« previous next »
Pages: 1 [2] 3 4 ... 12   Go Down

Author Topic: Atlas Shrugged: Part 1  (Read 6605 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline jaypee

  • Planetary Skeptic
  • *
  • Posts: 20341
  • Astronaut Mike Dexter
Re: Atlas Shrugged: Part 1
« Reply #15 on: Apr 05, 2011, 01:23:26 PM »
OK then.
Logged
"If I were an Algebra teacher I'd give everyone a letter grade but they'd have to figure out the value of the letter" -- A friend of mine

Offline ♫♪ FX ♪♫

  • Earnest Young Man
  • Poster of Extraordinary Magnitude
  • **********
  • Posts: 18048
  • "Reality is almost always wrong." - Dr. House
    • Is it working?
Re: Atlas Shrugged: Part 1
« Reply #16 on: Apr 05, 2011, 01:26:56 PM »
      If just the Rand fans go to see it, it will make a crapload of money.
Logged
Skeptic, skeptical, 'σκέπτομαι' skeptomai, "to think, to look about, to consider"

"It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what." - Dr. Greg House

Offline jaypee

  • Planetary Skeptic
  • *
  • Posts: 20341
  • Astronaut Mike Dexter
Re: Atlas Shrugged: Part 1
« Reply #17 on: Apr 05, 2011, 01:28:01 PM »
Possibly. It's a movie with limited appeal.. that's not to say it doesn't look interesting. I might go see it myself, but in all likelihood I won't. I'll watch it if it's on Netflix Instant, but that's about it.
Logged
"If I were an Algebra teacher I'd give everyone a letter grade but they'd have to figure out the value of the letter" -- A friend of mine

Offline moj

  • beer snob
  • Reef Tank Owner
  • *********
  • Posts: 9017
Re: Atlas Shrugged: Part 1
« Reply #18 on: Apr 05, 2011, 02:10:46 PM »
yeah I'll wait till it's on netflix. Hasn't this movie been cursed since the book came out? I mean haven't many people tried many times to make it and it always fell though? It is an epic tale and while I know longer subscribe to that world view, would like to see that if its done, it's at least done well.  Looks like this could be?
Logged
add me on facebook
http://www.facebook.com/down.with.your.face
or on X-box, gamer-tag misfitofjoy

Offline andrewclunn

  • Banned
  • Poster of Extraordinary Magnitude
  • *
  • Posts: 11009
  • Being hated is just one price for speaking truth.
Re: Atlas Shrugged: Part 1
« Reply #19 on: Apr 05, 2011, 02:13:04 PM »
Atlas Shrugged Movie Clip: Henry Rearden Comes Home


Atlas Shrugged Movie Music: The John Galt Theme
Logged

Offline jaypee

  • Planetary Skeptic
  • *
  • Posts: 20341
  • Astronaut Mike Dexter
Re: Atlas Shrugged: Part 1
« Reply #20 on: Apr 05, 2011, 02:18:13 PM »
Quote from: moj on Apr 05, 2011, 02:10:46 PM
yeah I'll wait till it's on netflix. Hasn't this movie been cursed since the book came out? I mean haven't many people tried many times to make it and it always fell though? It is an epic tale and while I know longer subscribe to that world view, would like to see that if its done, it's at least done well.  Looks like this could be?

Apparently the movie started filming a mere two days before the rights were due to expire.

ETA: I should probably mention that the rights were originally bought in the late 1990s or something, and were only good for 15 years, so it just barely got started in time.
« Last Edit: Apr 05, 2011, 02:41:26 PM by jaypee »
Logged
"If I were an Algebra teacher I'd give everyone a letter grade but they'd have to figure out the value of the letter" -- A friend of mine

Offline MikeHz

  • Too Much Spare Time
  • ********
  • Posts: 7414
Re: Atlas Shrugged: Part 1
« Reply #21 on: Apr 05, 2011, 02:35:00 PM »
I'll see it in the theater, if I can. Or, get in on Netflix as soon as possible. Probably, I will buy it, which is something I rarely do.

I really do hope it makes a shitload of money.
Logged
If you still hold the same views now as you did in high school, you probably should reexamine those views.

