I believe that is incorrect.
Answer: Pretty much not at all.
I don’t know about movement (though someone else found a link with an answer), but it was the only damned breeze we had that day! Hot, humid and surrounded by steel. Then the big guns fire and we get a nice breeze.
The 5 inchers were fun just because the Navy let us shoot them (my job was lookout - making sure some friendly fishing boat didn’t get between us and the island we were blowing up off the coast of South Korea).
I suspect the “giant pegs” turn out to be hull-breaching drop-pods packed with tentacle-y and/or chitin-y troops. Can’t think of any other reason they didn’t explode right away.
That’s what I was thinking. These were something to let the Kraken know which ships to munch.
From the trailer:
WTF is THAT supposed to mean?
ETA: I know what it means to go from E to O, I did it, I just don’t get the speed reference. Lameo.
Wasn’t this the premise of one of the SAW vignettes?
God, I love nerds! Got a stupid question? They have a smart answer and will devote substantial time to formulating it. And build a webpage around it.
How long did it take you to go from E to O?
He did it in less time.
Note to screenwriters:
“Fire everything!” doesn’t sound tough or cool.
“Fire all weapons!” or “Fire at will!” does.
EDIT: I rewatched the trailer. Liam doesn’t say “Fire everything!”. Sorry, my bad.
“Which one’s Will?”
The one with the beard.
The command would be “Weapons Free.”
Subordinate officers in the Combat Information Center or Action Information Center would then direct the actions of individual weapons systems operators. no one would be wondering what to use - they’re well-trained to get the most out their ship and it’s weapons. the Captain has more important things to do than worry about which weapons systems to use - He has to maintain situation awareness, react to orders from higher, and oversee the efficient functioning of many subordinate systems and systems managers (Damage Control, Navigation, communications, CIC, Engineering, ect.).
Why would a powerful electric shock administered to a guy standing knee-deep in water send him flying, as opposed to, y’know… killing him?
Meh… right way, wrong way, Battleship way…
IMO, the actual dialogue is even worse. “Fire everything!!!” (a la Eric Bana in the Star Trek reboot) sounds bizarrely informal coming from a bridge officer. But “Fire the weapons!” followed by “All of them!” just makes Neeson’s character sound like a fucking idiot who doesn’t remember what weapons he has at his disposal.
And that’s ignoring the fact that it’s just awful writing. A terse “Weapons free” would’ve been far more impressive, and wouldn’t involve Neeson’s subordinate saying “Which weapons?” like he’s asking Neeson which condiments he wants on his Whopper.
Ah, yes, another movie that went out of its way to be ignorant of how navies work. We’re almost at the stage of
TNG made an effort, to the point that somebody appeared on the bridge and Picard told Worf to do something about it, and he ordered a redshirt to fire, but that skipped at least one link in the chain of command.
“…And I want it all fired at grid reference G7!”
Don’t miss the novelization…