10 Craziest Things That Have Been Made Into Movies

6. A Board Game - Battleship

Battleship wasn't the first film based on a board game; over two decades previously Cludeo had become the multi-ended Clue (the game's American title). That film, however, was based on something all about plot. The closest Battleship gets to a story is the mystery of whether the other player's peeking or not. Owned by toy giant Hasbro, it was clear the intention with Battleship was to foster another Transformers franchise; aliens with weapons made entirely of moving components and a lot of military adoration (only this time the navy, rather than the army) against a backdrop of explosions. Quite what the logic was in taking the game where you shout out grid coordinates and making it into an action spectacle we don't really get. Studio wisdom is that having an attached product boosts sales, but here it's so slight; the inspiration really ends at "it's set at sea". Bearing little resemblance to the game for much of its runtime, the film's the usual alien invasion actioner aimed at teenage boys, with the distinction of having much of the action set at sea. That is aside from one sequence clearly shoehorned in to justify the licence name; halfway through the film the heroes use the aliens' knocking of buoys to place them on a graph, shouting out coordinates in an attempt to hit them with torpedoes. It's not very tense.