Ender's Game

[Riverwind (imported)]

This is a must see at the theater.

I will not give spoilers or a spoiler alert, other then to say its one of the best Scifi movies I have seen in years.

Go and enjoy it, this is a 5 out of 5 stars. Yes, I liked it.

WARNING, NO Spoilers, let it be an enjoyable experience for everybody.

River

[Paolo]

Saw this on my RSS feed, now that it works...

I'll take your word for it. Thanks. Been a while since I read the book.

[Slammr (imported)]

I saw the movie yesterday, and for the most part, I liked it. Bonzo Madrid was seriously miscast, however, and for some reason, that bugs me, although it probably wouldn't concern someone that hasn't read the book four or five times as I have (just about finished reading it again since seeing the movie yesterday).

Bonzo, in the book, was a big, strong, good looking guy. He was older and bigger than Ender. Bonzo, in the movie, is an ugly little twerp, a foot shorter than Ender. I hate that this miscast, and how they handled their final confrontation, is the thing that sticks in my mind, almost ruining, for me, an otherwise excellent adaptation of the book, remembering that it is a movie based on the book, and no movie is the book.

Again, for someone that hasn't read the book, this shouldn't be a problem.

Asa Butterfield is probably the only sixteen year-old that could have played Ender and made it seem like he was Ender from the book, even though the Ender in the book went away to battle school when he was six not sixteen. Except that he was taller than about everyone, he could have been playing prepubescent kid, and he felt like the Ender that I picture in my head, if that makes any sense.

[Paolo]

From what I read, Bean was the one really miscast.

So Bonzo's a shorter kid in the film, and Bean isn't?

I just never imagine Aramis Knight as the Bean-type. Or Bean as the Aramis-type...

Yet another reason to wait for the DVD rental.

[Slammr (imported)]

Bean was okay for me. He was smaller than the others, or appeared to be so in the movie. Bonzo was the only one that seriously bothered me. I think they tried to make Asa appear smaller, but he is one, tall, kid. He was taller than most of the adults in the movie. Still, I liked him as Ender, but I loved him in Hugo. He's shot up in height since Hugo, though.

[Riverwind (imported)]

I guess it was not my immagination, Asa Butterfield looked like he grew in the movie, well it turns out he did, 2 inches.

River

[Riverwind (imported)]

I started the book this week, I am not a fast reader and read every word. I gotta say the only reason I stopped reading this last night is because the battery in my tablet was dead. This is one of the best books I have read in a long while.

As for Bean, from the movie I will need to look at the guy to make the link, as for Bonzo yes they put in the wrong guy as for his height however his attitude was a Bonzo all the way.

I left off with Ender heading to command school - what a book.

River

[Slammr (imported)]

If you like Ender's Game, you might read, Ender's Shadow, a parallel story about Bean, from Bean's pov. I just reread it, and it was fun.

[curious_guy (imported)]

If you like Ender's Game, you might read, Ender's Shadow, a parallel story about Bean, from Bean's pov. I just reread it, and it was fun.

I thought that Ender's Shadow was very good but I liked Ender's Game much more. Ever since I learned that Mr. Card contributed large sums of money to the yes on Prop 8 campaign, I have not wanted to read any of his books.

[StefanIsMe (imported)]

Hmmm... Curious Guy, I might suggest you stop reading the news if you wish to enjoy certain (many) author's works. A great many authors of excellent, even morally uplifting or positive or worthy novels have disgusting personal histories.

I think it's perhaps, to use too heavy a word, dangerous to turn one's back on works of art and deny ourselves the education and personal improvement that comes from them just because we find out the creator had opinions that we disagree with.

You might find that other novels or theorems or sculptures that you presently respect and honor were in fact made by somebody who holds a precept with which you disagree; would finding that out make you reject a lifelong love for something?

I'd rather hold creations up to the light of their own value, rather than that of the creator. It's nice to look up to the author, yes, but not necessary.

After all, we all still credit and honor Henry Ford for what he did to American manufacturing even though he was a full-blown Nazi, and we (well, I) still love the classic Disney cartoons even though ol' Walt was a Jew-hating racist.