"Battleship"

[Nathan Dodge]

Yes, it is based on the Hasbro game.

http://www.battleshipmovie.com/

"You sunk my childhood!"

 

[MisterCairo]

B-8?

 

[MisterCairo]

The USS Missouri was the last active battleship. She's a wonderful memorial now at Pearl Harbour. I toured her during my service with the RIMPAC naval exercise in 2008, and no, she was not actually used for the Steven Segal film "Under Seige" (I had the temerity to ask our incredible guide):

http://www.hazegray.org/navhist/battleships/missouri/

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Hopscotch -- The Motion Picture.

I don't think anyone here would see that. It sounds like it has more violence than A Clockwork Orange.

 

[Lady Day]

What's the target audience of this movie? No one under 25 knows the game Battleship. There really isnt much story to Battleship. lol

LD

 

[RichardH]

This movie is probably going to suck bigtime, like almost anything from Hollywood these days, so i dont think i'll waste my money on this one

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

"We have a story crisis... They want to make the Battleship game into a movie... This is pure desperation."
...James Cameron on Battleship: The Movie

 

[MisterCairo]

B-7? Anything? Even the little submarine?

With every tv show, kids cartoon, comic book hero and remake of a remake coming out, is it any surprise they're turning board games into films?

Operation: The Musical! Coming soon to a theatre near you......

 

[LocktownDog]

Hopscotch -- The Motion Picture.

Ooh! You can feel the tension!

 

[Undertow]

Hopscotch -- The Motion Picture.

Well...not to play devil's advocate, but...

Hopscotch

Really funny film with Walter Matthau. Granted, it's not about the game, but there is certainly an element of back-and-forth, "catch me if you can" throughout.

I would recommend it to anyone. It's good, clean humor.

 

[Story]

Rock Strongjaw is a renegade Navy man who p1sses off Admiral Fallout by putting the schmooze on his daughter. Then he goes off to sea with his brother and rival, Broody McBlueeyes, where they meet giant robot aliens. Cue explosions, roll credits and insipid Rihanna song. The end, baby!

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/111922-The-Battleship-Movie-Trailer-Is-Here

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Isn't there another Battleship thread??? I feel like I'm in some kind of alternate universe.

 

[Shangas]

Once again, from the text - Berg called the pic "a contemporary story ..

I translate that as a 21st Century techno-drama.

While we're on the subject, here's another game-turned-movie.

As hilarious and as terrible as this thread is, 'CLUE' was a bloody awesome movie. Okay it wasn't the greatest ever made, but I grew up watching it, and it's one of my favourites.

 

[Gray Ghost]

Hollywierd has no more original ideas left. I wish they would get something completely new out their.

=GG=

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

I think they're starting to run out of things to repop now.

 

[Shangas]

To be fair to Hollywood, it's a fact of life that you cannot create something new. You've all heard the expressions. "The more things change, the more they stay the same", "Everything old is new again", "Reinvent the wheel", "It's all been done before".

Those aren't just tired cliches, they're true. There's only so many basic plots that you can create. And eventually, you're going to have to reuse them. It's how WELL you reuse them that determines whether your new production, be it a play, a book, a TV series, a movie...is a success or not.

'Downton Abbey' is a wonderful TV series, I'm sure many people here would agree.

But it's essentially the same as 'Upstairs Downstairs'.

In some ways, the Lord Peter Wimsey series is the same as the Jeeves & Wooster series, with the misadventures of master and servant.

The films 'Volcano', 'Deep Impact', 'Dante's Peak', '2012', all follow mankind's struggles against fantastical natural disasters and what happens during and after.

'Titanic', 'The Poseidon Adventure' and 'The Towering Inferno' all chronicle man's struggle against disasters in a built-up environment.

There are no truly 'original' ideas. There are only the same ideas. And different ways of interpreting them.

 

[Flipped Lid]

My guess is there are a lot of good screenplays submitted and turned down by the big studios because, in general, the people who go to movies these days don't have the attention span of a gnat. You've got to blow something up, kill somebody, or have some kind of wild special effect every couple of minutes. Great dialogue spoken by great characters is so . . . so . . . what's the word? . . . vintage?

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Screenwriting 101:

Guy Movies: People get blown up or blown away

Chick Flicks: They die of some terminal disease

 

[Flipped Lid]

I think you're confused. Your class looks like Screenwriting 301 to me. Screenwriting 101 :

Guy Movies: Naked girls and toilet humor

Chick Flicks: Hopelessly hokey love stories

Screenwriting 101:

Guy Movies: People get blown up or blown away

Chick Flicks: They die of some terminal disease

 

[Mickey Caesar]

And after that don't miss the exciting new horror franchise built around "Hangman."

Or Scrabble