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| So why is the movie even called Battleship? (Posted on 4/18/12 at 9:04 pm)
Seems like they paid unnecessary licensing fees to make an alien invasion movie
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xenythx 
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| re: So why is the movie even called Battleship? (Posted on 4/18/12 at 9:06 pm to BilJ)
Makes no sense to me either. Are there really people that are going to watch the movie just because it's got a passing resemblance to the board game?
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| re: So why is the movie even called Battleship? (Posted on 4/18/12 at 9:14 pm to xenythx)
I posted this in that other Battleship thread.
I'm not sure about this but from what I have heard when the alien invasion begin in the film the invaders erect a force field around their mother ship in order to keep the humans from getting to them. When they do this they end up trapping one battle group inside the force field zone consisting of a number of ships that one would start off with when playing Battleship, it is then up to this one group of ships to take down the alien flagship.
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BilJ
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| re: So why is the movie even called Battleship? (Posted on 4/18/12 at 9:19 pm to Tactical1)
Wow....
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| re: So why is the movie even called Battleship? (Posted on 4/18/12 at 9:55 pm to Tactical1)
Aw man, that's exactly like the game!!
Where do I preorder tickets?
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| re: So why is the movie even called Battleship? (Posted on 4/18/12 at 10:26 pm to BilJ)
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Seems like they paid unnecessary licensing fees to make an alien invasion movie
When I first heard they were making it I imagined a serious Down Periscope. I'll catch it on HBO.
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| re: So why is the movie even called Battleship? (Posted on 4/18/12 at 10:28 pm to BilJ)
I watched it the other night.
Spoilers
They un-retire a Battleship that is currently a museum to kill the alien ship.
They use Tsanmi warning Buoys to create a grid and then fire using this grid.
G11 miss
B34 Miss
h12 hit
etc...
It wasn't the worst thing ever, but not that good. Though I saw a crappy cam version.
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| re: So why is the movie even called Battleship? (Posted on 4/18/12 at 10:29 pm to Tactical1)
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I'm not sure about this but from what I have heard when the alien invasion begin in the film the invaders erect a force field around their mother ship in order to keep the humans from getting to them. When they do this they end up trapping one battle group inside the force field zone consisting of a number of ships that one would start off with when playing Battleship, it is then up to this one group of ships to take down the alien flagship.
This too, a carrier, two destroyers, an escort (no sub) and a battleship.
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| re: So why is the movie even called Battleship? (Posted on 4/18/12 at 10:29 pm to Tactical1)
I mean, truthfully it sounds like a fun plot. Until you realize how stupid the aliens must be to accidentally trap an enemy battlegoup inside the only place that their mothership is vulnerable when they are in the middle of the freaking ocean.
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| re: So why is the movie even called Battleship? (Posted on 4/18/12 at 10:29 pm to BilJ)
This movie will bomb big time.
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| re: So why is the movie even called Battleship? (Posted on 4/18/12 at 10:32 pm to DrVinnyBoombatz)
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I mean, truthfully it sounds like a fun plot. Until you realize how stupid the aliens must be to accidentally trap an enemy battlegoup inside the only place that their mothership is vulnerable when they are in the middle of the freaking ocean.
Spoilers again
Not in the middle , Hawaii is trapped (mainly Pearl Harbor), as that is where the beacon comes from, the Navy trapped in the field is the multi-national training fleet that was still close to the island when the field went up.
They keep the ships that could actually hurt them inside, and they do serious damage before a weakness is found.
Best part is the retired sailors, taking control of the USS Missouri to help out.
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DrVinnyBoombatz
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| re: So why is the movie even called Battleship? (Posted on 4/18/12 at 10:34 pm to Napoleon)
So apparently they have thought of everything....interdasting.
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| re: So why is the movie even called Battleship? (Posted on 4/18/12 at 10:39 pm to BilJ)
They should have just called this thing "Battle: Los Angeles 2"
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| re: So why is the movie even called Battleship? (Posted on 4/18/12 at 10:40 pm to DrVinnyBoombatz)
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I mean, truthfully it sounds like a fun plot. Until you realize how stupid the aliens must be to accidentally trap an enemy battlegoup inside the only place that their mothership is vulnerable when they are in the middle of the freaking ocean.
 Sounds like a free download class of movie. I don't pay to go to the theater to see shite like that.  It does appear the movie as one redeeming quality: Brooklyn Decker
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| re: So why is the movie even called Battleship? (Posted on 4/18/12 at 10:48 pm to xenythx)
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They should have just called this thing "Battle: Hawaii"
FIFY
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| re: So why is the movie even called Battleship? (Posted on 4/19/12 at 1:02 am to xenythx)
I liked Battle. Mainly because I think it did exactly what it set out to do, and what I wanted to see with that movie.
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| re: So why is the movie even called Battleship? (Posted on 4/19/12 at 2:14 am to BilJ)
this movie would be shitloads better if it was just 2 fleets of 5 shooting at each other for 2 hours
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| re: So why is the movie even called Battleship? (Posted on 4/19/12 at 2:16 am to Napoleon)
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They un-retire a Battleship that is currently a museum to kill the alien ship.
wait like the one that is badly damaged and submerged??
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| re: So why is the movie even called Battleship? (Posted on 4/19/12 at 4:54 am to St Augustine)
Never heard of the Missouri, huh?
ETA: I see where the guy erroneously called it the Arizona in the spoilers.
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| re: So why is the movie even called Battleship? (Posted on 4/19/12 at 6:31 am to BilJ)
They should have called this Skyline:Battle for LA 2
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