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great thread
I just watched this on Netflix. It's pretty interesting.
IMDB link: Ayn Rand & the Prophecy of Atlas Shrugged
Netflix link: Ayn Rand & the Prophecy of Atlas Shrugged
Please don't dismiss it off hand. If you don't watch it, please don't reply.
great thread
imdb synopsis:
"Upon publication, Atlas Shrugged was widely scorned by critics for its preposterous plot and one-dimensional characters. Intellectuals and academics from across the ideological spectrum roundly dismissed the new and original philosophy called Objectivism that Rand so compellingly illustrated in the novel."
and that has continued in the recent increase in interest. AR is pure garbage, a fraud, and hypcrit (living off "socialistic" SS) and profoundly anti-Christian, not that many right-wing "Christians" GAF, because they love the OT and ignore the NT.'
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Ayn Rand
Before people go ruining their Netflix recommendation algorithm ("because you watched Ayn Rand, you might like: The Prophesies of L. Ron Hubbard, Ancient Aliens, and Triumph of the Will!"), the least you could do is explain what you found so compelling. Without that, I can only wonder why I'd bother watching a do entary so objective (pun!) its le elevates a clumsy novel pushing an even clumsier ideology to the level of prophesy?
Don't watch random movies rated less than 7+ on IMDB... pass
Funny thing is the hard copy book itself is the #2 seller world wide, behind the Bible.
People who who by others people's ratings are lemmings.
And you like computers making your choices? they are only as good as their programming.
I would think the do entary I linked would have appear in it for all. Just criticizing it without seeing it is foolish.
Can this movie possibly compare to the joys of being deepthroated?
WC, did you just now discover the stupidity that is Ayn Rand?
Have that on your mind now? Can't shake it?
I wasn't talking about the movie Atlas Shrugged, but the do entary surrounding it's writer and writing. She made a book that has more sales of any other hard copy book excluding the Bible. At the time, everyone scorned her for what she wrote. All bad reviews, never a good review, yet it was a best seller then, and is the all time best seller of the last several hundred years.
What does that say about people trying to control others. Telling you it's a bad read? Why do they say that?
I watched the first installment of Atlas Shrugged when it came out 2 years ago. Part 2 will be on DVD in February. I'm sure the movie does not compare to the book, but it is pretty thought provoking just the same.
I have not read the book, but maybe I will find the time. Especially after seeing this do entary.
I'd rather play Bioshock.
If you want to rate books by numbers sold, may I recommend
<--- Poetry of Chairman Mao
I specified hard copy (hardback).
Can anything?
Who cares if it's hardcopy or not?
WC, would you kindly go your mother some more?
Air ball.
What if 59.2% of those rating it gave it a 7 or higher?
I had the pleasure of reading the source material as a lad -- her two novels in high school and a collection of her "serious" writings led Philosophy -- Who Needs It? I actually recommend that last book to friends, but mostly because it's a precis of her fundamental absurdity (check out her awesome take on oil spills) and rhetorical tactics.
I admit I do like the Gary Cooper flick for its post-war idealism... maybe I'll watch that instead since you haven't explained why watching a do entary whose le betrays the journalistic rigor of Tiger Beat magazine is worth watching.
I watched the last do entary you demanded others watch.
It was a piece of .
I'm just going to assume this one is a piece of too.
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