The most amazing movie scene in film history

[trackerben]

nothing personal TrackerBen but Battleship is garbage, that you mentioned tactics in the same context as a bag of popcorn like that kinda makes me weep a little for humanity, the comfort I take from the comment is in the knowledge that it won't be long until you realize what you said.

No problem. I never said Battleship was a great movie, only that the last scene amazingly saw a WWII battlewagon perform an 18th century maneuver in order to take advantage of the aliens' dumb rules of engaement.

Otherwise a realistic naval engagement would have seen missile and counter-missile warfare overseen and managed by naval AWACS,with manned squadrons playing chicken and decoy runs around the aliens' sensor horizon. It would have been Sea and airspace contest centered on carrier strike groups, with Aegis ships and attack subs dashing down approach channels swept by ASW and CAP, launching wave after massed wave of SLBMs and ALCMs and Harpoons distributed and timed to arrive from most points of the compass, perhaps with a few land-based ICBMs thrown in to stretch the aliens' defenses. But this would be boring cinematically.

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Otherwise a realistic naval engagement would have seen missile and counter-missile warfare overseen and managed by naval AWACS,with manned squadrons playing chicken and decoy runs around the aliens' sensor horizon. It would have been Sea and airspace contest centered on carrier strike groups, with Aegis ships and attack subs dashing down approach channels swept by ASW and CAP, launching wave after massed wave of SLBMs and ALCMs and Harpoons distributed and timed to arrive from most points of the compass, perhaps with a few land-based ICBMs thrown in to stretch the aliens' defenses. But this would be boring cinematically.

actually it wouldn't have been boring at all, consider Transformers when they called in the air strikes during the desert battle.

best scenes in the first Transformers by far.

to the first portion of the quote, realistic would have had the aliens hit from space well beyond our range and none of earths toys would have made any difference, that would have been boring...... or they would have come to earth and shot all of our toys out of the air before impact then slaughtered us wholesale at which point they'd get sick and die because earths germs turned out to be made of sterner stuff.... lol oh that's been done.

the problem with Battleship is that it was a bad idea all round, really makes me wonder how it ever got funded.

[trackerben]

actually it wouldn't have been boring at all, consider Transformers when they called in the air strikes during the desert battle.

best scenes in the first Transformers by far.

Yup the best, although I wonder why the A10s' hellfires didn't show greater effect.

to the first portion of the quote, realistic would have had the aliens hit from space well beyond our range and none of earths toys would have made any difference, that would have been boring...... or they would have come to earth and shot all of our toys out of the air before impact then slaughtered us wholesale at which point they'd get sick and die because earths germs turned out to be made of sterner stuff.... lol oh that's been done.

the problem with Battleship is that it was a bad idea all round, really makes me wonder how it ever got funded.

That War of the Worlds was a miss, they just didn't put enough interesting tactical scenes. Battleship's makers shrewdly opened it first in foreign cinemas and made a ton. Yes the story was predictable and was lame at points, especially that bit about reactivating a museum ship that wasn't demilitarized. But the hardware was nicely rendered (although for some reason they skipped RAM countermissile engagements and stayed with classic CIWS gunnery). I just liked seeing the modern close-in defenses and naval autoguns go wild in the first encounter. But then I'm a tower defense junkie

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I'm gonna go with the pool scene from Fast Times At Ridgemont High. I'd probably sell my soul for an 18yr old Phoebe Cates.