Battleship Poll [Archive]

Adam West

May 18, '12, 12:14 PM

I said "no" simply because I only make a habit of seeing a couple of movies in the theater per year due to ticket prices plus time (I haven't even had a chance to see "The Avengers" yet). The only movie I have seen to date is "The Hunger Games" and probably wouldn't have seen that if my daughter hadn't begged me to go.

palitoy

May 18, '12, 12:17 PM

I'm just curious about demand for a movie loosely based on a board game my friend cheats at.

toys2cool

May 18, '12, 12:19 PM

Liam Neeson is one of my favorite actors, so i'd watch it just for that :grin:

I named my kid after him :smiley1:

Hector

May 18, '12, 12:41 PM

Yes.

I'm a movie buff...and Battleship is pure popcorn movie fun...so yes...I'm gonna watch it...besides Liam Neeson...Rihanna might get into a bikini...lol...

:biggrin:

Hector

May 18, '12, 12:42 PM

emeraldknight47

May 18, '12, 12:56 PM

I can't bring myself to plunk down my hard-garnered sheckles these days for what looks to be basically like a "TRANSFORMERS" retread. Plus, I would find it hard to even remotely take it "seriously" (I know, I know, it's a popcorn flick) another movie that casts an untested (as an actress) hip-hop/dance singer in a quasi-dramatic role as a Naval officer....

pmwasson

May 18, '12, 12:57 PM

Hector said yes, but the poll shows zero "Yes!". :smiley1:

Hector

May 18, '12, 1:21 PM

:smiley1:

Hector

May 18, '12, 1:23 PM

The Avengers was great...now Dark Knight Rises, Amazing Spider-Man, Men in Black 3, Snow White and the Huntsmen...all must see flicks for me...but THE ONE that I have been looking forward the MOST...is without a doubt...PROMETHEUS...man...I can't friggin' WAIT for that one...

:juggleyes_y: :juggleyes: :crazy: :grin:

raider5gt

May 18, '12, 1:32 PM

I will probably wait for it to come on cable (Sky)

(I haven't even had a chance to see "The Avengers" yet).

Nor me,my GF has been working crazy shifts,just waiting for her to get back to a normal shift pattern so we can go see it.

Prometheus is another one I would not mind seeing also.

BlackKnight

May 18, '12, 1:56 PM

I'm Go'in .
Explosions , Mindless Action and Nonsense... Liam Neeson .... It's gotta Be Kewel !

Adam West

May 18, '12, 2:31 PM

Matinee is only $6...and I live in the Bay Area...

:smiley1:

Our matinee prices are $9.50. If I were going alone that would be one thing, but it's usually 3 or 4 of us. Really it is just having a busy schedule on the weekends which makes it difficult to see all the movies I would like to see.

emeraldknight47

May 18, '12, 2:37 PM

4NDR01D

May 18, '12, 2:56 PM

Ah hell no!

Werewolf

May 18, '12, 3:29 PM

Nah, I'm holding out for the CGI explosion filled adaption of Candy Land and Monopoly. :smiley1:

Lol, I still probably check it out when it hits cable.

MIB41

May 18, '12, 3:31 PM

Battleship looks like Hasbro's red head stepchild to Transformers. Not interested.

Mikey

May 18, '12, 3:33 PM

I said "no" because it don't look like the kinda movie i'd like

Werewolf

May 18, '12, 3:33 PM

In best movie voice. Coming soon to a theater near you! Ants in the Pants and Cootie from Micheal Bay.

emeraldknight47

May 18, '12, 3:34 PM

In best movie voice. Coming soon to a theater near you! Ants in the Pants and Cootie from Micheal Bay.

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Mikey

May 18, '12, 3:35 PM

Don't Break the Ice : The Motion Picture

wayne foundation 07

May 18, '12, 3:39 PM

I was a no, my movie tastes just don't steer that direction.I like comedies.

torgospizza

May 18, '12, 4:29 PM

It might be surprisingly good, but I doubt if I'd give it a chance because there are better films I still haven't seen. From the trailer, it seems it has little to do with the game, apart from having ships.

