Ender's Game - A curmudgeon's review.

[Platapus]

Originally Posted by Red October1984

I thought the story to be ridiculous...

If it gets to the point where a little kid is the only hope for humanity....well...maybe humanity isn't meant to last...

From what The Frau tells me, in the book the children are tested, selected, and trained until they become adults than they join the fleet. That's reasonable. In the book, Ender is so gifted that he is especially moved up. Well that's the reach of the fictional plot.

But in the movie, all of the fleet seems to be commanded by a group of kids. That's too far of a stretch even for fiction.

I have not read the books, nor am I particularly interested in doing so, but it sounds like the book is much much better than the movie.

The Ender's Game movie is really a kid's movie.

[Red October1984]

Originally Posted by Platapus

From what The Frau tells me, in the book the children are tested, selected, and trained until they become adults than they join the fleet. That's reasonable. In the book, Ender is so gifted that he is especially moved up. Well that's the reach of the fictional plot.

But in the movie, all of the fleet seems to be commanded by a group of kids. That's too far of a stretch even for fiction.

I have not read the books, nor am I particularly interested in doing so, but it sounds like the book is much much better than the movie.

The Ender's Game movie is really a kid's movie.

This is why I pass on a lot of these book related movies.

They take the movie...Hollywood-ify it....and completely ruin it for the real fans.

[mako88sb]

Originally Posted by Platapus

From what The Frau tells me, in the book the children are tested, selected, and trained until they become adults than they join the fleet. That's reasonable. In the book, Ender is so gifted that he is especially moved up. Well that's the reach of the fictional plot.

But in the movie, all of the fleet seems to be commanded by a group of kids. That's too far of a stretch even for fiction.

It's been awhile since I read the book but some of his fellow students from battle school were also promoted to help Ender with the battles.

Movies can never fully capture the best qualities of a particular book and I'm not surprised to hear they left out some key parts of it. It would of taken quite a bit longer film to do the book justice.