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Peter Berg Will Sink Your BATTLESHIP On July 1, 2011!!
Merrick here...
Looks like Peter Berg's adaptaton of the BATTLESHIP game is moving along full speed ahead.
Universal has set July 1, 2011, for the release of "Battleship," confirming Peter Berg as helmer of the live-action pic based on Hasbro's naval combat board game.
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Berg called the pic "a contemporary story of an international five-ship fleet engaged in a very dynamic, violent and intense battle" -- but he would not disclose any details about the enemy force.
The film will be the next directorial assignment for Berg, who last helmed "Hancock."
...says Variety HERE.
Sounds like he's making this before the HANCOCK sequel & his adaptation of DUNE. Peter Berg + big ocean battles? Sounds fine by me...
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Berg called the pic "a contemporary story of an international five-ship fleet engaged in a very dynamic, violent and intense battle" -- but he would not disclose any details about the enemy force.
The film will be the next directorial assignment for Berg, who last helmed "Hancock."
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Peter Berg is gonna sink me Battleship.
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Getting past the game of the same name... out of all the games turned movies... this may actually have some potential, especially if they let it take a more serious real world approach. Nothing like some good naval warfare.
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Dont think they're not thinking about it.
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Will Robin Williams be in?
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Just a straight-ahead naval battle movie that uses the Battleship name for marketing purposes. Nobody's childhood should be raped by this.
If they made it a period piece about naval battles in the past, it could be decent.
Set in the modern day, on the other hand, it would make no sense. We don't have large-scale naval battles anymore.
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There's your naval battle movie and so much more.
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Sep 15, 2009 12:19:30 PM CDT
I'm still holding out for Star Wars Board Game: The Movie
by royston lodge
'nuff said.
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Starring Warwick Davis.
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Counting down the days until they greenlight Candy Land and Clue! We're ridin' the Universal Express right over this cliff!
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...could actually be interesting.
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I'm happy to see Berg is keeping within his strike zone. After THE KINGDOM I was worried he fancied himself a top-tier director. Look, Bay makes shit 'splode, and so does Berg. Berg it up!!!!
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...by Retarded Space Monkeys. Making films that leach away precious IQ points is part of their plan for world conquest. Didn't you attend the briefing?
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I want a gorram good Dune movie, and I want it now! FRACK!
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Sep 15, 2009 12:29:07 PM CDT
What will be left of Universal when Shmuger/Linde are done?
by flynn_lives
Puddles of colorful molten plastic that were once board game tokens and obscure action figures.
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That's actually a great idea.
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Directed by Zemeckis using mo-cap.
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Sep 15, 2009 12:35:46 PM CDT
Seriously though: How about a remake of Breaking All The Rules?
by royston lodge
The 1988 made-for-tv movie about the guys who invented Trivial Pursuit.
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Actually a movie about Risk could be fun... imagine a bunch of kids playing it and whenever there's a battle it goes to the teensy weensy soldiers perspective with some massive CG battle scenes.
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How does a naval battle film genuinely relate to BATTLESHIP? There is no story there to begin with. It's like making a movie based on Checkers!Berg may sink a battleship, but he may also sink his directing career...
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like seriously that has to be up there with the Itallian Job sequel in they "why the fuck haven't they made it yet" category
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Please kill everyone in Hollywood.
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... two kids playing it and talking.
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How does this film even make business sense? Let's be honest, the only board game that should be made into a film is Arkham Horror.
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You would be singing a different tune if Warwick Davis stars in Battleship. He could play a torpedo or something, who realizes there's more to life than sinking ships.
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OMFG Hollywood really has lost it,it really has lost it.jesus.
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Sep 15, 2009 12:56:34 PM CDT
Of course we all know it will be aliens that are behind it
by mysterious_volvo
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Brilliant! I can see the End Credits now..."...and Warwick Davisas"The Torpedo"
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I was a wannabe screenwriter, ever since I was 17. I've been dabbling in it for years, even completed a few. But now I think I just want to write novels. It's shit like the shit Berg and Hollywood pump out ad nauseum--Hancock, Battleship, this remake, that remake, $12 horror movies like Sorority Row that they spend $10 million to advertise, Rumor Wilson, Jaden Smith, Jessica Alba, Dane Cook--that disenchants audiences and people who actually want to produce quality stories FOR an audience. The drought of quality in Hollywood has made us so hungry that we actually think something like Juno is OSCAR WORTHY. Back in the time of John Hughes, scripts like Juno would have been thrown out with the trash. In the hay day of Tom Hanks, Shia LaBeouf would not have been given a second glance. Yet now he's being called the next Tom Hanks! The problem with Diablo Cody is the same problem with Zach Braff: One thinks she has her finger on the pulse of young people, the other thinks he has his finger on the pulse of the early 30 crowd. But both know nothing about either, and their writing shows it. Everything done in Hollywood today is driven by personality rather than product. That's what gave us not one, but two Transformers movies that were complete shit. Don't get me wrong; I'll still watch movies, I just won't dream of writing them any more.
