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Battleship is a sci-fi action film released in 2012, directed by Peter Berg and starring Liam Neeson, Taylor Kitsch, Brooklyn Decker, Alexander Skarsgård, and Rihanna, very loosely based on the board game Battleship. Yes, the one with red and white pegs and a grid and "you sunk my battleship!"The movie opens with Alex Hopper (Kitsch), a drunk, unemployed loser. He's dragged into the U.S. Navy by his straitlaced brother Stone (Skarsgård), who hopes it will give him some direction in life. Five years later, Alex is a junior officer, with plans to ask the Admiral for his daughter's hand in marriage. Unfortunately, the Admiral (Neeson) dislikes Alex both as an officer and a gentleman, and he intends to have Alex discharged by the end of the next voyage.Said voyage is a huge, multinational war game, off of the coast of Hawaii. Before the exercises have a chance to get underway, however, the fleet is interrupted by a bunch of alien objects crashing into the ocean. The objects reveal themselves to be a squadron of alien war machines. Their intentions aren't clear, but whatever they're planning, the aliens aren't here to play games.
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One Bullet Left
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One Bullet Left: The USS Missouri in the climax; after expending almost all of their 16-inch shells on the alien mothership, the protagonists are left with a choice to use their last remaining shell to either finish off the mothership, or destroy the hijacked signal facility the aliens are using to send a distress signal to their home fleet, at the risk of being destroyed by a final salvo launched from the now-foundering mothership. They ultimately choose the latter, but thankfully a pair of Hornets arrive just in the nick of time to intercept the salvo and finish off the mothership.
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Gatling Good
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Gatling Good: Raikes mans a Minigun on the rigid inflatable boat sent to investigate the alien craft. The Phalanx CIWS turrets on the ships also provide Gatling action.
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All There in the Manual
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All There in the Manual: The novelization clears up a lot about the aliens. For example, they're called the "Regents", and the reason they don't just smash the humans outright is that they're testing them.
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Title Drop
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Title Drop: Though the word "battleship" is spoken a few times in the film, the one that most counts as a Title Drop is when determinator Hopper says, "We've got a Battleship."
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A Father to His Men
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A Father to His Men: Admiral Shane tells his superiors to sod off after being told that the best strategy they can come up with is to keep slamming more jets into the shield in the hopes that one of them will somehow get through.
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Always Someone Better
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Always Someone Better: Stone, to Alex. Until the end....
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Starring Special Effects
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Starring Special Effects
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The Movie
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The Movie: Of the board game. Universal got the rights along with those to several other board games from Hasbro, then sat on them. Hasbro was starting to ask them to pay a penalty for doing nothing with the film rights when Peter Berg came along and offered to direct.
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The Rival
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The Rival: Nagata.
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The Main Characters Do Everything
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The Main Characters Do Everything: Often despite having an entire destroyer crew plus whatever sailors they pulled out of the ocean from the other ships.
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Humanoid Aliens
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Humanoid Aliens: The invaders are basically oversized, pale humans with gecko-like eyes, goatees made of something resembling porcupine quills, and claw-like Four-Fingered Hands. Revisiting the film 10 years later, many have drawn comparisons between the aliens and Craig from the early beta of Halo Infinite.
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Royals Who Actually Do Something
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Royals Who Actually Do Something: Lt. Alex Hopper doesn't do delegating. Being a junior officer, he's sent to scout the alien spaceship; later, when the aliens board John Paul Jones, he's leading the team searching for them, even though he's by then the acting Captain. In the novelization, he even notes that he shouldn't be doing so. Likewise, it is Captain Nagata who is required to "play Battleship", rather than one of his own weapons officers, though it's likely most of his CIC crew are dead, given the placement of the hit on Myoko.
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Chekhov's Gun
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Chekhov's Gun: The laptop, and USS Missouri. (Indeed, Chekhov's battleship.)
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Adaptation Expansion
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Adaptation Expansion: Of Battleship, as noted. There is a preexisting spin-off game about an alien invasion, but those aliens are completely different.
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Fire-Forged Friends
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Fire-Forged Friends: By the end of the movie, Alex and Nagata have set aside their differences.
