TV/Movies Megathread

[Barrister]

The rest of Men With Brooms, gritty underdog small town curling team makes good.  Stars the same guy that was in that Mountie in Chicago show and Passaendale.  The invincible team that they have to beat to win the trophy turns out to be from...Butte, Montana.  Really guys?  A Canadian film about a Canadian sport and the bad guys have to be from the US?  Get over it already.  Find some other reason for getting up in the morning.

There's a billion things wrong with Men With Brooms, and that's the one you pick on?  Really?

[CountDeMoney]

Did anyone really expect better though?  When you heard that they were adapting the Battleship game into a film, didn't you feel as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced?

I'm still trying to figure out what the fuck Liam Neeson and some aliens have to do with me moving my aircraft carrier horizontally from vertically because my sister hit the edge of it.

[Admiral Yi]

There's a billion things wrong with Men With Brooms, and that's the one you pick on?  Really?

It's representative of a prevailing attitude that impacts my life more than any of the other flaws in the movie.

[Tonitrus]

I cannot even think of another movie made from a board game, besides "Clue", and that worked pretty well only because the game itself actually had the semblance of a plot.

This is like making a movie of "Axis & Allies", and then having space lizards invade in the middle.

Though, "Fortress America" might make a good flick...

[Ideologue]

I cannot even think of another movie made from a board game, besides "Clue", and that worked pretty well only because the game itself actually had the semblance of a plot.

This is like making a movie of "Axis & Allies", and then having space lizards invade in the middle.

Though, "Fortress America" might make a good flick...

I never did get to play that.  Looked like more fun than Shogun.

[Eddie Teach]

I never did get to play that.  Looked like more fun than Shogun.

It was awesome. Never played Shogun though.

[Habbaku]

Fortress America is goofy fun.

[The Larch]

Though, granted, no Jessica Biel booty.

They have Rihanna's booty, though.

[The Larch]

Did anyone really expect better though?  When you heard that they were adapting the Battleship game into a film, didn't you feel as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced?

I'm still trying to figure out what the fuck Liam Neeson and some aliens have to do with me moving my aircraft carrier horizontally from vertically because my sister hit the edge of it.

Try to pity the poor script-writers for hire that were tasked with developing the concept of "Battleship" into a full blown blockbuster movie. Those brainstorming sessions must have been a riot. 

[Syt]

CHecking IMDB, the screenplay is by Erich and Jon Hoeber, who've also written the movies R.E.D., Whiteout, Montana.

[Josquius]

Bubba ho tep-- that should have been so so much better than it was. Meh.

[Neil]

Did anyone really expect better though?  When you heard that they were adapting the Battleship game into a film, didn't you feel as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced?

I don't understand why they just don't do a Jutland movie.  Why won't they do a Jutland movie?  Or Denmark Strait (see, battleships and airpower, we could both be happy).  Whatever.  The point is, the technology is there.

Yeah, you could easily do a Jutland movie with a heavy-handed message about how war is bad and stuff.  The only problem is that it's got British people in it rather than Americans, although I suppose you could always U-571 it.  I remember playing a PC game in the late 80s or maybe early 90s where you were an America TBD pilot whose mission was to sink the Bismarck.

[Syt]

Transporter 2. Even sillier than the first, but still fun.

The blond psycho chick was hot. 

[11B4V]

Watched "Breach" last night. Not bad.

[viper37]

As I said, a teen comedy.  If only in spirit.

Most comedies are these days. Old School, Grown Ups, Role Models, The Hangover, etc.

I wouldn't put the Hangover in the Teen movie category.  It lacks the silly love story.