Originally posted by Patient_Leech
I haven't read the book, but my friend who's a big fan said the movie's pretty spot on, said it stuck to the book throughout. What's your take?
It did stick to the book pretty well, it's just that they needed to upgrade Ender's intelligence, stamina, and ambition by 5,000,000 to make sure that everything important from the book could be put in the movie.
Parts where Ender was supposed to be "frustrated," "tired," ... basically all negative status effects weren't able to be imprinted on the audience because of all the content that needed to be covered.
It was a very good movie - the book came out when e-mail was just getting mainstream and there was no such thing as instant, face-to-face long-distance communication, so unfortunately a lot of wonder was gone. But a couple of things that I just couldn't imagine from the book were brought to life beautifully - like the Battle Room, that was genius, and the bunkers and basically everything at the battle school...
So it was awesome. I just was unfortunate enough to have reread and reread the book. [if you can call that unfortunate.]
Originally posted by siriuswriter
So it was awesome. I just was unfortunate enough to have reread and reread the book. [if you can call that unfortunate.]
Yeah, I suspect I might be glad that I haven't read the book. Won't be preoccupied with differences between the two. I love sci-fi and it looks pretty fu#king epic. I look forward to seeing it.