All the times he says “nearly killed someone” about that first scene: he actually did kill him, and they didn’t tell ender until the end of the book

"is this a thing? Nerds that shun other nerds?" Have you ever been on the internet before?

The book was insanely good. The moment Ender found out it wasn't a game, in both the movie and book brought me to tears. Especially the book because it goes into more detail about how he realized and handled killing all those fleet members.

"You insult your recruits before you even explain what the game is" Yeah, that's the military. Haha

Probably would have made a decent TV show given the actual story lasted more than a decade

I watch CINEMA SINS so much that sometimes I hear his voice mocking me in my every day life

The book was fucking amazing. It had the most realistic representation of space warfare I have seen, and it really took its time to dwell on the consequences of the character's actions.

Imagine being this age and letting a 4'11" kid bully you

"What animal do they resemble?" "Ants." "Which have?" ... hundreds of unique characteristics.

My husband said when he read this book in his teen years he wanted it to be a movie, but when we saw it, he realized why it never should have been. The book has a lot of ideas that don't translate. Read the book, it's really good.

Sin #51 "Why would a programmer ever allow the mouse to crawl into the giant's eye?" That's actually a plot point in the books; the programmers DIDN'T program that. A sentient computer program named "Jane" created by the Formics/Buggers did, in a roundabout way of befriending Ender after they collectively agreed to die as penance for murdering what they didn't realize were sentient lifeforms. In their society, the workers/soldiers are telepathically controlled by the Queens, and a worker being killed is about as unethical as getting your hair cut. When they found Humanity, they thought that killing all the humans was just like cutting fingernails and war was mostly a greeting of sorts, and when Rackham killed a Queen, then and only then did they realize that humans were actually upset at the death of billions, and eventually concluded that every human actually was a just as sentient as a Queen. As penance, they basically allowed Ender to all but exterminate themselves (they'd defend themselves to the death but NEVER attack humans again). However, they didn't want to go entirely extinct, so they tried to reach out to Ender through Jane, but by the time Ender found out about everything, it was too late. Instead, Jane ends up being used to guide Ender to the last Queen egg, to bring the Formics/Buggers back from extinction when he was ready to.

removing the monitor wasnt supposed to hurt, it usually doesnt but because they left enders in for so long it had formed a strong attatchment to his mind, this is explained better in the book. also the other kids dont have monitors, ender was the last of his classmates to lose his because he showed the most promise and they needed to observe him for longer, which is why his classmates didnt like him to begin with, well that and being a third. but yeah most children lost their monitors buy age 4 or 5 if i remember corecdtly. and they aged the kids up in the movie, in the book hes only 6 when he fights those other kids so the adults didnt think deadly force was something to worry about.

I find it interesting that the concept of "nerds shunning nerds" is so foreign. Yes, nerds shun nerds, especially when ONE specific nerd is told to be better than all the other nerds. Trust me.

And in the book Bonzo had 4 years, 8 inches, and 50 lbs on Ender. He was one of the biggest guys in the entire academy. He wasn't a sniveling little weasel. Before Ender came along, he was the best they had.

My wife watched the movie without having read the book and cried for what they did to Ender. I would say despite the deviations from the book they still got crux of the story across.

I sincerely appreciate that you took off sins for the plot twist. Because I definitely agree it's one of the best plot twists I've ever experienced.

Hahaha.. love that one, "Sto trying to cover up the fact that this facility has the fastest and most capable seamstresses alive operating under a dark shroud of secrecy!" The magic custom fitting unis are not something I noticed when watching the movie, but the point is valid.

another thing: BEAN WAS NOT IN HIS LAUNCH GROUP

Yes, the bullying IS intentionally ignored. It's explained in the book. Yes, you can be a genius and still be a bully. In fact, many geniuses are somewhat anti-social. As for the uniforms - Ender is a standard size. All "wardrobe" had to do was slap his name on a new set of uniforms. Since Col. Graff was the person reassigning Ender when he was promoted, of course he had whomever was in charge of the uniforms alerted before Ender received his instructions. It was Bean who was too small for the regular sizes.

Favorite part of this was when it was announced “I refuse to learn Harrison Ford’s name” while he is wearing a name tag

"Also, this movie's been going on for 7 minutes, and it's been 80% ass-beatings so far" Tbf that's still less than the book.

your f*cking name is Bean and you had the audacity to mock of another person's name?!?! (best part, im still laughing)

I will say that a good half of the "sins" ("painting the target," singling out Ender) were intentionally written into the book. The military's whole goal during the book was to separate and alienate him from the rest of his peers. ALSO he did actually kill that guy in the beginning of the movie in the book.

