Sirius wrote:
Final Fantasy 7 Advent Children. Poster child for what happens if you translate anime into live-action (well it was still CG, but looked fairly real) verbatim; you walk away feeling your brain melted a little.
Brain melting? I'd love to find out what that feels like.
Maybe I'll rent the FF7 movie in a few years when I have money to spare.
I only read Ender's Game once, but I doubt it would be possible to convey the sorts of feelings that the book was able to in a movie -- a book can go into a character's head in ways that a movie can't even imagine. And that book was very very good at getting the reader to do that, more than many books whose big-screen adaptations have failed for that reason.
Of course, there's the bias of having spoiled the twist at the ending by reading the book as well. But that wouldn't be the movie's fault...