Alice in Wonderland is an upcoming fantasy-adventure film directed by Tim Burton. It is an extension to the Lewis Carroll novels Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. The film will use a [...]
Artists (Cast) : Alexander Skarsgård, Brooklyn Decker, Hamish Linklater, Liam Neeson, Rihanna, Tadanobu Asano, Taylor Kitsch
Producer : Bennett Schneir, Brian Goldner, Duncan Henderson, Sarah Aubrey, Scott Stuber, Peter Berg
Director : Peter Berg
Releasing Date: 13th April 2012
It is yet another $200 million Hollywood movie about an alien invasion. It is stuffed with all the familiar elements of the genre, from characterisations to dialogues, visual effects to animation, and everything else. It has nothing new to offer in terms of ideas, story, and plot. It looks like a ‘B’ grade movie with terrible performances by its actors who are poorly supervised by the film’s director Peter Berg.
BATTLESHIP exemplifies the serious crisis of ideas that has hit Hollywood. It apparently relies on big money and its marketing machine and might to sell such bad products worldwide to recover the cost of its humongous follies in one weekend swoop. I have doubts if it will work in this case and if BATTLESHIP will be able to do even a fraction of what THE HUNGER GAMES could.
The film is based on a video game for children developed and marketed by Hasbro. The funniest thing about the movie is the request by the Universal’s PR department not to reveal the plot points toward the film’s climax. What is there to reveal or unravel that is not already revealed or unraveled in a film of this genre? Everyone knows how the climax scene will play out in such a film. The little kids can tell you that. And BATTLESHIP is the most predictable of them all. You can foretell its story and plots as soon as the first frame of the film starts to roll. You can even predict the scenes, situations, sequences, dialogues, and the relationships of its characters. There is nothing in the film that surprises you including the visual effects and the CGI generated sea-battle scenes.
The earthlings’ intense desire to connect with living creatures similar to them in the outer space makes them discover a planet in another solar system that shares all the Earth’s characteristics. They broadcast a message through powerful satellite amplifiers hoping to get some response from the alien planet. They get a response as a small alien armada descends from nowhere into the sea near Hawaii at Pearl Harbour where an international naval force is preparing to undergo routine war exercises in an atmosphere of bonhomie. On the American side is Lt. Alex Hopper (Taylor Kitsch), a wayward, carefree, impulsive, irresponsible, and a skirt-chasing guy who is forced to join the Navy by his elder brother Stone Hopper (Alexander Skarsgård) who commands a destroyer ship. Alex in the meantime has fallen in instant love with Samantha Shane (Brooklyn Decker), daughter of Vice Admiral Shane (Liam Neeson), after a late night bar encounter with her.
The joint naval exercise leads to a conflict between the just arrived alien armada and the international naval force, which soon turns into a full-fledged battle threatening the survival of the whole world. These aliens look like an uglier grown up versions of ET, with the addition of a hard goatee and four fingers instead of three. They move around inside robotic steel armour. They have a weakness. They cannot bear sunlight. In the ensuing battle an entire fleet of destroyers are lost including the one commandeered by Stone Hopper, our hero’s elder brother, who dies in the attack. Our hero and his ship survive but the captain of the ship becomes a war casualty. Now our ‘good for nothing skirt-chaser’ hero Alex is in charge of the destroyer and he is filled with rage over the death of his doting brother. He fights a great battle with the alien forces aided by a Japanese naval officer, a good example of rare international brotherhood. And needless to say he manages to save the world with a little help from a decommissioned battleship-cum-museum run by retired World War 2 war veterans. However, his grand feat of saving the world is not good enough for Vice Admiral Shane to say an unqualified yes to Alex’s request to marry his daughter Samantha.
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Artists (Cast) : Alexander Skarsgård, Brooklyn Decker, Hamish Linklater, Liam Neeson, Rihanna, Tadanobu Asano, Taylor Kitsch
Producer : Bennett Schneir, Brian Goldner, Duncan Henderson, Sarah Aubrey, Scott Stuber, Peter Berg
Director : Peter Berg
Releasing Date: 13th April 2012
It is yet another $200 million Hollywood movie about an alien invasion. It is stuffed with all the familiar elements of the genre, from characterisations to dialogues, visual effects to animation, and everything else. It has nothing new to offer in terms of ideas, story, and plot. It looks like a ‘B’ grade movie with terrible performances by its actors who are poorly supervised by the film’s director Peter Berg.
BATTLESHIP exemplifies the serious crisis of ideas that has hit Hollywood. It apparently relies on big money and its marketing machine and might to sell such bad products worldwide to recover the cost of its humongous follies in one weekend swoop. I have doubts if it will work in this case and if BATTLESHIP will be able to do even a fraction of what THE HUNGER GAMES could.
The film is based on a video game for children developed and marketed by Hasbro. The funniest thing about the movie is the request by the Universal’s PR department not to reveal the plot points toward the film’s climax. What is there to reveal or unravel that is not already revealed or unraveled in a film of this genre? Everyone knows how the climax scene will play out in such a film. The little kids can tell you that. And BATTLESHIP is the most predictable of them all. You can foretell its story and plots as soon as the first frame of the film starts to roll. You can even predict the scenes, situations, sequences, dialogues, and the relationships of its characters. There is nothing in the film that surprises you including the visual effects and the CGI generated sea-battle scenes.
The earthlings’ intense desire to connect with living creatures similar to them in the outer space makes them discover a planet in another solar system that shares all the Earth’s characteristics. They broadcast a message through powerful satellite amplifiers hoping to get some response from the alien planet. They get a response as a small alien armada descends from nowhere into the sea near Hawaii at Pearl Harbour where an international naval force is preparing to undergo routine war exercises in an atmosphere of bonhomie. On the American side is Lt. Alex Hopper (Taylor Kitsch), a wayward, carefree, impulsive, irresponsible, and a skirt-chasing guy who is forced to join the Navy by his elder brother Stone Hopper (Alexander Skarsgård) who commands a destroyer ship. Alex in the meantime has fallen in instant love with Samantha Shane (Brooklyn Decker), daughter of Vice Admiral Shane (Liam Neeson), after a late night bar encounter with her.
The joint naval exercise leads to a conflict between the just arrived alien armada and the international naval force, which soon turns into a full-fledged battle threatening the survival of the whole world. These aliens look like an uglier grown up versions of ET, with the addition of a hard goatee and four fingers instead of three. They move around inside robotic steel armour. They have a weakness. They cannot bear sunlight. In the ensuing battle an entire fleet of destroyers are lost including the one commandeered by Stone Hopper, our hero’s elder brother, who dies in the attack. Our hero and his ship survive but the captain of the ship becomes a war casualty. Now our ‘good for nothing skirt-chaser’ hero Alex is in charge of the destroyer and he is filled with rage over the death of his doting brother. He fights a great battle with the alien forces aided by a Japanese naval officer, a good example of rare international brotherhood. And needless to say he manages to save the world with a little help from a decommissioned battleship-cum-museum run by retired World War 2 war veterans. However, his grand feat of saving the world is not good enough for Vice Admiral Shane to say an unqualified yes to Alex’s request to marry his daughter Samantha.
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