The Bus

Please continue pre-release discussion here.

Movie:
"Battleship" (Starring: Taylor Kitsch, Alexander Skarsgård, Brooklyn Decker, Rihanna, Liam Neeson, and Tadanobu Asano.)

Release Date:
April 11, 2012 (International)
May 18, 2012 (United States,Canada)

Rating:
PG-13

Running Time:
131 minutes

Budget:
$200 million (estimated)

IMDb Synopsis:
A fleet of ships is forced to do battle with an armada of unknown origins in order to discover and thwart their destructive goals.

IMDb Info and Rating:
6.5 (9,050 votes as of 4/22/2012)

Rotten Tomatoes:
Fresh:22 Rotten:23 (49% as of 04/22/12)

Metacritic:
43 metascore

Trailer:


Poster Art:

The Bus

Battleship may be the best "summer" action movie I see this year. Peter Berg here channels Michael Bay at his peak, and ruthlessly edits down Bay's penchant for bad romance and worse humor. The result is one of the shortest 2+ hour Hard R films I can remember seeing. (Don't worry, Hasbro has retained Steve Jablonsky so you still get the big, brassy score any alien/robot movie deserves).

Everything about it is ridiculous, and it's absolutely wonderful.

PenguinJoe

The were giving out free tickets when my girlfriend and I were at the Hollywood Farmer's Market and they were basically begging people to take them. It was kind of funny. I grabbed a pair but never went cause I didn't feel like going out. I bet they'll do another screening.

Maryang Palad

I saw it. Lot's of one liner. How many time did they say Chinese? Skip it.

My Other Self

I know this was released in other markets of the world already. I have no hopes for this to be any good.

TomOpus

I think we need to have a poll added.

The Bus, when I saw you post that you had seen it I was gonna ask your opinion of it but this works too

OldBoy

amateur.

TGM

RocShemp

Some folks over at Blu-ray.com went to see it and said

Matthew Chmiel

I'll probably see this in IMAX its week of release as I hate my life.

csant

I saw it and thought it was ok... nothing special, just ok. I enjoyed it cause I was in the Navy as well and station on board the USS IOWA-BB61 a battle ship. I loved that ship... =)

d2cheer

I have dumped on this movie as well (except for a certain cast memeber) but my son wants to see this so we probably will check it out too.

Shannon Nutt

I sat through three TRANSFORMERS movies, this can't be any worse, right?

DJariya

http://www.deadline.com/2012/04/glob...80%99-lawsuit/

This is awesome. Universal is suing The Asylum or Global Asylum for the release of their upcoming DTV movie..."American Battleship" starring Mario Van Peebles and Carl Weathers. They are alleging copyright infringement.

Solid Snake

Yeah, I saw that. Good. Anything to stop crappy movies from being made. In seriousness...I've no idea what'll come of this. Does Asylum even make enough?+

DJariya

Bumping this reviews thread since this officially opens tomorrow.

Popcorntree, you can blame The Bus for this.

This movie has gotten shit on over and over in this forum.

Can't wait to see this Saturday.

Goldberg74

My curiosity might actually get the best of me with this flick...

SuckaMC

I'm interested in this mainly because they have not really shown too much in trailers/commercials. Not sure what to expect, and I like that.

DeanoBKN

Damn, Apollo Creed really has fallen.

K&AJones

Yep....G.I Joe: Rise of Cobra...and even on cable. The darn thing is $29.00 on Amazon for the BR. If Battleship is worse than this then God helps us.

Shannon Nutt

I know I'm going to be in the minority here, but I liked it. It's been getting a lot of comparisons to the TRANSFORMERS films (it's better than any of the three of them), but it's really more of a cross between INDEPENDENCE DAY and TOP GUN. It's mindless fun...but it WAS fun. I'd recommend it.

DJariya

I saw a matinee today as well and the theatre I was in at around 4pm was at about 60% capacity.

I enjoyed it. It wasn't the best summer action blockbuster I've ever seen, but I thought Berg did a good job directing and there was some really spectacular special effects.

I kind of agree with Shannon's comment that the Transformers comparison wasn't really right. And I liked 2 of the 3 movies. I thought it was a little mix of Independence Day, Battle: LA and maybe even a little bit of Pearl Harbor.

My main criticism was Taylor Kitsch. I liked him as Riggins on Friday Night Lights, but he cannot carry a movie like this to save his life. Very flat performance and he showed no range at all. Brooklyn Decker is very nice to look at, but I didn't buy her at all as his love interest. They had no chemistry. And yeah Liam Neeson's appearance was pretty much an over-glorified cameo.

But, when all is said and done, the special effects and the battle sequences were pretty awesome.

I got a good laugh when:



Overall, it was fun and I would recommend it if you enjoy shit blowing up and lots of special effects. I'd give it a B-

Hokeyboy

Good Lord! Thank you... now I KNOW I never need to see this movie.

PenguinJoe

Well this isn't flattering.

DJariya

It is what it is. If you hated those 3 movies, I can't help you there. You get what you paid for and this fits the type of movies released in the summer.