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Originally Posted by ATDrake
Thanks for letting me know! The morbid curiosity is satisfied, for now. (Although now I'm even more morbidly curious about how much of a trainwreck the original film, which was apparently loosely based on the actual board game but failed to transcend its source material like Clue: The Movie did, was. Must… resist… urge to rubberneck…)
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Clue was blessed with a talented pool of people, a low budget and not a lot of studio oversight.
The idea for
Battleship is hokey enough that it could have been fun. But it was turned into a slick, multi-million dollar Jerry Bruckheimer/Michael Bay type of extravaganza film. It felt like it was written by committee to cater to certain market demographics. The book sticks too close to the movie to overcome those limitations.
One fun thing from the book that I don't remember from the movie: The aliens shoot white canisters that stick to a ship, then turn red before they explode.