(Welcome to The Quarantine Stream, a series where the /Film team shares what they've been watching while social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic.) The Movie: Battleship Where You Can Stream It: HBO Max The Pitch: Remember the classic boardgame Battleship? Well, they turned it into a movie. About an alien invasion. Why It's Essential Quarantine Viewing: There is absolutely nothing…
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At CES 2024, the SlashGear team got a sneak peek of Timekettle's X1. A language translator that uses AI-driven interpretation to make business meetings easier.
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We'll be hearing arguments over which film really deserved the Best Picture Oscar for months, if not years, to come, but if the Razzie results are any indication there's a firm consensus on which movie was the worst of 2012. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part II swept this year's proceedings, as seven out of their…
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Many fans consider 2012 to be one of the best years for film in a long time. We've had great popcorn movies, huge epics, mind-melting indies and new films from some of the best filmmakers around. But every year has some stinkers and as good as 2012 has been, it's probably been equally as bad…
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At their core, all narrative features are lies. We can will ourselves to believe we're watching superheroes save Manhattan, but we know deep down that what we're really seeing is costumed actors zipping around on wires and jumping in front of green screens. And like all great, big whoppers, the more moving parts there are,…
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Watch enough movies, and you'll find that you occasionally walk out of the theater sometimes with the vaguely disappointing feeling that you've just shelled out $14 to see a movie you're already seen before. Sometimes, it's no surprise that a film looks derivative -- did anyone really expect Underworld: Awakening to wow us with its…
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Everybody loves Liam Neeson. It's impossible not to. He's a badass, he's handsome, he's got the cool accent, he seems like a smart guy and he's starred in some of the best movies of the past quarter century. Even when he shows up for a quick and dirty paycheck like in Battleship it's hard to…
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Over the weekend, I visited Orlando Florida to preview Universal Studios Orlando's two new entertainment options, the new Superstar Parade and nighttime watershow Cinematic Spectacular - 100 Years of Movie Memories. I also found the time to ride the new renovated version of Island of Adventure's The Amazing Adventures of Spider-Man ride. After the jump…
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One stars Taylor Kitsch and Rihanna as Naval Officers trying to save the world from aliens. The other stars Mario Van Peebles and Carl Weathers as Naval Officers trying to save the world from aliens. If those two descriptions sound somewhat interchangeable to you, you aren't alone. The company behind the former, which obviously is…
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If Safety Not Guaranteed and Battleship seem like opposites in every way, it's probably because they are. One is an offbeat indie that's drawn glowing reviews on the film festival circuit; the other is a big, splashy blockbuster that's been likened to Michael Bay's Transformers. But both have just released new clips in preparation for…
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On the one hand, Universal's Battleship looks, frankly, kinda stupid. It's an adaptation of a Hasbro toy, along the same lines as Michael Bay's dumb (but occasionally fun) Transformers franchise, and early spots and footage did nothing to suggest it'd be anything more than an uninspired, cynical cash grab. On the other, there's some promising…
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Earlier this week at WonderCon, director Peter Berg revealed that he'd taken inspiration for his new movie Battleship from an unlikely source: Stephen Hawking. Berg had been watching a documentary in which the iconic scientist discussed Goldilocks planets, so called because their distance from the sun is "just right" for sustaining life. NASA has been…
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I'll be completely up front with you -- I really have had no interest in the movie Battleship since it was announced. Even the recent action-packed Michael Bay-lite trailers didn't win me over. I just didn't see the point of making a big screen adaptation of the Battleship board game. And I also didn't understand…
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WonderCon 2012 took over the Anaheim Convention Center this year, so more Hollywood studios were in attendance than in previous San Francisco-based editions. While there wasn't a lot of newsworthy bits to come out of the panels this year, we did get to see a lot of footage from upcoming films: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter,…
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Taylor Kitsch's John Carter may not quite have been the blockbuster hit that he and Disney were hoping for, but the star will take a second stab at leading a major action franchise when Peter Berg's Battleship hits this summer. Inspired by the Hasbro game, the film stars Kitsch, Alexander Skarsgard, Rihanna, and Liam Neeson…
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Battleship is the film in which director Peter Berg worked in full-on Michael Bay mode, with Taylor Kitsch, Rihanna and Alexander Skarsgard as crew members on a US Navy ship stuck inside a force field erected by some force that has its eye on Earthly resources. We've seen a couple trailers for the film that…
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If you're on the fence about Universal's Battleship, that being Peter Berg's Michael Bay-style 'humans versus aliens' movie which will hit next year, this Japanese trailer probably won't help make up your mind. It has a few small new bits of footage, yes, and also a bit more footage of Japanese actor Tadanobu Asano. But…
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Here's the new trailer for Battleship, Peter Berg's aliens versus Navy movie that has been a great big 'WTF?' since it was first announced. The first trailer demonstrated that the film is sort of a big closed battle between humans and some sort of alien invasion, and now the new trailer shows a lot more…
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To date we've only seen a teaser trailer for Peter Berg's loose, to say the least, adaptation of the Hasbro board game Battleship and fan response has been largely venomous. The film, scheduled for release May 18, 2012, has plenty of time to fix that though as more of the its epic scale and story…
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There was a pretty stark divide between those who loved the trailer for Peter Berg's 'navy vs aliens' film Battleship, and those who thought it was complete dreck. It isn't difficult to understand that split: the trailer briefly introduces a few characters including Taylor Kitsch as a brash young officer under the command of Liam…
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Universal and Peter Berg reportedly spent two hundred million on Battleship, and with the official trailer premiere you can start to make a dollar-per-pixel tally of just where that money went. This is more like a chunk of the first big battle sequence in the film rather than a conventional trailer -- no hiding the…
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Break out a bottle of champagne and crack it over the bow of the new website for Universal's big collaboration between Hasbro and Peter Berg. Battleship now has a teaser site and a teaser poster. You will be greatly surprised, I'm sure, to find that the poster features a giant ship and an almost imposing…
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Mere days after James Cameron used Peter Berg's board game-inspired action movie Battleship as a prime example of the degradation of cinema, one of the film's stars has leaked some news that sounds worse than it is. Brooklyn Deckar, the model turned actress, who plays a love interest in the film, has been quoted as…
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Ponder for a moment the irony of James Cameron, whose career has elevated the Roger Corman formula of cliched characters and high-concept premises into billion-dollar mega-success, calling out Peter Berg's upcoming Battleship as an example of the story crisis in Hollywood. Then stop pondering and read the director's full comments after the break. Speaking to…
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We've half-joked about Peter Berg's film Battleship, which already boasts a cast including Taylor Kitsch, Alexander Skarsgard, Rhianna and Brooklyn Decker. That's an odd-sounding cast for a mega-budget film about a battle with aliens. Now a serious name has been added to lend some weight to the cast: Liam Neeson will anchor the picture as…
Read MoreNO PHOTOS The first set spy photo has emerged to show Ian McShane in character as Blackbeard in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, and to complement that shot there's a first-look shot from another ocean-going adventure. Our second groups of set pics show Rhianna in costume for Peter Berg's Battleship. Larger images and…
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Briefly: Review, if you will, the cast of Peter Berg's Battleship as we know it so far. There's Taylor Kitsch (Friday Night Lights, Wolverine) in the lead as Alex Hopper, the Commanding Officer of a destroyer who is in charge of a team of five trusted shipmates. (Which resportedly include the XO, a female Japanese…
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