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1 posted on 04/16/2011 5:33:34 AM PDT by Kaslin
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Any FReeper movie reviews yet? My 18 year old son saw it yesterday and said it was awesome. Reviews have said that it stinks. Rotten Tomatoes gives it a 5 out of 100 on the Tomatometer.


2 posted on 04/16/2011 5:39:57 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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I first read Ayn years back when people on the DECNET were calling me John Gault.

I wondered who he was. That was about 1980.

Re red everything but “Anthem” a dozen times. “Atlas Shrugged” is such a fine book that for some reason I continue to reread. I have a copy in my car, a copy at work, and a copy on top of my Bible and dictionary, right here.

Given dozens of copies of Atlas and Fountain head out over the years.

I await the new movie. Prepare to see the previous one on TCM.

6 posted on 04/16/2011 5:57:08 AM PDT by mmercier (Who is John Gault...?)
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To: Kaslin

I have never understood the fascination with Rand. She was a pompous atheist, nothing more than a early 20th century Eastern european intellectual which today we would call a secular humanist. Is it because she was pro capitalist that many people here read her works with enthusiasm?


8 posted on 04/16/2011 6:00:17 AM PDT by sueuprising (The best of it is, God is with us-John Wesley)
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To: Kaslin

Sounds like the reviews are positive.....Good sign that a lot of people hate the film.....I’d be worried if the Lady GaGa crowd liked it. (Which is most of the population today.)


10 posted on 04/16/2011 6:02:26 AM PDT by There You Go Again
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Atlas Shrugged was recommended to me by a wonderful friend, years ago. I was apolitical at the time and the book certainly changed my life. I began to pay attention to politicians and whether or not they love big government enough to rob us of our self-reliance and our freedom. I hope everyone will see the movie..I certainly will.


16 posted on 04/16/2011 6:19:37 AM PDT by jazzlite (esat)
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To: ADemocratNoMore; Aggie Mama; alarm rider; alexander_busek; AlligatorEyes; AmericanGirlRising; ...

Why reading the book is as important as seeing the movie.


19 posted on 04/16/2011 6:51:12 AM PDT by Publius
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I first read "Atlas Shrugged" when I was about 17. I had been raised in a thoroughly-Republican family where self-reliance was the primary virtue. The book reinforced what I had considered, up till then, to be little but parental blathering.

I wish people would read more of Rand's non-fiction and her incredible epistemology. Most stop at the virtue of selfishness and think that's all she had to say.

24 posted on 04/16/2011 7:46:29 AM PDT by BfloGuy
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I read the book about two years ago and it's AMAZING how her dialog fits modern Obama liberals.
25 posted on 04/16/2011 7:59:02 AM PDT by libertylover (The problem with Obama is not that his skin is too black, it's that his ideas are too RED.)
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If, only, the “Road to Serfdom” could be made into a movie.


28 posted on 04/16/2011 8:34:08 AM PDT by depressed in 06 (Hope and change is share the poverty.)
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I watched the original version on TNT a while back. It was the most boring movie I’ve ever watched. The acting was pathetic, and the dialog was phony.

I assume this version can’t be any worse.

Has anyone seen the original version and actually enjoyed it?


29 posted on 04/16/2011 8:43:39 AM PDT by Theo (May Rome decrease and Christ increase.)
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