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Ender's Game is a 2013 science fiction action adventure film, directed by Gavin Hood, starring Asa Butterfield, Hailee Steinfeld and Harrison Ford.
- 129 people have posted about this film on Bluesky, Mastodon, Lemmy, TMDB reviews
- posts span Oct 24, 2014 to Nov 2, 2026
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60 of 142 · most liked firstWhatever one thinks of the Ender's Game movie, I will note the book moved a couple million copies in the time that the movie was being promoted in theaters and in ancillary markets. A movie/TV show doesn't have to be "good" to benefit the author and the source novel.
neutral · AI labelView post →Any sci-fi with aliens where humans are not the less advanced race?. What the title says, I'm tired of the trope where humans are the least advanced in the universe. I'd like to read something different where we're the more advanced ones (not necessarily the most advanced). As an example I quite enjoyed the Ender's Game sequels and the angle of us being the more advanced ones was quite interesting. Do you have any recommendations?
neutral · AI labelView post →Wait, was the tagline for the Ender's Game film *actually* "This is not a game"? Because like... spoilers?
neutral · AI labelView post →Looking for something new to read after The Expanse. Any fiction suggestions for a somewhat picky reader? The Expanse lasted me a long while but I'm finishing up the novellas now and need to start looking for something new. Not necessarily in the same genre. I don't have a lot of books under my belt as an adult, but some of my favorites have been Stoner by John Williams, Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts, East of Eden, Catch 22, Flowers for Algernon, and Harry Potter. Kind of all over the…
neutral · AI labelView post →Any sci-fi with aliens where humans are not the less advanced race?. What the title says, I'm tired of the trope where humans are the least advanced in the universe. I'd like to read something different where we're the more advanced ones (not necessarily the most advanced). As an example I quite enjoyed the Ender's Game sequels and the angle of us being the more advanced ones was quite interesting. Do you have any recommendations?
neutral · AI labelView post →I know there was certainly discussions of where the money was going when they made that Ender's Game movie like a decade ago, but was anyone asking on a regular basis if Orson Scott Card would insist on making it more homophobic? It's notable that people are assuming the worst here.
neutral · AI labelView post →Books to film 📚=🎞️ Ender's Game (1985) by Orson Scott Card was adapted in 2013. Prominent characters from the novel are removed for the film, which alters the story's arc. The alien "Bugger" are given more nuance in the film, which happens in the sequel Speaker for the Dead. 🛸👾🚀 #filmsky #booksky
neutral · AI labelView post →Any sci-fi with aliens where humans are not the less advanced race?. cross-posted from: https://lemmings.world/post/759157 > What the title says, I'm tired of the trope where humans are the least advanced in the universe. > > I'd like to read something different where we're the more advanced ones (not necessarily the most advanced). As an example I quite enjoyed the Ender's Game sequels and the angle of us being the more advanced ones was quite interesting. > > Do you have any…
neutral · AI labelView post →Any sci-fi with aliens where humans are not the less advanced race?. What the title says, I'm tired of the trope where humans are the least advanced in the universe. I'd like to read something different where we're the more advanced ones (not necessarily the most advanced). As an example I quite enjoyed the Ender's Game sequels and the angle of us being the more advanced ones was quite interesting. Do you have any recommendations?
neutral · AI labelView post →My 16-year-old is still VERY ANGRY about the Ender's Game movie and would probably loudly argue with anyone who claimed any other adaptation of a book was worse than that one.
negative · AI labelView post →Not to defend Card, but the Ender's Game movie flopped because the Ender's Game movie sucked.
negative · AI labelView post →Card spent most of the 00s actively campaigning against same-sex marriage and was literally on the board of directors of a dedicated lobby group. All the same arguments came up against him back then and are probably part of the reason the Ender's Game film bombed.
neutral · AI labelView post →Thread makes some decent points, but it doesn't acknowledge that ones public enjoyment of good art by bad artists is a vector for keeping that art alive in the public consciousness, making new fans and new sources of revenue for said terrible people. Its like the Ender's Game movie and funding OSC.
neutral · AI labelView post →I think a lot about what director Gavin Hood said about Orson Scott Card on the press tour of Ender's Game 11 years ago, which should be the ABSOLUTE bare minimum in a series with this sort of legacy: www.theguardian.com/film/2013/oc...
neutral · AI labelView post →Good time to mention that if I'd made the movie adaptation of Ender's Game, Ender Wiggins would've been very, very gay.
neutral · AI labelView post →There was another round of "the film Starship Troopers isn't satire" over on Twitter last week but they still can't figure out Ender's Game is genuinely uncritically on their side.
