Redux Month - Ender's Game

We continue redux month with another book-based failed franchise starter and one of my earliest reviews, Ender’s Game.

I’m not attempting to distance myself from previous review, I do still stand by a lot of what I said, I just thought that bringing in the book would add some more perspective this one. Orson Scott Card is not a great human being. Anti-gay activist, equating homosexuality to paedophilia, you can guess where this is going. I did not know all of this when I originally bought the DVD, it just looked interesting to me, so I decided to pick it up.

I have since got rid of it, but thankfully it was up on Netflix so I didn’t need to order another copy. The critical result is just above the margin for Fresh ratings (with 61% with critics and 65 with audiences) but the box office doomed this film and the franchise that could’ve followed.

Guilty Pleasures #3: Ender's Game

A movie based on a book series I’ve never read, and making a mere $15 million profit at the box office (source: Wikipedia - and in case someone's about to skip to the comments, yes, I'm aware that this could be inaccurate). Distributed by Lionsgate and Summit Entertainment (much like Now You See Me.) A trailer I saw for the movie on the Now You See Me Blu-ray convinced me to take a look at this movie, and I like it a lot.

That’s not to say that it doesn't have its problems. Let’s play a drinking game, if a character acts like a complete asshole, take a shot. If you aren't in the hospital by the end of the movie, you've probably missed a few.