Today's Unwanted Concept

[james_davis_nicoll]

"Mel Gibson directs the Ender's Game movie."

Comments

[konsectatrix]

........

This is exactly what I deserve for checking the internet one last time when I'm supposed to be working on stuff.

[graydon]

Dunno.

There's a certain amusement potential in considering Card's reaction to the inevitably deeply homoerotic S&M elements as would result.

[theweaselking]

As if "Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game" would be different?

Gibson's would be more antisemitic, which is impressive given that Kid Hitler Saves The World From Jews is the entire original text.

[james_davis_nicoll]

Oh, no! The book about old men secretly watching soapy, naked boys wrestle in the shower might acquire homoerotic S&M elements!

[graydon]

But they'd be the wrong ones! The incorrect depravity.

And Card would, somehow, have to figure out how to complain about it without admitting what, precisely, he was complaining about.

[dewline.livejournal.com]

You had to share that???

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

Be happy I never shared Carlos's "two teams, one cup" Hockey comment.

[carloshasanax.livejournal.com]

I wish I could claim credit, but it's John Oliver's old joke about soccer, adapted for Canadian content.

I will say if there had been a way to play that infamous theme music while showing selected NHL playoff highlights, I would have done so.

(Note for the haters: I enjoy hockey quite a bit.)

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

"It turns out that the homosexual Jew "Buggers" are really homosexual Jews, and deserve genocide".

This is better than the purely OSC-directed Ender's Game solely because Gibson is a better director, in the same way that Leni Reifenstahl was also a better director than Orson Scott Card..

[harvey-rrit.livejournal.com]

AAAAUUUGGH!!!!!

Don't you post Brain Bleach warnings anymore?

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

"Mel Gibson" and "Ender's Game".

Reading past those is your fault.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not sure stopping just before the word "movie" would help all that much.

-- Paul Clarke

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

True. It really should have been "unwanted concept". I plead post-midnight dumbness.

[neowolf2.livejournal.com]

It's probably better than if Jerry Sandusky directed it.