Ender's Game

Even though he's homophobic I still like his work as an author. His writing in the book Ender's Game was amazing. I'm looking forward to the movie. I don't want to judge his work as bad just because the author's personality. In the end its good work.

 

As I advised in the other thread, just don't pay for it. Watch it all you like.

 

I try to disassociate his political views from his writing. He's a piece of shit human being, but he's a POS who knows how to write a good book. I'll probably wait until I can get the movie on Netflix or something, though, because Catching Fire is my #1 priority in movies right now.

 

Orson Scott Card will never be getting any of my money. I started reading the book once before, before I know what he was like and it made me feel slightly ill to have the book in my possession. Luckily I'd only borrowed it so I don't put any money towards him. I'm not gonna go and so his work is shit, because I don't know. I never finished it. However, I'm not ever gonna delve into it. It makes me feel sick.

 

My partner and I aren't going to see it. I read the book(s) - there's actually a whole series - when I was in HS. Didn't know about the author's views at the time.

The buggers bit is actually one of those British English/American English things. The aliens in question are giant insects, aka 'bugs' therefore 'buggers'. It's sort of like how so many British people here point out that 'faggot' means a cigarette in England and so isn't all that insulting to them.

Todd

 

You'll be amazed at how many self-professed homophobes love Judas Priest.

Sometimes, you have to separate a beautiful product from the ugly conduit it came through to reach us in reality.

 

Actually, its fag that means cigarette faggot isn't in general use.

 

The entire concept of the book seems idiotic and (as expected) the movie is receiving poor reviews. I wouldn't be going to see it even if OSC was the most gay friendly person in the world. A shame that the book's sales will increase as a result of the movie (even if the movie does poor business), because that means even more money for OSC (and more people reading crap, which is unfortunate, as too many people have wasted their time and money on Twilight and 50 Shades of Grey already).

 

The Ender series is fantastically written literature and I love them all (Though the newer entries and parts of the Ender's Shadow side series are rather ehhhhh) so I will be seeing the movie.

 

I won't be seeing it. Since I haven't read the books, I figure I have no reason to get involved with something that makes me feel like I'm sacrificing personal morality. It doesn't look all that interesting to me anyway.

 

It looks like generic sci-fi to me, really. Nothing at all to distinguish it except that I like Asa Butterfield and Harrison Ford. I'd probably want to see it because Ender's Game was a highly acclaimed book, but knowing that OSC is a terrible person, I'm not going to encourage him.

 

The Ender series is an amazing work of art, and frankly I feel sorry for anyone whose enjoyment of them was ruined by the fact that Orson Scott Card is the scum of the Earth. The novels have nothing in them that express his views and I highly doubt the movie will either. The only thing I'm concerned about is the movie compromising the books like so many book-based movies do.

 

I won't be seeing this movie. Not because the book's author is wildly homophobic, though that doesn't help, but because I've seen the trailer and it looks like a steaming pile of bull plop.

 

I'm probably going to go see it. It's a hard decision for me to make, though.

I love Ender's Game. It is a mighty pillar of the science fiction genre. I've read it many times and recommended it to anyone who hasn't read it. The writing is lovely and the many, well-fleshed-out themes are timelessly important.

Orson Scott Card is a bigoted asshole and he was a board member on a well-funded organization that lobbies against marriage rights for queer people in my country. I would feel bad if my money went to something like that, even just a tiny portion of a small amount.

I think, to split the difference, I'll go see the movie and also donate some money to a local LGBT center. If I stopped liking and doing things because they're related to people who hold views I find problematic, I could like and do very few things.

 

I read the Ender books years ago before finding out Card was homophobic. It is a good story regardless that the author is a creep and douchebag. I haven't decided if I'll watch the movie yet. The book is nearly always better than the movie.

 

Agreed. I've never seen what the big deal about him is. Phillip K. Dick, Stanislaw Lem, Ursula LeGuin, Margaret Atwood and so many others wrote much better sci-fi. I think he's vastly over-rated---more or less cheap pulp.

Plus, his views and the things he puts his money towards are horrid, as is that so-called 'church' he belongs to. Yuck.

 

One of my teacher's offered to let me borrow his copy of the book. I must say I am interested but I would feel uncomfortable even touching the creation of man such as Card.

 

Atwood is a talked about as a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature every year. She definitely transcends the genre.