Atlas Shrugged: Part 1 (Movie)

[fskimospy]

Anyone else find it funny that the free market spoke and said this movie sucked?

 

[Brigandier]

Anyone else find it funny that the free market spoke and said this movie sucked?

Not really, I doubt the makers of the film ever thought it'd be a runaway success. If anything, all this movie was supposed to be is a DVD for people to enter into their Ayn Rand Shrines, as quality doesn't matter at that shrine, only that it stands up to the smiley glad hands.

 

[Craig234]

A far better use of the money than this movie is to buy Matt Taibbi's book "Griftopia" where he tears apart Ayn Rand.

I just learned, funny, that he lived in Russia for 10 years, so they both have a background from there.

 

[0roo0roo]

Her essays were better, to the point, concise defence of her philosophy.

Her fictional books are like some horrible asperger writing.

 

[DucatiMonster696]

Anyone else find it funny that the free market spoke and said this movie sucked?

Wow color me surprise that a 1 hour and 30 minute long movie about a book that tackled a complex intellectual topic did not do so well despite selling millions of copies the world over.

Hmmm...Just make more "The Fast and Furious" (or worst Stomp the Yard ) movies for the masses I guess.

 

[Craig234]

Wow color me surprise that a 1 hour and 30 minute long movie about a book that tackled a complex intellectual topic did not do so well despite selling millions of copies the world over.

Hmmm...Just make more "The Fast and Furious" (or worst Stomp the Yard ) movies for the masses I guess.

Yes, couldn't be that it's a crap, evil ideology.

Your answer is why a movie about a scientific topic with a guy doing a powerpoint got no one to buy tickets, 'An inconvenient truth'.

Oh wait.

 

[nick1985]

evil ideology.

LOL.

 

[fskimospy]

Wow color me surprise that a 1 hour and 30 minute long movie about a book that tackled a complex intellectual topic did not do so well despite selling millions of copies the world over.

Hmmm...Just make more "The Fast and Furious" (or worst Stomp the Yard ) movies for the masses I guess.

Well then maybe they shouldn't have wasted their money on a movie that couldn't be made well. The book's dialog is pretty terrible though, it would be extremely difficult to make it into a movie where people didn't sound insane.

As for Brigandier, they certainly thought it would do better than this. This was supposed to be part one of a trilogy, but it did so poorly that the producer is reconsidering parts 2 and 3 in light of it.

 

[0roo0roo]

yup anyone that has actually read it knows it is unfilmable.

 

[WhipperSnapper]

As for Brigandier, they certainly thought it would do better than this. This was supposed to be part one of a trilogy, but it did so poorly that the producer is reconsidering parts 2 and 3 in light of it.

Do you have a source for that? (That the producer is reconsidering making the 2nd and 3rd parts.)

 

[WhipperSnapper]

yup anyone that has actually read it knows it is unfilmable.

I don't see why it's necessarily unfilmable, but it would have to be either be a very long movie or TV series.

So, has anyone here actually seen the movie yet?

 

[Steeplerot]

I don't see why it's necessarily unfilmable, but it would have to be either be a very long movie or TV series.

So, has anyone here actually seen the movie yet?

I was initially going to give it a shot since I am into obscure Russian history/authors but it looks like a daytime soap opera quality. I would rather watch a foreign film subtitled then that awful stuff. I hear they are having to pay theaters to keep it showing its so bad/no one gives a shit about Rand.

Pretty funny, capitalist movie needs bailout to continue.

This is what you get when you try to combine capitalism with art.

You wind up with a hyped fake plastic product that you need to pay people to hang around for.

Quite fitting for Ayn Rand as a person and her legacy.

 

[0roo0roo]

I was initially going to give it a shot since I am into obscure Russian history/authors but it looks like a daytime soap opera quality. I would rather watch a foreign film subtitled then that awful stuff. I hear they are having to pay theaters to keep it showing its so bad/no one gives a shit about Rand.

Pretty funny, capitalist movie needs bailout to continue.

This is what you get when you try to combine capitalism with art.

You wind up with a hyped fake plastic product that you need to pay people to hang around for.

Quite fitting for Ayn Rand as a person and her legacy.

well no, all of hollywood good and bad is a combination of capitalism and art.

from christopher nolans dark knight to fast five...

 

[Steeplerot]

My bad on double post

 

[Steeplerot]

well no, all of hollywood good and bad is a combination of capitalism and art.

from christopher nolans dark knight to fast five...

