Battleship

Feb 17th.

I ended my Sunday with staying up till 2 am to watch Battleship...yes the one inspired by the board game and featuring Rihanna...holla. Sorry I had to go ghetto there for a little bit.

Anyways, I stayed up to watch it with my dad who'd been wanting to watch it, but we'd been to lazy to rent it. So it was on TV and started at like midnight.

I had been avoiding watching this movie mostly because it looked dumb and pointless. Perhaps if the world hadn't been introduced to Transformers (the movies), and even The Avengers with their alien plot line, this movie might have seemed more interesting. I was bored with the aliens being all advanced and technological and coming to our world to destroy it.

So I sat down and watched it.

The first like fifteen minutes were used to introduce the main characters and it wasn't a slow beginning it was pretty good. It had Rihanna, Alexander Skargard who plays Eric on True Blood, and Taylor Kitsch, the guy that was John Carter. (yeah that one). And I enjoyed their performances. That Taylor dude was actually really good and soon took the spotlight in being the leading guy and leader and saving the world. WOO! Haha. Rihanna was a bit of a bad ass, but still kind of funny. It was fine. Nothing out of this world, but not bad either. Alexander's plot line I wasn't expecting, but I guess I should have. Anyways I won't spoil that part.

Now the aliens, weren't badass. But they weren't terrible. Their uniform space suits or whatever reminded me too much of the Halo videogame. And their actual appearance reminded me of the aliens from the Green Lantern movie (the one with Ryan Reynolds).

And what I thought was pretty awesome was how they incorporated the board game into the way the humans fought the aliens. It was kind of genius and I applaud them.

Oh and I kept thinking, "damn aliens are cheating!"

Overall, I'd give it like 3.5 out of 5 stars. And it is a movie I would recommend.

There's plenty of laughs, there's love, there's stuff blowing up and Marines. It was all fun and games. No pun intended.

I will say though, that the ending seemed a little too rushed. One minute they're fighting for their lives. The next it ends.

Ending note: watch the movie and decide for yourself.