I will keep fighting but will also keep looking for the plan B gulch. If a movie causes this much controversy thats a good thing. If that is all that will change young minds thats a bad thing. In the meantime I keep my bumpersticker on to be a trendy old guy. Also answer the inevitable questions it produces among curious others. Don't think I will ever peel it off like the Obama Biden people have been doing with theirs.
So maybe the engine of the world really does need to stop and we all just go on strike until the reality finally does wake everyone up in time to put up a fight.... The cities will be the worst...

Well, I've seen it twice, paying $7.50 and $6 for first of the day showing on Sunday after church. I will definitely buy the video, and have purchased other merchandise. I just hope there is a lot of bonus stuff on the DVD. When it arrived I will sit down to all three parts. Wearing the T-shirt, I have found that no one has heard of the movie, but those who asked were interested.

I caught the 7:40 showing at the AMC theater in Rolling Hills (CA). I counted about forty people--mostly old, rich folks. Probably came down from"the hill"--Palos Verdes. My planned theater party fell through, so I had to go alone.

I thought production values were much better for this segment. Good choice of actors. Sure chopped a lot out, but I think Rand herself could have kept her book down to maybe 800 pages instead of 1000+.

what is your goal with this post?

Unpopularity is only one factor but also people like me, regardless what others say prefer to wait until its at Redbox or on Netflix.
The there the small amount of moochers torrenting the movie.

I do know part of the problem - most of the younger generation have been so thoroughly brainwashed and conditioned that "socialism=good, capitalism=evil" that one mentions Ayn Rand to them and their eyes glaze over and they become mute, as if you're speaking Venusian (which to them, you may just be)...

Case in Point. Took one of my WIJG post-its, and put it on my daughter's laptop. She was intrigued, and was genuinely curious to know why that sounded so familiar... I asked her if she'd ever read Atlas or any of Ayn Rand's works - instantly, without any further commentary - blank stare of, I don't know, almost indignation, and no commentary whatsoever - even to tell me I was flipping bonkers.

It - the lack of even debate on it - was heartbreaking. And that, IMO, is why the younger generation - the ones where the movies needed to catch and grasp the concept and ideology behind it - weren't there, the middle agers scorned it soundly. They are programmed that such freedom of thought, commerce, and ideas are inherently evil, and must not even be thought of... as it will destroy the "good socialist society" that they are programmed to believe and trust in. And that even to think of AR as anything but the modern version of the Antichrist will land them in some prison camp or insane asylum... because they were taught to believe that.

If someone took the book, but changed the characters and name, modernized it without changing the underlying principles behind it, and made a multi-part series on Netflix, I suspect that (without the reference to AS or AR) it would be a hit... because it is an engaging, intriguing story. After all - the socialist ruined our young with their subversion and misstatements and outright lies... it may take a bit of what they're used to, to bring them back to reality.

Heck... it's been decades since I wrote *anything* for screen or stage (and even then, it was minor stuff), but I may have my work cut out for me. Heaven help me!!!

Sad, but true. I saw it twice at two different theaters. There were about a dozen people for the first matinee on both Friday and Sunday. Look at the number of theaters in each metropolitan area. It isn't on enough screens to do big numbers. Worst of all, I count 13 states where it isn't playing at all.