Atlas Shrugged Released

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I'm gonna go see it.

I've bought the book, but never gotten around to reading it.

If there looked like there was ever an example of the book being better than the movie this is it.

 

[nefertiti]

I remember when it was first being talked about there was some hoopla about a big name actress in the role. LOL at what actually came of this production.

I personally think objectivism is, for the most part, horseshit, so all's well that ends well!

 

[nefertiti]

For the record I found the book to be overbearing but it had it's intrigue....my idealogical clashes with rand didn't prevent me from getting something out of it. But I do think it's kind of amusing that a movie based on a book that well known and highly regarded is such complete shit lol.

 

[Mr. dB]

For the record I found the book to be overbearing but it had it's intrigue....my idealogical clashes with rand didn't prevent me from getting something out of it. But I do think it's kind of amusing that a movie based on a book that well known and highly regarded is such complete shit lol.

Rand did have a way of cramming it down your throat, she wasn't a particularly subtle ideologue.

I'm not sure why her work is regarded with any more reverence than, say, one of the Niven/Pournelle potboilers.

 

[cindylou]

I remember when it was first being talked about there was some hoopla about a big name actress in the role. LOL at what actually came of this production.

It was Angelina Jolie I think...which would have automatically made it shitty. The reviews are not that bad on imdb.

 

[nefertiti]

Yeah, it was her....that's who I was thinking of originally, but I wasn't sure.

On rottentomatoes it has an 8% rating....pretty damn low for, again, something based on a book that highly read. That's Saw 3d territory lol

One review compared it to battlefield earth....ouch

 

[cindylou]

Yeah, it was her....that's who I was thinking of originally, but I wasn't sure.

On rottentomatoes it has an 8% rating....pretty damn low for, again, something based on a book that highly read. That's Saw 3d territory lol

One review compared it to battlefield earth....ouch

lol...I just looked it up...YIKES

I'll ruin this thread with chick flicks and chick-lit:

Have you read any of the chick-lit books from Emily Griffin? They are soooo a guilty pleasure for me...and I normally hate chick-lit...but Something Borrowed is coming out..I'll probably see that.

 

[nefertiti]

lol...I just looked it up...YIKES

I'll ruin this thread with chick flicks and chick-lit:

Have you read any of the chick-lit books from Emily Griffin? They are soooo a guilty pleasure for me...and I normally hate chick-lit...but Something Borrowed is coming out..I'll probably see that.

I don't do that genre anymore....I used to for a little while...now I can't stand it haha. Same with romantic comedies....I have to be convinced to watch those (and sometimes I even like them, but getting to the point of watching has to be a perfect storm of someone pushing me to do it, opportunity, and lack of better options right that moment).

 

[cindylou]

I don't do that genre anymore....I used to for a little while...now I can't stand it haha. Same with romantic comedies....I have to be convinced to watch those (and sometimes I even like them, but getting to the point of watching has to be a perfect storm of someone pushing me to do it, opportunity, and lack of better options right that moment).

I am the exact same way...I'll only watch a comedy if it is super dirty. LOL. I barely read fiction as it is...but I really like the stories she writes. I thought maybe you had read one of them....

 

[nefertiti]

I am the exact same way...I'll only watch a comedy if it is super dirty. LOL. I barely read fiction as it is...but I really like the stories she writes. I thought maybe you had read one of them....

When i was younger I lapped that stuff up. not so much the movies, but the books...danielle steel, sandra brown, nora roberts....I haven't thrown any of those books away, but I sure do hide them now. Not sure why they are so distasteful to me now...maybe the repetitiveness of the love story where everyone always lives happily ever after got boring? It's not like I don't read plenty of unrealistic stuff, but I think the difference is those (romance/chick lit) types of books are fantasy dressed in reality's clothes haha. Just googled Emily Griffin...looks like her first books were long past my moving on from chick lit.

Btw, don't get me wrong, I still have my guilty pleasures reading...that's just not the drug of choice anymore haha