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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: StarSlayer on May 10, 2013, 07:19:36 pm

Title: Ender's Game: The Movie
Post by: StarSlayer on May 10, 2013, 07:19:36 pm: Trailers Up (https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=vP0cUBi4hwE)

It'll be interesting to see if they can translate it into film and do the course material justice or just screw the pooch trying to adapt it for the lowest common denominator.
Title: Re: Ender's Game: The Movie
Post by: karajorma on May 10, 2013, 07:23:52 pm: Spoiler for those who haven't read the book.

Spoiler:
They just gave away the end of the movie!
Title: Re: Ender's Game: The Movie
Post by: redsniper on May 10, 2013, 07:24:31 pm: Inorite, I was kind of surprised to see that.
Title: Re: Ender's Game: The Movie
Post by: deathfun on May 10, 2013, 07:30:42 pm: It has Harrison Ford
What could POSSIBLY go wrong with that
Title: Re: Ender's Game: The Movie
Post by: General Battuta on May 10, 2013, 07:42:39 pm: Gonna be buying a ticket to a different movie and sneaking in to this one!
Title: Re: Ender's Game: The Movie
Post by: karajorma on May 10, 2013, 07:44:08 pm: I suspect a few people will be doing that.
Title: Re: Ender's Game: The Movie
Post by: StarSlayer on May 10, 2013, 08:24:16 pm: Slayer's brain is a little slow on the uptake at the moment, just came back from a run.

Is that a moped joke?
Title: Re: Ender's Game: The Movie
Post by: Phantom Hoover on May 10, 2013, 09:17:17 pm: no, the joke is that ender's game is not very good
Title: Re: Ender's Game: The Movie
Post by: Black Wolf on May 10, 2013, 09:22:51 pm: Quote from: PhantomHoover on May 10, 2013, 09:17:17 pm
no, the joke is that ender's game is not very good

I very much doubt that. The book was awesome, but Orson Scott Card is a bit of a, well, mammoth dickbag. I suspect Batts wants to see the movie without giving him any money - same goes for me. In my case, while I rarely torrent movies (I just prefer the cinematic experience) but this may have to be an exception.
Title: Re: Ender's Game: The Movie
Post by: Mongoose on May 10, 2013, 09:23:58 pm: You know, I've somehow never managed to read the novel, though I did stumble across the original short-story that Card wrote first. One of these years I'll get to it.
Title: Re: Ender's Game: The Movie
Post by: NGTM-1R on May 11, 2013, 02:43:58 am: Quote from: Mongoose on May 10, 2013, 09:23:58 pm
You know, I've somehow never managed to read the novel, though I did stumble across the original short-story that Card wrote first. One of these years I'll get to it.

It's not really worth reading. The concept has been explored many times, by many better authors, and the truth is it doesn't really work.

If you want to read a good book about alienation, sociopathy, and combat, read Chohei Kambayashi's Yukikaze.
Title: Re: Ender's Game: The Movie
Post by: BloodEagle on May 11, 2013, 03:05:37 am: I predict that this movie will:
#1. Make lots of money.
#2. Completely suck.
#3. Cause lots of people who never have and never will read the book(s) to suddenly start quoting 'The enemy's gate is down' et al. I predict that I will become quite pissed off with certain people over this.

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Quote from: deathfun on May 10, 2013, 07:30:42 pm
It has Harrison Ford
What could POSSIBLY go wrong with that

The narration in the trailer has me suspecting that history shall repeat itself. :nervous:

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Also, does anyone else find it a bit odd that the children appear to be the wrong age?
Title: Re: Ender's Game: The Movie
Post by: deathfun on May 11, 2013, 03:09:12 am: The enemy's gate is down! Their rear is open for penetration! Ram them hard and deep!
Title: Re: Ender's Game: The Movie
Post by: karajorma on May 11, 2013, 05:07:32 am: Quote from: BloodEagle on May 11, 2013, 03:05:37 am
I predict that this movie will:
#1. Make lots of money.
#2. Completely suck.
#3. Cause lots of people who never have and never will read the book(s) to suddenly start quoting 'The enemy's gate is down' et al. I predict that I will become quite pissed off with certain people over this.