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"he would not disclose any details about the enemy force."
SPOILERS
They are at A2-B2 H2-H4, A10-D10, F4-F9 and I6-I10. -
This movie will fuck my eyeballs till they're pregnant and need to have abortions.
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Why the hell not? Then, Stratego, Sorry, Connect Four, Risk then the old video games like Pong.
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GO BLACKS! FUCK REDS! --wow, borderline.
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The special effects...will. be. AMAZING.
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Because if they're actual countries at war in the present day, you're going to get something far more political than whatever Universal and Hasbro are angling for. COULD THIS BE MEGAFORCE ON THE WATER???
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giant human hands hover around the battleships.
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Battleships are considered obsolete, too big and vulnerable to Surface-to-Surface missles. As far as the aviation-centric USN is concerned, they are too expensive to operate, particularly from a manpower POV, they are too "difficult" to obtain trained crewmen for (the engine rooms and the 16-inch turrets), they are seen as not having enough multi-role capability and most damningly, they would take away dollars from aviation.
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will smith stars
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I had this dream that after being scarred by a cartoon Hobbit and the disaster that was Dune as a young man, that a bearded baby swaddled in a manger was sent to make the world right. And that bearded baby grew up and made three little hobbit movies that made me pee a little. So finish the frickin dream Jackson and get this blowhard Berg out of my frickin dream. And while your at it, make Sting promise to never act or sing again.
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Sep 15, 2009 1:35:14 PM CDT
why can they just make a war film AND NOT call it battleship?
by six demon bag
is it THAT hard to shoot for origianlity these days or are they really aiming low and for the name factor?
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A Battlership board game adaptation? PFFF what's next, a Monopoly board game movie? oh... wait....
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Would star in it because he would say in a British accent, "My business is killing Nazis, and business is good!"
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Yells Jon Voigt while wearing a Hitler moustache right before his tanker explodes. The Americans cheer, flags are waved, and Jake Gylennhall embraces Keira Knightley, and their superior officer Tommy Lee Jones salutes them.
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Star in this movie, or would it be "glorifying war" too much?
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CG grids and red/white pegs in the opening titles
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So, basically it's a movie about U-Boats that has fuck all to do with the game? That I can watch. Why not just do away with the game aspect entirely, name it something intriguing and just have an original movie without a pretext though?
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I agree with all of that. Except for the fact that I liked (PROUDLY LIKED) both of the Transformers movies very much. Transformers is NOT a property that should be taken seriously and I, PROUDLY, am glad Michael Bay didn't and just made movies about blowing shit up and sex jokes. It was brainless and entertaining. I know the popular thing to do online is to hate on Bay and both of the flicks, but I love 'em honestly. As far as the rest of your post...spot on, brother.
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and save the licensing fee. However, given GI Joe's money, I'm sure licensing fee for the title/tie-in will be reaped in profit.
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Why not just say he's directing a naval battle movie? What the heck? Maybe we should call a movie like Anatomy "Operation" or we could have renamed Memento as "Uno" or perhaps rename Clue as (oh...wait... that was done already...) or how about we rename Norbit "Hungry Hungry Hyppos"?? Please !!!!
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I think it was the second half of Pearl Harbor wasn't it? Which, say what you will about the film as a whole, WAS GLORIOUS! But hey, this could be really cool. The Rundown and The Kingdom prove Peter Berg's got some legit action chops. Take the action sequences from Pearl Harbor and marry it with the naval statagy of Master and Commander coupled with the clastrophobic tension of Crimson Tide...maybe throw in some Top Gun (for good Measure). A high tech Midway. Yeah, this could actually be really good, hope so.
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Just get it over with and greenlight PET ROCK: THE MOVIE already.