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Apathetic Citizens
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Apathetic Citizens: There's a strange and quite visible force field over Hawaii, and all contact with the outside world is down, but when the aliens hit infrastructure and military bases, the traffic appears to be ordinary rush hour clutter, not panicked attempted evacuation, there's a Little League baseball game going on, and the military base seems to be in routine operation, not any kind of alert.
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It Has Been an Honor
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It Has Been an Honor: Alex and Nagata, staring at the alien mothership, and choosing to stop the alien transmission at the cost of their own lives.
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Mythology Gag
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Mythology Gag: The alien bombs sink into the ships like giant pins. Also the alphanumeric Battleship grid.
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More Dakka
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More Dakka: Both sides of the conflict apply this tactic.
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Awesome, but Impractical
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Awesome, but Impractical: The battleship Missouri in a modern navy. As Alex explains to a little boy taking a tour, the battleship is essentially a dinosaur fossil even compared to ships like his much smaller destroyer. Battleships were made obsolete by aircraft, missiles, and advanced targeting systems — three things that had been nullified by the aliens, thus making it more effective for direct combat than the destroyers. In fact, the buoy targeting method is a more advanced version of how battleship targeting was traditionally performed. But somehow Alex forgot that in the 1980s, Iowa-class battleships were upgraded with then-modern radars, missile weaponry, and active defenses, and were pretty useful in Desert Storm operation. Obsolete, but nothing like dinosaur fossils.
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Autobots, Rock Out!
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Autobots, Rock Out!: The Missouri Lock-and-Load Montage to the tune of "Thunderstruck" by AC/DC. Considering the relationship with the Trope Namer...
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Killer Yo-Yo: The "Rondos", spinning bladed wheels that can steer, stop and target specific things, with a bladed prehensile "string" for added kick.
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Glass Cannon: The Arleigh-Burke and Kongo-class guided missile destroyers pack a punch if they hit, but can't take a beating. Justified, in the fact that modern anti-ship weapons are so powerful that avoiding being hit (via speed or active defenses) is a far better strategy for surviving than heavy armor. The aliens just happen to be further enough up the Tech scale that they can defeat most of these defenses.
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Scary Black Man: Lieutenant Colonel Mick Canales, despite being a Handicapped Badass, is able to take out an alien in unarmed combat.
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Stuff Blowing Up: Yes. Very much so.
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Brilliant, but Lazy
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Brilliant, but Lazy: It is repeatedly stated that Alex has a lot of potential but doesn't use it.
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Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping
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Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: Skarsgård has a few moments like this, particularly in the opening scene. Also Rihanna, especially when she explains her father's view on aliens. Liam Neeson's Irish creeps in, especially when he's telling off the Secretary of Defense.
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Rule of Cool
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Rule of Cool: Turning a 45,000-ton battleship with a anchor in a club-hauling maneuver? Not realistic, but definitely cool. Similarly with Alex, Lynch, Nagata, two old veterans and a small Japanese officer carrying a 1,900-pound HC shell.
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Ascended Meme
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Ascended Meme: A variation of the classic line is uttered towards the end of the film. In the novel, Alex almost gets it out after losing the John Paul Jones, but is cut off at the last word. Of course, he was in fact talking about a destroyer at the time...
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Foreign Cuss Word: "Kuso!"
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Actor Allusion: Lt. Col. Canales is played by real life U.S. Army Col. Gregory Gadson. Like his character, he lost both legs in Iraq. He was also an honorary co-captain of the New York Giants when they won Super Bowl 42, and wears their hat throughout the movie. Many a fan with recognize Stone's usage of the term Stay Frosty. A lot of extras are playing themselves (or at least, their role). It's also Backed by the Pentagon.
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Team Power Walk: Performed by the U.S. Navy veterans when they come to the aid of the JPJ's survivors in getting the Missouri back into fighting shape.
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Curb-Stomp Battle: The first battle with the aliens. Due to the shield jamming their missile guidance systems, they're forced to engage the alien ships with only their five-inch guns, which are piddly next to what the aliens can dish out. Both the Sampson and Myoko are destroyed very quickly one after the other, the former with all hands.
