Ender's Game trailer

[lycans]

Not quite what I expected...

 

[heliotropic]

interesting, they made a movie from this book? i always heard about the book and never read it, looks like now i don't have to!

 

[ExK]

it looks like a big-budget kid/teenager show ...

 

[The_Idiot]

The book is a interesting read but hardly a movie material story.

 

[NicoleNise]

Cool!!!!!! Looking forward.
Anyone too?

 

[trailblaze]

Ender's Game

watched this last nite.

can compare it to Gravity:
1) panning shots of Earth from space - checked
2) nice cgi of space and space craft - checked.
3) ppl spinning in zero g - checked.

and therein ends the similarities.
super slow pace and awful dialogue, this movie is only exciting in the 15min battle scene RIGHT AT THE END!!!

if Gravity is in the running for Best Picture of the Year, then EG is in the running for worst crap of the decade :=(

 

[Jerry007]

Updated:

With a passable 62% fresh rating at rottentomatoes.com and a projected US$28 #1 debut at the US box-office, Ender's Game is not the franchise starter LionsGate / Summit has wanted it to be. Unless it can pull off some surprising numbers from the international market (not likely with Thor and Hunger Games in the horizon), this may be Ender's last game.

Critics' Consensus:

Adapting a beloved novel to the big screen is often a dicey proposition. That said, critics feel that Ender's Game does a pretty good job of bringing its source material to cinematic life, with strong performances and a thoughtful tone that helps to make up for occasional stretches of solemnity and dullness. Earth is under siege from alien invaders, and the fate of humanity rests on the shoulders of Ender (Asa Butterfield), a bullied teenager whose precocious gifts are cultivated in order to devise a strategy to defeat the enemy. The pundits say Ender's Game isn't always emotionally rousing, but it's still a smart, visually exciting sci-fi film that should (mostly) please fans of Orson Scott Card's book.

 

[mission]

Looks good. Planning to watch this one.

 

[cybercom8]

not great but an ok movie to watch...was hoping for starship troopers kind of fight scenes but end up more like computer simulations instead

 

[Jerry007]

I don't know how much the movie stays true or deviates from the acclaimed book by Orson Scott Card but the movie adaptation is a mixed bag for me. It's hard for me to root for or empathize with the movie's protagonist, Ender Wiggins, as he is not totally likeable. The bulk of the movie attempts to show Ender's rise in the command rank while dealing with bullying and ostracization but somehow, Ender seems to annoy you more than winning you over. Even though the climatic ending of the movie provides an unexpected twist and some food for thought (are the humans the villains after all?), nothing much really goes on in between to fully engage the audience.

 

[Panzerf]

2hours is not enough to showcase the depth of the book. Every scene seem so rushed to me. The battle school was too short. The battle was too short.

I like the last part of the Formic Queen with Ender though. That seem to suggest to the next book, Speaker of the Dead.

I am OSC fanboy by the way. So maybe biased.

 

[Jerry007]

2hours is not enough to showcase the depth of the book. Every scene seem so rushed to me. The battle school was too short. The battle was too short.

I like the last part of the Formic Queen with Ender though. That seem to suggest to the next book, Speaker of the Dead.

I am OSC fanboy by the way. So maybe biased.

Hopefully there's something interesting in the book that did not translate to the big screen. If not, it will be a big snooze fest if you prolong it any further.

The movie did not do well in the States and with blockbuster sequels like Thor, Hunger Games and The Hobbit invading the international markets, think the sequel to Ender's Game is most likely dead.

 

[ralliart12]

Any stingers for this film?

 

[doki81]

this one got any ending credit..i watch ady but didnt stay until all credit finish

 

[gigigigi]

I don't know how much the movie stays true or deviates from the acclaimed book by Orson Scott Card but the movie adaptation is a mixed bag for me. It's hard for me to root for or empathize with the movie's protagonist, Ender Wiggins, as he is not totally likeable. The bulk of the movie attempts to show Ender's rise in the command rank while dealing with bullying and ostracization but somehow, Ender seems to annoy you more than winning you over. Even though the climatic ending of the movie provides an unexpected twist and some food for thought (are the humans the villains after all?), nothing much really goes on in between to fully engage the audience.

its not. The book is much better.
Ender's rise to become leader happened over several years and many many battle in the book. he grow up through his experience which not exactly shown in the movie.
relationship with valentine and peter is also much more complex than the movie and this also serve as background foundation for later books
i would recommend reading the book even if you find the movie to be just: "meh.."

 

[Carnage]

I liked the movie!

It doesn't try to hard to emulate Harry Potter. Never read the book though.