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Just get it over with and greenlight PET ROCK: THE MOVIE already.
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... that Connect 4: The Movie teaser poster... Black background with a section of the gameboard, complete with several checkers in the lower right corner. In the center of the poster, the phrase "Pretty sneaky sis!" followed by smaller text stating "Coming Christmas 2012"
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President Obama calls Kanye West a jackass... Finally, he says something I can agree with.
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Sep 15, 2009 2:04:59 PM CDT
God is Peter Berg the new David Fincher or the New Brett Ratner
by series7
He seems to be the new attach to everything guy. I guess since he is the most recent one to make box office bank everyone wants him.
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We're losing white pegs fast!
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right at us!!
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and make this about some pimple filled fat kid trying his hardest to make it to the Battleship Championships in Yachats, Oregon. The small town embraces the chubby kid from Jersey, with a chip on his shoulder...and a pulled pork sandwich in each hand.Watch as different worlds collide and watch the growth of a champion...a BATTLESHIP champion!
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and the red pegs rebel against the life they lead. They want to be more than just red pegs who get stuck into a board and plastic ships...they want to be red pegs that do, er, other stuff that I'm sure red pegs like to do.John Travolta to star.
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This will not be a faithful adaptation, boycott!
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Use the name value of the game property, yet have the freedom to just go out and make an original and hopefully terrific modern navy warfare flick. Clue could be like a really serious and intricate Agathy Christy who-done-it mystery. Monopoly could be like Wall Street or something. Basically just original films using the name recognition of the games to get financing and promotion. I'm not mad at that.
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Sep 15, 2009 2:15:39 PM CDT
This (with a 'T'), not "his". Sorry, need edit features.
by the_genteel_gentile
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No Dune from Peter Berg! Can you imagine the shitfest it would turn out to be? A boardgame is more up his alley.
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Im guessing most people dont remember that game.
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I actually saw it the theatres. They even had a gimmick where they re-released the movie every few weeks with a different killer of 3 possible endings. Tim Curry starred. It was total crap.
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Anything that keeps Peter Berg away from another Dune-attempt is a good thing. But also must say that of all the Hasbro properties they want to exploit, this one I might want to see. Big kablamos make me feel good.
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GENIUS POST ! It would look a bit like that bowling sequence in Big Lebowsky !!!! Hahahahaha
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I can see it already....the blacked out silhouette of a man or a woman with blond hair or brown hair with a mustache...maybe?.... it would last 12 minutes and would keep us on the edge of our seats ......oh and preferably Bruce Willis would star in it...
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Don't touch the sides!!!!
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Sep 15, 2009 3:03:34 PM CDT
Chakraborty - Yeah I've seen it a couple of times even.
by the_genteel_gentile
I actually think it's a pretty funny movie. But I mean, Clue could be made as a straight-faced mystery though. Imagine a serious Sam Mendes or Joe Wright directed 'Who-done-it' set in a victorian mansion with characters named Prof. Plum, Green, Scarlet, Col. Mustard and so on. Like a deadly serious Gosford Park.
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Rated R for strong, grizzly violence, language, and some sexuality
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...I wouldn't mind seeing a remake of Agatha Christie's "Ten Little Indians". I remember being quite frightened by the
movie as a kid. Instead of one murder, all the ten guests start getting killed one by one, and the murderer is one of the guests because they are alone on this private island. And the ending was quite a surprise. -
was more or less Ten Little Indians.
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Little known fact: he was not acting when he played that complete dumbshit in "The Great White Hype."
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...will to live. =(
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Yo-Yo vs. Rubik's cube: the movie. Checkers, Tiddleewinks, Candyland, Chess. The possibilities are endless
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"Best of seven...?""DAMN RIGHT!!!"
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.. but only if it glowed in the dark.
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By Milton Bradley & Tri-Star Pictures..
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Stick a fork in it's ass, this industry is done.
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So board games to movies has some precedent.
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Two kids could be 'playing' Battleship, when in reality (unbeknownst to them) their movements are affecting a real Naval Battle and mandating it's outcome.But I hope to God it's not! Sorry Orson Scott Card.
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How can you have a Battleship movie when there are no Battleships. In fact the international treaty for naval armaments requires that no nation shall build or maintain any Battleship or Dreadnaut vessel.
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*Battleship*?!
