Ender's Game

[Frank46]

Ender's game is the title to a new science fiction movie starring Harrison Ford among others. Have read the origional story years ago. What with todays CGI and other improvements this should be a very interesting movie to watch. Not gonna give any details as I don't want to spoil anything. Just saw a 15 minute preview on cable and looks to be a good movie. So if any of you sci-fi fans want to see a good movie check it out. Frank

 

[.45goblue]

I'm looking forward to viewing this film. I thoroughly enjoyed the books in the series, I hope they do the book justice.

Lord knows Hollywood can ruin fantastic novels.

 

[Gunslinger808]

I'm just hoping it's half as good as the book.
Considering how they've butchered Heinlein's stuff you can hope they don't do the same here.
Insanity rules!

 

[mc5aw]

I'll offer the contrarian POV. I taught "Ender's Game" for one semester to an 8th Grade Honors English class. Every student thought it was a confusing and ponderous book. I thought it was flat out dreadful ... overwritten, burdensome, and poorly crafted dialogue. It was one and done for that selection in school.

As to Harrison Ford in a literary-based sci-fi flick, I'll stay with "Blade Runner" from Philip K. Dick's "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?"

 

[loeman]

As to Harrison Ford in a literary-based sci-fi flick, I'll stay with "Blade Runner" from Philip K. Dick's "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?"[/QUOTE]

I'm not a huge science fiction literature fan and therefore I have not read "Enders Game". However, I do enjoy the occasional sci fi film and "Blade Runner" is my favorite. Perhaps there are many others that are better, but I sure haven't seen them.

 

[Ivan the Butcher]

The 60 second preview I saw had many "Deviations" from what I remember of the Battle Room. I thought the later books in the series were very drawn out, but it kept Olsen Scott Card eating for quit a few years. Ivan

 

[JonF]

You might consider Sean Connery in "Outland" (1981) .

 

[shouldazagged]

You might consider Sean Connery in "Outland" (1981) .

Excellent flick. One of my favorite Connery movies--"High Noon" on one of Jupiter's moons.

 

[DR505]

Two thumbs up for "Outland"!

The 60 second preview I saw had many "Deviations" from what I remember of the Battle Room. I thought the later books in the series were very drawn out, but it kept Olsen Scott Card eating for quit a few years. Ivan

Ivan that is Orson Scott Card.

 

[walkin jack]

Well, I'd never heard of that title until I saw the preview on cable tonight. I immediately Thought of TRON with Jeff Bridges. I wasn't impressed with that. But I'm a Harrison Ford fan so I'll give it a whirl, I did like Outland very much so we'll see.....

 

[LVSteve]

You might consider Sean Connery in "Outland" (1981) .

Truly wonderful movie. The claustrophobic feel was incredible.

I also like Blade Runner, so long as it is the Director's Cut with the more ambiguous and sinister ending.

 

[UncaGrunny]

I'm hoping the movie does the book (it's only covering the first of the series) justice. Good written sci-fi is notoriously hard to make into good film - - too much of lit sci fi is in-the-head.

I greatly enjoyed the original book and most of the sequels... the "Bean" stories got a bit too far into the weeds for my taste, lost believability for me.

As far as being "confusing," or "overwritten and ponderous;" with respect, just about all 'classics of western literature' could as easily be dismissed with the same commentary. Ain't comic books.

Tolstoy? Fitzgerald? Hemmingway? Steinbeck? Milton? Dostoevsky? Cooper?!?

 

[LVSteve]

I'm hoping the movie does the book (it's only covering the first of the series) justice. Good written sci-fi is notoriously hard to make into good film - - too much of lit sci fi is in-the-head.

I greatly enjoyed the original book and most of the sequels... the "Bean" stories got a bit too far into the weeds for my taste, lost believability for me.

As far as being "confusing," or "overwritten and ponderous;" with respect, just about all 'classics of western literature' could as easily be dismissed with the same commentary. Ain't comic books.

Tolstoy? Fitzgerald? Hemmingway? Steinbeck? Milton? Dostoevsky? Cooper?!?

Attention span and reading comprehension, the lost arts.

 

[YogiBear]

Aloha,

I agree with mc5aw.

I tried reading it and it could never hold my attention.

Never got too far into it before putting it down.

Gave it away.

 

[quneur]

The first book was good. The second was tolerable. The third was too weird to be enjoyable.

I'm waiting for someone to do Babel 17; an enjoyable book.

 

[Frank46]

Wish they would re-do Babylon-5 as with all the new tricks would be a kicker. Frank

 

[wly1942]

Have any of you read "The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant" by Stephen R. Donaldson? I would love to see a movie from it.

 

[GaryS]

I enjoyed the book, although it's the only one in the series I read. Science fiction novels generally don't translate to movies very well. Mostly that's because of the time constraints and the tendency of writers, directors, and producers to make them all into space cowboy stories.

About the best translation was "War of the The Worlds", the original movie with Gene Barry. Despite the location and time moves, it still stuck to the original plot pretty well.

 

[johngalt]

Have any of you read "The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant" by Stephen R. Donaldson? I would love to see a movie from it.

An excellent series. It is probably too complex to make into a movie without butchering it.

Piers Anthony's Xanth series would probably make interesting movies.

 

[Gischileu]

I enjoyed "Enders Game" back when I read the book - probably 20 years ago or more. Like most stories with a lot of detail, they're notoriously hard to translate onto film without losing a lot of the detail that made the book a good read.

I've watched the clips/trailers that have been released with interest but don't really want to get my hopes up too high. Hollywierd has ruined entirely too many good books in the process of converting to film...

Remember "Dune" with Sting and Kyle MacLachlan? What an absolute **** movie. However, to prove it could be done right, Sci-Fi channel did "Dune" over again, along with "Children of Dune" in a longer mini-series format, and they did a brilliant job of adapting the novels. Too bad they never did "God Emperor of Dune" to round the series out.

Like Frank46 said, I'd love to see the Babylon5 series re-done with modern CGI graphics backing it up. The storyline was fascinating with great characters.