“Two hours and twelve minutes? You sunk my afternoon!” - Andrew
On this week’s episode, the Summer Blockbuster Extravaganza is on a one-way train to Stupid City as we welcome in Junkfood Cinema’s Brian Salisbury to help us try to make sense of the abhorrent board game adaptation, Battleship!
Why is it a full thirty minutes before you’re showing us aliens? Did the Halo creators have a suit with these mercenary outfits? Did the production have a dialect coach on set at all? Why did they decide to literally box Liam Neeson out of the movie? Should they really have used non-actors as much as they did? And who in the world thought this was gonna work as a movie? PLUS: Extended talk about various Taco Bell menus!
Battleship stars Taylor Kitsch, Alexander Skarsgård, Rihanna, Brooklyn Decker, Tadanobu Asano, Hamish Linklater, Peter MacNicol, John Tui, Jesse Plemons, Greogry D. Garson, Jerry Ferrara, Rami Malek, and Liam Neeson as Admiral Shane; directed by Peter Berg.
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Original cover art by Felipe Sobreiro.