Brooklyn Decker (seriously, WTF?) says about Battleship:
"Yeah it's funny. I think Alex [Skarsgard] said something that the game was the inspiration for the movie and not necessarily the storyboard for the movie and I would be in agreement with that. It's an action/war film, so we draw inspiration from the game in that it is called 'Battleship' and Hasbro is heavily involved."
"It is a modern day war action film, which is kind of unique to most war films. This is modern day so it's exciting."
Someone (multiple someones) in the IO9 comments note that the US no longer has battleships, but whatev.
Yeah, I only want to see
Battleship
because I wanna see all this technology that was cutting edge in the early 1940s. The electro-mechanical analog computers they used to aim the big guns were very advanced for their day, so they were never replaced with modern computers.
Eva Green has been cast against Johnny Depp in
Dark Shadows:
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Yuck. I didn't like her in Bond.
I hated her as Sybilla in Kingdom of Heaven.
I didn't mind her in the Bond movie, but her eye makeup was heavy, she always looked slightly deranged.
Thankfully the Johnny Depp love has passed me by, as will this adaptation.
I liked her quite well in
The Golden Compass.
I quite liked her in Bond, but yeah, the eye make-up was frightful. She's a lovely girl -- I remember being struck dumb at how pretty she was when her character came out of the bathroom with her face scrubbed fresh and clean and smiled at D. Craig.
My dad's coming up on Sunday, and he wants to go out to a movie, my choice. I always like to take his tastes into account, so seeing The King's Speech again is most likely out. However, I've been hearing some good things about Sanctum, the new Cameron diving movie--anyone seen it yet? We'd probably go see it in 2D, since the 3D theatre is further out. Dad likes adventure movies but not unbearably stupid ones, so The Mechanic isn't on the list (for both of our sakes!).
