Ender's Game

Any purist who complains just likes seeing 4-6 year olds beating on each other...

I'm excited for it.  This is one of the best books at teaching people to "think outside the box".  The Marine Corps required all of the lieutenants at The Basic School to read it for that reason.  If the rules are stacked against you, change the game.

Harrison Ford's appearance will be interesting.  I wonder if there'll be a sequence of follow-ons.  It's not like the following books really track with this one. 

I don't mind that they made the kids older.  They didn't have a choice, because there was no way they could get an actor as young as Ender was in the book who would have the skill to play the part.

I've also gotten my son into it, because I gave him the book to read a few years ago, and he's excited too.  He's already trying to plan the exact weekend he'll be able to come home from college so we can see it together.

I've only read the first book, but I am a fan. 

I have my doubts about making it into a proper movie though. Maybe I will be surprised but my expectations are moderate.

ender's game is my favorite book and i have read it cover to cover many times.  i saw the trailer and all i could think was "meh".

they have already stated that they completely eliminated the part where ender's brother and sister wreak havoc on the politics of earth while he is away and the movie likely won't show any of his internal dialogue/struggle that really makes the book.... im cautiously optimistic. i mean im going to see it, but who knows.

wonder if the giants drink game will be in the film and how graphic it will get...

I heard this too, which I think is really cool because that sets up a lot of follow-on "Shadow" movies with Bean.  I actually really got into those books after I read Ender's Game, then I read the two "Ender" books that follow Ender's Game after I read all the Shadow books and didn't really care for them.

But if they cut out most of the Peter/Valentine stuff from the movie, that messes with the plot of Ender's Shadow a bit, doesn't it?  So I wonder how they'll deal with that.

I really hope it doesn't suck.  I've been so disappointed by movies made after my favorite books.  For instances, I'm a big Heinlein fan, and Starship Troopers just killed me.  With the exception of Denise Richards, that movie was the worst.  The Da Vinci Code and subsequent movies were all really bad compared to the books as well, at least for me.

 after trying to include peter/valentine it would have became a 4 hour movie at least. so it does make sense, but its disappointing too.

I think the Shadow series is the way to go after Ender's Game.  It's more of a logical follow on than the second and third book that actually came out after Ender's Game (Speaker for the Dead was #2 and Xenocide was #3).  Those books take quite a different turn.

OSC had a new book come out last year that was like a pre-quel to Ender, and another one is coming out in a few weeks.