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>>BEFORE the big screen!

Too bad. The whole series started with several great ideas, and the whole story looked quite serious. I counted it among the pieces of art. Now as the latter books have arrived, specially the shadow ones... there's only the artfulness, the skill, the big machine to grind the Characters through Situations so they could Make Moral Decisions. Combined with Marvel... gah.

>I fear these things. The videos in my head of Enders Game will not be properly re-created by the artist or by any movie maker. For example, while I loved the Lord of the Rings, I have a lot of trouble imagining worse casting than Elijah Wood as Frodo Baggins. That was almost enough to ruin it for me.

Actually a big test for the text. The two most outstanding examples for me are Solaris and Dune - in both cases I have known the books in detail for years in advance, expecting the movie to live up to my expectations. And when the movies came, they were all wrong... and yet that was it, that was the proper representation of the book, and I've gone back to both the book and the movie (Tarkovsky and Lynch - not the Hollywood version of Solaris, couldn't be bothered) several times, and neither has lost any of the appeal.

Sometimes it works with things I read/watched unwillingly, like Harry Potter - the movie was exactly as I expected it, no better nor worse than the book. Luckily, by the time of second installment our youngest outgrew it and didn't even mention it.

The big disappointment was the Hitchhiker's Guide movie, but not unexpected. It was so properly Disneyfied (and of course, the "and disappeared in a puff of logic" was amputated)... the only real pleasure came from one really funny moment, and then from the fact that daughter and I were the only one in the audience who laughed :).