2. You really need to start when they're coming up to the battleship from the back. "what do you want us to do, Hopper?" right around there.

11 of 10.

10,000/10

That's a 10.

Yep, exactly. We all know it's complete bullshit, and we don't care one bit because it's just that awesome. Battleship is truly a guilty pleasure.

None of it makes sense. Shittiest scene in the shittiest movie

Seems legit

I agree with you. Also thank you for making this movie better.

Yaa to bad they didn’t show that to give this scene more realistic

Well that's now my head canon.

YES! I was scrolling down to see if i could find this comment!

Oahu, for the uneducatated, is the island of hawaii where Pearl Harbor is located.

The irony of a Japanese American delivering that line….

The best line I think in this sequence lol. That guys delivery is what makes it so good.

"Looks like someone gonna kiss the donkey..." Didn't understand that line until years later, haha

I was wondering if they actually got real vets for this scene. Hearing it confirmed is nice.

Respect to Rihanna in this, she did good!

Man I would of been in aww knowing that I was acting along side with actual vets.

​@@AithalothesFrom what I understand, they're not just Vets, but her actual crew.

not just the vets of the war, it's her actual crew.

My grandfather served on the Missouri during the Korean War.

One thing I loved about the fact these vets were cast for this film was that they must have had the best time of their lives being filmed doing what they always knew to do on that ship. This HAD to have been the best experience they've ever had in their lives. And to top it all off, just the level of respect shown to them in this film from their accompanying big-name actors, especially when seeing Rihanna, just makes it that much more worthwhile.

Yeah. Overall the movie was just ok, but I have immense respect for the production crew for getting those guys on screen.

Is that black guy who is missing both legs a veteran cause I seen him in other movies and he always has metal legs in them or is in a wheelchair

@@AaronKrebs-em7vnwith this acting.....he may have secured other rolls in films....

I love the "You ready to play with the big boys?"! 😆

Well, it was *their* boat back in the Second Great War, after all.

@@Rurne For some it was their ship way more recently. The Missouri was in service until 1992.

All of those old timers,had actually served on her.

As the Terminator once said "Old, not obsolete"

Perfect analogy for how America has gotten its butt kicked in armed confrontations with forces that had inferior weaponry but better tactics and terrain knowledge.

Technically they have, an energy shield They just kinda use it to do something else instead of protecting the spaceship

According to some info (I have forgotten where it was), it was a mining ship, so it was only used to detonate and mine through the crust of planets. These aliens probably just improvised using these tools.

@@Cracker_Smacker Well, that. As well as the fact the Aliens sent an excavacation team not a strike team.

I agree. I forget how this came through, in the movie, but a major difference is that the current warships depend on superior technology to evade, deflect, and reduce incoming damage. The Battleships were designed to battle equal technology and were built to *take a hard hit* then give it back even harder. The different between a leopard and a bear.

Surprising that the Missouri's keel was laid 19 days before Wisconsin's but the Wisconsin was launched almost 2 months before the Missouri.

Well it was the last *American* battleship ever built. The last battleship ever built anywhere actually goes to the HMS Vanguard which was launched a few months later and not commissioned until after the war.

@@uhrskerMissouri needed a little more time in the oven to soak in more Freedom to dispense upon the enemy.

@@SamaritanPrime nice touch!

Great action movie and when you add the great soundtrack what do you expect.just a fun action movie.and of course mighty mo nothing better then that.

Sadly, the Oscar for Best Engine of Destruction doesn’t exist. It should, though.

But Michael Bay gets awards for his big explosions why can't the MO? 🤣

YES!!!!

"And the award for Best Actor in a Feature Film goes to...the USS Missouri!!"

They should make a category just for her. It could be Best Shooting Location.

I could be convinced of that. Someone thought up this scene and was like "that's badass but how do i put it in a movie?"

Hell yes it was, engines ahead flank!!!! Enough said

I agree. Fuck plot. All my homies just want to see a battleship in action.

