Battleship... the movie... why?

[Jon Starr]

If you haven't heard by now, Battleship... yes the board game... will be turned into a movie. It's also involves aliens.

http://io9.com/5416779/epic-alien-ba...-on-the-new-et

Now when I first heard about the movie I thought 'why?' and then 'how?'

I mean there's nothing to Battleship. It's a game. It's not like they can make a movie from monopoly, or snakes and ladders. So is it to attract fans? Fans of what!? There's no story to the game, it's just a board game! Nothing to be a fan of except sinking your friend's battleship!

Then I wondered how. The main audience for a board game would logically be kids. But to make an adaptation you would have to make a war film about people trying to shoot each other in the water, which isn't very kid friendly.

But now there's aliens...

I'm losing hope in humanity...

[Mark Harris]

Only one person here can answer this...

[Richard J. Johnson]

Well at least it has Rhianna in it. and I'm not kidding.

[Jon Starr]

I forgot that it had Rhianna as well..

You know who they are as a star when they decide to make their film debut in a board game adaptation...

[Mattykins]

I wonder how long it will take the aliens to sink that damned PT boat...

[Blaine]

I'll bet it's going to have some great set design.

[Mattykins]

I'll bet it's going to have some great set design.

It's likely to be the best set design since Avatar.

[agcohn]

I don't get it.

[Cassius]

I can't seem to find an embeddable clip, but game based movies were better when Robot Chicken did it. They proved it could be done for anything.

[Mark Harris]

oh wait, it has aliens now?