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Atlas Shrugged (Part 1) Trailer released

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Snaku

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I can already feel Glenn Beck quivering in orgasmic bliss.

Edit: The over dramatic music is fucking hilarious. I kept thinking this was some kind of parody.
 
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LCfiner

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All I could think about was Railworks: The Game: The Movie



We need more movies on the exciting, forbidden world of train espionage
 
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reilo

learning some important life lessons from magical Negroes
Interesting? Really? It looks so campy... and not the good kind.
 
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lybertyboy

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Whatever you think of Rand's philosophies that trailer looked laughably low-budget.
 
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Yaweee

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Might as well be a made for TV movie with all of the TV actors on there.

I don't like the modern setting, either. It is going to seem strange with them arguing about various kinds of steel and train networks.
 
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reilo

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How would you put this into a modern setting? Defense contractors? Oil company?
 
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Gaborn

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GAF's reaction is about as expected. I think "low budget" is a bit of an overreaction though, I mean, it's not going to be Avatar but it's not supposed to be.
 
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Learn2read

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LOL, yeah all these modern day Railroad Barons have society by the balls.

Also, isn't modern rail infrastructure TEH SOCIALISM
 
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Piano

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I loved the book, but jesus christ this looks awful.

Hammy acting, it seems pretty miscast, and Ayn Rand's stilted machine-like dialogue sounds all the more worse when there's someone actually speaking it.

Gaborn said:
GAF's reaction is about as expected. I think "low budget" is a bit of an overreaction though, I mean, it's not going to be Avatar but it's not supposed to be.
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...well what do you think of it?
 
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reilo

learning some important life lessons from magical Negroes
Gaborn said:
GAF's reaction is about as expected. I think "low budget" is a bit of an overreaction though, I mean, it's not going to be Avatar but it's not supposed to be.
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The movie had some weird bloom/sheen filter going for it where all of the actors looked like they had ten layers of makeup applied. The dialog sounded awkward and forced, in no small part due to bad acting. It looked campy. I think this was a typical "movie-goers" reaction, more than anything.
 
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Yaweee

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mamacint said:
LOL, yeah all these modern day Railroad Barons have society in their grasp.

Also, isn't modern rail infrastructure TEH SOCIALISM
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Yeah, that's also a bit strange.

The book is about various government takeovers of the railroad industry at various parts, favoritism in the contracts, and an eventual Chernobyl/Challenger-style disaster where the people that actually know that things are dangerous let themselves be overruled and are too afraid to speak up.

Rand's dialog really isn't that good to begin with, and predictably doesn't sound good with a bunch of TV actors hamming through the lines =(
 
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Empty

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looks as bad as you'd expect given the source material and it being made by people who think the book is worthwhile.
 
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reilo

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Karakand said:
More expected than you starting the thread about it?
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Coherent
sober?
Karakand is my favorite Karakand.
 
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G-Fex

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What's with the exciting music and quick cutaways to make it look like an action packed thriller movie?
 
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TheLegendary

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If you're going to make the setting modern you might as well modernize the industry.

Looks horrible. And Im a fan of the book (not necessarily the philosophy behind it)
 
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AlexMogil

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"Midas Mulligan?"

"Who's asking?"

"Someone who..."

Then my eyes crossed. I honestly got confused. That is *way* too much for your opening in a trailer.
 
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Gaborn

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mamacint said:
LOL, yeah all these modern day Railroad Barons have society by the balls.

Also, isn't modern rail infrastructure TEH SOCIALISM
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So... you're saying you didn't read the book in the first place?

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I loved the book, but jesus christ this looks awful.

Hammy acting, it seems pretty miscast, and Ayn Rand's stilted machine-like dialogue sounds all the more worse when there's someone actually speaking it.


...well what do you think of it?
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I think it looks ok. It's not a huge budget blockbuster film but I think it shows promise. It'll be interesting to see how well a supposedly faithful film adaptation of the book comes off. I'm not a huge fan of the books but it is an intriguing premise to see it in film form.


reilo said:
The movie had some weird bloom/sheen filter going for it where all of the actors looked like they had ten layers of makeup applied. The dialog sounded awkward and forced, in no small part due to bad acting. It looked campy. I think this was a typical "movie-goers" reaction, more than anything.
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That could be. I don't go to all that many movies and I don't really care all that much about the visual aspects, I just think it does the job well enough. I mean, I've SEEN low budget films, this looks more mid-budget, not exactly blockbuster but not low budget.


Karakand said:
More expected than you starting the thread about it?
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I'm not a Randian, but sure, I guess it's reasonable to expect as a libertarian I would be more interested in this type of movie.
 
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polyh3dron

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Gaborn said:
GAF's reaction is about as expected. I think "low budget" is a bit of an overreaction though, I mean, it's not going to be Avatar but it's not supposed to be.
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The cinematography is shit... low grade digital shit that looks like bad softcore porn on the HBO Zone channel.
 
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DataStream

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That is really poorly directed and edited. Movie of the week comparison is right on.

Only good Rand book is Anthem, though the collection of her letters is good for some srs lulz.
 
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Davidion

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All political affiliations aside, I was kinda hoping it would be a panning close up view of Atlas holding the globe, with Thus Spake Zarathustra blaring in the background, then mid-song Atlas' arm gives out and the globes drops with a clank, scene fades to black, the end.
 
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seat

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I'm sure in the hands of an experienced director and screenwriter, the movie will surely be watchable...

...

Uh-oh.
 
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Chichikov

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If someone told me it's an Onion parody, I would've not been surprised.
Though honestly, that can also be said about the book.
 
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Gaborn

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mamacint said:
All of it, except for the droning radio speech that I went past like a flip book.
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Then I'm not sure why you seem surprised by the premise of the film adaptation being... about what was in the book.

Actually, it's sort of interesting. High speed rail is trying to make a bit of a comeback in rhetoric, Obama mentioned it fairly prominently in his SOTU, in many ways that makes this sort of perfect timing, as a quasi-future look at events.
 
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