Atlas Shrugged --> 6% on Rotten Tomatoes

[nashville_brook]

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/atlas_shrugged_part_i/

Sample reviews:

Don't hold your breath for parts 2 and 3. - Joe Morgenstern - WSJ

This movie is crushingly ordinary in every way. -- Michael Phillips, ChigTrib

Ayn Rand's monumental 1,168-page, 1957 novel gets the low-budget, no-talent treatment and sits there flapping on screen like a bludgeoned seal. - Peter Travers - Rolling Stone

Not all books should be made into movies, and this is one of them. - Tom Meek, Boston Pheonix

The first in a proposed trilogy, "Atlas Shrugged: Part 1" is nearly as stilted, didactic and simplistic as Rand's free-market fable. - Mark Jenkins, WaPo

About to lose his long-held rights to Ayn Rand's novel, and perhaps to cash in on apparent Tea Party interest and support, producer John Aglialoro ... rushed this film into a low-budget production and it shows in every frame. - Loren King, Boston Globe

[Renew Deal]

1. I saw the trailer and it just doesn't look good.

It looks low budget and pieced together. It might look disjointed because the trailer is bad or the story is difficult to tell, but it still looks low budget.

[RightNoMore]

18. I hate Ayn Rand

Atlas Shrugged was the worst book I have ever read. I have no doubt the movie will be also.

[suffragette]

2. Ebert's review is a hoot from start to finish

Nailed it!
:thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[nashville_brook]

6. 'Rand's philosophy reduces itself to "I'm on board -- pull up the lifeline"' -- HA!

[Johonny]

33. Even in her own time high speed rail was killed

not by the government, but by private industry buying it up and destroying so you'd be forced to have a car. Her story was pointless when written. In the day when government tries desperately to invest in new technology such as high speed rail only to be crushed by free market nuts. It can only be one of the worst movie ideas of all time. Ebert does indeed nail it.

[suffragette]

37. Very good points you make

She was wrong on all counts and the movie just compounds that.
And Ebert has been getting better each year and takes both Rand and the film apart deftly.

[regnaD kciN]

3. Wow...that's a BIG improvement since last night, when it was at 0%...

(Never mind -- the change is due to a positive review from Murdoch's New York Post. I should have known.)

[gratuitous]

4. Fans of bad movies! Brothers, I implore you

Hold! Steady on, and let us go not to the theaters and support with our paid admission that which ought not be supported. Wait for this delightful and delicious nugget of poop to be foist upon us for free through movies on demand or some such outlet. The anticipation will make the ache of waiting worthwhile from all available sources.

[smokey nj]

5. Of the 16 reviews, the only good one is from the critic at the New York Post.

That's kinda like being the one dentist out of five who doesn't recommend sugarless gum.

[whatchamacallit]

7. Lol (nt)

[nashville_brook]

8. good one!

[christx30]

36. That dentist

was paid off by the pro-sugar lobby. Everyone knows it.

[walldude]

9. Perfect vehicle for a MST3K comeback... n/t

[nashville_brook]

28. completely!

[a simple pattern]

10. So it was better than the book then.

Still, not the kind of so-bad-it's-good movie that I like to watch.

[Ian David]

11. Maybe it will end up being shown at midnight while people throw rice at the screen. n/t

[sfwriter]

26. "...see Randroids fighting..." EOM

[catbyte]

12. Ayn Rand's monumental 1,168-page, 1957 novel gets the low-budget, no-talent treatment and sits there

flapping on screen like a bludgeoned seal. - Peter Travers - Rolling Stone"

Ouch! LOL

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Diane
Anishinabe in MI

[Kablooie]

34. I can hardly wait until they pay to film parts 2 and 3.

[roguevalley]

13. I guess even Atlas shrugged.

[white_wolf]

14. So when this abomination crashes and burns, and its sequels are canceled

can we all brag the T-baggers that the "invisible hand of the market" has spoken on Rand?

[smokey nj]

20. They'll just say the project was sabotaged by the Liberal Hollywood Elite.

[white_wolf]

23. Isn't the idea that the elites know best and can do whatever they want

the whole basis of Objectiveism?

[Manifestor_of_Light]

29. Like the movie Ben Stein made that nobody saw???

[fascisthunter]

15. I Can't Believe Her Insane Ramblings have Become a Movie

it says a lot about those who admire her and her fucked up views. She actually admired a serial killer... nuff said.

[spooky3]

16. Look out, Plan 9 From Outer Space! You're about to be bumped off the "worst movie of all time"

pedestal.

[mikeytherat]

17. "Battlefield Earth" was Plan 9 made with a $90,000,000 budget.

Though I do feel "AS - Pt 1" will be infinitely worse.

mikey_the_rat

[tridim]

19. My vote is for "Manos, The Hands of Fate"

That's Manos, the Hands of Fate.

At least Plan 9 was camp.

[kenfrequed]

21. Huh

I thought Troll 2 was the worst movie ever made.

[provis99]

22. was that movie a documentary on Ayn Rand?

[Bluenorthwest]

24. Plan Ayn From Outer Space?

nt

[Bigmack]

25. Seriously, can you imagine...

the Teabag crowd watching a yawn-fest like the movie must be? How does the screenplay deal with those looooooooong pages and pages that sound like schizophrenic word salad?

Did they bring all the struggle over sex into the movie? Maybe there's enough fightin' and fuckin' to keep the droolers amused.

[KamaAina]

27. Atlas shrugged. So did the audience.

:boring:

[alarimer]

30. To this day I cannot believe I actually that entire book.

It was so awful. I guess it was a test of will for me. On the other hand, I never could make it through Moby Dick, generally considered a much better book. I don't know what's wrong with me LOL.

[Chef Eric]

32. I couldn't finish Moby Dick either.

Melville just kept saying the same damned things OVER and OVER and OVER again. After six hundred pages, I'd had enough.

But I don't think he always wrote in that style; I thought Billy Budd was pretty good.

[Kablooie]

35. Audiobooks. That's how you get through Moby Dick. - and Atlas Shrugged.

[JVS]

38. Moby Dick was awesome!

[Octafish]

31. If we had honest voting machines and an honest news media...

...about 6-percent would be the GOP total every election.