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Why did they need to get to the rights to the game battleship? When it sounds like they are just making a naval war film?
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I discovered it later in life thanks to my girlfriend (I was more of a Murder By Death guy) , never saw it in the theatre, though I remember the multiple prints marketing technique well, which I think is a pretty cool way to do it. I wonder if such a thing could work today. But back to to the flick... a great Tim Curry role, Madeline Kahn is kept pretty restrained unfortunately, but you still get the fantasticly funny Lesley Ann Warren (though Victoria Victoria has it beat by a mile if you want a perfect LAW role), Martin Mull not being a complete douchebag for once, Christopher Lloyd asking for the phone number of the brothel without missing a beat, etc. Plenty of slapstick for when your in that Blake Edwards/Richard Lester kinda mood, and more solid laughs than your run of the mill Agatha Christie adaptation (though Evil Under the Sun is played around here about as much as Clue is, which is to say, often). Yeah, there's a lot more yelling and running around in that anonoying Willie Scott-kinda way, especially at the end, but Curry gets you through it all right. Looking at the prospect of more and more "board game movies" as Hollywood dives full on into milking that cow for whatever they can, I certainly don't think they're going to come up with anything nearly as good as Clue when viewed through the eye of history (and healthy dose of nostalgia, 'natch).
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*Battleship*??!
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*Battleship*???!
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*Battleship*???!
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He is slowly killing us with one bad movie after another. Seriously, he is starting to make Hitler look like a decent guy. Now... battleship? All you guys excited about his version of Dune -- which alternate reality do you inhabit?
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*Battleship*????!
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Never saw the alternate endings until the DVD.
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I mean, *Battleship*?????!
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It shouldn't work - if made at any other time, with any other ensemble, it would have bombed harder than the RAF over Dresden. As it stood it was absolutely brilliant. Great pisstake of Agatha Christie-type mysteries and an absolutely perfect ground for Tim Curry to go wild. Much loved film in my household. This Battleships nonsense...? Not expecting the same there, Berg or no Berg......
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Seems like thats an obvious one. Could have the pegs be characters responding to 'fate' throughout their lives and a parallel story of the kids that are playing the game.
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If he knocks it out of the park, great. Can't see it happening though....and at the end of the day, Lynch's version is half a fantastic version despite it's flaws....and beyond that, the SciFi channel adaptions of Dune, Dune Messiah and Children of Dune are amazing and perfectly done as far as I'm concerned. Barbora Kodetova as Chani? It doesn't get better than that, right there. I can't see how Berg can beat the Skiffy adaptions - let alone Lynch's flawed marvel.
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Spring in some Its a Mad Mad Mad World, and yeah, that's how that one will go down. All star comedy cast, Rich eccentric philanthropist type sets up the game with "real" Real Estate locations, hang it all on some structure that resembles the game play, you'll get a funny 15 minute sequence where a couple of the cast end up in Jail with more celebrity cameos ensue for the roles of the current inmates, they'll use the Get out Jail free card in some fashion, but there will still be a shot of someone walking out bowlegged. This thing writes itself, just send the check to Alfred P., behind the hot water pipes, 3rd washroom along, Victoria Station
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They DON'T get creative freedom. They get a thousand strings attached, and the final product has to have all the corners rounded off and not offend anyone and maximize marketability and etc. If only it could be as you say, it'd be great.
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Imagine Indiana Jones running away from a giant ball... of FIRE! Jerry Lee Lewis can provide the soundtrack.
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..and at the end, after winning the championship, Stallone gets his kid back.
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Everyone loves sea drama/war. From MOBY DICK to PIRATES to RED OCTOBER. I say bring it.
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"*Yes* way."
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And he still hates Jews.
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Battleship could be a really co... Yo CmdX Imma Let You Finish but Jumanji was one of the best game-inspired movies of all time
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and amongst the comedy "team-ups", they will have an attribute that references the player pieces. One will have a little terrier with them, one will wear a top hat, one team will drive a race car, etc. (Man Im going to use this post for my upcoming lawsuit in a couple years ala Art Buchwald and whoever that person was who came up with the Matrix)
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cars the characters are driving, are the same colors of their playing cards in the game.
