Battleship
Directed by Peter Berg
When mankind beams a radio signal into space, a reply comes from ‘Planet G’, in the form of several alien crafts that splash down in the waters off Hawaii. Lieutenant Alex Hopper is a weapons officer assigned to the USS John Paul Jones, part of an international naval coalition which becomes the world's last hope for survival as they engage the hostile alien force of unimaginable strength. While taking on the… From TMDB
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Battleship grossed $65.4 million in the United States and Canada, and $237.6 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $303 million, against a production budget of $209 million. In May 2012, The Hollywood Reporter estimated that Universal would lose $150 million on the film. However, a decade later, the film was a huge success on streaming services. The film opened in several territories on Wednesday, April 11, 2012, five weeks before its North America release, grossing $7.4 million. Through April 13, the film had earned a three-day total of $25 million. By the end of its opening weekend, it earned $55.2 million from 26 markets, ranking second behind the 3D re-release of James…
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60 of 190 · most liked firstSmart people in Hollywood made a film based on the board game Battleship in 2012, and you would not believe the cast if I listed it here.
neutral · AI labelView post →1925 SEVEN CHANCES ⭐⭐⭐⭐ ⭐(Keaton) Among the few Keatons I’ve seen this is my favorite. Jaw-dropping stuff (the boulder dodge alone!). May have invented the slapstick comedy, the romantic comedy, the action movie, and Sonic the Hedgehog all in one film. Notable: The Gold Rush, Battleship Potemkin
neutral · AI labelView post →Is tonight the night for me to finally watch the 2012 smash hit film, Battleship?
neutral · AI labelView post →i cannot tell you how delighted the "Battleship" movie made me, i hope to feel that again someday
positive · AI labelView post →This was an aside on another thread but I dig into the specific differences between the censored BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN you probably saw in film class or on the Criterion Channel and the restored version derived from an original director's cut discovered in Germany. moviessilently.com/2014/11/23/b...
neutral · AI labelView post →RIP Toshio Masuda. "He later directed the 1977 Space Battleship Yamato film compilation of the series. He was one of the directors and scriptwriters for the 1978 film Farewell to Space Battleship Yamato, the 1979 film Space Battleship Yamato: The New Voyage, and the 1980 film Be Forever Yamato."
neutral · AI labelView post →The BFI today release a special centenary edition of Sergei Eisenstein’s legendary silent film “Battleship Potemkin” with music by Pet Shop Boys.
neutral · AI labelView post →To mark the centenary of Sergei Eisenstein’s silent film, “Battleship Potemkin”, a restored version made by Deutsche Kinemathek, featuring the celebrated score by Tennant and Lowe of Pet Shop Boys, will be released for the first time in cinemas and on a two-disc Blu-ray and CD package by the BFI.
neutral · AI labelView post →Film director Toshio Masuda — known in anime for directing several films in the Space Battleship Yamato franchise and outside of anime for co-directing the Japanese sequences of Tora! Tora! Tora! — died last month at 98 years old.
neutral · AI labelView post →THE GIANT CLAW, BIG AS A BATTLESHIP. The Giant Claw is unironically one of my favorite movie monsters. This was originally gonna be a simple portrait like the others I've done but I kept adding details and tweaking the composition and now it's one of my favorite paintings in recent memory, whoops.
neutral · AI labelView post →“Battleship Potemkin” with music by Pet Shop Boys opens in selected cinemas in the UK and Ireland for the first time today. To mark its centenary, Sergei Eisenstein’s legendary silent film was restored by Deutsche Kinemathek. #PetText
neutral · AI labelView post →Battleship Mountain and Boulder Canyon in the Superstition Mts of #arizona Film(!) shot from a roll of Fujicolor 200 that somehow took me all winter to shoot. #landscapephotography #photography #mountains
neutral · AI labelView post →This describes me watching Battleship, a very trashy and flag waving propaganda yet stupid-fun movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →Silent film starter pack: Way Down East (emphatic melodrama, but huge fun) Battleship Potemkin The Thief of Bagdad (oh, Doug ❤️) Sunrise (oh, George ❤️) The General (oh, Buster ❤️) If you can't intersect with those, silent films might actually not be for you, and that's OK.
