A lot of movie trailers come across our computer screens each week, and we're going to try and highlight some of the best, weirdest and most interesting ones we see.
I've been thinking about this trailer since I saw it before "Cowboys & Aliens" back in July.
At first the audience is left wondering why they've never heard of this Navy movie. OK, there's Liam Neeson as the crabby commander whose daughter is in love with a sailor under his command, got it. There's a bikinied Brooklyn Decker as the eye candy, got it.
And there's that great montage of "What's going on? What kind of ship is THAT?" as the sailors scurry to identify an unknown vessel that turns out to be some kind of freakish waterborne Transformer. Instead of laying down rocket fire or something, it shoots what appear to be giant batteries into the side of the ship.
BUT NO! Then the movie title slams down. It's BATTLESHIP, Milton Bradley's great game of strategy, the board game we all grew up with. Battleship, as in, "J-10!" "You sank my ..."
And those alien batteries stuck in the side of the boat? They're pegs from the game. Or that's what I am going to believe.
The movie comes out May 18, and I am already dubbing it my guilty pleasure flick of 2012. And then, Hollywood, please get to work on "Hungry Hungry Hippos, in 3-D."
Is the "Battleship" movie a good idea? What other retro games would make fun films? Discuss on our Facebook page -- or tell us why this toy-to-theater trend is terrible.