Atlas Shrugged: Part 1 (Movie)

[Zorkorist]

In theaters beginning April 15th (Tax day

If you haven't read the book, go waste five hours on the movie. Part 1.

http://www.atlasshruggedpart1.com/

-John {Galt}

 

[Craig234]

Ayn Rand crap ideology.

You should be ashamed for promoting something not only so worthless but wrong and causing evil.

 

[Zorkorist]

Go see the movie on the 15th, and judge for yourself.

I'll betcha dollars to doughnuts, Craig will be in line.

-John {Galt}

 

[RocksteadyDotNet]

Both Pure Market and Communism are great in theory.

Reality is as different story though.

 

[Zorkorist]

Communism is not right... and Ayn Rand's largest villan.

Free Market is her answer.

You may claim to know better than her.. but that doesn't make you right.

-John {Galt}

 

[William Gaatjes]

When i read about Ayn Rand i shrug too.

The woman was a hypocrite.
And a believer in her utopia.
A blind follower of a delusion that even in fiction is a delusion.

Why watch the movie when i know the story from reading.

 

[Zorkorist]

Reading a part?

I'm not sure I understand. Either, you know who Ayn Rand is, and discount her ideas, without reading her books, or, you have read her books, and know who Ayn Rand is.

-John {Galt}

 

[RocksteadyDotNet]

Communism is not right... and Ayn Rand's largest villan.

Free Market is her answer.

You may claim to know better than her.. but that doesn't make you right.

-John {Galt}

Neither are right. She went extreme in the opposite direction to communism.

The extreme of anything is never good. Why is that so hard for people to understand?

 

[Zorkorist]

But the one things for sure, you don't read a part of Ayn Rand.

-John {Galt}

 

[Zorkorist]

Neither are right. She went extreme in the opposite direction to communism.

The extreme of anything is never good. Why is that so hard for people to understand?

It's not the extreme. She was tring to counterbalance the state... and now what have we? The state is all that is important.

Individualism is lost.

She was prophetic.

-John {Galt}

 

[RocksteadyDotNet]

Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow?!

 

[Generator]

I might watch this just to see how much of Bioshock was built from this greedy drivel.

 

[RocksteadyDotNet]

It's not the extreme. She was tring to counterbalance the state... and now what have we? The state is all that is important.

Individualism is lost.

She was prophetic.

-John {Galt}

Pure market means slavary for the majority. That's what your prophet wanted.

Great...

 

[Zorkorist]

Free Markets mean all can be what they are. There is no limitation on them.

No Taxes, no Government, no Religion.

It's a simple idea, and one that Government would like to abolish.

-John {Galt}

 

[RocksteadyDotNet]

Free Markets mean all can be what they are. There is no limitation on them.

No Taxes, no Government, no Religion.

It's a simple idea, and one that Government would like to abolish.

-John {Galt}

Err, are you fuckin serious?

Somalia is doing real well....

 

[Zorkorist]

The Somalese may be the freest people in the world.

-John {Galt}

 

[Steeplerot]

Civilization is a good thing. Rand's vaunted "captains of industry" are just more of the same bourgeois class screwing us she hates government for.

She was also a nut who was into rape and considered child kidnapper/murderers a hero.

The movie looks like a shitty made for tv thing (or at best youtube) but then what do you expect from a bunch of greedy sociopaths trying to make "art".

 

[Zorkorist]

You would rather squash them, obv.

Don't be so free!

You would say.

-John {Galt}

 

[Steeplerot]

You would rather squash them.

Frightened of crappy Ayn Rand propaganda movie? The left will always have more style Enjoy the parade of those who had to clean up after corporatist fascism last time. -They are on the way to escort Beck out of foxnews headquarters. :biggrin:

 

[Zorkorist]

Civilization is a good thing. Rand's vaunted "captains of industry" are just more of the same bourgeois class screwing us she hates government for.

She was also a nut who was into rape and considered child kidnapper/murderers a hero.

The movie looks like a shitty made for tv thing (or at best youtube) but then what do you expect from a bunch of greedy sociopaths trying to make "art".

I'll post back when I've seen it... but anyone with the fortitude to break Atlas Shrugged into part 1 has my kudos.

-John {Galt}

 

[wuliheron]

If I want to watch a cult movie I'll go to the Rocky Horror show.

 

[Zorkorist]

You could read the book?

Trust me, the movie would be easier.

-John {Galt}

 

[WhipperSnapper]

She was also a nut who was into rape and considered child kidnapper/murderers a hero.

What the hell are you talking about? If you want to attack Rand and Objectivism, do it on the facts. I think she made it abundantly clear that she abhors all of that.

 

[William Gaatjes]

Reading a part?

I'm not sure I understand. Either, you know who Ayn Rand is, and discount her ideas, without reading her books, or, you have read her books, and know who Ayn Rand is.

-John {Galt}

I have read about her history.
I watched shows where she explains her point of view on various different subject.
I have seen documentaries about her.
I have read parts of her fiction.

She was in the basic no different then Khadaffi or Marx.
Nice idea's for an utopia, but always living on others while claiming being superior and having superior idea's.

 

[WhipperSnapper]

Reading a part?

I'm not sure I understand. Either, you know who Ayn Rand is, and discount her ideas, without reading her books, or, you have read her books, and know who Ayn Rand is.

I was a hardcore Rand fan years ago (and still am a fan to some extent) and believed in laissez-faire capitalism until I acquired more first-hand knowledge of how the real world works. Now I advocate a mixed economy and even <gasp> socialized medicine.

Her philosophy is internally consistent and she had some good ideas, a great many of which I wholeheartedly agree with (atheism, objective reality, reason, rational self interest), but she ended up adopting a couple bad premises when it came to politics. For example, her claim that there can be no such thing as a legitimate conflict of interest between rational men is ludicrous. I think her politics also discounts the interconnectedness and interdependency that people in a society have on one another. I question whether real capitalism is actually in a person's rational selfish interest.

Atlas Shrugged is a great novel and anyone who is interested in ideas should read it, regardless of whether you agree with it. I doubt that any movie could serve as a worthy substitute for it.