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Tomorrowland

Posted by jneilschulman 10 years ago to Movies
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I give Tomorrowland my highest recommendation. It has a romantic sense of life.

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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 10 years ago in reply to this comment.
    I can't imagine the imagination it would take. Clooney would have been a much worse choice or Been Afflected. Some actors just aren't believable in their roles. I fall back on something Michael J. Fox said: "The performer pretends to be something he is not and the audience willingly suspends it's disbelief." It goes on for a few paragraphs. p. 96 in the book Lucky Man.

    Sounds like an election ...
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  • Posted by xthinker88 10 years ago in reply to this comment.
    Remember that should you ever need a good doctor for something serious. Make sure to give the doctor a political questionnaire to ensure that they do not support any causes with which you disagree before they save your life.
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  • Posted by xthinker88 10 years ago in reply to this comment.
    What? You didnt buy the short dark haired weaselly looking Tom Cruise as the massive tall blond haired Reacher? You obviously have no imagination. :)
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    Posted by jneilschulman 10 years ago in reply to this comment.
    I think global warming is junk science and would not be recommending this movie if that was this movie's message or thrust.

    I never thought on an Objectivist-oriented discussion board I'd be running into so many kneejerk conservatives.
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    Posted by jneilschulman 10 years ago in reply to this comment.
    Ayn Rand never testified before the Army McCarthy hearings. She testified before the House Committee on UnAmerican Activities, and she did not criticize any Hollywood actor but discussed Communist propaganda in one movie, Song of Russia.
    http://www.noblesoul.com/orc/texts/huac....

    Ayn Rand did not apply any political test against who she was willing to work with. King Vidor, the director of The Fountainhead, was to the left of FDR, having previously directed 1934's Our Daily Bread, far more directly pro-collectivistic than anything George Clooney ever did.
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  • Posted by khalling 10 years ago in reply to this comment.
    nope. but if you say-only george clooney can play this-aren't you just trading on his fame rather than saying-you know what? your politics are evil and you use your fame to promote evil ideas. That's your choice, but I do not promote evil ideas and your face-well, it reminds people of what you say on your bully pulpit. Next time-you should consider that. If you recall, Rand supported and was a witness in the McCarthy hearings. Hollywood's influence is profound and people are allowed to vote with their dollars without being called reprehensible. You know, for someone who would like people (like the 20K members of this forum) to buy their books and watch their movie, I see you're making lots of friends here, just fyi.
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  • Posted by khalling 10 years ago in reply to this comment.
    Sincerely, you would offer value to an actor who used their fame to influence the politics of dictators in other countries, like Penn did? There are some Objectivist Venezuelans on this board who would like to persuade you otherwise. Actions have consequences. One way to win the war of ideas is to boycott those who use their fame to propagate evil ideas. That's every bit as important as the movie is the thing.
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  • Posted by fivedollargold 10 years ago
    Thanks samreginab for the heads up on the global warming b.s. Had enough of this nonsense from POTUS and VPOTUS last week to stomach any more for awhile. Fivedollargold will wait until this one gets to the $2.50 cinema.
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 10 years ago in reply to this comment.
    Thanks for the warning. Some you watch because of the actor - some you uurp deserved or not. I can't think how my life would be improved having only watched two Clooney Tunes but I have everything his Mom recorded. Besides books are invariably better. I also uurped at the thought of Tom Cruise pretending to be 6''6" Jack Reacher.
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    Posted by jneilschulman 10 years ago in reply to this comment.
    I call it throwing out the baby with the bathwater -- decision-making by ephemera rather than the essential. Guilt by association. Prejudice and bigotry. Anti-individualist. And succumbing to totalitarian-motivated propaganda by professional poltroons.
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  • Posted by gaiagal 10 years ago in reply to this comment.
    Hmm, and what do you call it when a person calls another person's behavior reprehensible simply because that other person made a decision to see or not see a movie based on criteria that differs from their own? The MSNBC way of judging people who have opinions that differ from the commentator?
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  • Posted by gaiagal 10 years ago in reply to this comment.
    I guess it bears repeating: because I vote, with my pocketbook, for the propaganda with which I agree.

    Love Heinlein.
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  • Posted by samreginab 10 years ago
    Clooney sucks as a person, but he is entertaining to watch. Disney did steep the poor movie in global warming alarmism, but thankfully it was subtle. Overall enjoyable movies. Everyone could use an Athena as a robot companion, and a daughter that understand how things work? That is a cool idea. A lot better than duck-lipping on Facebook.
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    Posted by jneilschulman 10 years ago in reply to this comment.
    I cast Tim Russ, a dyed in the wool Hollywood liberal, in my movie Alongside Night. Tim gave me a first-rate performance playing a character whose every line of dialogue is at odds with Tim's own views. Should I have cast an actor who agreed with me but who would have given the movie an inferior performance?

    Yes, I'd cast Jane Fonda, Sean Penn, George Clooney, or a card-carrying member of the Communist Party if they were right for the role.
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    Posted by jneilschulman 10 years ago in reply to this comment.
    Brad Bird, who directed and co-wrote Tomorrowland, and made The Incredibles, as much as anything written by Ayn Rand a story in praise of great achievement and heroism.

    George Clooney is one of over 100 actors credited for this movie on IMDb.

    Does a movie give off cooties because there's an actor whose non-acting opinions you do not like? That seems to be the Fox News way of judging movies. It's reprehensible.
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    Posted by jneilschulman 10 years ago in reply to this comment.
    Why are you here in this forum if not because Ayn Rand advocated for ideas in her storytelling?

    Which the remake of Mad Max does not.

    Which Tomorrowland does -- and as has been widely noted, has many overlaps with Rand's storytelling and sense of life. But not exclusively Rand's. Heinlein also comes to mind -- and his storytelling children including L. Neil Smith and myself.
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  • Posted by khalling 10 years ago in reply to this comment.
    yes, of course- that was loud and clear. The point for my posting is that clearly people are making a connection between the film and Rand- you saw it aas a romantic sense of life. Objectivism is showing up in some way in a Hollywood movie. :)
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  • Posted by jneilschulman 10 years ago in reply to this comment.
    I would not have recommended this movie if the villains were "captains of industry" and the "fix" was government.

    I think I know how to watch a movie.
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