Occasionally one needs to see an awful movie just as a point of reference for all the good ones.
I had to watch Battleship, the board game inspired movie, because
- It had Alexander Skarsgård in it
- It was nominated for multiple Razzie Awards including worst director, worst supporting actress, worst actress, worst screenplay, worst screen ensemble, worst picture, worst supporting actor (won by Liam Neeson)
With such bad reviews, I wanted to see it the way one watches a train wreck.
It was so bad, it was “worth” watching. The aliens transformer type spaceships made me wonder if Michael Bay had directed but then remembered this was a Hasbro production. The brother relationship between Skarsgård and Taylor Kitsch was laughable, the story underwhelming and the obvious green screen effects a little sad.
The story line is that aliens respond to Earth’s communication beacon and they are not friendly which was predicted by one of the scientists:
If there is intelligent life out there and they come here, it’s going to be like Columbus and the Indians, only we’re the Indians.”
At the end, Daughter laughed hysterically and announced that the movie was painfully camp. Too bad that this movie had a $209mil budget and they couldn’t come up with anything better.