@@raypenny9013 Funny thing if they really did try to go to flank from a standing start they would have sucked straight into the mud under that part of the harbor lol

This kind of movie has been forgotten about. Companies now, don't care about "fun movies" for the most part, its now committees to make a movie that fills check boxes.

I remember watching USS Iowa powering through 15 foot Atlantic swells, not breaking a sweat, watching her fire her main battery in practice from less than 2 miles away, absolutely awesome. Then in 1991 watching Missouri and Wisconsin dropping ordinance on Iraqi positions, clearing the way for US Marines moving up into Kuwait along the Saudi coast. I almost - ALMOST felt sorry for the guys on the receiving end of those incoming rounds. Even single guns would light up the night sky like a thunderstorm.

Thats how I felt about it too.

@@robertf3479 I was only 12 during Desert Storm, but I honestly envy the ones who got to witness such unbridled American military power. Nothing I saw during my ten years active duty could even come close to seeing something like the Iowa or the Missouri.

@@NordicDan "...I honestly envy the ones who got to witness such unbridled American military power." Remember there are two sides of people who got to witness that power. 🙂

Well sure. Even 70 years later, those old battleships are still the toughest ships to ever exist, full stop. In a straight brawl they'd sink any modern ship without breaking a sweat.

@@warlocc-paul i really didnt like the silly anchor trick they pulled in the later fight. I think instead they should have been hit by those first three alien rounds. All the modern sailors hit the deck expecting the worst the rounds go off the battleship shudders but comes out of it largely intact and one of the vets turns to the modern sailors and simply says. This is a battleship son not one of your modern tin cans!

@@warlocc-paulthey could, but unfortunately they’d never get in range. Theres a reason missiles rule the seas nowadays

​@@desertedmindscape6829true but suspend the disbelief for a moment

@@warlocc-paul I mean sure they could, but nobody would ever do that. Same reason the Yamato and Musashi arent around today. Why spend the time and effort duking it out when you could just use a cruise missile or some bombers.

No, you don't - Often it's annoying, but SOMETIMES it's charming! 😉

Never, it’s the testosterone in us when we see bigger versions of the toys we grew up playing with

I have yet to experience my first fully grown-up person. The trick is to spend the little amount of possible maturity where it matters.

just the price of the toys change....

@vondnikvkarms7424 True for us girls too, just in a different way. "The only difference between men and boys is the price of their toys; and the only difference between women and girls is the price of their curls!" LOL!

I'm not even American but and Englishman. It would be wonderful too see that ship restored and underway. The global tourism revenue of that ship docking into every global port would pay its restoration ten fold. Because there isn't one like it in the world.

@@2011metalmaniac your right, there isn't one like it, there are 4

@@silentwraithgaming8631 but they are getting tied and unloved.

Liquid pride!

That liquid patriotism is when you hear the engine roar its as if the crew has resurrected and standing by at the ready

Consider that in WW2, to sink the Tirpitz-class Bismarck, the British required multiple squadrons from home fleet working concert to get the job done. The Battleship may not be invulnerable but is the closest any ship put to sea has ever come to it.

@@danielhaire6677 Even then it was aerial support that led to Bismark's demise.

@@MrHissyfit You are talking about the torpedo planes off of the Ark Royal that crippled the rudder of the Bismarck, causing it to be stuck circling?

@@MrHissyfit and one polish crewed destroyer with balls of steel keeping the bismarck's crew awake so they were mostly tired zombies during the final fight (if that story is true. but i love it anyway)

@@danielhaire6677Bissie is a Bismarck Class. Tirpitz being it’s sister. Bismarck was first to be launched and by European standard, would mean she is the name of the class.

What about Top gun?

@@studybooks3395 even better

Most of us might acknowledge the adage, "I’m not as good as I once was, but I’m as good once as I ever was." Make it worth our effort, and we'll break ourselves to stand and deliver.

for a true cause, I'd go back.

@@Crazy-Chicken-Media I think any of us would.

lol? everyone is such a crybaby

@@inoox who's crying? Reading through the comments I saw a lot more than just me with the same consensus. Not believable, but damn enjoyable.

