[KarlInOhio]

I liked, but not loved, the movie. It was like a veneer of wood instead of a real piece of solid wood furniture or the original tree. Maybe if was a 3½ hour Peter Jackson epic instead of 100 minutes it could have dug into backstory and internal monologues which were so important to the book. Too many characters just kind of popped up said their lines and left scene without really showing why they were either the good guys or the bad guys.

They handled making trains the primary long distance transportation for the movie. $30+ per gallon for gas? Yikes. I'll give a hug to the gas station owner the next time I shell out less than $4.

I really hope it does well enough to get parts 2 and 3 made. I'll definitely buy the DVD when it comes out. I don't know if I'll see it in the theater again.

I did have a couple of problems with suspected continuity errors (no rewind at the theater to double check :-( ) and one error of train routing. (minor spoilers ahead, page down to skip it if you don't want to see them)

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1. The early shot of the the Rio Norte line had the same scenery (it looked like autumn) as the July (?) run of the John Galt Line. OK, they didn't have the budget to film it twice. If that was CGI, then budget isn't an excuse.

2. Even after Dagny left Taggart Transcontinental she still appears to have the same office. She moved, therefore shouldn't have the same office. (Also she didn't want to take Eddie with her - she wanted him to stay as VP of Operations at Taggert to be her placeholder while she kept running it too).

3. To quote the book "One red streak twisted its way from Cheyenne, Wyoming, down to El Paso, Texas—the Rio Norte Line of Taggart Transcontinental". The movie's map had the Rio Norte running from the east (Nebraska? Kansas? Missouri?) into Colorado.

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But them I'm the guy friends hate to watch movies with because I'll snarl "You .... cant't .... carbon.... date.... gold" during a movie (both Timecop and Stargate made that same mistake within a few weeks of each other) and keep hitting rewind when I see a mistake on a DVD.

[Balding_Eagle]

The Wisconson scenes weren’t shot in WI either, looked more like WY, or somewhere similar.

[farmguy]

OK if we want to nit pick.

In the book, the motor runs off static electricty in the atmosphere. In the movie, I believe they said it creates static electricity from atmospheric pressure.

I don’t know how the movie is ever going to get the motor to work if they don’t understand the technology any better than that.