Posted on 04/27/2011 1:35:44 PM PDT by EveningStar
Twelve days after opening "Atlas Shrugged: Part 1," the producer of the Ayn Rand adaptation said Tuesday that he is reconsidering his plans to make Parts 2 and 3 because of scathing reviews and flagging box office returns for the film.
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If everyone who’s claiming to have seen the movie two, three or even more times are all telling the truth, and I don’t doubt that you have seen it twice, then it’s just painting an even darker picture for the film. It means that despite a hardcore fan base willing to sit through it multiple times, it’s still bombing.
Heinlein beat people over the head with his politics too, but he simply repeated a point in different conversations within a story, and his writing flowed naturally.
Lester Del Ray as well.
Politics can work well in a story but it isn’t a substitute for good writing.
If your writing is really, really bad you will have to found your own religion to create readers for it.
Yep. I really want to see this movie but I will not travel 50 miles into the DC Metro area, with no parking, crime, and terrible traffic, to see it. I would have to drive there or 70 miles to a theater in Richmond. Sorry, but no.
If it would have been released to more theaters it may have been a success. I just hope it comes out on BluRay so I can buy it.
Tosses in the towel early and easily.
I’m in the minority I guess, but I really liked the movie. And I’m not that big a fan of the book, either. I think the book needed an editor badly.
I don’t get why everyone says it’s so bad. I heard a critic on Lars Larson go on and on about how it was made on a low budget and didn’t have any “stars” in it. That was his sole apparent reason for not liking it.
I think a lot of this is Hollywood jealosy and angst. A lot of people have a lot invested in “proving” that you can’t make a decent film outside of the existing studio system.
At no point watching it did I think “what a cheap production”. Maybe I just don’t notice those things. I really liked the Hank Reardon actor/character too.
That's a very good idea Dolly and a means to show our support. I did likewise when United 93 was out about five years ago. We Conservatives are usually the ones with disposable income and this appears to be a good investment for our cause.
The book wasn't even a good book, as inspiring and insightful as it may have been. Really, all you need is a pamphlet with Francisco d'Ancona's Money Speech, and a condensation of John Galt's radio address to about 1/10th of its original length, and right there you've got all of Atlas Shrugged you could possibly want or need.
“The movie “Dune” defines this concept. Worst film ever made based on a great book.”
What did you think of the TV miniseries with William Hurt?
That's nonsense. A lot of great, and successful movies are made outside of the studio system and all of Hollywood knows it. My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Juno, and almost anything by Quentin Tarantino are good examples.
Most Marxists haven’t read Marx. He’s very dull.
I’ve read Marx’s writings, and I saw them for what they were. An unworkable, unfair, and childish treatise on a world that can’t possibly exist. Except in a liberal’s mind.
Reminds me of when Howard Stern’s “Private Parts” movie came out. Every Howard Stern fan went to see the movie on the opening weekend, then by the next week, the theaters were empty.
I don’t know what Mel Gibson’s budget for The Passion was, but he used no real “stars” and it made IIRC about a billion dollars in the end. Same with Easy Rider. It cost 700,000 dollars to make, but is now one of the most profitable movies ever to hit screens. If you have a good movie, you’ll make money, case closed.
I though Marx was very dull as well. But he got his (idiotic) ideas across. Besides the Bible, his ideas changed the world, for the WORSE. How many people know what that murderous philosophy actually amounted to in lives lost and ruined?
Heinlein was a genius, he didn’t beat people over the head. He simply showed them the frivolity of their beliefs. Same as Ayn Rand only not as artfully written as Heinlein. Let us all now share water.
Atlas Shrugged has already done better at the box office than Sodenbergh’s “Che”.
IMDB shows an estimated budget of $30 million for The Passion of the Christ.
Incidentally, it had it's network television debut recently when TBN (Trinity Broadcasting Network) showed it uncut and commercial free. Regardless of what one thinks of TBN, they do air some fine pictures such as Facing the Giants, a very uplifting film.
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