Battleship - Trailer #3

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I don't see how people can shit on the Transformers movies for being stupid and praise Battleship. List of stupidity just off the top of my head, SPOILERS:

Chicken burrito. Not funny, not entertaining, just fucking stupid.

Fight between two international captains and neither of them are disciplined. They would have been relieved of duty immediately, even if they were on the eve of war games.

Chicken. Kentucky Fried Chicken. Just about anything that dipshit dude said.

Aliens that look like fucking hairless apes, but are supposed to be lizards. The whole design of them was absolutely ridiculous.

We can beat them by blinding them with sunlight. Yeah, good one.

Ridiculously long-ranged sniper shots on a moving target from a moving target.

One alien absolutely decimates a team of skilled sailors in close combat. But a dude with no fucking legs takes on one in hand-to-hand combat and wins.

Anything the stupid scientist dude did.

The Battleship homage with the fucking grid. Really? I mean, fucking really? Ignoring the fact it took two of their ships being blown to shit for the aliens to realize hey, we shouldn't travel in straight lines because they're tracking us.

Dude goes from being washed out of the military to getting an immediate promotion. Yeah, the shit he did on the seas, but he also damn near got his entire crew killed ramming the ship and inadvertently got the crew of the other ship killed when he didn't follow protocol with the alien vessel.

And my most favorite of all:

Outfitting the USS Missouri, which hasn't been in commission in more than a decade, within an hour. Then having the old sailors onboard with their stupid one-liners. I won't even ask where they got all the ammunition, especially since they were complaining about moving one shell. And NO ONE bothered to wonder what the fuck they were doing with the Missouri?

Yeah...stupid fucking movie.
 
JdFoX187 said:
I don't see how people can shit on the Transformers movies for being stupid and praise Battleship. List of stupidity just off the top of my head, SPOILERS:

Chicken burrito. Not funny, not entertaining, just fucking stupid.

Fight between two international captains and neither of them are disciplined. They would have been relieved of duty immediately, even if they were on the eve of war games.

Chicken. Kentucky Fried Chicken. Just about anything that dipshit dude said.

Aliens that look like fucking hairless apes, but are supposed to be lizards. The whole design of them was absolutely ridiculous.

We can beat them by blinding them with sunlight. Yeah, good one.

Ridiculously long-ranged sniper shots on a moving target from a moving target.

One alien absolutely decimates a team of skilled sailors in close combat. But a dude with no fucking legs takes on one in hand-to-hand combat and wins.

Anything the stupid scientist dude did.

The Battleship homage with the fucking grid. Really? I mean, fucking really? Ignoring the fact it took two of their ships being blown to shit for the aliens to realize hey, we shouldn't travel in straight lines because they're tracking us.

Dude goes from being washed out of the military to getting an immediate promotion. Yeah, the shit he did on the seas, but he also damn near got his entire crew killed ramming the ship and inadvertently got the crew of the other ship killed when he didn't follow protocol with the alien vessel.

And my most favorite of all:

Outfitting the USS Missouri, which hasn't been in commission in more than a decade, within an hour. Then having the old sailors onboard with their stupid one-liners. I won't even ask where they got all the ammunition, especially since they were complaining about moving one shell. And NO ONE bothered to wonder what the fuck they were doing with the Missouri?

Yeah...stupid fucking movie.
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You forgot John Carter being like 10 feet away from a destroyer's main gun being fired and not completely deaf afterwards. ;)
 
Just got back from it. Well... It was one of the stupidest Hollywood blockbusters ever made. The tonal shifts were extremely abrupt and consistent throughout the whole movies, there was some scenes with shaky cam that puts the camera work in The Bourne Ultimatum to shame, the dialogue ranged from passable to completely idiotic, and some of the scenes seemed like they were directed by one of those dudes who makes Asylum movies (for example: missiles flying towards the screen, those shredders flying through the air in slow motion, or one of the aliens getting their teeth punched out in slow motion).

But... Despite all of that, the action scenes involving the actual ships were pretty badass, and the score was fantastic (Steve Jablonsky is one talented individual).

One minor nitpick about the CGI, the metal shader used for the ships and alien exosuits wasn't very convincing. Something was just off about it.

Oh yeah, and if you thought the lens flare in Star Trek was bad... Well, I'm pretty sure this movie counts as laser eye surgery.

So yeah, this is not a good movie, but if you like mindless action and a shitload of CGI explosions played to some cool music, catch a showing with friends and sneak some alcohol in. You might just have some fun with it.
 
JdFoX187 said:
I don't see how people can shit on the Transformers movies for being stupid and praise Battleship. List of stupidity just off the top of my head, SPOILERS:

Chicken burrito. Not funny, not entertaining, just fucking stupid.

Fight between two international captains and neither of them are disciplined. They would have been relieved of duty immediately, even if they were on the eve of war games.

Chicken. Kentucky Fried Chicken. Just about anything that dipshit dude said.

Aliens that look like fucking hairless apes, but are supposed to be lizards. The whole design of them was absolutely ridiculous.

We can beat them by blinding them with sunlight. Yeah, good one.

Ridiculously long-ranged sniper shots on a moving target from a moving target.

One alien absolutely decimates a team of skilled sailors in close combat. But a dude with no fucking legs takes on one in hand-to-hand combat and wins.

Anything the stupid scientist dude did.

The Battleship homage with the fucking grid. Really? I mean, fucking really? Ignoring the fact it took two of their ships being blown to shit for the aliens to realize hey, we shouldn't travel in straight lines because they're tracking us.

