Battleship

Kashkai

Absolutely full of plotholes and unanswered questions (sequel anyone?) but I have to admit I thought it wasn't bad tbh. I've seen far, far worse, eg Skyline to Transformers 2 & 3.

Dermighty

Prosperous Dave wrote: »

Absolutely full of plotholes and unanswered questions (sequel anyone?) but I have to admit I thought it wasn't bad tbh. I've seen far, far worse, eg Skyline to Transformers 2 & 3.

It was better than expected, but it was crap, I can't believe they make this ****e!

I've never seen a Transformers movie, thankfully.

TheIrishGrover

cronin_j wrote: »

Saw this in the I sense cinema in Blanchardstown last night. Delighted I did. The special effects are brilliant. I think watching this on the small screen it wouldn't have the same impact.

About the film itself: it's full of cheese, it's really cheesy but cheesy in a good way I think. (if there is such a thing). I would echo the independence day and Armageddon comments. But I thoroughly enjoyed those films when they came out.

Anyway just about everything gets blown up, Guns, hot women, what more could you want? For the ladies my girlfriend assures me that there is plenty of eye candy there too.

What's the isense screen like in Blanch? Going to The Avengers there during the week. The reviews for The Point screen are poor as the bottom of the screen is blocked but I only found one brief mention of the Blanch one.

Cheers

helimachoptor

Just back from it, i was sure it was going to be a 20-30 ship battle against the aliens. Plot was to be expected.

A couple of things

1) The aliens comm ship crashing on the way in.
I mean come on, the fly across the galaxy and hit a bus in orbit
2) At their level of advancement still using projectile weapons
3) They were very threat aware i.e. if something wasnt a threat they didnt attack. That's just stupid. You are here to colonise you kill every enemy combatant whether they are posing a threat or not
4) And the handbreak turn with the anchor i mean come on
5) Finally the ships can fly across the galaxy yet keep belly flopping on the water, go vertical and rain down death from above

But despite that it was still enjoyable albeit it on a scale of 1-10 about a 4.5 even with the brain at the door.

klose

Just back from it there, tis alright id rather have seen it on dvd then paying for the cinema though.
Its pretty cheesey, some of the lines are so cringey even one guy in the film says "who talks like that" gas..
The ships remind me of metal gear ray from mgs2 and the aliens remind me of the guys from halo.
Like someone said full of plotholes and is unnescesarily long, does there always have to be a love story in films? The explosions were pretty kick ass as was the alien ships, leave your brain outside kind of film.



EDIT: Oh and rihanna is sooooooooooooooooooooo hot in it

Riddle101

Stupid stupid movie. Went in thinking it was going to be rubbish and it actually turned out to be worse then that:D. Brain or no brain it sucked for me.

Boo Radley

The sequel.

Dermighty

Boo Radley wrote: »

The sequel.

That's not actually the sequel. It's just a poster made to look like it is. Also the poster says April 2012, which is when the Original Battleship came out, so it's hardly a sequel. Even using Google you can disprove the validity of that poster.

Dermighty

Dermighty wrote: »

That's not actually the sequel. It's just a poster made to look like it is. Also the poster says April 2012, which is when the Original Battleship came out, so it's hardly a sequel. Even using Google you can disprove the validity of that poster.

Fairly certain that the poster was pulling the piss.

Boo Radley

Dermighty wrote: »

That's not actually the sequel. It's just a poster made to look like it is. Also the poster says April 2012, which is when the Original Battleship came out, so it's hardly a sequel. Even using Google you can disprove the validity of that poster.

Thanks for clearing that up Sherlock.

Skinfull

Dermighty wrote: »

That's not actually the sequel. It's just a poster made to look like it is. Also the poster says April 2012, which is when the Original Battleship came out, so it's hardly a sequel. Even using Google you can disprove the validity of that poster.

p to the e

Dermighty wrote: »

That's not actually the sequel. It's just a poster made to look like it is. Also the poster says April 2012, which is when the Original Battleship came out, so it's hardly a sequel. Even using Google you can disprove the validity of that poster.

I know. He doesn't even look that hungry.

krudler

Dermighty wrote: »

That's not actually the sequel. It's just a poster made to look like it is. Also the poster says April 2012, which is when the Original Battleship came out, so it's hardly a sequel. Even using Google you can disprove the validity of that poster.

Drumpot

I have a really diverse list of movies I enjoy, ranging from the likes of the godfather to Doom.

I can understand people not enjoying this movie (it was far from perfect), but why exactly do some people bother going to see it ?

I expected it to have hammy dialogue, plotholes aplenty, great special effects, basic predictable story and the yanks saving the day. I also expected it to be something on the lines of Transformers . . And most of all, I went to this movie for escapism, to completely leave my brain outside. In this regard it pretty much ticked all the boxes.