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But in a way I think it's easier to make a good movie from a vague concept premise rather than to slavishly try to bend one genre into another like Video Game adaptations. The lack of a story does give some leeway, and it's not like any of these properties need to be offensively profane or jarringly polital or something. Essentially theve got a blank canvas, but a limited palette, so it all depends on the artistry of the person holding the brush. I don't know, Pirates worked out pretty well, and that was just simply taking the name of a Disneyland ride and going off and doing whatever fun ideas sprang up. So sure, it'll be geared toward a wide audience but not every movie needs to have some grand social agenda or pessimistic view point. I'll take some fine entertainment with just a dash of a moral conscience as a major success. But I hear you, and I certainly hope the stories won't be just some totally by comity homogenized focus group blandness. Ideally they'll trust some smart people to shephard these projects so as to not kill any room for originality. But that's a legitimate fear, yeah.
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..as a tense cat and mouse/HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER type film. Ie. fuck all to do with pegs.
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Just thought I'd clear that up.
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wrong thread
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Make it about opposing fleets still in the water trying to figure out ways to detect the enemy and it'll make a decent battleship plot.
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Get Christopher Plummer to play the old bastard General on the game box, being challenged by some young turk (knowing Hollywood, it would be Shia). Score by Howard Shore and you have box office gold.
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...watch in horror as American teens are forced to operate on their friends for sport by depraved Eastern Europeans! Don't touch the sides, indeed...
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Sep 15, 2009 10:04:46 PM CDT
I thought they were just doing In Harm's Way with all 90° angles
by brandloyalist
The ships have to maneuver strictly at 90 degree angles or it's NOT BATTLESHIP
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Seriously, WTF.
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I'm not counting 'World Trade Center.'
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Come on, give him this! Ships, 'splosions, no characters to develop, it'll keep him busy! Its perfect!
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Seriously, I'm floored.
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makes a movie he sinks my fucking battleship.
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Fuck you.
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What I really would love to see is Tic Tac Toe the movie.
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It would be a world domination movie.
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And he's doing his best to get it. Bay better watch out.But really, if Berg is anounced as the director of Transformers 3, i would not be suprised..
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Starring Mickey Rourke and, naturally, The Rock!
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or something weird and alien, then I'd be interested in this. But otherwise, one group of battleships blowing the crap out of another group of battleships sounds pretty dull to me. It's such a pain in the arse when Berg announced that he was gonna be taking a crack at Dune, but now we've got to wait whilst he pisses about with a Hancock sequel and now fucking Battleships. Just get on with Dube already!! And make sure you do a good job of it because the books are fucking awesome!!
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Surface engagements with actual battleships haven't happened since the Battle of Leyte Gulf and the Americans "crossing of the T" at Surigao Straight. Nowadays, it's cruise missle launche or sub fired torpedoes. The combatants never see each other so that going to be a bit of a stretch.Actually, the US navy can take several Iowa class battleships and have them back in commission (steel trumps aluminum any day) within months.This sounds really stupid. Making it an animated game where the thing actually explodes when a hit occurs though...hmmm.
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(Yes, DOOM knows Latveria is landlocked. DOOM knows everything!)
A "modern naval" film with battleships can only work in some alternate Navy universe where there are (a) no aircraft carriers, (b) no atomic weapons, (c) no submarines, (d) no anti-ship missiles, and (e) no radar. We're talking a 21st Century Earth with World War I era tech, folks. Such a film would be feeble at best, especially explaining why these things don't exist in the year 2010.
OR the definition of "modern" is stretched to include World War I, meaning it's a WWI action film with "modern" effects / acting / plotting / tropes. That might be worth seeing. -
And Peter Berg, shame on you. To think I told all my friends that Very Bad Things was alright when it came out. Well look what I've enabled you to do, now I'll have to go back in time & terminate your mother. Bad Peter, Bad.
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Actually, battleship battles are extremely interesting and dramatic things, and they offer a plethora of impressive imagery and drama good for movies. read any account of any major naval battle, both from the sailing times and modern times, and you will read very dramatic accounts of the terrible danger that is naval engagement. Suffice to say, there's no safe spots in a naval battle, and if you ar enot killed by the bombarbment, the fires that break out during the fight, you can die by drowning in the sea, or in the famous case of the USS Indianapolis, the survivors got eaten by sharks one at a time.Naval battles are terribly interesting. The problem is not a movie being about naval battles, but the fuckng hack who is attatched to it.
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Snakes and Ladders is called "Chutes and Ladders" in the US! Intriguing...
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I can't shake the image of his character in the Last Seduction.
