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Ladies and gentleman, as well as any apes or monkeys that have figured out how to use the Internet, I give you Battleship: The Videogame, which is based upon Battleship the film, which was inspired by Battleship the board game, which was based on the original pen and paper version of the game which was titled Broadsides: A Game of Naval Strategy.

The true story of the oil spill disaster of 2010 is given the disaster movie treatment by Battleship director Peter Berg

One attempt to use naval power in 1915 by the Allies ended in disaster: the attempt by battleships to force a way through the Dardanelles, the narrow seaway leading to Constantinople.

Not exact matches

«Play games (Scrabble, bridge, chess, Go, Battleship, Connect 4, doesn't matter),» suggests Xie (for a ninja - level brain boost, exercise your working memory by trying to play without looking at the board).

By 1500 hours, three Albacores had found the Italian battleship and closed in.

By the time the bombardment was over, eight American battleships were severely damaged or sunk, 188 planes were destroyed, and 3,691 U.S. troops were dead or injured.

At the end of the Red Room press conference, which was full of smiles and jokes — mostly by Cuomo — the governor broke out that battleship graphic from his budget address to remind the legislative leaders of what they had avoided.

Donald Trump signaled to his GOP rivals that he'll come out guns blazing at tomorrow night's CNN presidential debate by attending a pre-debate rally on a storied battleship in Los Angeles.

During his State of the State presentation Jan. 5, Cuomo used a PowerPoint animation showing him aboard a battleship cruising near ships helmed by Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver — Cuomo's way of suggesting that the old budget process involved leaders passing like the proverbial ships in the night.

Reported in Scientific American, This Week in World War I: July 10, 1915 An article in the July 10, 1915 issue of Scientific American carried an article about plans for a new French battleship, the Tourville (and by extension the sister ships in the class: Duquesne, Lyon and Lille).

By BRIAN DUMBLETONDEEP below the calm surface of Oslofjord, teams of divers have been working round the clock for the past month, striving to drain more than a thousand tonnes of oil from the corroding fuel tanks of a sunken German battleship.

Battleship The U.S. Navy defends the planet against a fleet of marauding aliens in this sci - fi action flick, which features scenes of nonstop nautical mayhem inspired by the eponymous board game.

By the time the interminable, seemingly endless climax rolls around, Battleship has definitively established itself as nothing less than an intolerable and flat - out reprehensible waste of time - which is surprising, certainly, given the presence of Berg behind the camera (ie the filmmaker is, after all, responsible for such entertaining fare as Hancock and Very Bad Things).

He is in no position to refuse, since the job offer comes with his family's rescue from the zombies by way of a battleship safely sailing in the middle of the Atlantic.

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Problem is, no one gave a crap about Battleship... so let's hope audiences are intrigued by Mario Van Peebles and Carl Weathers.

Check out the latest Japanese movie poster for the upcoming film «Battleship» by director Peter Berg...

I went there and I was really struck by the building and the ruins — the Norman keep is still standing and feels more like a battleship than a castle.

Directed by Peter Berg (Battleship), Deepwater Horizon revisits the infamous incident primarily from the perspective of the rig's Chief Electronics Technician, Mike Williams.

Gambit, a.k.a. Remy LeBeau is one of the most popular X-Men characters who, recently, made his debut into the cinematic universe of the franchise in 2009's X-Men Origins: Wolverine then played by Taylor Kitsch (Battleship).

Inspired by Hasbro's classic naval - combat game, Battleship is produced by Brian Goldner and Bennett Schneir of Hasbro (the Transformers and G.I. Joe franchises), Scott Stuber (Safe House, Couples Retreat), Film 44's Sarah Aubrey (The Kingdom), along with Duncan Henderson (Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, The Perfect Storm).

A likeable cast, many of whom are former Oscar winners, enliven a not - as - clever - as - they - think - it - is script by screenwriting brothers Jon and Erich Hoeber (Whiteout, Battleship), but not quite enough to overcome the overly familiar plotline to make the film anything more than a pleasant but unremarkable time - waster.

