Anyone else watch the movie Ender's Game?

[Swat 3]

I felt really sad at the end (highlight using mouse, spoiler proof), on how they tricked Ender in to believing he was only playing a simulation, but in reality he was commanding the real war. In reality, if he was actually told that it was the real thing, he would have done a diplomatic solution, although it was a good ending on how he promised that alien that he would save the Queen and allow the species to regrow.

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[Lego lad]

Yeah it was a huge plottiwst.

[TheKhoz]

You know it's like that in the book, except like 100x better.

If you haven't read the book, I highly suggest you do. And the sequels aren't very interesting, but the Shadow Series is really great.

[Brickitect]

I wanna see it so bad.

[ShadowsfeaR]

It follows the book almost to the T. It was loving amazing.

[Qwepir]

Yes that was the point. Here's another big clue: Good guys don't use planet-killing weapons to begin with.

[Harm94]

Yes that was the point. Here's another big clue: Good guys don't use planet-killing weapons to begin with.

forget this stuff, I want a 40k movie where they exterminataus the stuff out of a whole solar system. Lord Inquistador when!

[Qwepir]

I said good guys, not protagonists. You can still have the leading character use a planet-destroying superweapon on an inhabited planet, but they would be morally bankrupt for doing so (unless they did it unknowingly).

[TheKhoz]

My major gripes were:
Bonzo's death was really underwhelming
Valentine wasn't portrayed importantly enough
Peter wasn't portrayed evil enough
They cut out the Locke/Demosthenes thing, which isn't a huge deal, but it would have been nice if they included it
Petra seemed too much like a romantic interest, she's really supposed to be a substitute Valentine
The battle school game (the one for which the book/movie is named, by the way) wasn't very well done at all, they really should have followed it exactly like it is in the book, they changed the rules and it wasn't very good. They made it so you didn't need to have 5 players to win, which is why you couldn't just cheat the way Ender did, kinda making his genius underwhelming.

[Harm94]

I said good guys, not protagonists. You can still have the leading character use a planet-destroying superweapon on an inhabited planet, but they would be morally bankrupt for doing so (unless they did it unknowingly).

What is morality? All I know is kill the enemy by any means necessary, not matter at the cost.

[Bester Bageler]

Just finished the third book in the Ender's series. I am going to go on and read the fourth now.

They cut out the Locke/Demosthenes thing, which isn't a huge deal, but it would have been nice if they included it

This plays a big part in all of the following books. In a way leaving it out just says only the first book was being done as a film.

[Swat 3]

I actually felt bad when I noticed that the aliens in reality were just having a population crCIA and saw Earth as a possible colony.

I think they didn't know people were living there.

[lolz??]

You know it's like that in the book, except like 100x better.

If you haven't read the book, I highly suggest you do. And the sequels aren't very interesting, but the Shadow Series is really great.

honestly the book did a horrible job with the plot twist, they made it seem like some insignificant detail and it took all the interest out of it
also orson scott card is the greatest hypocritte ever for making an anti-xenophobia book

[Katadeus]

The book was so beautiful
Like I can't watch the movie because I liked the book so much
It's the only book/movie I'm like that with.
I was fine with how the plot twist came about in the book.
But yeah Orson Scott Card is a hypocrite definitely

[Stocking]

You know it's like that in the book, except like 100x better.

if books are so great than why are movies so much better