neutral · AI labelView post →What a headline. I think the Ender's Game movie flopped because of its author being a homophobe. Let's see how this bombs.
neutral · AI labelView post →Years ago, I wrote a column on "problematic" producers of art, centering around the Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game movie. The line is the same with JKR as it was there: the creator is still alive, and directly funding hate with the money they earn from their creations.
neutral · AI labelView post →There's nothing out there in #audiodrama like The Madness of Chartrulean. It's got intrigue reminiscent of Game of Thrones, science fiction messiah prophecies like Dune, the moral hand wringing of Ender's Game, and movie-quality writing, acting, production... it just stands above. Catch up now!
neutral · AI labelView post →'Bout to get my reading on for the rest of the night 😏 Been revisiting a childhood favorite, now: Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card. I read the quintet as a teen and just loved it, so when there was a movie, I was stoked! I enjoyed the movie immensely. #KoboClaraBW #EndersGame #Booksky #RewReadsBooks
positive · AI labelView post →I'm listening to a podcast on authors who are terrible people and they said when the Ender's Game movie came out it brought a lot of attention to Orson Scott Card's horrific beliefs and I will never get used to non geeks catching up on geek shit fifteen years after the fact. Also, they said, "And
neutral · AI labelView post →I was ready to really not like the cinematic adaptation of "Ender's Game" but I put it on for background noise while writing this morning and instead wound up standing in front of the TV for almost the entire movie.
positive · AI labelView post →One of those clip channels on youtube had the end of Ender's Game and out of curiosity I decided to actually see what the movie did vs. the book. It's funny because they managed to strip out the key emotional points of the book for usual militarism BS. I can't be surprised.
negative · AI labelView post →Movie adaptations love to spoil stuff in promotional materials. The tag line for Ender's Game is "this is not a game", though that may go over non-readers heads.
neutral · AI labelView post →Can't decide if it was weirder for The Flaming Lips to do a soundtrack EP for the Ender's Game movie or Mastodon doing one for Jonah Hex
neutral · AI labelView post →I would prefer Old Man's War to be a good movie though. Ender's Game was not.... for many reasons but at least it wasn't Battlefield Earth level of bad.
negative · AI labelView post →After watching Ender's Game, my friend said "that sure was a movie with all the things that happened in the book". It was fine I guess? As an adaptation, Project Hail Mary is at the other end of the scale. Hews closely but not in a box-checking way. They made a great movie 👍 👍
neutral · AI labelView post →I actually think Ender's Game would have been a good series of films, the film is actually really great and faithful to the story. But OSC had to be OSC.
positive · AI labelView post →Satellite eating was in a 1960's movie - You Only Live Twice. Tragedy of Ender's Game is that Orson Scott Card turned to be such a right-wing bigot.
neutral · AI labelView post →during my lunchtime walks i have been mentally composing my response to my tumblr mutual about song choice. but then i ended up on a tangent in my head that is: oh my god, i need to find a song for a multi-vid about how novels like Ender's Game and His Dark Material got adapted terribly for film.
neutral · AI labelView post →Oh yeah. We're very lucky that the Ender's Game movie was a turkey.
negative · AI labelView post →Last movie I saw was from 2023, and I can't remember it at all... Haven't been to a theater since the Ender's Game movie. I *DO* wanna see, and predict that I'd love, Project Hail Mary, though
neutral · AI labelView post →I don't recall anything about Ender's Game specifically but there was a lot of chatter on that topic in this thread last week, in the context of the film Toys.
neutral · AI labelView post →My favourite movie is The Fountain, and my favourite book is Ender's Game. Feeling pretty bad right about now.
neutral · AI labelView post →The first time I noticed was in the trailer for Ender's Game. They included basically the whole film, including spoiling the twist at the end that took my breath away when I read the book for the first time.
neutral · AI labelView post →Using MOVIE as an acronym l, recommend 5 films 📽️🕸️: M: The Martian (2015) O: Oppenheimer (2023) V: V for Vendetta (2005) I: Inception (2010) E: Ender's Game (2013)
neutral · AI labelView post →My husband was a huge fan of the Ender's Game book, but upon hearing that Card was a homophobe, he refused to see the movie. I know he was far from alone among fans of the book in this
neutral · AI labelView post →I kinda liked Hank Green's take on this around when the Ender's Game movie came out. Man's kinda crazy, and he probably always has been but I dunno, maybe ya gotta be kinda crazy to write somethin' like Ender's Game
neutral · AI labelView post →I feel like that's a misguided attempt to have cake and eat it too. back in 2013, when the Ender's Game movie came out, I (ex-mormon SF loving booknerd) wanted to watch it but also I didn't want to give OSC more money, etc. and YET i compromised with myself at that time & donated money to a charity
neutral · AI labelView post →Didn't realize the movie Toys was basically Ender's Game
neutral · AI labelView post →I laughed when they were promoting the Ender's Game movie and they tried mightily to get him to shut up about gay marriage in the run up to release, and the most they could grind him down to was "the issue is legally settled" through gritted teeth.
