Atlas Shrugged trailer

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So, last week, they released the trailer for the first part in upcoming trilogy adapting Rand's notorious slab of petty bourgeois masturbation fodder novel to the big screen.


Link to video.

Thoughts?

I think it'll be interesting to see what reception this gets outside of North American. Rand and Objectivism are both virtually unheard of in Europe, so I'm really not sure if most people will realise it's mean to be more than a vaguely preachy thriller.
 
I'm not sure who John Galt is, but I don't think he's made of people.

Anyway, I suspect the whole thing is going to be anticlimactic. You can't have exciting music and "deep" questions in a trailer and just let the stakes be about some family business. I've never read the book, but if the stakes don't involve nuclear war, Armageddon, Cthulhu or something similar, I'd be disappointed.

edit: I've read the ending on wikipedia and there is actually some serious stuff on stake, but I still think Cthulhu would improve it.
 

Link to video.
A much better film.

I may have to see it for the lulz.
 
That looks spectacularly boring. Kinda like the book itself hey ooo
 
Camikaze said:
Could be worth watching simply for Grant Bowler. Interesting to see him in Hollywood...
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I assume he is John Galt, but I doubt it would be worth watching.
 
It's based on a 1,000 page love letter to capitalism. What you expect it to be interesting? They might as well make a move out of Kapital next.

Also, I AM JOHN GALT!
 
Here's a good point that was raised elsewhere: the trailer is all about trains, right? Trains this, trains that, trains trains trains trains trains. But conservatives hate trains. Trains are for liberals. They like cars.

So, not updating the source material for a modern setting? Maybe not the best idea.
 
Traitorfish said:
Here's a good point that was raised elsewhere: the trailer is all about trains, right? Trains this, trains that, trains trains trains trains trains. But conservatives hate trains. Trains are for liberals. They like cars.

So, not updating the source material for a modern setting? Maybe not the best idea.
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Funnily enough, the railway industry is an almost picture perfect example of how the proletariat generate all of the profit and how the bourgoeisie just prosper by ownership.

Perhaps Ayn Rand was abducted by Communist Zombies and re-educated, but before the re-education could be completed she was saved by Galtian ubermensch? We'll never know because she accepted serfdom.
 
Francisco/Dagny shipper all the way. Rearden was a totally unromantic douche. (not too mention just lol at 50s era misogynism from Rand. women look attractive with the look of "being chained" etc... James and Cherry iirc was lolz) The book would have been a whole lot better if Galt really was just a fictional creation of Mulligan et al. and this aspect was further explored.

edit: the whole book really is about trains though, can't fault the trailer on that.
 
Why on Earth would anyone make a movie out of Atlas Shrugged?
 
This only had a five million dollar budget, so given that it looks pretty good from a purely visual standpoint. Regardless, the movie itself seems boring and the trailer terribly disjointed.
 
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