They were looking at leadership and tactics and reasoning and positioning in a 3D environment with no reference directions. Even after Ender realized "the enemy's gate is down", because directions from outside reference points were arbitrary and could be dismissed, Bean noticed that Ender still naturally tended to align himself to the direction the corridor was oriented. Breaking the ingrained habits of a world based on gravity to think, feel, position, maneuver, and battle in a weightless environment is not easy. Look at just how many space battles in fiction have fleets lined up on a plane, sharing an orientation which has absolutely no basis in reality or tactical thought. Those patterns need to be trained out, and the battle school was the way to do that.

1:00 In the book someone DOES get killed. Ender takes the bully down permanently, though not intentionally. The one REAL sin of the movie is changing it so Dragon Army is his old friends and not complete strangers. That was the point, to see if he could whip a group of mediocre cadets into an elite fighting force. Oh, and having him meet Bean on the shuttle up to battle school when in the book, Ender didn't meet Bean until Dragon Army was formed.

Ender "nearly" killed his bully, yeah... nearly killed him, that's totally how that happened.

I like how you didn't sin the "Well, down is relative in space" when the reference point is the ship, and is what the captain is obviously talking about.

4:20 In the army they woke us up at 5:55am every morning, at 6:00am we had to be outside ready for physical exercise

this book is actually AMAZING, the movie didn't do it justice at all

Wait, did they miss out the ENTIRE subplot with his brother and sister back home? Where they manipulate through online personas the political sphere until his brother becomes the Hegemon? They completely dropped that? What the Hell!?

12:56 Ender's Game: sponsored by Razer

11:26 -you said you read the book. Must’ve been a while ago. The rankings are based off of average performance, so they placed first because nearly all of their men weren’t frozen and they demolished the other team.

But the training "laser tag" game was won in the book by having four people touch the corners of the door and the fifth getting through meaning you needed 5 people still "alive" to win

This movie was a lot better when I watched it w/o paying attention.

4:20 is this edited like a Hollywood movie? Canonically yes.

I remember reading this book a while back, rather enjoyed it, too. I have to say, though, if they'd really done the book justice, about half these sins wouldn't be here. Yes, I know, it's a movie and they have to cut things down. Personally, I'm having to stop myself from explaining half the things sinned as they do, actually, have explanations that just weren't included. These are still 'valid' sins, after all; this video is sinning the movie, not the story. Even if there are valid explanations, not including them is a 'sin' even unto itself.

long story short: read the book, its better. trust me.

Imagine if the actors were the actual ages of the kids in the book. 6 year old Ender inadvertently killing that bully in the start. But I get why they're older -- good child actors are really hard to come by.

6:35 didn't make it in to this sinning, but she says "it's basic rocket science" when it's basic orbital mechanics

Having NOT read the book before I watched the movie, I still can attest this was the first plot twist that ACTUALLY got me. For whatever the movie is to be judged at, let it be. But it's one freaking heck of a story.

Could’ve sworn Ender was like, 6 when he went to the battle school. Not 14....

I remember reading Ender's Game for the first time and getting to the end, and me realizing what was happening, it was breathtaking. Hands down one of the best twists ever

As someone who has read three books from the ender's saga and three from the shadow saga, I have got to say that's is quite a good movie. You can see that it was very well adapted to be a movie and people who hasn't read the books will understand (as you said). But, this movie has some of the details that I didn't catch the first time I saw the movie. I like a lot this saga and recommend it to anyone who is thinking of reading it. (But I can't blame for the movie sins, I enjoyed the video)

10:35 In Ender's Shadow, it explained that Bean hack into the school system so it "randomly" picked the rest of the Dragon Army along with him (Which was picked by Graff). This movie showed why this should be a TV series or at least make it into a trilogy because there are SO MUCH things happening in the background. And then A LOT of the book happened internally which makes it very difficult to translate them on screen.

Previously on Ender's Game "We have to isolate him, and make him think he wont be helped." CinemaSins "Why are they letting this happen?"

