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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(From one who really knows better but is all too human).
I agree. Starship Troopers is the one I remember with the most, what would you say, verbiage? It was a good book though.
Lester Del Ray as well.
I didn't even know who this was until looked him up in Wiki. I've read a couple of his books and never even realized what Del Rey books was.
If your writing is really, really bad you will have to found your own religion to create readers for it.
I've never read LR's books so I don't know how bad he wrote but you hit the nail on the head.
when I have gone to other movies this week I have bought the ticket for Atlas also..
doing my part !!!
$612 million in Box Office against a $30 million budget. No numbers on DVD, VOD, TV/Cable sales.
I don’t remember the part where Taggart sang “Frodo of the Nine Fingers and the Ring of Doom”.
I have to admit, were it not for Free Republic (and another forum for a gaming company), I wouldn’t have even known about the movie until it was gone.
I’m surprised this is the case as I’ve heard people who watched it were applauding at the end.
I enjoyed the movie. I was looking forward to the parts 2 and 3. But I read the book and know the story, so it's not like I got left hanging.
BTW, because we pleaded with the manager of our local theater to do whatever he had to do to get the movie, it has been playing in our relatively small town of 50,000 since last Saturday. Sadly, there were only two other couples besides us in the entire theater.
We saw the Friday 5:20 show (the last discount matinee of the afternoon) in Carson City, and we were among 11 patrons, by my count.
Glad I saw it. Thoroughly enjoyed it, and would plan to see both of the next episodes.
In the ideal world, it would be made optimally as a 12-hour HBO series, with a screenplay by a libertarian David Mamet, and the harsh authenticity of a Deadwood. The (wonderful) book’s characters were too perfect(ly good or bad). Some grit and character interest might make it really great.
Really, it should be made into a video game: “Galt-ville.” How close can you get to building railroads and restoring motors before your engineers disappear?
What the producers need to do is presell shares in the next two parts. $20 per share, each of which gets you a ticket. Maybe $100 per share, gets you 5 tickets (bring friends). Enough subscribers, and they make the movie and are guaranteed not to break even. Rand would love it.
Did he even write about communism except in very vague terms? I think that was filled in by others later. He’s a materialist spin on Hegel; where things were and where they are headed in their constant forward motion.
A video game called Galtville. Now, that is a great idea. LOL. And, yep....I’d buy a $20 share in the next two parts.
Really? I’m stunned!
Pt1 was so bad I just figured he’d never do Pt2.
Smaug in the “The Hobbit” was awesome. The rest was forgettable.
Hmm. Battlefield Earth did better than that.
Get the SciFi Channel’s TV mini-series Dune and Children of Dune.
Both follow the books really close and they are much better than the movie.
It was so putrid that my wife and I were dating at the time it came out and we still refer to it as the worst movie of all time after 32 years of marriage!
I beg to disagree - I offer "Battlefield Earth" as the worst movie ever made from an awesome book.
As an aside, L. Ron Hubbard's "Battlefield Earth" is the world-wide best selling Science Fiction book of all time. Some stories do not translate to the big screen very well, this was one such book.
On many lists of the 100 best or most popular all time books, you'll find Atlas Shrugged and Battlefield Earth in the top 3. The reason is that the Rand cultists and the Scientology cultists go on massive buying sprees and massive "freeping" of book polls. An example of Hubbard cultist behavior...
Battlefield Earth went to the top of the New York Times Best Seller list and also those of the Los Angeles Times, TIME, United Press International, Associated Press, B. Dalton's and Waldenbooks. According to Hubbard's literary agents, Author Services Inc., by June 1983 the book had sold 150,000 copies and earned $1.5 million.[18] Not long afterwards, stories emerged of a reported Church of Scientology book-buying campaign mounted to ensure that the book would appear on the bestseller lists. According to newspaper reports, Church representatives promised the publishers that a particular number of copies would be bought by Church subsidiaries[19][20] (the author and journalist Russell Miller cites a figure of 50,000 hardback copies[21]). Local Churches of Scientology and individual Scientologists were reportedly also urged to buy copies of the book. Various bookstore chains (including Waldenbooks) have cited examples of Scientologists repeatedly coming into stores and buying armfuls of the book at a time. Several bookstores reported that shipments of the book arrived with the store's own price tags already affixed to them, even before they were unpacked from the shipping boxes, suggesting that copies were being recycled.[19][20] According to Miller, Scientologists throughout the United States were instructed to go out and buy at least two or three copies each.[21] Gerry Armstrong, who worked in the Church's archives at the time, states that "One of the wealthy Scientologists, by the name of Ellie Bolger, apparently paid a huge amount of money to the organization, which they then disbursed to staff members to go down to B. Dalton or whatever and buy the book."[22] The New York Times reported that "two Scientology organizations bought a total of 30,000 copies of Battlefield Earth at discount directly from the publisher, apparently to sell or to give to current or prospective Scientology members." Booksellers told the newspaper that they had seen unusual purchasing patterns, including individuals buying as many as 800 copies of the book at a time. It was suggested that "church members could be trying to buy themselves a bestseller in order to obtain a large paperback or movie sale, both of which are often contingent on a book's first becoming a bestseller in hard cover."[23
Full trilogy to be played exclusively at the theatre in Galt’s Gulch... Now, how do I get there?
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