'Atlas Shrugged' producer: "Critics, you won." He's going "on strike"

[pamela]

Typical teabagger. Playing the victim card to justify his own failure.


http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/movies/2011/04/atlas-shrugged-producer-critics-you-won-hes-going-on-strike.html#comments



" Twelve days after opening "Atlas Shrugged: Part 1," the producer of the Ayn Rand adaptation said Tuesday that he is reconsidering his plans to make Parts 2 and 3 because of scathing reviews and flagging box office returns for the film.

"Critics, you won," said John Aglialoro, the businessman who spent 18 years and more than $20 million of his own money to make, distribute and market "Atlas Shrugged: Part 1," which covers the first third of Rand's dystopian novel. "I’m having deep second thoughts on why I should do Part 2."

-snip


Though the film has made only $3.1 million so far, Aglialoro said he believes he'll recoup his investment after TV, DVD and other ancillary rights are sold. But he is backing off an earlier strategy to expand "Atlas" to 1,000 screens and reconsidering his plans to start production on a second film this fall.

"Why should I put up all of that money if the critics are coming in like lemmings?" Aglialoro said. "I’ll make my money back and I'll make a profit, but do I wanna go and do two? Maybe I just wanna see my grandkids and go on strike."

[Tunkamerica]

1. " critics are coming in like lemmings?"

His movie is a cliff.

[PCIntern]

2. We look forward to a long work-stoppage from this guy... n/t

[HereSince1628]

3. LOL! n/t

[Motown_Johnny]

4. "Atlas Bombed"... I wonder why he thinks that TV and DVD sales will be high for1/3 of a movie

when the other 2/3 will never exist.


Maybe he should look into doing the other two parts in Anime.

[Javaman]

44. I think he's hoping to do well on DVD...

so he can then produces the last two pieces of crap for direct to DVD only.

He has to talk it up so he can try and land a distribution deal. Frankly, outside the tea party, libertarian circles, I honestly don't know who would watch such crap. But then again, even alex jones has his half wit following.

[starroute]

46. Hey, at least Alex Jones is entertaining

Which I gather is more than can be said of this film.

[Javaman]

49. True. Alex does garner the "drive slow past a train wreck" crowd. nt

[peace frog]

5. Your ride is here, whiner

[sendero]

6. If every dumbass self-styled Galt..

... would just fucking Go Galt already, the world would be a better place. Pea brained morons every fucking one of them.

[hifiguy]

54. +100

Good riddance to bad rubbish.

[ejpoeta]

7. just spending money isn't enough asshole. you have to have a good story

and a good cast and a good director. sometimes someone has all those things and it STILL doesn't work. If you have a really good director he might be able to take a bad story and make it watchable. but don't blame the critics. critics pan movies all the time that still make lots of money and people like. but people didn't like your movie... the ones paying $10 to sit in the seat. and it is certainly not their fault either.

[SpiralHawk]

8. Another Republicon quitter goes AWOL

The usual plot line...

[iwillalwayswonderwhy]

11. Yep, right

He evens refers to the infamous "spending more time with my family" in his last sentence.

[C_U_L8R]

9. Blaming critics for his own pathetic failing

that's Rand-tainted Republican for you.

[nxylas]

10. Oh noes! Society will have to do without this latter day John Galt

Expect riots to break out in the streets any minute now, as in the novel.

Any minute...now!

Now!

OK, how about now?

Now?

[Jack Rabbit]

63. Society? There is no such thing as society.

There is only a mole hill of individuals who would be better off if they allow übermensch industiralist the freedom to be selfish tyrants.

[mikeytherat]

12. The marketplace has spoken, Mr. Galt. Your "perpetual motion machine" is a load of bunk.

Now, don't go on the dole, loser.

Perhaps he and Mr. Trump should hold a "Thinnest Skin" contest - looks like it might be a draw.

mikey_the_rat

[LAGC]

13. What a cry-baby.

Go ahead, go on strike. I'm sure the world will keep on moving without you and the rest of your ilk.

:cry:

[DrDan]

14. why would the critics be on a vendetta against this guy

a bad movie is simply a bad movie it seems to me.

[bullimiami]

15. Critics dont buy tickets and for this movie apparently neither does anyone else.

[pamela]

17. That's the other funny thing about this...

They had a press showing and purposely excluded the New York Times critic who, in turn, didn't review the movie. He's outraged at the Times for snubbing them. Maybe the Times critic decided that since he wasn't appreciated he'd just "go Galt."

This dude sounds like such an asshole.

[eShirl]

16. it's not the critics' fault you can't make a movie people want to see

[Ian David]

18. We should start a grass-roots campaign to urge him to make a sequel...

... in the hopes it drives him onto the welfare roles.