​@@NordicDan movie is set in an alternate time line where we made alien contact in 2005. Your issue is the use of battleships which were removed from reserve duty in 2005 as they could only hold a very specific role that did not justify there cost. Just not seeing how that is the "very unbelievable" part of the movie.

@@wmeuse2375 So saying a particular scene in a movie about an alien invasion is unbelievable, even though I enjoyed it, implies I have an issue with it? Hoookaaayyyyy.....

@@NordicDan saying something is completely unbelievable sounds like an issue to me.

You have to think more than one sailor has dreamed about the days when they got to shot the big guns of a battleships, it's so much different from just pushing a button and sending off a missile. With a battleship when you fire you know in your bones you are sending the wrath of god towards some poor fool!

I love that line, like the destroyers are okay but this, this is the real deal.

smells like victory

To be a US Sailor you’re the 1%.

@@Sternguard An the Mighty mo was one of those ships, that big girl sent hell down on her enemy's with those 16-inch/50-caliber Mark 7 gun. The shot from those bad boys would rock your whole body, and can turn an enemy position into a crater she the ship of legend that never gives up no matter what kind of damage she take on her hull.

Agreed. However, here, it is sailors, not soldiers.

@@jamesgrove2133 point well taken! No offence intended.

not soldiers BUT SAILORS

@charlesrack8044, Squids.

There uk series set in ww2 in the middle east which had stories from long range battle group who were predaassors of the uk SAS often their missions are also accompanied by modern rocks bands like ACDC worth checking out came out 2 years ago.. great series!😀

"Did you just say Semper Fudge?"

@@michaelbujaki2462 maybe semper Falstaff or Schlitz . . .

@@leebaker2588 Falstaff, now that is something from the way-back machine. how about Griesediche?

I think you’d find a lot of “ older men” would come back today if they could in a heart beat!

Thank you for your service sir

Keep in mind, the USS Missouri had 2 separate commissions over almost 50 years. Her first commission 1944-55 and her second from 1986-1992. The other 3 in the Iowa Class had similar careers, except USS New Jersey, 1943-48, 1950-57, 1968-69 and 1982-91. So there were definitely some Veterans available for the movie, either from BB-63 herself, or the other 3 in her class.

The battleship came back to life to do the job it was built to do, to blast the invading aliens right to hell. I do wish the Battleship Yamato was not sunk in the old days, that ship was colossus,.

@@wardfiction5693 Unfortunately I fear that had IJN Yamato and Musashi not been sunk in combat, they likely would have met their fate during Operation Crossroads, or simply been scraped by Japan herself as the materials were valuable. However, given their historical namesakes, I'd argue that going down in combat was a much more fitting end for a warrior.

@@sparkplug1018 the navy is thinking of bringing them all back and work has already started on the remaining battleships to recommission them, they are not fully funded but they are being moved from museum to reserve status meaning weapon systems and all other critical systems are being repaired and replaced.

@@VadulTharysI'm guessing you are basing this on the fact New Jersey has gone into dry dock. And Iowa getting a turret moving again. Sorry to disappoint, but for a laundry list of reasons, the Iowa's will not be reentering service. The absolute lack of parts, no crew that has experience with these antiquated systems, and just the age of the vessel in general, are just the start of it. Is there still a place for the battleship in the modern navy? Some would argue yes there is, but it will never be the Iowa's again.

“Best cover your ears”

“Aliens, old girl. Aliens.” “WHERE THE ALIENS AT?”

LOL I imagine this but for the U.S.S. Texas, a.k.a. the Last Dreadnought, when they gangsta-leaned her for D-Day. "Oh?" *adjusts glasses* "Are those damn redcoats back to take the colonies?" "No, darlin' we shooting at Germans this time."

@@MonumentToSin the Fat Electrician is a hilarious dude.

