Atlas Shrugged Movie

[KEEF]

Hey all,

I've been waiting for it to finally come out on DVD. Amazon.com has its release date Nov. 8. You can preorder it now.

Atlas Shrugged Part 1 Starring Edi Gathegi and Taylor Schilling (Nov 8, 2011)
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[iamse7en]

Been waiting for this one. IMDb users weren't impressed. Neither were critics. I'll get it off teh torrents.

 

[NIU Students for Liberty]

It's crap so don't waste your money. Aside from the cheap CGI (I understand the movie had a low budget but still), the dialogue is clunky and the libertarian messages in the film are far from subtle (to the point where they beat you over the head with it). I never read the book so I'm not sure how accurately the film portrays it, but it was an overall bore fest.

 

[Sola_Fide]

I attended the premier here in Louisville. It was a crowded theatre but I got the sense that people weren't impressed. I did hear some conversations about Rand Paul going on though.

 

[Jtorsella]

It's crap so don't waste your money. Aside from the cheap CGI (I understand the movie had a low budget but still), the dialogue is clunky and the libertarian messages in the film are far from subtle (to the point where they beat you over the head with it). I never read the book so I'm not sure how accurately the film portrays it, but it was an overall bore fest.

I've read the book and it is great. Don't want to see the movie, though. Might spoil my impression of the book. I've read that they are doubling the budget and getting some bigger names for part two.

 

[helmuth_hubener]

Even if it is bad, I want to see it anyway. The critics hated the book, too.

 

[Carehn]

The movie gets it right in one way...

In the book (That you should read) Dagny listens to this dudes music all the time and she really likes this one song. Then she goes to a party full of saps, the kind of saps that our destroying this country today, be it the voter, lobbyist, other nameless shit heads and she finds a group of them listening to the song she loves. Buts its been all twisted and chopped with new age crap. Its symbolic of how they are twisting and chopping the rational world into bits of crap. And she storms out - I think..

Well that part is not in the movie but I learned how Dagny felt at that point in the book when i was circled by tea party people shouting about bumper sticker moments at the movie of this book that is like my favorite and watched as they all loved this story that had been twisted and chopped up. Made me sick. Ayn Rand would kick some ass if she only new.

 

[Napolitanic Wars]

On a side note, I wanted to download the movie when it came out from a download site. There were 2 search results: one for the audiobook, one for the Stossel special. Now there are 15 results: half for the audiobook, mostly half for the E-book, and one for the Stossel special.

 

[Crystallas]

The movie was okay. Making an adaptation is awfully hard to do when it comes to Atlas Shrugged. And yes, if you don't read the book and skip to the movie(lazy intelligence), the movie will not seem very good.

Anyhow, I never believed the book to be a top 10 libertarian book, but I am glad it introduced a lot of people into a different form of thinking. It's still a great book, nonetheless, except part 1 is the weakest part of the book! LOL So you really can't bite into the concept with just part 1. Part 2 should be leaps and bounds better.

 

[heavenlyboy34]

The movie gets it right in one way...

In the book (That you should read) Dagny listens to this dudes music all the time and she really likes this one song. Then she goes to a party full of saps, the kind of saps that our destroying this country today, be it the voter, lobbyist, other nameless shit heads and she finds a group of them listening to the song she loves. Buts its been all twisted and chopped with new age crap. Its symbolic of how they are twisting and chopping the rational world into bits of crap. And she storms out - I think..

Well that part is not in the movie but I learned how Dagny felt at that point in the book when i was circled by tea party people shouting about bumper sticker moments at the movie of this book that is like my favorite and watched as they all loved this story that had been twisted and chopped up. Made me sick. Ayn Rand would kick some ass if she only new.

Strange they would omit that scene-it would be easy enough to put into a movie. (I haven't seen it yet...I'm several chapters into the book now) Seriously, I don't think that book will ever be made into a decent movie. So much is lost without the narrative and so forth.

 

[JohnRego]

I hate the way Ayn Rand idealizes these people. As if they were gods among men. Capitalists are just people like any other people, acting on incentives. They are to be commended for being ahead of the game, but everything is really just an iteration on another product before it. If they didn't do it, somebody else would have, but perhaps 3 months later than them.

Also, Boooo objectivism. Hurray subjective value theory.

 

[pure]

Loved the novel. Movie was atrocious.

