new Atlas Shrugge movie has 0% on RT

hehe

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/atlas_shrugged_part_i/

LOL 0%? I almost have to see it now.

watched "the fountainhead" a while ago: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041386/

wasn't too bad, considering it's 60+ years old.

this is historic, I'll have to watch it

I will absolutely go see this

lol why would you torture yourself with this? Shitty produced movie based on a book with a terrible philosophy as its core theme==not my idea of a good time. But knock yourselves out.

i liked the book, however, can't see this translating well to the screen.

If they are going to make an ayn rand movie it should be Anthem.

they should just make them all into 1 move, and the whole thing is just some dude reading allowed all the ayn rand books in a chair for hours (days i even bet) and its all a signle shot, he doesnt stop reading ever and not sleep either

  On 4/15/2011 at 4:29 AM, sup said:

they should just make them all into 1 move, and the whole thing is just some dude reading allowed all the ayn rand books in a chair for hours (days i even bet) and its all a signle shot, he doesnt stop reading ever and not sleep either

this is an amazing idea

A Russian immigrant repackaged a bastardized version of German philosophy, and it's become a paragon of American values.

  On 4/15/2011 at 5:03 AM, Root5 said:

A Russian immigrant repackaged a bastardized version of German philosophy, and it's become a paragon of American values.

i almost want to say Rand bastardized early Friedman, who is a much more enjoyable read, and argues similar points far, far better.

im not saying I agree with Friedman, but the way he poses the arguments are at least worth a read.

  On 4/15/2011 at 4:57 AM, Capsaicin said:

  On 4/15/2011 at 4:29 AM, sup said:

they should just make them all into 1 move, and the whole thing is just some dude reading allowed all the ayn rand books in a chair for hours (days i even bet) and its all a signle shot, he doesnt stop reading ever and not sleep either

this is an amazing idea

but he can't read the books out loud

man part 3's gonna be amazing, what with the 70 page monologue.

ayn rand is a cunt

well, the trailer made it look like a 0% movie and I'm not going to waste my time with it, not even while drunk. It doesn't look like a fun bad movie (ie the room), it just looks boring as fuck.

i've heard the name mentioned but i never actually gave enough of a shit to even read the wiki about this book. am bemused a movie now exists out of nowhere

but how relevant is RT these days?

Justin Biebler has a red tomato ffs

really? gotta check that shit out yo

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  On 4/15/2011 at 10:58 AM, jefferoo said:

ayn rand is a heartless cunt

I couldn't have said it better...:)

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but how relevant is RT these days?

Justin Biebler has a red tomato ffs

it's just an aggregator. apparently the bieber flick wasn't all that bad, for what it was.

the first good review comes from....

The New York Post!!!!

"Atlas Shrugged," a mega-fable that is to capitalists roughly what "To Kill a Mockingbird" is to liberals...

Ahahahaha I don't know if the guy realizes how incriminating that statement is.

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The subjects the film deals with are fascinating, important -- and almost completely ignored at the movies. Even "The Social Network," the most acclaimed business movie of last year, placed the building of one of the world's most valuable companies in the background of a personality dispute and some whining about club membership. "Atlas Shrugged" wants to start an argument with you, to force you to (in Rand's often-repeated words) "check your premises."

It would be easier to do no such thing, to laugh off the stilted dialogue and stern, unironic hectoring, so that's what most viewers will do.

Hahaha. "It's bad, but you have to ignore that and focus on the message! IF YOU DON'T YOU ARE A SAP!"

if people are supposed to be educated by movies, then

just go watch a friedman lecture or something.

god damn ayn rand is fucking annoying.

I did read one of her essays i believ called "On the Virtues of Selfishness", and she brings up some really good views of selfishness (everything in human interaction is inherently selfish, the mother is selfish by having and protecting offspring in order to fulfill her biological urges, to protect the seed/lineage, people show compassion to win favor with each other and also to appease whatever religious deity they believe in), but selfishness isn't inherently evil....if a group of people all view the same goal out of selfishness, then that in of itself is "virtuous" and for the greater good.

I don't think its anything incredibly original though...pretty sure Nietzsche beat her to it a while ago...without all the capitalist claptrap.

RANDROIDS!!1

  On 4/15/2011 at 4:00 PM, Smettingham Rutherford IV said:

 

 

if people are supposed to be educated by movies, then

 

 

just go watch a friedman lecture or something.

 

 

god damn ayn rand is fucking annoying.

 

 

I did read one of her essays i believ called "On the Virtues of Selfishness", and she brings up some really good views of selfishness (everything in human interaction is inherently selfish, the mother is selfish by having and protecting offspring in order to fulfill her biological urges, to protect the seed/lineage, people show compassion to win favor with each other and also to appease whatever religious deity they believe in), but selfishness isn't inherently evil....if a group of people all view the same goal out of selfishness, then that in of itself is "virtuous" and for the greater good.

 

I don't think its anything incredibly original though...pretty sure Nietzsche beat her to it a while ago...without all the capitalist claptrap.

woah, i've been thinking about this very thing a lot recently coming to similar conclusion and wondering if someone wrote about it..will dig that essay up.