Battleship was by no means a classic, but I enjoyed it for exactly what it was and I dont believe it was misold on trailers or that it tried to be anything other then a popcorn flick . . I have seen far more dissapointing movies recently, the hunger games being one of the least entertaining movies that had little going for it a prime example . .

Zubeneschamali

Drumpot wrote: »

why exactly do some people bother going to see it ?

It was raining.

MJ23

Awful, awful film. I'm so raging, I wasted 2 hours of my life at this shìte.

BarackPyjama

Dermighty wrote: »

That's not actually the sequel. It's just a poster made to look like it is. Also the poster says April 2012, which is when the Original Battleship came out, so it's hardly a sequel. Even using Google you can disprove the validity of that poster.

Hahahaha

weiland79

Drumpot wrote: »

the yanks saving the day.

FFS man spoiler tags:pac::pac::pac:

Drumpot

Zubeneschamali wrote: »

It was raining.

Was the Battleship screen the only one not wet . .:D

bnt

Boo Radley wrote: »

The sequel.

Dermighty wrote: »

That's not actually the sequel. It's just a poster made to look like it is. Also the poster says April 2012, which is when the Original Battleship came out, so it's hardly a sequel. Even using Google you can disprove the validity of that poster.

Yes, it's a spoof. It would help if he credited his source: Lord Gnome on the occasionally NSFW b3ta.com.

Liam O

MJ23 wrote: »

Awful, awful film. I'm so raging, I wasted 2 hours of my life at this shìte.

And no doubt you'll not expand on why it's "awful". Did you not know it would be cheesy? Did the movie itself not comment on it's own cheesiness? Was there not loads of explosions and special effects, that are very apparent in both the poster and the trailers?

I don't even think there are as many plotholes as people think and are just using it as a lazy excuse. It's not a classic and probably one that I wouldn't enjoy as much outside the cinema, but there was plenty of character buildup for a blockbuster. I love people complaining it's too slow at the start and then complaining that there's no characterisation which is what that period of the movie is trying to do.

Ultimately most of the complaints about this movie are lazy and unsubstantiated, I can understand it's not their type of movie but they'll probably all think the Avengers is the movie of the year this week...

Zubeneschamali

Liam O wrote: »

Ultimately most of the complaints about this movie are lazy and unsubstantiated

That's because it's not worth the effort.

I brought the kids because it was raining, and literally the only thing worth mentioning to my wife afterwards, the sole interesting detail in the whole farrago of worn-out clichés, plot holes and explosions was that Rihanna got to play a sailor who wasn't in the movie to shag anyone, take her clothes off or die for a cheap reaction.

Liam O

Zubeneschamali wrote: »

That's because it's not worth the effort.

I brought the kids because it was raining, and literally the only thing worth mentioning to my wife afterwards, the sole interesting detail in the whole farrago of worn-out clichés, plot holes and explosions was that Rihanna got to play a sailor who wasn't in the movie to shag anyone, take her clothes off or die for a cheap reaction.

There's that word plot holes again without anything to back it up. If it's not worth the effort, why are you contributing to a film board about it?

Kiith

Saw this on Monday. My god it was awful...and i loved it :pac:

Jacksquat

Went to see this yesterday and enjoyed it a lot. A great way to spend a couple of hours and just forget everything else. If you want a serious in-depth movie go somewhere else. If you want to cheer for earth and watch big explosions with a cliche helping of American and world pride then perfect. Rihanna playing with big guns always helps!

Zubeneschamali

Jacksquat wrote: »

If you want to cheer for earth and watch big explosions

go and see The Avengers.

DrumSteve

Lads, what was the song playing at the end when he is talking to Liam Neeson... Can't remember it for the life of me and can't find it online.

TerrorFirmer

DrumSteve wrote: »

Lads, what was the song playing at the end when he is talking to Liam Neeson... Can't remember it for the life of me and can't find it online.

Sorry, edited, had the wrong video in there at first!

Saw it last night. Pretty bad movie, but entirely watchable, effects were very good. Cringed at the 'drifting' part though...hammiest thing I've seen on the the big screen in a very long time.

DrumSteve

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

Sorry, edited, had the wrong video in there at first!

Saw it last night. Pretty bad movie, but entirely watchable, effects were very good. Cringed at the 'drifting' part though...hammiest thing I've seen on the the big screen in a very long time.

Ah it wasn't that one, it was some whiny indie one! It's buggin the hell outta me!

kitty9

this thread needs some rihanna

filmbuffboy

It surprises me that people actually went to this film expecting it to be good. I could tell by watching the trailer that it would be a heap of crap.