When they wake up the old sleep dragon and she goes badass mode saying "it's ass whooping time*

​@@SamaritanPrime"There in that direction" "Then I'll delete that direction"

Well lets remember the whole film is based on a board game

@@glenchapman3899 Which is based on warfare on the sea.

In 1991, Missouri and Wisconsin were sitting off the shore of Kuwait and fired some of the first shots of the war with their Tomahawk cruise missiles flying hundreds of miles, into Iraq. They also were used as a bluff, firing the big guns taking out Iraqi positions in Kuwait, some Iraqis held up white flags surrendering to a drone sent out from the ships to check where the big guns' shells had hit. This was making the Iraqi military in Kuwait think we were preparing for an amphibious landing which did not happen and was not planned to happen. Meanwhile the army was coming from the south thru the desert to invade Iraq.

Because she is!

Been on the Missouri when she was berthed in Bremerton Washington. As a Proud Navy Brat I LOVE this scene!! GO NAVY!!!

It's not a threatening sound. It's the promise of justice and retribution awakening.

It is one of the most beautiful sounds a machina has ever made

@@danielhaire6677absolutely 👍🇦🇺

And filled her with a terrible resolve!

And magically she turned into a 2 screw, one rudder ship haha. Iowa class battleships have 4 screws and double rudders.

@@jerkofalltrades5430 Those were just the inner screws. The outer screws wouldn't be in shot. They're offset of the inner screws. Also, it was shown at an angle where you could see only one of the rudders. I have a 1/700 scale model of Missouri and looking at the angle of my model that's presented in the movie, it's a consistent shot. Up close at that angle, you wouldn't get all 4 screws and both of the rudders.

If they ever decided to put a Battleship back into the fleet I'd re-enlist tomorrow!!! And I served on the Enterprise CVN-65.

@@s70driver2005 I thank for your service, sir. I'm sure your experience on Enterprise was something else.

@@s70driver2005 serving on an enterprise doesn't feel right when the captain isn't named picard :)

As I understand it, it really was scheduled to be underway and the film took advantage of that.

New Jersey is going into dry dock in 2024. You will be able to see her getting towed. Texas is currently in dry dock, so you can see her get towed back.

They should have her move under her own power (if she can) just for old times sake ​@@rathael1428

Only combat veterans are real veterans. Being a few miles behind the frontline working on boom-machinery doesnt count

Thank you for your service, sir! I agree with your assessment of the men. I know it's fiction but when they snapped back it was the most authentic part of the movie. Times are so different today, I wish we only had people like that (and you) and not the garbage that I see.

What do you mean snap back? They never left.

@@kaspernbs I suppose that's true!

@caucasiansensation147, Few years back I was in the VA hospital lobby waiting for my appointment. Well there was about 5 guys sitting around me when the army and Marines got in a " who has a bigger dick" contest. They were going at it in good humor about who had the biggest guns when they were in back in the 1980's - 90's. Each time one said they had the biggest gun I would just chuckle to myself. They went on about 155mm arty guns and other guns they had, still I just chuckled. Well each time they made a counter claim I chuckled and they would look at me. After about 30 minutes the army guy looked at me after I chuckled: Army: " What are you chuckling about?" Me: " Listening to you two claim who had the biggest gun back then." Army: " What branch were you in?" Me: " Navy." Army: " Then you have no dog in this." Me: " I would disagree on that part. The navy had a biggest gun around at the time." Army: " What was your job in the navy?" Me: " I was an E5 gunnersmate." Army: " And you think you had the biggest gun?" Me: " I know I did." Army: " What makes you think that?" Me: " Simple. I was a 16 inch gunnersmate on the battleship Missouri." Army: " Damn, I forgot about the battleships. " That pretty much ended the debate about which branch had the biggest gun. LOL

I don't think they're completely obsolete, just one of those bad a-s behemoths steaming towards an enemy with her guns trained on them would make anyone think twice about sh-t. As Teddy Roosevelt said, "Talk softly & carry a big stick". The Iowa class battleships are pretty big sticks.

