Posted on 04/11/2011 4:18:45 PM PDT by BCrago66
A book for the ages. I thoroughly enjoyed it but, yes a few of the soliloquies were too long. John Galt’s radio address. OK, I get it; he didn’t have to speak for 47 pages to convey the message.
Still, I have my families tickets purchased for the 7:00 pm showing Friday night. I can hardly wait!
ping Atlas Shrugged
yup, same here with the Glen Theater... we have two screens but won't get it and 80+miles is the closest it will get, so that's $25+ in gas Glen Theater Pricing Information
Matinee (any movie before 6:00 p.m.): $3.50/person adult and child
After 6:00 p.m.: $3.50 child (12 and under) and senior (62+) $5.50 adult
I think it has been here since the late Forties...
Except, perhaps, Whittaker Chambers...:)
Don't know. I live in NC and the kids live in CA.
nice...
Thanks for the ping, Publius!
Bought tickets the minute I found out that the movie would be shown in Jacksonville.
Sunday afternoon, April 17 @ 2:00 PM. @ Five Points Theater.
Cannardly wait to see it — Atlas Shrugged is my all-time-favorite novel!
“Objectivism does not require one to be an atheist, she just happened to be one”
I agree that technically one could be a deist—i.e., believe in a Creator. But I strongly disagree if one’s conception of God is Christian, Jewish or Muslim—all of which are religions that preach the virtue of self-sacrifice and the “evil” of selfishness. Ayn Rand was unblinkingly consistent in railing against creeds that subordinated the individual to either a God or the State. In that regard, Whittaker Chambers was quite correct in recognizing that Atlas Shrugged was antithetical to his Christian beliefs even if Rand was a fellow-traveler when it came to criticizing the liberal welfare state or its evil twin cousins of communism and fascism.
“Don’t all parents have a “selfish” interest in the well being of their children? Of course they do.”
I concur, and so did Rand. She admittedly devoted precious little of the book’s 1100 pages to children, but there is a section in which she says exactly this—that a mother “sacrificing” time, money or even risking her life to rescue her children is not “sacrificing” at all since if she loves them—i.e., attaches a high value to them—it only makes sense she would trade something of lower value for them.
It’s great to see ‘Atlas Shrugged’ finally coming to the big screen. I cannot think of a more timely message. Hopefully the financial performance of this film will allow Part II to proceed.
I'm really lucky, in that AMC theaters is going to be showing it at a theater less than a mile from my place. I really want to see it, both because I want to see it, and because I want to support the producers. The problem is that I've got really bad arthritis and the last time I went to a movie, I could barely get up out of the seat once it was over. It was a painful experience. Still, I may go anyway.
Mark
You think these two guys were Wesley Mouch and Orin Boyle or just two SEIU 'Specialists'?
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