As mentioned on rasfw

[james_davis_nicoll]

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[movingfinger.livejournal.com]

Everything is worse with libertarians.

[kithrup.livejournal.com]

I was quite surprised at the seeming quality of the production, and the people they got in it.

My other thought was, "Huh, who knew trains were so important in modern society?"

[fearsclave.livejournal.com]

The version set to the Dead Kennedys' Kill the Poor is better.

[rosefox]

I'm fascinated by how strange it looks when a woman interrupts a man. I can't remember the last time I saw that in a film.

[seawasp]

ISTR Ripley doing that more than once in the Alien franchise, but it's been a while. I know she did the "shut up and soldier" bit real well.

[nihilistic-kid.livejournal.com]

It's totally cool so long as the man is a fat Jew worthy only of death a looter and a moocher!

[joenotcharles.livejournal.com]

Really? I'm sure I can think of a bunch.

True Grit (the Cohen Bros. version) and Changeling (the Angelina Jolie move) spring to mind only because having a strong female protagonist who's not afraid to stand up to powerful men is the whole point of the movie. (Although the character in True Grit is so mannerly that she may not actually interrupt anyone, just politely wait until they're finished and then ignore them. I can't really recall.) But I'm sure it happens incidentally in tons of other films, too.

[(Anonymous)]

Disney's latest, _Tangled_. Rapunzel interrupts the bf at least once.

Also, totally passes the Bechdel test. There are only two female characters at all! -- but they spend two longish scenes talking about something other than a man.


Doug M.

[drcuriosity]

Putting the Rand aside for a moment, it's quite disconcerting to hear Grant Bowler speaking with an American accent. But then, we filthy Antipodeans are getting everywhere these days.

[micheinnz.livejournal.com]

Huh. He's virtually unrecognisable without the goatee and the vowels.

[zxhrue.livejournal.com]

nothing good will come of this, mark my words.

[agent-mimi.livejournal.com]

My stars, that looks so very, very bad. It has a bland, made-for-tv look to it that even the trailer cannot hide. They really needed to mix Taylor Schilling's dialogue better so it could, you know, be heard. The audience must hear her short, inexpressive sentences!

Hey, I finally realized what the over-lit shiny look of this film reminds me of: "Battleship Earth."

[fearsclave.livejournal.com]

As somebody has already said, hopefully this will do for Objectivism what Battlefield Earth did for Scientology.

[eyelessgame.livejournal.com]

Not surprising - the director has only ever directed a couple episodes of a TV show and one TV movie before.

[seawasp]

No. You can't make me watch that, James, no matter how temptingly period-colored it looks. Even though the idea that they're NOT trying to cram it into one single movie is encouraging. I *KNOW* they'll f*ck it up and probably reduce it to a parody of itself, the way many people who talk about it often do.

[carloshasanax.livejournal.com]

Honest question: what about Atlas Shrugged do you find non-parodic? could you give us a quick summary?

[liabrown]

Why

[micheinnz.livejournal.com]

Money to be made from it, at a guess.

[filkerdave.livejournal.com]

Part 1? That implies Part 2...

*groan*

[lederhosen.livejournal.com]

It could also imply an embarrassing "never got completed after the first part bombed" future, which would work for me.

[nihilistic-kid.livejournal.com]

It's gonna be a trilogy!

[http://users.livejournal.com/krin_o_o_/]

Shrug.

[eyelessgame.livejournal.com]

It does mean the Question has an answer now - "It's that dude from One Tree Hill".

[eyelessgame.livejournal.com]

Is there some subtle irony intended by the trailer actually including a literal trainwreck?

No? well, darn. This so could have gone for the Starship Troopers treatment.

[lurkingcanadian.livejournal.com]

Since I found out who was playing John Galt, I've been hoping for the Starship Troopers approach. He was often the only watchable part of One Tree Hill, when he got to be a truly mustache-twirling villain. If he was playing John Galt as Dan Scott on a colossal scale, that might have been awesome.

Alas, it appears he has drunk the Kool-Aid, so the movie will be simply bad, instead of enjoyably bad.