You missed

#4. Since Ender's Game made a lot of money they decide to turn Speaker For The Dead into a movie too.

With more action sequences than "Miro climbs a fence".
Title: Re: Ender's Game: The Movie
Post by: Mars on May 11, 2013, 09:22:42 am: Quote from: BloodEagle on May 11, 2013, 03:05:37 am
Also, does anyone else find it a bit odd that the children appear to be the wrong age?

I telling you son, all that evil movie is is toddler-murder porn. I forbidee from partakin' of it.
Title: Re: Ender's Game: The Movie
Post by: Gray113 on May 11, 2013, 09:50:14 am: They dont mind the murder part, it's the fact that the book mentions naked children in a room together :shaking: that had dem folks in South Carolina angry http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/mar/23/police-complaint-enders-game

To be honest I thought the book was ok but I read it when I was 13. I won't go to see it because then I dislike Orson Scott Card's bigotry.
Title: Re: Ender's Game: The Movie
Post by: Scourge of Ages on May 11, 2013, 12:24:31 pm: Quote from: Mars on May 11, 2013, 09:22:42 am
I telling you son, all that evil movie is is toddler-murder porn.

Isn't that basically The Hunger Games too?

Anyway, I always thought Ender's Game was an anime...
*googles* oh, Zone of the Enders. That explains it.

Yeah I'll probably see it at some point. I'm a sucker for sci-fi in film.
Title: Re: Ender's Game: The Movie
Post by: Suongadon on May 11, 2013, 01:32:59 pm: Quote from: Black Wolf on May 10, 2013, 09:22:51 pm
I very much doubt that. The book was awesome, but Orson Scott Card is a bit of a, well, mammoth dickbag. I suspect Batts wants to see the movie without giving him any money - same goes for me. In my case, while I rarely torrent movies (I just prefer the cinematic experience) but this may have to be an exception.

I is confused. He's a mammoth dickbag (totally stealing that to use all the time) and you don't want to give him money, but the book celebrating dickbaggery is awesome?
Title: Re: Ender's Game: The Movie
Post by: Dark Hunter on May 11, 2013, 01:41:44 pm: Card usually does a decent job of keeping his personal agendas out of his writing.

Usually.

Fortunately, Ender's Game (the original book, anyway) is one where he succeeds at that.
Title: Re: Ender's Game: The Movie
Post by: Suongadon on May 11, 2013, 01:54:02 pm: That's really not how I remember it at all. 'Course, it has been close to twenty years since I ~~sneered~~ suffered through it.

Still going to go watch it though, cause:

Quote from: Scourge of Ages on May 11, 2013, 12:24:31 pm
I'm a sucker for sci-fi in film.
Title: Re: Ender's Game: The Movie
Post by: NGTM-1R on May 11, 2013, 05:01:03 pm: Quote from: Dark Hunter on May 11, 2013, 01:41:44 pm
Fortunately, Ender's Game (the original book, anyway) is one where he succeeds at that.

No he's pretty much waving a huge douchebaggery flag about what it takes to fight a war.
Title: Re: Ender's Game: The Movie
Post by: SypheDMar on May 18, 2013, 11:27:25 am: At the beginning of the trailer, I thought the starships in the book were U.S. fighter planes in the movie.
Title: Re: Ender's Game: The Movie
Post by: Phantom Hoover on May 20, 2013, 11:32:50 am: So I just saw the trailer for this waiting for Into Darkness, they really are chuffed about all their academy award winners.
Title: Re: Ender's Game: The Movie
Post by: MP-Ryan on May 24, 2013, 04:48:27 pm: The book has been in my mental list of stuff I really should read for years, but I still haven't bothered.
Title: Re: Ender's Game: The Movie
Post by: BloodEagle on May 24, 2013, 06:17:07 pm: Ender's Game is pretty short, it shouldn't take more than a day or two. I prefer The Bean Trilogy take on it, myself.
Title: Re: Ender's Game: The Movie
Post by: AdmiralRalwood on May 30, 2013, 06:31:46 pm: I thought the original book was vastly over-hyped and that the sequels (including the side-quels) were terrible.

I'd much rather see somebody make a good Honor Harrington movie/show/video game.