AS I was draggy, AS II was almost watchable.
AS III was enough to set back the conservative movement 100 years. The director couldn’t make up his mind whether it was 1940 (vintage TVs with VHF and broken UHF knobs) or 2014 (cell phones, big screen flat screen monitors, and 2012 vintage wines in the Gulch), which made it quite distracting.
The continuity of the movie was also abysmal. The narrator reminds us of how, with no copper, the power grids are barely operational, breaking down frequently, yet they show New York fully illuminated at night, with no lack of good lighting at the W-F Hotel.
However, it was all over for me when, after Galt hacked Thompson’s great speech to the public with a greatly abbreviated (from the book) version of his own, they immediately switched to Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck and Ron Paul blathering on and on and on in their usual manner. At this point, my friend, who thinks that Republicans have horns, starting laughing out loud at much of the rest of the movie. I, on the other hand, tried to make light of it, all the while cringing in my seat at what a farce this had devolved into.
If I didn’t know better, I would swear that Michael Moore had secretly written the script for the last hour, deliberately making the characters look like total buffoons.
On a scale of 1-10, I give this a -5. Don’t waste your time, and don’t bring your liberal friends with you, expecting them to see or understand that Thompson’s government is too close to today’s Washington for comfort.
We did not go to see the movie to pick it apart.
We went to see AS III to enjoy a movie afternoon and to find out if it would be helpful in advancing the conservative cause.
My wife and I both enjoyed watching the movie, and we both believe it will advance the cause.
It certainly made a very strong statement about the abject failure of the LIEberal/Socialist/Marxist/Fascist political/economic/social system being rammed down our throats by our own government(s) — federal, state and local!
I’ll probably go see AS III again, and will take one or more FRiends with me. I’ll fer shure, fer shure buy the AS III DVD!
It is regrettable that you were so picky-picky; however, having read your FR profile, I can understand why.