I watched the movie Battleship tonight....

[WCGreen]

Got sucked in as I was dong my breathing treatments.

It's not an Oscar winning movie by far but it a cool premise about a off course alien patrol who need the communication sites in Hawaii to call for help.

That's all you need to know. The special effects are good, sometimes I think I am inside a video game instead of watching a TV these days, but to each generation it's own.

If you got some time to kill it's not a total waste.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Is it this one?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1440129/?ref_=sr_1

[WCGreen]

2. yep

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. Cool, thanks!

[ZombieHorde]

4. Hmmm...I may have to check it out.

Thanks for the heads up.

[OffWithTheirHeads]

5. It was OK if you have some time to waste.

[Warren DeMontague]

6. I saw the trailer. I liked how they made the big alien projectiles that slammed into the ship

look like the pieces from the game.

I mean, I got the feeling it was done with a bit of self-awareness, tongue in cheek. So that's cool.

[Vestigial_Sister]

7. They weren't off course...

WE sent a transmission to their 'Goldilocks' planet that we had discovered. The civilization then sent their military bad-asses to check us out and to take the first step of colonization. If they had been able to transmit back home that they arrived and the party had started our civilization would have been SOL.

I had to fast forward to the alien arrival...the beginning was hokey with poor acting. Still fun to see how others visualize aliens.

[WCGreen]

9. I was watching it while cleaning up the kitchen so missed that

part.

[JohnnyRingo]

8. "It's not a total waste"

hahaha

I don't think the production company is going to quote you in a blurb.

[WCGreen]

19. Sometimes thats all it takes to veg out....

[Ratty]

10. I saw it too

Knowing I would regret it. Special effects were cool and you know, sometimes that's all I need to make me happy. I liked how they finally kinda linked in to the Hasbro game a little bit by showing the alien ships leap-navigating a grid and having to predict where and when they'll land before sending their bombs off.

[lunatica]

11. If you like action and special effects it's worth looking at but

every one of the main characters are incredibly shallow and 2-dimensional, uninteresting and forgettable. The vaguely memorable ones are the sandy haired communications guy who said repeatedly that they were all going to die and the Black guy with the prosthetic legs. Character development was thrown out entirely in favor of special effects.

But I have a problem seeing why the alien ships had to hopscotch and leap frog on the surface of the water. Didn't they just fly through space and the earth's atmosphere? It seemed like a really fucked up way to navigate, take aim at our side and shoot weapons.

Their weapons were awesome though.

[lame54]

12. I'm waiting for Hungry Hungry Hippos - The Movie

[graywarrior]

13. It sucked

Can't believe I watched the entire thing.

[WCGreen]

14. All I saw was the last hour or so....

So I wasn't bothered by tedious backstory stuff, just a whole bunch of pretty good special effects.

[graywarrior]

15. Actually, Rihanna was the best one in the entire film

SE were pretty awesome.

[WCGreen]

16. I had no idea that was Rihanna...

She was spunky.

[graywarrior]

17. I know! She's so military.

[Bosso 63]

18. It was a "good" bad movie.

[benld74]

20. I could be mistaken but,

when the wife and I were in Hawaii for our 15th, 16 yrs ago, we went aboard the Missouri. COuld have sworn they said it was mothballed,,,,

[Angleae]

21. 16 years ago she was in active service.

Decommissioned in march of 1998.

[benld74]

22. My math was bad, 15th was right, but it was in 2002.