>> ^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.

Well I just checked the Wikipedia entry for Operation Repo:

Operation Repo is an American television program where a fictional repossession team from the San Fernando Valley in California re-enact the repossession of vehicles for finance companies.

Although as a channel, truTV is described as presenting "real-life stories told from an exciting and dramatic first-person perspective", Operation Repo consists of scripted re-enactments where the team is often confronted by actors portraying debtors and police officers in the repossessions.

So in other words, it's fake. Or at the very least only a re-enactment of something that may have actually happened.