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To: Beaten Valve
If I didn't have to make a 200-mile round trip I would have seen it by now.

I'll buy the DVD when it comes out.

2 posted on 04/26/2011 12:50:39 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (When and why did Steve Dunham change his name to Barack Hussein Obama? When he converted to Islam?)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

DVD sales is where the money will be made. If they did the job it’s reported they did, this film will be shared with a lot of folks in DVD.


5 posted on 04/26/2011 12:55:59 PM PDT by Dick Bachert (2012 CAN'T COME SOON ENOUGH FOR ME. HOW ABOUT YOU?)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Uh.....white folks don’t go to the movies much anymore. Tired of getting jumped.


18 posted on 04/26/2011 1:10:12 PM PDT by The Toll
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To: Beaten Valve

Interesting, watching FOX this morning they had nothing but praise for how well it did in the few screens it was playing on.


21 posted on 04/26/2011 1:11:48 PM PDT by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

In fairness this isn’t taking place in a vacuum. Even The Conspirator had a $10 million ad budget. AS had a $0 ad budget.


22 posted on 04/26/2011 1:13:12 PM PDT by denydenydeny (Rage all you want, looters & moochers, but the gods of the copybook headings are your masters now.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Atlas Tanked


23 posted on 04/26/2011 1:13:59 PM PDT by getarope (Paddle faster, I hear banjo music!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

My wife and I went to see it last weekend and the theater was full. I’d recommend it to everyone, but I’m sure you won’t see many libs there.


32 posted on 04/26/2011 1:20:07 PM PDT by jda ("Righteousness exalts a nation . . .")
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Overall, the weekend's take was a scant $879,000 -- a whopping 48 percent drop despite adding 166 locations. Which certainly suggest they're running out of audience quick.

Most of us have a hard time trying to find a decent movie to see.
Part of the problem is that as new theaters are added, their main web site

Atlas Shrugged Movie Web Site

is not organized enough to add it to their on line list immediately.
I can't think of a movie I want to see where the nearest venue is 45 miles away...

A little competent promotion on their web site cetainly wouldn't hurt.

38 posted on 04/26/2011 1:25:49 PM PDT by Publius6961 (There has Never been a "Tax On The Rich" that has not reached the middle class)
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To: ADemocratNoMore; Aggie Mama; alarm rider; alexander_busek; AlligatorEyes; AmericanGirlRising; ...

Not good news.


42 posted on 04/26/2011 1:29:45 PM PDT by Publius
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I haven’t seen the movie just out, but I am currently re-reading “Atlas Shrugged”. It is very depressing because I see so much of the condition and political dominance written in the book around me more and more every day. Especially the placing of the blame and hatred upon successful and productive business being the fault for the disintegration of our amazing country of opportunity to raise one’s standard of living due to ambition, and hard work. There are too many who have become dependent upon the government for their daily bread, which I find appalling! How can one hold one’s head up when they are nothing but a parasite? If we allow all the “New Thought” (Communism) to prevail, we will not!

This was, is, but may not always be, God’s own country. Our system was devised d by and for Christians. “New Thought” is removing God from every area of public life. Christians are ridiculed without criticism! Our President declares that we are no longer a Christian nation! But this is still a Christian nation! Perhaps God is withdrawing His grace because the people are turning from Him. They are listening to the “New Thought”. “New Thought” is not new. Satan has been promoting it since time began. Ie: good is bad, bad is good!

Do yourselves a favor. Buy a copy of Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged, and see for yourselves if you want your world to emulate hers. before it is too late!


51 posted on 04/26/2011 1:46:33 PM PDT by Paperdoll ( On the cutting edge)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Atlas Shrugged is a film that needs to be seen, and more and more Americans will find it now, or on DVD, but it is an important film....


56 posted on 04/26/2011 2:04:27 PM PDT by The Wizard (Madam President is my President now, and in the future)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Me too!!! It would be about 220 miles for me.


59 posted on 04/26/2011 2:13:35 PM PDT by MsLady (Be the kind of woman that when you get up in the morning, the devil says, "Oh crap, she's UP !!")
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One Randroid I talked to compared this film to Mel Gibson's “The Passion” with its “masterful marketing stroked to shrewdly target the conservative groups and wildly exceed expectations”.

Hmmm.

Atlas Shrugged: Grossed $1,676,917 opening weekend, finishing in 14th place overall.

The Passion: Grossed $83,848,082 opening weekend, finishing in 1st place overall.

68 posted on 04/26/2011 2:42:36 PM PDT by BillyBoy (Impeach Obama? Yes We Can!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I saw. I liked it. I bought the book on the way home. And the acting wasn’t bad!


71 posted on 04/26/2011 2:53:58 PM PDT by LiteKeeper ("Who is John Galt?")
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

This past weekend was Easter weekend. Most people spend this holiday with their families, and in their churches. I think it will pick up some this week. I plan to see it myself this week.


91 posted on 04/26/2011 5:28:04 PM PDT by onemiddleamerican (FUBO and all your terrorist buddies)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

See Posot 93.


94 posted on 04/26/2011 5:36:41 PM PDT by Paperdoll ( On the cutting edge)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

DVD. Theaters mean people and people forgot how to behave years ago.


96 posted on 04/26/2011 6:23:14 PM PDT by CodeToad (Islam needs to be banned in the US and treated as a criminal enterprise.)
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My thoughts:

We saw this as the first movie in 10 years we set out to see (that Indiana Jones on an empty afternoon out of town doesn’t count).

We both have read the book more than once.

We both think the book is important, and enjoyable.

If you loved the book, you’ll like the movie.

If you liked the book, you’ll love the movie.

If you feared the book you’ll hate the movie.

This movie will break all records for those who purchase the DVD as a gift.

I’m amazed they made it so short, at only ~90 minutes, for a third of a book that deserved a 12-hour miniseries. I hope that the prospects for success let them make the next two parts 2.5 hours each.


99 posted on 04/26/2011 6:37:19 PM PDT by Atlas Sneezed (...a.k.a. "Norm L. C. Bias")
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