neutral · AI labelView post →A special double feature of the PSB film "It Couldn't Happen Here" and the centenary version of "Battleship Potemkin" with the Pet Shop Boys score will be shown on October 11 at the Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle. Between the two films there will be an interview/Q&A with Neil. 🎟️ tynesidecinema.co.uk
neutral · AI labelView post →The iconic scene from the 1925 Soviet film The Battleship Potemkin, where he goes "It's potemkin' time!" and then potemks all over those stairs
neutral · AI labelView post →The Odessa Steps feature in the 1925 comedy JEWISH LUCK, based on the writings of Yiddish humorist Sholem Aleichem (who also wrote the basis for FIDDLER ON THE ROOF). This film was completed before BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN and was also shot by cinematographer Eduard Tisse.
neutral · AI labelView post →Thanks to the BFI for hosting a double-PSB screening of “It Couldn’t Happen Here” and “Battleship Potemkin” yesterday, including a conversation between me and film writer/director Paul Tickell... Photo: JW #PetText
neutral · AI labelView post →Evangelion's Hideaki Anno reflects on Space Battleship Yamato on the eve of his new anime film project:
neutral · AI labelView post →A thing I can't help but notice is movie studios go "let's make cookie cutter movies based on 'Battleship' and 'Breakout' and the last few comic books we own the license to" and struggle to connect, meanwhile every few years Christopher Nolan is like "I will make a Regular Movie" and busts blocks
neutral · AI labelView post →Nice review in @thetimes.com newspaper for “Battleship Potemkin” and the PSB score. The film is showing in selected UK cinemas from today. www.thetimes.com/culture/film... #PetText
neutral · AI labelView post →The heroes of the movie "Battleship." Arleigh Burke Flight I-class destroyer USS John Paul Jones DDG-53 and Arleigh Burke Flight IIA-class destroyer USS Sampson DDG-102 at Naval Station Everett, April 13, 2025.
neutral · AI labelView post →The Battleship Potemkin (1925) is still very watchable and much funnier than a Soviet movie about the revolution should be
positive · AI labelView post →Mutiny on a warship being served maggot-ridden beef was central to the plot of Sergei Eisenstein’s classic silent film _The Battleship Potemkin._
neutral · AI labelView post →damn he looks like the alien species from the movie Battleship (2012)
neutral · AI labelView post →Which other Aritists or Bands have made appearances on a TV Series or in a Movie as a character other than themselves? 📺 🎶 📽 On May 18, 1995, we saw Bette Midler guest star on Season 6, Episode 23 of Seinfeld. In 2012, on May 18, Rihanna made her big screen acting debut in the movie Battleship.
neutral · AI labelView post →Sergei Eisenstein produced a silent movie of the ordeal in 1925 based on the actual events. The movie, Battleship Potemkin, was considered the greatest movie ever made up until the 1950s. As late as 2022 the movie was rated 54th greatest movie ever made, and has consistently been in the top ten for a century. One scene in the film, the massacre on the Odessa steps has been considered one of the most influential scenes in cinema history. Eisenstein hoped that the orchestral…
neutral · AI labelView post →Which other Aritists or Bands have made appearances on a TV Series or in a Movie as a character other than themselves? 📺 🎶 🎬 On May 18, 1995, Bette Midler guest starred on Season 6, Episode 23 of Seinfeld. In 2012, on May 18, we saw Rihanna make her big screen acting debut in the movie Battleship.
neutral · AI labelView post →Crunchyroll will screen the Attack on Titan The Movie: THE LAST ATTACK compilation film in theaters. The company also started streaming Star Blazers Chronicle 2202 and Star Blazers: Space Battleship Yamato 2205.
neutral · AI labelView post →Megumi Han is taking over the role of Sasha in the new Star Blazers: Space Battleship Yamato 3199 film series. Her mother Keiko Han had voiced the same role in the Be Forever Yamato film.
neutral · AI labelView post →Free: Watch Battleship Potemkin and Other Films by Sergei Eisenstein, the Revolutionary Soviet Filmmaker
neutral · AI labelView post →President Trump discussed bringing back battleships. Here is Ryan from Battleship New Jersey discussing 'How Quickly Could the Battleships Be Reactivated? Hint: It takes longer than in the movie Battleship. youtu.be/bI_6nUwnb2g?...
neutral · AI labelView post →Mordaunt Hall, film critic for the New York Times during the silent era, thought BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN had pretty water. He thought MICHAEL STROGOFF had pretty horsey. I feel this stuff needs to be contextualized, is my point.
neutral · AI labelView post →now watching the 2012 hit movie Battleship based off the hasbro game Battleship
neutral · AI labelView post →for saying Clue was an objectively better movie than Battleship
neutral · AI labelView post →Check out the 1st 9 minutes of the 2nd Star Blazers: Space Battleship Yamato 3199 film!
