[Movie] Atlas Shrugged: Part 1 - Page 9

gogogadgetflow

United States2583 Posts

April 19 2011 00:41 GMT

#161

Unfortunately I'll be unable to see the movie in my current situation :[ ... but here is a wall street journal blog on it's opening weekend:

http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2011/04/17/atlas-shrugged-earns-1-7-million-at-weekend-box-office/

Apparently, it did pretty well for an independent film. Yes it has an 8% score on RT, but it is not the critic who counts. According to RT 85% of the audience liked it. Thats the feeling I got from my friends who have actually gotten to see it.

Edit:

I'm guessing its because anyone who went to see this movie supported its message and would have liked it regardless of how entertaining it actually was.

well of course ^_^ . So we can conclude it communicated the message fairly well without being totally off-putting I suppose.

iamho

United States3347 Posts

April 19 2011 00:51 GMT

#162

On April 19 2011 09:41 gogogadgetflow wrote:
Unfortunately I'll be unable to see the movie in my current situation :[ ... but here is a wall street journal blog on it's opening weekend:

http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2011/04/17/atlas-shrugged-earns-1-7-million-at-weekend-box-office/

Apparently, it did pretty well for an independent film. Yes it has an 8% score on RT, but it is not the critic who counts. According to RT 85% of the audience liked it. Thats the feeling I got from my friends who have actually gotten to see it.

I'm guessing its because anyone who went to see this movie supported its message and would have liked it regardless of how entertaining it actually was.

Kooha

United States25 Posts

April 19 2011 02:26 GMT

#163

The movie was pretty good, had its flaws and some things that were good. It was a bit disconnected, and the acting was a bit sketchy in the first scene but it picked up after that. The choice to use the director as Galt was in my opinion a mistake. Basically his voice bugged me and he sounded slightly like batman. You could tell he wasn't an actor, and overall his voice sounded like an old buy war bonds ad (in the bluntness, not the message).

The movie picked up fairly well by the end, the CGI was what you would expect from the budget, but it was a great adaptation of the book. It had all of the important scenes that you'd expect if you'd read the book and most of the scenes were done fairly well. Some of the dialogue felt a bit preachy, but you have to expect that from the content of the book.

The casting was pretty good, other than the rough acting at the beginning. I personally liked the choice for Rearden and Bob Beckel's brother played Wyatt amazingly. Overall it was a good movie, but I would suggest reading the book first, or reading a good spark notes so that you can follow the story.

For a movie adaptation it was done pretty well, but of course that's just my opinion, the rest of you can make your own conclusions.

robertcock

United States1 Post

April 20 2011 05:56 GMT

#164

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Netherlands12045 Posts

January 06 2014 04:35 GMT

#165

After hours of psychology+philosophy research.... i ran into some article recommending the original book of this movie. Im planning on watching the movies and read the book after. Without spoiler, anyone know if I should watch the 2nd movie?

Danglars

United States12133 Posts

January 06 2014 06:28 GMT

#166

On January 06 2014 13:35 NB wrote:
After hours of psychology+philosophy research.... i ran into some article recommending the original book of this movie. Im planning on watching the movies and read the book after. Without spoiler, anyone know if I should watch the 2nd movie?

Ooh, watching the movies first will hurt your read through the book so much. I'd even recommend skipping all the 2-page+ soliloquies/sermons to make a read-through more palatable just to get an idea of the expansiveness of the plot. If you have the inclination towards the rather dry sciences of philosophy, the book's for you. If you'd rather the movie ... ugh I wouldn't have wanted to finish the book if I had seen the movie first.

If you can watch both released parts of the movie, then consume the 1,000 page book in its entirety and enjoy the read, you've got an iron stomach.

Netherlands12045 Posts

January 07 2014 03:55 GMT

#167

yeah I actually finished both the movies and trying to finish the last part of the book. I came over this title after trying to learn more about Ayn Rand from a psychology point of view. I came to an understanding that her works arent suitable for everyone given how unique she is in real life. Very interesting back ground result a very interesting work and point of view toward the world.

Overall, I enjoyed the plots of the novel. Once you strip down all the extra decorative elements of the book, you can balantly realize that its a purely philosophical work which was a direct result of Ayn Rand INTJ psychology attributes. The character building are strong and heavily reflected an anti communism movement during the written period of the novel. Individualism is raised to the extreme together with righteous selfishness being pushed over the value of sacrificing one self for the greater goods.

I find the first movie to be a strong adaptation of the novel. The core elements are shown via a ruthless Dagny and an indestructible Rearden. I really like the cast in general.

The 2nd movie was poor. Clearly after the first, the head companies realized that they have dug into a landmine instead of a goldmine. The movie needs to be continue but keeping the budget at what it is is business suicidal. The new acting line up was a disaster in my opinion and the cheaper CG of the air plane scene is just rubbing salt in wound. However the script was fine and the plot is still being delivered, though by a poorly manner. But to hell with the plot, it is supposed to be a freaking philosophy work, not a love sob story. Dagny in the 2nd movie was weak and vulnerable unlike what supposed to be inhuman and logical being. The sex appeal in some of the scene was unnecessary if driven the movie further away from its root.

Ima finish the last few chapters of the book. Even though a lot of my philosophy points conflicted with the author's, I enjoy a new perspective. Plus nowaday works like this is hard to come by.

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