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Comment by Gurrilla on July 17, 2012 at 11:49pm

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1985017/

Comment by Jon Riddle on September 27, 2011 at 2:34pm

Amazing. Over fifty years have passed and people are still arguing about Objectivism on movie review message boards.

 

Leon states once regretting not taking the time to read the book on which this movie is based. I'm glad he no longer feels that way after seeing this movie, because I DEEPLY regret the time I wasted reading this overlong piece of self-serving garbage.

 

This review hits on all the points that hurt this movie. Of course the worst thing about it was that it was based on a book by Ayn Rand.

Comment by John Henry Eden v2.0 on April 28, 2011 at 10:06am

@CriticizeThis

Well said.

 

@Adam Havnes

Oh, how very clever of you. How very endearing. You're only about the fifteenth person to post that quote.

Comment by Adam Havnes on April 28, 2011 at 2:29am

"There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs."

Comment by CriticizeThis on April 27, 2011 at 5:20pm

@Bruno F. Rivera

Oh Jesus, get over yourself. Nobody thinks the government is their "savior"; liberal or conservative, communist or libertarian. People just have different beliefs about what role the government should be in society, and what form it should take. To say some people think government is a "savior" is a childish slur, that does nothing but make you look like a zealot - Like you're either delluding yourself so you don't have to face real arguements, or that your too intellectually shallow to see reality.
You know that people don't really think that, so by all means, be a Randian, but please - for all our sakes' - cut the idiotic rhetoric.

Comment by Omegashrimp on April 26, 2011 at 1:28am

Did Leon just say AP English? That's pretty cool.

I had to read Ayn Rand back in my own AP English class. Not only did I not like the book but my teacher actually looked like Ayn Rand.

Comment by Bruno F. Rivera on April 25, 2011 at 12:50am

@Badass Knives

 

You're welcome...

Comment by BadAss Knives on April 24, 2011 at 10:09am

@ Bruno F. Rivera THANK YOU!!!!

Comment by Bruno F. Rivera on April 24, 2011 at 6:52am

 

http://www.libertyreborn.com/2011/04/20/the-truth-atlas-shrugged-pa...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfr7vzSx1lU&feature=mfu_in_order...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QmAzEsrtyo

http://www.techdirt.com/blog/casestudies/articles/20110421/02341913...

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/atlas-shrugged-why-is-msm-silent-on...

The reason that this movie is getting criticized is because people refused to admire and/or completely brainwashed into thinking Government is good, Government is our savior.  If these brainwashed liberals and mainstream conservatives hasn't realized that for the past eleven years has been hell to this country from Bush to Obama.  Nothing, but crap has happened to this country.  Wake up for God's sake!!!

Comment by Kalle on April 24, 2011 at 5:32am

Indeed, TDT, do refrain from further posting about philosphy when you know so little about it. The crass strawman you made out of Kant is especially tacky considering the leap into action at the misrepresentation of Rand you believed to have seen. I'm not even Kantian, but saying Kant would have been ok with killing and lying under any situation, contrary to the core of his deontological ethics, the the formulation of maxims according to the categorical imperative, is practically nauseating to someone studying philosophy. He was a stout proponent of reason (as you would know if you actually read Critique of Reason, or even its wikipedia page); his goal was to make faith unnecessary concerning ethics.

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