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Universal Studio's new film in November: Ender's Game
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he appeared to be using f**king correctly
any major dude will tell you
heh, like my ex-wife
cold fish... you're the ender
where's my money
Probably best just to play Homeworld again.
The voice being bland and lifeless is how you can tell it's Harrison Ford.
Ford says that about every project. He thought Shia LaBeouf was unprofessional when Shia admited to the press he thought they fucked up Indy 4.
http://www.eonline.com/news/249968/harrison-ford-calls-shia-labeouf-f-king-idiot-for-bad-mouthing-indy-4
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=16534
I originally thought thus post was hating on Pursuit of Happiness
lebeouf was the worst part of indy 4 so...
The worst part of Indy 4 was Indy 4.
nah
take away the ending and the beef and you have a movie indistinguishable from the previous 3
Okay but Card didn't crank this out as an installment of one of these trashy ghost-written fantasy or sci-fi series
It wasn't knocked out in a weekend to make a quick buck
He's got a message, he's got things he's trying to say, and some things maybe he didn't mean to say but come through in the writing anyway, and on that basis we're justified in analyzing it the way we have been
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Like the incest argument, yeah his AI friend appeared similarly to his sister; because Valentine was clearly designed as Enders only exposure to compassion. Not because of some weird osc fetish.
I think other points are worth discussion because they apply to the target audience. Ender was rewarded for his positive qualities like intellect, but also for his negative ones such as having little to no social skills. And to me that makes him a badly written character but definitely not a Hitler apologist.
well shit, I was reading animorphs books as recently as six months ago
star wars books I've cut ties with
I'll stick with the comics and, potentially, videogames
any major dude will tell you
like
super dumb
but if you read the KotoR series and didn't enjoy it then I would say that Star Wars as a whole is probably just Not For You
any major dude will tell you
But anyway labeling something as Children's literature doesn't designate it a something that doesn't have an agenda. Actually, it turns out that children are super easy to manipulate through ideas and stories and that sort of literature is filled to the brim with agendas and dogma.
Like, we indoctrinate children to look at the world, culturally, the way we want them to with stories. All the tropes and morals of fairy tales and children's fiction is designed to impart messages that go deeper than most things they'll learn at school. Our idea of right and wrong, justice and injustice, gender roles, sexuality, all that stuff gets its cultural foundation in our stories. Stories are important.
So, yeah, while Ender's Game is an outlier in its message and so isn't going to totally warp a child's outlook, it's by no means a healthy one. And Card specifically does have a worldview that he has made overt actions to further.
the thing is that Applegate had like half the series ghostwritten for her, the ones she wrote were pretty great
If I'm going to say something positive then at least the battle room looks cool?
Satans..... hints..... I'm a mo bro!
Yeah, that's where I am
Really exploring zero-g combat in a movie isn't a thing I've ever seen a movie do? So that could be interesting.
Oh, fuck that.
Plenty of YA books have solid prose. Hunger Games, His Dark Materials, Series of Unfortunate Events, Terry Pratchett's YA stuff, even Harry Potter (from Azkaban on, anyway).
Shit prose is shit prose, and Ender's Game is shiiiiiit prose.
Plus, what Langly said about messages.
Like, any series that doggedly reminds the reader that
a) life is unfair
b) bad things will happen more often than good things
c) we live in a cold, uncaring universe
while just as earnestly reiterating that
1) we should still have hope
2) we should still love each other and help those that need it
3) everyone should be treated with dignity
and teaches advanced vocabulary while it does all that, well, that's pretty fucking great in my book.
and I'd probably recommend the book to people looking for a childrens sci-fi book even knowing how awful card was and being able to see, as an adult, the shittier underlying themes of the book
Especially when there's so much stuff that doesn't have gross themes and garbage prose
Is this about the time I covered your bathroom in my feces? I told you I was sorry, geez.
when you touch a hot stove, do you just stand there and keep burning your hand
Ella Minnow Pea
It's an epistolary novel where the authors all have to start finding synonyms that don't use the banned letters, or just dropping the letters from words, until they become a garbled mess as no one can communicate (it takes place in an alternate history and the island uses primarily written correspondence). Language becomes a form of rebellion and the main character is tasked with constructing a shorter pangram than the original phrase, which becomes the over-arching quest. It's really great.
Holes was pretty good
or a new cartoon or I dunno
I mean in all likelihood any adaptation would be pretty bad, but
I am very aware of the tv show