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It's now officially been panned as a horrible movie by just about every major movie reviewer or review website. Sure, I suppose it could be an international conspiracy involving hundreds (or maybe thousands) of people united by political ideology but Occam's Razor suggests it's more likely the movie just sucks and that's why all the reviews agree it sucks.
It probably shouldn't be "fresh" by RT, but 6% while "Fast Five" is fresh? Yeah, right.
I just enjoyed reading the comments and how progressive groups are decrying objectivism.
Wear yourself out. I'll confess to feeling just a little schadenfreude in watching the Invisible Hand slapping this movie around like a red-headed stepchild. A mediocre effort, it appears - and as we all know, Ayn Rand would hate for mediocrity to be rewarded, so ultimately a very suitable outcome.
Liberal Hollywood is still pissed about the huge success of "The Blind Side".
They are? Care to name names?
It seems to me that a movie release from one of the Big Six, with an A-list star in the lead, winning an Oscar and cleaning up at the box office is the embodiment of what Hollywood is about.
South Park did a loose adaptation of this. As usual their social satire and political commentary fell into brilliancy and genius.
Mr. Garrison becomes furious over the crappy service the Airlines Industry has( all too real these days) and so invents a personal conveyance ( with a bizarre feature) for people to travel with. It becomes so popular that it would destroy the airlines industry ( which is too big to fail)so it has to be shut down. The government in action.
This looks like a good story although the characterization seemed a little two dimensional and it needed modern updating which was easily done. With Hollywood being totally bankrupt creatively these days, you'd think somebody would have risked the money doing it. How many remakes of comedys do we need? Hollywood is too gutless as has been pointed out. Nothing controversial, nothing too cerebral.
Wear yourself out. I'll confess to feeling just a little schadenfreude in watching the Invisible Hand slapping this movie around like a red-headed stepchild. A mediocre effort, it appears - and as we all know, Ayn Rand would hate for mediocrity to be rewarded, so ultimately a very suitable outcome.
Nah, I spent a lot of my schadenfreude laughing in the faces of overleveraged real estate investors after 2008. Still have a tough time keeping a straight face around SoCal homeowners who bought in 2005.
This looks like a good story although the characterization seemed a little two dimensional and it needed modern updating which was easily done.
Could've been interesting, agreed. But to a lot of people, Rand's words are pretty close to Holy Writ, so major changes would alienate the only guaranteed audience. Hence, we get railroad and steel barons in a 2000something setting.
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With Hollywood being totally bankrupt creatively these days, you'd think somebody would have risked the money doing it.
It would have taken a slash-and-burn rewrite, probably a one-movie conversion, for anyone to risk the 50-100 million budget. Looking at the current movie, I doubt the owner of the rights would have accepted that approach.
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How many remakes of comedys do we need? Hollywood is too gutless as has been pointed out. Nothing controversial, nothing too cerebral.
There's a snag: When Hollywood gets controversial and cerebral, they can't give the tickets away. It's a sad fact that Eddie-Murphy-in-a-fatsuit tends to reliably gross $100 million on the first week-end.
(I will say that Inception seemed fairly cerebral, for a tentpole movie.)
Still have a tough time keeping a straight face around SoCal homeowners who bought in 2005.
Wow, you really must have dug through my posting history to find that tidbit, I feel so - special.
Anyway, back to the movie, the sleeper hit of the summer - well, not really - dropped another 50-60% over this week-end. That's "circling the drain" territory - I guess The Market has spoken. Parts II & III will only be done as an act of charity. Which would be hilarious.
Perhaps those insidious critics were right? Although Rotten Tomatoes is now inching up to a whole 9%.
Must be a pretty faithful adaptation from the book, then.
Paperback morphine...
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