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There are supposedly millions of Teahadists. Why aren't they seeing it multiple times like I did after I saw Star Wars in 1977? Even L. Ron Hubbard had followers who go around buying ever MORE copies of his books to support his empire.

Looking over the producer's general line of business since the 1970s I see he has benefited greatly from patent protection and taking money from government wrt healthcare biz.

Just another libertarian hypocrite.

I guess this shows that no matter how you polish it, a turd is still a turd.

Nomograph says

I had been hoping to see some cool Teabagger types...

cool is to teabagger types as abstinence is to Bristol Palin ;)

Nomograph says

or at least some Libertarian college students (who attend public universities)...

LMAO on that one, Nomo.

So, when asked how the movie was, Nomo shrugged.

I don't know why there is this random dislike of the film just because it was marketed as conservative. It was a really good movie, Ayn Rand was an excellent novelist.

Chris, did you see it?

The reviews are scathing and I asked a couple of people who found a theater where it was playing... they said it was sub-par and they want two hours of their life back. And they're Rand fans.

"It has a story, I suppose, and it even kind of has conflict... Mostly, it has talking. Weirdly esoteric talking about weirdly esoteric things..."

"I am not advocating for Rand's political point of view. It is worth a discussion. Only it deserves a better discussion than is given in Atlas Shrugged: Part 1"

"However controversial, Rand's ideas deserve better than this watered-down, uninspired bilge"

"This comically tasteless and flavorless adaptation of Ayn Rand's bombastic magnum opus delivers her simplistic nostrums with smug self-satisfaction."

"The film is curiously sterile and lifeless, hardly the stuff of revolution. It feels more like an ideologically reversed Tucker: The Man And His Dream, written and performed by robots."

"Even the staunchest Objectivists will object to a final product that is, for all intents and purposes, little more than this decade's "Battlefield Earth," albeit with fewer Dutch angles and somewhat neater facial hair."

- yea, can't wait until it hits the redbox, where I'm sure it's almost worth the dollar it will cost.

I say, let the free market decide whether this movie is any good or not.

(sarcasm alert for ayn rand fans).

Of course, there is always the possibility that some heroic fascist strongman will FORCE us all to watch it.
Especially if you live in a monopolistic mining company town such as Galt's Gulch.

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