10 Movie Posters That Spoiled EVERYTHING
5. This Is Not A Game - Ender's Game
The posters and trailers for 2013's adaptation of Orson Scott Card's legendary sci-fi novel Ender's Game tried to get a little too cute for their own good, and in turn basically gave the game away.
The posters proudly placed the tagline front and center which read, "This is not a game."
While at first glance this might simply seem like a "cool" movie marketing quote, it actually spoils the big climactic twist, that the training exercise protagonist Ender (Asa Butterfield) believes he is participating in is actually a very real engagement with alien combatants.
Hell, even the poster that didn't include this tagline nevertheless showed off the outcome of the final battle, with the alien planet clearly being obliterated by Ender.
Though many people going to see Ender's Game would've been familiar with the source material, given that the book came out almost 30 years before the movie it's also fair to say that many more likely wouldn't have.
Despite the twist being surprisingly well executed, it's a shame that the marketing needlessly spelled it out in the most literal sense.