neutral · AI labelView post →Actor Toshiyuki Nishida — known for roles in Tsuri Baka Nisshi, the live-action Space Battleship Yamato film, and A Letter to Momo — has died at 76.
neutral · AI labelView post →I keep thinking of the movie BATTLESHIP, which was weirdly actually fun to watch.
positive · AI labelView post →The neoclassical Potemkin stairs in Odessa consist of 192 steps that extend for 142 metres. The top step is 12.5 metres in width and the lowest 21.7 metres, and they gained international fame for perspective after being featured in Sergei Eisenstein's 1925 film, 'Battleship Potemkin'. /1
neutral · AI labelView post →I had a video idea where I review every movie based on a board game like Clue and Battleship, but then I realized there were 6 Ouija movies and I was like nvm
neutral · AI labelView post →There's nothing quite like the shooting war that starts when film archivists get frisky. Like the great German-Russian "how many frames was the flag in BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN actually hand-colored?" war.
neutral · AI labelView post →I occasionally think about how the Battleship movie has the aliens shoot giant explosive red pegs at the human ships
neutral · AI labelView post →The movie "Battleship Potemkin" by Sergei Eisenstein shows a communist revolution happening because Imperial Russian sailors were not given enough food.
neutral · AI labelView post →I forgot that they made a whole ass movie inspired by the game Battleship.
neutral · AI labelView post →The Battlestar Galactica from Battlestar Galactica ‘03 series and accompanying fleet and the Space Battleship Yamato from Space Battleship Yamato from the 2010 Live Action Adaptation of the classic anime. #Space #TVSky #MovieSky #FilmSky #AniSky #Spaceship
neutral · AI labelView post →You think I'm joking. I am not. Hollywood made a movie out of the pegboard game BATTLESHIP, why not STALIN'S CHUCKLE?
neutral · AI labelView post →The newly restored version of Sergei Eisenstein’s “Battleship Potemkin” with music by Pet Shop The film will also be released on a two-disc Blu-ray and CD package by the British Film Institute, with the score to be released on CD and on two-LP vinyl for the first time from 5 September.
neutral · AI labelView post →I don't know how to say this but we may have just recorded the best episode in the history of this podcast as @colincolbourn.bsky.social @honer.bsky.social and I talked about the deeply historical film that is BATTLESHIP.
neutral · AI labelView post →Best part of the Battleship movie was the mid aughts nu metal aliens
neutral · AI labelView post →There's always his fantastic spaceship movie in the meantime, Space Battleship Yamato. It's the high watermark of anime-to-movie adaptations in my books.
neutral · AI labelView post →#MusicChallenge #WorldAtoZ 17.O Pet Shop Boys - Odessa Part of the soundtrack they composed for the classic Sergei Eisenstein silent movie Battleship Potemkin. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQtb...
neutral · AI labelView post →Vinny Vinesauce was watching a bunch of bad movie trailers and the one for Thrilling Bloody Sword just straight up uses the Battlestar Galactica and Space Battleship Yamato opening themes! www.youtube.com/watch?v=yua1...
neutral · AI labelView post →I'm watching the Battleship movie based on the game Battleship. Why is Rihanna in this movie 😭
neutral · AI labelView post →Today, Movie Slate talks about Battleship...the movie - askmovieslate.tumblr.com/post/7682141... She actually quite likes it. #AskBlog #WebComic #MLP #Pony #Battleship #Movie
neutral · AI labelView post →First thing we watched in Film History: Battleship Potemkin First thing we watched in Media Studies: Lazy Sunday
neutral · AI labelView post →Film historians be like “hurr durr Battleship Potemkin (1925)” meanwhile all the cool girls are like “yaaasss Battleship (2012)” 💅 💕
neutral · AI labelView post →Hideaki Anno is creating a new Space Battleship Yamato film. Jerome gives context on why this series remains popular in Japan.
neutral · AI labelView post →I saw Battleship, the movie, in theaters in 2012 and it was absolute cheeks. I regret seeing it to this very day.
negative · AI labelView post →Chess is great and all, but this would be more exciting and easier to film if Boris and Bela were playing Battleship. #Svengoolie
neutral · AI labelView post →I put on a movie to accompany my last day of packing and unfortunately I chose BATTLESHIP, a movie so cataclysmically stupid I'm losing the power of rational thought. It's like someone in the studio asked "What if PEARL HARBOR fucked PACIFIC RIM?"
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