What was Gavin Hood thinking!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

Rating: 6/10 (3 November 2013)

For those kids in the future, please take time to read the book. It is one of the greatest reads that I have encountered. This is coming from one who does not enjoy reading books. To only watch this movie should be a crime.
This movie could have easily been two parts. The entire time watching it I was surprised and confused. I was surprised at the animation. It was truly amazing. Better than I would have thought. I was confused because nothing was explained. I had to explain a lot of things to my friend who watched the movie with me but never read the book.
How Hood should have started out was with Ender talking about being a third and what it meant. The term was just randomly thrown out there. Hood should have let Ender explain who Peter and Valentine are. The book is in the mindset of Ender, but the movie takes that relationship out. It was too much information to shove into 2 hours. Hood should have pushed a third hour. It may have given him more time to show the battles that Ender went through.
Let us just pretend this movie never came out.