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Orson Scott Card Reviews Everything
H_Fisher writes "Orson Scott Card, author of sci-fi classic Ender's Game and many other novels and stories, has posted his review of the much-discussed Joss Whedon film Serenity (which opened at #2 in the US box office this past weekend). Among other things, Card has this to say about Serenity: 'Those of you who know my work at all know about Ender's Game. I jealously protected the movie rights to Ender's Game so that it would not be filmed until it could be done right ... I'll tell you this right now: If Ender's Game can't be this kind of movie, and this good a movie, then I want it never to be made.'" With praise for Full House, Friends, Being John Malkovich, and Lost to boot.
Yes, the author of sci-fi classic Ender's Game, and the painfully boring, never ending flood of terrible preachy sequels that made me wish I had coated my copy of Ender's Game with lighter fluid, lit my eyeballs and genitals on fire, and used my flaming agony-ridden body to destroy the source of my pain -- the god forsaken book and the slow tedious hours of boredom that it put me through.
You suck, Card! You are the George Lucas of books.
The captain had cheesy one liners instead of believable dialog. The acting was stale, especially the anti-protagonist. Characters sacrificed substance by catering themselves to geek culture: engineering girl who likes sex, teenage girl who kicks ass with swords. The romance in the movie came at awkward times in fight scenes. Alien costumes were derived from old Star Trek or low budget sci fi films. The Reavers play a major part of the plot yet are hardly described and only mentioned in the beginning and end of the movie. In the absence of Star Wars and Star Trek movies I had hopes for Serenity but the reality is they took a cancelled low budget tv-show and made a two hour episode. To read Orson Scott say he wants Enders Game to live up to Serenety's billing is proof the man is batsh*t crazy.
ender's game is a mediocre story, I felt that way about ender's game long before I ever found out he was a fascist asshat.
i've written about this several times before.
There are many great SF stories out there, ender's game is not one of them.
The main reason why ender's game is popular (especially among children) is that it appeals mightily to teen angst. So many kids claim they "identify" with ender, it is truly disturbing.
ok, so he won hugo and nebula awards. must have been dry years.
"Two thoughts" and then the shit that follows? What kind of jackass...Who cares about your two thoughts you humorless fuck?
Your stupid and overextended use of emphasis really paints the picture here. Completely missing the tone of the post, you grab hold and take some fucking stance like it's the 40's you are exposing the "red menace".
Please, "we"? Who is we? Oh, you just meant "me". Guess what, i'm laughing at *you*, *you* lonely jackass.
And the proverbial icing - the high and mighty stance with "the moderators", bravo..Point this out douchebag - OSC is a Nazi asshole, you are just a common idiot.