EPT[Movie] Ender's Game - Page 19
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ShadowDrgn
United States2497 Posts
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Carnivorous Sheep
Baa?21245 Posts
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LuMiX
China5757 Posts
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vaderseven
United States2556 Posts
If they did the book too closely it would be kinda weird. The format of a hollywood film just isn't the place for sub 10 year-olds killing each other and playing fantasy games by themselves. Prolly will love the book more than the movie, but, they are doing the story and idea correctly for the medium as far as I can tell. | ||
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czylu
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valium
United States251 Posts
Still a chance to make a good movie off the premise of the book though. | ||
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WolfintheSheep
Canada14127 Posts
On May 08 2013 11:59 Judicator wrote: Yes, but the part of what made the movie so good was that Ender was NOT self-aware of his standing. Yes, everyone else knew or had an inkling, but they never told him about it. The Ender in that trailer is like aware of what is going on, that's changes the whole premise of the story. Ender was definitely self-aware of his own importance, at the very least. He was very aware that he would never receive help from adults, very aware that Battle School was being cannibalized for the sake of pushing him, and definitely aware that the adults were singling him out among his peers. Hell, Ender even knew it was him specifically that was being groomed to fight the Formics. It's really only the timeframe that takes him by surprise. And the trailer is poorly framed for anyone who knows the story, but it's not designed for those people at all. There's honestly no point in overanalyzing those clips...nothing has context, voice clips are matched to incorrect scenes. Hell, the scenes with Petra are even framed romantically, but those are still moments that are identical to the book. Trailers always misrepresent movies. That's a fact of cinema. | ||
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Bloodash
Netherlands1384 Posts
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CaucasianAsian
Korea (South)11599 Posts
On May 08 2013 14:04 StayPhrosty wrote: i like the trailer, but tbh the movie could go either way. The director and producers seems to have the possibility of skill, but also are quite susceptible to the shallow "spectacle sci-fi" that is all too common these days. I took a writing class with Orson Scott Card a few years back. He told me that he has attempted to sell the rights to the movie many times, and then after a bunch of movie producers kept failing to meet his standards, he refused to allow them to continue with production. He is a perfectionist, and if he didn't think it was good, he wouldn't have allowed it to be made. Orson Scott Card has a lot of influence into this movie. | ||
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Thereisnosaurus
Australia1822 Posts
+ Show Spoiler + MAZER FUCKING RACKHAM edit: for those wondering why, rackham is described as 'half maori-half new-zealander', which IMO is pretty cool that they kept. The tattoos are maori style. I think the trailer doesn't preclude the film from being good. There's a few no-nos in my book, particularly setting ender and petra up as a romance, ignoring the psychological effects on him and/or revealing the invasion before the book does, right at the end. I think they will do at least one of these, which will be painful but tolerable. More and I don't think it's really ender's game any more. | ||
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stroggozz
New Zealand19 Posts
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h41fgod
Sweden377 Posts
On May 08 2013 16:11 WolfintheSheep wrote: Ender was definitely self-aware of his own importance, at the very least. He was very aware that he would never receive help from adults, very aware that Battle School was being cannibalized for the sake of pushing him, and definitely aware that the adults were singling him out among his peers. Hell, Ender even knew it was him specifically that was being groomed to fight the Formics. It's really only the timeframe that takes him by surprise. And the trailer is poorly framed for anyone who knows the story, but it's not designed for those people at all. There's honestly no point in overanalyzing those clips...nothing has context, voice clips are matched to incorrect scenes. Hell, the scenes with Petra are even framed romantically, but those are still moments that are identical to the book. Trailers always misrepresent movies. That's a fact of cinema. Ender figures out that he is singled out on the ride to battle school... | ||
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kuriz
Denmark141 Posts
On May 08 2013 12:12 Noro wrote: I guess I'm watching a different trailer from everyone else. I am unbelievably excited. Dude I totally hear you! I thought this trailer was banging. Obviously a lot of things will be missing and be let out, but nonetheless I think it looks good. It's kind of interesting to read through these comments though. It generally (not all, but generally) seems that you guys that read it years ago and have "lived with it" (if you can say that), is very sceptical compared to me for example that read it not too long ago and just thought it was an awesome book. I'm definitely going to see the movie and I'm very hyped after watching the trailer, so I guess that's just good for me :-) To continue the book discussion though I got the Speaker for the Dead from the Library a week ago and compared to Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow it's....mweh....I read only 50 pages in or so and it was just being slow. Didn't catch me at all really. | ||
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MarlieChurphy
United States2065 Posts
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Thereisnosaurus
Australia1822 Posts
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Spazer
Canada8036 Posts
On May 08 2013 17:58 Thereisnosaurus wrote: all looks mediocre except for + Show Spoiler + MAZER FUCKING RACKHAM edit: for those wondering why, rackham is described as 'half maori-half new-zealander', which IMO is pretty cool that they kept. The tattoos are maori style. I think the trailer doesn't preclude the film from being good. There's a few no-nos in my book, particularly setting ender and petra up as a romance, ignoring the psychological effects on him and/or revealing the invasion before the book does, right at the end. I think they will do at least one of these, which will be painful but tolerable. More and I don't think it's really ender's game any more. The romance part is likely just due to how that particular scene was taken out of context and framed in the trailer. All she's doing in the trailer is sitting next to Ender. I hope. | ||
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une_certaine_verve
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EGMachine
United States1643 Posts
 GOING TO BE EPIC!! | ||
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ThomasjServo
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darksub
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