Battleship. The game we all played as kids is getting remade into a movie with Rihanna (above), Alexander Skarsgard and Taylor Kitsch. ASkars & Kitsch are B-list actors (I’m being generous here, you may love them but they’ve both been in practically nothing), Rihanna has never been in a movie before, and Battleship is a seriously boring game. How is this going to be a good movie? I’ve heard they have a HUGE budget for this as well which is bad because it’s probably going to be a flop.

Instead of making a movie about Battleship they should make a movie about some other board games. Specifically: Hungry, Hungry Hippos. Crazed hippos running throughout the savanna crushing and eating people because they’re so hungry, hungry? I think it would be a hit.

Stacey: I am confused by this as well.  Because they are obviously relying on the nostalgic feeling it will give some people, because this was a popular game and still is (you can get an electronic one now so people can’t cheat), but there is no built in story.  So basically, they can do whatever they want and no one (gaming geeks) can really get mad when artistic licence is taken.

So basically, they are just making a movie and sticking a board games name on it.

And Hungry Hungry Hippos 3D would be awesome.  That or Barrel Full of Monkeys.

Remember the movie Mouse Trap?  That movie rocked.

Tanya: I don’t remember the movie Mouse Trap (though the game was great once you got through the painful setup process), but I do remember the movie Jumanji which was pretty awesome.

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