neutral · AI labelView post →A couple of my all-time favorite stories are by Card ("Unaccompanied Sonata" and "A Thousand Deaths"). I hated Ender's Game and walked out of the movie. Card is a very good writer but I won't read any more of his stuff.
negative · AI labelView post →no but for real if you're looking for recommendations my pick would probably be something from the Ender's Game movie because the evil humans learn theyre actually the bad guys for killing the aliens which is kewl
neutral · AI labelView post →Which is ironic because the actual Starship Troopers film from 1997 seems to parody Ender's Game more than anything, because they take the Ender's Game twist (psychic kids, bugs actually have feelings) and make THAT into part of their satire of the original book.
neutral · AI labelView post →JK Rowling is to fantasy what Orson Scott Card is to sci-fi, minus Ender's Game having the same breadth of nostalgia for a movie series
neutral · AI labelView post →I know you didn't tag me, but I wanted to participate! 5 Favorite Things: Band: Blink-182 Novel: Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card Podcast (tie): @pewpewbang.bsky.social and @fireescape.bsky.social Movie: Tommy Boy Show: Avatar: The Last Airbender
neutral · AI labelView post →I would say Ender's Game but Card is an irl bigot i think so I will say Consider Phlebas. i dont really have a favorite movie tbh.. Nausicaä? or maybe The Cat Returns.
neutral · AI labelView post →How does science translate when adapting a classic SF novel to the silver screen? @planetneish.bsky.social and I recently put our theories to the test with the 2013 film Ender's Game. You can listen to our discussion over on Apple Podcasts podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p... or at popcornscience.ca
neutral · AI labelView post →@eleanor.lockhart.contact did you ever talk about Ender's Game? Read the book a while ago, just watched the movie. Seemed like the kind of thing you might have liked, or at least been interested in.
neutral · AI labelView post →No Star Trek/Star Wars allowed: Film/TV: Stargate + Babylon 5. Books: Dragonriders of Pern, Ender's Game.
neutral · AI labelView post →Spell your name with movie titles: Robot Jox Edward Scissorhands Dog Day Afternoon Aliens Chasing Amy Terminator 2 Ender's Game Dogma
neutral · AI labelView post →It was perfect! It's what I wish they'd have done with the Ender's Game movie as only showing 2 or 3 battle scenes didn't get the point across well enough. Your way is a perfect example (in my opinion) on how to get the point across in an efficient and interesting way that also feels REAL.
neutral · AI labelView post →It seems like their YA adaptation library was a priority, like The Hungy James obviously and Divergent I guess?? But even flops like Ender's Game and The Giver came over. anyways my little pony the movie (2017) made the jump and isn't that what really matters
neutral · AI labelView post →For some inexplicable reason I rented the Ender's Game movie even though I didn't like the book. I'm experiencing regret.
negative · AI labelView post →i have never seen the Ender's Game movie. i have not bought any of his books since, not even used books. i have not checked out library copies of his books. i cut off support for someone who supports things like conversion therapy, and wrote that gay predators caused Hamlet in-story.
neutral · AI labelView post →The chalk answer for me will always be "Ender's Game" (novel; still haven't bothered with the movie).
neutral · AI labelView post →mutt just wants a small budget Speaker for the Dead film. not hollywood action-packed, not advertised as a sequel to Ender's Game, just a genuine scifi murder mystery drama starring this cold broken distant stranger. its a fascinating book that most people havent read. prime fiction material.
neutral · AI labelView post →One #coping behaviour and a trap which I fell into for my #ADHD is trying to do one thing to not come back to things at all again. I got too influenced by the #endersgame movie. The #programmer meme - waste 1 hour trying to automate instead of spending 10 minutes to do a menial task - became my life. Some things don't scale but we still need to do it, atleast for the time being. Suffered a lot of #anxiety in this loop.
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neutral · AI labelView post →"Ender's Game" immediately popped into my mind when I read "raise up warriors." He must have really liked the movie. (I am betting he didn't read the book)
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