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

[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.)