One of my Facebook "friends" -- now definitely an ex-friend -- got quite obscene and insulting when I praised the "Atlas Shrugged" Parts I and II.
I told others who more calmly and civilly disagreed with me, "It's not Ayn Rand's book, but it's Ayn Rand's story."
And, I pointed out that Rand herself wrote the screenplay for "The Fountainhead," and it also was not the book.
In fact, I think it was not very good. So I agree it would be nice to see a re-make.
And sometime soon, I will be watching "Atlas Shrugged" Part III, maybe starting tonight.

If that's true--yikes!

No, I was too cheap to pay for a cellphone then, but I remember them!

Did you ever have a cellular telephone in a bag for your car? Mine cost 25c a minute.

Somewhere, I read that Cooper said he never understood a word Roark said. Hard to put the right emphasis on things, then.

The one Pixar film that was appropriate for Gulchers was The Incredibles.

That's funny. All of Pixar's output seems to left-slanted to me that I won't look at their stuff anymore. If it's not climate change it's animal rights or hatred for car culture.

Aww man...missed it...

OK, you beat me!!!

My family was the first in our town to have color TV.

Honey, I remember when calculators came out! Not to mention cell phones and computers. Gosh, I feel old!

VCR? What is this alien tech you speak of?

For me it was just snail mail Netflix rental. I average 4 DVDs a week,.
I have a brother who gets snail-mailed 2 Blue Rays a week from Netflix in comparison.
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Yes on your feelings towards the remake of "The Day The Earth Stood Still". I am very grateful I didn't spend any bucks to see it at the theater. Also glad I didn't buy the DVD when it first came out. I picked it up from the Walmart $5 bin and wasted the five bucks. I sat back with a few snacks and decided to watch the original and the remake back to back. First the original: Great movie! Well done! Then I watched the remake... I found myself so irritated at the spewing PC garbage tumbling out of my TV, I was actually yelling at the TV! YOU'VE GOT TO BE KIDDING!!! WTF???!!! The whole thing was nothing more than a Hollywood left wing liberal regurgitation of whatever PC slime they were selling at the moment (not sure if they left anything out!). Even the "great" special effects scene where Gort blows up into a billion nano bugs was nothing more than a remake of a remake of "The Mummy" where all the bugs came spewing out of the mummy and everywhere else. At least the remake is a prime example of what the left wingnuts of Hollywood really think and want the rest of us to think right along with them. Riiiiight!

on youtube for $2.99.

I've seen it so many times I can pretty much recite the words as the actors speak them. The thing that always impresses me is the perfect casting. I cannot imagine anyone else in the roles.

What's wrong with the music?

I vote for a TV miniseries, and for the same reason as the proposed Atlas Shrugged miniseries. There is simply too much plot, character development and philosophical content to do justice to the novels in a single movie (or even three).

I've gotten to the point where I'll hardly watch something that ISN'T in black and white. Modern cinema can be such an intellectual wasteland. The only stuff I seek out is Pixar stuff; Cars, Planes, The Incredibles, etc.

Yep, I was watching the Patricia Neal Day on TCM, but didn't watch The Fountainhead. I've got it on DVD.

Sunday was a tribute to Patricia Neal on Turner Classic Movies.

I actually felt offended by "The Day The Earth Stood Still" remake.
Colorizing the original Fountainhead strikes me as a very good idea.
I like the colorized original "King Kong" and the silent original "Phantom Of The Opera."
I previously enjoyed both in b&w.

Agreed, allosaur. I grew up with b&w and have no such modern "fear" of it. I've seen some colorized b&w footage of other movies and documentaries, some good and some bad. Perhaps a quality colorized version of the original Fountainhead would be all that's needed. As for remakes, look what "they" did with "The Day The Earth Stood Still". The original b&w far outclasses the PC remake with Keanu Reeves, IMHO.

Thanks for the heads-up, but I have it on DVD and loaded it into my iTunes library so I can watch it on Apple TV anytime I want without having to fool with the physical disk. Great movie!