Hector

May 18, '12, 5:56 PM

AAAAAAMEN, brutha! I think PROMETHEUS is gonna have all of us fanboys leaving wet spots in our seats! :grin:

You KNOW IT!!!!!!!

:smiley1:

Brazoo

May 18, '12, 6:25 PM

I voted maybe.

I have a small group of friends who make a habit of going to see the biggest and dumbest movies that come out - and I sometimes join them. If this movie is a huge flop it probably increases my chances of seeing it.

Brazoo

May 18, '12, 6:32 PM

Is this the craziest brag in film history?:

http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll286/Brazoo8/Screenshot2012-05-18at72711PM.png

(This is a screenshot from the trailer, by the way)

Brazoo

May 18, '12, 6:39 PM

Nah, I'm holding out for the CGI explosion filled adaption of Candy Land and Monopoly. :smiley1:

Lol, I still probably check it out when it hits cable.

I'm not sure if you're kidding, but "Monopoly" is a for-real movie project that's being worked out and Ridley Scott is connected to it. "Candyland" is being developed as a film project by Adam Sandler's company

Werewolf

May 18, '12, 6:49 PM

Is this the craziest brag in film history?:

http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll286/Brazoo8/Screenshot2012-05-18at72711PM.png

(This is a screenshot from the trailer, by the way)

From Micheal Bay the guy that thought racist stereotype bots and giving Devastator robo-testicles was a good idea.

I'm not sure if you're kidding, but "Monopoly" is a for-real movie project that's being worked out and Ridley Scott is connected to it. "Candyland" is being developed as a film project by Adam Sandler's company

Lol, yeah, I knew that. I just find it darkly humourous that I can picture them having tons of CGI explosions too. Now, I was totally joking about the Ant in the Pants and Cootie. Though, I wouldn't put it past Bay.

The Toyroom

May 18, '12, 6:58 PM

No interest...Hollywood is definitely running out of ideas. I personally am looking forward to "The Monopoly Movie" and it's 5 hour run time :sarky:

Random Axe

May 18, '12, 7:29 PM

Coming Christmas 2012...The battle for planet Earth begins

Paul Rudd

Paul Walker

Paul Giamati

Paul Bettany

It's Conenct Four...ironically in 3-D

I really cannot see any situation where I'd pay money to a theater to see Battleship. Avengers? Yes. Dark Knight? yes. Spider-Man? Yup. Freakin Battleship? I'm fairly certain Neeson pulls a Qui-Gon early in the film, so don't expect much out of him.

spacecaps

May 18, '12, 7:44 PM

I took the "from the company that brought you Transformers" as warning. Personally I don't see how Liam Neeson is allowed to make movies anymore. I honestly can't stand any movie he's in. They always look good in the trailers but then I see them and it's a total let down. Too much action, no story.

Godzilla

May 18, '12, 7:56 PM

This will be mindless drivein fun for the whole family for us.

Mikey

May 18, '12, 8:37 PM

I took the "from the company that brought you Transformers" as warning. Personally I don't see how Liam Neeson is allowed to make movies anymore..

I feel the same way

It's like he and Johnny Depp has a bet who can play in the most movies ever.

Back in the day Liam Neeson was a respected actor but lately he'll play in anything for a buck.

Like Samual L Jackson

emeraldknight47

May 18, '12, 9:29 PM

In MY best movie voice....

"Just when you thought it was SAFE to go back to movies.

The film event of the millennium from the company that brought you TRANSFORMERS and BATTLESHIP.

Don't miss the epic adventure that has audiences around the world cheering.

