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ATLAS SHRUGGED- Freeper Reviews
Freepers | April 15, 2011 | RobFromGa

Posted on 04/15/2011 1:31:44 PM PDT by RobFromGa

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To: kanawa

Mine neither. That DVD isn’t going to come out fast enough for me.


81 posted on 04/15/2011 3:52:26 PM PDT by Ladysmith ("There is no right that allows one person to place a burden on another." - Quinn)
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To: RobFromGa

if you have any doubts... Henry Rearden Comes Home

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PK5Sq3bIHY&feature=player_embedded


82 posted on 04/15/2011 3:52:42 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: InterceptPoint
Very good turnout for that time of day - probably 75% full.

Only 20 people at the first show in Seattle, but you could cram the entire conservative and libertarian population of Seattle into a phone booth, and they would fit comfortably.

83 posted on 04/15/2011 3:54:22 PM PDT by Publius
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To: r-q-tek86

How was Midas Mulligan depicted?


84 posted on 04/15/2011 4:10:11 PM PDT by re_nortex (DP...that's what I like about Texas.)
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To: re_nortex

Midas was picked off in the first scene, which made it contemporary, rather than 6 years previous. We get to meet Galt as a man in a raincoat with his face obscured. Good bit of screenwriting.


85 posted on 04/15/2011 4:12:05 PM PDT by Publius
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To: Chode

Drat, just watching that scene, I’m not sure I want to see the movie. The casting is not up to my imagination from reading the book. That’s what I hate about movies made from books, especially if you have read the book. Hank Rearden is a much tougher man, more introspect. The strong silent type who lives in his own head with little regard for people around him (until he meets Dagny. John Wayne in a suit or Clint Eastwood type would be Hank. I don’t know who the actor is, but he is squishy, almost effeminate. Lillian and the rest of the family are okay. I imagine Dagny as looking like a Lauren Bacall with short hair. Tough.


86 posted on 04/15/2011 4:14:59 PM PDT by WVNan
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To: Publius

Another minor nitpick was the scene with Hugh Akston at the Diner- he said nothing at all of interest and seemed kinda like ‘The Dude’... but a very minor problem. Stadler wasn’t impressive either considering the role that the two of them played in the 3 protaganists education...


87 posted on 04/15/2011 4:16:58 PM PDT by RobFromGa
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To: RobFromGa

Rob, I am sorry, didn’t mean it to be critical of you but in reading my comment, it surely came out that way.

yours is probably the only AAR (comment) thread. In general there have been the past week quite a few threads (I am usually PMed or Emailed on them due to having the cinema ping list)

It just would be nice for so many things to be in conversation with people without having to bounce to various threads to do so.

I guess I am tired & over reacted.

I did post a comment on IMDb (usually takes a day or two)

thanks for the thread even though I have come across as an ungrateful _________ (fill in whatever yuk word you want)

d


88 posted on 04/15/2011 4:17:10 PM PDT by DollyCali (Don't tell God how big your storm is... tell your storm how BIG your God is!)
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To: American Quilter
FReeper Book Club: Introduction to Atlas Shrugged
Part I, Chapter I: The Theme
Part I, Chapter II: The Chain
Part I, Chapter III: The Top and the Bottom
Part I, Chapter IV: The Immovable Movers
Part I, Chapter V: The Climax of the d’Anconias
Part I, Chapter VI: The Non-Commercial
Part I, Chapter VII: The Exploiters and the Exploited
Part I, Chapter VIII: The John Galt Line
Part I, Chapter IX: The Sacred and the Profane
Part I, Chapter X: Wyatt’s Torch
Part II, Chapter I: The Man Who Belonged on Earth
Part II, Chapter II: The Aristocracy of Pull
Part II, Chapter III: White Blackmail
Part II, Chapter IV: The Sanction of the Victim
Part II, Chapter V: Account Overdrawn
Part II, Chapter VI: Miracle Metal
Part II, Chapter VII: The Moratorium on Brains
Part II, Chapter VIII: By Our Love
Part II, Chapter IX: The Face Without Pain or Fear or Guilt
Part II, Chapter X: The Sign of the Dollar
Part III, Chapter I: Atlantis
Part III, Chapter II: The Utopia of Greed
Part III, Chapter III: Anti-Greed
Part III, Chapter IV: Anti-Life
Part III, Chapter V: Their Brothers’ Keepers
Part III, Chapter VI: The Concerto of Deliverance
Part III, Chapter VII: “This is John Galt Speaking”
Part III, Chapter VIII: The Egoist
Part III, Chapter IX: The Generator
Part III, Chapter X: In the Name of the Best Within Us
Coda: Ten Years After
Afterword and Suggested Reading
89 posted on 04/15/2011 4:18:17 PM PDT by Publius
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To: r-q-tek86

