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Great movie; Kick in the gut
PostedFebruary 8, 2013
HotBottleGuy
from Gilbert, AZ
Age:55 to 64
Gender:Male
Goes to the movies:monthly
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For those of us living in such a soft, easy world, this movie is a kick in the gut. Usually in a suspenseful movie you can see what you would do if in the same situation. You'd get creative. You determine what you've got to work with and go to work problem-solving. Not this movie.
Very minor spoiler alert: You’re by the pool in your bathing suit and WHAM now you’re in water over your head with trees and building parts rushing by. No pocket knife, no 72-hour kit, no nothing. Go ahead, see if you can dodge that car floating toward you with the current so strong you can't possibly fight against it.
I feel so sorry for those who were bored by this movie. I can see how that might happen if you never loved anyone more than yourself. Or you never have been in a situation of extremely dangerous possibilities. For one who deeply loves his or her family and has been in any kind of dangerous situation, this movie will cause deeply moving emotions to rise to the surface and you will feel extremely grateful that those you love are safe.
Go see this movie if you’d like to be moved. It’s different than Le Miz, of course. But, nonetheless, the story and effects will move you. And if you were bored by it, go find someone to love so much so that you totally forget about yourself. Then go see it again.
Pros well paced, great story, great actors, moving story, real
Yes, I recommend this movie.
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Read the book, then go see it. Great movie
PostedOctober 13, 2012
HotBottleGuy
from Gilbert, AZ
Age:55 to 64
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Read the book first. Yes, I know it’s over a thousand pages. I've read it twice and couldn't put it down either time. Here’s why: If you like to think and are not afraid to think, I mean really think, as in ponder, reflect, and suppose, you will enjoy Atlas Shrugged. It is as current as any news headline today.
Atlas Shrugged II is a better movie than the first one because it covers less time and material than the first so it’s more detailed. But none of the movies can never come close to delivering the message in as much detail as the book. If you read the book and then see the movies you’ll enjoy them more because you’ll understand many undercurrents that are only suggested in the movie but described in detail in the book.
But here’s a warning: If you believe that what we have had in America for the past 100+ years is capitalism and that rich people are bad and the workers are the ones who create everything good and that government must control and partner with business otherwise capitalism will get completely out of control and ruin our lives, then you won’t like this movie. It will sting. You also won’t even begin to understand the message. You’ll get a piece of it but if you read the book you’ll understand. And hopefully start asking questions that will, in themselves, begin the necessary process of deprogramming.
Let me give it to you in a nutshell (this is NOT a spoiler so don’t worry): Someone knows how to make something of value to others so that someone produces it. That someone does not produce the item to help others but purely out of the self-interest and ambition to make profits. Others buy the product because it fills a need for them. They don’t buy it because they want to give charity to the one who built it. The money they spend on it flows to the someone who started the company to make a profit. Some of the money flows to the employees who build the product. They work for the company to make money, not because they want to provide charity to the owner of the company—again, in their own self-interest. If the company wants to keep the employees, it will pay a fair wage. Otherwise the workers will go somewhere else to work. (Henry Ford paid better wages than most because he found it was cheaper than training new employees.)
The employees spend their wages on a variety of goods and services provided by a variety of people who started companies and produce those goods and services to make profits. Some of the money paid by customers of our original company for its product flows to producers of the raw materials and supplies that it takes to produce the product. The producers of those raw materials do so to make a profit.
And so it goes. Because of the selfish, greedy, profit motive, everyone gets the things they want and enjoys lives of plenty. Things that people don’t want are not produced. If some raw materials become scarce, the producers of the corresponding products will find other, cheaper raw materials or raise their prices. People will respond as they wish in their own self interest and companies will thrive or fail. No one needs to plan who produces what or how much of it. No one needs to control prices or wages. No one needs to control anything. The market does that precisely because of the self-interest of producers and buyers. (The government is the only consumer.)
The problem, however, is that it's difficult to skim off the top of that system. Politicians like to be able to skim off the top just as thieves and mobsters like to skim off the top. Politicians have developed extremely sophisticated psychological devices to convince the masses that profits are bad so they can skim from those who actually work for a living and produce. Because the Constitution gets in the way of all that skimming, politicians have also been very convincing that the Constitution is old fashioned and not fit for our day.
The founders of this nation feared two things more than most anything else: 1) Career politicians, and, 2) States losing their representation in congress. The powers that be have accomplished both. We popularly elect our Senate and career politicians make up the majority of our government. The result is a gargantuan government of thieves who answer to no one. What happens in Atlas Shrugged is happening to us. That’s the message. Go see it if you dare. I highly recommend that you do. It’s a great movie. Or, just leave your head in the sand and hope for the best. Colbert, Stewart, and O’Reilly will welcome your viewership.
Pros well paced, great story, great actors, stirs thought
Yes, I recommend this movie.
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Mental Pablum
PostedJune 4, 2011
HotBottleGuy
from Gilbert, AZ
Let me provide the summary first: If you’re looking for pure grammar-school escapist fare with lots of bangs and booms and flashing lights, and a minimally complicated storyline and shallow characterizations, then you’ll get what you pay for in this X-movie.
The slimmer half and I were looking for a way to spend our date night and decided a movie was it. The available selection was miserable for semi-intelligent adults looking for large-screen entertainment.
We settled on X as an experiment to see just how dumbed-down these kinds of movies had become these days. We were not disappointed in our expectations. Oh, make no mistake, we were not expecting the drama of Witness for the Prosecution, or the character development of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, or the spontaneity of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, but I hoped for just a smidgen of depth somewhere.
I know X is a big screen comic book but somehow I reasoned they might just throw the occasional semi-adult viewer an intellectual bone. I guess the bean counters didn’t see the value in compromising the formula. Again, if you’re looking for a couple of hours of mental anesthesia, you’ll not be disappointed.
No, I do not recommend this movie.
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Great Movie! Great Principles!
PostedMay 14, 2011
HotBottleGuy
from Gilbert, AZ
Ignore the negative reviews. The establishment will hate this movie. They will find any reason to bash it. If people actually began believing in the worth of the individual and individual integrity, honor, effort, and accomplishment, the Powers That Be wouldn't stand a chance and Ron Paul would be our next president. While I would first recommend the book, it is long, detailed and glorious, but those who find reading tedious ought to see the movie and then read the book. Like the Bible, this book will teach you how to read. And, as importantly, it will clear the fuzziness of our current path and show a better way--a way to thrive rather than choke.
Yes, I recommend this movie.
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