the theater will be about half-full for one night.

:spew:

I can't decide if I should see Atlas Shrugged 2 or one of those low budget indie movies like The Hobbit or The Dark Knight Rises.

It's bad enough that this straight to DVD crap actually got a theatrical release, but a sequel?

Welcome to DU, btw.

and divided into separate parts because of the length of the film.

Gads, if some poor slob of an actor has to read that nausea-inducing speech of Galt's the theater will empty as if a stinkbomb was set off.

objectivism. Shows me that Ayn and her ilk are full of shit on so many levels. And yes, I can't wait to see the reaction to Galt's speech. Unfortunately, I think we'll have to wait until part III to see it.

Yes, at first I was happy to be learning how to read, it seemed exciting and magical. But then I read this, "Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand. I read every last word of this garbage and because of this piece of shit, I'm never reading again.

-Sheriff Barbrady.

Fantastic!

And we can see which movie will make the least money.

I have to go with Undefeated II, as Palinoids are likely to go just to yank their cranks. But I don't think either of them will break triple digits in box office receipts.

For that matter, she couldn't write her way out of a grocery bag.

What a sad, spiteful, pissy person, what an empty excuse for a worldview - and above all, what a galactically shitty writer.

It did not take her long to point to Maugham's writing as being deficient. I think that she characterized it as being pointless and unmotivated, but I am not sure where that comment is made in her book. The above is from somewhere near page 8 of her book. I don't recall much of her "method" or of her book, but it did strike me as odd that she would go after another writer almost immediately.

She went after several other writers, too, but I think that Maugham was the first victim of her "analysis".

I have never read any of Maugham's work. Could you please recommend a few things of his so that I could put them on my reading list?

she did not get. Here is a link to a list of films taken from Maugham's works.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Somerset_Maugham#Film_adaptations

Here's Rand's entire filmography.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0709446/

She was jealous as all fuck.

I had never looked up Maugham's work. That is an impressive list.

Still, if you have read any of his works that you could recommend, I would definitely appreciate any recommendations.

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in her sociopathic delusions--and he didn't buy into the bullshite.

Oh man, I am gonna use that one. Rand summarized in three words.

I'll call it, "Atlas Shrugged: Ding! Soup's On!" It will be all of 20 minutes - with credits.

It opens with a family sitting around a crude table having dinner. The table is full but not overflowing with food. The house is both modern looking and not as the scene takes place in the future, but it's obvious that maybe something happened on the way to society having flying cars and robot butlers, and it had to rebuild. The little girl at the table asks, "So what happened after the Rift, Pater? After the Others shut themselves up in their fortress?"

Father: "Well, there were problems, of course. A lot of people panicked, and people looted and stole and did other horrible things. After a while, people settled down and realized that the Others going away wasn't the worst thing in the world. Some people had skills that weren't needed for where the world was heading, but others - like our family - had had skills like farming for generations. Other people could build houses; others repair machines, etc. We started working together. Oh, sure there were a few bumps along the way, and there will be more, but the predictions of the Others never came to pass."

Little girl: "What became of the Others, Pater?"

Father: "Well, no one rightly knows..."

Scene dissolves and reopens on the past.

It will open with what I'm going to guess is the closing scene of the second movie - the elites of the world watching everything burn and crumble from their impregnable fortress or whatever.

One of the elites will turn to another and say, "Well, that's that. I'm hungry! How about you guys? What's for lunch?"

The camera will pan around the elites and show their eyes widening as realization hits that they don't know how to grow food or how to prepare it. A mad dash to the food warehouses ensues, and fights break out over what's been stored. Dissolve/wipe to black.

Three months later...

Scene comes up, and we see John Galt, running with a limp, haunted look on his dirty face. Clothes are torn, and he's clutching a bread bag with a few pieces in it. The scene is still the elites' fortress, but it's now filthy - things turned over, holes blown in walls, small fires light the corridors and larger rooms. It's obvious John considers himself in enemy territory.

John crouches behind a large decorative pot that once held a large plant as he clasps his treasure to his chest. He peers out one direction and then another and decides to make a run for it. But no further than 10 painful steps, other people seemingly come out of nowhere, having hidden themselves to catch anyone trespassing on their turf. Galt realizes his doom but doesn't beg; neither do his attackers say anything. Everyone knows how things are now.

His now dead body is drug back to a safer part of the attackers' turf. A small fire has wood thrown on it until it grows larger as knives are sharpened. Just before digging in and completing their horrible cannibalistic ritual, one of the attackers says in an Eastern sort of Thurston Howell the Third Voice... "Say, chums! I think I know who this fellow is!"

"Who?" asks another of the group.
"Why, it's John Galt!" says "Thurston."
"John Galt?" asks a third person. "Who is John Galt?"
"Lunch!" replies another member, and laughter breaks out as they begin cooking Galt's body, and the scene fades.

TlalocW

like limpballs, ollielly, and over the top beck; one wonders what is their agenda? I see money funneled by big business to get the plebes to believe in the "pull yourself up by the bootstraps", "businesses can do what they want and pay what they want" and "there really is a free market that corrects itself." They've been funneling money into the deception for over thirty years, bringing back those robber barons-see, they're the heros and the poor, the elderly, the sick are those who are bringing the society down. They are making their sycophants into cruel, sociopathic pawns.

Anyone who buys into their shite are totally clueless that they really don't give a shite about you and they'd rip off your grandma if you don't hold them accountable. Enron showed the whole country how a corporation can screw a nation, it's workers when there is no regulation.

in some bio-pic. Love Helen Mirren, but she sounded like Natasha
from Bullwinkle.

I remember thinking the same thing when I saw her on the Tom Snyder show in the early 1980s.

"What we do now, dollink?"

"What else, keel moose and skvirrel!"

Remember: every dollar they spend making out-of-focus right-wing propaganda is a dollar they can't send to a Republican candidate.

Having said that, someone else has to go to Part 2, because I went to Part 1 and I still have a headache.

Everyone else CAN wait!