Ender's Game

Parrakarry · 10-14-2004, 10:57 PM

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0400403/

We've known about this for a while, I just never posted it... I, personally, don't think it's going to be a particularly good movie. It's POSSIBLE to capture the greatness of the book in a movie, but I doubt it's gonna happen, unfortunately. What do you think?

Jonathan Resop · 10-14-2004, 11:55 PM

Yeah...I've heard about this for a while...but still no solid news. The book is one of my favorite of all time, but I bet they manage to screw it up hard core.-jay

***Heroine of the Dragon*** · 10-15-2004, 12:09 AM

I refuse to watch any movie about the one book I read repeatedly. I know I'll cry at what they mess up!!!

darkintention · 10-17-2004, 11:00 PM

There are two main things in my mind that would make a movie based on Ender's Game really hard to do right.

1. The number of children roles. You don't need just one child actor who really good, you need a who cast of them. Perhaps I'm too cynical, but it just seems like a screw up waiting to happen.

2.So much of Ender's Game depends on the reader being inside Ender...feeling like they are Ender when they read. When I read a book I like, I often think about how I would cut it into a movie. The more I thought about Ender's Game, the more I realized that what makes Ender's Game really great would be terribly difficult to bring to screen(especially with my first point in mind). When I think of Ender's Game without the empathetic connection of feeling like you are Ender... I realize that there isn't really too much there. It isn't really good anymore.

So those are the two biggest things an Ender's Game movie would have to overcome. They are two things I think would be terribly difficult to do right.

Swordmaster Link · 10-18-2004, 03:52 PM

It wouldn't be good enough. Period.

For example, I read Timeline last year and thought it was really good, but then I saw the movie and it was garbage.

The Dragon · 10-19-2004, 10:34 AM

NO ****ING WAY! O_()

If they srcew this up, I'll kill them and their little company too.

The Dragon was here.

Parrakarry · 10-29-2004, 01:59 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by ^Swordmaster Link:
It wouldn't be good enough. Period.

For example, I read Timeline last year and thought it was really good, but then I saw the movie and it was garbage.

Sorry for the bump, but exactly.

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darkintention Member Join Date: Aug 2001 Posts: 1,394 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts Points: 1,215.00 Bank: 500.00 Total Points: 1,715.00 Donate	There are two main things in my mind that would make a movie based on Ender's Game really hard to do right. 1. The number of children roles. You don't need just one child actor who really good, you need a who cast of them. Perhaps I'm too cynical, but it just seems like a screw up waiting to happen. 2.So much of Ender's Game depends on the reader being inside Ender...feeling like they are Ender when they read. When I read a book I like, I often think about how I would cut it into a movie. The more I thought about Ender's Game, the more I realized that what makes Ender's Game really great would be terribly difficult to bring to screen(especially with my first point in mind). When I think of Ender's Game without the empathetic connection of feeling like you are Ender... I realize that there isn't really too much there. It isn't really good anymore. So those are the two biggest things an Ender's Game movie would have to overcome. They are two things I think would be terribly difficult to do right.

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