Atlas shrugged getting freeped on Rotten Tomatoes

[kratos00]

So the critics are universally panning this ode to right wing selfishness (except for the NY Post shockingly) but the audience reviews are overwhelmingly supportive of it, hmmmm.

Interesting, since it has only been out in limited release. Methinks that the wingnuts are spamming Rotten Tomatoes with positive reviews.

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

[Confusious]

1. well the truth will come out

when we see how much it makes.

[kratos00]

2. I'm tempted to sign up at RT

and pan it. But that would be unethical since there is no way I would ever actually watch it.

Narcissism and greed give me the hershey squirts.

[Confusious]

11. I'm not sure which image is worse

yours, or going and seeing the movie.

considering yours would only be 10 minutes instead of 90 minutes of squirts...

[EOTE]

3. As of right now, about 1.7 million gross.

Which translates to about negative 8.3 million net. If they're REALLY lucky and the Randians buy up the DVD in bulk, they just might break even. And as any objectivist will tell you, breaking even is as good as anyone can hope to do.

[kratos00]

6. As if they cared about making money with this tripe

This film's existence is solely for the purpose of spreading Rand's "fuck you I got mine" philosophy to people who people who would never read the crappy book.

On the upside, I hope Democrats finally use this trash to point out to evangelicals what their party really is about.

[EOTE]

10. Then they probably don't care much about people seeing it either.

Considering that extremely few people seem to be doing that. And I'd imagine that anyone who hasn't read the book, yet is unfortunate enough to see this film, will have an even worse opinion of Rand afterward. I'm guessing the big screen makes Rand's protagonists even bigger assholes than on the printed pages.

[Confusious]

9. someone else caculated 55 people per showing

in a 200 seat theatre, average. on an opening weekend.

crappy.

[sharp_stick]

13. It only opened in about 300 theatres

picked in the parts of the country where they expected the highest number of Ayn Rand weirdo's would hang out. The theaters were full last weekend but I have some serious doubts about it's staying power.

It's going to be dumped into the waste of time bin along with "American Carol" and "Expelled" nonsense that the idiot right for some reason thought would be such funny funny stuff.

[blm]

4. Proves the point that GOP's real Bible has always been Atlas Shrugged.

They have been conditioned to HATE the teachings of Christ and to embrace only the teachings of Ayn Rand. The GOP leaders knew they could convince the dumbed down target audiences to accept their fascist goals as long as they wore the MASK of Christianity. I always knew real Christianity would be discarded by the Republicans as soon as the GOP gained enough power to implement their Randian goals.

[monmouth]

5. Facebook is very right-winged. That's why I closed my account. Too

bad you have to be a member to vote...

[otohara]

7. It Went From 5% to 8%

that's impressive...:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[and-justice-for-all]

8. I will watch it when it comes out on DVD....

and you know that 90% of those wing nuts leaving rave reviews at RT, have not even seen the film. Ever Reich-wing propaganda film that comes out, hits the floor hard and this one is no exception.

[sharp_stick]

12. May not be all that freeped

the only people that were "recruited" to go and see that piece of shit were true believers. I'd be surprised if there were a lot of people going to see that travesty because they thought it might be a fun thing to do on a Friday night. Could you imagine how pissed off your date would be: "Hey do you want to go check out Atlas Shrugged it looks like it's about trains?"

If it was the true believers you can bet every dime you've got that they really did enjoy it. Anything that has the stench of Ayn Rand anywhere near it is like manna from heaven to these weirdos.

[kratos00]

14. Good Point

nm

[Swede]

15. I loved this reply

Sophist on 04-15-2011 11:32 PM
> Oh, do shut up. Unions are "the masses of those people who live off the efforts and motivation of the few?" Spare me. Which "few" do school teachers live off the efforts of? Or policemen? Or firefighters? Are members of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers mooching off of Michael Faraday and Thomas Edison? What about the SEIU, what small group of geniuses are they leaching off of? What about the United Auto Workers, are they exploiting the efforts of the "few" that run the auto companies (said efforts mostly consisting of making decades of idiotic decisions and losing market share to Japan)? Unions are how we got the 40 hour work week. Do you know why it's no longer legal to send twelve-year-olds into coal mines? Unions. Do you know why your employer can no longer force you to buy everything from a company store or work in conditions that will kill you with silicosis before you're 25? Guess. Union members had their heads cracked, got shot, got killed by private armies of thugs (and sometimes the Actual US army) so that workers could negotiate with companies as partners, as equals, not as serfs begging their liege for an extra crust of bread. The existence of a large and vibrant middle class is one of the key factors that allowed this country to prosper and grow as much as it has, and Unions built the middle class. The idea that the primary mover of the American economy is the irreplaceable contributions of singular geniuses is one the most mendacious and harmful of modern fairytales. And the idea that the "masses" who do most of the actual work that creates the wealth of this nation banding together to bargain for a modest portion of that wealth that they created is " off the efforts and motivation of the few" is so vile as to border on sociopathy.




http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/atlas_shrugged_part_i/comments.php?reviewid=1977645

[crazylikafox]

18. +10000..... This needs it's own thread.

[Swede]

22. Good idea.

nt

[meegbear]

16. And in reviewer Carrie Rickey's comment section ...

You're just another mentally-retarded, mis-educated, ugly bitch. The novel and the movie are simply way above your pathetic IQ level. You don't deserve to be in America.

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/atlas_shrugged_part_i/comments.php?reviewid=1977446

[kratos00]

17. A great line from a review of it:

"They (Rand fans) are also attempting to claim that the film is being "suppressed", which I suppose is true in the same way that the distribution of Baby Geniuses 2 was "suppressed")

Funny stuff:
http://www.ginandtacos.com/2011/04/17/battlefield-train-an-atlas-shrugged-movie-review/

[JHB]

19. To borrow a great line from one of the other threads on this:

"It looks like the Invisible Hand is giving it the middle finger."

[kratos00]

20. LOL

Hilarious.

[Chris_Texas]

21. Who cares?

Seriously. Why would you possibly care one way or another?

On a slightly different but similar topic, I find it hillarious here and elsewhere seeing all the fine folks arguing passionately about a school of philosophy they really know next to nothing about.

Rand would have been horrified by the corporatist government we have today. She didn't consider herself a Republican when she was alive, and would be fighting against them today. She would have fit in here far better than over at someplace like free republic. Nor, as so many seem to believe, was Rand anti-union or anti-worker. She was opposed only to government-union alliance (she was opposedto the alliance of government with anything).

[Cowpunk]

23. Since you seem to know a lot about Ayn Rand...

How did she feel about inheritance taxes and nepotism in general? I've been wondering how these libertarians can support the passing on of great wealth and power to undeserving heirs and still claim that their philosophy champions individual accomplishment.