[shove_it]

You will like AS part 3, especially if you lived through the 'hoackyness' of the Cold War years. I just returned from the theater, a 65 mile round-trip, as I sit here typing this in my 'Who is John Galt' tee with a smile on my face. You will recognize quite a few cast members too. IMO, AS3 is the best of the trilogy and could stand on it's own as an adaptation of the whole book.

[Publius]

Atlas movie ping.

[shove_it]

Atlas Shrugged ping

[Secret Agent Man]

see tagline.

[cdcdawg]

I really hope it’s better than the second installment. I really liked the first. They got a lot out of a really tight budget.

[Yaelle]

I never saw 1 or 2. Would I like it? I liked the book except the John Galt or other long deadly speeches.

[ArmstedFragg]

Did they get a macho Reardon?

[Publius]

It’s appearing about 30 miles away from me in Burlington, WA. I’ll go see it on a weekday next week.

[drbuzzard]

Good to hear. WIll probably see it tomorrow.

[ryan71]

I’m going to see it in 80 minutes :-)

[MNlurker]

I enjoyed the first 2 and was looking forward to 3 until I saw Ron Paul in the latest trailer and my stomach turned...will likely still see it but it was a terrific mistake having anything to do with that loon.

[skinkinthegrass]

yeah..not one theater in KY is showing the movie, the entire state! I’ll have to travel over 100 MI, to see it.

[trisham]

I detested that book.

[Born to Conserve]

I’m waiting for the Classics Illustrated version.

[12th_Monkey]

damn, not a place close by.

[x]

Meh. I join the general public in shrugging at the news.

Sounds like they have a new cast and yet another different actress to play the lead, though. Could make it hard to get into the saga when it's all on DVD.

[Pontiac]

Thanks for the link.

No theater anywhere close.

I guess I have to wait for it to come on net flicks or by the DVD.

[raccoonradio]

Will see tonite in Danvers MA and buy
DVD when that comes out

[newfreep]

Any link to the casting?

The actress who played Dagny in #2 was horrible.

[4Liberty]

Will go see it.

Wish they wouldn't change the cast, every time a new movie is made!!!

Thanks for the post.

[shove_it]

From another thread fyi ...

To: shove_it
“Adapting a long complicated book that took place in the years prior 1957 to the world of today on a cheap movie budget is quite a trick. For the audience to get it, it helps to have lived during WWII and the cold war years that followed in the 1940s-50s, experiencing life in the USA before the advent of ‘the nanny state’. Having the experience of traveling cross country by train during those years helps too, before the prevalence of air travel.’

They should have seriously studied (or hired the production team) of Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow. If you’ve never seen it, it’s set in a fantasy universe with a late 1930s, retro feel with something of an ambiguous date (the antagonist is a war criminal from WWI and the protagonist is a Flying Tigers veteran, but there’s no indication WWII had yet started). Somehow they pulled it off. The film had some bigger stars but still operated on a relatively tight budget for a major Hollywood film. While it didn’t do all that well at the box office, IMHO, it’s still a pretty fine film, and one of it’s stronger points is how it created a credible, palpable sense of an earlier era, although a fantasy/fiction one.

38 posted on 9/13/2014 8:24:06 AM by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)