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ATLAS SHRUGGED GETS A TRAILER

post #1 of 37
2/14/11 at 11:00pm
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by William Thomas Berk: link

Let's see what the damage is.
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post #2 of 37
2/14/11 at 11:49pm

Oh good. This will help douchebags who are too lazy to suffer through that interminable slog that the book is, rationalize their douchebaggery with some 'philosophy'. Even if it's the Cliffs Notes version.

 

When one of the villain's main arguments about the hero is in essence that he's too awesome and therefore being too awesome will be made illegal, you know you're in for great times. 

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post #3 of 37
2/15/11 at 5:06am
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Originally Posted by stelios View Post

Oh good. This will help douchebags who are too lazy to suffer through that interminable slog that the boo---

WHY DON'T YOU LET PEOPLE FINISH WATCHING THE MOVIE!?!?

 

BOOM...

 

I'm really looking forward to this.


 

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post #4 of 37
2/15/11 at 7:24am

How appropriate that there was a shortage of truly "great minds"/artists available to make this tepid piece of shit into a movie.

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post #5 of 37
2/15/11 at 7:43am

Hey, I didn't know 365 Days of Scifi was getting into the trailer game! Neat!

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post #6 of 37
2/15/11 at 7:46am

Hey buddy, watch your mouth. It's being directed by Paul Johansson, I'll have you know.

 

In case you're wondering, yes, that Paul Johansson. The One Tree Hill bad guy.

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post #7 of 37
2/15/11 at 8:03am

2000 theater release. PLEASE.

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post #8 of 37
2/15/11 at 8:09am

Another train movie?

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post #9 of 37
2/15/11 at 8:16am

That is one overcooked piece of trailer trash if you ask me. Utter dogshit.

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post #10 of 37
2/15/11 at 8:24am

Pretty accurate to the spirit of the book, if you ask me.

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post #11 of 37
2/15/11 at 9:43am

Is this a made for TV movie?

 

 

Maybe its just me, but this almost looks fake. Zero hype or news on the movie and then this low budget trailer with out any noticeable actors?

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post #12 of 37
2/15/11 at 10:06am

One fun thing... I thought for sure Richard Roxburgh was in this.  The guy in the trailer definitely looks like him, but it's not. 

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post #13 of 37
2/15/11 at 10:08am

The funniest thing is that even though they have it set in modern times they still kept the railroad and steel baron angle. As if changing it to telecoms or software would violate they sanctity of the text.

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post #14 of 37
2/15/11 at 10:12am

Supposedly, the film tries to get around the nonsense of keeping trains relevant in modern times by having all airlines shut down at the beginning of the movie.  Though... I did get that info from the IMDB boards...

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post #15 of 37
2/15/11 at 10:13am

What? Holy shit, do I actually have to see this?

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post #16 of 37
2/15/11 at 12:15pm

Part one of a planned trilogy. lol

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post #17 of 37
2/15/11 at 12:50pm

If this was EVER going to work well, it should've been done as a mini-series or something.  Would've been really cool to see the art-deco period piece I saw when I read the book.  I've always wanted a screen adaptation of the book to wear the material's pretensions on its sleeve without ANY sense of irony... but with a lavish budget. 

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post #18 of 37
2/15/11 at 1:08pm

Who IS John Galt?

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post #19 of 37
2/15/11 at 1:08pm

Who IS John Galt?

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post #20 of 37
2/15/11 at 2:54pm

Mike Jones.

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post #21 of 37
2/15/11 at 3:52pm

I suppose maglev trains or some kind of new train tech would be too much for the film's budget?

 

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The funniest thing is that even though they have it set in modern times they still kept the railroad and steel baron angle. As if changing it to telecoms or software would violate they sanctity of the text.

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post #22 of 37
2/15/11 at 3:57pm

According to IMDB Paul Johansson, the director, is pulling double duty as John Galt.

 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0480239/fullcredits#cast

 

It bugs me that actors I like like Jon Polito and that creepy guy from Mullholland Drive/Lost are in this. 

