The Ender’s Game Movie is Really Real; Seeking Its Young Cast Members

Doubts. I have them.

This might be one of those movies I can’t honestly support with my dollar due to Card’s politics.

I wish I could like this but OSC is such a douche I’m just sad about it.

Mick is in the books. He’s the older kid at the beginning of Ender’s Game who tells Ender to make friends and be a leader. He also steals Ender’s pudding.

Am I the only person on Earth who seriously hated Enders Game?  I think maybe I am.

I mean, it was readable.  I’ll give it that.  It kept you turning the pages.  Other than that, I didn’t think it had anything going for it.  Almost every premise struck me as absurd, from the world pinning all its hopes on this ridiculous program, to the idea that soldiers heading into a suicide mission would quietly take orders from a bunch of little kids who crack jokes at their expense over an open comm channel.

Blargh.

Finally? Finally! I have doubts, but I’m excited.

They should make it, but keep all of the kinder-homoeroticism of the original that Card wrote seemingly without realizing it.  That…would…be…rich.

Couldn’t finish that book.  I was more than two thirds into it and realized I was still waiting for the first original thought.  Recently I’ve come to hate him more than merely as a weak writer, of course.  I won’t be seeing this film, period.

Orson Scott Card is dead to me since he started actively campaigning against Gay and Lesbian relationships.

I’ll watch it for nostalgia, but I won’t pay money for it. And, on the plus side, if I bootleg it, according to RIAA and MPAA math, I’ve cost OSC Ten Bajillion Dollars, so there’s that!

I didn’t like the books either, but then I guess I read them too late i.e. as an adult and the author’s religious agenda was an eyesore that ruined the book for me. That, and the blatant racism and homophobia.

I’d definitely be interested in seeing it if they do it right. The concern I’ve always had is that they would defer to focusing entirely on the adults, given that it would be so difficult to find a large cast of child actors that could believably portray the characters. Of course, I’m not sure that would be a terrible movie if they did it that way. It’s so rare that fiction about child protagonists actually acknowledges that putting all the responsibility on a child and training him/her to save the world is actually ABUSE. It’d be a nice subversion of the hero journey as it’s currently portrayed to put that aspect into the film, but who knows if it’ll be in there.

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Agreed.  In most cases, I don’t think it’s fair to penalize artists for expressing personal views that I disagree with.  However, when that artist is funneling money and publicly advocating for a cause I find abhorrent, it crosses the line.  I won’t be going to see this movie either.

Oh, I think he realized it. I think the homoeroticism was in there as an indication of how fucked up the characters were (not that I’m agreeing with him. He’s a homophobic fuck, but he seems like a self-aware homophobic fuck).

Unoriginal? Seriously? I have my issues with the book, but that’s not one of them. Its innovations have certainly been plundered by numerous stories since then, but for 1985 it had a lot of new ideas and perspectives.

Sorry, but my excitement over the book outweighs my conscience. If it gets decent reviews, I’m paying to see it.

Evangelion… but other than that I can’t think of any.

And I can totally respect that.  Ender’s Game was one of my favorite books growing up – I think I read it for the first time when I was 9 and re-read it a dozen times since then.  I’m a big believer that people should generally be free to express political opinions without having it impact their ability to make a living.  That said, there is a line, and he crossed it when he decided to go onto a public platform and equate pedophilia with homosexuality, and then dump that money that we, his fans, have given him and use it to fight against equal rights.  Not to mention letting his politics seep into his art until you end up with drek like Shadow of the Giant.

I think you’re completely right.

…I just can’t help myself.

Hmm, I want to see the movie, but don’t want any money to go to OSC. I know some people can’t stand to have his books in their home anymore so they sell them on eBay and then donate the money to the Human Rights Campaign or other non-profits that support equality.  Maybe there’s a way I can do that for the movie.

So wait… the way they’re getting back at the author is by getting other people to read his book? Sure, he misses out on the 30 cents of profit, but he gets another person interested in his work. Something seems amiss here.