Universal Studio's new film in November: Ender's Game

Dichotomy

we're just hitting the tail end of 80s nostalgia revivals

the 90s ones are still a few years off

Langly

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMn-BZafGio

The Geebs That Is A Pony

I also had the PC game which was at least playable, unlike the game boy game, which was like someone wrote "pokemon???" and that was the whole design doc that he handed to some intern

Langly

i had that game

Langly

On December 11th, 2012, it was discovered that Sony Pictures had registered four domain addresses that may or may not allude to their involvement in an Animorphs movie. There is yet to be any official word, however all four domains redirect to Sony Pictures website. The URLs include:[11]
animorphs.net
animorphs-movie.net
animorphsmovie.com
animorphs-movie.com

Kwoaru

Dichotomy wrote: »

if you know something is awful and promotes awful things why would you spread it around

because I enjoyed it and I'm not appreciably more facist/homophobic/kiddy diddling for it

it is a perfectly enjoyable ya/child sci fi novel

Langly

"What is that??" Rachel asks, pointing to an alien walking out of a space ship

"I don't know, but it's definitely not from my 'hood," Marco responds.

Thetheroo

Those Animorph books sure ended weirdly, though.

The Geebs That Is A Pony

did you guys know that at one point I was involved with an animorphs fan movie project

and by involved I mean this guy sent me a couple aim messages and I doodled in a notebook

I think it was gonna use flash???

Dichotomy

the geebs that is a director

Seriously

keep us apprised

The Geebs That Is A Pony

it was like...before I even started posting here

they eventually posted a really bad trailer and now I don't think it's even on the internet anymore

oh well

The Geebs That Is A Pony

anyways fifteen year-old me has like three notebooks full of ideas for an animorphs video game if anybody's interested

Campion

Langly wrote: »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMn-BZafGio

Oh my gosh they're playing BEAST WARS

Seriously

oh yeabsolutely

Langly

what are the yeerk shock troops called again

Langly

the ones who are actually really nice or whatever

The Geebs That Is A Pony

I could also show you the plans my cousin and I had for a Goosebumps movie...by pointing you towards a list of Goosebumps book titles and telling you to stop around 21. Or my plan for Ghostbusters III which was "okay so there's a new ghost. viggo. gozer???" Or my cousin's plan for Jurassic Park II which was entirely centered around the idea that "grant dies and the logo is the same only instead of the dinosaur it's just his hat lying on the ground" and I was like "dude no shut up" and practiced drawing that cube you could draw by drawing two squares and connecting the corners

The Geebs That Is A Pony

Langly wrote: »

the ones who are actually really nice or whatever

hork bajir

wandering

Dichotomy wrote: »

we're just hitting the tail end of 80s nostalgia revivals

the 90s ones are still a few years off

Ender's Game came out in 1985, 27 years ago, so we should be getting an Ocarina of Time movie in, let's see

2025.

Langly

haha yeah hork bajir

Virgil_Leads_You

My mind couldnot comprehend hork bajir being their name.
I totally read those books and knew it was some scifi-ass ridiculousness, but I could not believe Geebs Post.

Grey Ghost

Seven feet tall, made of swords, suuuuuuuuper chill dudes

Blake T

What is a good sci fi book that I could read guys?

The Geebs That Is A Pony

uh, animorphs??? duh??????

Skylark

JoeUser wrote: »

I think it would take the Ender's Game premise and bring it into present, with the government releasing a drone strike game for free. Then the top-rated players would be given special DLC ...

Directed by Paul Verhoeven.

RT800

I enjoyed Ender's Game. I also enjoyed Ender's Shadow. I read Ender in Exile, Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, A War of Gifts, Children of the Mind, Shadow of the Hegemon, Shadow Puppets, and Shadow of the Giant. I hardly remember most of them. Haven't read any of the more recent stuff. Everything after Ender's Game and Shadow of the Hegemon just gets a little too science-fictiony for me.

I tend not to look too deeply at authors. I don't even like to see their picture in the back of the book. I try to separate story from story-teller as completely as possible.

Nevertheless I became vaguely aware that Orson Scott Card was opposed to homosexuality in some way. No specifics. As of the time of this posting, I haven't yet read the entirety of the thread, but I'm sure details will become apparent as I go along.

Still, I feel I'll probably still end up watching the movie. Maybe wait for it to come on HBO?

Blake T

Do you also enjoy itallics?

RT800

Well, I figure book titles deserve a little something extra.

Underline is so tacky.

Munkus Beaver

Poorochondriac wrote: »

HellaJeff wrote: »

Also I think a lot of youare treating a young adult fiction as if it were intended to be substantial literature which is pretty ridiculous

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.

Did you just call Hunger Games solid prose?

Really? Really?

Dichotomy

RT800 wrote: »

I enjoyed Ender's Game. I also enjoyed Ender's Shadow. I read Ender in Exile, Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, A War of Gifts, Children of the Mind, Shadow of the Hegemon, Shadow Puppets, and Shadow of the Giant. I hardly remember most of them.

the bolded section fully explains the previous quoted statements

The Geebs That Is A Pony

I mean it looks like he did, but I had to reread the post to see if something justified your incredulous reaction

Munkus Beaver

Grey Ghost wrote: »

Seven feet tall, made of swords, suuuuuuuuper chill dudes

They used those swords to climb trees and eat bark.

Then that one guy who got stuck as the Centipede shock troop and wanted to commit suicide.

The Geebs That Is A Pony

taxxons! they all became anacondas and shit

RT800

Dichotomy wrote: »

RT800 wrote: »

I enjoyed Ender's Game. I also enjoyed Ender's Shadow. I read Ender in Exile, Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, A War of Gifts, Children of the Mind, Shadow of the Hegemon, Shadow Puppets, and Shadow of the Giant. I hardly remember most of them.

the bolded section fully explains the previous quoted statements

I remember the titles.

I do not remember the content.

Something about space colonies and a new religion and an AI in Ender's ear and shit.

KalTorak

I grew up reading a lot of Bruce Coville's sci-fi and fantasy (Aliens Ate My Homework, My Teacher is an Alien, Space Brat, The Dragonslayers, Goblins in the Castle, etc.). Really cool stuff, some of it even has a good message.


Many years later, I met him and told him about it. He was a very nice person, and gave me a small part in an audiobook.

The end.

Munkus Beaver

I originally read Shadow of the Hedgemon as Shadow of the Hedgehog and was thinking that Wiggin lived in an alternate reality where SEGA won the console wars.

Dichotomy

if you remember that little how do you even know that you enjoyed them

The Geebs That Is A Pony

I remember reading some book called "help! I'm trapped in my sister's body!" that was a weird book

Antimatter

The Geebs That Is A Pony wrote: »

taxxons! they all became anacondas and shit

http://www.tfu.info/1999/Yeerks/Taxxon/taxxon.htm

http://www.tfu.info/series/animorphs.htm