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.

[kithrup.livejournal.com]

I'm so pleased there's no reason for me to be tempted to see it.

[heron61.livejournal.com]

I was initially worried that this movie would help popularize Rand's crazy ideas. Then, a couple of weeks ago, I saw both a review of someone moderately liberal who loathed the book, and a review by a Randite who loved the book - the two reviews were almost identical - both reviewers thought the movie was impressively dreadful in very similar ways (and in fact, in almost all ways). At that point, I ceased to worry. With luck, this film will convince a few people luckless enough to see it that Rand sucks.

[derekl1963.livejournal.com]

Apropos of this... I saw on CNN the other day, a piece about a dating and social networking sire for Rand fans.

[halfassured.livejournal.com]

On the upside, if it were good then he wouldn't have been able to use that pun.

[martinl-00.livejournal.com]

Some Japanese company should do it as a giant robot anime.