Finally, Hasbro Family Game Night has had each of it's add - on games, including family favourites such as Battleships, Boggle and Connect 4 reduced by 50 %.

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After such an utter failure with Battleship, Peter Berg looks to redeem himself by taking on this project.

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Judging by its trailer, the upcoming Battleship has a flimsier claim to the title of that Milton Bradley board game than Real Steel does to Rock»Em Sock»Em Robots.

An experimental non-narrative directed by Dziga Vertov, a contemporary of Sergei Eisenstein (Battleship Potemkin), Man With a Movie Camera is an impressionistic portrait of urban life, giving us no characters but, rather, the sense of the complex comings and goings of everyday people through a city.

It's not that Battleship is far more sophisticated than that, it just has the decency to retain interest in its human characters and give them more to do than simply being surrounded by metal and explosions.

Director Andrew Davis» quick, by - the - numbers style, and Frank Holgate's inventive lensing of the battleship's interior and exterior scenes, build the necessary suspense.

Secret Of Man's plot and mythos was never very complicated, and centres around an evil Empire trying to resurrect a giant floating battleship named the Mana Fortress — which is powered by the titular magical energy.

The Untouchables (1987) further advanced the telling of the tale by borrowing a scene from Battleship Potemkin (1925).

And while Josh Pence is famous for playing one of the Winklevi in «The Social Network,» but even having his face replaced by Armie Hammer, he's not hurting for work, with appearances in three of the biggest movies of 2012, «Battleship,» «The Dark Knight Rises» and «The Gangster Squad» all lined up.

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Battleship Directed by: Peter Berg Starring: Taylor Kitsch, Liam Neeson, Alexander Skarsgård, Rihanna Rating: Not Yet Rated Release Date: May 18, 2012 TRAILER SCORE: 8/10 Thoughts by TSR: I mocked this when it was first announced, thinking a film based off the game was just about the dumbest idea I'd ever heard.

Battleship (2012) Starring: Taylor Kitsch, Brooklyn Decker, Alexander Skarsgard, Rihanna, Asano Tadanobu, Liam Neeson Directed by: Peter Berg U.S. Opening Date: May 18th, 2012

Members of the press were then treated to a green screen immersion of ourselves in the climatic «Battleship» deck scene, where an alien gets blown off the ship by main cannons on deck.

MAY 18 BATTLESHIP Starring: Taylor Kitsch, Liam Neeson and Rhianna Directed by: Peter Berg Yes, the popular board game is now the film.

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Director Peter Berg follows up Battleship and Lone Survivor by reuniting with -LSB-...]

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Saved by a sense of fun, Battleship surpasses the poor standard of its predecessors by embracing its status as a popcorn flick.

Sure Clue was the funniest movie ever not made by Mel Brooks or the Zucker Brothers and Jim Abraham, but Battleship was a crappier rip - off of the Michael Bay - helmed Transformers movies which were already the result of scientific experiments designed to weaponize film against the IQ's of the movie - going public.

By the end, El Mariachi, rebel - without - a-crew Rodriguez's alter ego, walks off into the sunset draped in a Mexican flag, Rodriguez having ripped off the church shootout from The Killer, a chunk of the hospital and morgue intrigue from Hard - Boiled, the plastic surgery discomfort from Face / Off, and, switching directors briefly, the falling escape from Tsui Hark's Time and Tide, and the Odessa Steps sequence from Battleship Potemkin.

The Battleship Island Near the end of World War II, a Korean independence activist plots to save his countrymen imprisoned by the Japanese as slave labor on the island of Hashima.

Battleship — directed by Peter Berg and starring Taylor Kitsch, Brooklyn Decker, Alexander Skarsgard, Rihanna, Asano Tadanobu, Liam Neeson.

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The remaining SEAL unit members are team leader Michael P. «Murph» Murphy (played by Taylor Kitsch, bouncing back nicely from Battleship... and John Carter); sniper Matthew «Axe» Axelson (played by the always interesting Ben Foster); and communications specialist Danny Dietz (Emile Hirsch, suffering almost as nobly here as he did in Into the Wild).