![]() While I don’t think Kitsch is a terrible actor - his remarkable performance in the 2018 miniseries Waco has been criminally forgotten - he is unable to do much with what little Battleship gives him. (Blink and you’ll miss Oscar winner Rami Malek.)Īlongside another great box-office bomb, space epic John Carter, Battleship was one of the few early 2010s vehicles that got Taylor Kitsch nowhere. Battleship also suffers from an overstuffed cast of so-so actors, some unintentional. (Knowing not to cluster your ships too close together helps.) Battleship the movie forgets this but still goes overboard to adapt elements of the game, primarily the convoluted way the characters figure out how to “grid” the map.įor a movie that has almost nothing going on upstairs, there sure is a lot of overthinking going on in its script. You won’t always “be” better at Battleship because it’s a game of luck as much as it is strategy. What makes Battleship the board game fun to play is that, at the very least, your arsenal is equal to your enemy’s arsenal. Tadanobu Asano ( Thor, Mortal Kombat) co-stars in Battleship as a rival to Taylor Kitsch’s primary protagonist. The enemy is anonymous, their advanced ships don’t behave like ships in a real game of Battleship would, and suspending one’s disbelief that human military warships could stand against cartoonish alien weaponry is a plot point extended so long it becomes laughable. ![]() Though this provides an excuse for things to go boom in epic fashion, it also robs the movie of any genuine gravity. Instead, Battleship drops in space aliens. With a script by John and Erich Hoeber, Battleship could have been an old-school, Tom Clancy-style thriller, two armadas locked in an oceanic grudge match between two spiteful commanders. It’s also weird that Berg was at the helm of this wreck, given that he’s a commercial filmmaker in his own right and not some random hand tasked with burning $200 million to the ground.īattleship doesn’t even get its own premise right. Unmotivated camera movements and dull composition prove, just because you want to be Michael Bay, that doesn’t mean you can be Bay. Again, Bay had nothing to do with Battleship, but it apes his style so much - and so poorly - that the movie is practically his fault, in a trendsetting sense. It’s not even “so bad it’s good.” It’s a steaming piece of crap, a wildly overproduced film with an undercooked script. I’ll be upfront: Battleship is not a good movie. But the movie doesn’t care, so do you? Battleship Delta Productions It was made thousands of miles from here, and it’ll go wherever the ship goes.No, there were never aliens in the original Battleship board game of your youth. “We’re going to take our history with us. ![]() But the ship’s history doesn’t have anything to do with San Jacinto,” he said. G9xnhfIx3Iįollowing the repairs, Battleship Texas will have a new, yet-to-be-determined home that will hopefully be more visible and accessible to more visitors, Bruce Bramlett, chief operating officer for the Battleship Texas Foundation, told the Texas Standard. ![]() ![]() Now, we start making the tow to Galveston because we’ve got a date with a dry dock. It’s expected to arrive in Galveston about 3 or 4 p.m. to start making its way through the Houston Ship Channel, which will be closed for the move. The ship was scheduled to get going between 5:30 and 6 a.m. Today it will be towed to Galveston Bay to undergo $35 million in hull repairs that will take between nine and 12 months to complete. The ship, which was constructed in 1910 and served in both world wars, was decommissioned in 1948 and became a floating museum, docked at the San Jacinto Battleground State Historic Site in La Porte, near Houston. ![]()
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