Eh, he’s right in some ways. Let’s face it, though, it’d be almost impossible to please everyone, translating such a voluminous novel onto the screen. I was just glad it didn’t get bogged down in preachiness, nor surrender the main thrust to ingratiate itself to the more “liberal” minded.
Best LOL comment was by FUBAR at May 09, 2011 06:30 PM.
I’d have gone to see that movie.
That review was longer than the novel…
Agree with MfK, and that was just Part 1.
Plinkett reference ftw. Dam, is Mike Stoklasa the new Roger Ebert or what? This review must be read with the voice of that psychotic murderer. No, wait, this one.
is Mike Stoklasa the new Roger Ebert or what?
He should be, at least he has something useful and interesting to say.
One point seems to be missed and that was Ayn Rand actually set Atlas Shrugged, like The Fountainhead, in the 1930’s when railroads were still trying to retain their former glory. So rather near then near-term Sci Fi it’s better understood as an alternative history of how industrialists should have responded to the New Deal.
Eh, he’s right in some ways. Let’s face it, though, it’d be almost impossible to please everyone, translating such a voluminous novel onto the screen. I was just glad it didn’t get bogged down in preachiness, nor surrender the main thrust to ingratiate itself to the more “liberal” minded.
Best LOL comment was by FUBAR at May 09, 2011 06:30 PM.
I’d have gone to see that movie.
That review was longer than the novel…
Agree with MfK, and that was just Part 1.
Plinkett reference ftw. Dam, is Mike Stoklasa the new Roger Ebert or what? This review must be read with the voice of that psychotic murderer. No, wait, this one.
is Mike Stoklasa the new Roger Ebert or what?
He should be, at least he has something useful and interesting to say.
One point seems to be missed and that was Ayn Rand actually set Atlas Shrugged, like The Fountainhead, in the 1930’s when railroads were still trying to retain their former glory. So rather near then near-term Sci Fi it’s better understood as an alternative history of how industrialists should have responded to the New Deal.