Dr. Robert Stadler with a Middle European accent threw me a bit.


90 posted on 04/15/2011 4:19:58 PM PDT by Publius
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To: WVNan

Grant Bowler did a great job with Hank Rearden imho.

And Taylor Schilling took a few minutes to get used too, but she pulled it off imho...

If you enjoyed the book, I think it is safe that you will find the movie to be true to it.


91 posted on 04/15/2011 4:19:58 PM PDT by RobFromGa
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To: Graneros
" I wish they would have put it in it’s original setting instead of attempting to modernize it."

I do not know when I'll get to see it. Hopefully in the near future.

Still, even the book itself written in the 1950s tended to ignore Television and jet planes, and other evidence of Progress. The book to me had the flavor of the 1930s which seems counter intuitive to produce in the era of Sputnik and Sound Barrier breaking.

I am saying that Rand herself used the same sort of technique in order to tell her story.

She ignored stuff, and that involved "the suspension of disbelief" was required in order to get her real message out.

92 posted on 04/15/2011 4:20:28 PM PDT by Radix ("..Democrats are holding a meeting today to decide whether to overturn the results of the election.")
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To: RobFromGa

How did you like my cameo?


93 posted on 04/15/2011 4:21:54 PM PDT by OwenKellogg (Defund Elmo, TOTUS, and GOTUS)
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To: WVNan
i kinda thought it played alright myself, and it stopped short of his response
94 posted on 04/15/2011 4:22:33 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: DollyCali

Dolly,

I am not offended at all.

All the other threads were based on links to some ‘professional’ reviews of the movie as they came out.

This one is a thread just for Freeper thoughts and reviews...

:-)
Rob


95 posted on 04/15/2011 4:22:46 PM PDT by RobFromGa
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To: Publius

I really did appreciate you posting the links from the book thread on the Atlas Shrugged thread a week ago. I shared them with many friends who had & who had NOT read the book & they were impressed with your work

I have had a couple years of hit /miss at FR with my mom’s decline & death.. missed a lot including your offering which I would have loved to have participated with over the course of the posting


96 posted on 04/15/2011 4:22:58 PM PDT by DollyCali (Don't tell God how big your storm is... tell your storm how BIG your God is!)
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To: OldNavyVet

The bum was Jeff Allen, who witnessed the fall of the 20th Century Motor Co.


97 posted on 04/15/2011 4:23:33 PM PDT by Publius
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To: RBranha

The actor who played Paul Larkin played a lot of gay characters in various TV shows. I didn’t expect to see him here, but he was a good casting choice.


98 posted on 04/15/2011 4:25:24 PM PDT by Publius
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To: OwenKellogg

I thought Owen Kellogg was very good. The first competent person we saw actually go on strike and the one who made Dagny start to question who is the Destroyer and what is he up to?


99 posted on 04/15/2011 4:26:03 PM PDT by RobFromGa
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To: RobFromGa
Saw the 1pm in Aliso Viejo, CA. Maybe 65-70 people in attendance, mostly older 35-70 types. I'd give it 4 stars, but I went in expecting a “TV” movie, which it did have the feel of. Still liked it though.
100 posted on 04/15/2011 4:27:59 PM PDT by Slicksadick (Go out on a limb........Its where the fruit is.)
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