There’s been a lot of to-do over the movie version of Atlas Shrugged. The right wanted it to be great. The left wanted it to be awful. Apparently, the lefties won this round. And to top it all off, the blurb on the DVD said it was about self-sacrifice! Hee hee.
But this was just Part 1! Surely Part 2 will be awesome! (Especially since they're not making it.) But what I don’t understand is how they couldn’t have fit it all in one 90-minute movie! It may be a thick novel, but the Cliff’s Notes are a lot thinner I’ll bet, and they should have based the movie on them. After all, how complicated do you have to make it when the point is that when business leaders and experts all quit due to government interference, the world stops functioning and everyone has to crawl on their hands and knees to beg them to come back. Or were they afraid we’d think about the recent Wall Street meltdown caused by business leaders and experts and laugh ourselves silly?
Hey, I have an idea of how they could make Atlas Shrugged as a 30-second cartoon: Atlas is holding the Earth up on his back, and some kid comes walking down the street and asks him what time it is. So Atlas shrugs. Then the kid says: “You’ve got a watch on, don’t you? It’s on your wrist there!” So Atlas pulls his wrist down to look, and the Earth comes falling off his back and goes rolling down the street. So Atlas goes running after it, yelling: “You damn kid! I’ll get you!” And the kid guffaws his way home. The End.
I heard that’s better than the movie.
Anyway, here’s the story about the silly DVD cover mix-up:
