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Life-changing news could come at any moment and, indeed, it always does. It has no other choice but to come at any moment. Rarely are we prepared for it. Rarely can we immediately comprehend the effect it will have on our lives. Rarely can our lives resume without having changed — for better or worse. With that I’d like to announce that today, June 11th, 2012, we received the news that Peter Berg, director of Battleship, has announced that his opus, Battleship, didn’t do very well in theaters and maybe was not the best movie. From Huffington Post:
“I have a movie in theaters right now which has obviously underperformed in many ways,” Berg said at the Produced By conference on Sunday. “When [a movie] doesn’t work, it’s an … interesting opportunity to look at what went wrong and how it went wrong.”
“It was a movie that I tried as hard as I could to get inside of,” Berg said. “But the concept is so big and powerful, and the money is so big and so powerful, that the movie is going to run away with itself.”
It’s always sad to see someone being open and honest with themselves and everyone else about something that all of those people already knew, because no duh. R.I.P. the idea that Battleship was flawless. More on this story as it underdevelops, haaahhaahaha.
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They should’ve based it on Talking Battleship instead.
does this mean there will be a directors cut that leaves out the Aliens? or implies Rihanna was a replicant?
The DVD release will say the movie was “Reduced By Peter Berg.”
“When [a movie] doesn’t work, it’s an … interesting opportunity to look at what went wrong and how it went wrong.”
I think I can safely say that this movie went wrong when they decided to make a movie based on Battleship.
Is that Monopoly movie still happening in this post-Battleship-flop world?
Peter Berg: “Hit?”
Viewing Public: “Miss.”
My landlord works for Hasbro, I keep meaning to ask him if he has had anything to do with all these boardgame movies.
Ah yes, the old “landlord by day, multi-million-dollar-movie executive by night” gig.
Peter Berg just sunk my expectations for a sequel.
There won’t be a sequel because no one has ever played Battleship once and then said, “Want to go again?”
John Carter (pretty good movie!) cost $250 million and made $280 million. Battleship (life’s too short to see it!) cost $210 million and made $290 million. But John Carter was condemned as a historic disaster that everyone needed to commit honor-suicide over, and Battleship is just, eh, “underperforming”?
This make me want to see Hollywood fight a bear and then die while comforted by a robot.
John carter was boring and confusing to people unfamiliar with the text.
how was battleship to people unfamiliar with the text?
Ha!
Also, it’s a “book,” not a “text.” Or you could call it “a thrill-a-minute tale of sword-wielding superheroes and princesses swashbuckling their way across the merciless skies of Mars.” But not a “text.”
i forgot if it was a book or a comic.
Guys, I know that talking about Battlestar is important, but it would be really nice if we could talk about Prometheus now. So my brain doesn’t explode.
Starbuck’s gonna frakkin rip you a new one for associating BSG with Battleship.
eff, oops. I’ve been marathoning Battlestar lately so it’s on my mind.
Why is Rhianna wearing ocean camouflage? Does the Navy really issue such a uniform to its sailors? Doesn’t that just make them impossible to rescue if they fall out of the boat?
I really LOVED this movie. It was super ridiculous, but highly entertaining.
Meh, I really don’t like when artists are doing something very good and then they want to to everything. They will just fail
“I have a movie in theaters right now which has obviously underperformed in many ways.” Oh, really, I wonder which movie that could be? Way to skirt around the issue, Berg.