Big Screen: Battleship

Ignoring the actual few and far between tie-ins to the game of Battleship, which were actually the best parts of the movie and used so sparingly you almost didn’t notice them:

This was the schmaltziest, most sentimental, ridiculously attempting-to-pull-at-your-heartstrings action film you will ever see. The minute that group of WWII soldiers starts to walk across the deck? COME ON, NOW.

Sadly not very good at all.

I say sadly because hello a) SKARSGARD, b) Peter Berg, c) Taylor Kitsch, d) Liam Neeson, e) sailors, f) ships, g) aliens. Those are all things I like.

À la Nick Hornby, books in/books out for April.

Bought:

  • The Knife of Never Letting Go, by Patrick Ness (kindle*)
  • Monsters of Men, by Patrick Ness (kindle*)
  • The Ask and the Answer, by Patrick Ness (kindle*)
  • Taken, by Robert Crais (kindle*)

Read:

  • Catching Fire, by Suzanne Collins (reread)
  • Mockingjay, by Suzanne Collins (reread)
  • Mountainfit: Fjällsommar, Fjällsjälv, by Meera Lee Sethi (kickstarter project!!)
  • Tattoo (Ice Song #2), by Kirsten Imani Kansai (library)
  • Life: An Unexploded Diagram, by Mal Peet
  • Will Grayson, Will Grayson, by John Green & David Levithan

*From a day when Kindle editions of books were on super super sale. 🙂 I use the kindle app on either iPhone or iPad. Works just fine.