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The main person I'd be harming had I not gone to see this film would be me, given that it's something I've been looking forward to for a long time, and it strikes me as a bit silly to deprive myself of a pleasure simply because the author of the book that it's based on has expressed views that I don't agree with. So no, it never crossed my mind not to see it. Doing so would be depriving myself of a pleasant evening out, and is extremely unlikely to change Mr Card's opinions of gay marriage.
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If Ender's Game did come to my town I'd probably go see it. I'm not a big enough fan of SciFi by Orson Scott Card or not that it would be a must see for me, but we get few enough films here that are not for the age 16 and under crowd. Card is not a politician, is probably not well known outside of SciFi circles, and has little power to influence laws or public policy. Yeah I disagree with his views on gay rights, most of his political views, and that Mormonism is just strange, but if the film is entertaining none of that would matter to me. So I'm glad you enjoyed the film. Other than suggesting that “It's a film that really benefits from the "big screen" experience” you haven't really commented on what would draw me into see an adaption of a SciFi novel I've already read. That is seeing hard to imagine technology brought to life. |
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10-27-2013, 05:17 PM | #33 |
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10-27-2013, 05:46 PM | #34 |
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I remember reading a comment by Card that Ender's Game would be an impossible film to make because most of the story takes place inside Ender's head. I'll probably go see the movie for that reason alone.
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The "battle school" scenes are well done, I think. It's a big space station in Earth orbit, with two rotating rings to provide artificial gravity for the living quarters, and an enormous non-rotating sphere between them for the zero-g battle room. Much as I pictured from the book. And as you would expect these days, the zero-g battles themselves are convincingly portrayed.
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10-27-2013, 08:54 PM | #36 |
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It's not his views or opinions that matter to me so much, as his vigorous, vicious activism.
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I find Card's political views just as abhorrent as Rowling's. That said, I wouldn't let either of their views get in the way of reading their books or watching their films.
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I fear we are straying into Politics, and so should not continue this strand of the thread here.
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Agreed.
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10-28-2013, 05:51 AM | #43 |
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Still waiting for feedback on the movie! 6,9/10 on Imdb.com so far, but from only 1600 votes, which doesn't seem promising (Movies are always rated higher in the beginning, when the die hard fans watch it).
HarryT, since you seem to be the only one who have seen it, is it a standard teenage movie? |
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I'm not at all surprised that it doesn't score terribly highly on a film review site; it's not a "populist" film by any means, and probably won't appeal to non-SF fans. |
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10-28-2013, 08:12 AM | #45 |
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But good to keep the opportunity of reading the relevant posts to see the excellent rebuttal of the original ..... slur? ......... if that's not too "un-Parliamentary" .
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