Atlas Shrugs

In really don't have time to provide you with remedial education

You doubted that average people liked the film better than reviewers

But that is exactly what websites like fandango etc where average people who are ot film reviewers vote online showed

Hence you are revealed to be uninformed

Get over it.  It's not the first time

On Tuesday, April 24, 2012,  <pelli8@windstream.net> wrote:
> "Yes but your doubts and belief are not informed, in general"
>
> Yes but yours are. (sigh)
>
> "If you go to movie review websites film goers rated it much higher than
>> paid reviewers"
>
> Oh well.... I stand corrected because everything should be based on what film goers tell us I suppose..... Really?
>
> "Indeed, they liked it better than the libertarian blogosphere or Randian
>> websites, most of whom gave it a C+"
>
> Ewwwww. Very bad indeed. I can't even imagine the shame of a bad review from libertarian blogosphere or Randian websites.
> The blogospheres and websites I follow will be mostly concerned with the special FX.
>
> And thanks for the advice because you are correct about those old adages for sure.
> You might also want to consider the old adage about leaving you shirt on when women are present and could possible get a glimpse of your physique.
>
> ---- Bruce Majors <majors.bruce@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Yes but your doubts and belief are not informed, in general
>>
>> If you go to movie review websites film goers rated it much higher than
>> paid reviewers
>>
>> Indeed, they liked it better than the libertarian blogosphere or Randian
>> websites, most of whom gave it a C+
>>
>> http://www.philosophyinaction.com/wp/?p=5271
>>
>>
>> You might consider the old adage about remaining silent, so no one
>> discovers how ignorant you are
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 6:54 AM, <pelli8@windstream.net> wrote:
>>
>> > "though normal folk seemed to
>> > > like it better"
>> >
>> > LOL... I actually doubt that Bruce!
>> >
>> >  "By January, buoyed by what he calls encouraging DVD and video-on-demand
>> > > sales, "
>> >
>> > How long, do you think, before it's out on DVD?
>> > I'd like to see it but I'll probably wait to get it thru NETFLIX.
>> >
>> > "Director Paul Johansson, meanwhile, has been replaced by John
>> > > Putch (a TV veteran with many episodes of Scrubs and Cougar Town behind
>> > > him)."
>> >
>> > Scrubs and Cougar Town.... NICE!
>> >
>> > ---- Bruce Majors <majors.bruce@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > > From reason.com
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > Atlas Shrugged Part I, the 2011 film version of Ayn Rand's hugely
>> > > influential novel Atlas Shrugged, was the result of a decades-long
>> > journey,
>> > > and its sole financier, John Aglialoro—a successful serial entrepreneur
>> > > best known for running the exercise equipment company Cybex—found the
>> > costs
>> > > and troubles more than he bargained for.
>> > >
>> > > Official critical reception wasn't so great—though normal folk seemed to
>> > > like it better than the credentialed tastemakers, according to fim review
>> > > sites such as Metacritic and Rotten Tomatoes. For a brief moment even
>> > > Rand-inspired businessman Aglialoro, new to filmmaking and brought to the
>> > > business through his love of Rand and desire to bring her message to a
>> > > movie audience, was discouraged. He told critics last April "you won" and
>> > > said he was reconsidering whether or not to move forward with filming
>> > parts
>> > > two and three.
>> > >
>> > > By January, buoyed by what he calls encouraging DVD and video-on-demand
>> > > sales, and the partnership of four other Rand-inspired financiers to help
>> > > bear the production and marketing costs, Aglialoro and his production
>> > > partner from Atlas Shrugged Part I, Harmon Kaslow, decided they were
>> > ready
>> > > to finish what they started. At Reason Weekend, the annual event held by
>> > > the Reason Foundation back in February, they announced Atlas Shrugged
>> > Part
>> > > II was a go.
>> > >
>> > > The movie is now shooting (digitally, with Arri Alexa cameras) around the
>> > > Los Angeles area. On Wednesday I visited a giant empty warehouse in
>> > > downtown Los Angeles (near, naturally, a train track) to witness day 10
>> > of
>> > > a planned 31 day shoot (slightly longer than Part I's 27 days, but with a
>> > > far more leisurely couple of months of pre-production). This warehouse
>> > will
>> > > be Rearden Steel's foundry and Hank Rearden's office. In the novel,
>> > Rearden
>> > > invents an amazing amalgam known as Rearden metal only to have his
>> > > industrial progress hamstrung and his property stolen by an
>> > > ever-more-repressive state attempting to centrally control an economy
>> > > already choking under too much government management.
>> > >
>> > > From the producers' video monitors—the actual shooting set of Hank's
>> > office
>> > > was too tight and cramped for reporters to lurk—I watched the shooting of
>> > > two scenes in Rearden's office. T

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