re: Enders Game - in the top 5 for the worst and most stupid movie ever

The book is ten times better.

I still can't fathom why they ruined the "big reveal" by telling you up front.

In the book, Ender thinks all of the space combat missions he's running through are training simulations. They get progressively harder and harder, forcing him to learn new tactics, build a strong team of fellow trainees, and think completely outside the box. It's a form of the "Kobiashi Maru" from Star Trek. An unwinnable situation that he figures out how to win.

The big reveal at the end, that instead of a simulation, he's been directing real troops through actual battles. He has sacrificed thousands of human lives to win the final battle and completely destroy the "Bugs". And has caused the complete extinction of the only other known intelligent living species in the galaxy.

He is crushed by this realization. He was tricked.

He also finds out that in fact the aliens were the victims in the war. The humans had started it.

It's one of the best sci-fi novels I've ever read.

The movie shite all over it. Thanks Hollywood. Once again you thought you knew better. How many Ender's Game and Ready Player One frick-ups have to happen before you realize that you don't have to change the plot of successful novels? Just tell the fricking story.