11-30-2013, 02:42 PM
Went and saw Enders Game(And Hunger games 2, but not sure that fits in the Geektastic portion of this so I'll ignore).
Enders game was... decent. I screwed up and read the book again about a week before watching the movie so everything that was different from the book was glaringly obvious to me. I still liked it, but probably would have liked it more if I hadn't just read the book.
A few of the things that I remember were different... and I realize that some of these were because it was a 2 hr movie as opposed to a book and they had to for times sake...
[spoiler]The movie takes place within about a month or 2, where the book is over an 8-10 year window.
Valentine & Peter are such minor characters(especially Peter) and the movie never even touches Locke & Demosthenes
The Hive queen was alive and on Eros at the end of the movie and gave Ender the cocoon. Which is stupid because in a planet where they killed all the buggers, she was living about 100 yards from their front gate.
The buggers are called Fromic in the movie; the word buggers is never mentioned.
In the movie they only use the Little Dr. 2 times, both times in the very last battle.
The game ender plays, he beats the cups game on the 3rd try, where in the book it takes him months. They also left out a lot of the game(the children on the playground for example).
Bean is in Enders launch class.
Ender goes straight from Salamander army to Commanding Dragon army.
Ender actually loses one of the "mock" battles against the Buggers... he never lost in the book
To win the battleschool game, one person has to go through the gate where in the book you needed 4 to unlock and then 1 to go through.[/spoiler]
Enders game was... decent. I screwed up and read the book again about a week before watching the movie so everything that was different from the book was glaringly obvious to me. I still liked it, but probably would have liked it more if I hadn't just read the book.
A few of the things that I remember were different... and I realize that some of these were because it was a 2 hr movie as opposed to a book and they had to for times sake...
[spoiler]The movie takes place within about a month or 2, where the book is over an 8-10 year window.
Valentine & Peter are such minor characters(especially Peter) and the movie never even touches Locke & Demosthenes
The Hive queen was alive and on Eros at the end of the movie and gave Ender the cocoon. Which is stupid because in a planet where they killed all the buggers, she was living about 100 yards from their front gate.
The buggers are called Fromic in the movie; the word buggers is never mentioned.
In the movie they only use the Little Dr. 2 times, both times in the very last battle.
The game ender plays, he beats the cups game on the 3rd try, where in the book it takes him months. They also left out a lot of the game(the children on the playground for example).
Bean is in Enders launch class.
Ender goes straight from Salamander army to Commanding Dragon army.
Ender actually loses one of the "mock" battles against the Buggers... he never lost in the book
To win the battleschool game, one person has to go through the gate where in the book you needed 4 to unlock and then 1 to go through.[/spoiler]
I don't own kid gloves.
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