Coming in 2015---

BARREL OF MONKEYS

http://www.antipixel.com/blog/archives/images/barrelOfMonkeys.jpg

Be careful who you hang around with"

:smiley1: :grin: :smiley1: :grin:

Hector

May 18, '12, 9:36 PM

I feel the same way

It's like he and Johnny Depp has a bet who can play in the most movies ever.

Back in the day Liam Neeson was a respected actor but lately he'll play in anything for a buck.

Like Samual L Jackson

Nicholas Cage is BY FAR the worst of the lot...lol.

ctc

May 18, '12, 11:24 PM

Hmmmm....

I hit my "mindless entertainment" saturation point a while back.

>Coming soon to a theater near you! Ants in the Pants and Cootie from Micheal Bay.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6WCZ3cZ27U

This WAS a joke a few years back when it first aired....

Don C.

Nostalgiabuff

May 19, '12, 5:52 AM

if they play it at the drive in i will likely go. it got pretty good reviews, one even going so far as to say Battleship is the movie Pearl Harbor wanted to be.....and i will go on the record as saying I really liked Pearl Harbor

Earth 2 Chris

May 19, '12, 6:42 AM

It actually doesn't look bad, despite the flimsy premise and horrible corporate tagline, but it's not anything I'd pay big bucks to drag myself and any of the family to. When it comes to DVD and Cindy can pick it up at the library for free, I'll gladly watch.

I'm betting the guy who played John Carter is hoping for a hit hard here. Poor guy deserves a break.

Chris

Goblin19

May 19, '12, 9:18 AM

I'm at a maybe and that's only because I see everything for free and have 2 boys. Throw in the the opportunity to see Liam Neeson say "You just sunk my battleship" and I might be there.

jimsmegos

May 19, '12, 9:42 AM

Redbox for a buck is about the most I would shell out for this "Transformers by Sea" flick.

thunderbolt

May 19, '12, 1:09 PM

The tagline should really be " the movie that no one demanded"

Mikey

May 19, '12, 3:33 PM

The commercials keep screaming Transformers

To be honest that fact drives me away more than anything

It don't look fun, it just looks like another kids CGI movie

I'd like it better if it was set in WW2 when battleships were at their most popular ... Today battleships are more than on their way out.

samurainoir

May 19, '12, 3:54 PM

Forecast: 'Battleship' Will Likely Miss 'Avengers' - Box Office Mojo (http://boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=3444&p=.htm)

Looks like it will still be a hit based on the worldwide box-office thus far. A bigger win for Hasbro than GI Joe was. Big loud action movies with little plot to get in the way of the CG appears to play well overseas. Look for Monopoly, Cranium, Risk, Pictionary, Candy Land, Snakes and Ladders, and Twister at your local multiplex inside of the next few years. Go Bots? M.A.S.K.? My Little Ponies? Cabbage Patch Kids? Beyblades? Lincoln Logs? Zoids? Magic the Gathering? Hasbro Studios will make it into a movie eventually.

Total Lifetime Grosses
Domestic: $9,000,000 4.0%
+ Foreign: $215,300,000 96.0%
= Worldwide: $224,300,000

Battleship - Rotten Tomatoes (http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/battleship/)
36% with critics. 55% with audiences.

Mikey

May 19, '12, 6:01 PM

I do admit, I did like Clue when it came out

My local theatre ending was Miss Scarlet was the killer

80stoyman

May 19, '12, 6:15 PM

went and saw it today. Acting was terrible besides liaam Neilson but the Aliens and actions scenes were very cool!

4NDR01D

May 19, '12, 6:21 PM

[url="http://boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=3444&p=.htm"] Look for Monopoly, Cranium, Risk, Pictionary, Candy Land, Snakes and Ladders, and Twister at your local multiplex inside of the next few years. .

