[V K Lee]

Atlas Shrugged II: The Strike
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIjCyULA0wM

Part two of Ayn Rand's groundbreaking novel comes to the screen in this thrilling and powerful drama.
The global economy is on the brink of collapse.
Brilliant creators, from artists to industrialists, continue to mysteriously disappear.
Dagny Taggart, Vice President in Charge of Operations for Taggart Transcontinental, has discovered what may very well be the answer to a mounting energy crisis - a revolutionary motor that could seemingly power the World. But, the motor is dead... there is no one left to decipher its secret... and, someone is watching.
It's a race against the clock to find the inventor before the motor of the World is stopped for good.
Provider Samuel Goldwyn
Rating PG-13
Release date 2012
Running time 1:51:35
Language English

Actors
Samantha Mathis
Jason Beghe
Esai Morales
Patrick Fabian
Kim Rhodes
Richard T. Jones

Atlas Shrugged III is not available on you tube but was made and released to theaters in 2014.

[mmichaels1970]

I think all three are available on Amazon Prime. But I've been hesitant to watch. Have you seen them? Are they any good?

I read the book twice and enjoyed it (except for the 20 page monologue near the end). But I have this gut feeling that the movies will be disappointing.

I'd love to see "We the Living" in a movie form.

[newfreep]

IIRC, Samantha Mathis was with River Phoenix the night the actor died. She avoided all direct questions from LEOs and seemed to have intimate knowledge of what actually happened.

Classic example of the dark evil of Hollyweird...and so glad I moved from that cesspool.

[litehaus]

Few kids would bother to read ....SO...force all high schoolers to watch the movies before graduation !
They just might learn sumtin......

[Openurmind]

Absolute required reading...

[wally_bert]

I saw all three and liked them.

[Tijeras_Slim]

In the first one, Armin Shimerman played Dr. Potter, a State Science Institute toady sent to get Rearden Metal.

The irony of casting the uber wheeler dealer Quark from Deep Space 9 as a looter.

[IronJack]

If these are the productions that have been on Amazon, then I would have to agree that they were kind of disappointing. There's so much in the book that it's hard to condense into even three separate movies. The switch in the cast was just stupid; no chemistry carried over from volume to volume. And the story seemed -- as someone else said -- like a Hallmark movie: toothless and insipid.

That aside, as someone else said, there are a lot worse things you could watch. Just don't expect a blockbuster. It's not there.

[whodathunkit]

The three movies left out some important details that a viewer who never read the book would need to make necessary associations. I just finished the trio (2nd time) not long ago and found them similar to speed reading the novel.

[Spacetrucker]

Have read the book at least 5 times in my life - after becoming aware of Ayn Rand’s atheism I looked at the book in a new light, and was still able to come away with the same understanding of how the book is VERY timely to society today.

[castlebrew]

Atlas Shrugged Part 3 on YouTube