Battleship... the movie... why?

Jon Starr

Jon Starr

Veteran
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-battleship-movie-leaks-the-details-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...
 
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...
 
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.
 
Jon Starr said:
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!
Click to expand...
I hate to be the one to tell you, but Ridley Scott is making a Monopoly movie.
 
A board game movie?!? I can't imagine the premise would have ANYTHING to do with the board game... this sounds like a Toys/Action figure/Video Game money grab! I can think of no other reason to attach a movie to a board game.

At least GI Joe built a story (albiet a lame one) around characters and tech from the action figures... But it was essentially a stylized kids movie with a similar objective (IMO), that is to revive the GI Joe brand and action figure/video game profitability.
 
@ OP: This is my favorite thread title since: Fighting - Laziest movie title of all time!
:grin::grin::grin:
 
yeah, i think i know the ending lol. the last line has rhianna saying something like, "Damn, you sank my battleship". Cut to Chris Brown smiling. The end.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top