One of The Biggest Box-Office Bombs Of 2012: "Atlas Shrugged II: The Strike"

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Opening Weekend:
$1.8 million
Estimated Budget:
$10 million
Worldwide Gross:
$3.3 million
Distributor: Atlas Distribution
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[malaise]

1. That should have prepared them for the election results

[spanone]

5. bwahahahaaa... that's funny...yet they were SHOCKED they lost !!

[CanonRay]

2. Let the market speak...

Bwawhahahahahahahahaha

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. The invisible hand has spoken

[Flashmann]

4. But........But....

Wouldn't using the same math formula the thugs use to compile budgets,show that film to be wildly,unimaginably successful?....

[L0oniX]

6. Well deserved! What a POS. n/t

[MrYikes]

7. atlas was in the news

which prompted me to go to the second hand book store and pay $2.65 for the book. It took two days to read, then another day to re-read. I can see why it was a hit in 1957 and why many of that era fell for it. Add John Wayne and you had a recipe for life. Smack your woman, sit on your kids and gloat about how wealthy and smart you are.
When finished I took a long hot shower.

[regnaD kciN]

8. Why would you have wanted to re-read it?

It took me, literally, months to get through it the one time I read it -- but that included all the times I slammed the book shut (about once every three pages, even before The Speech), telling myself that I couldn't take even a sentence more of this crap. Not to mention that I finally hurled my paperback in the trash mid-way through, and wound up completing it much later from a library copy. (I wouldn't have even made the effort if the girl I was seeing wasn't such a rabid Randroid.)

[MrYikes]

12. It is easier to defeat your opposition if you understand him.

[AverageJoe90]

15. Indeed, there were many reactionary hard-core conservatives and other malcontents and losers........

Who gravitated towards this crappy literature and took it as the gospel back then. Even now, Ayn Rand's screed is often admired by screwy individuals. The only thing that's really changed is that many of the book's modern acolytes call themselves 'libertarians'.....

[RoccoR5955]

9. Someone gave me a copy of the book

When I FINALLY finished reading the damn thing, I burned it and gave him the ashes, when he asked what I thought of it.

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14. could have heated your home for the winter....

[SQUEE]

10. I read it in High School

it felt like trying to push my head through wet cardboard... almost painful and childishly simplistic, made all the more vulgar by its lame overt sexuality . ham handed, obtuse and cheesy.
I can't see the movies being any better.

[Plucketeer]

11. Wonder how many times....

Lyan Ryan watched it???

[datasuspect]

13. that shit for those motherfuckers is like what porn is to a normal person.

[Plucketeer]

16. LOL!

I believe you are correct!

[Brickbat]

17. I love the sound of the invisible hand of the market spanking someone on the ass.

[derby378]

18. Wasn't there another movie this year that bombed even worse than that?

Sorry, haven't had much time to hit the theaters this year. I still haven't seen The Hobbit, and I really want to.

[DirkGently]

19. "I've got the first one on DVD -- wonderful. You should borrow it."

. . . overheard amongst chortling board members in a marble-trimmed men's room. Follow up on a "How 'bout that debate last night? (Obama / Romney, Part 1) Yeah, that was a real barnburner, hooboy."

There may have been a muffled snort from the last stall on the left.

[JaneyVee]

20. Conservative economics.

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22. nobody's buying their shit.....except the media

[Wolf Frankula]

21. Once Again Atlas Shrugged

Got up, walked out and demanded his money back.

Wolf