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Atlas Shrugged trailer

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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If you look at the reviews, even a couple of right wing leaning newspapers said it was pretty bad. It's just not the sort of book that works as movie, regardless of what side of the aisle your on.

Besides, isn't disagreeing with the views of a movie a perfectly legitimate reason to dislike it? For example, The Birth of a Nation was pioneering in many technical aspects, but it is sort of impossible to actually like the movie as a whole unless you are basically a racist.
 
So would Atlas Shrugged have worked better as a TV series orrrr should it have been the kind of movie in which they change everything to make it work as Hollywood, but still showcasing the essence that could not be lost without losing it all? :yeah:
 
Hygro said:
So would Atlas Shrugged have worked better as a TV series orrrr should it have been the kind of movie in which they change everything to make it work as Hollywood, but still showcasing the essence that could not be lost without losing it all? :yeah:
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Atlas Shrugged would have worked best as a popup book for brainwashing young kids imo. Then they could have made an ominous ripoff of Sesame Street along the lines of the Hezbollah version. Gotta start when they're young, you know
 
Hygro said:
So would Atlas Shrugged have worked better as a TV series orrrr should it have been the kind of movie in which they change everything to make it work as Hollywood, but still showcasing the essence that could not be lost without losing it all? :yeah:
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From what I've heard, it's just to big and dense to be anything other than a book.
 
Even as book it fails to engage you on level besides your teenage self-righteous level.
 
classical_hero said:
Isn't that what they said about LOTR?
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And to a fair extent they were right there as well. But what LOTR did have was epic scenery, epic battles, action, and other factors that make the movie work (for many, certainly not for all). These factors appear to be absent in Atlas Shrugged. It is not an action movie. The scenery has nothing to do with it, and was even out of place (according to a review I read). The whole point of Atlas Shrugged is not to entertain, but to present a manifesto.
 
still a great trilogy though. And that's the point, you don't need 400 pages of script of them walking through the woods in the two towers, or Tom f'ing Bombadil no matter if in the end they tied him back in. The story held it's power without it.
 
Well the main point of a movie is to have a theme and a main story to keep on, and I think that Jackson did a great Job of trimming off the fat of the books to make into a watchable movie series, which is no mean feat.
 
He made a few mistakes though. I would have preferred an extra half hour to get rid of the Army of the Dead at the Pellenor Fields and replace it with the Grey Company and the Men of the Outland Fiefs who came to Gondor's aid at the Battle of the Pellenor Fields. A few mentions of Imrahail of Dol Amroth would have been nice. For the heirs of the men of Numenor Gondor came off as far too weak.
 
So get rid of the Army of the Dead -1 accuracy,
Replace with "Men of the Outland Fiefs", which I've never heard of, (do you mean the captured slaves by the Haradirim?) - +1 accuracy.

Your net worth accurate to the film is zilch :P
 
Men of the Outland Fiefs were the troops from the other regions of Gondor not explicitly mentioned unlike the Morthond Vale, Lossornach, or Dol Amroth.

With regards to the Army of the Dead, I don't want it totaly removed (it did destroy the Corsair raiders so the men guarding the south of Gondor could come up and fight in the pellenor fields) but rather not bring the AoD into the Pellenor Fiends.
 
Ahh I see, but that is pretty much assured - osgilliaith gets overrun your gonna call men to arms from the provinces IMO.
 
Yep. I'm sad that the Grey Company and the men of Dol Amroth weren't even mentioned once. In the books it was the Men of Dol Amroth who saved Faramir in his retreat from Osgiliath, not Gandalf with a flashlight.
 
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