MEMBER DISCUSSION of "You Sunk My BATTLESHIP!"

clichéd · Originally posted by GTAHater767

Originally posted by GTAHater767

One could argue that in December 2000, a film called Dungeons & Dragons was released. D&D has no ties to Milton-Bradley, Parker Bros., Pressman, or Hasbro that I know of, and is more specifically considered a tabletop game, which was a forerunner of board games. My point is that even though Battleship is a board game adaptation, there were still films that people hated more this past year, and relatively few people would consider Battleship the worst wide release of the year.
I haven't seen D&D, but I've seen adaptations of non-narrative media. Actually, I recently saw SUPER MARIO BROS, which co-stars Samantha Mathis from ATLAS SHRUGGED PART 2. That movie definately deserved a Razzie. But it wasn't seen by enough people, and that's the key to this whole thing. D&D did make it to the ballots.

It's not that it automatically deserves a Razzie for being based on a board game. It deserves it for using the board game as an excuse to create a clichéd plot that didn't need to be attached to the game. I also recently saw BATMAN & ROBIN*. And then I watched Jeremy Jahns' review where he explained the real problem with making a movie and having your mind on the marketing.

*It currently ranks #62 (out of 66) on my all-time worst list, right below BATTLESHIP. I suppose that SchumacherH8ter can take that as a Christmas gift.

Originally posted by GTAHater767

I can see why most people around here wouldn't like Transformers at all, but most commoners didn't mind Transformers 1, so I don't get the passion against the Transformers franchise that outweighs those films, franchises, and figureheads that the common people (particularly young men, whom Hollywood targeted with the Transformers series) hate far worseI did like TRANSFORMERS 1 & 3. Even if I hadn't, the problem isn't that BATTLESHIP has similarities with those movies and we associate them. The problem is that it shows the lack of originality for a visual style. Also, if you pay attention, you'll notice that specific shots are directly copied.

Originally posted by GTAHater767

*That Rihanna sang such songs as "Pon de Replay", "SOS", "If it's Lovin' that You Want", and "Unfaithful" back in 2005 and 2006. Those are the only four Rihanna songs that I can name, and they're all from way early in her career. In circa 2009, she (and IIRC Beyonce Knowles) took up Autotune or some similar program, and their voices lost all distinction they had before. What could possibly be more unsavory than her that I wouldn't know because I pay so little attention to the music industry? My intuition says there's GOT to be a bigger reason for RAZZing her for Worst Supporting Actress than her feature film debut or her music-to-cinema crossover.That kind of cross-over is worth of attention to see if it's Razzie-worthy, but it's not automatically Razzie-worthy. Judging a performance can be subjective. Some people bought Rihanna in her role (like me), and others didn't.

By the way, Rihanna's best songs are from 2010-12, so you've been missing a lot. And I've seen many award shows and clips from concerts to tell when a singer is really singing or not. Rihanna and Beyoncé rarely use auto-tune live.

Originally posted by GTAHater767

*That director Peter Berg had nothing this bad on his resume before last May, which means he isn't as bad a director as Brian Robbins or William Brent Bell...yet.If we only talk about him as a director (he's acted in many movies), the R.T. ratings of HANCOCK and VERY BAD THINGS are pretty close to BATTLESHIP's.

We're talking about the worst director of the year, not the worst directing of each director's career. In a way, that's why the Worst Career Achievement Award exists. I'm sure Robbins could be a good contender, if his resume wasn't full of mostly forgettable family movies.

Originally posted by GTAHater767

To sum it up, why can't A Thousand Words, The Devil Inside or That's My Boy can't beat Battleship for Worst Picture if more people in the commonplace loathed those?
[Doing weird gangsta gesture] Yo, GTA! You know you're my man. But dawg, you're doing it again. You clearly mentioned 1000 WORDS and TDI more times than other movies because of their R.T. ratings. Can't really blame you though, since you're actually not the only one. It has to be what we personally hated the most. Did you even see them?

BATTLESHIP is hated in more aspects. All 5 main actors are in consideration. In fact, the R.T. concensus says that it's OK for non-demanding audiences, which is excusing the film. And that makes me think that the rating should be lower (I cannot believe that is higher than TRANSFORMERS 2's). The only specific flaw that people remember from TDI (saying things like it's not scary is too general) is the ending, and there's not a category for that. 1000 WORDS is only remembered as "That other Eddie Murphy bomb". TMB is actually on par with BATTLESHIP, because it also has a lot of actors in consideration, but only Sandler is the shoe-in so far. Not to mention that it was more harmful to society because of its messages and how it treated certain topics. At this point there's not an obvious 5th nominee. But no matter which one it is, it obviously won't win because it wasn't a shoe-in like the other 4.

Sorry HeadRAZZ. I know you said we shouldn't predict the results yet, but we can't help it with the forum polls, the predictions from other sites, and the fact that we've talked with one another enough to know what we're voting for.