it, so it actually has the potential to do well.

I'm concerned.

Holy Christ, it really did cost 0 million. What the fuck?

0 million??? There are people starving out there...

Yes, you read that right, 0 million:

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/200-million-gamble-battl eship-film-26636

Remember, there are entire countries without clean water to drink, and people right around the corner from you starving on the street corner. Yay world!

"I'LL NEVER UNDERSTAND WHAT MY DAUGHTER SEES IN YOUR MOVIE STAR HANDSOMENESS AND YOUR DEVIL MAY CARE ATTITUDE!"

No, but now it costs 0 million instead of .95

I was going to say something about Liam Neeson wasting his talent... but these are yours.

Along the same lines is trying to promote the F22 in every single action movie of the past 10 years.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1440129/

Hollywood is no longer wading, but has full on plunged in headfirst into self parody.

For once I would like a movie taking place in our universe...where we have been so deadened to special effects and the concept of alien invasion that the onlookers would not be surprised at all.

And there came a cry from the cynically unfazed crowd, "FAKE!"

"YOU CALL THAT A FLESH-DESINTIGRATING LASER BLAST?! I CAN SEE THE PIXELS!"

My vote for most cliché shot of this decade goes to that pose that the hero does after jumping off of a building and landing in a crouch with one arm up in front of a bunch of villians. Then he/she swiftly raises his/her head up before killing them all. Can we get a montage of every movie that has done that?

Shot cliche of the decade actually goes to trailers: having various characters slowly stand up while staring in shock at something off camera. Double cliche points for doing this while 360 panning and fade to black transitions to the sound of a heartbeat.

My favorite is the surprise helicopter coming over a hill or into a shot unexpectedly with no audio until it is visible. Because, as we all know, helicopters do no make a sound unless you see them.

No, they're still around. How else will the whole defense budget get used up?

WW2 was when it was realised that giant monster ships were easy targets for ever-more advanced aircraft.

Also, this movie must have the line "You sunk my battleship" at some point.

Yeah, but the delivery will be all edgy like "You sunk my battleship, bitches!"

The USS New Jersey saw some use in Vietnam.


Giant phallic turrets are just sexier than aircraft carriers and missile frigates.

Just money that could be better spent on the Coast Guard.

Yeah, they could use higher quality lube for the all their buttsex drills.

"YOU SUNK MY BATTLESHIP, CADET! YOU ARE A WORTHLESS STRING OF UNRELATED GROSS NOUNS!!"

"NO, SIR, I HAVE SAVED US ALL! AND WHEN WE GET BACK I WILL BONE YOUR DAUGHTER!"

The Missouri saw use in the Persian Gulf War. Although, by then it was primarily a cruise missile delivery platform.

They've been called back into service and refitted for almost every major conflict of the later part of the 20th century. Their role after WWII was mainly pre-landing shore bombardment. The only reason the last administration couldn't justify spending a billion dollars refitting the USS Iowa is that Afghanistan is land locked and Iraq has a tiny stretch of coast. Next World War they'll probably slap a nuke reactor and a rail gun on it. Who knows?

??? It's - where I live in NJ.

On the other hand, I'm waiting for the movie-tie-in version of the game, where the other grid is filled with alien, whale-shaped ship things.

During the scene ripped straight from Independence Day where the guy in charge briefly communicates with the genocidal alien right before blowing it away.

More crap from Hasbro...

just to be clear, before anybody goes off and wastes two hours, even compared to this and Transformers, Skyline was not enjoyable/non-annoying

I think it'll come to something like that since the alien took out their computer weapons systems.

The aliens clearly trapped them in an electrical/magic dome, and their radars went out. That's why it's like battleship. They justified part of the plot being that they have to fire blindly within a closed area.

Something like that actually happens towards the end of Metal Gear Solid 4.

which, actually, given that this is a fucking feature-length adaptation of Battleship, is pretty clever

They'll probably call the sequel. "Battleship II: Electronic Talking Battleship from Milton Bradley Hasboro the Movie" It'll consist of another alien ship screaming its attacks out loud over a giant crackling loudspeaker during the final epic battle

And a spanking.

I'm writing a treatment for "Uncle Wiggly: This Time It's Personal", so I might need some red-handed discipline too.