Ahem...

To: Battleship director Peter Berg

Re: The cynicism about your upcoming board-game based movie being displayed by the "cinema intelligentsia"

I am not listed in anybody's Rolodex as "cinema intelligentsia," nor in many as intelligent in many other ways, either. So I am not being a cynical elitist when I say that basing a movie on a board game is a stupid idea.

I'm just being a plain old moviegoer.