Not really a fan of hollywood or tv anyhow. Haven't found a need for a tv set in 20 years. Local theaters that play indy movies here for a few bucks always turned me off to corporate hollywood movie chain places as I find the stuff expensive flashy commercials with really vapid fake characters. Or its just another movie about cops/detectives/vigilante of some sort -fake and predictable.

As I was saying capitalism and art suck. US corporate entertainment is a perfect example. Our culture mirrors tv and hollywood.

Its no wonder we are such a shallow vapid consumerist society when I see hollywood nowadays. (Or the shit that passes for pop misc)

 

[Nemesis 1]

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}

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwbtbfAnI80

 

[0roo0roo]

Not really a fan of hollywood or tv anyhow. Haven't found a need for a tv set in 20 years. Local theaters that play indy movies here for a few bucks always turned me off to corporate hollywood movie chain places as I find the stuff expensive flashy commercials with really vapid fake characters. Or its just another movie about cops/detectives/vigilante of some sort -fake and predictable.

As I was saying capitalism and art suck. US corporate entertainment is a perfect example. Our culture mirrors tv and hollywood.

Its no wonder we are such a shallow vapid consumerist society when I see hollywood nowadays. (Or the shit that passes for pop misc)

I'm sorry but you've cut yourself off from popular culture for reasons of snobbishness. Indi films are no better than regular films, you've been had by marketing, films that are cheap are not inherently good, most indi films are crap, like any attempt at art, most attempts are crap. by limiting your selection you make your experience so much worse. tv has had tons of awesome tv series in the last few years, you not having a tv ...you've deprived yourself of some of the best story telling out there. for what? snobbishness? you can't talk about what sucks really because you've failed to give it a chance, you have no real experience with it.

 

[Steeplerot]

I'm sorry but you've cut yourself off from popular culture for reasons of snobbishness. Indi films are no better than regular films, you've been had by marketing, films that are cheap are not inherently good, most indi films are crap, like any attempt at art, most attempts are crap. by limiting your selection you make your experience so much worse. tv has had tons of awesome tv series in the last few years, you not having a tv ...you've deprived yourself of some of the best story telling out there. for what? snobbishness? you can't talk about what sucks really because you've failed to give it a chance, you have no real experience with it.

Try quitting mass media for a few years. When you do it is obvious how badly done and corny it is. Ewpically being bombarded with advertisments for all this crap. Real life is far more intersting then the fiction of some corporate owned screenwriter. But if that is what you like go for it.


some people think mcdonalds stuff is food too. Really its shit for your body in fancy wrapping -ill pass.

 

[fskimospy]

Do you have a source for that? (That the producer is reconsidering making the 2nd and 3rd parts.)

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/mov...ucer-critics-you-won-hes-going-on-strike.html

He might make them, but he's definitely reconsidering it.

 

[0roo0roo]

Try quitting mass media for a few years. When you do it is obvious how badly done and corny it is. Ewpically being bombarded with advertisments for all this crap. Real life is far more intersting then the fiction of some corporate owned screenwriter. But if that is what you like go for it.


some people think mcdonalds stuff is food too. Really its shit for your body in fancy wrapping -ill pass.

Yes and it comes down to this, your opinion has no basis because you are like someone spouting about books they've never read.

 

[Steeplerot]

Yes and it comes down to this, your opinion has no basis because you are like someone spouting about books they've never read.

I don't need to taste shit to check if the flavor has improved. the stench permeates the culture of the USA everywhere you go that people use mass media as their cultural associations.

 

[alkemyst]

I don't need to taste shit to check if the flavor has improved the stench permeates the culture of the USA everywhere you go that people use mass media as their cultural associations.

I seriously have doubts if you can read. I am willing to be you are using a text to speech program just to communicate here.

 

[Steeplerot]

I seriously have doubts if you can read. I am willing to be you are using a text to speech program just to communicate here.

My laptop is busted so I am on a droid phone. Hit the ignore button if you cannot deal with a few autocorrect errors. Maybe you should learn to read better if you cannot cope.

Or whine. It matters not to me.

 

[0roo0roo]

I don't need to taste shit to check if the flavor has improved. the stench permeates the culture of the USA everywhere you go that people use mass media as their cultural associations.

Sounds more like ignorance is bliss. Good way to make sure your opinions are never challenged.

 

[Zebo]

Libertarianism is a joke. It's basically a religion of stealing of bigger, smarter, stronger faster, who morphed into use state apparatus to protect my generational ill gotten gains from with new found law and order from those who wish to apply the same AND give them zero opportunity.

However I love their social libertarian policy but if you got cash you got liberty anyway, law or no law so economics is most deleterious aspect of their platform