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Not of This Earth
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Not of This Earth: Alien debris is composed of unknown elements (and lawrencium); impressive, since our indications are that everything we haven't identified is extremely unstable. Lawrencium, number 103 on the periodic table, has a half-life of 216 minutes at its most-stable known isotope, and everything above it only gets shorter-lived.
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Point Defenseless
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Point Defenseless: The CIWS mounts on Sampson, Myoko and John Paul Jones do their best, taking out 5/6 of the initial volleys but in the end there's too much incoming fire to intercept.
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The Stinger
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The Stinger: Post-credits is a scene in what looks like Scotland of a group of people trying to open a pod which fell from the sky, only to pull back when an alien hand from the inside starts to pull it open.
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Stock Sound Effects: In a way — many of the sound effects from Transformers can be heard in this movie (not surprising, what with Hasbro owning both properties).
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Non-Actor Vehicle
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Non-Actor Vehicle: Although Rihanna's involvement is very much downplayed.
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Combat Pragmatist
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Combat Pragmatist: This seems to be humanity's big advantage in the film, up to and including using a five-inch cannon in a melee.
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Pre-Mortem One-Liner
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Pre-Mortem One-Liner: Cora gets one in as an alien foot soldier standing on the deck of a ship finds itself standing directly in the line of fire of one of the turreted guns. A veteran manages to one-up her later.
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Improbable Infant Survival
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Improbable Infant Survival: The Wheel of Death examines, then turns away from a kid playing baseball.
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Vasquez Always Dies
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Vasquez Always Dies: Averted by Cora Raikes despite being both the tough gunner girl and not white.
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Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling
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Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: Alex (Foolish) and Stone (Responsible).
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"I Know What We Can Do" Cut
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"I Know What We Can Do" Cut: Alex is asked how they're going to get a two-ton artillery shell over to the battleship's remaining intact turrets. Alex thinks for a second, then we cut to the men transporting it the only way they can: by hand.
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Sacrificial Lion: Stone. The more responsible brother who gets Alex to start shaping up, only to die in the first few minutes of the first battle with the aliens when the Sampson is lost with all hands after previously beginning to take on water.
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Sequel Hook
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Sequel Hook: A lingering shot on another officer's badge hints that Alex might join the Navy SEALs and at least one alien is still alive in Scotland.
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Freeze-Frame Bonus
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Freeze-Frame Bonus: They're moving pretty quickly, but if you pause the film, you can see that the aliens' munitions are shaped exactly like the pegs in the board game.
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Old Soldier
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Old Soldier: A whole bunch show up to man the Missouri
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Armor Is Useless
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Armor Is Useless: Averted. The armor of one of the aliens does a very good job of soaking up assault rifle and pistol bullets with no sign of damage to him. Played straight with the Missouri, oddly enough. The deck armor and turret armor don't do any good against the pegs.
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Cowardly Lion
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Cowardly Lion: Cal, who "acquires" enough courage to retrieve his equipment from the aliens' lair, and later uses it to knock down the alien soldier attacking Mick.
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Big Brother Instinct
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Big Brother Instinct: Stone goes out of his way to take care of Alex and help him shape up his life, even letting the latter crash on his couch.
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Meaningful Name
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Meaningful Name: The John Paul Jones is named after one of the U.S. Navy's determinator pioneers.
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Artistic License – Military
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Artistic License – Military: Likely for the sake of landlubbers watching, the characters avoid nearly all nautical terms which would be second nature to any sailor (using left and right instead of port and starboard). The CO and XO of the ship being taken out with a single hit, instead of them being at different battle stations to avoid just this scenario. (though given the size/placement of the explosions, its possible both battle stations were destroyed) Hopper, as weapons officer, would not be the next in line to command the ship after the CO and XO.
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Excuse Plot
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Excuse Plot: The first half-hour of the movie is a fine example for this trope.
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Idiot Hero
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Idiot Hero: Alex begins the movie as this, but he gets better. McShane even points out that he's a smart kid who keeps doing really dumb things. We never see him demonstrate much intelligence, though.
