Battleship

[Surlyboi]

Two words.

"Die Hard"

Even the bad ones were good.

[Ratman_tf]

Two dumb but good action movies to me:

Independence Day-Jeff Goldblum uses his Mac to hack an alien spacecraft.  "Welcome to Earf."  Don't matter, great movie.
Armageddon-Shuttles fly like X-Wings and drillers become astronauts in a week.  Don't matter, lots of fun.

ID4 I can enjoy in a good-bad movie way.

Armageddon... jesus christ. I saw it in the theater and would have walked out if I hadn't been with a good friend and didn't want to spoil her treating me to a movie.

Armageddon was a taste of the stupid to come from Bay. That thing sucked on every level I can think of.

[UnSub]

"Armageddon" had a decent supporting cast. Good actors can often improve bad dialogue.

[Margalis]

Thats the thing about the "good" action movies. If you look at them most of the movie was not actually raw action. Even Robocop had a lot of "who am I?" filler between the bullets flying. And I think Robocop is a great Movie.

The thing is movies like Transformers have a lot of down time as well, but the down time is spent with terrible actors doing stupid nonsensical things or on incredibly insulting comedy bits. It's like the stuff between sex scenes in a porn.

[K9]

So apparently this film is doing pretty badly. Does this make Taylor Kitsch the lowest grossing actor of all time?

[CmdrSlack]

Audiences are pissed that 45 mins in, someone guesses "G-7," and the movie ends.

[Sir T]

But did they sink his Battleship?

[SurfD]

But did they sink his Battleship?

One could only wish.

[Sir T]

Abyway, rumours of losses from this piece of shite could be premature

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battleship_%28film%29

Box office

Battleship has earned $226.8 million in markets outside North America, as of May 6, 2012.[24] The film opened on Wednesday, April 11, 2012 in many countries outside North America, more than five weeks before its North America release, earning $7.4 million. It earned 25.4 million in North America as of May, 21 2012.[25] Through Friday, the film earned a 3-day total of $25 million.[26] By the end of its opening weekend, it earned $55.2 million from 26 markets, ranking second behind the 3D rerelease of Titanic.[27] However, on its second weekend, it topped the box office outside North America, with $60 million.[28] In South Korea, it achieved the highest-grossing opening day for a non-sequel and the third-highest overall ($2.8 million).[26] In comparison to other Hasbro films, Battleship's opening in the UK (£3.76 million) was behind the first Transformers (£8.72 million), but did better than G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (£1.71 million).[29]

The film didn't fare as well in North America, where it grossed a disappointing $9.1 million for a projected weekend debut of just $25.1 million.[30] Such a result is well below the anticipated $35 million-$40 million range that Universal and director Peter Berg were hoping for. Despite poor initial performance in North America, many analysts felt that Battleship's international gross of roughly $220 million may help bolster global grosses.

I hate people. This crap cast 200 million to make and just about broke even on raw box office and will turn a profit in home video easily.

[Teleku]

So can we blame the rest of the world on shitty movies now?  Its you people who are propping up horrible movies and enabling Hollywood to keep making them instead of something better!   

[tazelbain]

I am reassured that Americans aren't the only ones with bad taste.

[kaid]

What can I say giant robots and explosions translates between languages reasonably well.

[Merusk]

Actually, that's almost a word-for-word justification I heard on NPR over the winter of WHY such films continue to be made, even though they are continually critically panned in the US.

Plus movies that are simple, with little plot other than "blow up the US/ parts of the US" are less likely to get banned in those foreign countries.

[Mrbloodworth]

Abyway, rumours of losses from this piece of shite could be premature

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battleship_%28film%29

Box office

Battleship has earned $226.8 million in markets outside North America, as of May 6, 2012.[24] The film opened on Wednesday, April 11, 2012 in many countries outside North America, more than five weeks before its North America release, earning $7.4 million. It earned 25.4 million in North America as of May, 21 2012.[25] Through Friday, the film earned a 3-day total of $25 million.[26] By the end of its opening weekend, it earned $55.2 million from 26 markets, ranking second behind the 3D rerelease of Titanic.[27] However, on its second weekend, it topped the box office outside North America, with $60 million.[28] In South Korea, it achieved the highest-grossing opening day for a non-sequel and the third-highest overall ($2.8 million).[26] In comparison to other Hasbro films, Battleship's opening in the UK (£3.76 million) was behind the first Transformers (£8.72 million), but did better than G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (£1.71 million).[29]

The film didn't fare as well in North America, where it grossed a disappointing $9.1 million for a projected weekend debut of just $25.1 million.[30] Such a result is well below the anticipated $35 million-$40 million range that Universal and director Peter Berg were hoping for. Despite poor initial performance in North America, many analysts felt that Battleship's international gross of roughly $220 million may help bolster global grosses.

I hate people. This crap cast 200 million to make and just about broke even on raw box office and will turn a profit in home video easily.

Imagine if the Avengers had not come out around the same time.

[K9]

Read every line Rihanna has in the movie 'Battleship'

[angry.bob]

Okay, so I saw this. I actually liked it. Sure, a lot of it made no sense whatsoever - especially the alien stragtegy. They don't attack until a button is pushed, they don't attack until something is openly hostile, They go out of their way to not harm noncombatants, and they bring five ships, one of which is so fragile it's destroyed when it hits a satelite, three others are destroyed by one destroyer. And yet their plan is to exterminate humanity?

Anyway, it's not boring, has good special effects, and the 3 minutes of the Missouri fighting gave me a giant muzzle flame boner.

[Comstar]

I always thought the Aliens were only defending themselves the entire time. They just wanted to phone home.

[SurfD]

Okay, so I saw this. I actually liked it. Sure, a lot of it made no sense whatsoever - especially the alien stragtegy. They don't attack until a button is pushed, they don't attack until something is openly hostile, They go out of their way to not harm noncombatants, and they bring five ships, one of which is so fragile it's destroyed when it hits a satelite, three others are destroyed by one destroyer. And yet their plan is to exterminate humanity?

Anyway, it's not boring, has good special effects, and the 3 minutes of the Missouri fighting gave me a giant muzzle flame boner.

This somewhat bothered me also, especially the satelite thing.  I mean, if their ships were THAT fragile, all 5 of them would have been smashed to scrap on impact with the water, given how fast they "landed".  Would have been like driving directly into a block of concrete.

[Furiously]

My son is fascinated with naval warships and trains. So reluctantly I placed this into the Netflix que, it arrived today and I figured I would get it over with.

I went in not expecting much, and it delivered slightly above mediocrity. My son loved all the explosions and there were a couple unexpected surprises. 


I totally agree the aliens made no sense in their actions. They really should have shown them as more hostile/wanting to take over the world.

It probably wasn't as bad as it was lambasted, Avengers was 10x the movie, but my son loved it and will probably be getting a copy for Christmas.