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Spoiler alert: No one says “you sunk my battleship” in “Battleship.” But director Peter Berg has a very good explanation for that. No one said it in the movie because the Regents didn’t sink the Navy’s battleships.
But before you get all up in arms about the omission, there is an homage to the famous admission of defeat from the Battleship pencil and paper game in the feature film. Fans just might miss it during their first go around.
“We have a version of it though. There was a reference to the line,” Berg promised in a recent interview with MTV News.
According to Berg, the reference is something along the lines of, “Ain’t gonna sink this battleship, no way.” When asked why he didn’t just say the classic line anyways, he said, “They don’t sink our battleship. Sorry.”
That’s not to say that there never was a version of the script where “you sunk my battleship” was said. It just didn’t end up working in the final cut of the film.
“We played around. I mean, we’ve said the line, we didn’t say the line, and then I sort of had this idea that maybe we should come up with a different way of respecting the line but, you know what, they didn’t sink the battleship,” Berg said. “There are a lot of ways you could have done it. We chose our way.”
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20 hours ago ( 1:53 PM)
Seems like the author has problems with movies and their commercial applications or viceversa. I haven’t seen Battleship yet, but I have read the book. The only resemblance the movie has to the game is the title. Most of the other movies listed came before the effort to market toys and other goods. Fairly crappy stuff too that obviously did not do well in spite of the movie success.
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20 hours ago ( 1:10 PM)
THERE ARE WONDERFUL CONCEPTS OUT THERE WHICH FANS WILL NEVER SEE IN THEIR LIFETIME; REASON-WHY? ALL THE JUNK/CRAP MADE TO SELL MORE ICON DOLLS TOYS LICENSING GARBAGE (ALL THIS DOES,IS TO FILL UP THE GARBAGE DUMPS EVENTUALLY) HAS DESTROYED ANIMATION AND PLACED IT INTO A HUGE PILE OF STEAMING,MIND NUMBING, JUNK/COMMERCIAL CARTOON VENTURE,AND ‘SCREW THE FANS’….BIG corporations/ BIZ BOYZ ,JUST WANT THE MONEY!!
SADLY,KIDS PHYSICAl and mental health is now damaged,with clogged arteries and stolen college money,for ‘toys’ and video games,in the thousands of dollars,and we now have a fed-funded ‘loan’,which comes ‘due’ and forceably payable,via a lifetime debt of a hundred grand +all stolen by mind bending animation ceos who just want more money from kids and parents.
MY OWN ANIMATION CONCEPT WAS DENIED A GRANT FROM THE mC aUTHUR FOUNDATION,GIVEN TO AN ARTIST WHO USES RECYCLED GARBAGE FOR ‘SCULPTURES’ IN LOS ANGELES. FURTHERMORE, SOME OF THAT ‘GARBAGE’ CONTAINS OLD TOYS FROM DECADES OF JUNK ANIMATION/VIDEO GAMES……
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21 hours ago (12:37 PM)
A lot of the products listed were tie-ins for existing products. Such cross promotions, as far as movies are concerned, have been around since the silent film era. What is different about movies like Battleship, Transformers, Pirates of the Caribbean, Clue, Super Mario Bros., G.I. Joe, etc. is that they are movies based upon a particular toy, game or ride, and not a product based on a movie (or TV show or comic book or book, for that matter) unlike Batman, Star Wars, Robocop, Godzilla, Jurassic Park, Rambo, Fantastic Four, The Hulk, Hook and Alien Vs. Predator. Of course what that means, as I pulled the above 10 non-qualifying titles listed from the article, is that the author of the article only listed five movies which matched his hypothesis. Oddly enough, he missed on Pirates of the Caribbean, G.I. Joe, and Clue.
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21 hours ago (12:12 PM)
The thing is, I grew up on the “Battleship” game. Me and my father played it constantly.
A truly great game.
ClanMacKinnon: The thing is, I grew up on the “Battleship” game.
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21 hours ago (12:04 PM)
and this is the worst advertisement disguised as a news article.
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21 hours ago (12:04 PM)
It’s not about toys, but when talking about movies as commercials you can’t do much worse than the original Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. It was literally financed by Quaker Oats as a marketing vehicle to introduce their Wonka line of chocolate bars (before they sold it to Nestle).
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21 hours ago (12:14 PM)
Maybe so, but it was a cool movie!
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22 hours ago (11:29 AM)
Once they saw the kind of money Lucas pulled down with the Star Wars franchise back in 1977 it was all over. The studio giving him franchising rights in place of an additional percentage was the biggest mistake they ever made, a mistake that no movie or tv production will ever make again to the point that there are many toys produced from shows meant for collectors and not even for kids. I used to work in the toy market, (after market, auctions etc), half the time they don’t even expect the consumer to ever open the packages anymore…
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08:42 AM on 05/19/2012
The “Cars” movies were the worst Pixar films? I’m thinking that honor belongs to “Ratatouille”.
I think the 80s Transformers were MUCH cooler toys than today’s version.
Fantastic Four was an OK movie. If you want to go down the “pointless” road, you could say that MOST movies are “pointless”.
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09:03 AM on 05/19/2012
I loved the Cars movie! And I’m glad someone agrees, I thought Ratatouille was awful. My kids love that movie and even still whenever they want to watch it I cringe. I won’t let them miss out on it but, blah! Good thing they like Cars and Cars 2 more!
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49 seconds ago ( 9:26 AM)
Wow, really? That just shows how two people can watch the same movie and come away with different opinions–I got Ratatouille for Christmas a few years ago and l LOVED IT!!!! and still do. The same goes for the Cars movies
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01:52 AM on 05/19/2012
The continuing of the dumbing down of America. We’re going to all be so stupid that we’ll be even easier to control through special effects and mind manipulation.
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09:25 PM on 05/18/2012
Surprised the GI Joe film(s) didn’t make the cut…
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08:43 AM on 05/19/2012
No kidding, or Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
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21 hours ago (12:07 PM)
GIJoe was unwatchable! Comparing the Ninja Turtles 1 and 2 with that is blasphemous! The 3rd TMNT however, when they went back in time to fight Japanese samurai warriors—that’s fair game.
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23 hours ago (10:09 AM)
You can switch out “Masters of the Universe” with “GI Joe” or “TMNT” and its pretty much the same result. He-Man is especially stupid, however.
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06:43 PM on 05/18/2012
Most of these are pretty terrible, ‘Hook’, however was actually a pretty cool movie as a kid, and I don’t remember any toy or video game tie ins.
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