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Atlas Shrugged II lost all good things about I, Casting, Sets. Design...

posted 11 years ago by facundodiazr
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Atlas Shrugged II managed to tear appart all good things of Part I.
Was a good casting, a young cast plus a supporting cast of experienced actors. Most of the cast in AS I had now tv series, and leading rols.
If AS II had them, could had a better result in the box office.
Good sets (real and digital...). Good production designs. And also a good photography. Colors and shades, dark atmospheres were great in AS I, all lost in AS II.
Why so many mistakes?, changing a good first film?.
Just one example, Taylor Schilling had glamour in Part I. Samantha Mathis is just a good neighboor....The same with Grant Bowler... Jsu Garcia or Edi Gathegi....

And we may keep going...

[–] phantom2-2 11 years ago

there were good things in part 1?

[–] facundodiazr 11 years ago

have you seen AS II?

[–] phantom2-2 11 years ago

i've seen them both. i thought the second one was funnier than the first, even though it wasn't intentionally so. neither one quite reaches the "so bad it's good" level, but they're close.

[–] dab6 11 years ago

The best thing about Part 1 was Taylor Schilling, a pretty and talented actress who's gone on to do better things with her career. It also had a few real actors like Michael Lerner, and Jon Polito. But as far as production, the sets and art direction looked like they were abandoned soap opera sets.

[–] Sirus_51 11 years ago

Look Atlas Shrugged ended up a loss ( no surprise considering the flooded market and well ..the subject) so part 2 was made with a lesser budget and they had to work with what they had...considering that I think they did as good as be as expected.
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