Its Finally Happening: Atlas Shrugged

Nor is the size of your......sooooo tempting.....probably not worth the ban....still soooo tempting......
 
You won't get banned for telling jpmoffat he has a small dick.

Just want everyone to know. Jpmoffat has a small dick.

That's all.
 
3 days away.

already have plans to see it Saturday afternoon.

sharing popcorn may not be allowed, however if we trade the products of our productive output freely.(neither of use negotiating staring down the barrel of a gun) I think thats something John Galt could be proud of.
 
just saw it.

as a film it was "meh" as an adaptation of the most influential book ive read cover to cover. fabulous.

hank and dagny were cast PERFECTLY.
 
Just saw it as well. I agree the film was pretty meh but what did you expect? It was very low budget and forced into production. As far as following the plot, it was pretty spot on. The theater that I was in was packed which was nice to see and there was a round of applause at the end. Hopefully they produce the next two movies.
 
Sorry for dub post but I agree completely with the casting and acting of hank and dagny. Someone said that they were too stiff and predictable in the movie; well that was exactly how they were supposed to act and how Ayn portrays them in the book.
 
this.

its not so much that it was "meh" it was more a fact of it being made on 20 million dollars, and shot in 5 weeks.

Reardon was a total badass.
 
Agreed. It is not like anyone can make this book into a blockbuster. The main stream doesn't want to hear its message. If she were still alive, Ayn Rand would be laughing at the fact that the "critics" on rottentomatoes rated this movie a 5% while the average movie goer gave it an 85%.
 
i lold at one review that talked about a lack of character development.

well no shit, read anything that Rand has written and you dont have to be an english major to figure out that she sets her main characters up to be "god(s)" and they dont need to develop/grow their convictions or personalities. (run on sentence) lolololol
 
Really? I was really amazed at how Ayn Rand showed the development of some of her characters convictions such as Hank Rearden. Rearden is extremely conflicted throughout the book and is shown slowly struggling to put things together to reconcile his conflicts. He completely changes and develops some of his convictions to overcome his earlier contradictions. Don't see why this is never considered as character development.
 
bioshock got boring after like an hour because of all the science negativity... i mean how hypocritical is that... a video game about an underwater city with a pessimistic view of science, whoever made that game is pretty creepy. Ayn Rand on the other hand is a genius and atlas shrugged is one of the most incredible books you will ever read.
 


"The most anticlimactic non-event since Geraldo Rivera broke into Al Capone’s vault. So OK. Let’s say you know the novel, you agree with Ayn Rand, you’re an objectivist or a libertarian, and you’ve been waiting eagerly for this movie. Man, are you going to get a letdown. It’s not enough that a movie agree with you, in however an incoherent and murky fashion. It would help if it were like, you know, entertaining?"
 
Aw woozy living to hate, could it be possible I just happened to read any review of the damn movie? What was the rotten tomato score again?
 
By all accounts this is one of the worst movies made in recent memory. Would be a mediocre made-for-TV... apparently there has already been talk of scrapping parts 2-3.

Lol at the apologists in this thread. Kinda like scifi nerds trying to justify shitty star trek films.
 
Christ no, that's like asking if I'm going to waste 2 hours of my time watching Scream 4. Moderating NSG for an evening would be more intellectually stimulating. Next stop, blockbuster bargain bin.

But again, lol at the apologists. You should've KNOWN this was going to blow chunks, and the desperation with which you're frantically refreshing this thread to respond to anyone with anything negative to say actually has me sitting at my desk chuckling.
 
i've never been let down by a movie after a good trailer. i've found movies better than i expected them to be, but that's only when i haven't seen the trailers.
 
Actually, yes. I absolutely see why it has broad appeal for a certain subset of young people (largely because it shocks many socially ingrained assumptions) but unfortunately it straddles two worlds and does neither very well. As a philosophical work it's incredibly superficial. It's like reading a top 40 pop hit - catchy, but there's not much depth there. There is good reason that Rand is more of a curiosity than "required reading" and is not looked at in the actual academic community as a legitimate thinker as well as being a household name, in the way many consider Milton Friedman to be (not altogether sold on him either).

By the same token, her actual writing is just plain awful. The prose is particularly soulless but it goes beyond that. If you assess it from a pure writing perspective, ignoring any political or philosophical aspect and just taking it on the story, characters and how it's all presented to the reader, she's a pretty terrible writer. It's the same reason I can't get through 10 pages of Dan Brown - though, in fairness, he is much worse.

Tangentially, it's also annoying because left wing college kids will sometimes read it as if it somehow gives them a unique insight into the thought process of conservatives and thereby arms them to do intellectual battle, which is just... irritating.
 
I think you'd be hard pressed to find a movie critic who isn't so pretentious as to have necessarily read the thing. Read reviews, most of them have, and they still all hate it, apparently aside from the NY Post, which is in itself kind of hilarious.
 
"There are seminal moments in the philosophical underpinnings of everyone's life. Some are recognized, and some, I suppose, remain just beneath our consciousness.

Certainly for me, the crystallization of a worldview that put liberty as its epicenter came into much clearer focus when I read "Atlas Shrugged." Obviously, I wasn't alone.

Ayn Rand's magnum opus, published in 1957, is still in print today and is rated in a number of surveys as second only to the Bible in its cultural and political influence."

http://www.startribune.com/opinion/119947169.html
 
I could pull up some obscure passage or youtube video and make the same remark about capitalism in reference to any critique of capitalism. Come on, that simple minded trash is no better than the reverends antics of assumed racism in any case possible.
The reality is ingenuity is indeed a valuable resource. One of the most mankind has. Ayn Rand has that amongst a few other things right, at most. However objectivism is no more applicable today than a purely communist society. It's a very simple spin off of Adam Smith's theory of moral sentiments, which at the time was obviously a genius work, but no loner plausible when compared to today's economic circumstances.
 
i read about it in the Huffington post. it just happened. 2 days ago. hardly some obscure youtube video that has no relevance, and lacking proper context.

point being it has an all too convenient timing with the movie just out. you cant make it up better than this.

i dont know if youve read the book, but what he is referring too seems to be pulling directly from the book. (equalization of opportunity act) (from the book) where the innovative companies are held back because creative destruction would / is taking place. or another instance in the book where trains are limited in size because more trains = more jobs.

i can assure you, this was posted because of its relevancy / irony of the topic being addressed in this thread. not because im some hack who thinks all liberals think like this.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/17/jesse-jackson-jr-ipad-unemployment_n_850227.html
 
If part 2 comes out I'm not fucking seeing it. I don't need to pay $8 to take a nap, I can do that at home.
 
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