i kinda thought it played alright myself, and it stopped short of his response
Posted on 04/15/2011 1:31:44 PM PDT by RobFromGa
Atlas Shrugged Part 1 Quick Review- 5 stars!
Very faithful to Rand's ideas. I didn't feel like they skipped any major items... the back story with Francisco was hinted at and would have been too hard to develop completely.
Casting was superb. Hank (Hooray!) and Lillian (Boo!)Rearden and Ellis Wyatt (!!!) were done perfectly as was Wesley Mouch and the other moochers and looters. Dagny was good but it took about ten minutes for me to completely buy her in the role.
Pace was perfect... it kept moving at a fast speed, and I didn't want it to end.
Cinematography very good- hard to believe only cost about $5 million! The Rearden Metal bridge was great, as was the Colorado landscape shots...
Audience Reaction: Duluth, GA 12:25pm showing was about 80% full (there was noon showing in a larger theater already going) & audience reacted with enthusiasm throughout and Applause at end.
Can't wait for Part 2! I will be going back to see Part One more than once...
Minor nitpick- shouldn't have had the date 2016 on the movie, it is timeless.
Mine neither. That DVD isn’t going to come out fast enough for me.
if you have any doubts... Henry Rearden Comes Home
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PK5Sq3bIHY&feature=player_embedded
Only 20 people at the first show in Seattle, but you could cram the entire conservative and libertarian population of Seattle into a phone booth, and they would fit comfortably.
How was Midas Mulligan depicted?
Midas was picked off in the first scene, which made it contemporary, rather than 6 years previous. We get to meet Galt as a man in a raincoat with his face obscured. Good bit of screenwriting.
Drat, just watching that scene, I’m not sure I want to see the movie. The casting is not up to my imagination from reading the book. That’s what I hate about movies made from books, especially if you have read the book. Hank Rearden is a much tougher man, more introspect. The strong silent type who lives in his own head with little regard for people around him (until he meets Dagny. John Wayne in a suit or Clint Eastwood type would be Hank. I don’t know who the actor is, but he is squishy, almost effeminate. Lillian and the rest of the family are okay. I imagine Dagny as looking like a Lauren Bacall with short hair. Tough.
Another minor nitpick was the scene with Hugh Akston at the Diner- he said nothing at all of interest and seemed kinda like ‘The Dude’... but a very minor problem. Stadler wasn’t impressive either considering the role that the two of them played in the 3 protaganists education...
Rob, I am sorry, didn’t mean it to be critical of you but in reading my comment, it surely came out that way.
yours is probably the only AAR (comment) thread. In general there have been the past week quite a few threads (I am usually PMed or Emailed on them due to having the cinema ping list)
It just would be nice for so many things to be in conversation with people without having to bounce to various threads to do so.
I guess I am tired & over reacted.
I did post a comment on IMDb (usually takes a day or two)
thanks for the thread even though I have come across as an ungrateful _________ (fill in whatever yuk word you want)
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Dr. Robert Stadler with a Middle European accent threw me a bit.
Grant Bowler did a great job with Hank Rearden imho.
And Taylor Schilling took a few minutes to get used too, but she pulled it off imho...
If you enjoyed the book, I think it is safe that you will find the movie to be true to it.
I do not know when I'll get to see it. Hopefully in the near future.
Still, even the book itself written in the 1950s tended to ignore Television and jet planes, and other evidence of Progress. The book to me had the flavor of the 1930s which seems counter intuitive to produce in the era of Sputnik and Sound Barrier breaking.
I am saying that Rand herself used the same sort of technique in order to tell her story.
She ignored stuff, and that involved "the suspension of disbelief" was required in order to get her real message out.
How did you like my cameo?
i kinda thought it played alright myself, and it stopped short of his response
Dolly,
I am not offended at all.
All the other threads were based on links to some ‘professional’ reviews of the movie as they came out.
This one is a thread just for Freeper thoughts and reviews...
:-)
Rob
I really did appreciate you posting the links from the book thread on the Atlas Shrugged thread a week ago. I shared them with many friends who had & who had NOT read the book & they were impressed with your work
I have had a couple years of hit /miss at FR with my mom’s decline & death.. missed a lot including your offering which I would have loved to have participated with over the course of the posting
The bum was Jeff Allen, who witnessed the fall of the 20th Century Motor Co.
The actor who played Paul Larkin played a lot of gay characters in various TV shows. I didn’t expect to see him here, but he was a good casting choice.
I thought Owen Kellogg was very good. The first competent person we saw actually go on strike and the one who made Dagny start to question who is the Destroyer and what is he up to?
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