[BCrago66]

"Awful or not, business has been brisk enough for producers Harmon Kaslow and John Aglialoro to expand from 299 theaters to 425 this weekend and to 1,000 by the end of the month. They don’t have enough film prints to fill all the orders."

:-)

[wmileo]

I saw it on Friday. There were plenty of folks but nobody who looked like they were under 40 years of age.

Hollywood Miscreants are not shocked but embarrassed at the success of this film. Wait until Part II and Part III in 2012 and 2013 respectively.

[Christian Engineer Mass]

NEWSFLASH. We are many, they are few.

[FlingWingFlyer]

What “marketing plan”? The release of Atlas Shrugged Part 1 is Hollyweird’s best kept secret this year.

[Drango]

Gonna see it this weekend.

[Soothesayer]

Marketing must be terrible as I didn’t even know this movie existed until now. Going to have to check it out!

[antonico]

The “Marketing Plan” is this: it’s a Novel that the Library of Congress surveyed and reported it was the 2nd most influential book in history behind the Bible. Millions of copies sold since 1957, and an accolade like that. I guess that was too simple for the Marketing Geniuses in Hollywood to grasp LOL!

[DJ MacWoW]

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[tanknetter]

Just got back from seeing it, thought it was very good. Not great, but well-done, true to the source material and a solid foundation upon which to build Parts 2 and 3.

I was also one of three people in an audience of about 75 to LOL at Armin Shimerman’s scene as Dr. Potter from the National Science Institute. Given his previous role as Quark on Star Trek Deep Space Nine his casting had to be deliberately, and deliciously, ironic.

[ReagansShinyHair]

They want to move on to the point where there’s just an ass on the screen. No one will care who the ass belongs to or why it is farting. It will win Best Picture.

[TheRealDBear]

Like they say in the military. “If it’s stupid, but it works, it’s not stupid.”

[hinckley buzzard]

I love how Hollywood "insiders" and the "experts" generally are baffled by reality.

[parisa]

U N E X P E C T E D!!!!!!

[I still care]

I knew “Atlas Shrugged” would be sort of like “The Passion” - totally ignored and dismissed by elitists, but a hit with real folk.

I am not surprised at this at all.

[Deagle]

HEH!!

[LomanBill]

>>“Shocking,” one executive said

Shocking?  It wouldn't be - if they'd been paying attention to the rising ire regarding the rape and pilage of this Republic... where the Apparatchik elite have forgotten the specified American purpose for governance "TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS" and supplanted it with a collective governing hive that subjugates the Individual as a disposable commodity...

 

One way or the other, the teat is about to get snipped.

[Cyber Liberty]

... its “awful” marketing plan.

There's a marketing plan? Who knew?

[The Louiswu]

I've seen this film and I really liked it. It's not perfect but I felt it was a very good start. I think this "viral" type/word of mouth marketing that is getting folks into the theaters to see this film is great. I am constantly amazed by the millions of dollars hollywood spends to promote trashy, stupid films in an effort to justify the bloated paychecks that the "stars" of those films get.

I believe that if a production company would start making films with a positive, pro-conservative, pro-American message that company and those kinds of films would do very well indeed.

I would like to see a film about American troops in the middle east (any theater would do) where the troopers are portrayed as the heroes they are rather than borderline nut jobs who snap and go off the deep end. I would go see a movie like that. Instead, I find myself watching movies made in the 30's and 40's (which I enjoy)rather than spend my money on the crap that is passed off as entertainment these days.