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Atlas Shrugged (1 star)
www.rogerebert.com ^ | 04/14/11 | Roger Ebert

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]

I feel like my arm is all warmed up and I don

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TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: atlasshrugged; aynrand; rogerebert; whoisjohngalt
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To: Borges
While I can't stand Roger Ebert, I suspect he may be right here. First, this is a low budget movie. Second, the book on which it is based sets forth a faithless, selfish and immature philosophy.

I have never been able to understand why so many "conservatives" love this book. It is anti-god and anti-faith. It's premise of radical capitalism has little in common with fundamental conservative principles such as were espoused by the likes of Edmund Burke and Adam Smith.

I see here philosophy of radical capitalism (Objectivism) as the flip side of the same coin as Communism. They both result in Godless materialism.

And, the book would have been much better if someone who could actually write would have edited it down to about 650 pages.

81 posted on 04/14/2011 5:20:07 PM PDT by CharacterCounts (November 4, 2008 - the day America drank the Kool-Aid)
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To: Publius

1990? Wow, you’ve got me beat. The last time I went to a movie was a few years ago to see Orphan w/ my bff.


82 posted on 04/14/2011 5:20:19 PM PDT by NoGrayZone (“Too often, Republicans have the fighting instinct of sheep"...RUN SARAH RUN!!)
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To: gorush

“A Sense of Life”....can I buy it on dvd?


83 posted on 04/14/2011 5:22:18 PM PDT by NoGrayZone (“Too often, Republicans have the fighting instinct of sheep"...RUN SARAH RUN!!)
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To: NoGrayZone

Probably, Netflix sent the one we watched.


84 posted on 04/14/2011 5:23:50 PM PDT by gorush (History repeats itself because human nature is static)
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To: gorush

Hello....I just NOW realized you mentioned they have a dvd of it!!! Screw it, I want to give my money to the theaters that are brave enough to show it AND I will also purchase the dvd!


85 posted on 04/14/2011 5:25:08 PM PDT by NoGrayZone (“Too often, Republicans have the fighting instinct of sheep"...RUN SARAH RUN!!)
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To: mountainbunny
You have the book in your head? Whoa doggies!
86 posted on 04/14/2011 5:25:33 PM PDT by Fudd Fan (Up yer nose widda rubba hose.)
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To: BenLurkin

Actually, “The Fountainhead” was a very good movie and very faithful to the book. Plus, Patricia Neal filled that dress out extremely well. Worth watching just for that, says the still sexist after all these years Driftless.


87 posted on 04/14/2011 5:26:40 PM PDT by driftless2 (For long-term happiness, learn how to play the accordion.)
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To: Borges
"There are however people who take Ayn Rand even more seriously than comic-book fans take "Watchmen."

HEY...! The Watchmen are Graphic Novels.

88 posted on 04/14/2011 5:30:29 PM PDT by Dacus943
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To: NoGrayZone
Solidarity! :{)

Well, sort of... I've read Atlas Shrugged" 5 times (so far) and "The Fountainhead" once. (shortly after the first reading of AS) We'll wait until we can rent the three DVD's in succession at some far future date. Heck, I envy people who haven't read AS because they still get to.

89 posted on 04/14/2011 5:32:10 PM PDT by gorush (History repeats itself because human nature is static)
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To: tcrlaf

I don’t do movies to send messages, my budget doesn’t allow for it. Furthermore, I don’t live in the city, I live in the backwoods rural America where we cling bitterly to our guns & religion.

No thanks, pay per view will be just fine for me.


90 posted on 04/14/2011 5:34:19 PM PDT by patlin (Reagan was a Democrat before he was a Republican: "I didn't leave the Democrat Party, they left me")
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To: NoGrayZone

We’re kind of out in the boonies. We eschewed TV a few years back and choose our DVD viewing pleasures very selfishly. :{)


91 posted on 04/14/2011 5:38:33 PM PDT by gorush (History repeats itself because human nature is static)
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To: Publius; Travis McGee
A negative review from a liberal source.

MUST be good, then! Hey, last time I read something from SPLC slamming one of Travis' books, it made me go read it again!

92 posted on 04/14/2011 5:41:54 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: Borges

Hmmm....Ebert....E-bear....sounds, ah, French. No wonder he doesn’t like the movie. If he did, I’d probably stay home.


93 posted on 04/14/2011 5:46:41 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: TheConservativeParty
Roger Ebert, I thought he was dead!

Did anything about this review cause you to question that belief?

94 posted on 04/14/2011 5:50:09 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: Still Thinking

What makes you think he’s wrong? It’s getting pretty bad reviews.


95 posted on 04/14/2011 5:55:31 PM PDT by Borges
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To: mountainbunny
I myself have the book in my head...

That's one big head!

96 posted on 04/14/2011 5:57:22 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: Borges

>> More wine is poured and sipped in this film than at a convention of oenophiliacs. <<

IOW, “More wine is poured and sipped in this film than at a convention of wine-lovers.”

That’s his idea of wit? cleverness? insight? My God, Ebert has turned into a full-born idiot. (I almost called him a “drooling idiot,” but then I remembered why that wouldn’t be nice ;^D)


97 posted on 04/14/2011 5:58:29 PM PDT by dangus
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To: Borges
Ebert is married.

Then we're not taking his husband's word on it either.

98 posted on 04/14/2011 6:01:14 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: dangus; Tax-chick
>> More wine is poured and sipped in this film than at a convention of oenophiliacs. <<

Besides, shouldn't he have said "oenophiles"?

"Oenophiliacs" sounds like people with a disease that causes them to bleed wine.

99 posted on 04/14/2011 6:05:31 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: Borges
What makes you think he’s wrong?

He's Roger Ebert. What are the odds THIS is the one he gets right? (Having said that, most of my posts have been in fun)

100 posted on 04/14/2011 6:08:51 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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