[deadwolfbones]

This might be the worst movie ever made. Can't wait till the RiffTrax guys get their hands on it.

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6W07bFa4TzM[/yt]

The biggest gut-punch comes, of course, with the "Part 1" at the end.

[johnmflores]

I tried reading the book in college. Couldn't get through it - she repeated the same themes over and over and over and over again.

[jeffkrol]

I tried reading the book in college. Couldn't get through it - she repeated the same themes over and over and over and over again.

good thing too.. I love this quote about it:

Nobel Prize winning economist and liberal commentator Paul Krugman alluded to an oft-quoted quip in his blog: "There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.

3 part movie ala "Lord of the Rings".... feels like a statement.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_Shrugged

The economist Brad DeLong enjoyed the review by science fiction writer John Scalzi.[63] While Scalzi believes Atlas Shrugged to be a workmanlike page-turner, he maintains that, "...the enduring popularity of Atlas Shrugged lies in the fact that it is nerd revenge porn -- if you're a nerd of an engineering-ish stripe who remembers all too well being slammed into your locker by a bunch of football dickheads, then the idea that people like you could make all those dickheads suffer by 'going Galt' has a direct line to the pleasure centers of your brain. I'll show you! the nerds imagine themselves crying. I'll show you all! ... All of this is fine, if one recognizes that the idealized world Ayn Rand has created to facilitate her wishful theorizing has no more logical connection to our real one than a world in which an author has imagined humanity ruled by intelligent cups of yogurt. This is most obviously revealed by the fact that in Ayn Rand's world, a man who self-righteously instigates the collapse of society, thereby inevitably killing millions if not billions of people, is portrayed as a messiah figure rather than as a genocidal prick, which is what he'd be anywhere else."[64]

http://www.overthinkingit.com/2009/02/25/the-myth-of-atlantis-atlas-shrugged-and-bioshock/