ender's game

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1731141

i have heard that a lot of people are calling for a boycot of ender's game.  i can only assume they are the ones who have seen it.  this film whipsawed violently back and forth between attempts to stay faithful to the book and attempts to make a successful movie adaptation of the book.  the resulting cringefest was not a success in either endeavor.  speaking of cringefest, what is going on with harrison ford's career?  i mean, i am sure he is making a lot of money, but...eesh.

back to ender's game.  many things bothered me, far too many to try to convey here.  let me give you a taste of my angst by discussing the bewildering display of WUT which might otherwise be described as "the main plotline."  so the bugs came once before, like 50 years ago, and almost wiped out humanity.  fine, ok.  colonization did not succeed.  but then they sit tight and wait for 50 years for the humans to come attack them at home?  when does that start making sense?  and how does the queen identify her future destroyer while he is still so far from being in the admiral's seat?  was she spamming everybody who was a candidate for admiral?  how could that possibly have escaped detection?  and having identified ender, how did she hack the gibson to make it show him where her babby was planted?  and why would you show your pupa-babby to THE PERSON WHO IS GOING TO DESTROY YOUR ENTIRE SPECIES???!!???question mark

that is a lot of questions, and i guess i got a little carried away there.  let me summarize with two final questions: what is this haberdashery? and why did i use a completely inappropriate word just now?  this is the logic of ender's game.

all of those issues make sense if you have read the book, by the way, but if you want to use the book to fill in the gaps, you end up with a whole other set of problems, for example, a beloved story being gang raped for two hours on the big screen in front of you.

ender's game gets one bugger.  if you have seen the book, you should not, under any circumstances, read the movie.