My Name in the Credits of Atlas Shrugged

[StevePulaski]

Everyone check this out. BIG message.

[Handsome Devil]

The upside of you having your name in the credits means that you can have a page on Screened! The downside, well...

Atlas Shrugged is not a good film. It's an... interesting book. Not entirely good, but not entirely bad either. I really enjoyed it when I first read it but subsequent readings have shown some of the faults.

This film has a 6% Rotten Tomatoes meter by critics. Your excuse was that all critics are liberals. A) you have no proof and B) Liberals are actually a minority in America. The film does have an 85% Community score. I scrolled through some of the user reviews and found many who, like you, think this the critical bashing is purely because of the film's politics. While it may factor, it is not the sole reason.

The actors could not have done a worse job. Look at this clip:



Several issues:

1) Dagny is just a bitch. She is putting mens lives in danger for profit. Real likable character.
2) I. AM. A. ROBOT. I. WAS. PROGRAMMED. TO. REGURGITATE. THE. LINES. OF. ATLAS. SHRUGGED. WITH. VARYING. LEVELS. OF. COMPUTERIZED. EMOTION.

Like that? That's my impression of every actor in this film. Stiff, boring, flat, boring, emotionless, boring, lifeless, did I say boring? Because they are very boring.

3) The computer imagery clashes with the railroad motif of the whole film. It is supposed to take place in the future (year 2016), but it was written at a time when that was actually supposed to be futuristic. Not 5 years away. In five years, will things like steel and railroads be major points of business contention? By then we'll be trading our iPhones in space, not worrying about things like railroads.

A more capable, visionary director would've made the film look like some sort of alternate universe, maybe like Blade Runner, where trains and steel still rule the world! But wait, that would require someone with talent. Not someone whose major credit is One Tree Hill. With someone like that we get something that looks like it takes place in 2003. Just a completely bland film from a visual perspective.

The trailer for this film was quite hilarious. A big sweeping score set to talk of Federal taxes and Railroad bonds. Real exciting stuff. It may have worked on the page but it doesn't work on the big screen.

[StevePulaski]

I have no proof that all critics are Liberal? EVERYBODY is liberal. News stations, media outlets, most celebrities. Ebert, Roeper, Phillips, Scott, etc all Liberal.