Posted on 02/11/2011 3:00:47 PM PST by BreitbartSentMe
The trailer for Atlas Shrugged Part 1 has finally been released!
This story has the power to open minds...
I HOPE IT’S A SMASH HIT !
I’ll see it many times, and might even bring sunshine-guy’s family along for a few viewings.
Look... I just state as how I see it... You don’t have to agree with me... The production quality looks cheesy, the acting seems so-so, and the dialogue (from what I’ve seen in the trailer) is bad. I was hoping for much more but it is not there...
Restrepo is a Doco, a very different beast from a feature film and truly can’t be used in a comparison. And as far as Restrepo not having a P.O.V or bias is a false premise. Everything has a bias or a P.O.V.
Look it... I produce film and television in Hollywood and this unfortunately looks like, at beast, a really well done Movie of the Week. As a big Ayn Rand fan, I was hoping for more but am very let down by the trailer. I’ll go see the movie and I do hope that it is much better than the trailer. But, as we all know, a vast majority of trailers are better than the movies themselves.
I liken this movie will be up there with the quality of many of the “Christian” films being made today. They come close, but don’t quite succeed. (BTW — I am trying to change that.)
Just my humble opinion and nothing more...
ARA
No, the entire book will take a trilogy. This is Part 1, so it covered only the first portion of the book, up through the launch of the John Galt line. They foresee parts 2 and 3 coming out at approx. 1 year intervals.
They aren’t showing Galt’s face in this movie, because he doesn’t appear ‘visually’ until Galt’s Gulch.
This was in the late 30’s-40’s. Grampa was a Maine Guide... had been a blacksmith, a snowshoe/tennis racket maker, grew berries for sale and trade - aside from growing the gardens, fruit trees, meat from the barns and woods, fish from the waters.
Grammie had a market garden - acre of cabbages - for extra income and traded her butter at the village store for things like flour, sugar, molasses. She had 50 laying hens and sold the eggs in town. She also crocheted bedspreads for extra money.
They had a huge maple grove - “The Thousand Trees” - and sold the sap. I remember the big shiny silver, horse drawn tanks that were driven down for the sap.
WE always had a years supply of food. In season, there were the gardens, apples, berries, dandlions, fiddleheads and mustard green. There were the hens and eggs in the coop; milk, butter, meat - including pigs - in the barn.
In the winter - the added shelves of gleaming jars of ‘canned’ vegetables and fruit and barrels of potatoes and apples and salted pork.
We had no electricity.
We had no utility bills.
We provided our own heat and all we had to buy was oil for the lamps.
We lived a good life on the Ridge. And the folk still up there, though they have electricity now, still live the basic, simple way.
I hope to get back up there, My sons are thinking it would be a ‘prudent’ place to be. The fact that we are known, that my family was the original one that settled there in the early 1800's - for whom the Ridge is named - is a plus. I am not alone in the country, as you probably know, in thinking that it may be the better part of wisdom to form alliances with like minded people in close knit communities of people who can provide for their own needs the old way - and have a mutual ‘watch yer back’ society. A little Galt's Gulch.
Yep. I could live that way again. As long as I don't’ have to make the sausage.
OK, new monitor needed. This may be the next entry into the FReeper Lexicon. This may be Hugh, and Series! I'm actually stuned...
That's what grandchildren are for...
Just from this trailer it looks much worse than not making the movie at all!
Bad dialog, delivered flatly by miscast actors, set in a poor facsimilie of the setting described in the book.
The heroes and heroine should have been cast as dynamic, larger than life individuals, clearly driven with the fulfullment of their purpose in life as their sole force of existance. This movie has no heart and no soul!
Umm.... Where’s Francisco???
You've seen Restrepo?
If you, what was the bias - and the P.O.V.?
You missed my point.
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Your point was that you think I am an ignoramus because I don't think Atlas Shrugged or any of Ayn Rand's novels are particularly pleasurable to read.
Her dialog is stilted and she goes into long stiltled monologues. Not my cup of tea. I like her ideas. I just don't think her novels are great literature.
Evidently you do. Goody for you.
I was born in Boston, but spent grades 8-12 in New Brunswick and went to college there. I still have family in Houlton, Island Falls and Caribou.
the girl in the movie is Milla Jovovich? I watched every Resident Evil movie (including the CGI part 4) and she was good in every one of them.
I do love and miss fiddleheads. There is exactly ONE restaurant here in Columbus that has them seasonally and charges as much as a steak for them. Last time I has was up in the Saint John Valley was two years ago and my wife and son (both Mid-Westerners) are aware of the delight of fiddleheads.
Even this first one should result in another major upswing in book sales.
Maybe there's an unseen hand helping in rolling things out exactly as it needs to be seen?
I'm a hopeless optimist. (Is that an oxymoron?)
BTW, I have to say that this thread has been one of the most pleasant in some time. The general tone is more like the first years after I stumbled upon FR. It's been nice!
MMMMmmmmm.... rawr
Cast photos here:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0480239/
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