http://popwatch.ew.com/2009/05/18/battleship-movi/

Battleship movie? You sunk my creative integrity!
by Margaret Lyons

If it can happen to Candyland and Monopoly, maybe it was inevitable that Battleship would be the next game turned into a movie. I mean, movies about sinking boats have done pretty well over the years. I guess Battleship was just bound to happen. It’s better than Yahtzee?
Wait, what kind of horrible world do I live in where I’m resigned to and unsurprised by a movie version of a guessing game? (Maybe one where Deal or No Deal, a guessing game that requires no skills whatsoever, continues to be on television.) How have I become so inured to this level of intellectual and artistic bankruptcy? I’d settle down in this ash heap and start counting my boils except for ooooooone tiny detail: Peter Berg is in talks to direct, and…I love Peter Berg. If there’s anything I care less about than football, it’s small towns in Texas, and yet I adore Friday Night Lights with the kind of slavish devotion and fascination other people direct at their religions. I want to call this a cultural nadir, but Berg’s potential involvement is giving me pause.
What about you, PopWatchers? Is this a sunken proposition from the get-go, or might Peter Berg pull you on board? More maritime jokes, you say? Oh, I couldn’t possibly.

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