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Noble Demon
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Noble Demon: One scene in which the aliens do allow the characters to rescue the survivors of the ships they sunk early in the film. They also avoid harming civilians several times. However, they destroy freeways with cars on them, surely causing civilian fatalities, and kill police officers and destroy a Marine base without warning or visible chance to surrender. There's also the alien aboard the JPJ who gives Alex a vision of the aliens' plans (this may count since the alien seems desperate), as well as the alien who lets the scientist go (they may be the same alien).
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See the Whites of Their Eyes
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See the Whites of Their Eyes: Missouri engages the alien ship at close enough range that they not only can see each other visually, the shells can be fired directly at the alien ship without having to go through a ballistic arc.
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All of Them
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All of Them: From the final trailer, in answer to an implied question of which weapons were wanted:
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Curse Cut Short
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Curse Cut Short: A few times, usually with a naval gun firing. Most memorable of the lot would be this:
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No One Gets Left Behind
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No One Gets Left Behind: The aliens rescue one of the their own which was captured by the main characters.
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Celebrity Paradox
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Celebrity Paradox: Winked at: the novelization opens with young Alex and Stone playing a grid based naval warfare game called "Broadsides".
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech: After Alex gets arrested and tazed in the opening scene, Stone comes in and starts yelling about how he was screwing around with his commander's daughter, which therefore messes with his job, and his life, and he's through with just letting Alex repeatedly go through with stupid stuff.
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What Does She See in Him?
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What Does She See in Him?: What does Sam see in Alex? The Admiral is damned if he knows, and tells Alex as much.
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Establishing Character Moment
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Establishing Character Moment: Alex delivering the burrito to Samantha, both establishing that he's a drunken idiot, and that he's a Determinator and Indy Ploy artist par excellence.
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Never Hurt an Innocent
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Never Hurt an Innocent: The aliens' HUDs show noncombatants in green.
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Eye Awaken
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Eye Awaken: A variant. Alex and the others capture an unconscious alien. He pulls open one of its eyelids to reveal a completely dilated pupil. When he shines a light into the eye, the pupil suddenly narrows down to a thin slit as the alien regains consciousness.
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PowerArmor
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Power Armor: Standard-issue for the aliens, apparently coming in light and heavy varieties.
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Badass Boast
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Badass Boast: When an alien soldier approaches Sam's stalled jeep, Mick - a former champion boxer missing both his legs - says simply:
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Blinded by the Light
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Blinded by the Light: The aliens have really low light tolerance, which comes in very handy when unarmored humans have to fight them. Their helmets were shown to incorporate heavily tinted visors.
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There Is No Kill Like Overkill
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There Is No Kill Like Overkill: Artillery cannon. Headshot. Justified in that small arms proved useless against the alien's armor. When the aliens blow up the Sampson, they do so with about three dozen shells.
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Macross Missile Massacre
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Macross Missile Massacre: The Aegis Combat System allows the missile destroyers to do this... except that the aliens are jamming their radar, and most of their missiles are antiaircraft missiles. The aliens themselves enjoy using this method.
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Recycled IN SPACE!
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Recycled In Space: Battle: Los Angeles/Transformers (2007) in the ocean!
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Black Dude Dies First
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Black Dude Dies First: The John Paul Jones captain is on the bridge when the aliens fire, killing him and three other crew members first.
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No Range Like Point-Blank Range
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No Range Like Point-Blank Range: Hopper distracts one of the aliens on the deck of the John Paul Jones while Raikes rotates the 5" gun straight at its head. She fires when the alien is roughly three feet from the gun. Although the sixteen-inch guns of the Missouri can easily engage at over twenty miles away, the battleship is practically spitting distance from the alien craft when they actually attack. Having only a small handful of shells, however, plus an undersized crew they could hardly afford to waste shots getting the range for a longer ranged engagement.
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Stealth Parody
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Stealth Parody: Maybe. Was this an actual invasion, or a First Contact botched by human belligerence? The novelization says it was an actual invasion, but the film is a bit ambiguous. The fact that this is a movie based on a plotless board game and plays itself completely straight may lead some to believe that it's this.
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The General's Daughter
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The General's Daughter: Well, admiral's daughter in this case. And she's caught the eye of Alex, a Lieutenant. Her father does not approve of him.
