Games to Movies

[stickmaker]

Okay, once the decision was made to produce a movie based (very loosely) on the old game Battleship, why the *BLEEP!* did they go with that weird, modern SF plot? Why not portray an actual fight between battleship task forces? (It would have to be a period piece, since there currently aren't any battleships in active service.) They could easily have produced a fictionalized version of one of the encounters between Allied and Nazi forces in the North Sea during WWII, perhaps with the Allied task force guarding an essential supply convoy to Russia.  

It could also have been set during Korea, or Vietnam. Battleships were used for shore bombardment in both conflicts, and they occasionally had encounters with shore batteries and smaller craft. World War One gives the potential for Jutland or, more reasonably for a movie, some other fight between warships (real or fictional) of the opposing sides. 

Yeah, there are a lot of movies about things like that, but most are older and monochrome. A modern movie, in color, with modern special effects could be spectacular. And even historical.