alicublog's "UNMITIGATED GALT"

[james_davis_nicoll]

Nicked from womzilla

[As] much fun as it is to slag rotten movies, it is much better to be surprised by a good one, especially when you've reached the stage in life where two hours in front of a stinker sets you dreaming of the warm couch and leftover sesame chicken that you left back home. But it is my great regret to inform you that Atlas Shrugged: Part I is neither good nor good-bad, but bad-bad-bad-bad. I dreamed, not of sesame chicken, but of my own swift and merciful death, and that of the director, not necessarily in that order. It is not a pleasurable surprise, not a hoot, nor an outrage; it is Rand's granite crushed, reconstituted, and spread across the screen with steamrollers.

Comments

[seawasp]

I would like to say that this is a surprise... but it's not a surprise. There are ways to make an absolutely awesome movie out of _Atlas Shrugged_, but I do not think I'll ever see anyone TAKE any of those ways to do it.

[amberdine.livejournal.com]

At least it's not animated and in 3D.

[heron61.livejournal.com]

From what I've heard, it might well be far better animated. Animated films can look very good, and from what I've heard this one looks horrible. OTOH, 3D films are IMHO a blight upon the world and from the sound of it, making it 3D would actually have made it even worse.

[seawasp]

An animated Atlas Shrugged would be... interesting. And a few scenes would benefit from 3D (the first ride of the train on Rearden rails, etc.).

But it's the script and direction that would be HARD to do, and alas, I do not expect to see the proper talent ever applied to it.

(I'd say "if I had the money I'd do it", but not any more, I'd use that money to make movies of *MY* stuff)

[tandw.livejournal.com]

Was it here that I saw the amused speculation about what "Atlas Shrugged" would look like directed by Tim Burton and starring Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter as John Galt and Dagny Taggart?

[seawasp]

How about the Quentin Tarantino version with Uma Thurman as Dagny and Samuel L. Jackson as Rearden?

[tandw.livejournal.com]

"I have HAD IT with these [expletive deleted] rails on this [expletive deleted] train!"

(I know it wasn't a Tarantino film, but still.)