I’m a fairly verbose person. It isn’t often that something I see or read leaves my jaw literally hanging, but this new trailer for the upcoming Battleship movie comes pretty close.

Reportedly based on the board game of the same name, Battleship is the first film of several proposed projects based on famous Hasbro properties.  Once you finish watching this, I dare anyone to tell me how this reminds you even the slightest bit of that famous game.  At any time while playing it did you think, “You know, I bet this has something to do with aliens …”

I’ve known the basic plot of this film for some time now, but seeing more of it realized just makes me realize how insanely idiotic this whole thing is.  How did any one sign on to this project with even a modicum of self-respect left in their body?

Take a gander … and then immediately head to shower to wash the filth off of yourself.

Adding to the potential pain felt by Transformers fans by the news coming that Michael Bay may be heading up a Transformers 4, there may be a fifth installment on the way as well.

According to Variety Paramount is looking into filming the next two Transformers films back-to-back to cut down on production costs and allow the makers of the bazillion licensed goods to get going on all of the items children will be begging their parents for.

Shia LaBeouf has said he won’t return for any more movies in the series, which means we will miss out on this sort of great acting.

In his place it has been rumored for some time that Jason Statham may be joining the franchise. According to sources no offer has been made to the action star as of yet, but considering how long this rumor has circulated, I would suggest taking it with a generous helping of salt.

However, I have a crazy idea, how about instead of worrying about a human lead, you actually focus on the Transformers?  I know, what a crazy idea.  Yes, you can have a human involved, but worry about the Autobots and the Decepticons for once as the series is named for them after all.

Color me absolutely not surprised, but apparently toy manufacturer Hasbro has been talking to Michael Bay about returning to direct a fourth installment of the Transformers franchise.

Despite saying that Transformers: Dark of the Moon, the third film in the series, would be his last outing with the giant robots, according to Deadline,  Hasbro has approached the director about returning for a fourth outing.  Although the newest movie came in second domestically in the series’ domestic box office numbers, it did enough money overseas to become the fourth highest grossing movie of all time in worldwide receipts.

Here is how the series has broken down so far.

Looking at these numbers, do you think there isn’t any chance that there won’t be a fourth film with Bay at the helm.  It isn’t like this is a director that has some passion project cooking in the back of his head, he’s a hack that makes popcorn movies with next to no script.  Bay makes tens of millions himself on these films off of deals off the backend, and that’s going to be awfully hard for him to say no to.

Hasbro said on the earnings call where they said they had approached him that they hoped to have more news on the next quarter’s call.  Seeing that the movies are usually shot 12 months before release, there is still time to put together the fourth movie for summer 2013, and movie going audiences can continue to flock to these messes.