I really want this to bomb, but I don’t think it will.
(Not just random malice on my part, but because it encapsulates Hollywood at it’s worst to me.)
But maybe the writer’s seen that episode of Futurama in which Mom tells her son to retaliate. He asks what button he should push. “Any button! They all retaliate!”
That’s what I thought of when I saw that quote.
Film Brain thought it sucked.
You’re forgetting Robert Altman’s Connect Four (1979), starring Paul Newman and Bibi Andersson. It took place in Montreal, Canada - a bleak, frozen wasteland, filled with apathetic people leading aimless, boring lives. Faced with the inevitable prospect of mankind’s extinction the people of Montreal had taken to played endless games of Connect Four, with the twist being that the loser dies.
I saw it a long time ago. I can’t remember the plot. It had dogs, and there’s a bit where a woman gets a knife in her head - nasty. And it looked as if someone had smeared vaseline on the lens. And the colours were muted, which was unfortunate given that Connect Four is a colourful game.
You know, if you think about it, Tetris is much closer to the human condition; the pieces fall, and at first you can arrange them in order, but eventually you leave a gap, and it doesn’t matter, but before long it does matter, and there are more gaps than lines, and the pieces keep coming. And you can never close the gaps. Never.
“Fire the weapons.”
“Which weapons, sir?”
“All of them.”
Galaxy Quest did it better -
Jason Nesmith: Okey dokey, Okey dokey. Lets fire blue particle cannons full, red particle cannons full, gannet magnets fire them left and right, and let 'em run all chutes. And while you’re at it, why don’t ya toss that at 'em killer
[tossing empty Coke can to gunner]
Jason Nesmith: That should take care of old lobster head shouldn’t it?
Was that not Real Steel
“Pretty sneaky, sis.”
I’m guessing that’s a joke, but the movie is actually called Quintet, and it’s a fictional game (called Quintet) within that movie. Amusing though.
More amusing to me than Battleship is that Asylum films already has a knock-off made, American Battleship. Talk about kicking the bottom out of the barrel 
I hear Peter Berg’s next project will be a remake of The Seventh Seal.
He’ll have to jazz it up, though - call it Seal Team Seven.
The twist is, one of the Seals is unknowingly playing a game of email chess against Osama Bin Laden. When his team storms the compound, he looks down and sees a board of his game laid out.
“Checkmate!”
In the arena of the future one veteran of the game looking for a final chance at glory, one young ace hoping to make a name, one reject trying to make it for his dying child, and one who is trying to escape the past by creating a new present. This is for redemption and glory!
Hungry
Hungry
Hippos!*
This one is for all the marbles!
At the dawn of the 21st century, mankind is running out of living space when a sudden volcano eruption creates huge areas of fertile land in the middle of the Atlantic. Several nations (USA, Great Britain, Japan, Russia etc.) rush to claim large areas of the new island. Liam Neeson is a master road builder tasked to create roads for the US colony. With him is a young hotshot who’s a natural when it comes to road building, maybe the best that ever was. He’s also rebel who follows his own rules[sup]*[/sup] and that gets him into trouble with the man. To make matters more complicated, he’s also Liam Neson’s character’s potential son-in-law.
The road building is interrupted when a malevolent alien force lands on the island with the intent of taking over, and building the longest road. It’s up to Liam Neson and hotshot guy to team up with the other nations and build a longer road and prevent the aliens from taking all the grain and wool.
Michael Bay presents: The Settlers of Catan 3D
[sup]
*Where he’s going, he don’t need roads, but builds one kickass road there anyway.[/sup]
I just watched this on DVD. Holy crap.
I thought the last Star Trek movie was stupid, when they made Kirk the commander of the ship a week after he got out of the space academy, or whatever they called it.
But in Battleship, the star is a long-haired hippie robbing a 7-11 to get a burrito for a girl whose name he doesn’t even know, and a month later he’s not only in the navy, he’s a full lieutenant.
Even worse, our navy must be really short of ships and officers, because he’s assigned to his brother’s ship, and when the aliens destroy that ship, and then kill the CO and XO of the other ship, he becomes the senior officer.
DAMN YOU OBAMA!!!
Apparently there is a sequel in the pipeline, based on the much more cerebral game of Electronic Battleships.
I would totally stream this movie off Netflix during a free trial month. 
Not only that, but they have taken an unnatural fancy toward the ovine population. Probing ensues.
I’ve seen it. It has a much better script than Battleship.
With Carl Weathers and Mario Van Peeples. Poor guys.