Even obsolete, there's not a modern ship on this earth that could take one in a brawl. 70 years later they're still absolute beasts that have yet to really be surpassed.

In 1991, Missouri and Wisconsin were sitting off the shore of Kuwait and fired some of the first shots of the war with their Tomahawk cruise missiles flying hundreds of miles, into Iraq. They also were used as a bluff, firing the big guns taking out Iraqi positions in Kuwait, some Iraqis held up white flags surrendering to a drone sent out from the ships to check where the big guns' shells had hit. This was making the Iraqi military in Kuwait think we were preparing for an amphibious landing which did not happen and was not planned to happen. Meanwhile the army was coming from the south thru the desert to invade Iraq.

Yup.

Try doing this with the Bismark or the Yamato....oh wait they can't.

@@jrspike23 doing it in the Enterprise would have been out of THIS world. But sadly it was turned to scrap. When I found out I nearly cried. Such a travesty.

@@jrspike23 YEAH ! They should also try doing that with the Arizona, and Oklahoma ....oh wait they can't.

@@jrspike23 Atleast the Bismark went down like a fucking boss. The British sent basically an entire fleet to sink it and they can't even say they were officially responsible for its actual sinking.

First time I ever heard Thunderstruck. Now I catch how often it’s used in action movies.

Even better when the entire soundtrack is AC/DC like Maximum Overdrive

Exactly , even crap movie like this one

Thunder struck it said and thunderstruck I was too !

@@artiek1177 best recording of it is on the live album and make sure you use a quadraphonic or prologic sound system for best effects of the choppers flying overhead

"A Freedom Sedan" -The Fat Electrictisn, about the USS Texas

explosive hatchbacks travelling extremely fast.

I pity the fool who’s on the receiving end of THAT.

I remember reading, think is was a Clancy book, they were nicknamed swimming pool makers. Because of the creator they made.

They really do pack a ton of firepower. These ships were truly designed for war.

To me its their humor, there's something about "grumpy" old guys actually being humans and not this authoritative figure that demands respect at all times

They swore an oath to defend this country from all threats foreign & domestic. And only god has the authority to relieve them of their duty.

its funny you mentioned tired. when Iowa and Wisconsin were finally stood down the last time, their engines had been worked well past the practical limit to the point their cruising speed of about 16 knots was closer to their max speed than their max speed was to their design speed (33knts). so, while hearing "ahead flank" in port is usually considered stupid, she probably needed that just to move at enough of a clip to be able to safely move under her own power without tugs (ignoring how IRL that underway had the old gal mostly assisted by tugs).

They were built different than us. The few who are still with us should be treated like national treasures.

It's been downhill since!

You know those veterans were quietly getting her ready knowing that sooner or later she would be called on again. I fantasize about the Missouri attacking from one side & suddenly the Iowa appears & bombarded from another side. Those aliens would be toast before they even knew what happened.

There is something immensely charming about a bunch of old sea dogs warming up an entire battleship boiler system in a few minutes, it must be said.

My grandfather served on a battleship smaller than that in WWII and it had a crew of thousands. He did run a gun turret though and there were about enough crew in the film to run one of those so that is fairly realistic apart from the complete lack of flash hoods.

@@brianthesnail3815 Manpower is not the issue. The issue is them getting the entire boiler system going in a (implied) few hours. We know this is ridiculous because Missouri has been made cold several times in her life and it took almost a day to get her boilers going again. And that was before she was fully mothballed to become a museum ship! Never mind how they found 16 inch shells just lying around for her guns. But, like the original commenter said, the sequence is so cheesy and simultaneously well researched that it scores top marks!

the scene ordering engines at flank as they pulled away from ford island was total bullshit she would have swung around and chewed her screws off in the mud,she would have to have been well out into the main channel before anything even near full speed.

Okay I am so dating myself but I saw Independence Day on opening day of July 3 of whatever year. The speech that the president made in the movie before the big fight had everyone in the large theater standing up and cheering, really caught the feels. There is just something about a battleship, I just can’t explain, it’s almost primal, and it totally sucks that’s they don’t exist anymore (actively).

