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And yes I paid the price, seaoat. $3 at Redbox. My girlfriend rented it Wednesday, she gave it to me yesterday, and I turned it in tonight.
I was trying to piggyback off her day's rental and it would have been free for me, but I had to hold it over for the 2nd day cause I couldn't fit it in until tonight.
BUT, if I'd had to, I would probably paid up to $10 to see this.
I had seen trailers for "Ender's Game" while watching movies in theaters. And I thought it was just another one of those teenyboppers save the world nonsense aimed at a teenage audience who want to be the adults.
I woulda never bothered with it except my girlfriend is smarter about movies than me and I always take her advice.
Actually it is a teenybopper saves mankind space opera story. KINDA. SORTA. But it is so much much more than that. It introduces some very thought provoking ideas and moral conflicts. And boy does it take on head first the morality question of when and why nations go to war and what is winning a war and is it better to fight a war or not fight a war and are there any limits to it and all that manner of thing.
This is the kind of thing Gene Roddenberry would have liked. He's probably somewhere on the ethereal Enterprise as we speak and seeing this movie and saying to these filmmakers "ataboy".
I recommend it.
I was trying to piggyback off her day's rental and it would have been free for me, but I had to hold it over for the 2nd day cause I couldn't fit it in until tonight.
BUT, if I'd had to, I would probably paid up to $10 to see this.
I had seen trailers for "Ender's Game" while watching movies in theaters. And I thought it was just another one of those teenyboppers save the world nonsense aimed at a teenage audience who want to be the adults.
I woulda never bothered with it except my girlfriend is smarter about movies than me and I always take her advice.
Actually it is a teenybopper saves mankind space opera story. KINDA. SORTA. But it is so much much more than that. It introduces some very thought provoking ideas and moral conflicts. And boy does it take on head first the morality question of when and why nations go to war and what is winning a war and is it better to fight a war or not fight a war and are there any limits to it and all that manner of thing.
This is the kind of thing Gene Roddenberry would have liked. He's probably somewhere on the ethereal Enterprise as we speak and seeing this movie and saying to these filmmakers "ataboy".
I recommend it.