Online Neutral Milk

  • Forum Historian
  • Poster of Extraordinary Magnitude
  • **********
  • Posts: 13180
  • Physics makes us all its bitches.
Re: Atlas Shrugged: Part 1
« Reply #22 on: Apr 05, 2011, 09:34:31 PM »
You guys are all commenting on the merits of making the book into a movie (which for full disclosure I think is a terrible idea. I just don't see how a story like the one in Atlas Shrugged could possibly be entertaining in that format) but what really struck me was how atrocious the acting was in that trailer. Good god. It was like watching film school students directing a bunch of D level actors reading lines from a prompter.
Logged
“Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless. It enslaves him almost before he has tasted freedom." BF Skinner

Offline andrewclunn

  • Banned
  • Poster of Extraordinary Magnitude
  • *
  • Posts: 11009
  • Being hated is just one price for speaking truth.
Re: Atlas Shrugged: Part 1
« Reply #23 on: Apr 05, 2011, 09:56:28 PM »
Quote from: Neutral Milk on Apr 05, 2011, 09:34:31 PM
You guys are all commenting on the merits of making the book into a movie (which for full disclosure I think is a terrible idea. I just don't see how a story like the one in Atlas Shrugged could possibly be entertaining in that format) but what really struck me was how atrocious the acting was in that trailer. Good god. It was like watching film school students directing a bunch of D level actors reading lines from a prompter.

You do get that in that scene the characters are acting, right?  I mean the characters that the actors are portraying are putting on an act for one another and there's an underlying air of hostility in the room.  The "bad acting" (which I assume you mean to be the emotionally vapid expression by most of the actors while delivering most of their lines) is absolutely appropriate for the situation.

I recall a play I watched (a musical).  There was this couple and they each had a recurring theme song they sang on their own throughout the play (slightly different and with different lyrics each time).  Then at their break up (towards the end of the play) they sang their songs together as a duet.  The songs didn't meld together and there was quite a bit of dissonance, but that was entirely appropriate.  it was allegorical to their break up that their songs just did not work together.

(click to show/hide)
Logged

Offline Hittman

  • Seasoned Contributor
  • ****
  • Posts: 549
Re: Atlas Shrugged: Part 1
« Reply #24 on: Apr 05, 2011, 10:09:03 PM »
The biggest problem with the book was that the covers were way to far apart.  So now it's a three part movie?  Are the endless and repetitious "it wasn't my fault" rants going to be translated into ten minutes each of screen time? 

This could have been one, good, long movie.  I don't think it's going to be worth sitting through three movies, though. 
Logged

Offline ♫♪ FX ♪♫

  • Earnest Young Man
  • Poster of Extraordinary Magnitude
  • **********
  • Posts: 18048
  • "Reality is almost always wrong." - Dr. House
    • Is it working?
Re: Atlas Shrugged: Part 1
« Reply #25 on: Apr 05, 2011, 10:24:30 PM »
        The third move will consist of nothing but John Galt's speech.
Logged
Skeptic, skeptical, 'σκέπτομαι' skeptomai, "to think, to look about, to consider"

"It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what." - Dr. Greg House

Online merlich

  • Not Enough Spare Time
  • **
  • Posts: 141
Re: Atlas Shrugged: Part 1
« Reply #26 on: Apr 06, 2011, 11:50:33 AM »
I already have tickets for opening day, and I'm going to drive 70 miles to see it.  ;D
Logged
"...what a waste it is to lose one's mind or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is."  — Dan Quayle

Offline ♫♪ FX ♪♫

  • Earnest Young Man
  • Poster of Extraordinary Magnitude
  • **********
  • Posts: 18048
  • "Reality is almost always wrong." - Dr. House
    • Is it working?
Re: Atlas Shrugged: Part 1
« Reply #27 on: Apr 06, 2011, 12:12:02 PM »
     I wonder if Rand haters will protest outside the theaters.
Logged
Skeptic, skeptical, 'σκέπτομαι' skeptomai, "to think, to look about, to consider"

"It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what." - Dr. Greg House

Offline jaypee

  • Planetary Skeptic
  • *
  • Posts: 20341
  • Astronaut Mike Dexter
Re: Atlas Shrugged: Part 1
« Reply #28 on: Apr 06, 2011, 12:12:59 PM »
Quote from: ♫♪ FX ♪♫ on Apr 06, 2011, 12:12:02 PM
     I wonder if Rand haters will protest outside the theaters.

I suspect that they couldn't care less about this movie.
Logged
"If I were an Algebra teacher I'd give everyone a letter grade but they'd have to figure out the value of the letter" -- A friend of mine

Offline MikeHz

  • Too Much Spare Time
  • ********
  • Posts: 7414
Re: Atlas Shrugged: Part 1
« Reply #29 on: Apr 06, 2011, 12:35:15 PM »
Quote from: ♫♪ FX ♪♫ on Apr 06, 2011, 12:12:02 PM
     I wonder if Rand haters will protest outside the theaters.

Probably great PR. Maybe the producers will hire protesters to stand with pickets. "This is the film you must not see."
Logged
If you still hold the same views now as you did in high school, you probably should reexamine those views.
Pages: 1 [2] 3 4 ... 12   Go Up
« previous next »