How did I miss this gem? I have been waiting for over a year for the follow up to last years utter bomb to come out, and it seems it did and no one noticed. Indeed, would would appear Atlas Shrugged Part 2 did go into some theaters but the libertarian whack fodder performed so poorly it failed to really register. Certainly there was no one around these here parts that I saw lauding this horrific gem of a car wreck. Yes, even with the lovely Samatha Mathis as the spunky Dagney Taggart, and the guy who played the Ferengi on Deep Space 9, the movie just slipped on by. Off to the dustbin with some classics such as anything with Ben Affleck or Jennifer Lopez, or anything starring Weird Al. A note to the producers. Don't release it on DVD. Release it on VHS. I fear that fans of this nonsense probably will still have one around. Ironically, these bastion of free enterprise series to date has cost the producers around a $30,000,000.00 loss. In the words of a good movie villain, a fool and his money were lucky enough to get together in the first place. Read more: http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/atlas-shrugged-part-2-dvd-ayn-rand-dagny-taggart/#ixzz2AipmB9uH The second installment in a planned movie trilogy based on Ayn Rands anti-altruism, anti-government epic Atlas Shrugged, the John Putch-directed Atlas Shrugged: Part II had one of the worst domestic openings ever for a movie in wide release (600-2,000 site). Things got so bad, that the following weekend weak-at-the-knees Atlas collapsed, suffering the steepest box-office drop among the top 15 movies on Box Office Mojos domestic weekend chart a whopping 65%. (Photo: Atlas Shrugged Part 2 Samantha Mathis as Dagny Taggart.) The critically lambasted sequel to 2011′s box-office bomb Atlas Shrugged: Part I, Atlas Shrugged Part 2 stars Samantha Mathis as the enterprising Dagny Taggart (played by The Lucky Ones Taylor Schilling in Part I). Although Ayn Rands novel is a sort of bible for American Libertarians and the American far right (who choose to focus on the topic of government-imposed taxes while ignoring Rands derision of religion and blind faith), the film has found little favor in the United States. (Atlas Shrugged Part 2 has no international audience; with luck, the film will end up as a DVD curio outside of the U.S.) Anyhow, heres some (sort of) good news: after 13 days out, Atlas Shrugged Part 2 has finally surpassed the $3m mark at the North American box office. After adding $62,306 on Wednesday, Part 2s cume reached $3,042,201. Now, another bit of bad news: Atlas Shrugged Part 2 had the lowest per-theater average on the top 15 box-office chart: $66. That means fewer theaters this coming weekend, and a quick-as-lightning disappearance from theaters. Atlas Shrugged Part 2 to have better luck on DVD? Some have raised the possibility that Atlas Shrugged Part 2 will do better on DVD. Though not impossible, that doesnt seem all that likely if the performance of its predecessor is any indication. Atlas Shrugged Part 1 grossed $4.62m at the box office (five weekends), but according to The Numbers the film earned only $2.97m on DVD sales in its first two weeks out, plummeting 67% on week no. 2. Atlas Shrugged Part 2s production budget was a reported $20m. The film currently has a 0% approval rating and 2.2/10 average on Rotten Tomatoes.
I could only handle the book in audio form, which was narrated very well by Scott Brick. I had tried reading the book before that and just found it so.. droning. Haven't seen the movies but I thought its strange they are set in modern time. I don't think the story lends itself well to cinema.
She could have written that book in 1/3 the pages. I remember being near page 50 and the meat of the story not even beginning. Like any well-known book, agree or disagree, I'm glad I read it. But for chrissakes, what was it, 1,100, 1,300 pages?? Sheeez...
It seems almost like the GOP's strongest demographic...white males over 50 without college degrees who attend church....have just completed their first semester of community college. Or at least that's when I was into Ayn Rand, and the whole impractical, intolerant, and sophomoric notion that objectivism can be cultivated and become anything other than a way for geeks channel restentments
Honestly, I don't get all the hype behind it. It was a novel, and people act like it's the Bible of anti-socialism. Funny, I read it being under age 50, half-educated with an AA degree, and just figured, hey maybe it's just too deep for me. Nah, I like where I'm at on it: it was just a novel, nothing to get excited about. And making it into a movie: impossible task, it was doomed, regardless of how many parts they broke it up into.
I generally don't like Rolling Stone, but that's (*)(*)(*)(*)ing hilarious and pretty true from the 15 minutes of Part I that I was able to tolerate.
That says alot about how much that movie must suck, because Rolling Stone is famous for liking everything
Haha I remember seeing a trailer for Part 2, and at one point it said "Will it affect the election?" LMAO, and of course the ad was on Fox
