Do not waste your life watching "Battleship". To say it is dire is to praise it to the rafters. Don't say you weren't warned.
Saw a paragraph about that film in the paper and resolved to watch it when it was on tv and I was drunk enough to fall comatose.
Oddly, this is out later in the US than in the UK (sometime in May), so I was disappointed when, to assuage a cold and rainy afternoon in Philadelphia last weekend, I turned up outside the cinema ready to watch said movie. Sorry, I can't watch the arty farty shite the rest of you do. Killer robots from space? Bring it on. The biggest disappointment of my life to date is the fact that no one made a movie that brought together Steven Seagull, Van Damme, and Norris to fight space alien robots with nothing other than kungfu, rocket launchers, and quips.
Still, it gave me an excuse to go to a bar earlier than planned.
For some reason, and I'm not sure if this happens to all regular fliers, the movies I watch in flight have a very tenuous hold on my memory. Ask me five minutes after getting off a flight what I watched, I reach inside my brain and find a blank. It takes an epic trawl to recover the information. Since my wife always asks and mocks my lack of recall, I write them down now.
Last bunch (short-ish flight from JFK) were
In Time, which featured no less a manly titan, than Justin Timberlake. It wasn't actually bad, just formulaic and I am sure the same movie has been made several times already.
Followed by the
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, a phenomenon that had so far passed me by. Darker than I might have anticipated and reasonably entertaining, but ultimately a bit meh
Oh, and I watched the 'new'
The Thing on DVD the other night. Despite its pretence at being a prequel, it was the same movie remade. It wasn't bad, but added nothing. Lacked the claustrophobic atmosphere of the original too. Ultimately rather pointless.
