4. Battleship
Halfway through Battleship, as if Peter Berg realised his Transformers-aping navy recruitment feature was bearing no resemblance to the board game that inspired it, we get a scene that attempts to mimic the tense thrill of hitting your friends plastic boats with plastic torpedoes. Cut off from reinforcements by the convenient deus ex machina force field, 2012s winner of Worst Year Taylor Kitsch has to protect his one ship from massive alien flying machines. To do this, he uses the conveniently grid-placed buoys (gratingly pronounced boo-oys by all involved) to track the aliens movements as they conveniently jump from one buoy to the next (master tacticians) and then fire torpedoes at their predicted location. And that's the smartest scene of the film. That only goes to highlight the mind numbing mundanity of the two and a half hours that surrounds it. Unlike many critics who claimed it as a poor Transformers rip off, it wasn't mind numbingly awful, just achingly boring. The marketing made no effect to cash in on the relationship with the game, instead playing up the similarities with Michael Bays box office subduing robots in disguise. Which begs the question, why the heck did they base the film on a board game in the first place?