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Universal has released its third trailer for Battleship, the Peter Berg-directed summer tentpole based on the Hasbro board game. The studio hopes this megabudget Taylor Kitsch-starrer hits the target better than did last weekend’s John Carter, which will result in a “you sunk my battleship”-type torpedo blow to Disney’s financial ledger. Universal opens Battleship May 18 in the U.S. and Canada. By then it will have earned some gross overseas, where it opens April 11. Liam Neeson, Brooklyn Decker and Rihanna also star. This trailer gives the latter some face time. The film certainly looks like it has a global calamity scale, and Berg has brought back not only his Friday Night Lights fixtures Tim Riggins (Kitsch), but also Landry Clarkie (Jesse Plemons). Texas forever!
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Illuminati skanks to the rescue!
This one is going to get CRUSHED.
You ASKED for it, Hollywood.
Heroic tattooed Facebook twits vs multi-vertebrae robochunks!
HORRIBLE!
Nope. This trailer is light years better than the first; they finally show Rihanna and Co. being badass, they tell us what the movie is about, and they set themselves apart from Transformers while sprinkling generous bits of hegemony borrowed from District 9 and the underrated Battle Los Angeles.
This trailer is a huge improvement; they listened to the nitpicking and came back with a much better ad, good for them.
Underrated Battle LA? That movie was terrible, no matter how you pose the argument that film was bad.
Also, casting a pop-star in a film is a ludicrous notion. When people see her, they are instantly pulled out of the story and think to themselves “hey it’s Rihanna” .
That being said, this film looks like something that will put butts in seats and that’s all that really matters on the business half of the industry.
I have already seen Transformers and Avatar, I don’t need visual and audible spectacle to keep my attention, so if that’s all this is then I say don’t waste your money. If Berg was able to bring any semblance of character drama and story to this film then I will go see it.
Aero, Battle LA was one of the most soulless, empty, rote movies I’ve ever seen. In fact, I was so put off, the next movie I saw was Dragon Tattoo, roughly six months later.
Battleship looks just grotesque, a marketing scheme and a diagram of cultural depravity, circa early 21st century. Tickets cost too damn much to waste it on this junk – I’m with 14dollars up above
I agree it is “light years better” and a “huge improvement” from the first trailer, mostly because it gives a much more accurate, detailed portrayal of how awful this film is going to be. I’m not even convinced it’s going to put butts in seats.
This film is unoriginal on every conceivable level, and I am actively rooting for it to crater at the box office. When I think of all the good scripts that have never been developed…the books that would have made awesome movies…and yet this third-rate TRANSFORMERS wannabee gets made? Uh uh. No way am I going to pay top dollar to sit and watch this movie; I will only watch it through Red Box.
If you want to see how a naval carrier really operates I’d suggest “Carrier”, the 10-episode documentary that ran on PBS four years ago…or other naval themed movies such as DAS BOOT or U-571. I’m not going to reward Hollywood making trash like this with my hard earned money.
Battle LA was atrocious. People walked out in my theater. It reminded me of every horrific story meeting I’d ever had to sit through…and then I saw the credits at the end and realized I’d worked with the producers and knew why. They were more interested in talking and deals than anything pesky like “story.” Good idea but empty and awful awful execution, so naturally there will be a sequel.
Question: how exactly is a battleship suppose to fight aliens?
It can’t even defend itself against an air attack, which is why the U.S. Navy decommissioned their last battleship in 1992, and there isn’t a single, operating battleship in the world today.
But of course, reality won’t have anything to do with this picture, which is why it will suck chrome.
Rhianna looked cute though.
Is this Battleship, meet John Carter?
You have no idea how much I HATE to say this .. but it does look kinda fun.
It will do decent. They just got the teens interested by showing more Rihanna than Liam in this trailer… strange Hollywood…
Exactly true; fans were asking where Rihanna, Liam and Alexander where, and apparently fans really don’t like Kitsch, so they did a great job of making a video that showcases the strong points and tells the audience a story. The first video just showed senseless CGI chaos. This trailer implies an actual story is taking place, shows the stakes, showcases the best actors and shows Big Action that still tells a story.
I think you’re right. This is going to be a hit. I actually now want to see it.
I also didn’t think John Carter was as bad as everyone said, so maybe I either have bad taste or I’m secretly a dumb audience member.
This Transformers ripoff isn’t going to hit in the US. Overseas tallies will be Battleship’s savior. Will it make enough to pay for the massive budget plus prints and advertising is another story. I’m not gauging too much interest in the social network sphere and almost none from women.
The only thing in this trailer that I enjoyed was whatever that bomb was that hit the ship which looked vaguely like the pegs used in the board game.
Otherwise — yawn…
I’m there. Really. Me and a very big bucket of popcorn.
that will make two of you.
Aw come on, this looks like a mindless good time. If it gets MI:4 reviews, I’m there.
This looks like s**t on a stick. Go ahead and waste your money. I’ll watch it for a buck on Redbox.
Honestly, people…
Wow! Between being based off a board game and Rhianna trying to “emote”…. this sucks like a DYSON
Finally they give a face to the villain. Best trailer to date. Still think it will be a B.O. disaster.
