Posted on 04/14/2011 3:54:19 PM PDT by Borges
Edited on 04/15/2011 12:42:07 PM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
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(Excerpt) Read more at rogerebert.suntimes.com ...
How did I know that a diehard Socialist like Roger Ebert would hate this film.
Chin up, Roger! Keep a stiff upper lip!
Actually Kurt Loder is a Randian Libertarian who has, in the past taken Michael Moore's "Sicko" to task. His review of Atlas Shrugged was for reason.com ("Free Minds and Free Markets"); hardly a "lefty" news source. If anybody would be inclined to prop this movie up, it would be Loder, and he thought it sucked.
So you hate Casablanca, The Godfather, The Right Stuff?
His primary objection was that it was stiff and lacking in dramatic tension.
Samuel Johnson? George Bernard Shaw? Matthew Arnold?
You can be a free man, or you can be a conservative.
Ping for later...on the road...:)
I can understand that the lefties would have a visceral hate for the book and movie, but when reasonable critics give a coherent thumbs-down, it doesn’t look promising. Seems like it was rushed to meet an external deadline. I await some man-on-the-street reviews to see if the main ideas come through.
Oh well, there were several horribly lame versions of Lord of the Rings, but eventually along came Peter Jackson and the rest is history. Someday maybe ...
I would think someone could write a tighter plot and better dialogue, while keeping the main themes intact. Of course, the lefties would still attack it.
On the other hand, I've come to give a lot of weight to Loder's movies reviews, and find that after watching various movies, I often, although not always, agree with his assessments.
Ebert is simply a typical Liberal - and a simple-minded one. They just do not understand what there is not to like about a society that lives under the thumb of a repressive government that only wants to "help." He just doesn't get it.
Some critics are capable of expressing reasons for their opinion, while most seem only to want to vent their emotions.
Ebert with Siskel provided a good balance. They would often see oppposite sides of the same coin, but they could do so with good humor, and therefore be much more informative. Seems rare nowadays.
Anyway, from the start Ebert gets Rand’s philosophy 180 degrees wrong, so I doubt he read the book or watched the movie with an open mind. However, from other reviews it might not be worth a two-hour drive to see.
I kinda thought so, but wasn’t up to correcting him on that.
He doesn't like the movie because he was told that he wasn't supposed to like it. He's a typical liberal lemming.
Reardon invented reardon metal.
did he write the review before he saw the movie or did he just base it on a few clips.
“However, that does not explain the love affair so many conservatives have with Rand.”
Because the crux of the question is what involvement should any government have in the different issues that you have brought up. For example:
“In short, Objectivism has about the same relationship to conservatism as pornography has to love. Both may have sex involved, but one lifts the human spirit and one is soulless and empty.”
What role should government (federal or state) have in the realm of sex or love?
Or maybe you're just not as into rumpy-pumpy as he is.
None!
And you are trying to throw a red herring into the discussion, as I never implied that it does.
After I saw who wrote the review, I stopped reading it.
Can’t wait to see this movie!
“None!
And you are trying to throw a red herring into the discussion, as I never implied that it does.”
I used one example from your various posts, they should all have the same answer of there should be no government involvement in those areas. That is the common theme between Rand and Conservatives. You were looking for the reason, so there you go.
Personal morality disagreements aside, Rand and Conservatives have the same desire of getting the government out of people’s personal lives.
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