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IHC Movie Reviews: Battleship (2012)

Hasbro has been on the bandwagon with licensed films for a while now, with films like GI Joe and Transformers. Their newest property to make the leap is Battleship, a two player game turned into a giant spectacle for the big screen. How does this one translate onto the big screen? Is it on the winning team, or did they sink their own battleship?

Thanks to the Battleship movie, there will now be a Battleship FPS

On every platform where there’s a Battleship game, it’s pretty much just like the original board game— there’s a grid and plastic boats and pegs and a lot of luck. But thanks to the upcoming Battleship movie, there’s going to be a tie-in video game that’s absolutely nothing like the board game. This Battleship is an FPS.

posted 09 February, 2012
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Check out the Super Bowl trailer for Battleship

A brand new trailer for Battleship… and it still makes no god damn sense. Needs more lens flare.

posted 06 February, 2012
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Daily Discussion: Other board games that could make decent movies

Not like I’m saying Battleship is going to be anything remotely resembling a decent movie (see the trailer here), but while Hollywood’s starting on this board game to movie kick, let’s give them some ideas. Right now there’s a Candy Land and Monopoly movie also in development, so those are out.

What about “Don’t Wake Daddy?”. That could be a fun, lighthearted tale of abuse and children living in fear of their hair-trigger father. Or Hungry Hungry Hippos. Four giant bloodthirsty hippos in an arena, 10 people, only one will survive. Maybe.

If you can, watch the first trailer for the Battleship movie

Yes, the one based on the board game. And yes it has Liam Neeson, but after that, I have no idea. It appears that the actual Battleship part of the movie might be something like the alien space boats trap the American fleet in a radar-killing bubble, where Liam Neeson is forced to just shoot at random coordinates over the horizon to defeat them.

But after that faux sappy feel-good WWII movie first half, when I saw the Japanese Imperial flags, I was really hoping it would be Liam Neeson vs. a crazy, cackling “Jap” commander who screams in close up “OOH NOOO YOU SUNK MAH BATTERSHIP!”

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