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No-talent hacks. And not just because of Transformers.

Congratulations Hasbro, you used movies to bring me back to Transformers and also to ruin G.I. Joe and Battleship. Way to go. It's as if there aren't enough alien movies already.

Hasbro Exec 1: Hey, we need to make another toy into sci-fi a movie so we can make millions. What should we do?

Hasbro Exec 2: How about an alien movie? There aren't enough of those out there.

Hasbro Exec 1: I've got it! Let's put aliens in one of our board games!

Hasbro Exec 2: Ingenious! Call Orci and Kurtzman and let's do this!


That's my version of how this came about.

Why are people blaming Orci and Kurtzman in all of this? They aren't involved with this movie in any way.

Shadowman wrote:Why are people blaming Orci and Kurtzman in all of this? They aren't involved with this movie in any way.

Because Lord of the Dance over there needed another thread to spew his garbage into.

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This looks good.

Am I the only person who thinks this about the film Battleship? I don't know if this should be posted here due to the topic, but it seems to me like Hasbro is pretty desperate to recreate the success of the Transformers films with this one. The mechanical design, the plot, and the characters all seem like pretty shameless and lazy attempts to mimic Bay's style since they couldn't get him back for another movie right away.

Personally, I think Battleship looks frakin' stupid and shouldn't have been made. I won't be wasting my money on it.

I think it looks a lot like the TF movies. It's a rip off. But that's why I know I'll like it.

This would probably be better of in General Discussion.

Anyway, in one of the trailers they even point out that this film is from the creators of Transformers. By that, they mean the producers. When I saw the first trailer, I immediately thought, "so this is what they did with the leftover TF footage." I hated it. Then I saw the 2nd trailer and hated it a bit less. And not because it's very similar to TF, but because I was looking forward to this movie being about Earth and humans fighting each other, not aliens. It's been a while since I've seen a movie with an awesome naval battle, and considering the title and nature of the game it's based on, this should have been the best ever.

I think that the whole "invading aliens" concept is getting worn out as it has saturated Hollywood in the last 6-7 years, probably beginning with the first TF movie. It was fine to have that, and even RoTF (as shitty as it was) and obviously DotM was a monster hit. But, they had Cowboys and Aliens (which was pretty good), Predators (also fun), Skyline (f**king LAME) and the upcoming Prometheus (not being a fan of the Alien franchise, I could not care less about it). There were a few others that I can't think of, but, personally, I've had enough of aliens for a while. Let's get back to kicking other humans' asses. For this reason, I'm very happy to see Stallone and Ahnuld making a comeback. 80s-90s action FTW.

Rodimus Prime wrote:This would probably be better of in General Discussion.

Or merged with the existing topic on it.