Battleship

[flatline84]

Yeah, I am never watching that film, it has fking Rihanna as a battleship commander in it

[petemurphy]

it looks so bad it looks ace!

[Jasandjules]

petemurphy said:

it looks so bad it looks ace!

I think in a few years it will be one of those films.

[flatline84]

I would expect her to strip and shout "na-na-na" any moment I see her neaderthal face near the bridge command panel.

[oj121]

And why would a lone battleship be fighting aliens?

[flatline84]

For the same reason they have a 19-year old jamaican girl bossing the bridge

[croyde]

My kid wants to see it but the trailer makes it look like another Transformers movie. The whizzing metal stuff uses the same sound effects. Ah! It's made by the Transformer people.

I'll still go though.

[Shinobi]

Liam Neesen vs aliens. I'm in.

[jimmyjimjim]

flatline84 said:

I would expect her to strip and shout "na-na-na" any moment I see her neaderthal face near the bridge command panel.

I don't know why, but this had me PMSL - I think it was the use of the word neanderthal in an unexpected context.

I had to google the idiotic casting decision, and fortunately (or not, I'm sure her performance as a senior naval officer would have been inadvertantly comic), wiki has this to say:

"Rihanna as Petty Officer (GM2) Cora Raikes, crew mate and a weapons specialist on the USS John Paul Jones".

[Dick Dastardly]

Don't write it off just yet. It's directed by Peter Berg who is an understudy of Michael Mann and has done some pretty decent films like Friday Night Lights, Hancock and The Kingdom.

[TheEnd]

And it is supposed to be based on the game somehow?

B4!
Miss"

[jimmyjimjim]

I bet there's a scene worked into it somehow where they have to direct fire from a plotting table, and select grid squares in a similar fashion - "A2 - nothing...B2 - nothing...C2 - miss"

[flatline84]

Rihanna as a weapons specialist.. alright then.

[jingars]

Shinobi said:

Liam Neesen vs aliens. I'm in.

+1

[stew-S160]

Going to see it tonight. I expect cheese. Bad acting. OTT action. But mostly, I expect to love it!

[croyde]

I'm going in, set watches for 1400.

[jingars]

TheEnd said:

And it is supposed to be based on the game somehow?

B4!
Miss"

It's in there

It is exactly the movie you would expect - and I thoroughly enjoyed it

[zetec]

Seen it today, in the 'Impact' screen at my local Empire. Stunning visuals and sound, shame about the film and storyline, I enjoyed it though, a film that has to be seen in the cinema.

[irish boy]

Really enjoyed it. Proper summer blockbuster with some nice ac/dc soundtracks.

[stew-S160]

Quite enjoyable. Although I almost puked at the cheese fest when we had the old crew on the Mighty Mo doing the walk.