Comments on: Great Job, Movie Critics: ‘Atlas Shrugged’ Producer Scrapping Plans For Pt. 2 & 3, Blames Reviews

By: The WeirdArchives

The WeirdArchives — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:40:50 +0000

And John Galt is laughing his ass off in the bowels of Hell. Don\’t those idiots know it\’s not the Elite that make the country great, it\’s the Workers? The Workers get screwed over, the Elite starve! Ayn Rand is as much a prophet as she is as a short story writer…which isn\’t much considering it took her about fifteen hundred pages to say what Marie Antoinette covered in just one sentence \”Let them eat cake.\” and supposedly she didn\’t even say that!

Hope they never ever make another film from Ayn Rand. We have enough garbage out there from incompetent writers as it is.

By: PJ Doland

PJ Doland — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:40:50 +0000

\”The Strike\” was actually the working title of Atlas Shrugged while it was being written.

By: GQB

GQB — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:40:50 +0000

Typical spoiled Randian.
\”If I can\’t have the whole pie, I\’m going home.\”
It is, after all, the plot of the book.

By: Sidi

Sidi — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:40:50 +0000

http://www.thebadchemicals.com/comics/2011-04-20-atlas-shrugged-is-a-stupid-fantasy-for-assholes.jpg

By: Phil Buckley

Phil Buckley — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:40:50 +0000

I\’m a fan of Atlas Shrugged and saw it the day it hit the theaters (tax day). I left feeling disappointed on so many levels, but I wasn\’t expecting much actually.

The screenplay seemed rushed and jumpy. The character playing John Galt was made to be dark and sinister rather than mysterious.

The Dagney Taggart and Reardon affair was rushed and made to seem totally pedestrian and wicked compared to the way it was handled in the book where it seemed logical and right.

If this was the way parts 2 and 3 were going to be handled, then I\’m glad he\’s not making them, let someone with a real budget take a stab at it.

By: Halley5th

Halley5th — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:40:50 +0000

Too bad you didn\’t bother learning anything about the plot of Atlas Shrugged, because his threat to \”go on strike,\” equating himself with Rand\’s fictitious geniuses, is miles more arrogantly delusional than any of the other snark bait you were knocking around. Next time.

By: Callahan

Callahan — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:40:50 +0000

\”the “Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World” of Objectivist thinking.\”

They should use that as a blurb on the DVD packaging.

By: Camphenn

Camphenn — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:40:50 +0000

What a terrible thing to say about \”Scott Pilgrim.\” At least \”Scott Pilgrim vs the World\” was a good movie and under-appreciated by the masses due to marketing and whatnot. Not a bad one that was simply ignored.

By: Gabe Toro

Gabe Toro — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:40:50 +0000

HOW DELICIOUS. OUR PLAN HAS WORKED.

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:40:50 +0000

\”I’ll make my money back and I’ll make a profit, but do I wanna go and do to?\” What does this even mean?

By: David

David — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:40:50 +0000

Man, him threatening to go on strike is like…the entire core of the book you dufus. The movie still sucks probably, but that was dumb.

By: rks

rks — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:40:50 +0000

For an out-of-the-box review of Rand and information on people using Libertarian tools see http://www.Libertarian-International.org

By: Joel

Joel — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:40:50 +0000

\”A strike? Now that’s something that Rand would certainly have approved of. No one loved the labor movement more than she did.\”

dude, have you read (or read anything about) this book? he was referencing the plot of the fucking book, where all the geniuses go on \”strike\” and disappear to show how much the world depends on them.

somehow, though, i think hollywood will survive without this douche.

By: Prairiefired

Prairiefired — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:40:50 +0000

So, let me see if I got this straight. Aglialoro has the rights for years, but waits until the last moment to slap together the movie with unknowns and amateurs. The movie is only marketed to a narrow niche – there is no mainstream advertisement at all. The movie flops – so of course its the liberal critics fault!

You should consider going into business — writing excuses for college students who don\’t have their term papers ready on time.

By: egoist

egoist — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:40:49 +0000

In my region, there was some excitement about the movie, but nobody seemed to know it was even showing in St. Louis. The news leading up to the 15th release was that the nearest city was Chicago. So, if that\’s typical, no wonder the turn out was low. Nevertheless, if the movie (a great production or mediocre) was to be widely embraced, the country would be in a far different place. A sizable portion of our culture hates capitalism & egoism; it\’s no surprise that androids jittering across the screen take the cake (or more likely get copied then sent to the home theaters).

By: george

george — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:40:49 +0000

At least you didn\’t let slip that Soros funded the attack… whoops.

By: Bill Cushing

Bill Cushing — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:40:49 +0000

More than the bad reviews, there was the lack of previews on a very conscious level. To see my defense of the movie in depth, go to moki.tv, a website dedicated to film and television.

By: Oliver Lyttelton

Oliver Lyttelton — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:40:49 +0000

Scarlett-Johansson-Stolen-DNA-Guy turns up!

Jesus, it\’s like Candyman, you say his name and he appears.

By: Cynthia Burris

Cynthia Burris — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:40:49 +0000

The movie was excellent & true to the book and we are anticipating Part 2. These were not \”D\” actors, but well cast in their parts. We had to find a theatre…not enough advertising. TO MR. AGLIALORO…KEEP WITH YOUR PLANS FOR PART 2 & 3…WE WILL SUPPORT YOUR FILMS.

By: Nick

Nick — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:40:49 +0000

Well maybe Hollywood should give Tommy Wiseau job!

By: Mr. Wonderful

Mr. Wonderful — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:40:49 +0000

Readers who feel they should read Atlas Shrugged, if only to know what the discussions are about, or those who already have and are still waiting for some recompense for their suffering, are both advised to go here and dig this:

http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/54707

By: Jack Mingo

Jack Mingo — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:40:49 +0000

An Ayn Rand biopic, though, I\’d go to see if didn\’t whitewash what an over-the-top sociopath and hypocrite she was.

By: Aech

Aech — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:40:49 +0000

So…producer makes a movie from a story about a character who perseveres against anything that anyone can do against them and gets down by critics? F___ him. He obviously doesn\’t even know the material well.

By: Cheryl

Cheryl — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:40:49 +0000

I saw the movie and actually thought it was pretty good. Did he really think liberal Hollywood reviewers would do anything but trash it? But if this is true and he\’s throwing in the towel now, he can kiss any possibility of DVD sales boost later–who wants to buy 1/3 of a trilogy?

By: Tiffany

Tiffany — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:40:49 +0000

I think those who are defending the \”strike\” statement are a little too easy on Aglialoro. If he truly sees taking his ball and going home because critics didn\’t like some of his work as equivalent to John Galt\’s strike, that may explain why the movie did such a poor job of conveying…well…anything.