 

[Carehn]

When you get to John Galts speech put the book down and take a brake. The next time you pic it up have three hours to burn and read the speech in its hole. The book seems to get really good in part 2 if i remember.

 

[low preference guy]

When you get to John Galts speech put the book down and take a brake. The next time you pic it up have three hours to burn and read the speech in its hole. The book seems to get really good in part 2 if i remember.

i liked the book but i think i skipped the speech and it was still worth it

 

[helmuth_hubener]

In the book (That you should read) Dagny listens to this dudes music all the time and she really likes this one song. Then she goes to a party full of saps, the kind of saps that our destroying this country today, be it the voter, lobbyist, other nameless shit heads and she finds a group of them listening to the song she loves. Buts its been all twisted and chopped with new age crap. Its symbolic of how they are twisting and chopping the rational world into bits of crap. And she storms out - I think..

You've got it, but she doesn't storm out, she has to stick around to hear Francisco's Money speech.

this story that had been twisted and chopped up. Made me sick.

Cut some slack. Really this is way too big of a book for a movie. Most movies cover the events of less than a dozen days. Those days may not be continguous (though they are more often than you think [think about all the random movies you've seen and you'll be surprised how many cover less than a week. Star Wars: A New Hope could have all happened in one 48 hour period!]), they may skip around, but there's only so many total days we see, only so many events. Really big stories like this are more suited to a serial form. Atlas Shrugged would make a much better serial -- miniseries or even full TV series -- than a movie. At least they did split it up into a trilogy, but still, it's a challenging story to fit into the movie format.

 

[Carehn]

I hate the way Ayn Rand idealizes these people. As if they were gods among men. Capitalists are just people like any other people, acting on incentives. They are to be commended for being ahead of the game, but everything is really just an iteration on another product before it. If they didn't do it, somebody else would have, but perhaps 3 months later than them.

Also, Boooo objectivism. Hurray subjective value theory.

You should read the book romantic manifesto. She talks about art.

Rand liked romanticism the best in righting and art. She wrote that way.It has something to do with her philosophy. She believed art was to focus on the heights of ideas, and what could be. She found it to be poor art to focus on details that had nothing to do with the overall structure of the idea or statement the artist was trying to make. and that statement can tell you a lot about the philosophy of the artist and possibly the society he lives in. Like art about death or destruction or blood guts that sort of thing can tell you a bit about the person. Or a book about swindling business men and the undeserving plight of the poor.

Her philosophy led her to understand that man must purse her own happiness to be moral and for her that was righting books about champions not sob story's. Because her philosophy also led her to understand that idealizing anything but would be some kind of mental problem. I don't know.

Just read romantic manifesto.

 

[low preference guy]

You should read the book romantic manifesto. She talks about art.

[...]

I like your non-confrontational style. I don't know how I would've replied to that...

 

[helmuth_hubener]

If they didn't do it, somebody else would have, but perhaps 3 months later than them.

Individual highly creative men are much more important in my view than in this view you present. There are certain inventions that may never have been made except for the contribution of one man. Certain technological paths which would not have been followed. Technology is not one simple progression; there's lots of forks in the road. Without Tesla, we'd all quite possibly be using DC motors rather than AC motors. Someone may have come up with the brushless motor eventually, 50 years later, but we would have been far down another technological path and it would have been a curiousity -- a headline one day on Yahoo and then forgotten. It was really very unique thinking that came up with this motor that conventional wisdom said was impossible. It's possible no one would have ever invented it. Without Henry Ford, perhaps we'd all be driving hovercraft instead of cars. Without Philo Farnsworth, perhaps we would have had highly precise mechanical TVs, because really, who else is going to come up with the convoluted vacuum tube idea that he did? Without John Galt, perhaps we still wouldn't have static electricity motors. Individuals matter. Individuals change things.

 

[TheTyke]

I just absolutely loved the way the movie poked a finger in the eye of the way Hollywood movies are always done. Every conventional "lesson of life" that they all teach was delightfully and hilarious mocked. I didn't approve of the lack of morality, but otherwise it did have a really good message. It actually made me very emotional at some points. It was a really refreshing experience and I'm looking forward to seeing the rest of it.

That said, I haven't read the book yet... so I came into it with no expectations.

 

[Cap]

Looking forward to it Keef. +rep