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Killed Mid-Sentence
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Killed Mid-Sentence: "What kinda chuck wagon—"
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Rolling Attack
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Rolling Attack: The aliens' "wheels" which can chew through warships.
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Wouldn't Hurt a Child
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One of the first "Rondos" actually stops and avoids hurting a child.
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Handicapped Badass
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Handicapped Badass: Mick, who still manages to kick alien ass despite having lost both legs. Pun not intended.
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First Contact
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Maybe. Was this an actual invasion, or a First Contact botched by human belligerence? The novelization says it was an actual invasion, but the film is a bit ambiguous.
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Love at First Sight
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Love at First Sight: Alex first meets his future Fiancée in a bar during his drunken birthday. While he's infatuated with her, she doesn't appear that interested until he fulfills his promise to bring her a chicken burrito, going so far to steal from a store and getting arrested as a result.
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Disabled Character, Disabled Actor
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Lt. Col. Canales is played by real life U.S. Army Col. Gregory Gadson. Like his character, he lost both legs in Iraq. He was also an honorary co-captain of the New York Giants when they won Super Bowl 42, and wears their hat throughout the movie.
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Don't Touch It, You Idiot!
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Don't Touch It, You Idiot!: Alex Hopper is sent with two others on a Zodiac to get a closer look at the alien structure when the fleet spots it, and one of his companions cautions him against getting closer when he finds a surface he can walk on. Naturally, he walks over and puts his hand on a wall, apparently initiating a reaction and launching him fifty-some feet backwards.
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Big Brother Mentor
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Big Brother Mentor: Commander Stone Hopper, Alex's older brother, who's been trying to rein him in his entire life, eventually dragging him into the Navy.
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Soundtrack Dissonance
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Soundtrack Dissonance: The movie's very jingoistic and pro-military. The song chosen for the credits? "Fortunate Son" by Creedence Clearwater Revival, a notable antiwar song.
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Chekhov's Skill
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Chekhov's Skill: Mick's boxing career. Also, Alex's surprising memory for literary quotations (and utter failure to understand The Art of War).
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Oh, Crap!
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Oh, Crap!: Right as soon as the Sampson was dotted with timed bombs from bow to stern along her entire hull, before it blew up in a huge fireball explosion.
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Mickey Mousing
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Mickey Mousing: Happens during the Missouri's reactivation. When Lynch topples a claw machine to get access to the door behind it, the sound it makes when it hits the ground is perfectly synced to the "Thun-der" chant from Thunderstruck. Which, admittedly, doesn't actually come into play until later (when the lights in the passage are turned on), but still, props to the guy in post for getting the slow-mo synced up like that.
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Ms. Fanservice
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Ms. Fanservice: Samantha.
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Be Careful What You Wish For
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Be Careful What You Wish For: Earth sends out a signal in the hope of contacting other intelligent life in the galaxy. Well, that life comes here and promptly begins to kick butt.
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Rank Up
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Rank Up: The first time we see Alex, he's an unemployed and drunk, and burgles a convenience store for a chicken burrito to impress a girl. Five years later, he's a Lieutenant and Tactical Action Officer in command of the Combat Information Center, before landing in the Captain's chair. At the end of the movie, he's promoted to Lieutenant Commander.
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Bottomless Magazines
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Bottomless Magazines: In the final battle, USS Missouri fires her sixteen-inch guns several times in the span of a few seconds, only stopping so that Alex Hopper can shout "Reload!" The actual rate of fire for such guns is around two rounds per gun per minute. Also, there is no such thing as an automatic 16-inch gun; rather, they are reloaded after every shot.
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Epic Launch Sequence
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Epic Launch Sequence: The eponymous warship, USS Missouri, is given a proper revival when it's needed for the final assault.
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Trading Bars for Stripes: Alex starts the film being arrested for breaking and entering, and joins the military. This was banned by act of Congress at the Defense Department's request after Vietnam.
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The Ace
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The Ace: Multiple: Stone Hopper, when compared to Alex; not only does he have his shit squared away, his destroyer has won the Battle E numerous times. Alex Hopper made himself a CIC Officer in five years, and improbably brilliant (and lucky) tactical officer in general. However, he is a pure distilled jackass until hammered multiple times with failures (including one that almost cost his entire career, and another that cost many Japanese sailors their lives).