That reminds me of _RED_ when Frank asks Sarah how bad the book she's reading is, and she responds with something like, "It's terrible, I love it!"

Proof that a movie doesnt have to be good to be good.

Sometimes you just need a guilty pleasure.

WHY is it terrible, though? I keep seeing people online say how awful & terrible it is... yet never giving a good reason. If a movie is fun to watch, if it entertains the audience, then by definition it cannot be terrible.

@@0megacron It's terrible from the perspective of the story is barely functional and super cheese and just there to carry the action. But that's perfectly fine because it's super fun. Think of it like junk food - it's not good for you but it's still delicious.

Even more difficult would have been all the drive shafts are locked in place on museum ships.

In all honesty, never ever thought about it. Then, again, I just want to obliterate a claw machine for eating my dollar. But, it leads to sailing the USS Missouri. Hell, forget the dollar. I'm in!

Only way it makes any sense at all is if the old timers we're getting the ship ready since the shield went up. Also yeah don't know how they got that ammo.

I am a pretty hardcore navy history guy and I can tell you. All the things you said ran through my head and the sequence played. But when the Mighty Mo throws a handbrake slide and let a broadside go at those aliens I was cheering and stomping my feet as everyone else in the cinema. This was a movie based on a damn boardgame. They basically use the tactics of the boardgame to find the aliens earlier in the film. The film asked me not to take it seriously. And I obliged

Whiskey treatment?

@@CrackedCandy I was referencing Mo's sister ship, Wisconsin. She collided with a destroyer in '56 and crushed her bow in. They cut the bow off of the canceled and unfinished USS Kentucky to fix Wisky.

Old battleship will always kick the asses of modern ships

@@user-zj7pc1hl8w Well a modern ship is more likely to get a dead-on hit with its fancy electronics and missiles, but if an Iowa class can bring its guns to bare and make a direct hit, its the Iowa class I'm betting on!

Actually, that was a real wave. The actor was so surprised he almost broke character by turning to look at the camera but was able to save the shot. It was so impressive the director used that shot.

I also liked how this shot rounded up to the beginning of the film when the two captains were fighting on the destroyer,. When they were in the meeting with the admiral, and I think his name is Harper, was asked about a line from a book. Something about keep the wave and haze of the bow of your ship. something like that. it comes full circle that Harper witnesses this very effect on the battleship.

Don't forget "oh, someone's gonna kiss the baby!" Lol

@@ashontahuddleston6663 I think it was "Oh, someone is going to kiss the donkey!"

@@cybercat29 true.

It wasn't just the caretaker crew, I bet (in the movieverse) every single battleship rated veteran that lives on the Hawaian island that could was on that ship, so most likely a few hundred, not enough to fully crew the ship and keep her going for weeks/months, but get her going, and fire a few shots, that they could do. They only showed a few dozen in the movie because maybe that's all there was who saw and answered the casting call. Remember the Missouri had just come out of dry dock and was essentially back to 100% condition, only exception being the disabled systems. Those veterans however, they are most likely the very people who originally disabled the systems to put the ship into mothballs, and knew the fastest way to get them back online. So yeah, I could see them spending the day since the shield went up and the active military forces on the island getting attacked getting every person they could(essentially the onshore personnel providing logistics for them) to help them get that ship ready just in case someone came asking for it, or they decided themselves to take it out after whoever had attacked the island.

@@ruthgar9753 please dont try to explain it, it takes a minimum of 75 to operate one turret, over 100 for optimal performance. Even just loading all 9 guns for one shot each is several hours with just 2 dozen old men. Not to mention that there is no ammo or propellant laying around anywhere on that ship. Just enjoy it for what it is, as everything is pure fiction. To reactive any of the Iowas, you'd be looking at MONTHS with thousands of people working on it. They have been deactivated and often stripped of vital equipment the museums are trying to claw back but havent fully succeeded on any of the four ships.