Dear Liam Neeson, why are you in this?! You are above this crap.
You think so? He was and will be in those Titan films. I’d rather he be in this than those. But it seems he’s not above the paycheck.
Dude, it ain’t about the paycheck.
The guy’s been in enough big films (StarWars, Schindler’s List, Batman, ect, ect, ect) that he never has to work another day of his life and he can still own 5 yachts.
He’s working b/c he likes to work. He likes to stay busy.
Nothing wrong with that.
Have you forgotten Phantom Menace, A-Team, Clash of the Titans? He is a solid actor but definitely has sold out many times…
A-TEAM??
hahahaha one of Fox’s biggest flops!
$175 million worldwide on a $200 million budget…..yeah….could be why no sequel.
“Frankly my dear, I don’t give a Battleship.”
“We’ll always have Battleship.”
“Who are those Battleships?”
“Yippee kai yay, Battleship!”
“You make me want to be a better Battleship.”
“I gave her my heart and she gave me a Battleship.”
Thank you! A truly awesome morning because of you.
“Go ahead, make my Battleship.”
“May the Battleship be with you.”
“The Battleship that dreams are made of.”
“There’s no place like Battleship.”
“I see Battleships.”
“Battleship, we have a problem.”
“I’m king of the Battleship!”
“There is no Battleship.”
“I’ve had it with ehse m***f*** snakes on this m***f**** Battleship!!”
“When this Battleship hits 88 miles per hour…”
“Love means never having to say Battleship.”
“I’ve sold Battleships to Brockway, Ogdenville, and North Haverbrook – and by gum, it put them on the map!”
You had me at Battleship.
You can’t HANDLE the battleship!
@Kafka, Whewwwwwwww. Thanx for the wit. (&inspiring SD &Michelle) Appears, they didn’t even try to gear that trailer for anyone over 12yrs old. Jeez. The film is a derivative hodgepodge of, “why, why, why?”
Forget it Jake, it’s Battleship.
hahahahahaha. who in the hell thought this was a good idea? there aren’t enough negative things to say about this production. to state the painfully obvious pun, this will sink like a rock.
Decent spot. Have a feeling this will do well. Doesn’t change my opinion of the project though. And could we get a moratorium on the John Carter talk? Yes it’s a turkey, but it’s over now.
This trailer is much better then the previous ones… I can see this doing worlds better then John Carter.
Who was in charge of casting this movie? What a random collection. Liam Neeson must have needed to pay for a vacation home.
‘What the -’!!!
Don’t you think, by law, they should be forced to say ‘locked and loaded’ or even ‘cocked and loaded’ in every cg-robocrap trailer?
Has-BRO!
HIT IT!
Negotiate hostage RELEASE!
academy award winner VO: ‘Drop kids off at POOL!!!’
WOW, it’s Transformers meets Armageddon meets Pearl Harbor staring the cast of Dawsons Creek. I’m so excited to see everything I’ve already seen, again.
So, everyone is on the Battleship bandwagon after denouncing John Carter?
its a hip thing, people want to fit in
I’ve heard from someone on the inside that the killer robots in Ouija are even better than the killer robots in Transformers and Battleship. Personally, I’m holding out for the killer robots in Stretch Armstrong.
Lmao! More creativity and thought went into this thread’s comments than went into the film!
Watching movies compete with video games just pains me. This looks souless.
Why isn’t this in 3D?
I can tell Berg’s direction when it comes to action has dramatically improved since Hancock just from watching that short trailer.
If anyone thinks this movie will “flop” like “John Carter”, try again. The marketing is telling you EXACTLY what this movie is. Big dumb stupid fun with the US Navy fighting Aliens and blowing stuff up. You know exactly what you are getting here.
I guess if “Clue” can be made into a movie, why the hell not?
I love how Berg and Kitsch keep saying this is an art house film. Really? With robots and explosions and way too much CGI?
That trailer bored me to tears. It looks like a low-rent Transformers knock-off.
Remember when summer movies used to be GOOD?
I truly do!
Oh, how I yearn for the days of Judge Dredd, The Last Action Hero and Hudson Hawk…
Woe unto you who led us astray!
Why even pay Hasbro?
+1 I guess they paid more for the brand name than for anything else, even though titles being not copyrightable, they could’ve used it without much ado.
A very good point. It clearly has nothing to do with the game, other than the rumored “You sunk my battleship” line towards the end. Responses I’ve seen from Facebook friends usually sound like this:
“They made a movie about a board game?”
Seems like this could work as a stand alone alien invasion movie, but nobody is taking it seriously knowing that it is named after a board game.
The director is better than this… what’s going on with Peter Berg’s career?
Peter Berg is better than a 250 million dollar branded franchiseable summer tentpole? what in gods name are you talking about…
I meant “hide”, not “hit” – wow, talk about a freudian slip.
Transformers at Sea.
Seems like an awful lot of work for the aliens to put together those destructo-wheels. Why don’t they just blow everything up at once and get it over with?
And why do men wearing sailor’s caps always look stupid?
B-9 – Oh no, you sunk my battleship!
At $230m, better be really big. Looks good.