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Posted by: RayW, August 2nd, 2011, 10:08am

Trailer doesn't look too bad.
http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi1053203481

Hope it doesn't pull a BATTLE: L.A. or SKYLINE on us.

Posted by: ajr, August 2nd, 2011, 1:07pm; Reply: 1

I love how the ads say "based on the classic game" though...

What about this is reminiscent of putting plastic ships on a grid and then sticking colored pegs in them?

Posted by: RayW, August 2nd, 2011, 1:36pm; Reply: 2

There's a flash moment right at 1:59 - 2:00 where multiple projectiles lodge into the side of the battleship and will likely detonate in unison.

Pegs in ships.

Maybe if this turns out well someone will put Risk, Stratego and Monotony into screenplay format!

What would be fun is to put Uno into script!
A reverse card changes an opponent's gender, orientation or disposition.

Maybe since the collapse of Halo video games to movies will become passe.

Posted by: ajr, August 2nd, 2011, 1:39pm; Reply: 3

I call dibs on the Hungry Hungry Hippos script!

Actually, that's not a half bad idea...

Posted by: RayW, August 2nd, 2011, 1:55pm; Reply: 4

In all of your spare time, right?

LOL!

I'm slapping the first cornball around here that suggests making a board game into a screenplay for a OWC!

Posted by: Mr. Blonde, August 2nd, 2011, 2:50pm; Reply: 5

I'd take Clue and just re-write Johnathan Lynn's 1985 script. Granted, the script probably wasn't nearly as funny as the movie itself, but when you let Tim Curry off the leash, he was amazing in it.

And, speaking of Battleship (so I can have something on topic), there's a small portion of the script that had the right idea for what could've made Battleship not bad.

**USUAL SPOILER TAGS AND... STUFF**

The aliens strike Hong Kong, then the Chinese get pissed at the Americans and think they were the ones responsible so we come to the brink of war that way. Instead, that plot line is pretty much forgotten and it reverts back to the aliens.

Posted by: albinopenguin, August 2nd, 2011, 3:40pm; Reply: 6

i sighed when i saw this trailer. wasnt impressed at all. i used to love liam neeson but he keeps doing the same damn movie again and again. come back kinsey.

this trailer seemed incredibly hokey. dare i say, it felt like a transformers knock off.

Posted by: TheSecond, August 17th, 2011, 11:09am; Reply: 7

I love the idea of classic board games as movies. Snakes and Ladders, Sorry, Life, Monopoly, Operation, but... I think Mousetrap would be the best! That game was the bomb.