Well if that's how it works, then I really do have to set up my website idea, which is called KickStopper.  It's the place you go when you see some godawful idea on Kickstarter, and you can offer the creator money to never ever make that thing.

I hereby pledge to see Battleship again only if they'll use the money to NOT make sequels.   Now that's a reward.

I finally saw this last night and loved it. Nowhere near as bad as some make it out to be, and far better than any Transformers movie.  Earlier, I made the comment that this couldn't be less coherent than Transformers 3 and I stand by that. This never descended into farce for long stretches as people tried really really hard to be funny. The action was also clean and determinable rather than comprising cartoonish furballs of movement.

This isn't the worst movie of the year. It's far less insulting and stupid, by a significant multitude, than Prometheus. There's even some genuinely good human character development in this, not Shakespeare, but then even Shakespeare wasn't Shakespeare.

But then, I also enjoyed Battle LA (on much the same level, these are a perfect double bill).

I find it fascinating how acceptance of these movies seems to vary - Battleship isn't any less entertaining or more stupid than something like Independence Day of yesteryear or MI4: Ghost Protocol of this year. Decades from now, I'm sure people will be confused by the success of one over the other.

I'd love to see a Letters from Iwo Jima counterpart to Battleship, telling the story from the above proposed alien perspective.

The problem with Taylor Kitsch is that I've never seen him do anything else from what he does - his character in this could just as well be the same character he played in Fright Night Lights for 4-5 years and could also be a descendent of John Carter. He plays this character quite well, but after a while it's easy to grow tired and what's more, you begin to realise that this may be his full range... I don't know, he needs to do a role that's a 180 from his usual. Sam Worthington is boring, Kitsch seems to just act bored as part of his character.

I recently saw Lockdown, a sci-fi actioner that's set on a prison in earth orbit. Even ignoring the insanity of having a prison in earth orbit, it's absolute ludicrous and egregiously so. Battleship, surprisingly, never really made me roll my eyes (well, almost when no legs veteran went toe to toe with the alien) and so it puzzles me that it received so much negative criticism when other films have done similar things... heck, I did roll my eyes once or twice in Avengers.