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post #23 of 37
2/15/11 at 3:58pm

Money plays, Spike.  Money plays.

 

Or they believe it.  You pick which is worse.

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post #24 of 37
2/15/11 at 4:22pm

For Polito... it's all part of the show, folks... it's all part of the show.

 

The creepy guy from Mulholland Dr is never NOT creepy.  Except here, where he just comes across like an amateur actor.  To think, I used to confuse him and Ben Chaplin.  A pox on him!

 

For actors, it's just the money, neoolong.  If they believe it, it's only for the surface-level positive self-help aspects of Rand's philosophy that they're drawn to.  A load of crap, if you ask me.  If you're going to enjoy her work, embrace your inner asshole as I did!  I remember Josh Holloway praising one of her books in an interview for some reason.  Angelina Jolie clearly saw something in it that spoke to her.

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post #25 of 37
2/15/11 at 4:35pm

That's it? That's the best that could be come up with? A low budget piece of blandery that would look cheap and nasty even shown at 2am on TV as directed by a nobody actor from One Tree Hill?

 

THAT'S the best the epically super-uber-awesome objectivists of the world could come up with to represent their essential truth? 

 

What, were the incredibly super industrialist billionaires all off being too epically spectacular and better than us to bother bankrolling this thing?

 

Hilarious.

 

Oh and nooj - no that's not Richard Roxburgh, but it is another aussie actor, Grant Bowler (who's been in True Blood of late apparently) - but yes, they do look very similar:

 

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post #26 of 37
2/15/11 at 4:56pm

That does it!  Tell me the truth!  You have actor-factories running around the clock down there!  Taking all the superhero roles...

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post #27 of 37
2/15/11 at 5:11pm

We grow them in a lab from Paul Hogans DNA.

 

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post #28 of 37
2/15/11 at 5:24pm

$5 million budget, rushed into production due to rights expiration, Cooter from True Blood, TV director, and extensive poor use of the Red One...

 

Yeah, I like Ayn Rand (not a fanatic, but I liked The Fountainhead quite a bit), but this seems destined to fail.  Like 1994 Fantastic Four fail.

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post #29 of 37
2/15/11 at 8:28pm

While 30 percent of the country may want to see this, I don't think anybody else wants to see a movie where the rich CEO types are the plucky underdogs. I say it will do as well  An American Carol but better than Left Behind.

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post #30 of 37
2/15/11 at 9:34pm
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While 30 percent of the country may want to see this, I don't think anybody else wants to see a movie where the rich CEO types are the plucky underdogs.


Yeah considering the US's current economic situation this film really rides the zeitgeist as far as it's topicality goes. I mean who doesn't want to root for the plucky CEO and industrialist underdogs at this point in history? 

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post #31 of 37
2/15/11 at 9:37pm

I'm willing to bet this doesn't even get a theatrical release.

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post #32 of 37
2/15/11 at 10:54pm

I got a DTV vibe from the trailer.

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post #33 of 37
2/15/11 at 11:55pm

If there were some bad CG monsters in it, it could pass for an Asylum joint.

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post #34 of 37
2/16/11 at 7:33am

What in the holy shit is with the music in this fucking trailer, by the way?! Hahahahahaha.

 

Oh and: "MAYBE YOU SHOULD LET ME FINISH SPEAKING!!!!" Ooooooooh, the drama!!!!

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post #35 of 37
2/16/11 at 8:04am

The lead actress starred in the NBC nurse melodrama Mercy. Along with Lipstick Jungle and Life Unexpected, it's one of the three most insufferably terrible TV shows I've seen in the last few years. She's astoundingly devoid of charisma.

 

I wonder if there are enough literate conservatives out there to have this abomination make a profit. I'm thinking no.

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post #36 of 37
2/16/11 at 8:05am

Conservatives and good art just never can seem to mingle well. I wonder why that is. Hmmmmmmm...

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post #37 of 37
2/17/11 at 1:59am

*shrug*

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