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It's Raining Men: The aliens have one man pods that they launch into a Hawaiian forest in the trailer.
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Did Not Think This Through: While hyperventilating, Cal tells Sam and Mick that he warned the U.S. government that sending a signal to deep space would have dire consequences, and that any alien race advanced enough to make the journey to Earth would not be arriving with peaceful intentions.
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Military Alphabet
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Military Alphabet: As to be expected in a modern military film. Also used prominently when the crew are calling out grid coordinates in Nagata's "water displacement" strategy.
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You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!
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You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!: As they are preparing to snipe the alien ship's bridge, Hopper asks Captain Nagata where he learned to shoot. Nagata replies at summer camp, when he was 12.
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Cool Ship
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Cool Ship: A lot. There's the Arleigh-Burke-class missile destroyers, their Japanese copy counterparts, the aircraft carrier Ronald Reagan... but the coolest of them all is the USS Missouri. And those are just the human ships.
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Twenty Minutes with Jerks: Heavy emphasis on 'jerks'. Little happens for over twenty minutes.
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Realpolitik: Captain Nagata reveals that for twenty years Japan has been preparing contingency plans for another war with America, including using tsunami buoys to track ships by their water displacement instead of radar. Hopper mildly calls him out on it, and Nagata shrugs, "rough world."
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Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?
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Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?: The aliens avoid killing anyone who isn't a threat even if they were hostile just a moment ago. Their plan would have succeeded if they bothered to destroy the John Paul Jones during the initial engagement. A similar event occurs when the scientist is confronted by an alien scientist inside his base but is let go without harm.
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Isn't It Ironic?
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Isn't It Ironic?: The use of "Fortunate Son", a explicitly antiwar Vietnam era song, in a very military-centric movie. Notable record producer Rick Rubin, as music supervisor, ought to have known much better.
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Serkis Folk
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Serkis Folk: The aliens.
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Humans Are Warriors: Especially the old ones!
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Save Sat
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Save Sat: An accidental one. The aliens' communication ship collides with a random satellite orbiting Earth while traveling at interstellar speed and crashes into Hong Kong. Sure, it's bad for the Chinese, but the fact that the aliens don't have a ready means of letting their homeworld know that Earth is ripe for the taking is the only reason humanity even has a chance.
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Advertising by Association
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Advertising by Association: The film was proudly declared as coming "From Hasbro, the company that brought you Transformers", in spite of neither film being actually made by the same studio note Hasbro's film division at the time just developed the concepts for other studios. Also, they didn't create the original Battleship game, they just bought out the owners.
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Those Were Only Their Scouts: It turns out those aliens that landed on Earth was just armed advanced scouts who were sent there for a scout mission. Whatever their actual military ships and soldiers are, they might able to conquer Earth easily if it weren't for the main characters.
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Boom, Headshot!
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Cora gets one in as an alien foot soldier standing on the deck of a ship finds itself standing directly in the line of fire of one of the turreted guns.
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Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Alex and Nagata dislike each other immensely, and Nagata blames him for the loss of his ship and his men. Their cooperation is quite reluctant, but they both get better.
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Novelization: A novelization of the film, written by Peter David, was released in April. It included passages from the aliens' viewpoint and reveals their actual motives.
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Gunship Rescue
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Gunship Rescue: The Australian Hornets that land the final blow on the alien mothership.
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Telepathy
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Telepathy: The touch of an alien's hand causes a vision of what's on its mind.
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Shout-Out
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Shout-Out: Frequently, often by the characters. For example, Alex's attempt to get a chicken burrito from a closed store to impress Sam is a beat-for-beat reference to this memetic idiot. Except Alex can just use the emergency exit, he eventually realizes. Petty Officer Lynch is referred to as "Beast" throughout. "Fire everything!"
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It Can Think
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It Can Think: One of the first "Rondos" actually stops and avoids hurting a child. After the John Paul Jones scores a direct hit on the alien ships, the last remaining one starts going Yossarian.
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Colonel Badass
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The "marines" are only armed with a hand spike from what we see, and their ships and ground troops can be beaten by a 1940s warship and a retired ex-boxer Colonel Badass with artificial legs, respectively. Explained in the DVD extras. The aliens are not marines... they are scientists.
