Battleship is an epic scale action-adventure which takes place on the sea, in the air and on land as the planet battles for survival against a superior force. Based on the wildly popular 1960′s Hasbro board game ‘Battleship’ this movie with the same name is exactly what I imagine the game would be like if the game were a high speed testosterone fueled exploding rampage of carnage and destruction!

Truth be told I’d said, numerous times as I watched the trailers that I thought the movie was a bit Transformers, meets Independence Day meets the Abyss with a sprinkle of Armageddon thrown in for good measure. I wasn’t wrong! 

Peter Berg (Hancock, The Kingdom, Friday Night Lights) both directs and produces Battleship; which stars Taylor Kitsch (X-Men Origins: Wolverine, John Carter) as Lieutenant Alex Hopper, a naval weapons officer assigned to the USS John Paul Jones; Alexander Skarsgard (True Blood, Melancholia) as Hopper’s older brother Stone who happens to be commander of the USS Sampson.

Global music superstar Rihanna makes her motion picture debut as Petty Officer 2nd Class Cora Raikes, hopper’s crewmate and a weapons specialist on the JPJ. Sports Illustrated supermodel Brooklyn Decker (Just Go With It) comes into her second film as Sam Shane, Hopper’s fiancee and a physical therapist specializing in the rehabilitation of military combat veterans.

The ladies in this movie are no joke at all. They are some strong kick ass take names types!  Also cast in his debut is U.S. Army Colonel Gregory D. Gadson, a battalion leader who lost both legs in Iraq in 2007. Gadson plays Lieutenant Colonel Mick Canales, an Army combat veteran and double amputee who begins his recovery just as the alien attack begins, and he gets to hang out with Brooklyn Decker through out the movie.

The movie is set during the biennial RIMPAC or Rim of the Pacific exercise which is the worlds largest international maritime event where over a dozen of the world’s navies gather to participate; which is the prime time to attack if you’re an alien race hell bent on world domination!

It is no accident that these aliens find us. The brains over at NASA have discovered a planet that is very much like our own and shares the same relationship with their sun as we do with ours, blah blah blah science stuff! End result they start beaming a message in the direction of that planet. Unfortunately for us the aliens answer, but not with the standard greeting.

Instead these aliens take wrong numbers seriously and send an extermination force to Earth and so begins the battle!

All in all I think this film is great fun and certainly gets a green light from us. The visuals are awesome especially the drifting scene, you’ll know it when you see it, the characters are likeable and you can connect with them quickly, and the action is well pretty much non-stop.

Battleship from Universal Pictures opens in theaters May 18, 2012! Crank up your speakers for this trailer!

Universal Pictures has released their latest trailer in an attempt to lure people to theaters to watch a movie based presumably on the popular 60′s board game Battleship!

 Needless to say the trailer below is a far cry from the board game I grew up with! Check this out, And I must say looking at this and the fact that Brooklyn Decker is in it makes me really want to check this movie out!

Synopsis:
Peter Berg (Hancock) produces and directs Battleship, an epic-scaled action-adventure that unfolds across the seas, in the skies and over land as our planet fights for survival against a superior force.

Inspired by Hasbro’s classic naval combat game, Battleship stars Taylor Kitsch as Lt. Alex Hopper, a Naval officer assigned to the USS John Paul Jones; Brooklyn Decker as Sam Shane, a physical therapist and Hopper’s fiancée; Alexander SkarsgÃ¥rd as Hopper’s older brother, Stone, Commanding Officer of the USS Sampson; Rihanna as Petty Officer Raikes, Hopper’s crewmate and a weapons specialist on the USS John Paul Jones; and international superstar Liam Neeson as Hopper and Stone’s superior (and Sam’s father), Admiral Shane.

 
Berg directs this epic action-adventure also produced by Scott Stuber (Couples Retreat), Sarah Aubrey (The Kingdom), Brian Goldner and Bennett Schneir of Hasbro (the Transformers franchise), along with Duncan Henderson (Master and Commander) and Jeffrey Silver (300). The film is written by Jon Hoeber & Erich Hoeber (Red).
The battle for Earth begins at sea.

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What guy excluding those not into women, (and even they I’m sure wouldn’t mind) wouldn’t want pop superstar Rihanna naked in their back yard? I mean really? Well pop music superstar Rihanna found out that farmer Alan Graham, 61 wasn’t having any of that when the singer got topless on his land on the set of her new video for her latest single ‘We Found Love‘ with Scottish DJ Calvin Harris €“ which at one point saw the singer go topless €“ when Mr Graham spotted her stripping down to a bikini made up of red handkerchiefs.

The 23-year-old singer was forced to beat a hasty retreat from Mr Graham€™s muddy field in Northern Ireland after he interrupted the filming and told her to cover up.  Hit the Jump for more! 

The furious farmer, who asked  for filming to be halted, defended his actions yesterday, saying  Rihanna€™s behaviour was €˜inappropriate€™.

Mr Graham had agreed for one of his fields in Bangor, County Down, to be used for recording but was not aware what the production team had in mind for the star.

The father-of-four, said: €˜I had never heard of Rihanna until someone called me requesting the use of my land. I knew on Monday who she was. Ok he’s 61 so no real surprise there. But c’mon really? She’s hot! Still not seeing the problem. 

€˜Someone explained she was  as big as it gets as far as pop  stars were concerned. I am a bit illiterate about those issues.

€˜I realised things had got to a stage which was not acceptable to me. Things became inappropriate and I asked the film crew to stop.

€˜If someone wants to borrow my field and things become inappropriate, then I say, €œEnough is enough. You are not entitled to do that€. She understood where I was coming from. We shook hands and parted company on good terms.€™

Rihanna will play three sell-out shows at Belfast€™s Odyssey Arena this weekend.

It is not the first time the Grammy award-winning singer, whose hit singles include Rude Boy and S&M, has caused offence with her provocative outfits.

Her pre-watershed performance on last year€™s X Factor final, which was watched live by more than a million young children, led to ITV being flooded with complaints from shocked viewers.

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