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Fun fact: The game Snakes and ladders originated in India and taught moral lessons of how virtuous deeds take one up in life spiritually, and bad deeds take you down. That aspect of the game is still maintained in the modern version, showing pictures of bad deeds or punishers at the bottom of the snake or chute, and good deeds at the ladders.
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Just 2+ hours of monkeys running apeshit wild, flinging feces, climbing things and grabbing each other's hands and feet to form long monkey chains.
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Sounds like you just described EVERY movie that Michael Bay made, and Jar Jar Abram's lastest theatrically released movie.
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We've all seen WWII naval battle movies. Nothing new about making another one.
But I've never seen a movie about what it was like to serve on a battleship during World War One!
Way worse conditions for the sailors onboard. Having to shovel fuckin' coal into the boilers 24/7. Totally different military culture with much more brutal discipline. No radar. No sonar. Fuck, what a shitty existence.
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so he's taking on all this other crap first
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You know when you can't go outside for recess so the teacher breaks out the board games?
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...of the marketing department. Unfortunately, I don't have high hopes for the line "you sank my battleship" in any serious trailer. It would probably get an unintentional laugh out of the audience.
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That would be the Battle Of Juteland, the only major naval engagement which the combatants were mostly battleships. The rest of the naval engagements in WWI were submarines attatcking convoys and the destroyers which tried to sunk them. The Battle Of Juteland is also considered the biggest naval battle in history, certainly the biggest naval battle after the age of sail, with many considering it bigger then the Battle Of Leyte in WWII. The Battle Of juteland has so much fire shots and produced so much powder smoke, that after the battle is rained OVER THE SEA, which is not that common. Yes, the battle caused a major rain downpour.A movie about the Battle of Juteland would be quite something to behold.
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Actually Jutland was not a big smash-em-up and much of it took place at night or under very poor visibility. Also rather undramatically it ended as a tactical draw (but strategic victory for the Brits, since the Germans kept the High Seas Fleet mostly in port for the remainder of the war).I'd say make it a fictional encounter between two battleship squadrons to make a more exciting scenario. Just like the Hornblower novels/TV series.
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but I just can't believe this is real.
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starring John Malkovich and Patrick Stewart.
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Actually, the battle was huge, but the anti-climatic thing you say was for different reasons: the thing is that all the battleships made back then had this philosophy that they had to have armour that could protect from the type of artillary they had. and since both the german and english navy followed the same philosophy, the end result was that most battleships inbvolved in juteland had enough armour to withstand the shelling from the enemy. Still, quite some ships were sunk, spectaculary. But the fight was huge. The poor visibility you mention was because part of the engagement happen at night. But there was day action too. Technically, the result of the battle is still in dispute. It can either be classified as a draw or a technical german victory. but the real result was that the german high command was so scared of the casualties and ships lost they ordered the fleet to return to their baltic ports, from which never left for the remaning of the war. The battle happened in 1916.
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Still, when was the last time we had a naval engagement movie? Even if it is based on the world's easiest-to-cheat-at board game, this movie could still be what the doctor ordered.
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Anything that delays his hashing of DUNE gives him (and his financers) more time to decide against it.
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...and we are the eager and willing patrons of the whorehouse known as a movie theatre. Studio heads are obviously the madames. Doesn't matter how ugly a whore like Battleship looks, no matter how many warts she has, no matter how impossible and inplausible her theme and promises are, the madame always knows that someone driving by with a fetish for that kind of thing is going to willingly come in and pay to see her, even though that patron may only get the cinematic equivalent of ghonorrea. And it doesn't matter how many times we as moviegoers get ghonorrea (The Core), herpes (Battlefield Earth), syphillis (Spice World), or crabs (Pluto Nash), she knows that most of us might go back and pay again for another whore with a slightly different name but making similar promises, full well knowing that we could get trichomaniasis (Catwoman). And that is why movies like Battleship and Asteroids get made.
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I'd see it
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and MethodMan really chucked Peter Berg off a roof. The occasional hit(The Rundown, The Kingdom)are not worth everything else. Oh! Clue rules. Michael McKean is the hidden treasure in that movie
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Give us a clue movie every decade or so with the same characters, like in the game, but make the culprit a different character.
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wait, that would actually be pretty awesome
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Sep 18, 2009 1:20:19 AM CDT
I actually they're actually filming a sequel to Clue...
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