I posted this here because of this "review" I came across. I have seen the previews and it intrigues me. Harrison Ford. Ben Kingsley. Anyway, here is the "review" FWIW. Long read, interesting and disturbing. All emphasis mine.

Always nice to know the slime behind the slick celluloid bling.

Why I Will Not Be Reviewing ENDER'S GAME
by Mark Vaughan

The Bottom Line There is a point where you have to draw a line; do you support bigotry and discrimination, or do you take up arms against it?

Why I Will Not Be Reviewing Ender’s Game:

Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game will come out (you should pardon the phrase) November 1, 2013. I won’t be there to see it.

Why would a mega-geek like me not show up for a big budget sci-fi blockbuster of an admittedly very good book? Especially one that stars the likes of Sir Ben Kingsley, Viola Davis, Asa Butterfield, and… (wait for it) Harrison Ford?

Because Orson Scott Card has become a symbol of the Anti-Civil Rights for Gays and Lesbians Movement. He served on the board of NOM, the National Organization for Marriage, who brought us Proposition 8 in California from 2009 to earlier this year; you know, when the news of Ender’s Game started buzzing around the web. Orson, who is the great great grandson of Brigham Young, takes his Mormon faith very seriously, and sees no place in God’s creation for anything other than heterosexual, child producing marriage.

Lots of people hold this view. What makes Card different is his national forum to spread these views, which he has done. In 1990, Card argued that states should keep sodomy laws on the books in order to punish unruly gays–presumably implying that the fear of breaking the law ought to keep most gay men in the closet where they belonged. (http://www.nauvoo.com/library/card-hypocrites.html)

In 2004 He claimed that most homosexuals are the self-loathing victims of child abuse, who became gay “through a disturbing seduction or rape or molestation or abuse.” (http://www.ornery.org/essays/warwatch/2004-02-15-1.html)

In 2008 (remember, this is the time period of Prop 8) he wrote his most vitriolic piece (http://www.deseretnews.com/article/7002 ... .html?pg=4 ) where he argues that the homos were picking on him, “A term that has mental-health implications (homophobe) is now routinely applied to anyone who deviates from the politically correct line. How long before opposing gay marriage, or refusing to recognize it, gets you officially classified as “mentally ill” and that straight married couples should, if gay marriage passed, over throw the government, “…when government is the enemy of marriage, then the people who are actually creating successful marriages have no choice but to change governments, by whatever means is made possible or necessary… Regardless of law, marriage has only one definition, and any government that attempts to change it is my mortal enemy. I will act to destroy that government and bring it down….” What a patriot.

We don’t know exactly how much of his money, outside his Mormon Tithes, he donates to Anti-Gay causes. It is rumored to be substantial. I don’t know, I couldn’t find out, and frankly I don’t care. Because this isn’t about somehow crippling the anti-gay movement by drying up all their money, it is about a symbol.

Orson Scott Card has made himself a spokesperson for his set of views. He is a symbol for the movement to deny all Americans equal rights under the law. They were very happy to have him on board, because he has name recognition as one of the greatest Sci Fi writers alive today. And let’s give the Devil his due; the man can write. He lent the cause and specifically NOM credibility. “We aren’t all just poor, ultraconservative, under-educated, hyper-religious nutjobs: here is OSC, who won a Hugo and a Nebula back to back! He’s not poor, he’s a college professor, and he’s even a Democrat!”

He made himself a symbol.

There are many symbols in the Gay Civil Rights Movement, but none is more important than the Pink Triangle. Originally, Hitler marked homosexuals with a pink triangle when they were sent to the concentration camps. And the gays have taken that symbol back. Once a symbol of our oppression, it is now a symbol of our liberation, and a reminder…Never Again.

So OSC is a symbol for the forces that want homosexuals to shut up, stay in the closet, and get married anyway, and have children (as is witnessed by his gay character in The Homecoming Saga.) and quit disturbing the heteronormative vision of how the world ought to be.

Homosexuals have learned we just don’t have the numbers to win in the polls without straight allies. But one place we CAN vote is in the checkout line. We can refuse to support businesses that fund the campaign against us, and we can make deliberate choices to buy from companies whose policies support our fight for equal rights. Look at Target; after the boycott, they have risen from a dismal gay friendly rating to 100% with The Human Rights Campaign index, and have even introduced a Gay Wedding Registry. Chick Fil A is another corporate entity that wishes they had never stirred the homosexual hornets’ nest.

Now, suddenly OSC, a symbol for organized homophobia, has a LOT on the line with Ender’s Game. And suddenly OSC and Ender’s Game have become a Symbol for the Gay Community.

