I remember Robot Chicken did a skit about movies based of board games because Hollywood couldn't come up with new ideas and everyone in the industry were just money grubbing whores... guess they were more right then they thought

"P5!" Really? How the fuck was this pitched? "Hey we're going to make a movie based of that game Battleship. It'll be great we'll have a reference to the grid system and a "You sunk my battleship!" joke plus we'll spend a shit ton of money on it and have lots of big explosions so you know people will see it."

I remember Robot Chicken did a skit about movies based of board games because Hollywood couldn't come up with new ideas and everyone in the industry were just money grubbing whores... guess they were more right then they thought

why do you have to call this Battleship!? I can assure that no one will go to see this movie saying "oh I love that board game!"

Sookie!

Wait, wrong one.

Since when was Iceman in the Navy? He wanted to be a plane, not a boat.

You sank my faith in humanity.

Ha, it's not a trailer in 2011 without dubstep

Why is Master Chief in this?

Odds on seeing some crewmen in the background playing actual Battleship?

Odds on actual main characters playing the actual Battleship boardgame in scene?

Odds on someone saying "They sunk our battleship!"?

Odds on the Battleship boardgame being recreated in some elaborate hologram technobullshit to fight the aliens?

Ignoring the name and the whole "Captain's daughter" thing, this seem kind of like a boat-based Independence Day. I'm on board for stupid shit.

This is from the producers of Transformers?

I couldn't tell.

Wow, that looks fucking ridiculous.

A-1

This really does look astoundingly like a Michael Bay movie. I wouldn't be surprised if many audience-goers thought this was a trailer for Transformers 4 for 3/4th of the trailer! I don't know what to think of that. I like Michael Bay's style, so it's cool that Peter Berg has aped it so thorougly. But man. Battleship? Fuck you.

Also, god-damn Hollywood visual designs are derivative of each other. Why must every threat from space look like metallic, vaguely insectoid armor? Seriously - you can plug this whole movie into Transformers as a B story line, and it wouldn't stand out in the least.

Would be better if one of the shots was of Liam Neeson saying

"I have bills to pay, damn it!"

directly into the camera.

Okay, when I saw the first trailer it started off like a normal military game and I thought "Oh I see, so these wargames are how the thing relates to the game and its just about some guy who has to show off that he's good enough so he can impress his captain, sort of like Top Gun but at sea rather than in the air, that might not be so bad." But then they threw in the alien thing and I went "What the hell!? THis is the dumbest thing ever!"

Now, when watching this trailer, I thought "Okay, the last one made me think that it was the dumbest thing ever, so by comparison this one won't be nearly as bad." And yet somehow I was wrong! This is somehow even dumber than the last one.

Alexander Skarsgard is hot.

oh, so the cast of Friday Night Lights got together for board game night then? Gotcha.