Young Ender Wiggin is recruited by the International Military to lead the fight against the Formics, an insectoid alien race who had previously tried to invade Earth and had inflicted heavy ... Read allYoung Ender Wiggin is recruited by the International Military to lead the fight against the Formics, an insectoid alien race who had previously tried to invade Earth and had inflicted heavy losses on humankind.Young Ender Wiggin is recruited by the International Military to lead the fight against the Formics, an insectoid alien race who had previously tried to invade Earth and had inflicted heavy losses on humankind.
- Gavin Hood(screenplay by)
- Orson Scott Card(based on the book Ender's Game by)
- Stars
- Gavin Hood(screenplay by)
- Orson Scott Card(based on the book Ender's Game by)
- Stars
Suraj Partha
- Alai
- (as Suraj Parthasarathy)
Jimmy 'Jax' Pinchak
- Peter Wiggin
- (as Jimmy Jax Pinchak)
Caleb J. Thaggard
- Stilson
- (as Caleb Thaggard)
- Gavin Hood(screenplay by)
- Orson Scott Card(based on the book Ender's Game by)
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- TriviaThe U.S. Marine Corps has Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card on its recommended reading list for officers, saying that it offers "lessons in training methodology, leadership, and ethics as well."
- GoofsColonel Graff remarks that Napoléon Bonaparte "conquered the known world," which is absolutely untrue. First, in the time of the Emperor Napoleon I, the basic coastal geography of all continents except Antarctica was already known, so "known world" is a tautology in this case. Second, although Napoleon conquered a large area in Europe and briefly controlled some colonies in the Americas, his realm at its furthest expansion was only a small part of the whole world. Its strength lay in its population centers and trade routes, not its square mileage. It never matched the size of either the British Empire or the Russian Empire, both of whom were his frequent enemies. Napoleon's obsessive attempts to cripple those two empires backfired on him and led to his downfall.
- Quotes
Ender Wiggin: In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.
- Crazy creditsThere are no opening credits. The film's title doesn't appear until the start of the closing credits.
- SoundtracksPeace Sword in B Minor (Open Your Heart)
Written by Wayne Coyne, Michael Ivins, Steven Drozd, Kliph Scurlock and Derek Brown
Performed by The Flaming Lips
Produced by The Flaming Lips, Scott Booker and Dave Fridmann
The Flaming Lips appear courtesy of Warner Bros. Records
Review
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The book, the movie and a video game
When I watched the Ender's Game trailer for the 1st time browsing the IMDb and I though: Here's a Sci Fi movie that I will probably see. My life went on and a few months later I saw the trailer again mentioned in a space video game called Skyjacker (Skyjacker - Starship Constructor update 20 in August). I got curious enough and decided to read the book first and watch the movie in November. Then I discover that there wasn't only one book, but a bunch of them. The Ender's Game saga!
I'm a bit lazy when it comes to reading, so I decided to listen to the audio books instead :) I got lucky, since from the author's point of view this is the ideal medium for enjoying the story. The author also had some concerns about making a movie since:
1- In the book the narrator is inside the character head. Making a movie with 3rd person speaking the thought of another one all the time would not work very well for the viewer.
2- The kids must be very young about 6 to 12 years old and it's very hard to find outstanding actor at that age that can give the required dramatic performance.
3- There should not be a love story and Hollywood tends to take advantage of the teenager feelings to do that
I was skeptical about the movie and unfortunately I was right. However they were able to do somethings right:
What's wrong with the movie then?
-- The training should take years, not days
-- Ender's ascension to power is not credible. He fought too few battles to be promoted to commander
They should have taken special attention to the cast. If the Bonzo character supposed to be funny, I assure you that none of the Ender's Game books fan laugh when saw him!
The movie should have been split into two parts, in order to develop the Ender Wiggin personality and make is ascension on the Battle School credible. Also since they had Bean from the beginning why not develop him too? With a 2 parts movie everybody would have won. The producer would sell 2 movies for the price of producing 1. After the 1st movie the book would sell as hell and people would still be interested to see the 2nd part of the movie.
Last, but not least, I must say that Human fleet looks good, although compared to the Skyjacker video game fleet it just feels short
Taking all into account I gave this movie a generous 7, when it had the potential to be a 9 or 10, if the had done it right!
I'm a bit lazy when it comes to reading, so I decided to listen to the audio books instead :) I got lucky, since from the author's point of view this is the ideal medium for enjoying the story. The author also had some concerns about making a movie since:
1- In the book the narrator is inside the character head. Making a movie with 3rd person speaking the thought of another one all the time would not work very well for the viewer.
2- The kids must be very young about 6 to 12 years old and it's very hard to find outstanding actor at that age that can give the required dramatic performance.
3- There should not be a love story and Hollywood tends to take advantage of the teenager feelings to do that
I was skeptical about the movie and unfortunately I was right. However they were able to do somethings right:
- Amazing special effects;
- Amazing final battle;
- Cut the Locke and Demosthenes characters from the movie, since it was impossible to develop them in a 2 hours movie, along side the main story;
- Give a plausible explanation about the bugger motive to attack Earth;
- Create some doubt about the bugger intentions.
What's wrong with the movie then?
- Almost everything happens too fast in the Battle School;
-- The training should take years, not days
-- Ender's ascension to power is not credible. He fought too few battles to be promoted to commander
- Bonzo supposed to be BIG!
- Bean supposed to be tiny
They should have taken special attention to the cast. If the Bonzo character supposed to be funny, I assure you that none of the Ender's Game books fan laugh when saw him!
The movie should have been split into two parts, in order to develop the Ender Wiggin personality and make is ascension on the Battle School credible. Also since they had Bean from the beginning why not develop him too? With a 2 parts movie everybody would have won. The producer would sell 2 movies for the price of producing 1. After the 1st movie the book would sell as hell and people would still be interested to see the 2nd part of the movie.
Last, but not least, I must say that Human fleet looks good, although compared to the Skyjacker video game fleet it just feels short
Taking all into account I gave this movie a generous 7, when it had the potential to be a 9 or 10, if the had done it right!
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- Nov 12, 2013
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