Movie: ATLAS SHRUGGED has been roundly criticized by movie reviewers for being a waste of time and film, so badly made?

Movie: ATLAS SHRUGGED has been roundly criticized by movie reviewers for being a waste of time and film, so badly made. What does this say for the recent Atlas Shrugged acolytes, who feel that it speaks directly to the Tea Party? Can a badly made movie about greed and selfishness among the elite really inspire people?

Does the movie do more damage to the Tea Party than helping it?(note: I've read the book, as fiction, a dozen times, but I don't see it as anywhere near realistic or idealistic. ) Asked by ElBanditoRoso 7 months ago Similar questions: Movie ATLAS SHRUGGED roundly criticized movie reviewers waste time film badly made Entertainment > Movies.

Similar questions: Movie ATLAS SHRUGGED roundly criticized movie reviewers waste time film badly made.

It was a waste of time, except for Rep. Paul Ryan and other elitists who consider it their bible for what ails fiscal America. If anything, it only illustrates the ever widening divide between the classes in this country, and the moronic, impassive blindness of the GOP.

I think the movie succeeds on its own terms. It could have succeeded better: a brilliant film, widely seen, that gets people talking, possibly making converts. But this isn't about making converts.It's about playing to the choir.

In the case of Atlas Shrugged, the choir is enthusiastic. Actually, its audience is even a bit larger than that. The tea partiers are big enough to attract curious people who don't necessarily buy into the rhetoric, and who aren't going to read all 9,000 pages of Atlas Shrugged.

This is a small but important group, and evaluating how the movie affects them isn't something an outsider can do effectively.

I'd need to see it. There's a lot of ways that the film can be poorly made. Roger Ebert's review says that the story about trains doesn't connect in the 21st century, and that the dialogue is laughably bad.

However, that applies to the book as well, and the only way to get fans of the book to shut up about it involves large amounts of duct tape. (Note: I highly, highly recommend this procedure. )Lots of films are badly made yet very popular (cf the oeuvre of Michael Bay).

This film needs only pander to its particular intended audience, i.e. Self-satisfied upper middle class people who are convinced that everybody poorer than them is stupid and/or lazy, while they have achieved everything they had through their own bootstrappiness. There are plenty of such people, at least some of whom have not yet been exposed to the Gospel according to Ayn.

That's because I order duct tape in bulk.

I see you included the word "understanding". Understanding has absolutely nothing to do with it. They have to believe, which is a much lower bar.

That's a sufficient proxy for understanding, and perhaps superior, because "understanding" would imply a grasp of the limits as well as the merits.

Maybe a more interesting movie would be an Ayn Rand biography. Would love to see the reactions of the moviegoers leaving that theater...

I didn't realize either of those facts, which shine a whole new light on things... ElBanditoRoso 7 months ago .

But, hey, why let little things like facts and reality taint your vision, eh?! .

I read the synopsis, for a previous question, and was left wondering whether it was a fantasy or a nightmare, for the industrialist. Whether the "evil government" was socialist or fascist, and whether the protagonists were businessmen struggling agains an opressive government, or entreprenuers struggling against organized competition.

It's presented as a cautionary tale: don't let the government's desire for control stop those doing good things that will ultimately enrich the government anyway. But as in ALL movies, the failure is at the first rule of communication: never what you say; what do others hear? I don't think the viewer necessarily hears that cautionary tale.

I think the more probable result is, "Ooh, look at the pretty pictures! " .

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.