I am very happy to find individuals appreciating our movie review. Especially considering we just started and this was only our second pick. Chris had watched Atlas Shrugged Pt. 1 and seeming to be smitten by it had insisted we watched both films on our review night. I gave him a hard time cause it would be over 3 hours of viewing before we could ever film. He said after watching the first film I would be dying to watch the second. So I attributed it to watching Braveheart on VHS.

Though Chris did say "Who is John Galt?" which caused Dave and I to question him if he was trying to spoil the film. He said he wasn't. Seeing as I am the guy that hates SPOILERS, I didn't want to know anything about the films. I asked Chris if he was sure there were no other films and he said there wasn't. I didn't want to watch 2 films in one night and find out there was another one. So I did no research and trusted there were only 2 films.

Later in the week I was reading an article online when I read in a comment somewhere with someone saying something profound but ending with "Who is John Galt?" I thought I must see this movie now.

The day after watching the movie I watched Ayn Rand & the Prophecy of Atlas Shrugged on Netflix. Which I thoroughly enjoyed and recommended to Chris.

The day after that I was editing the video review, I took a break after editing to read. Currently reading Stephen King's 11/22/63 and wouldn't you know I would read a section about Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged. I thought "All Things Serve the Beam".

While editing I found it comical how I really felt a third film was possible, yet once society told me no, I accepted. Somewhat. So I left it in for comedic reasons. I was really happy to discover that there is another film to follow that tantalizing ending. It doesn't come out til 2014, so it gives me plenty of time to read the book. My current book is 850 pages, so a thousand of Ayn Rands are welcome. In Stephen Kings On Writing -A Memoir of the Craft- King states "Honesty in storytelling makes up for a great many stylistic faults, as the work of wooden-prose writers like Theodore Dreiser and Ayn Rand shows, but lying is the great unrepairable fault."

"This is a movie about how capitalism can become corporatism, facism, and then socialism, and you can break the system by opting out..."

A very nicely distilled summary. They do get it. They also spent too much time talking about the cast change...just like people do in here :-)

me too!
"it does seem like there could be a three"

Not too bad, considering they have not read the book. I suspect they will find a new appreciation once they do.
Regards,
O.A.

The dude on the left, and the dude on the right, got a lot of the film's message without ever having read the book...that is pretty good! The dude in the middle needs to get a new wardrobe consultant....

The movies give us all here visual pictures of the story, and the characters, that we all know and love. It is asking too much for the movie to replace the novel, and I approached the movie with that in mind.

Any bets on whether, or not, any of these three actually read Atlas shrugged?