![]() Navy is participating in RIMPAC (the Rim of the Pacific Exercise) an annual international warfare exercise. Set in the present day, the action takes place largely in Hawaii, where the U.S. To be fair to Battleship, it does feature the most important thing you would want from a movie called Battleship: battleships. RELATED: Did Marvel's first 'Avengers' movie sink Peter Berg's 'Battleship' at the 2012 domestic box office? It is streaming on Peacock right now, and it is perfect. Because the geniuses behind the 2012 Battleship movie - and I call them geniuses unironically with admiration - instead zagged hard when every rational person would have zigged and created the most contrived and dumbest movie ever made out of what should’ve been a straightforward adaptation. Maybe it would be a quasi-historical war drama. ![]() ![]() You would think, if one were to make a movie out of Battleship, it would probably be fairly similar to the basic premise of the board game: two naval fleets duking it out. If you sink all your opponent's ships, you win. ![]() You take turns trying to attack your opponent, attempting to guess and surmise where on the ocean grid their ships are hiding. You and an opponent take on the roles of two rival naval admirals in what appears to be roughly World War II-era combat. Have you ever played Battleship? It’s a classic board game. ![]()
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