[FormerDittoHead]

52. +1 thought of this myself. n/t

[trotsky]

19. On strike? Is he in a UNION?!?!?

Git 'im!!!

[JHB]

30. Striking is a collective action!...

...but since he's a Randian, self-adulation trumps principle.

But it ain't a strike. Doing it by yourself just because people didn't like your movie is more generally (and more accurately) referred to as "pouting".

[SpiralHawk]

20. "This RepubliWhiner needs to pull himself up by his own damn sprokets." - Mark Et Place

[lunatica]

21. Seeing grandkids and going on strike is a brilliant idea!

Please do.

[TroglodyteScholar]

22. Aww! Poor poor victim...

:nopity:

[Solly Mack]

23. lolololol

Weak.

[Obamanaut]

24. The way the guy is whining, one might thing he got a bunch of 'unrecs' nt

[Maru Kitteh]

75. tee hee :-)

he seems like the type

[NuttyFluffers]

25. "please shrug already, atlas." i do hope he goes on strike.

if it's anything like the book or that god awful trailer, then the world does not need to suffer part 2 & 3.

[Brickbat]

26. It's OK, Mr. Aglialoro -- just show us on the doll where the free hand of the market touched you.

[MindPilot]

32. LOLZ!

:rofl::applause:

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

66. WIN.

:rofl:

[Poll_Blind]

67. Oh that is fucking priceless.

The cackling won't come for minutes yet. Oh that is fucking, fucking delicious.

:rofl:

PB

[Heidi]

70. Except he's a co-consprirator of the market, not a victim. (nt)

[closeupready]

27. These comments are appropriate for his kind - big babies who talk tough but can't take it when

they fail. Or like that skinny weakling kid who picked on the other kid who was 3 times his size, and the big kid waited patiently, and then lost it and picked him up, threw his ass down and moved on.

Your failure is on YOU, sir. YOU. FAILED. YOUR. MOVIE. SUCKS. SUCKS. SUCKS!

[tanyev]

28. Atlas took his ball and went home.

[JHB]

29. Audiences, you won. He won't make another sucky movie...

...that not all that many people really care to pay to see.

[gratuitous]

31. Nooooooooo!

Oh please Mr. Argylelorry! Don't go away. Fans of exquisitely bad cinema need you! Come back. You must finish your magnum opus. Think of the midnight movie crowds, drunk off their asses and dressed as trains and perpetual motion machines. You can't deprive us of your dubious genius. Nooooooooo!

[mikeytherat]

45. It had the chance to be a Plan 9 or Manos or Battlefield Earth...

but in trilogy form. The sheer gall and brazen pretentiousness of the trilogy concept absolutely boggles. He should see it through.

mikey_the_rat

[fredamae]

33. Theatrics For Free Advertising

Don't buy into it...

[heppcatt]

34. The market place didn't want to see the movie, it has nothing to do with "critics"

[marmar]

35. Now he's blaming the critics for his crappy movie and its abject failure.

"I’ll make my money back and I'll make a profit, but do I wanna go and do two? Maybe I just wanna see my grandkids and go on strike."

The self-delusion is strong with this one.

[era veteran]

36. He won't be remembered as the Rights Michael Moore

In all the internet stuff that passes through my head I think I read he was having to give theaters cash because of missed guaranties.

[Stevenmarc]

37. In perfect Libertarian style .... a Union of One

[Hotler]

38. Hey John, that's the nature of the "Free Markets".

Take your lumps and move on. Fucking crybag.

[tularetom]

39. Maybe he should go off to atlantis with the rest of his heroes

Isn't that where all the guys went in his sucky movie after they got tired of government harassment?

[Bluenorthwest]

40. Not only did the film fail, this release proved that Rand is still

box office poison, her work is just not that popular, her name draws virtually no one to buy a product. First weekend should have drawn the 'movement' people, if there were any.
The market does speak, loudly. Ayn Rand is a brand with no worth, no value, no segment of the population interested enough to keep the product afloat.
It was not just the film, but the 'star name' of Ayn Rand that was so heavily rejected by the marketplace.

[ck4829]

41. "I'm on strike" is his way of saying "Screw you guys, I'm going home"

Can just picture him saying this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEKTSO1scaI

[Erose999]

42. He's hasn't "failed" he's just "Going Galt". And he should stay there, LOL.

[Javaman]

43. LOL the classic rantings of a bad filmmaker! "it's all the critics fault!"

:rofl:

So, even though he claims he will make his money back via tv (who would show such a piece of shit?) and DVD (who outside the US would watch this piece of shit?), he still wants to take his blocks and go home. Right.

He got his ass handed to him. period.

He had dreams of fame and fortune. I can bet, this tool also had dreams of grandeur to "out do" Michael Moore. To be the "new voice" leading the charge for a "New America!".

