Giant Freakin Robot

For a film as poorly planned, conceived, written, and acted as was Peter Berg’s Battleship, it’s kind of ridiculous that anyone would want to spend supplemental time with it in order to shine light on all of its faults, and that I would spend time writing about how good the video is at pointing out how terrible the movie is. But then, avoiding redundancies isn’t something humanity is known for.

CinemaSins are the YouTubers who rip popular big-budgeted movies apart for their “sins,” and while films like these always have factual errors for people to point out, a liberal dose of humor and opinions are thrown into these videos. But again, it’s fucking Battleship, possibly the biggest action cliché to ever exist, replacing the dumb enjoyment – was it even that? – of The Expendables films with more unbelievable junk. For better or worse, here is “Everything Wrong With Battleship in 6 Minutes or Less.”

Remember Battleship? The giant alien-invasion summer movie that was slated to be one of the biggest blockbusters of 2012 is now available on Blu-ray/DVD. Although the movie was a one of the most disappointing movies of 2012, the movie’s creature and alien creations weren’t bad. If only director Peter Berg could’ve put them in a good movie.

One of the bonus features from the release illustrates how ILM animators and sculptors created concept models of the alien race in Battleship. “Pete was very intent on having a not-slimy alien,” explains the film’s producer Sarah Aubrey. The aliens in Battleship were more functional rather than stylistic and resembled humanoid beings with foreign characteristics. The animators explain that the aliens wear organic mech suits that interact with their skin to act more like one being. They also describe the special alien “quill beards” that were made out of the same material as human fingernails. Here’s the clip, via io9.com.

Taylor Kitsch is not having a very good year. Following his long run on TV’s Friday Night Lights, Kitsch starred in two tentpole science fiction movies, John Carter and Battleship, that did not live up to the studio’s huge expectations. But Taylor Kitsch’s Savages director, Oliver Stone, reportedly gave him some words of wisdom to cheer up the would-be movie star.

In an interview with THR, Taylor Kitsch revealed Oliver Stone, in an email, told him,

“With any job there is always going to be self-doubt that creeps in, but know that you are going to have a long career,”

Taylor will star in Oliver Stone’s latest film, Savages. Kitsch plays the character Chon, along with his brother Ben (Aaron Johnson), the two are pot growers who finds themselves in a face off against the Mexican drug cartel who kidnapped their shared girlfriend, O (Blake Lively). Savages opens on July 6th.

Move over John Carter, Battleship has surpassed you as the most disappointing movie of the year. With such high hopes in launching a new possible franchise and a new trend in adapting board games into movies, Battleship has only grossed $59.8 million in North America after four weeks in release. This figure is $7 million fewer than John Carter’s forth week box office.

The director of Battleship, Peter Berg said at the Produced By conference, an event with some of the biggest directors and producers in Hollywood coming together to address the issues of the industry…

I have a movie in theaters right now which has obviously underperformed in many ways… When [a movie] doesn’t work, it’s an … interesting opportunity to look at what went wrong and how it went wrong.