Battleship, the movie

It really isn't called "the movie" but I felt the need to add that to the end...

In random beer news, I brewed another one this past weekend. I made a 'Dark Red Porter' using a recipe I found in a brewing magazine. Pretty excited about it. I already have a name in mind but we will see if it is worth drinking before I really name it. For the recently made beers, the Black IPA "JT's Front Porch IBA" that Ted and I made is going faster than I would have believed and the Black Chocolate Stout is still bottle conditioning. We opened one of the stouts the other day, it turned out with a much more coffee flavor than chocolate. We shall see how it turns out in a few weeks.

And on to the movie, Battleship was fantastic. A super high intensity action movie, very tense and fun. And surprisingly funny in parts. I really have super low expectations of a movie version of any game. (Resident Evil is the only shining example of the genre I can think of...memorable other examples that come to mind are Doom, Dungeons and Dragons, and the absolutely horrible Bloodrayne). And a movie about Battleship seemed impossible. However, they pull it off admirably. They even have feasible reasoning for the game play...as hard as that sounds.

Awesome movie, Liam Neeson really just has a small role, as does Alexander Skarsgard. The real lead characters are Taylor Kitsch (John Carter and he also played Gambit in Wolverine, bugged me forever trying to figure out who he was), Brooklyn Decker, and Rihanna. Taylor Kitsch really does the 'scrappy underdog screwup that you're rooting for' character to a tee. His efforts to impress Brooklyn Decker at the first of the movie had me cracking up. Brooklyn Decker is gorgeous, as always and honestly, she has become quite the actress. I believe she will forever be the 'hot girlfriend' in every movie, probably never a lead. Rihanna was awesome. If I didn't know she was in this movie, I would not have recognized her. She really sold the role of the hardcore 'forever' tomboy. I really look forward to her being in future movies as possibly the lead. She could easily slip into an assassin or fugitive role.

And another honorable mention were the "veterans" (I put them in quotes because at this time, I am not sure they were not actual veterans that were asked to play in a movie). Seeing them just makes your heart proud...you really will come out of this movie with a strong feeling of patriotism, strange as that sounds.

Go see Battleship. It is worth seeing in the theater. I was completely shocked at how much I enjoyed this movie. It was pleasantly surprised. I would honestly say that if this would have been some sort of "Independence Day II", it would have been an acceptable sequel.

My only complaint is a small one...why did they put so much makeup on Alexander Skarsgard? At one point, they give him a super close up and he clearly has on lipstick...why? That's not what you want to see on the commander of a destroyer...lipstick...and blush...seriously...