On the one hand, a movie based off Battleship
On the other hand, it seems to give the Navy some good airtime (despite dressing the actors in the same mind-numbingly idiotic Navy Working Uniform our sailors have been forced to adopt), and as a veteran, I can hardly argue with that:
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And, of course, on the gripping hand, I am forced to point out that US Navy battleships have been officially decommissioned and mothballed, and are currently on display in museums around the country. It is said that there are plans to reactivate them should a situation ever arise requiring the delivery of small VW Beetles onto targets within 20 nautical miles, but I have some personal doubts as to whether or not such a plan could be executed in a timely fashion, if at all… or if it would even be worth it (their manpower requirements, technological deficiencies, and years of inactivity would be horrific to overcome).
Still, as mindless-entertainment movies go, you can almost certainly do worse…
(Courtesy of Gizmodo.)
And given some of the trailers I’ve seen, that should be “can and will do worse”
Hollywood has to pay the bills somehow… our government certainly is not!
Oh my. (Had to wait to get hom to watch.) Dude, go strip-mine some saturday-morning cartoons or something. Or Stratego. One of the two.
On the other hand – this is clearly a sea story – any time you have to start your explanation with “I s*** you not” (as I did when I explained the existance of this movie), it must be a sea story.
Didn’t they put together a 8″ sabot round for those guns that gave something like 30+ miles range?
@ Ian Argent: Actually, a Stratego-based movie, if done right, could be rather interesting…
And, yeah, no one has believed me initially when I tell them about this… thing.
@ Firehand: There were also plans for a rocket-assisted, GPS-guided shell at some point that could probably reach triple-digits, but all those interesting payloads were CANEX’d when the class got mothballed. Again.