I know it’s been out of theatres for a while, but I finally saw “Ender’s Game” and I have such mixed feelings about this movie. I hate seeing movies when I have read the book. I am NEVER satisfied with them.
They really tried with this movie. But the thing was doomed. The best movies are made from short stories. And there just is no way to capture what was going on in the minds of the characters. I knew, but that’s because I read the book. And the efforts to bring the viewers into the minds of the characters seemed pretty flat. And the child actors that they had to use just didn’t have the maturity to create a nuanced role. Big sigh. I just ended up wishing that everyone who viewed the movie could read the book instead. I LOVED the book. I want to explain to people who haven’t read it what was really going on and how much of a Sadist Ender’s brother was and how much Ender was worried he would become him and a lot of the bonding stuff that happened at the school and how evil the bad kid was and how the “tests” at the end were so intense and taxing that Petra collapsed and had to be relieved of her command and what was really happening with the aliens. The movie frustrated the heck out of me because it glossed over so much stuff of the internal stuff that really was what made the book so great.
