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  1. Islander255

    • +1

    Atlas Shrugged is amazing as a novel, utterly captivating. As a novel, it holds up today and is truly epic and astounding. As a political philosophy, it is a product of its times and should not at ALL be applied to our current political situation. I thought it was dreadful how the movie tried to slip in some less-than-subtle Tea Party jargon to make a point. It was disgusting.

    "Atlas Shrugged" should now be seen like Lord of the Rings: as an epic fantasy with some good character truths... and not as a political guidebook. Nobody uses LOTR as a political guidebook, do they?

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  2. VoiceofKane

    • +1

    There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.



    EDIT: Did not see that this quote was already posted. Will now proceed to hang head in shame.

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  3. GalenFleener

    • 0

    Unfortunately, if a book has to use every literary trick there is to make an idea seem even somewhat plausible, trying to add even as much reality as using a movie with human actors will xpose all the gaping holes.

    Anyway, so glad I downloaded this garbage instead of wasting money on it. Even made it to the end before deleting.

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  4. RFS

    • +1

    Actually sat down and watched this POS. They made edits that undermined the viewponts they were trying to front, make the protagonists look like a pack of social dimwits with no grasp on politics or public relations, and end on a "cliffhanger" no one gives a toss about.

    TL,DR: Shite book becomes shite movie

    Also, I Like Trains.

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  5. killermike2178

    • 0

    There's 1.21 jiggawatts in my boot!

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  6. markcavendish

    • +1

    I found Atlas Shrugged to be an entertaining piece of literature. After all, Ayn Rand considered herself a fiction writer above anything else.

    I read it when I was a junior in high school for an economics class, and I knew better than to apply it uncritically to what we were learning, but I still enjoyed the story. Either enjoy the story or don't!

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  7. something_meta

    • +1

    This movie was such a bad idea. Whether you agree with objectivism or not there is no way to express the entire novel in three movies. Especially when it takes three hours to recite the entire John Galt speech which really is the core of the book. As far as the anachronism of the movie is concerned, I really don't think it is a huge problem. The novel was set in a parallel universe anyway, with the U.S. being run by a "National Legislature" and a "Head of State" which I am sure were meant to resemble Congress and the President. I have still yet to enter a debate with somebody over "Atlas Shrugged" who has read it thoroughly enough to have an objective discussion based on it's ACTUAL contents. It seems most of the haters out there have read some short abridged version or a summary of some sort.

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    1. greygoose

      • +5

      I can't *begin* to imagine why someone wouldn't want to read all the way through Atlas Shrugged. It's such a great book with such interesting characters that totally aren't one-dimensional caricatures or author's mouthpieces. Totally not one massive, painful propaganda tract. And everyone knows how much fun it is to read a fifty-page speech!

    2. GalenFleener

      • 0

      I had to read it through three times to pick out all the problems. I finally settled on the main one being that the author was an ugly, spiteful, antisocial woman who tried to write a book about society, beauty and love.

  8. Karlogasm

    • 0

    I liked this video. I never read the book, or saw the movie. But I can appreciate the humor!

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  9. Monsteronabike

    • +4

    The "objectivist" philosophy is crap. It doesn't need any help to hurt itself, as any exposure to its real underpinnings shows its underlying and real crappy basis. Bottom line, not the movie's fault, Ayn's fault.

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    1. greygoose

      • 0

      True enough, but the movie *does* look like ass, and that certainly isn't helping them.

  10. Hollykim

    • +2

    The fact that I recognized a lot of the actors in this leads me to believe that I might be watching too many movies and too much television

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  11. AtheistCon

    • +2

    The movie 'did awful' because it was released on like six screens.

    I didn't see it, but I'll check it on DVD. And I think it's really weak for people to constantly complain that movies are all flash and no substance, then rail on a movie for not having a billion-dollar cast.

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  12. butters911

    • +3

    The fact that this movie did so awful I count as a victory for the world

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  13. Tanglebones

    • +7

    If there's one thing I've learned in my time on the internet, it's this: no one nerdrages like an objectivist. If the economy ran on illogical, but passionate rants and delusions of grandeur, objectivists would be the 1%...

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  14. cragnog

    • +3

    Underlined... "OF THREE!!"

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  15. LeePresson

    • +3

    Batman Forever font!

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  16. ZhenyaDolzikov

    • -6

    BRAVO!!! i actually LOL'd!chek my vids out if you want: 'barkchun' on youtube. if u have a minute :) nice job guys :PPPPP

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    1. SpeakPhoenix

      • +5

      subtly sandwiching-in a plug for your youtube channel in between two slices of toasty compliment bread?...how clever.

  17. sugacan

    • +10

    I still haven't finished that damn book. Made it half way through three years ago. Every time I start to pick it up again I break out in hives.

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    1. vdthemyk

      • +1

      spoiler alert...
      The Protagonist is a s**tty whore...
      They create a community in the mountains where only rich people are...
      They look down on the rest of the world...
      Oh and the pirate is in on it too...

    2. crusher23b

      • -2

      Spoiler alert...
      Darth Vader is Luke's father.

  18. Tree

    • +18

    "There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs." ~John Rogers

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  19. Dyne

    • -1

    @latinromans "the free market would work great if where not profitable to cheat, lie, and steal."

    The most profitability from cheating, lying and stealing come from governments. The more powerful governments get, the more profitable it becomes to sell their powers of legalized cheating and stealing (bailouts and tax money, among other things)to the highest bidder.

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    1. maninahat

      • +2

      Actually, the less money or power a governor gets, the more they are inclined to cheat and steal and be tempted by corruption. It is convenient then that most politicians in the West started out in wealthy professions (lawyers, doctors etc.)

      Also, bailouts were recently a necessary action to be taken by governors to compensate for the excesses of bankers. Had the cash injections not been vital to save the economy, politicians would have preserved their status with the public and allowed the bankers to rot.

  20. Dyne

    • +1

    Actually anaris, the speech was 3.5 hours long, on the audio book I "read."

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