Folks, I think Ender's Game is gonna suck.

[sofa king]

6. Years ago, I had really hoped....

... that computer graphics would revolutionize science fiction in film and television, because it would finally allow directors to accurately realize the visions offered by the written works. Large-scale physics could finally be accurately portrayed, like Fred Pohl's Dyson spheres, for example. Different gravity fields, or lack thereof, could be used.

But instead it went the other way. Now, we have bullshit like Sharknado. Now it's cheap to make CGI crap, and the CGI itself sells, whether it's any good or not. Every spaceship still has a gravity button. Every rocket still thunders in the vacuum of space. Every laser pulse can be seen and heard.

Science fiction in film, despite being completely freed by the use of CGI, is still shackled by film conventions that were established exactly because nobody except Stanley Kubrick could afford to do it right.

Someday, someone is going to come along, do it right, and blow peoples' minds. Maybe it will be me--but if it is, we all have a very, very long wait.