[The Louiswu]

“ You can watch all 3 movies on IMDB for free, and they did a pretty good job following the book.”

I have to respectfully disagree here. The movies are AWFUL, they were poorly done, low budget bombs. A film of Atlas Shrugged should never be set in modern times, it’s a set piece for the 30’s and 40’s, it would have to be like an HBO game of thrones mini series ten episodes long. The 3 films didn’t do the book any justice.

[Sans-Culotte]

I have to respectfully disagree here. The movies are AWFUL, they were poorly done, low budget bombs. A film of Atlas Shrugged should never be set in modern times, it’s a set piece for the 30’s and 40’s, it would have to be like an HBO game of thrones mini series ten episodes long. The 3 films didn’t do the book any justice.

When I read the book, I imagined it in the 40's or 50's with Dagny in a women's business suit and hat and the men in suits and fedoras and overcoats with trains still being important. I think it should have been approached like Michael Radford's brilliant adaptation of Nineteen Eighty-Four which was kept in the period of the late 40's. However, the makers of the movie(s) of Atlas Shrugged didn't have enough of a budget to work with.