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Message started by kirok on Nov 3rd, 2013 at 12:38am

Title: Enders Game
Post by kirok on Nov 3rd, 2013 at 12:38am
Enders game has no pizzazz. it's preteen starship trooper without the dismemberment. it's a total immersion video gamers wet dream. they had solar panels on a ship that would need a minimum of ten megawatts to function.

Title: Re: Enders Game
Post by kirok on Nov 3rd, 2013 at 12:59am
iow, please do not show it at the marathon.

Title: Re: Enders Game
Post by R_F_Fineman on Nov 4th, 2013 at 8:45pm
Kirok thought Ender's Game was bad. This guy thinks it's evil!


Quote:
http://agaywithwords.tumblr.com/post/64933863405/as-the-marketing-machine-for-the-enders-game#64933863405-zoom

As the marketing machine for the Ender’s Game movie ramps up (like you, I saw several commercials during some of my favorite shows this week), LGBT advocates such as the group Geeks Out are urging you to Skip Ender’s Game because it the invention of a bigoted anti-LGBT advocate and racist who has used the money he made off the story to spread hate and intolerance.


It wouldn't be worth mentioning had so many people not signed and passed on the petition based on his assessment.

His reasoning:

The author of the 1982 book and short story, Orson Scott Card - a practicing Mormon, is opposed to gay marriage on religious grounds and has said so for years.

Orson Scott Card is listed as a producer of the film.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1731141/?ref_=nv_sr_1

Your ticket dollars would thus go into the pocket of an unrepentant gay-hater "racist" and promoter of "hate speech". (I'm not really sure where the "racist" part comes in.):-?

Never mind that he cashed his royalty check long ago and Harrison Ford has responded that not a penny of the box office receipts will go to Mr. Card.

Never mind that the cast, crew and contributors include a lot of people who are not racists, gay-haters, or even opponents of gay marriage.

Never mind that the quotes in Salon Magazine which started the backlash against the author over a decade ago were picked phrases and the author's views, while certainly not pro-gay, were short of the hate-speech they have been labeled.   
http://www.hatrack.com/misc/Quotes_in_Context.shtml

...Then there's this...

One author, no doubt unfamiliar with Mr. Card, has strangely suggested that there are gay themes in the story and that Ender himself may be gay:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/25/queer-enders-game_n_3625157.html

So Kirok, not only did you waste a dozen bucks being bored by a video-game disguised as a movie, you are now viewed as a racist-Nazi-thug for having shelled out those bucks!  ;)


Title: Re: Enders Game
Post by kirok on Nov 5th, 2013 at 9:05am
he's also anti obama.

Title: Re: Enders Game
Post by R_F_Fineman on Nov 5th, 2013 at 3:35pm

Quote:
Some Tumblr Guy:
Skip Ender’s Game because it the invention of a bigoted anti-LGBT advocate and racist who has used the money he made off the story to spread hate and intolerance.

Kirok[quote]he's also anti obama.

[/quote]

Oh Kirok, now you're in trouble! You paid money to see a movie based on a book written by a guy who no doubt voted for his fellow Mormon Mitt Romney!


Quote:
"I'm really good at killing people!" -President Obama


Step outside and look up. Do you see any drones? ;)

Title: Re: Enders Game
Post by Noel Bolster on Aug 6th, 2014 at 6:54am

kirok wrote on Nov 3rd, 2013 at 12:38am:
Enders game has no pizzazz. it's preteen starship trooper without the dismemberment. it's a total immersion video gamers wet dream. they had solar panels on a ship that would need a minimum of ten megawatts to function.

Well the ideas of panels did not worked at all.. It was horrible stuff in my opinion..

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