If it had art direction from Gary Baseman, the artist who provided illustrations for the game, I'd be all over it.

http://drawn.ca/wordpress/wp-content/images/baseman.jpg

samurainoir

May 19, '12, 10:20 PM

If it had art direction from Gary Baseman, the artist who provided illustrations for the game, I'd be all over it.

http://drawn.ca/wordpress/wp-content/images/baseman.jpg

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torgospizza

May 19, '12, 11:17 PM

They were talking about making a Warcraft movie a few years back and I totally would've been into that, but I'm not sure it's still even being developed. At one point Uwe Boll looked into it. He said, "I got in contact with Paul Sams of Blizzard, and he said, 'We will not sell the movie rights, not to you...especially not to you. Because it's such a big online game success, maybe a bad movie would destroy that ongoing income, what the company has with it." So at least they want a good director if anything is ever done with it.

Hector

May 20, '12, 2:33 AM

I'd like it better if it was set in WW2 when battleships were at their most popular ... Today battleships are more than on their way out.

By the end of WWII..battleships were just no match for aircraft carriers...just ask Japan's flagship...the Yamato.

rche

May 20, '12, 2:36 AM

If it had art direction from Gary Baseman, the artist who provided illustrations for the game, I'd be all over it.

http://drawn.ca/wordpress/wp-content/images/baseman.jpg

I'd watch that.

4NDR01D

May 20, '12, 8:24 AM

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Directed by Del Toro, and staring Ron Perlman as, that, um, thing.

Random Axe

May 20, '12, 11:09 AM

It's official, Battleshiup BOMBED at the box office bringing in 25.3 million, less than half of Avengers this weekend at 55 mil. It may redeem itself in the coming weeks, but it's not looking good. Taylor Kitsch has now released TWO giant flops this year alone. When will America realize he's not leading man material?

BlackKnight

May 20, '12, 12:34 PM

Taylor Kitsch has now released TWO giant flops this year alone. When will America realize he's not leading man material?

I dunno Man ...., They are trying pretty Hard.

Paul Evans

May 20, '12, 1:25 PM

What's next?

Chutes and Ladders: The Movie ?

Come on. This is a pitiful idea.

...and the screenwriters think they deserve more money?

wayne foundation 07

May 20, '12, 1:28 PM

What's next?

Chutes and Ladders: The Movie ?

I was thinkning Candy Land: The Sweet Adventure :grin:

Paul Evans

May 20, '12, 1:31 PM

I was thinkning Candy Land: The Sweet Adventure :grin:

Good title for an adult film.

Hey wait! Maybe mine would work for that too!

Chutes and Ladders!

wayne foundation 07

May 20, '12, 1:33 PM

Good title for an adult film.

Hey wait! Maybe mine would work for that too!

Chutes and Ladders!

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::2thumbsup:

samurainoir

May 20, '12, 7:56 PM

Production Budget: $209 million

Total Lifetime Grosses
Domestic: *$25,300,000 ***10.5%
+*Foreign: *$215,300,000 ***89.5%
=*Worldwide: *$240,600,000 *

MegoMark71

May 21, '12, 5:24 PM

I was going to see it but waited for some reviews. I thought maybe it would be one you had to see on the big screen. I'll wait and watch it on my big screen tv instead.

BlackKnight

May 21, '12, 8:26 PM

I took my son to see it on Sat.
It was a good Movie ..., no way near the Quality flick Avengers is ...., but it also doesn't have Comicbook Characters 70 years old or whatever in it either.

People who like Navy Ships and Aircraft Carriers will really like the Movie. I think there were some real Vets in the Film too, and the Film takes place off of Hawaii, so there's some Peral Harbor stuff.

samurainoir

May 21, '12, 11:10 PM

I'll need to revise my response from "maybe on cable" to "yes if I'm going along with some friends of mine".

They actually do stop the movie part way through to play Battleship. And there were folks set up at tables in the foyer to play battleship with you as well.

Loud dumb predictable spectacle. Went in expecting nothing, was pleasantly surprised to have had a good time (even if we were kind of goofin' on it). This should hold us over until Expendables 2 comes out.