Ender's Game

[Donegeal]

I hope they didn't **** this up. Looks good so far.

[Krill]

I have to wait until November?

**** this. Ignorance is bliss. You shouldn't have ****ing anything until End of October.

[Donegeal]

Serves you right with that damn signature of yours!

[Krill]

If KH did a ranking of best signatures I'd better ****ing be #1

[Elok]

The dialogue chosen for the trailer seemed like pretty typical dumb-action-movie stuff, but they may have just chosen the most stereotypical lines out of the whole thing. Production values look spiffy, and the cast is of course quite impressive. Here's hoping...

[Koyaanisqatsi]

This trailer is ridiculously stupid for reasons that can't be discussed without spoilers.

[Elok]

1. Remember, there's a spoiler tag
2. I have a hard time believing anybody on here has not read the book, but plans to see the movie

[Koyaanisqatsi]

I know there's a spoiler tag, I didn't use it because I expect that everyone here has read the book and knows what I'm talking about.

[Elok]

Call me stupid, but I missed it. A number of things don't chime with the books (e.g. the bit about the Formics "knowing our strategies," Rackham and Graff appearing in the same conversation), but I assumed those were changes or scriptwriters' thoughtless puffery.

[Docfeelgood]

1. Remember, there's a spoiler tag
2. I have a hard time believing anybody on here has not read the book, but plans to see the movie

I've not read the book..

[Dr Strangelove]

Wasn't Ender supposed to be 6 years old in the beginning, 10 or 11 at the end?

[Koyaanisqatsi]

Not stupid, but...

Spoiler:

The major problem is that they're focused entirely on the war. There's never any mention that the war will be in the future and we're just training for it now, which means that people who see the trailer will go in expecting it to be a real war. The war is being spoken of in the present tense. This subverts the whole simulation twist.

And yes, it's worrying that it's being set up as a purely action movie.

Also, we see Mazer in the trailer. IIRC the fact that he's alive is a secret for a good chunk of the book. But since he's never identified that's really not too bad.

[Docfeelgood]

True, gives the impression as another "Independence day".

[DaShi]

Who judges movies based on their trailers? Most studios produce several different trailers to appeal to different audiences.

[Elok]

Spoiler:

In a 1998 interview, Orson Scott Card discussed the process of adapting the novel into a screenplay. "The first decision I made was not to pursue the Peter/Valentine subplot with the Internet, because that's just watching people type things into the computer. The second decision I made was to give that information about the surprise at the end from the start. In my script we know who Mazer Rackham really is and we know what is at stake as Ender plays his games. But Ender doesn't know, so I think the suspense is actually increased because the audience knows we're about the business of saving the world and that everything depends on this child not understanding that. We care all the more about whether he wins – and we worry that he might not want to. As we watch the adults struggle to get control of Ender, we pity him because of what's happening to him, but we want the adults to succeed. I think it makes for a much more complex and fascinating film than it would have been if I had tried to keep secrets."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ender%27s_Game_%28film%29

There's also a good possibility that the war aspects were beefed up because the guys who do trailers have a hard-on for 'splosions and fast cuts.