Ender's Game- The Movie!!!

[Justin Marx]

I thought a lot of the trailer had a very "video" look. Especially the shots of Harrison Ford in the brightly lit command area..
I know how well the Epic preforms so I'm kinda of confused.. Was this a personal choice?

 

[Adrian Jebef]

I thought a lot of the trailer had a very "video" look. Especially the shots of Harrison Ford in the brightly lit command area..
I know how well the Epic preforms so I'm kinda of confused.. Was this a personal choice?

I gotta agree w/ J. Marx. The book is top 10 sci-fi. This movie adaptation looks more like a Disney afternoon tv show than the dark, militaristic moral tale it wants to tell. If only they had made it in 1993 instead of 2013...

 

[Justin Marx]

Few examples

Few examples

One

 

[Cameron K]

Makes me feel a little bad that I even read a few of his books. Pretty creepy guy. I'll be joining the boycott on this one.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-becker/orson-scott-card-homophobia_b_3569146.html

 

[Vadim Bobkovsky]

I still like Apocalypto by the bad guy named Mel Gibson. Shoot me in the face.

 

[Cameron K]

I still like Apocalypto by the bad guy named Mel Gibson. Shoot me in the face.

Yikes. Me too. Now what do I do?

 

[Jeff Kilgroe]

Boycott if it makes you feel better, but the books' author and his personal beliefs are only a minor detail here. By choosing to join a movement for this reason, you're pitting yourself against a huge number of people who worked on this film. Producers, artists, director, crew, talent, etc.. Who don't share the belief of the author. Regardless of the author's belief, the books still stand as great works of sci-fi and they accurately depicted many of the common tech we use today -- the widespread proliferation of the internet, for example. More than 150 people worked on this film. Are we going to choose to not see it and to not support their efforts, simply because the guy who wrote the book on which this film is based, is an asshole?

Didn't we just go through a similar boycott movement with Man of Steel? …yep.

 

[L. Langer]

The ironic thing is that his "Ender's Game" saga is a well-loved thing for nerdy LGBQT folks from what I've seen, so I guess if they can overlook it, the rest of us can too.

 

[PatrickFaith]

Saw "Ender's Game" today on IMAX ... I totally loved the film. There is minimal foreshadowing on the plot, which I really like, but I think some people will miss the tensional elements if they don't pay attention. (i noticed some people that normally don't like sci fi really liked it, which i wasn't expecting, but they were people that got plot points real quick) I think Enders game is the best sci fi I have scene this year(who ever did the sound also did a amazing job, really the entire production is amazing). I btw really liked "the wall" as the best indie scifi I have scene this year.

Before Enders Game I saw a new hobbit clip, seems to have a better "feel" and texture in the vfx, was very compelling.

 

[Marc Wielage]

Seems I might be alone in preferring the original age of Ender. It was one of the things that made it so powerful in the delivery of it's various messages to me personally. Heightening the themes around control, innocence, abuse, violence and power. Making it less palatable perhaps, but a much more powerful and adult story.

I don't think it would've been practical to make Ender's Game with 8-year-old kids, just like it wouldn't have been possible to make Interview with a Vampire with a 6-year-old seductive girl vampire. I think both are essentially unfilmmable, because actors of that caliber just don't exist, plus the ratings board would get very queasy about it. (There's a long nude scene in the boys' shower in Ender's Game where Ender kills another kid in self-defense; I suspect it's not going to be presented the same way in the film.)

I think the movie is not going to do well commercially for the simple reason that mass audiences might not want to see a sci-fi action/adventure film where most of the cast is about 12 or 13, and there's not a lot of explosions and weird creatures. It's gonna be a tough sell as a commercial film -- but it got pretty good reviews in Variety and Hollywood Reporter​ this week, and I don't doubt that the guys at Light Iron made it look spectacular. I'm looking forward to it.

 

[John Brennick]

+1 I have a lot of really close friends that were artists at Digital Domain in LA that spent countless hours trying to create the best images they could make for this film. Not only because they love what they do but because they love the books so much. To punish the film industry and (because vfx are so pertinent to this film, I'll say) especially vfx all because of something the guy that wrote the story said hurts the people that worked on the movie more than it hurts writer of the books. Please think about the bigger picture when plotting how to protest the actions of one, when ultimately that protest will hurt all but him.

Boycott if it makes you feel better, but the books' author and his personal beliefs are only a minor detail here. By choosing to join a movement for this reason, you're pitting yourself against a huge number of people who worked on this film. Producers, artists, director, crew, talent, etc.. Who don't share the belief of the author. Regardless of the author's belief, the books still stand as great works of sci-fi and they accurately depicted many of the common tech we use today -- the widespread proliferation of the internet, for example. More than 150 people worked on this film. Are we going to choose to not see it and to not support their efforts, simply because the guy who wrote the book on which this film is based, is an asshole?

Didn't we just go through a similar boycott movement with Man of Steel? …yep.

 

[David Kuhn]

Seems I might be alone in preferring the original age of Ender. It was one of the things that made it so powerful in the delivery of it's various messages to me personally. Heightening the themes around control, innocence, abuse, violence and power. Making it less palatable perhaps, but a much more powerful and adult story. To my mind like if Lord Of the Flies was made with 14-17 year olds. It would still be a valid story, but not anywhere near as powerful in it's message.

I actually had a problem with the ages used in the book... not the idea of 8 year old children being exploited to save the world but rather the fact that Card seemed to have trouble delivering a creditable 8 year old character. You can't just say a character is 8 years old and then proceed to have them speak and act like their 30. It wasn't a big enough problem to prevent me from thoroughly enjoying the entire series, but I think making the kids a bit older helped in the movie.

I liked the movie, it felt rushed (lot of material to cover) and I think I'd have had trouble with it if I hadn't read the book... but I enjoyed it overall.