10 Speculative Questions About The Upcoming Ender’s Game Movie

Speculating about movies is kind of stupid. I find it more than just boring and relatively useless, but often it affects expectations so profoundly that the movie in question is no longer able to be taken in on its own terms, but on the terms of its marketing efforts as well as the breadth of anticipatory opinion and hope displayed throughout the internets. It’s not something I find productive, although I see the appeal of generating momentum in viewers’ hearts and minds toward the release of a project tons of people have worked really hard on. I do think, though, that the months, sometimes years of buildup to big movie events leads to the “best movie ever!” or “worst movie ever!” reactions that are more prominent and voiceable today. Big movies either live up to insane hype or disappoint high hopes.

Darren Ruecker

Published: Oct 27, 2013 10:52 pm

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[h2]5) Does it matter that Orson Scott Card is homophobic?[/h2]

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Probably not, right? But I don’t know. One would like to think that for someone to lack the sense to see that same-sex marriage is every bit as beautiful and touching as any other marriage, they’d also lack the smarts to write really good fiction. That doesn’t seem to be the case here and thus many paradigmatic heads have exploded as a result.

There have been protests and boycotts (did you know Orson Scott Card is an anagram for Boycott This Person Hard?) which I get; you don’t want someone to be celebrated absolutely without pointing out that they have some really problematic views, even if they might be softening on them. Call the guy a douche for making the tired comparison of President Obama to Hitler, by all means. I just think it takes a closer examination of the work in question, Ender’s Game in this case, to advocate boycotting a movie just because the person making it happens to have kooky ideas or belong to a religion you don’t like.

Because you guys: Tom Cruise. See my point? Great, moving on.

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