Enders Game
No spoilers, but anyone who has read the book knows whats up.
The “I killed an entire species so I must save them!” is annoying, but it is the book, so it’s not like it will be a surprise. And since you have an egg to save, I guess you didn’t kill an entire species you little monkey.
Aside from that, I found it extraordinarily well done and nicely rendered. Harrison Ford and Ben Kingsley are impressive. The supporting cast additive without being intrusive. Special effects pretty special. It is still in some theaters, I may go see it in a theater just to get the advantage of the big screen. See this movie.
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I will have to wait on this till I can get it via some other method. Can’t get anyone to go to movies like this.
Such is life. I do want to see it though.
Paul, You can rent it from Redbox for $1.20 as I did.
I differ with Og on Harrison Ford. He played the same expression throughout the movie: scowl with none of his special mixing of emotions, so he was disappointing. I think this may be what they mean by phoning in a performance.
Did we see a different movie?
Paul: I bought the DVD for i think it was $14 at Walmart
Good things to know. I will pick up the DVD.
Pascal…Not a big fan of red box as I can never get the damn things back in time. Plus they are in food stores. Not a place I should be left unsupervised
Well, at the risk of offending our host, I’m amazed og liked it.
I thought it was a large production of juvenile science fiction, Tom Corbett kind of. Teen Space Cadets.
That the government of Earth would trust it’s continued existence in Harrison Ford’s hunch that Ender was the Messiah…
What did I miss?
Saw it. It is pure eye candy up until the last 10 minutes or so. Read the books until they got too preachy for me. (Card’s in good company. Same goes for Heinlein.)
Ed: You never read the books?
No, just saw the movie.
Guess that’s what I missed.
Read a lot of Tom Corbett and Tom Swift, though. :)
Read the book. Then watch the movie again.
It is amazingly difficult to do justice to a book with a film. Occasionally a film will come close.
This is one. The first two thirds is
quite faithful to the book though condensed quite a bit. The major subplot involving Enders siblings is not shown which is not a fatal flaw but limits them in how they can conclude the story in the film. All in all it’s well done version. I’m sure that Orson Scott Card being one of the producers was part of it as he had significant say in aspects of production.
I liked it, glad I got to see it on the big screen.
It’s not perfect, but probably close to the best job you can do stuffing that book into 2hrs on a screen.
Been a while since I read the book, I think they compressed what was a few years in book time into a few weeks movie time, but would have needed 2 or 3 movies ala LOTR or Hobbit to do otherwise…would have been tedious…
Yep, read several of them.
They get batter and better, don’t they, Liz?
I think the only way not to enjoy the movie is not to read the books.