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"You sunk my Battleship!"

Started by Famous Mortimer, April 17, 2012, 12:38:39 PM

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In a world......

Where it is necessary to identify specific words from drawings......

NoSleep

Quote from: Replies From View on April 22, 2012, 08:26:08 PM
In a world......

Where it is necessary to identify specific words from drawings......

"I think Lassie's trying to tell us something."

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Quote from: NoSleep on April 22, 2012, 08:28:01 PM
"I think Lassie's trying to tell us something."

The objective.......

Is to try......


"What is it girl?"

........to reach the last space on the board.


LASSIE IS.....

*slam, whoosh*

....PICTIONARY.

Cohaagen

#33
My sister called me last week, knowing that I've been nuts about battleships since I was a nipper, asking if I wanted to go and see this pile of dung. I had to politely turn her down. I've been aware of its coming for months but had avoided contemplating it until now.

As dumb as any movie based on a boardgame inevitably is, the sinister aspect of this film is that it represents yet another example of the continuing infiltration by the US military and its suppliers into the movie-making industry, who shamelessly and in fact eagerly accede. Pentagon backing is now mandatory if you want access to the type-appropriate hardware that CoD-schooled audiences expect - the Blackhawk helicopters in Black Hawk Down, for example. Each branch of the DoD even has its own special "Entertainment Liaison"...as in department, not officer. The price of this cooperation is a military veto on scripts. Battleship does indeed use real active-service ships and crews in its production, but goes further than previous efforts with its inclusion of a genuine no-legger US Army war cripple in the cast[nb]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_D._Gadson[/nb]. Even then it is outdone by last month's contemptible Act of Valor, a film made explicitly as a navy recruiting piece and which effectively cuts out the faggy civilians with its cast made up of serving US Navy SEALS (the elite force which lost an entire team parachuting into the open ocean during the invasion of Grenada). Admittedly these are the complaints of a tea-drinking pansy-assed Limey who thinks the US Navy is a bloodless technocracy that names its ships after politicians and gives out medals for being killed by friendly fire[nb]I'm not even making this up. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Scott_(Medal_of_Honor)[/nb], and no doubt the appearance of Robo-Colonel on-screen will cause much whooping in the audiences as they obsequiously burp the glib and slimy blessing of the Yank soldier-worshipper, "thank you for your serrrrrrvice".

So I won't be going to see it, unless downloading a pixellated cam with Cyrillic subtitles counts. I am always on the lookout for weapons porn or a genuine piece of so-bad-it's-shit action, but sinister military-industrial complex bullshit and the prospect of Rihanna looking crosseyed behind a minigun for two hours doesn't appeal to me.

momatt

Quote from: madhair60 on April 18, 2012, 04:04:56 PM
"These hippos... they're hungry."

Looks like some producers have been reading our thread and didn't detect the humour.
Hungry Hungry Hippos is becoming a real film.

http://www.totalfilm.com/news/hasbro-adapting-monopoly-action-man-and-hungry-hungry-hippos