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Ender's Game Trailer Released
The first trailer has been released for the movie adaptation of Orson Scott Card's sci-fi classic Ender's Game. It gives us a good look at Harrison Ford as Colonel Graff, Ben Kingsley as Mazer Rackham, and Hugo's Asa Butterfield as Ender. It also demonstrates just how much money they put into the special effects for this movie.
imho enders game has a lame cheapskate plot, a real cheapskateydyu plot come to think of it. you can pile up all kinds of reasoning why it's brilliant show of how a soldier just follows orders or how parents are full of shit BUT IT'S A REAL FUCKING CHEAPSKATE PLOT - which on the other hand is good reasoning for why "they spent a lot of money on special FX" is actually needed for the movie(if the plot wasn't a cheapskate fast short story plot then the war sim could be a fucking pc with starcraft on it).
btw. I went from the slashdot mainpage to the article to the trailer(I know, I know, should know better than to go to the articles), after getting puzzled at the link(which doesn't have the trailer) I remembered that slashdot has videos now but forgets to mention it in the article text.
any one liners from bender == real art.
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
Ender's Game = more money for a asshole Mormon who hates gays and isn't afraid to use his pocketbook to hurt them. He's a board member of NOM. Any support of Ender's Game is an attack on civil rights.
"For example- if you were sick and had to go to the emergency room, would you turn down the assistance of a racist, homophobic doctor?"
It depends. If you're a gay nigger from outer space you wouldn't have to.
Mr. Card isn't some historical figure - he's writing now, in the present, including stuff that is in my opinion, straight-up hate speech. The reason this comes up is because of how outspoken he is about his opposition to homosexuality and gay rights. You can bet that if Steve Jobs was a leading figure in the neo-nazi movement, it would affect whether people bought Apple products.
Just remember that Card is a person motivated by what he thinks is right not a corporation motivated by money. While you have the right to legally spend your money as you want what you are effectively saying is that you are trying to do is to force someone to change their beliefs or lose their job. So, while you might be acting within your rights, just remember that by doing so you are going against those ideals of free speech and belief that the US was founded on...and if you can't follow them is is any wonder that your government can't either.
Sorry, but that's nonsense. I most certainly do not have some moral imperative to protect freedom of speech by paying money to every single artist person views I don't agree with.
Do you seriously think I should subscribe to the fucking Westboro Chapel loony tunes newsletter of the KKK quarterly review?
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it