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Anti-Villain: The aliens are an advanced scout and presumably here to ultimately conquer the planet, but they go out of their way to minimize or avoid human casualties wherever possible, even letting otherwise hostile humans go if they deem them to not be a threat, and their main plan is just to make contact with their home after their communication ship is accidentally destroyed after colliding with a satellite. Whether their whole race is like this or it is just this particular group (who are speculated to be scientists rather than military) is another matter however, and while they are reluctant to use violence they still cut off Hawaii from the rest of the world to achieve their goals.
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Lead the Target
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Lead the Target: The alien targeting system does this automatically, showing the Missouri and a green silhouette of her slightly ahead, based on where their computer has calculated she's going to be when the shells hit. Alex's anchor maneuver is designed to stop the ship just as the shells are launched, thereby causing them to overshoot the target, and to bring the Missouri's main guns to bear on the alien ship in an impressive broadside.
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Break Out the Museum Piece: Battleships have been out of military use for decades, so fulfilling the title in a modern times movie necessarily involved this. In this case, it's more like breaking out the museum, as the battleship in question is the USS Missouri, which currently serves out its retirement as a floating historical museum and memorial at Pearl Harbor.
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Backed by the Pentagon
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A lot of extras are playing themselves (or at least, their role). It's also Backed by the Pentagon.
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Belly-Scraping Flight: One of the military base's helicopters almost evades an oncoming shredder drone, lifting off fast enough that the killer machine only tears a series of gashes in its undercarriage. Too bad for the helicopter pilots that the drone had a spiky whip-tail in reserve, with which to demolish the chopper's tail and send it crashing.
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Interchangeable Asian Cultures
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Interchangeable Asian Cultures: Nagata's exasperation at Alex's assumption that The Art of War (a Chinese text) is a pan-Asian text.
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The Cavalry
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The Cavalry: Just when it seems that Alex, Nagata, and Co have sailed their last mission against the aliens the armed might of the Pacific Rim navies comes to the rescue in the form Australian fighter jets blowing the enemy up.
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Action Girl
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Action Girl: Raikes, all the way, and she's based on Jacqueline Carrizosa, who helped train Rihanna. Samantha is more of an Action Survivor girl.
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Chekhov's Gunman
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Chekhov's Gunman: The retired veteran crewmen of the Missouri.
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Monumental Damage
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Monumental Damage: An alien craft crash severs the top off the Bank of China building in Hong Kong.
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Everything Sensor
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Everything Sensor: Standard issue for the aliens. They can detect cars, aircraft, beating hearts, highway supports... and apparently even horseshoes.
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Insufficiently Advanced Alien: The "marines" are only armed with a hand spike from what we see, and their ships and ground troops can be beaten by a 1940s warship and a retired ex-boxer Colonel Badass with artificial legs, respectively. Explained in the DVD extras. The aliens are not marines... they are scientists. The alien ships also appear to lack guided weapons beyond those "wheels". They prefer to fight with ballistic explosive shells that spin, for some reason.
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Changed My Mind, Kid
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Changed My Mind, Kid: A nerdy scientist decides he wants nothing to do with the fight, but then saves Mick out of nowhere by smashing an alien in the face with a metal suitcase.
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Determinator
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Determinator: Alex, delivering the burrito. (Also against the aliens. The crew of the John Paul Jones follow suit.) And then we have the Scottish farmer in The Stinger.
