Stormtrooper vs. Red Shirt

[mckavian.livejournal.com]

This is how the willingly ignorant or naive believes wars are fought.

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[dexeron.livejournal.com]

Nowadays, wars are fought by someone sitting down in a room. Thousands of miles away, a wedding suddenly gets blown up.

[aviv-b.livejournal.com]

Enders Game is real.

[fizzyland.livejournal.com]

That movie came and went fast.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

That movie sucked and deserved to die, even IF you ignored that it was a Card property. Because it was a terrible movie, even if you ignore Card.

As it was, Card's "Hitler was totally a good guy and deserved forgiveness" novel got a shit-tastic box office, and the only people I feel remotely bad about for that are Asa Butterfield (who couldn't possibly have turned it down and kept a career), John Scalzi (whose Old Man's War movie treatment now suffers because "audiences don't like sci-fi"), and Orson That Fascist Asshole Scott Card, who got paid for Ender's Game The Movie *and* has sold many more copies of the book, despite being Modern Sci-Fi's Greatest Asshole. This is a dude who manages, by his fingertips, to be a worse person than Tom Kratman, and he got PAID for that.

[fizzyland.livejournal.com]

I wasn't going anywhere near the film. Oddly not any of his books either. I used to be heavy into science fiction but people would rave about Ender's Game and I was "Nope." Felt the same way about my mom's copies of Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead. Ayn Rand creeped me out before I had any idea why.

[malasadas.livejournal.com]

We already had Enders Game in the 1980s. It was called "The Last Starfighter"

[mckavian.livejournal.com]

[malasadas.livejournal.com]

[mckavian.livejournal.com]

The more comments like this that I read, the happier I am to have never read the books not seen the movie

[the-rukh.livejournal.com]

Eh, it wasn't as bad as all of that. It was kind of slow, but they did a good job of building up a "yeah we're going to go kick ass!" tone, then bursting it with the anticlimax. It gives the audience a feeling of "Is this what you wanted? Drink it in, you monsters." when they explain that the bugs went to colonize a planet they didn't know had sentient life then left it alone ever since, and we come commit genocide against them in the name of "defense".

Its a good movie in the same way that Starship Troopers was a good movie, but a lot more overt in its intentions.