You shoud've sinned how two of the teams were 'centipede' and 'rat'

You mentioned it being odd that there was a program to dive into the giant’s eye, or to see the queen, but when he first logged on, it said it is cerebrally controlled. Everything in the game is driven by his mind

They really do quidditch the battle school game. In the book, the game is (or at least is treated as) mostly about gunning down and immobilizing your opponents. The gate is largely ceremonial and you don’t generally get to it unless you’ve pretty much eliminated or disabled every opponent on the enemy side. What’s more, You need four people to open the gate, and one to walk through it, for the victory to truly count, the thinking being that a battle won without a certain number of soldiers is a phyrric victory. Ender does exploit that in the book, though, by deploying a frontal attack against an overwhelming force of two teams working in conjunction, and then sending a small squad to open and secure the gate without the other teams noticing. It’s treated by some as dishonorable or cheating and it’s questioned how it works technically under the rules, but opening the gate ends the game, and that was ender’s goal anyway because he was sick of playing with the deck stacked against him. Then, at the end of the book *spoilers, but you know what video you’re watching* they parallel ender’s actions with the gate with destroying the home world of the Buggers. They can’t win honorably or conventionally, but they can sneak past the enemy and take out their stronghold, making their numbers meaningless. Compared to that, the nerfed up rule of “anybody getting through the gate wins it for their team” is really boring. Not to mention, they made the thing where he fights two teams as like his first dragon fight, when the cool thing about the dragon army fights were that he had to fight battle after battle, day in day out, sometimes with the odds stacked stupidly against him, because that’s what war can be and they need him to be able to deal with that. They had him do like one dragon fight.

The book was written in 1985 by Orson Scott Card and was ahead of it's time. The movie attempts to follow it pretty strictly within the 2 hour time frame. Blaming it for ripping of other films made after 1985 seems unfair to me.

"Someone could have died in this scene" In the books, someone did.

With all the "remakes" and HBO versions or Netflix versions (Series of Unfortunate events) I'd LOVE it if they did a series for it.

The book series' explanation of the whole Formic Telepathy with the computer game phenomenon is quite eloquent, I thought. It was a unique game which was given the computing power and access linked in with the ansible and all it's interconnected network of computers, which is a faster than light communications network that, combined with the hive mind communication efforts of the hive queen sparked a sentient AI entity which became "Jane". Because Ender goes outside the programmed parameters of the Mind Game, it is forced to "improvise", which is why it generates the whole Fairyland place, and creates a unique empathic link between Ender and the game computer system, which is what enables the access by the hive queen. But yes, it's her first attempt at anything like this, which is why it was so fuzzy and unclear that it was a message for Ender. It was too little, too late. Most of the "sins" mentioned in this video are explained quite well by the Ender book series, but I guess since the movie doesn't adequately explain them for anyone who hasn't read the books, then I guess they are still "sins".

The cast is too old and the movie doesn't show 1/1000th the torment Ender went through. You don't feel as bad for Ender as you are meant to.

Bean. Bean? BEAN!? * whispers: mr. bean... *

Every time I see your content I love it. Good stuff!

As a huge fan of the book I must say, you did not sin this movie enough.

*FINALLY* *LEEEEEEROY JINKENS!*

I remember feeling so strange towards the end of Enders Game when I was younger

lold at the part where he was suprised at the 10 minute wake up thing... clearly hes never served

in 6th grade outdoor school, we had to get up, get changed, and be ready to go to breakfast in, like, 5 minutes.

6:34 In the book, Ender had hacked (I guess that would be the word for it) the school computers, and made an account whose name he could change, so in the book when that scene happens, Ender changed that accounts name to Bernards name to make it look like he was insulting himself. (or something along those lines, it was a while since I read the book) Edit: the chat system was in the book too, the point is it wasn't meant to be anonymized.

CinamaSins: "Harrison Ford's character whose name I refuse to learn." Me: It's on the screen right now as you are saying this. 10:20

the rocket song is the theme song of my local hockey team that is played after every goal so hearing it at the end of the video was awesome.

I can overlook the sins. It's a brilliant movie. It takes into account strategy, what it takes to be a leader, etc. Just works on a lot of levels. Although psychopaths are obeyed, they don't always win. Also, their troops will only be motivated by fear and not admiration. However, you can't be too soft either. It takes somewhere in the middle. I'm on the soft side unfortunately have had people walk all over me. I get it..

This is why the books are better. Literally every single one of these is answered in either "Ender's Game" or "Ender's Shadow".

