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BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
>Jul 6, 2025 at 10:45:34 AM PDT, Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org>

>>Battleship (4K disc) 2012 sci-fi movie based on the board game.  A group 
>>of young sailors must battle an alien invasion force at sea.  I know 
>>this movie has a bad reputation, but I actually like it a lot.  I 
>>especially like towards the end when in order to get back into the fight 
>>they retrofit the USS Missouri and set sail with it along with some old 
>>timers who still knew how to operate the ship.

>I know you've expressed your love for this movie before but for me, there's a
>limit to how absurd a movie can be before I really can't suspend the disbelief
>anymore.

>The sequence with the Missouri was such a bizarre plot development on so many
>levels. The ship has been stripped of all its engines and the barrels are all
>that's left of those big guns. All the breaches and internal firing mechanisms
>are long gone. But even if we were to assume that all of that equipment was
>still inexplicably in place and functional, why would a floating museum be
>fully fueled? And where did all the ammo for the guns come from? The powder
>bags that fire those guns weigh 660 pounds and are loaded in by crane. Are we
>supposed to assume the Navy was storing live ammo for the 16-inch guns on
>board just for the hell of it? And even if we assume all of that, the final
>cherry on that ridiculous sundae was how all those octogenarian geezers were
>apparently just hanging out on the masts and yardarms of the ship in dramatic
>poses for... what? Hawaii is under attack by space aliens, so all the
>80-year-old WWII vets psychically decide at the same moment to go down to
>Pearl Harbor and pose dramatically on their old ship?

>It was just too, too, too much for this viewer to 'just go with it'. The movie
>wouldn't have been any more ridiculous at that point if Taylor Kitch had
>suddenly and inexplicably become Superman and started flying around killing
>the aliens with his laser-beam eyes or something.

Hey! I sort of liked him as John Carter! No laser eyes though.