Kristoffer Polaha is John Galt: Atlas Shrugged III wraps production

Posted by overmanwarrior 11 years, 4 months ago to Movies
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As I watched the proceedings on the last day of shooting during Valentines Day, I realized I was watching history in the making. It will sort of simmer for a decade or two like many of the progressive policies did on the backs of several occult mystics and superstitious knuckleheads from the past. Atlas Shrugged Part III is an achievement, like climbing a tall mountain that nobody thought possible and those who hoped nobody ever would used superstition to keep anybody from even trying. John Aglialoro and a small army of dedicated supporters did, and the result will appear in around 500 theaters this upcoming fall of 2014. And the world will be a lot better off because of it—which makes me immensely proud.

John Galt will be a gift to film history.

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  • Posted by squareone 11 years, 4 months ago
    Let's hope that "Atlas III" proves to be a message of love to Ayn Rand, being that shooting was concluded on Valentines Day.
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  • Posted by jspringr 11 years, 4 months ago
    Glory halelujah! You did it. You completed Atlas Shrugged part 1, part 2, and part 3. All this while being attacked by the establishment and suffering a small box office. This is a project that really needed to be done. Your work will be immortalized for all time. Congratulations.
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  • Posted by Argo 11 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    So we know why you liked the book, but you have again left out any critic of Objectivism and why you only agree with some but probably not MOST of it. In the subsequent comment you give a critic of 2 other books, but again lacking substance as to why you disagree with them. Is this purposeful?
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  • Posted by Boothby171 11 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Well, among other things, I do like the fact that she has engineers (since I am one) as heroes--more specifically, that she has them standing up for and promoting themselves. For all her "anti-poor" rhetoric, she has a LOT of pro-intellectual rhetoric.

    She also tells a version of what I've been calling "The Engineer's Joke" in Atlas Shrugged (During the French Revolution, a doctor, a lawyer, and an engineer are all sentenced to die by guillotine...), when John Galt offers to repair the broken "Ferris Persuader" forcing its operator to run off screaming into the corridor.
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  • Posted by $ stargeezer 11 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I felt that it allowed a certain "pulpit" :) to present viewpoints not often expressed here in the gulch. To show that the "reason" behind the decision for a certain act was not about some voodoo mystical chant, but a logical and reasoned examination of theology will at least render a thought out decision about faith.

    I truly don't care what they decide, just please make an examination of the true facts about religion, then reject it or accept it. But to sit back and regurgitate what this atheist says, or what this other atheist says the Bible says, but never truly examining the data is just below so many.
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  • Posted by Argo 11 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    While you are quick to disagree with those who are striving to be or are believers in the idea of Objectivism, you fail to present any critical points to why you enjoyed reading the books based on the philosophy "but only agree with some...but not all--probably not MOST of it". To be critical of those who do and offer nothing in the way of reasons as to you critic of the Objectivist philosophy is disingenuous, if not pointless
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  • Posted by $ stargeezer 11 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Robbie- open her comment history, it will show and explain everything. Look at the last page.

    Not worth the electrons to argue with a troll like this. I'm out.
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  • Posted by Robbie53024 11 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Why is it that it is only the atheists who seem to be bitter, spiteful people on this site? I've seen very few people of faith spew such vile rhetoric.
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  • Posted by Robbie53024 11 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    And as I've described before, based on experience in Mexico, private roadways can be very profitable and beneficial.
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  • Posted by Robbie53024 11 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Count me in as well.

    While I don't believe that taxation is the proper way to fund our schools, so long as it is, then a voucher provided to the student/family to select their own school is the only effective mechanism to ensure good schools.
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  • Posted by $ stargeezer 11 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    You could just admit you're being a foolish ass and troll someplace else.

    Perhaps moving out of your parents basement would be a good start.
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    Posted by Boothby171 11 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    So..evolution's only value is that it's politically correct?

    How are you on American Muslims not paying their taxes so they can sponsor their kids going to madrassas?
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  • Posted by $ stargeezer 11 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Me three! A log with a person who knows something on one end and a person who wants to learn on the other end.
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  • Posted by $ stargeezer 11 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    You didn't know? You said"unless you try to pass laws controlling ME, based on YOUR fantasy" which was a completely false accusation.

    Now you suggest I refuse to pay gas and fuel taxes for roads and bridges - again wrong, I pay for all I receive and I pay for a lot I don't use. Those schools that teach kids all about whatever is politically correct is an example of a thing I don't benefit from, yet this year I will pay around $6000 for the local school district and around $1400 to the local Jr. College as I'm also paying $4500 for my two grandkids to get a good education in a private Christian school. I think my tax dollars should go to the school that matches my values and where my dollars would give me value in turn.

    Keep swinging, so far you are striking out with all your "assumptions", I'm a Christian, not a ogre, but I'm not too sure about you.
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  • Posted by khalling 11 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    that's why there are toll roads. Some infrastructure-but we have alot of people spending other people's money. that is not good. You wouldn't agree to it privately-it's not as efficient as people would like you to believe. It's then becomes this game of entitled to. I'm entitled to a hospital, I'm entitled to fire protection if I live on top of a mountain, I'm entitled to ...healthcare
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  • Posted by Boothby171 11 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Like I said--was still thinking about another sub-thread with Stargeezer. I got my lines crossed...
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  • Posted by Boothby171 11 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Sorry about the "Christian" reference; I was just coming down from a heated debate with "Stargeezer" (if I remember correctly). No offense meant.

    I am intrigued by the Frank Lloyd Wright stuff--I've always been a fan of his (though I temper that with the knowledge that most of his rooves leak like sieves). I used to work near a USONIA installation, near Ardsley, NY. I drove into the neighborhood whenever someone was having a garage sale (otherwise it was "no trespassing")

    I don't see any ads--I'm using "Ad Blocker." I'll look it up later. Thanks.
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    Posted by Boothby171 11 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I didn't know if you'd want such a law passed or not. That's why I asked. Your assuming that I was assuming that you would want such a law passed (and now, it's getting silly)

    And I DO have a problem, with you ,as a member of society, not paying for your share of that society. Do you mind if I don't pay for the interstate that runs by your house? I can't really see it doing me any good at all.
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  • Posted by overmanwarrior 11 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Being an atheist is just another collectivist category. Its a group that chooses not to deal with the individual relationship between life and death and what one should do with the value of a life in that span within the tradition of religion. So to insist that an Objectivist, a Christian, or a Thelema occult member cannot enjoy Atlas Shrugged, is just another attempt to place people within the shackles of a category centered on collectivist identity.
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  • Posted by khalling 11 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I think while you're in the zone of movie making and promoting you're playing it all up. Big money on the line-lots of enthusiasm and promotion juice flowin. I admit, I help keep it flowing.
    Again, thousands.
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