Best movie with game in the title:

@spitfire6006006 I didn’t love all of it equally, but I was definitely surprised by how much of it I did love.
(Although there’s a reasonable chance I’m thinking of a different one.)

@rtjhnstn that is one good movie.

I thought the book was okay but not great when it came out. After the author made his personal proclivities plain, I concluded that I would prefer to seek my reading materials (and other entertainments) elsewhere. I have not seen the movie. And, on reflection these [mumble] years later, I find the book’s premise fundamentally flawed. And I readily admit that much of this is due to the shifting sensibilities that have emerged as the historic effects of many millennia of patriarchy have finally begun being beaten back.

@werehatrack Completely fair.
I suspect a good portion of why I like it goes back to when I discovered it. Like this:

@werehatrack @xobzoo I didn’t read Ender’s Game until I was in my thirties with two kids. I thought it was fantastic. I was actually just thinking about it this morning, probably eight years later. I can’t speak to whether or not I believe the book’s central premise is flawed since I don’t know what you think it is. I think its theme of the value of really understanding others and the potential consequences of not doing so is possibly oversimplified, but I also don’t think it’s meant to be presented as a universal truth.
The movie was a disappointment, but I think it’s a situation where the battle school stuff by itself would make for a fun movie, but the other themes wouldn’t translate well in that context. The other themes would, and probably have, translated better in an episode of Star Trek.

@pakopako There are about eleven good minutes in Game of Death. And those minutes are great. But the only enjoyable bit about the rest of the film is seeing the the goofy things they do build an entire movie around those eleven minutes.