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Artistic License – Ships
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Artistic License – Ships: None of the American ships shown in the movie was involved in the RIMPAC exercise in 2012. The Japanese destroyer Myoko, however, was part of the exercise that year. Zigzagged with the portrayal of the CIWS. While the real Sampson had one emplacement, the actual John Paul Jones had two. Crossing over with Artistic License – Engineering, clubhauling* turning a ship suddenly by dropping its anchor on the side that you wish to turn and using the ship's momentum to swing around an Iowa-class battleship is completely impossible: even if you used all four anchors, the ship is too massive and would be moving too fast for the chains to hold up, and more to the point, the chains simply aren't long enough to reach the sea floor in the middle of the Pacific anyway. Bringing a museum ship up to fighting capability in under a day is impossible. Even assuming that live ammo and fuel are stored onboard strains belief. In real life, it took two years to recommission an Iowa-class battleship (though that did include upgrading and installing new weapons and systems). Firing the boilers alone takes the better part of day. The scene where the main characters struggle to carry a 2,500lb 16-inch armor-piercing shell from the aft magazine to the forward turrets is rather ridiculous. Transferring main battery ammunition between the fore and aft magazines was a common enough operation that the designers of the Iowa-class battleships included an overhead-rail trolley system in the central "Broadway" passageway to do it quickly and safely. The ship also has multiple shell dollies for moving the big shells around the compartment, loading them onto the ready racks & ammo hoists, etc. Having eight guys try to deadlift one and lug it 500 feet is both slower and asking to kill somebody.
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Girls with Guns
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Girls with Guns: Raikes is hardly ever seen without one, and they range from a pistol to sixteen-inch naval artillery.
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The Oner
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The Oner: The destruction of the John Paul Jones from about the point Raikes hits the water to when Stone and Nagata jump off the ship.
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Exact Words
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Exact Words:
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Big Damn Heroes
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Big Damn Heroes: The Gunship Rescue by the Australian F/A-18 Hornets. The aliens pull off one of these when the humans manage to capture one of them. The geeky and wimpy scientist coming in from out of nowhere with a briefcase-to-the-head for the alien about to kill the downed Mick.
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Jerkass
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Alex Hopper made himself a CIC Officer in five years, and improbably brilliant (and lucky) tactical officer in general. However, he is a pure distilled jackass until hammered multiple times with failures (including one that almost cost his entire career, and another that cost many Japanese sailors their lives).
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You Are in Command Now
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You Are in Command Now: Alex finds himself in command of the USS John Paul Jones after The Captain and the Executive Officer are killed; as Tactical Action Officer, he's next in the chain of command. (It was implied that all the other officers were killed in the attack. This is why the Master Chief is advising the Lieutenant about abandoning his need for revenge and picking up survivors. This turning away from the conflict kept Jones from remaining an alien target.)
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Promotion to Parent: Though not stated outright, it's implied with the way Stone lectures and shouts at Alex in a way that's more paternal than fraternal, even scolding him about wasting his birthday wish on a girl.
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Powder Keg Crowd: The world, once they find out about the aliens, begins rioting. This has absolutely no bearing on the main plot nor story, and is never resolved.
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Product Placement
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Product Placement: Hello, Coca-Cola Zero. Alex drinks it at the beginning of the movie and it is later seen on a mega-screen. When Hopper and his girlfriend are late and trying to find their way onto the battleship, it's just a flimsy excuse to linger overlong on his Ford pickup. The Little League ballpark was plastered with Subway. We even get a closeup of a little girl drinking from a Subway cup. In Canada, however, rival chain Mr. Sub did a tie-in for the movie. Surprisingly averted with the Milton Bradley board game itself, which appears nowhere in the movie. The novelization has some characters playing the bland-name equivalent, "Broadsides".
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Alien Invasion
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Alien Invasion: The premise of the film.
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Hero-Tracking Failure
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Hero-Tracking Failure: Defied as shown by the alien targeting computer which properly anticipates USS Missouri's path, then inverted via anchor-dropping battleship drift as mentioned above in a really cool break from acceptable physics.
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The War Room
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The War Room: The Combat Information Center on John Paul Jones, where much of the fighting and planning takes place from.
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Brick Joke
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Brick Joke: Alex and chicken burritos.
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Gondor Calls for Aid
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Gondor Calls for Aid: What the aliens are trying to do for most of the movie. After their communications vessel is destroyed after colliding with a satellite, their entire goal is to secure the Deep Space communications facility in Hawaii to send out a distress signal. On the human side, the chief was pointing out that he has no clue how to get the Missouri back in working order, nor a crew to man her even if he did. Cue a bunch of old veterans who volunteer to be the crew of the Missouri once more.
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"Back to Camera" Pose
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"Back to Camera" Pose: * The poster◊ features Hopper looking up in awe at the alien battleship with his back to the audience.
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