Like so many filmmakers who put fame and fortune above passion and quality, he fell down into the hole of self parody.

He wanted to be that shining beacon of the right wing, but instead, he's a laughing stock.

Filmmaking 101 : 1) Never use your own money if you can avoid it. 2) never go into making a movie without a working script. Always have a working script, even if it's bad. He stated he started production without a script. That is epic fail in filmmaking. 3) if you are going to use unknown actors, make sure they are damn good unknown actors. 4) don't blame anyone else for your failures. He failed at each and everyone of these. Now he's out to blame everyone else for his stupidity.

aka rank amateur with no hope of improving.

[Stevenmarc]

47. Directed by Alan Smithee

[fatbuckel]

51. He wishes!

[Le Taz Hot]

48. He spent $20 million of his own money

to make this piece of dreck? I wonder how many people $20 million could feed or house or clothe?

[FormerDittoHead]

55. FWIW, $20M spent on this was better than spending on the military.

At least you had SOMETHING to show for it, and he employed a lot of creative people and such.

I'd like for him to make the other 2 movies. Go completely bankrupt and take a few of his friends with him.

The only downside is that he's probably using 'hollywood accounting' to create a $50 million "loss" to shelter some other business from taxes!

[XemaSab]

69. For real

It's like Meg Whitman: she may have blown wads of cash in an effort to buy the governorship, but at least that money went to caterers and sign-makers and crepe-streamer supply houses and whatnot instead of being invested in derivatives or mortgage securities or some other capitalist freak show.

[LynneSin]

50. Damnit, now I'll never know how the story ends....

:sarcasm:

[hifiguy]

53. An Edsel is an Edsel

Nice to see that some reichwing asshole flushed tens of millions down the crapper though.

[phantom power]

56. Yeah, and my daughter is going to run away, because I'm too mean...

:eyes:

[ljm2002]

57. Awww, he's gonna go on strike!

What a crock! He's gonna go off with his tail between his legs and lick his wounds and hope like hell he can recoup his $20M over time.

In the meantime, here's a clue Mr. A: Your little cinematic screed was rejected at the box office. By the audience. In spite of it being hyped by the True Believers. Because it wasn't any good. Yes, the critics noticed. More importantly, the audience noticed.

Now go lick your wounds, there's a good boy.

[uncle ray]

58. going Galt?

you're doing it wrong.

[mwb970]

59. So it's the critics' fault that his movie sucks?

You're right, that has "teabagger" written all over it.

[Fozzledick]

60. What a worthless eater!

Expecting to leech off of the productivity of truly creative people by churning out derivative crap!

[deutsey]

61. boo fucking hoo

[Warren DeMontague]

62. Atlas Sucked.

Life is tough, dude. Buy a helmet.

[HughBeaumont]

64. The problem is not JUST that the movie sips cow manure through a Crazy Straw . . .

. . . but that Objectivist Libertarians don't seem to get that America seems to be waking up to the utter failure of "Going Galt".

[TrogL]

65. How in hell did they expect to make a movie out of a cerebral book?

I've read it cover to cover half-a-dozen times, so I know the book.

You could probably do the train crash in the tunnel, Dagny getting it on with Galt after taking of her bare-shoulder dress (one of Rand's obsessions) and maybe an aerial shot of the town in the mountains where they all went. Other than that, it's all a bunch of talky talk, unless you really want a lingering shot of some rotting soybeans.

[librechik]

68. hah, a reasonable teaper? No, now he doesn't have to finance part 2

He'll find some other way to devolve

[Kurovski]

71. Did he really think this was gonna be like Star Wars?

:shrug:

[slay]

72. Atlas Sucked

boo-hoo cry me a river for that POS book and anyone dumb enough to waste $20 mil on makin it a crappy movie. :rofl:

[Iggo]

73. No, Mr Aglialoro. We ALL won. (n/t)

[suffragette]

74. "deep" thoughts, hmm. Like this one?

“If you ever fall off the Sears Tower, just go real limp, because maybe you'll look like a dummy and people will try to catch you because, hey, free dummy.”

Jack Handy quotes (American Writer and cast member of Saturday Night Live from 1991-2003. Famous for his Deep Thoughts comedy sketches.)
http://thinkexist.com/quotation/if_you_ever_fall_off_the_sears_tower-just_go_real/338725.html

[Cobalt-60]

76. The book was rubbish

And movies are usually worse than the book.
No, I think I'll pass on this wad of Republican snot.

[calimary]

77. What's that ride he should take? On the WAAAAAAAAmbulance?

Is that what it's called?

Sure does fit!

And yeah, dude, please DO spare yourself - AND all of us - from Part 2.

:nopity:

[deacon]

78. What's up next Aglialoro? A remake of Plan 9 From Outer Space? n/t