Posted on 09/18/2014 1:00:14 PM PDT by bkepley
To say there is a decline in the quality of the screenwriting and production values would be an understatement. I know there was a Kickstarter movement at one point to raise some geetis (and faux outrage, apparently). And the producers have admitted that Parts I and II did not make a profit. But great jumping dust bunnies, this thing makes Plan Nine from Outer Space look like the original specs for the Apollo 11 moon launch.
(Excerpt) Read more at intercollegiatereview.com ...
I understand you point and don't seek to minimize it nor be argumentative. In what may be simply narrow-mindedness on my part, I just can't get over her for these items:
I've long stated here and elsewhere that Sodom and Gomorrah may have had a flourishing, free-market economy with low taxes and limited government. Were that the hypothetical indeed the case, even those positives attributes were unlikely to have spared them from the Lord's Righteous Wrath.
Good question and I admit I'm absolutely, utterly and 100% wrong. As it turns out the Intercollegiate Review is -- in fact -- a pro-liberty, Conservative publication. My error was presuming that anything with the name "Intercollegiate" was leftist which triggered my knee-jerk rant against the colleges I named upthread. That crux of that rant still stands but the motivation for it was misplaced.
I apologize to all without equivocation and offer no excuses for being so off the mark.
I don’t know what the specific discussion is about, but she really despised Reagan and didn’t vote for him in 1980, but then again, running against Reagan was the best election in history for the libertarians.
We don’t have to speculate on whether social liberalism creates more voters for the left, we have 50 years of history proving it.
When I read Ayn Rand I learned some good stuff from her that helped me defend capitalism in coffee house arguments with liberals, during the 60s, being a young teen who just came across her books on my own, I never thought to pay attention to her as a person, I would have to read her again to get up to speed on all these modern arguments about her.
The book would have been better served by a TV miniseries.
Well none of you/us have created a better version. So relatively speaking it’s spectacular.
Maybe the problem is with a movie like this it’s difficult to separate oneself from it because it’s actually happening.
Absolutely. And you have a little bit of experience with the serialization of this work :)
After this fiasco of a trilogy, the question has become “Who Was John Galt?”
This publication is part of the old line conservative source for university level conservatism — hardly a fan of Randian Objectivism.
The fact that the movies, together, are worse than the ponderous book after fifty years to get it done is what they find so laughable.
Rand wrote some concise works that are worth reading even if you don’t buy her Objectivist theology, but I am with Whittaker Chambers on Atlas Shrugged.
here is a more interesting review from the site:
http://www.intercollegiatereview.com/index.php/2014/08/20/the-duping-of-lauren-bacall-and-humphrey-bogart/
Some people make a living out of being critical of other peoples’ work. Anthony Sacramone is a professional critic.
Methinks you over analyzed the movie Publius — it is not intended for someone as intelligent or as knowledgeable as you are.
I hope that some low information voters get turned on to AS III, and I likewise hope some LIEberals go see it and get the message.
" RichardPoirier • 6 hours ago Although some of the film criticism that reviewer Anthony Sacramone makes here are reasonably valid, they are the typical kind of comments we have come to expect from art and film critics. What he misses is the fact that no major studio would have made this film precisely due to Any[sic] Rand’s opposition to the government/Hollywood liberal perspective. The real achievement here is that this (all three parts) was by necessity a low budget film of a monumental significant philosophy that deserves to be presented to a declining population in great need. I have read all of Ayn Rand’s major work, met her in 1974 and saw each of the three parts of Atlas Shrugged. I am sure there were many challenges in making this movie a reality. The thought that crossed my mind while watching the film was the obvious necessity of using different actors in the three film parts. I was happy to see that John Aglialoro didn’t allow the unavailability of certain talent to get in his way of completing the second and third parts. Ayn Rand understood the necessity of overcoming obstacles. It is a tribute to producer John Aglialoro that he did too and succeeded very ably. Although most of the actors were reasonably good, in the end it was the story’s concept that really mattered. All of the film’s shortcomings are minor. The novel’s compressed low-budget screenplay crafted for a broad audience will no doubt motivate those who still have the capacity to think for themselves to read Rand’s books for a deeper understanding of her views and the nature of reality.
FReegards, Otter
You don’t have to believe in God to be conservative.
Our book is substantially better than “Cliffs Notes”.
But is the movie?.............................(I've read the book)..................
That being said, I hope it prompts people not familiar with the book to go out, buy a copy and buy our book as a study guide while they try to get their friends to read it also.
Let a thousand book clubs and reading circles flower!
I tried to get my daughter to read the book, but she is intimidated by the sheer size of it.
I had hoped to get the movies as a three disc set to give to her as a Christmas present, so she might be interested in reading the book.............
From another review I read:
“Rand’s kooky, purple imagination—with its eroticized elitism and its fixation on trains, skyscrapers, and other idealized symbols of phallic power—is here reduced to strained representations. A flight is two people getting into a plane and then getting off at the same spot at the same airstrip; a plan for a top-secret weapon is a printout of a court decision tucked into a manila folder; a futuristic power source is a light emanating from behind a half-closed door; a three-hour speech is a man talking to the camera for a couple of minutes—and so on and so forth. The world seems to consist of a hotel lobby and a dozen rooms, two of which may actually be the same high-school gymnasium with different curtains hung over the back wall.”
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