I kind of got suckered into this one so take this as a word of warning. I thought this was a documentary my room mate downloaded (off Amazon.com btw, just for the record) but I quickly found out it was a B-rate.
after watching this I did a little research and discovered that this is a "Mockbuster" from the same studio that brought us "Battle of Los Angeles" last year [2011] not to be confused with "Battle: Los Angeles" the blockbuster that came out at almost (if not) exactly the same time. They get the directory of upcoming summer big budget films and throw together a spoof of the concept on a shoe string budget and release it at the same time.
I wasn't around for this one but last year they put the Battle of Los Angeles on TV during the release week so I assume this went the same way when BattleShip came out.
First things first, this is a B-rate move. If you are watching this expecting the same experience as the blockbuster then you need to go back and read the Mockbuster paragraph; this movie is poorly made but that's what makes it so fun to watch. The acting sucks, the visuals look like they where made by a class of graphics design students and the audio is balanced for TV.
This isn't to say its a bad-bad movie in fact its rolls the odometer back around to good its so cheesy. After I got the obligatory "Oh God" out of the way I sat down to watch the whole thing with a smirk once I knew what it was. I'm just glad I didn't pay for it and I wonder what my room mate was thinking when he bought it himself.
If you base your decision to buy this movie off my review I hope you don't pay more than $1 for this on Amazon or Itunes because its not really worth it. Wait a year or so and watch it when SyFi streams it for free. At least they changed the name so it wouldn't get confused with the real movie...
after watching this I did a little research and discovered that this is a "Mockbuster" from the same studio that brought us "Battle of Los Angeles" last year [2011] not to be confused with "Battle: Los Angeles" the blockbuster that came out at almost (if not) exactly the same time. They get the directory of upcoming summer big budget films and throw together a spoof of the concept on a shoe string budget and release it at the same time.
I wasn't around for this one but last year they put the Battle of Los Angeles on TV during the release week so I assume this went the same way when BattleShip came out.
First things first, this is a B-rate move. If you are watching this expecting the same experience as the blockbuster then you need to go back and read the Mockbuster paragraph; this movie is poorly made but that's what makes it so fun to watch. The acting sucks, the visuals look like they where made by a class of graphics design students and the audio is balanced for TV.
This isn't to say its a bad-bad movie in fact its rolls the odometer back around to good its so cheesy. After I got the obligatory "Oh God" out of the way I sat down to watch the whole thing with a smirk once I knew what it was. I'm just glad I didn't pay for it and I wonder what my room mate was thinking when he bought it himself.
If you base your decision to buy this movie off my review I hope you don't pay more than $1 for this on Amazon or Itunes because its not really worth it. Wait a year or so and watch it when SyFi streams it for free. At least they changed the name so it wouldn't get confused with the real movie...