Review of Ender's Game (2013) by Fellix — 10 Dec 2013

I just watched the movie and I just have to vent for a minute.

First off this movie barely follows the book at all, it only had 1 or 2 scenes that where directly similar to the book, and believe me Ive read the book twice in the past 6 months, I have a list here of some of the changes, and while they might seem like little changes they were actually quite large.

1 Ender was 6 at the begging of the book not 15.

2 Enders school was just like normal school.

It wasnt a military academy as portrayed.

3 Enders sister was like 8 in the book not 16.

4 Enders brother Peter was 12 not 23.

5 Enders father was American Born in America.

Not Russian born in Russia (Really why would you change that its stupid and only takes away from following the book).

6 Major Anderson was a MALE.

7 There was only one girl in Battleschool.

And her name was Petra.

8 Bean came to Battleschool 2 years after Ender.

9 Ender was never friends with Bernard and he.

Wasnt in Enders army and he didnt participate in.

The final battle in fact Bernard wanted Ender dead.

After Ender broke his arm.

10 for some reason Bernard had 0 conflicts with.

Enders and Shen just doesnt exist even though.

He was Enders first friend and a Major importance.

To the beginning plot (Another REALLY WHY THE HELL IS HE A PROTAGONIST).

11 Dink Meeker was a white Jew not Black he was.

Never in Salamander army he met Ender in rat army.

12 Bonzo Madrid was 4 years older than Ender and.

Much much larger and stronger…. The fight scene.

Between them seemed like a joke compared to the.

Book scene where Ender kneed Bonzos nose into his brain.

Blood started gushing from it. He didnt even see him after that in the book but in the movie Enders personality is so distorted to that of a rebelious teenager whereas in the book he was a Very quite un rebellious boy. (AGAIN BONZA WAS 4 YEARS OLDER you already wanted to use older actors so why not use one for him, why dont you switch the actor that you used for Enders brothers for him).

13 seriously they made battle school only like 3 months long, Ender was in battleschool for like 6 years.

14 Ender never emailed his sister nor did he want to, in fact he didnt actually want to see her again what a stupid change, it changed Enders entire character this is Fing rediculous at this point.

15 Petra was not Girly she was VERY AGRESSIVE, she did not have a love interest in Ender.

16 ENDER NEVER LOST.

17 Really the MD device is a lazer, and of course only one ship has it, and of course those ships are just drones, Fing rediculous, it almost makes the end battle seem like a joke because no one died whereas in the book all of those pilots had just sacrificed themselfs burning up in the atmosphere and actually detonated the MD device inside of their own ship THAT WAS A REALLY GOOD PART OF THE BOOK and it could have translated so well to the movie….

Really they just cut out 90% of the story and changed 99% of the rest, it is very loosly based on the book and if they had made a book based on the movie it probably wouldnt have even been published it was that bad.