[Moonman62]

When something is as widely respected and referred to as ofter as Atlas Shrugged is,

But it isn't widely respected. They've been trying to make a movie out of it for decades, but they can't, mainly because it's a stinker.

[gracie1]

It’s not respected by the “chattering class”, because it points out their follies. Among people who have to deal with life’s realities, it is very well respected. In 2000 there was a poll of best books of the 20th century. Among the literati class, the #1 book was Ulysses. The readers poll ranked AS # 1. And we should be glad Hollywood hasn’t made a movie of it, as they would rip it to shreds.

[NoGrayZone]

"But it isn't widely respected. They've been trying to make a movie out of it for decades, but they can't, mainly because it's a stinker."

How many wonderful books have been made into a movie that actually doesn't suck? There is NO WAY to make a great movie out of this book without butchering it to death.

You are an imbecile, who's only motive is to create "trouble" on a thread. Atlas Shrugged is way too close as to what barry is doing now, in our time.Perhaps that is why you are so against it.

[TASMANIANRED]

Hollywood doesn’t make movies about great things any more..They make movies out of comic books and old TV shows.

[ml/nj]

They've been trying to make a movie out of it for decades, but they can't, mainly because it's a stinker.

I'm not sure that having a movie version of a book is a measure of anything. Would this mean for you that The Fountainhead was a superior novel because there was a movie version?

ML/NJ