4:30 actually, you have 2 minutes to get fully dressed in cammies for marine boot camp. And about the same time to make your rack and about 1 minute to hit the head and brush your teeth. So actually, 10 minutes is extremely generous.

i remember being forced to read this book (it's been sitting on my bookshelf for a couple of years) and being bored throughout it, the ending felt a bit saddening, i guess. I've felt bad for the main character whenever he got bullied, but i always got slightly disgusted whenever it's revealed that he killed the person

#4 The reason that "one ship" blew up and "everything was over" is because the aliens were hive mind, that ship had the Queen and once she was gone the subordinate "drone" aliens essentially stopped functioning.

If ever a movie needed a montage... I mean movies over utilize montages all the damn time and this movie couldn’t spare a training montage or better yet, a montage of dragon army winning?

Technically, Bean’s real name is Julian Delphiki Jr., but he doesn’t know that yet.

To answer your question: the video game is controlled by Jane who is philotically entangled with Ender the same way the queen is philotically entangled with her workers

The fact the movie skips over the months long mental deterioration of ender commanding dragon army is criminal. By the time he’s facing two teams at once it’s his last battle and he does it because he doesn’t care anymore. He just wanted to go out with a bang. Never expected it to work but it did. Fuck man this movie does no justice

Would it really have been that hard for the movie to take,place over the course of 10 years, like the book? It just feels unrealistic to have Ender rise through the ranks this fast.

The movie is okay, but it just doesn't do the book justice.

I didn't realize this till my last watch through this movie but in the beginning when they were playing that game of freeze tag with laser guns but Ender used the same strategy by using his teammates as a shield to get to the enemy goal. He later used the drones as a shield in the same exact way later on during this last battle.

Thanks for the video. I enjoyed it.

The kid sprained his ankle, but the battle room is micro gravity... You don't need to walk or run in there. He should have been fine to play.

wait a second .... is the guy who says "wake up pendejos" RICO FROM HANNAH MONTANA ?!? (8:04)

One of my favorite parts of the book was that Ender had to figure out everything for himself. Stupid movie audience that needs exposition because it works differently than books. And the fact that it started out with six year olds fighting to the death.

I loved. LOVED. LOVED. The Ende series. Just a joy to read. Couldn't put em down. Bean. Oh, Bean, how still mourn for you.

The biggest sin here is trying to take a book as in depth and detailed as Ender's Game was and condense it down to a two hour movie. Ender spent years at the battle school before becoming commander of Dragon Army. The movie would have you believe it was just a matter of weeks. What was it, a year between battle school and command school? And then months and dozens of 'simulated' battles before the final battle? I did enjoy the movie but only because I have read the book and knew the massive amount of information and story that was left out. This book to movie needed to be a trilogy at least. And for those that have read the book, also read Ender's Shadow if you haven't. It is the same story told from Bean's perspective.

Saying it won't hurt, and then it being excruciatingly painful is to illustrate adults lie to these children.

The Leeroy Jenkins overdub at the end is priceless!

The Ender series in book form may be the be best sci-fi series ever written. 'Children of The Mind' is a bit of a slog, but everything else is pure gold!

Love the book, the movie is okay. I'm mainly annoyed at the super fast pacing and the wussification of Petra. But I guess movies need a romance plot for some reason.

The book was incredible, the movie was acceptable

Sins for isolating THE COMMANDER. They isolated him because they didn’t want him to be attached to those serving under him. Sometimes I really can’t deal with these sins.

Everything wrong with Ender's Game in one second or less: EVERYTHING.

talk about uniforms my navy uniform took 3months to come and still didn't fit properly

You should do Everything wrong with Shark Tale

you refuse to learn the name of a guy wearing a name tag, thats dedication

Bean was actually a great character, in the books. He got his own entire series, starting with Ender's Shadow. If you haven't read it, you should.

Now do Starship Troopers since you mentioned it

3:38 Military issue equipment NEVER fits you perfectly, even the stuff that is designed to fit still won't he's fiiiiiiine

7:20 Short but athletic. Just like that one kid who randomly appeared in my hallway.

"North Carolina".... That mightve been one of the subtlest digs ive seen so far from you. SO FUNNY!

The book does a much better job at explaining the reasons behind why the computer program does what it does and why the adults allow the bullying. I starting reading this book series last year and just finished the third. If you haven't read it, I highly recommend it.

I love this film because it made me read the book. If anyone here didn't read ,,Enders game,, or ,,Enders shadow,, I HIGHLY recommend it.

God, the "North Carolina" crack almost killed me :).

One thing I loved about the explanation of this film right off "we don't have as much time than we expected" in the trailer. Telling us, we were only getting highlights, I was ok.