Ender's Game

[Millburn]

Don't buy anything that puts money into Cards hands, dude uses it for bigoted evil things. He probably rapes small children.

[Langrisserx]

whole franchise is for big tits and small brains.. oh hai kimm

[runlvlzero]

I liked it. I hope it leads to the dystopian downfall of our civilization.

[Sidelle]

Going to read this book after I read the Divergence series, which apparently is also being made into a movie for 2014. Just started it and it's decent so far.

[radditsu]

http://www4.ncsu.edu/~tenshi/Killer_000.htm

[Dirkus]

I really enjoyed both the book and the movie. I don't think they could have done any better in the two hours they had.

[Abner]

Loved the book way back when I read it. I thought at the time it would be a great movie but wasn't sure how they could pull off the battle school stuff. Fortunately we have the technology now and they did a great job with that.

I would recommend seeing it before reading it so you don't know what is going to happen. I thought it was a good movie but not awesome. Definitely worth seeing. My wife who did not read the books liked it more than I did.

My other favorite book in the series was Ender's Shadow but I don't see that happening. The other books in the series got a bit weird for me.

I am a tough critic and I give it 7 out of 10 stars. My wife gives it 8.5 out of 10.

Conclusion: Go see it and the big screen is a must.

P.S. I read that Orson Scott Card is writing new sequel books focusing more on what happens with battle school etc after the first movie (unlike the books which follow Ender elsewhere).

[runlvlzero]

Originally Posted by Lols Umad [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Exactly my point. Old man nerds mad they cut out the internet message board drama from movie. Lol.

pretty much, you got to cut some nerd shit to make the movie flow/interesting/not some kind of stupid prophetic documentary on science shit that didnt happen 20 yeara go.

[stormlord]

I got a taste of all this when the Lord of the Rings movies were made several years ago. I had already read the series written by Tolkien, so none of the movies surprised me. However, I didn't enjoy the movies, either. I'm an avid reader and I think books just go into the details more and that's what I enjoy. It's just hard to squish it all into 2 hours. Movies are nice on occasion, but I think I prefer to read and watch different plots rather than the same ones. Knowing how Lord of the Rings would end didn't help me enjoy the movie. And if I had watched the movie before reading the books then the same thing would happen if I read them after. Still, if I HAD to choose between reading it first or watching it first I think I'd watch it first because at least when you read it later more details will come out rather than less. Then again, I still think it's playing with fire.

It's not so much that you can't squish a lot into 2 hours of movie, it's that the human mind can't absorb it all in 2 hours. The best movies have to be watched more than once and/or you have to contemplate them afterwards. This is at least how my mind works. I need time to absorb things. When I'm reading a book I don't read it all at once. I might read an hour in a day. I'm also a slow reader. So for some matter of days I'll be thinking about a scene or a character in the book and I get a lot of opportunity to swim around in it.

[Dirkus]

He needs to finish the Lost Gate Trilogy first!