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Atlas Shrugged Movie
September 14, 2014 at 6:31 pm
It looks like Atlas Shrugged III is bombing at the box office.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/sp...ged-732704

Anybody else find it ironic how economically poor this movie is doing while promoting an agenda about the morality of making as much money as possible? Also has anybody actually seen it? I read Atlas Shrugged ages ago and found it excruciatingly boring. Reading through one repetitive shitty speech after another I remember repeatedly thinking 'I hope they never make this into a movie.'
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RE: Atlas Shrugged Movie
September 14, 2014 at 6:33 pm
(September 14, 2014 at 6:31 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote: I hope they never make this into a movie.
And now it's a thread too Confusedhock:
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RE: Atlas Shrugged Movie
September 14, 2014 at 7:08 pm
(September 14, 2014 at 6:31 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote: It looks like Atlas Shrugged III is bombing at the box office.

They made a third one???

The first one was passable, but the second one was downright crappy.

(September 14, 2014 at 6:31 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote: Anybody else find it ironic how economically poor this movie is doing while promoting an agenda about the morality of making as much money as possible?

Not really - the story itself denies that money is the ultimate payment in artistic endeavors.


(September 14, 2014 at 6:31 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote: Also has anybody actually seen it?

I thought the first one did an okay job of capturing the book and the second one was downright bad.

(September 14, 2014 at 6:31 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote: I read Atlas Shrugged ages ago and found it excruciatingly boring.

I didn't.
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RE: Atlas Shrugged Movie
September 14, 2014 at 8:04 pm
Atlas shrugged is the best book ever
I've never read it and I know that.

Imagine a religion based on the book.
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RE: Atlas Shrugged Movie
September 14, 2014 at 11:51 pm
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RE: Atlas Shrugged Movie
September 15, 2014 at 12:05 am
(September 14, 2014 at 8:04 pm)DramaQueen Wrote: Atlas shrugged is the best book ever
I've never read it and I know that.

Imagine a religion based on the book.


Needn't imagine. There is a religion based on that book. Really dumb people who are not quite dumb enough for Christianity join Aynrandism.
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RE: Atlas Shrugged Movie
September 15, 2014 at 12:24 am
I'm the black sheep. I loved Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead. I don't agree with the philosophy very much, but I loved the books.
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RE: Atlas Shrugged Movie
September 15, 2014 at 12:45 am
It reminded me of the koran and the bible. All three were boring as shit.
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RE: Atlas Shrugged Movie
September 17, 2014 at 12:37 am
(September 15, 2014 at 12:24 am)SteelCurtain Wrote: I'm the black sheep. I loved Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead. I don't agree with the philosophy very much, but I loved the books.

Ironically I'm the reverse of you. I'm somewhat of a libertarian/conservative who finds the books to be excruciating. Of course there is also quite the difference between the drab industrial vision of Ayn Rand and my own more free wheeling non-money focused happy hippy version of Libertarianism.
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RE: Atlas Shrugged Movie
September 17, 2014 at 1:22 am
(September 15, 2014 at 12:45 am)Minimalist Wrote: It reminded me of the koran and the bible. All three were boring as shit.

Most religious books are.

For some reason, religious leaders are bad storytellers.
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