Here is what OSC had to say about the boycott:
“Ender’s Game is set more than a hundred years in the future and has nothing to do with political issues that did not exist when the book was written in 1984.
With the recent Supreme Court Ruling, the Gay Marriage issue becomes moot. The Full Faith and Credit Clause of the Constitution will, sooner or later, give legal force in every state to any marriage contract recognized by any other state.
Now it will be interesting to see whether the victorious proponents of gay marriage will show tolerance towards those who disagreed with them when the issue was still in dispute.”—OSC

Well, Mr. OSC, I live in a state where my right to marriage is still very much in doubt. There is a constitutional amendment that will have to be removed before I can even consider marriage. I was fired from a job I had worked at for 12 years because my new supervisor “didn’t agree with my lifestyle choices.” (her words.) So you will pardon me, I trust, if I don’t view the conflict as over just yet.

And understand, I can find it in my heart to forgive those who truly recant, like Exodus International, the largest “Ex-Gay” movement group, who recanted their position, stated sexual orientation is immutable, and apologized for all the harm they have done. Go in peace, Exodus.

And as for the gay community showing “tolerance” towards you, now that the cause you worked so long, hard and tirelessly has been “lost.” For some reason, the analogy that springs to my mind is of a girl, wearing a torn dress, crying while a fat southern sheriff says “Now, now, child, them four boys didn’t rape you, because you got away. Now why would you want to ruin their lives by pressing charges?” Tolerance? Not in the Cards.

OSC is a great writer, and a miserable human being. He is a symbol of the forces that think one tenth of all Americans should remain second class citizens forever; that there should be two sets of rules for the two kinds of people…separate, but not equal. And while less than a fraction of a penny of my ticket price would actually go to OSC, I won’t stand for it. I will never give money willingly to someone who has worked so hard, so diligently to spread hatred, lies, and misinformation about me and my kind, equating us to pedophiles, and insisting that if we really wanted to, we could change…or at least pass for straight.

Would there be this kind of outrage over a group of Jewish people who refused to see a Mel Gibson movie in the wake of his comments about them? To make a fictional analogy (and I pick on Stephen King because he is a great ally) would you watch a Stephen King movie if you knew he supported the KKK?

In America we espouse the principle that all people are created equal. But we are treated very differently under the eyes of the law. Gays are denied 1100 distinct rights that are accorded to every married couple. Things are getting better, but there are only 13 states with Gay Marriage, and the District of Columbia. We are not equal. We can be fired in 29 states for just being gay. We are not equal.

And that should concern every American. Because if one group can be deemed “Not As Good As” another then what is to stop things from changing for another minority group? Blacks make up 13.6% of America, but 39.4% of prisoners. Hispanics are 16.3% of the population but 20.6% of the prisons. There is something wrong here. Blacks and Hispanics are being systematically disenfranchised by new voting laws, and gerrymandered out of political relevance, making them severely under-represented. There are 44 blacks in Congress. That is .082%.

So, if you think that the plight of the Gays and Lesbians has nothing to do with you, think again. Every minority in America needs to be throwing their full weight and support behind Equality for All, or we may find we have Equality for None.

So will boycotting Ender’s Game create Gay Marriage nationwide? No. But it will create a powerful symbol that we, as a people will stand up to the forces of hate, bigotry, and oppression. It is the pink triangle of 2013.

I will not watch Ender’s Game. I won’t rent the movie, or watch it streaming on Netflix. I won’t buy any merchandise related to it. I won’t buy the book, or any of OSC’s books. I won’t do anything that in any shape form or fashions makes anyone a penny by associating themselves with this movie. I will never give money to someone I know has spent money on denying me Equal Rights to theirs. And if you value equality, I urge you to join me.

So I will not be watching Ender’s Game. I will never support Orson Scott Card. Not. One. Red. Cent. EVER.

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Argh.

This is a hard one.

Orson Scott Card is an incredible asshole on this issue, and has been for years.

But Ender's Game is an AMAZING book. It has insights and ideas that were really spot on about gifted kids and the ways in which adults insult their intelligence, and why young people don't trust grownups, and a pile of other things. It's also witty and fast paced and a lot of fun.

It's so hard for me to reconcile the anti gay asshole with the mind that wrote that book. I would like to believe that Card is just the victim of a narrow minded religion and community--but shouldn't a gifted writer be able to think this through for himself? He was young when he wrote the first version of ender's game. Maybe his mind calcified over as he got older.

I don't know. Judging artists on their political beliefs and bigotry is a tricky process, since most of the artists i've met personally are stark raving mad in the first place.

I really really want to see this movie. Should i feel bad about enjoying it, since orson scott card is such a jerk? Can i look at painting and enjoy them even if the men who painted them were womanizers or cut off their ears and mailed them creepily to random matrons? Renoir hated women, van gogh was crazy, Byron raped his sister, Coolidge was a snuff addict...

Maybe i'll just pirate it. then he won't get any of the money.

Maybe i'll just pirate it. then he won't get any of the money.

LOL! It's not his beliefs that would keep me away, but I don't want to financially support him if he is using his money to promote this crap. He can believe what he wants, but I won't give to support his actions any more than I would give money to a church or to Paul Ryan or or or..... .

You are right about the dead artists. The difference is that by buying their works now, I wouldn't be supporting their craziness.

There's lots of really good movies based upon really good books out there. I can skip this one. I have no desire to enrich or reward some bigoted asshole.