Atlas Shrugged trailer

I would have prefered it if they had put it in the thirties. You get all that nice pretentious gilded age architecture. Gives the audiance something pretty to look at so they ignore the mind-numbing stupidity of Ayn Rand's fantasy.
 
Yes but this way it appeals to the modern Randroid, who just might feel that he is John Galt and squeal midway through the movie.

holy king said:
i have no idea, but from this thread i get the impression there's something about a monologue.
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There's a 45 page-long radio speech the dude bravely gives about halfway through the book that basically explains and exemplifies Rand's whole ideology in detail, and which is, in fact, the entire point of the other thousand pages of the novel.

It will presumably require the entire second film to be spoken in full.
 
I'm still likely going to see it with my friend who read Atlas Shrugged to understand what Bioshock was talking about so I can heckle the screen and annoy Randroids. Heckling teenage Randian Libertarians: Fun for the whole family.
 
Cheezy the Wiz said:
There's a 45 page-long radio speech the dude bravely gives about halfway through the book that basically explains and exemplifies Rand's whole ideology in detail, and which is, in fact, the entire point of the other thousand pages of the novel.

It will presumably require the entire second film to be spoken in full.
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:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
 
Yeah. I had only heard of Ayn Rand once before (in a Simpsons Episode) before I came to CFC and I consider myself pretty well informed.
 
Ajidica said:
Yeah. I had only heard of Ayn Rand once before (in a Simpsons Episode) before I came to CFC and I consider myself pretty well informed.
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Me too.

Surprise, surprise the trailer looked very mind numbly boring and since the trailer was disjoint and did not really tell any of the movie. I had to read the synopsis and it sounds as boring the as the trailer makes it to be.
 
Michael Douglas should cameo as Gordon Gecko in it.
 
I assume there is going to be a fifty minute long speech towards the end.
 
Cheezy the Wiz said:
Yes but this way it appeals to the modern Randroid, who just might feel that he is John Galt and squeal midway through the movie.



There's a 45 page-long radio speech the dude bravely gives about halfway through the book that basically explains and exemplifies Rand's whole ideology in detail, and which is, in fact, the entire point of the other thousand pages of the novel.

It will presumably require the entire second film to be spoken in full.
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http://galtse.cx/
 
It looks like a good movie. I'd watch it if I had the time.

I always liked dystopian stories about out-of-control governments (1984, Animal Farm, Brave New World), so I'll probably like the movie.

Judging by the posts here, it seems like people are throwing too big of a fit because they disagree with the views expressed by the movie.
 
CoffeeShopFrank said:
It looks like a good movie. I'd watch it if I had the time.

I always liked dystopian stories about out-of-control governments (1984, Animal Farm, Brave New World), so I'll probably like the movie.

Judging by the posts here, it seems like people are throwing too big of a fit because they disagree with the views expressed by the movie.
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No dude...it's an objectively bad BAD movie. Hamfisted, stilted, boring, etc.
 
Summary of the trailer:

- A pair of people argue
- A train
- A pair of people argue
- A train
- A pair of people argue
- A train
- A pair of people argue
- A train
- A pair of people argue
- A train

Looks bad.
 
CoffeeShopFrank said:
It looks like a good movie. I'd watch it if I had the time.

I always liked dystopian stories about out-of-control governments (1984, Animal Farm, Brave New World), so I'll probably like the movie.
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Anyone who things Brave New World was about an out of control government needs to read the book again.

Judging by the posts here, it seems like people are throwing too big of a fit because they disagree with the views expressed by the movie.
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No, we object to bad writing and a crummy, one-dimentional plot. The ideas don't need us to tear them down, the followers are doing a perfectly reasonable job of discrediting them.

@Truronian: You missed the scene where they complain about the government.
 
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