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After my previous 'wardrobe' comment, please tell me that you aren't the one in the middle....
If so, then I LOVE your tattoos.
I tweeted out your review and hope to see you guys continue. It was like hanging around with some great conversationalists.
Once you read the book you'll be chomping at the bit for part 3. (And probably a LOT more Rand as well. "wooden-prose"... ha! shame on SK.)
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."
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?
I loved that they got all that without reading the book! At the end the guy on the left was like "After watching, it made me want to go read the book."
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED.
"it does seem like there could be a three"