Guilty Pleasures #9 - Space Warriors

It’s been a while, but we’re back, and our next outing is space warriors. How could you possibly go wrong with a title like that?

A movie released in 2013, I happened to come across it in Asda for £5, with a title like Space Warriors, I couldn’t resist. My research reveals very little about movie. I don’t have any budget or box office figures that I could find, implying that it was definitely done on the cheap.

Reviews about this, like most of my Guilty Pleasures are… mixed. However, unlike the usual movies, I’ve had to watch a movie to form an opinion, because there are so few of them. I did a post a few early responses to the movie on Twitter but that’s it.

Guilty Pleasures #4 Stormbreaker

Stormbreaker is one of a series of books written by Anthony Horowitz, one that was adapted for a film of the same name (originally named Alex Ryder: Operation Stormbreaker) the advantage of 6 different production companies and over a dozen distributions did not stop it taking a fall in the box office. Recovering just $23.6 million of its $40 million budget. So where did it all go wrong? It certainly wasn’t lack of promotional material. Hoping for it to be the next billion dollar film series, like Harry Potter was becoming, they had very high profile marketing, in the UK with BBC and ITV appearances.

No, the reviews for this movie are average at best, 5.6 on IDMB, on 33% on rotten tomatoes. But there’s no reason why another book series could rival Harry Potter, let’s dig into Stormbreaker and see why this wasn’t the franchise for it.