Dude goes from being washed out of the military to getting an immediate promotion. Yeah, the shit he did on the seas, but he also damn near got his entire crew killed ramming the ship and inadvertently got the crew of the other ship killed when he didn't follow protocol with the alien vessel.

And my most favorite of all:

Outfitting the USS Missouri, which hasn't been in commission in more than a decade, within an hour. Then having the old sailors onboard with their stupid one-liners. I won't even ask where they got all the ammunition, especially since they were complaining about moving one shell. And NO ONE bothered to wonder what the fuck they were doing with the Missouri?

Yeah...stupid fucking movie.
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The reason people crap on the transformers movies is because it's not accurate to anything else in the franchise besides the characters.
 
Battleship is an honest movie.

US Navy VS Aliens, with several nice scenes and good SFX.

I mean, who is going to see this is not expecting The King's Speech or The Artist, i guess.

I enjoyed it because it gave me exactly what I was expecting from it.

And I did NOT appreciate the second and third Transformers movies (again, i think that the continous paralle between Battleship and Transformers is a little bit forced...)
 
Castef said:
Battleship is an honest movie.

US Navy VS Aliens, with several nice scenes and good SFX.

I mean, who is going to see this is not expecting The King's Speech or The Artist, i guess.

I enjoyed it because it gave me exactly what I was expecting from it.

And I did NOT appreciate the second and third Transformers movies (again, i think that the continous paralle between Battleship and Transformers is a little bit forced...)
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This is exactly what I'm curious about. Did anyone else enjoy that specifically does not like the Transformers sequels? Those movies were simply incoherent and I don't want to go see this if it approaches that level of bad.
 
FXGuide has their Battleship related content up.

Closer look at the VFX, particularly the water simulations:

http://www.fxguide.com/featured/battleship-tactical-water-and-fluid-sims/

Water when disturbed produces white water, the transparent liquid gets aerated and becomes virtually opaque. The water also gets atomized into mist which “would generate hundred of millions of particles – we had shots that were ranged from half a billion to a billion particles,” explains Cofer.
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Interestingly, moving away from the water sims, Cofer and a team got to actually go on board a range of ships with the help of the US Navy. The filmmakers had huge support from the real US Navy. Digital versions were made of almost every Navy ship in the film. At the start of the film there is a sequence with three naval destroyers, (2 American, 1 Japanese) and the editing cuts back and forth between digital and real, but also in a single shot often one or two of the destroyers is digital and the other real. There was also a digital version of the aircraft carrier Ronald Reagan, and the battleship the ‘Mighty Mo’ itself. In real life, as in the film, the USS Missouri is decommissioned, and there are no battleships in the US Navy. Which may have meant that all the shots of the USS Missouri were going to be digital but it was not as simple as that.

“I remember being at the pre-production meeting when they asked me how I felt about taking the real USS Missouri out to sea and ‘would that be useful?’,” recalls Cofer, “and I was YES YES we have to do it, what an amazing opportunity – and I promised Pete not only would we get the best reference in the world but we’d also get backplates that we could put right in the movie.” The ship was pulled out by tugs as the engines are decommissioned but still Cofer and the team photographed it extensively. The ship was being dry docked as part of a maintenance program and so the ILM team also got to extensively LIDAR the ship to aid with digital modeling. “We got this massive point cloud right down to little tends from Kamikaze hits from the second world war,” adds Cofer. In fact, ILM got naval co-operation and under strict naval supervision was able to scan and photograph a lot of ship assets. Cofer spent ten days at sea filming and photographing from inside a 5″ gun to a naval helicopter photography of the naval exercises and live fires of Tomahawk missiles.
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Podcast interview with ILM supervisor Grady Cofer:

http://www.fxguide.com/fxpodcasts/fxpodcast-battleship/
 
Another lengthy article on the effects up on CGW:

http://www.cgw.com/Publications/CGW/2012/Volume-35-Issue-3-April-May-2012/Water-World.aspx

In fact, during a climactic battle, a shredder rips through a destroyer, cuts it in half, and the two sides sink into an ocean now filled with life rafts, CG swimmers, debris, and explosions. The water is filled with splashes; there’s mist in the air and foam everywhere.

“I think that was the most complex shot we’ve ever done at ILM,” says digital production supervisor Doug Smythe. “It’s massive, 3034 frames long. We ran 67 fluid simulations using 19tb of simulation data, and we had 294 unique render elements in the comp. It’s a monster. But, it looks good.”

Smythe won an Oscar for the visual effects in Death Becomes Her, has received three Sci-Tech Academy Awards, and his credits include work on Terminator 2, Star Wars: Episode I, The Perfect Storm, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest and At World’s End, Iron Man, and two Harry Potter films, among many others. He joined ILM in 1988. So, when he says “most complex shot,” that opinion holds water.

“In the past, we always saved the big shots until the end,” Smythe says, “the really, really hard shots. We knew we couldn’t do 300 shots all in that category and we couldn’t have the two or three smartest simulation experts in the studio doing all the shots. We have a lot of solid technology from the last round of shows for modeling, creating materials, and so forth. Water was the biggest unsolved problem—to do the simulations on the scale we needed.”
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Air simulation on top of water simulation? That sounds ridiculously impressive... As well as headache inducing.

“I think that was the most complex shot we’ve ever done at ILM,” says digital production supervisor Doug Smythe. “It’s massive, 3034 frames long. We ran 67 fluid simulations using 19tb of simulation data, and we had 294 unique render elements in the comp. It’s a monster. But, it looks good.”
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More complex than the Driller destroying the building in Transformers 3?
 
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