Its a pity because it could have been really great with a decent director & script.

Zubeneschamali

filmbuffboy wrote: »

Its a pity because it could have been really great with a decent director & script.

Yes, if they'd dumped the alien invasion plot, and the US navy parts, and the subplot about the hero being a loser, and the plastic girlfriend, and the beardy scientist, and the guy with no legs, and got a different director, say Scorsese...

Let's see, Kitsch could be a junior Italian American gangster, and Neeson could be this older Irish gangster, and Rihanna and Skarsgard could be G-men undercover...

...it could have been great!

Warper

Its not good but its not that bad. Few corny jokes and the end is just cringe-worthy but its watchable. Just about passes.

Liam O

filmbuffboy wrote: »

It surprises me that people actually went to this film expecting it to be good. I could tell by watching the trailer that it would be a heap of crap.

Its a pity because it could have been really great with a decent director & script.

For a movie called Battleship the script was grand. Berg is a more than decent director. The movie does what it set out to do, nothing more, nothing less.

CyberGhost

Just read some threads on IMDB and what some posters suggested makes sense.

The aliens are the good guys, the humans are the bad guys. The aliens always try to avoid killing and aggression, on the human side there is an aggressive moron for a leader who kills and shoots them.

Aliens are also not armed, they don't carry any firearms at all. They were most likely an expedition crew not a military because their weapons are very basic for an intergallactic traveling species.

Remember, aliens did not start the war, they answered the horn with a horn of their own like in Close Encounters of the Third Kind, it was never established that they were building the communication towers to ask for reinforcements(and would you blame them?), maybe they were sending a signal back to warn their planet that it was a trap?

So while at first I thought it was just another idiotic military glorifying blockbuster, it is actually the opposite and make more sense when you look at it that way.

Mitch Connor

CyberGhost wrote: »

Just read some threads on IMDB and what some posters suggested makes sense.

The aliens are the good guys, the humans are the bad guys. The aliens always try to avoid killing and aggression, on the human side there is an aggressive moron for a leader who kills and shoots them.

Aliens are also not armed, they don't carry any firearms at all. They were most likely an expedition crew not a military because their weapons are very basic for an intergallactic traveling species.

Remember, aliens did not start the war, they answered the horn with a horn of their own like in Close Encounters of the Third Kind, it was never established that they were building the communication towers to ask for reinforcements(and would you blame them?), maybe they were sending a signal back to warn their planet that it was a trap?

So while at first I thought it was just another idiotic military glorifying blockbuster, it is actually the opposite and make more sense when you look at it that way.

didnt the aliens kill a load of people on the freeway when cutting off the access to the coms tower?

CyberGhost

Mitch Connor wrote: »

didnt the aliens kill a load of people on the freeway when cutting off the access to the coms tower?

They did kill some people, but those were a collateral damage, they were not specifically aiming to kill people, or else that thing would've plowed right through that kid, instead it stopped and went past him.

I saw this recently and while it was quite terrible, with some extremely wooden performances (with a rather tired looking Liam Neeson), the graphics used were quite good. I burst out laughing when at one point they almost literally played Battleship. That can't possibly be a spoiler though ...!

what the hell!

This was absolutely terrible, first film in ages that I had to turn off after about 45 minutes.

stevenmu

CyberGhost wrote: »

They did kill some people, but those were a collateral damage, they were not specifically aiming to kill people, or else that thing would've plowed right through that kid, instead it stopped and went past him.

Wasn't there an Independence Day rip off bit where the lead guy touched one of the aliens and got a vision of them conquering worlds?

Cokeistan

what the hell! wrote: »

This was absolutely terrible, first film in ages that I had to turn off after about 45 minutes.

Same here. I normally stick through films even if they're poor, but this was an absolute disaster of a film, hated everything about it, and I'd consider myself a big sci-fi fan!

1/10

spurious

I laughed out loud at the oul' lads stepping up to crew the ship.
I was on a plane at the time, so it was kind of embarrassing.

sticker

Same here - knocked this off after half an hour - utter dross

Potential-Monke

Guess i might be on my own when i'm saying that this is one of the best films in it's genre that i have ever seen. And by genre i mean a film that's not deliberately attempting to win all the Oscars.

So for anyone that has seen it, we know there are a few plotholes (or more if you like to completely dissect a film), and some of the acting is not great (for this type of film). However, i believe that this film succeeded in what it was setting out to do: create a film that plays on every other film in that genre. It was extremely entertaining, so much so that i did not want the film to end. I must point out i'm a massive gamer, so this film was ticking all the right boxes, it felt like a proper, true game to film adaptation, except there was no game to begin with (excluding the board game).

