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That was a crap movie

posted 10 years ago by gregorioos
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Never mind the politics. I am so far to the right that, not only would I make small boys clean chimneys, if they got stuck I would make them pay for the matches to light the fire that would encourage them to scramble out.

I enjoyed Part II. Samantha Mathis was not only well worth a serious oggle, she could act as well. But the East Grimstead Amateur Dramatic Society could have done better than Part III. The only good bit was when they used so much electricity torturing John Galt, that the lights of New York went out.

I enjoyed the book. I look forward to the next movie adaptation. It has to be better than this.

[–] ejonconrad 10 years ago

I enjoyed the book. I look forward to the next movie adaptation. It has to be better than this.

And it will join the long list of "Great remakes of bad movies", which includes such memorable films as....um....little help here?

Seriously, even the remake of "Left Behind" was worse than the first try - and that wasn't an easy feat!

Face it, people have been trying to make this book into a movie for almost half a century and this was the best they could come up with. Maybe someone will try again in another few decades - when trains and steel mills are even less interesting than they are now - but I wouldn't hold my breath.

[–] phantom2-2 10 years ago

well, the 1939 version of the wizard of oz was a remake of a bad movie, and that's the best movie ever made.

but to make a great remake of a bad movie based on bad source material...that ain't gonna happen.

objectivism is a fine buzzword if you don't think about it too hard, but not inspirational artistically speaking. the fountainhead and atlas shrugged do manage to make it to "so bad they're good" status, though.

[–] ejonconrad 10 years ago

objectivism is a fine buzzword if you don't think about it too hard, but not inspirational artistically speaking. the fountainhead and atlas shrugged do manage to make it to "so bad they're good" status, though.

I saw The Fountainhead at the height of my "Ayn Rand phase", in college, and thinking it was godawful, but it's Casablanca compared to this.

I remember seeing an Italian movie adaptation of "We the Living" and thinking it was pretty good at the time. I haven't read that book, but if the movie was any indication, the characters had unusual depth for a Rand story - by which I mean they had *some* depth.

[–] Grygoris 10 years ago

I saw The Fountainhead at the height of my "Ayn Rand phase", in college, and thinking it was godawful, but it's Casablanca compared to this.

If nothing else, it had two incredibly charismatic stars front and center, even if it was far from their best work.

[–] ejonconrad 10 years ago

If nothing else, it had two incredibly charismatic stars front and center, even if it was far from their best work.

Three, if you count Raymond Massey, who played Gail Wynand. I was always a big fan of his.

I think the three of them did the best they could with what they had.

[–] phantom2-2 10 years ago

c'mon now.... the scene where dominique has the thought-bubble about roark's jack hammer? does it get any better than that?

rand at her most subtle!

[–] gabby_bm 10 years ago

I just don't see it as a marketable story. It's sold as a philosophy and philosophy makes for lousy movies without a solid story to take the philosophy through. That's why most movies work within the framework of one singular philosophy of "Good is better than Evil (but evil can be fun too- in moderation)"

I think, in the hands of a specifically different writer, director with a different vision for the film, it could have been done eloquently. Instead, it kind of approached the material with a "Look, sheeple! It's happening NOW!" kind of attitude. I think anyone looking to see this film is smart enough to see the correlation without it being propagandized.

Although it was economically unfeasible, it would have been infinitely better as a period piece, preferably in B&W.

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