Ender’s Game
I was all set to go see the movie Ender’s Game! I even talked about it in May that I wanted to go see this movie but I will say I wasn’t expecting this to blow me away! I will say this before I get to far into this and spoil it for anyone. If you haven’t seen the movie and you hate spoilers, please move on and do not read anymore. I doubt I will be able to not spoil it the plot. If you haven’t read the book, Ender’s Game and you have an Android, then you should read the book either before or after the movie. It will help explain some of the things that was not touched on in the movie. Some of the common questions that I had were quite obvious:
Did Petra Arkanian (Hailee Steinfeld) fall in love with Ender Wiggins(Asa Butterfield)?
The Backstory about Valentine (Abigail Breslin) and Peter (Jimmy ‘Jax’ Pinchak)?
As you can see this is answered in the books more or less, but I will not spoil some of these questions by answering them to my readers.
“In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.” —Orson Scott Card
As we start off the movie, that is the quote you see on the screen. This quote is monumental to the book and movie, because you will see the conclusion of that quote from beginning to the end and understand just how hard it was for Ender to do what he did and see his agony when he discovers a very fatal secret that was kept from him and his team until the very end. That I will not spoil because it is a key story plot that must be read or watched to fully understand the outcome of the full book or movie.
Character Development
I couldn’t blog about this without at least touching on the characters a little and talking about them. In the movie the development of Ender Wiggins and how he got where he got to was constantly changing and increasing in difficulty due to the need for him to be a leader. This was about him and this battle with the bugs as some would say but it was also something that in the movie was never forced upon you and it kept my attention. The details they used on the big screen were in essence almost exactly the same in the book. I doubt I was the only one but I saw each chapter on the screen as it was playing and it was like a WOW moment when I realized that. They created the movie almost like the book, chapter by chapter and I am impressed.
We had some big name actors Harrison Ford from Star Wars, Abigal Breslin from various films like “Definately, Maybe” and “Nim’s Island” and ofcourse Ben Kingsley who played in Iron Man 3. Each one of them brought a unique presence to the movie and helped draw you into the story line. I must say I was impressed with their abilities and how they made you believe they were who they said they were.
Graphics of Movie!
I must say they didn’t over do any of the CGI and I am quite curious how they actually did the Zero Gravity, and all that. I cant’ wait to see the behind story of all that because it fascinates me and makes me wonder if it was some CGI and some actual weightlessness that they did to makes you believe they were actually in Zero Gravity and not on earth. I won’t go any farther than that to try to not spoil it for anyone but it was very well done with the Graphics and the battle scenes were actually believable.
Conclusion
I have talked about this as thoroughly as I could without giving any major plots away and it is rated PG-13 with minor violence and VERY little language. So it is up to you who you will allow to go see this movie but I have to say if you read the book you won’t be surprised at anything that you see in the movie. I do think this movie is a MUST “Go See” and the idea of boycotting this movie because of the Anti-Gay ideas of the Author is simply ridiculous because every writer who ever wrote anything has some view or idea that you may not like and it is hypocritical to think you can change who he was just by boycotting a good movie.