The aliens were perfect, and one of the best representations of "aliens" i have seen. They weren't run of the mill kill everything aliens, and as pointed out above may even be a peaceful race but the humans jumped to conclusions. If this isn't the case, i stand to be corrected and accept it, but unless the writer/director comes out and says otherwise i'm going to agree with what CyberGhost says above. Plus they had some kickass suits which blended the Halo and Mass Effect armours perfectly.

The CG was amazing. I mean, i wasn't expecting it to be as good as what it was. The CG was believable throughout.

We knew it was going to have the typical American ending (even with Japanese involvement), so that didn't rattle me.

Overall, one of the best films i've seen this year and completely sickened i didn't get to see it in the cinema. Personally, i want a sequel and for them to flesh out the aliens a bit more. Epic show.

I should also point out that i absolutely hate all pretentious art house crap that comes out that seems to win all the awards, like Donnie Darko and that truly horrible Drive with Ryan Gosling... They, to me, are a waste of time. But i won't belittle anyone for liking them, different strokes and all that.

CyberGhost

Potential-Monke wrote: »

Guess i might be on my own when i'm saying that this is one of the best films in it's genre that i have ever seen. And by genre i mean a film that's not deliberately attempting to win all the Oscars.

So for anyone that has seen it, we know there are a few plotholes (or more if you like to completely dissect a film), and some of the acting is not great (for this type of film). However, i believe that this film succeeded in what it was setting out to do: create a film that plays on every other film in that genre. It was extremely entertaining, so much so that i did not want the film to end. I must point out i'm a massive gamer, so this film was ticking all the right boxes, it felt like a proper, true game to film adaptation, except there was no game to begin with (excluding the board game).

The aliens were perfect, and one of the best representations of "aliens" i have seen. They weren't run of the mill kill everything aliens, and as pointed out above may even be a peaceful race but the humans jumped to conclusions. If this isn't the case, i stand to be corrected and accept it, but unless the writer/director comes out and says otherwise i'm going to agree with what CyberGhost says above. Plus they had some kickass suits which blended the Halo and Mass Effect armours perfectly.

The CG was amazing. I mean, i wasn't expecting it to be as good as what it was. The CG was believable throughout.

We knew it was going to have the typical American ending (even with Japanese involvement), so that didn't rattle me.

Overall, one of the best films i've seen this year and completely sickened i didn't get to see it in the cinema. Personally, i want a sequel and for them to flesh out the aliens a bit more. Epic show.

[size="1"]I should also point out that i absolutely hate all pretentious art house crap that comes out that seems to win all the awards, like Donnie Darko and that truly horrible Drive with Ryan Gosling... They, to me, are a waste of time. But i won't belittle anyone for liking them, different strokes and all that. [/size]

I really enjoyed the movie as well, maybe because of all the bad reviews and lowered expectations, but I did enjoy it and as you said I did not want it to end.

rednik

The movie was that bad they should change the last letter from p to t, dreadful movie.

Liam O

rednik wrote: »

The movie was that bad they should change the last letter from p to t, dreadful movie.

any particular reasons you want to share with us? As I've said throughout this thread the movie surpassed my expectations and I got what I felt was slightly more than a generic action movie. The self degradation and significant time devoted at the start to characterisation instead of cheap action scenes was a highlight and the use of Youtube clips was nothing less than inspired.

rednik

Liam O wrote: »

any particular reasons you want to share with us? As I've said throughout this thread the movie surpassed my expectations and I got what I felt was slightly more than a generic action movie. The self degradation and significant time devoted at the start to characterisation instead of cheap action scenes was a highlight and the use of Youtube clips was nothing less than inspired.

I didn't watch it with any expectations either and avoided any reviews. The acting was very wooden, the dialogue was cheesy and the direction felt like a Michael Bay movie.

_Kaiser_

I have to admit, I can normally watch a film and accept it for what it is - I don't watch a vintage Arnie action flick and expect to come away with some deep thoughts.. I expect lots of over the top violence and cheesy one-liners and I thoroughly enjoy it as such - but on this one I really was tempted to switch it off after an hour, but instead "half-watched" the rest.. the "drifting" sequence as referred to above was ridiculous even for this though!

On paper of course this should have been a great movie for me.. lots of sci-fi action and special effects but it was just terrible on so many levels that my suspension of disbelief was completely shattered by the time they started actually playing Battleship.

Awful awful film - even worse than Michael Bay's Transformers films (and I quite enjoyed his early efforts). Couldn't wait for the final credits to roll.

Zubeneschamali

Potential-Monke wrote: »

The CG was amazing. I mean, i wasn't expecting it to be as good as what it was. The CG was believable throughout.

I didn't think the CGI girlfriend was very lifelike.