By: Aaron Berstein
BLUE BELL, PA--Ender’s Game is a sci-fi fantasy based around the best-selling novel by Orson Scott Card about a young boy named Ender who is the Third of his family and is sent to a space academy to hopefully become the next commander of the International Fleet and save the world from a possible alien invasion. A few notable actors in this movie adaptation are Asa Butterfield as Ender Wiggin, Harrison Ford as Colonel Graff, and Ben Kingsley as Mazer Rackham. If you haven’t read the 1985 novel by now, the bottom line of this review is: go read the book! A lot of the issues viewers are having with this movie adaptation are that it will not be wholly accurate. As much as we would all love to see the space station and battles in high definition and major special effects, just like we imagined them in our heads, the movie had to be summarized to just the right amount in order to obtain those images.
The most obvious thing is that a lot of plot and character development was cut from the movie. With only two hours to show the entirety of the novel, of course there will be less development and lead up to the events and more of just showing the events, but Ender’s Game was more about the reason behind the actions than the actions themselves. In short, Ender’s Game was stuck between assuming viewers have seen the novel and introducing new viewers to what it’s all about. “I personally find the author to be an asshole; I refuse to hand him my money” says disgruntled Sean Ross, communications student at Montgomery County Community College. If you enjoy sci-fi fantasy with a large amount of big budget special effects and space battles of epic proportions with next to no story development, then this is the movie for you. If you already read the novel, don’t expect to see everything from it in the movie. You will be sorely disappointed.
BLUE BELL, PA--Ender’s Game is a sci-fi fantasy based around the best-selling novel by Orson Scott Card about a young boy named Ender who is the Third of his family and is sent to a space academy to hopefully become the next commander of the International Fleet and save the world from a possible alien invasion. A few notable actors in this movie adaptation are Asa Butterfield as Ender Wiggin, Harrison Ford as Colonel Graff, and Ben Kingsley as Mazer Rackham. If you haven’t read the 1985 novel by now, the bottom line of this review is: go read the book! A lot of the issues viewers are having with this movie adaptation are that it will not be wholly accurate. As much as we would all love to see the space station and battles in high definition and major special effects, just like we imagined them in our heads, the movie had to be summarized to just the right amount in order to obtain those images.
The most obvious thing is that a lot of plot and character development was cut from the movie. With only two hours to show the entirety of the novel, of course there will be less development and lead up to the events and more of just showing the events, but Ender’s Game was more about the reason behind the actions than the actions themselves. In short, Ender’s Game was stuck between assuming viewers have seen the novel and introducing new viewers to what it’s all about. “I personally find the author to be an asshole; I refuse to hand him my money” says disgruntled Sean Ross, communications student at Montgomery County Community College. If you enjoy sci-fi fantasy with a large amount of big budget special effects and space battles of epic proportions with next to no story development, then this is the movie for you. If you already read the novel, don’t expect to see everything from it in the movie. You will be sorely disappointed.
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