[ExI] enders game

[Brent Allsop]

Thanks, all, for these recommendations.  I'm glad I went to see it last 
night.  And the music is by Steve Jablonsky!  You can't not like a movie 
with that.  I just got the soundtrack and listening to it now.


I just wish that someday there could be some science fiction with less 
very hard problems solved, as if they are easy, and easy problems still 
not solved.  For example, they are doing inter stellar travel.  Yet they 
have not improved the human body at all! Surely, long before we are 
doing inter stellar travel, we'll have the ability to back ourselves up, 
and restore them.  We'll be transporting ourselves, and so on.  And we 
won't be dependent on any one body...

And what's up with everyone but Ender thinking: "They can't talk they 
don't even have vocal chords"?

I did enjoy the general idea being presented that "winning" by 
destroying your enemy isn't really winning.  And it was fun to see them 
doing this by twisting the alien destroyer theme into us being the 
destroyers.

As I've always believed, meeting up with another alien species will 
necessarily be either our or their salvation.  And there is no way both 
species are going to be at near the same level like in this movie.  All 
parties must be significantly improved by co-operation. I don't get how 
people can't see such logical necessities, and how everyone just 
projects our primitive animalistic survival of the fittest history, into 
advanced futures where such makes absolutely no sense.  Yet another 
example of easy to overcome primitive destroyer attitudes still not 
solved, but hard to do giant space stations are easy.

At least that's how I feel about such.


Brent Allsop