Trailer for “Ender’s Game” here:
http://insidemovies.ew.com/2013/08/06/enders-game-trailer-harrison-ford/
Lotsa’ 'splosions. That’s what people want from their sci-fi movies, so it should be a big hit.
Hmmm. Maybe. Maybe not.
Harrison Ford really doesn’t seem right for the part somehow.
Or perhaps he’s phoning it in? His delivery just seems affectless, and not in an “acting” way…
Did they just give away the big reveal of the book?
Ender isn’t playing a game at all. He’s commanding real ships on a desperate mission
It sure as heck seemed like it. Idiots. :smack:
I haven’t read the book. Do you mean that the whole book is about a kid playing a game and then at the end you find out that he was fighting real aliens the whole time?
Sort of. It’s a little more complicated than that.
My favorite XKCD is based on Ender’s Game.
Haven’t watched this one yet, but the original trailer (thread here) was like a Cliff’s Notes version of the book. Including the big reveal.
Yep, that’s basically it. But I’m surprised nobody’s mentioned the other major spoiler revealed in the trailers, which is that Mazer Rackham, Ben Kingsley’s character, is still alive.
This trailer does seem better than the original one, though. The first trailer actually tried to imply a relationship between Ender and Petra…or worse, Valentine. :eek:
To elaborate (do not read if you’re at all interested in the book):
Ender knows that he’s being trained and schooled to be the ultimate general, having soared through Battle School, and moved on to Command School (most of the book covers his time at Battle School). But even though he’s really good at fighting, he hates doing it (the Battle School “fights” are just a sport, not a simulation of actual combat at all, so he didn’t have a problem with them). So he attempts to take a dive on his final exam, in order to deliberately flunk out of Command School. The way he does this is by committing an act of massive genocide, in the simulated attack that forms the climax of the final exam. Except that it turns out that the simulations he’s been going through in Command School aren’t actually simulations, and he really did commit genocide.
HA! That is hilarious!
I wonder how faithful it will be? Like with the mysterious video game, and his sister and her friend doing all of the blogging back on Earth, and going to the planet and finding the thing at the end.
Anyway, I didn’t care for the book but my wife loves it, I’ll probably check out the movie in theaters, and just like Hunger Games it’ll probably be better than the book.
His sister and his brother do the blogging thing together.
I’ll be surprised if they keep the weird video game with the giant. That’s always a fun part of the book to analyze in the classroom, but I feel like it would be difficult to show in a movie without it feeling a bit random.
Damn, I’m glad I’d read the book before saw that.
So…you have to have read the book to get this?
I read the short story years ago, pre-internet, but I don’t think I ever read the novel-ized version.
Hmmmm. . . I don’t remember it like that exactly, but, kinda. I thought he was manipulated into doing it, because everyone in the room was celebrating when he delivered the final blow.
Yes - the xkcd cartoon is about characters that do not appear in the short story version of “Ender’s Game”
There is no way they can do the blogging in the movie. It would just seem ridiculous now, as it does when you read the novel today.
The thing that’s truly ridiculous is how the two kids were able to be world leaders by, IIRC, arguing against their belief systems. That’s the added twist that turned the section about Peter and… whatsername… becoming World Leading Bloggers from eye-rollingly implausible to bugshit stupid.