Ender's Game (film)

2013 scifi film based on the classic book.
==First watch (17th November 2013)==
===Format===
Luton Cineworld.
===Journal===
Saw it on November 17th 2013 at the cinema in Luton, with Ed, Adam, Hayley and Craig.
As it was coming out people were getting very excited about their favourite book from childhood or whatever finally making it to the big screen. I hadn't read the book but had been intending to anyway, and did before seeing the film. The trailers did not give me much hope that the film would be any good, and my prior was already low from previous disappointments. That is, I no longer expect to be pleased with most adaptations.
However, I was quite pleased! It wasn't fantastic and had several pretty glaring issues that made me tighten my lips, but overall I thought it was a good presentation of the interesting message - that aliens aren't necessarily evil. I really liked the scene near the end where the bugger (sorry, 'formic') was staring down Ender.
It was very hard to evaluate, though, given my recent reading of the book.
===Rating===
1
==Second watch (16th April 2014)==
===Format===
Aeroplane on the way to New Zealand.
===Journal===
Thought I'd rewatch it while I was on the plane going to New Zealand in April 2014, since I remembered really liking the ending but wasn't sure if the film as a whole really held up.
I think my opinion this time around was that it was pretty bad, that Asa Butterfield's acting is a bit poor, and that, although the bugger at the end was poignant, that was about the only redeeming feature of the film.
===Rating===
0
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