Howdy, Stranger!
It looks like you're new here. If you want to get involved, click one of these buttons!
If you have an email ending in @hotmail.com, @live.com or @outlook.com (or any other Microsoft-related domain), please consider changing it to another email provider; Microsoft decided to instantly block the server's IP, so emails can't be sent to these addresses.
If you use an @yahoo.com email or any related Yahoo services, they have blocked us also due to "user complaints"
-UE
If you use an @yahoo.com email or any related Yahoo services, they have blocked us also due to "user complaints"
-UE
Comments
Also, I just realized one of the 'ridiculous' films mentioned in the OP was G.I. Joe. It's about a bunch of colorful military specialists banding together to fight a super-science terrorist organization. How's that a bad movie concept?
Ridiculous doesn't necessarily mean bad, though.
But it's not even that ridiculous either!
It is a bit ridiculous, though.
Although that's less to do with its core concept and more to do with G.I Joe.
It's a lot less ridiculous than samurai wizards battling evil samurai wizards in a giant space station with the help of a cowboy, a giant gorilla, and a couple of vaguely homosexual robots in a setting that is millennia in the past and lightyears away.
Of course I don't see a problem with the basic principle of a storyline focused around cool toys. I mean, a lot of sci-fi superhero stuff is based around cool colorful characters and set pieces anyways.
Which isn't to say there are no practical problems, obviously.
It's almost as if you think samurai wizards don't exist, Malk.
If I don't get my radioactive spider bite, you don't get your jedi!
Hey, now. You know what Forzare is going to think if he wakes up and finds you two arguing about Star Wars again.
Damn right, they know.
I actually want more ridiculousness.
This just in, industries become risk averse when there is a downturn.
What is really funny is that I think there are very few industries that would call making a movie based around a board game "a safe move"
^
The performance of Transformers probably meant that doing Battleship was "safe" but I was kinda referring to the general trend of the last 4 years.
It hardly matters where it came from when the punchline is that good, trust me.
The problem with Battleship is that it sounds exactly like a satire of Hollywood blockbusters. At the very least, Transformers had some mythology to build upon, even if they didn't use it much. Battleship, on the other hand, is a board game. Tack on aliens and you have practically a parody of Hollywood blockbusters.
To be honest, until I heard about the film, I didn't even think of Battleships as a board game. I thought of it as a game you played on paper (which I assume is what they took the board game from).
I would like to point out that there's been a Clue movie and it was awesome.
Like, "awesome" as in "it was so stupid I laughed and it made for a great comedy" or actually good "awesome?"
All I know about it is what they did with the ending, and that, at least, is legitimately pretty clever.
Actually good. It was basically a murder mystery comedy.
Clue at least has a premise capable of lending itself to a compelling story.
Plus, you know, there was the book series (that nobody likes to remember happened).
Yeah, it's definitely easier to make a good Clue movie (that's relevant to the game) than to do so with Battleship.
Battleship's premise is two fleets at war that have to make educated guesses as to where to strike.
It's not a lot, but it's the rough sketch of a story. The film looks like it's going way out there, though.
Then again PoTC added zombirates so...
PoTC had a checklist that was all of three lines: pirates, the song, and being in the Caribbean. That was all the ground they were contractually bound to cover.
And besides, everybody knows PoTC would have been ungodly shitty, if not for Johnny Depp doing for it what Harrison Ford did for Star Wars: ad lib awesomeness.
I heard a summary of what the movie was supposed to be like before Depp Depped, and it was so different I thought it must have been a joke.