[StarSlayer]

Trailers Up

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.

[karajorma]

Spoiler for those who haven't read the book.

Spoiler:

They just gave away the end of the movie!

[redsniper]

Inorite, I was kind of surprised to see that.

[deathfun]

It has Harrison Ford
What could POSSIBLY go wrong with that

[General Battuta]

Gonna be buying a ticket to a different movie and sneaking in to this one!

[karajorma]

I suspect a few people will be doing that.

[StarSlayer]

Slayer's brain is a little slow on the uptake at the moment, just came back from a run.

Is that a moped joke?

[Phantom Hoover]

no, the joke is that ender's game is not very good

[Black Wolf]

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.

[Mongoose]

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.

[NGTM-1R]

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.

[BloodEagle]

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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It has Harrison Ford
What could POSSIBLY go wrong with that

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

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Also, does anyone else find it a bit odd that the children appear to be the wrong age?

[deathfun]

The enemy's gate is down! Their rear is open for penetration! Ram them hard and deep!

[karajorma]

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".

[Mars]

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.

[Gray113]

They dont mind the murder part, it's the fact that the book mentions naked children in a room together 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.

[Scourge of Ages]

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.

[Suongadon]

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?

[Dark Hunter]

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.

[Suongadon]

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:

I'm a sucker for sci-fi in film.