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DragonZeku t1_j6p9mcr wrote

Reply to Has this movie idea been filmed? by Sweezy236

So the movie is his entire life, from birth to death? Like, if he died at 98 years old, the audience is sitting through a non-stop 98 year long movie and then passing judgement?

No wonder everybody goes to hell.

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Furyofthe1st OP t1_j6p8ngu wrote

Reply to What movies do you consider as part of any other mediums fictional universe? by Furyofthe1st

The Addams Family shares a universe with Death Becomes Her.

The potion of immortality is shown to have affected Bruce Willis's hand, restoring it to youth. This same thing happened to Goldie Hawn and Meryl Streeps characters before they 'died', but the final scene of the movie shows their limbs able to move independently of their severed heads, implying autonomy or remote consciousness and control.

Bruce however didn't take the potion, but his hand was shown to be restored to perfect function when he is able to nail a throw he had been shown earlier as being unable to do, during his escape from the immortal cult, implying the potions effects had taken hold.

The Thing is Bruce Willis's characters hand, continuing to be animated after the rest of his body died.

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rinmperdinck t1_j6p8jdq wrote

Reply to I feel like Ender's Game (2013) would have made for a MUCH better TV show/miniseries than it would have for the film adaptation that we got. by Jamey4

Obligatory "OSC is a piece of shit"

Now that's out of the way, discussion:

First of all, the production committee responsible for adapting the book clearly did everything on a tight budget and a tight schedule. I bet a ridiculous percentage of their money went to paying for the corpse of Harrison Ford to show up in that film and add approximately nothing to it.

They also clearly didn't care about the military/tactical/political stuff that gets told brilliantly in the book and creates a huge part of the identity of making Ender's Game into being what it is, rather than being solely about the flashy CGI space battles that the movie focused on. The movie just felt like a lazy half-baked cash grab to follow in the wake of all the young adult novel movie adaptations that were cash cows at the time, like those stupid vampire books or that Jennifer Lawrence series.

Point is, while a mini-series format could benefit Ender's Game by giving it more screen time to stretch its legs out and allow more of the story to make it into the script, anyone who adapts this movie has to include more than the Hollywood sci-fi explosions.

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