>> ^EMPIRE:

ok... so... this has ZERO to do with the board game. Why even call it battleship? They could have done an actual sea battle like conflict, but they went with aliens. Don't get me wrong, even though I'm pretty sure this will suck, there's some really cool imagery, and I wouldn't mind watching it, but why the FUCK would they call it battleship? no one is going to watch this because of the board game. If they had called it, oh I don't know, maybe "Sea man Explosion" it would have no impact on the box office, and they wouldn't have to pay Hasbro a 1 cent.


Actually, I'm pretty sure someone had to make a bunch of movies about Hasbro I.P. in order to secure rights to Transformers. They've already made them for Rock'em Sock'em Robots (REAL STEEL), and Operation (REPO MEN). They just used the real name this time out.

ok... so... this has ZERO to do with the board game. Why even call it battleship? They could have done an actual sea battle like conflict, but they went with aliens. Don't get me wrong, even though I'm pretty sure this will suck, there's some really cool imagery, and I wouldn't mind watching it, but why the FUCK would they call it battleship? no one is going to watch this because of the board game. If they had called it, oh I don't know, maybe "Sea man Explosion" it would have no impact on the box office, and they wouldn't have to pay Hasbro a 1 cent.

I can wax nostalgic about video games for hours every day. My personal best years in gaming:

1983 - We got Intellivion for Xmas 82.. Played a lot of Lock & Chase, Astrosmash, Night Stalker, Sea Battle, etc.
1989 - The year I bought myself a NES.. Played Bionic Commando, Contra, Castlevania.. First job mowing lawns gave me income in addition to my allowance which went up to $10/wk. to blow on gaming magazines and the occasional game, as well as a decent budget for arcade games which were in their heyday... Golden Axe, Robocop, Narc, Hard Drivin, Stider, that was 1989 for me. Probably the single best year.
1992 - Now working one full-time and one part-time job for the summer, as soon as I wrote my final exams I I bought myself Genesis, then SNES the next day. Played a lot of Super Contra, Street Fighter 2, Castlevania 4, Super Battletank (first game with photo-real graphics on home systems imho), Populous, Strider, etc.
1994 - The year I bought my first PC.. played a lot of Doom 2, Alone in the Dark 2, Ecstatica, Tie Fighter, and countless demos from PC Gamer and other magazine pack-in discs
1998 - The year I got into multiplayer... played insane amounts of Quake 2
2000 - The year I bought my first true custom-built gaming PC.. played Quake 3, Deus Ex, Aliens Vs Predator, and in 2001 played tons of Tribes 2
2002 - At end of 2001 I bought another even better gaming box... played tons of RTCW, Medal of Honor, and ended the year playing BF1942 about four hours per day
2006 - The year I bought my first bleeding-edge custom-built gaming PC (dual GPUs, 30 inch 4 megapixel monitor, $150 mouse, etc.)... played BF2, Quake 4, Call of Duty 2, Prey, HL2: Ep1

2007 was a decent year, might look like a stand-out once I get some distance and perspective.