[CharacterCounts]

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.

[higgmeister]

I have never been able to understand why so many "conservatives" love this book.

It's not rocket science! Conservatives are anti-Socialist! Objectivists and Libertarians are Anti-Socialist! Atlas Shrugged is anti-Socialist!

We all play on the same team yet you might as well be thinking about skee ball.

[fnord]

freedom is scary to a lot of people,
other people’s freedom even more so.