B

Of course the message is of the utmost importance, but it NEEDS the right messengers; the two go hand in hand. I think both I and II had the wrong actors. So now, either we can sit around and waste time nitpicking over the casting choices of the prior two films or we can mentally scrap them and focus on who the characters in the book really are. It's impossible for them to be translated to the screen, but the standards have to be higher...

F. Other / D.Special Effects

I would like to see the sonic death ray (Project X) work that Dr. Sadler built. eviscerate the cows. I would enjoy seeing John Galt's motor actually work in the room that Dagny is not allowed in because at that time she is still a scab. Also I would enjoy seeing the other destruction of the moochers and watch Ferris, Mooch, and Taggert fall to pieces when John G. will not help them (looters).

I 100% totally agree. They should both come back.

B. Be true to the book. This makes the screen play much harder to write. But with times like these, the message is very important.
I liked both casts. I did like the first one a little better.

b--get the message right....

and

a--cast me in a part...!!!!

All of the above -B being of most value.

B. get the message out! if you get it wrong what was the point of beginning in the first place.

OTHER!! they need to do a better job of advertising while getting the message right. I know I'll know exactly when it's coming out, and I'll be there for the midnight premiere...but I wouldn't mind the message getting out to the people who havent heard it already as well

Just a thought but would it be possible to have Samantha start out in the Gulch and then slowly morph back to Taylor as she learns more about what the Gulch is all about? Maybe have Taylor in heavy makeup to appear older and then reduce the makeup to make it look like she has been revitalized and given new hope in the Gulch? Maybe this could be done for the actors portraying Hank too.

B. Message

B - Obviously getting the message (whatever it is) has to be the first priority. Next, in order: E, A, C, and D. However, isn't it a little late in the game right now to be doing all this? I have family in the business and if the folks in charge are planning on a 2014 release , they're about 6 - 10 months behind schedule, post-production alone will take up to one year. Cast continuity has already been screwed; start over. BTW: either of these movies (I & II) could stand alone to someone who has never read the book, like me (I'm finishing "The Fountainhead" now, as a 'primer'.) Love it so far...

Best of Luck!

- S

When I heard they were re-casting the second one, I thought they missed a grand opportunity.

If they'd changed the casting completely (let's make Dagny Latina, Hank Asian, etc..), and done so *again* for the 3rd movie, I thought they could have conveyed something cinematically that Rand meant, but would have ben unable to convey in her books.

That thing being race doesn't matter to any of this. That Dagny is a blonde is relevant as the fact that she's right handed, aka, it isn't.

B! Getting the message of Atlas Shrugged right!

You can tell the story with any very good actor it is the message and how it's convey'd!

Casting, I think it would be awkward to have Taylor Schilling and the others from part 1 come back even though they were EXCELLENT! I like D.B.Sweeney for John Galt. But the casting people should've either gone with Samantha Mathis in part 1 or kept her out of it altogether.

Next, I think B and E go hand-in-hand, I like either Paul Johannsen or John Putch for part 3, just keep the message of AS right... it has sold well because of its message, not the movies.

I also think you should keep conspiracies as minimal as possible, I'm Conservative and HATE them. AS is a great book with a great message, don't give liberals and progressives reasons to slam it because it seems so far-fetched because it's not.

Casting, Taylor was Dagny. perfect performance, please bring her back. The cinematography has been perfect, and the story line has been close to the book. Glad to see the deleted scenes were on the DVD.

Getting the message of Atlas Shrugged right in a cleaver and effective way. I would base the whole episode around Galt's speech cutting away to plot elements to emphasize his statements.

Getting the message right, in the right form acceptable and comprehensible to today's audiences. That includes casting, performances, cinematography, great editing, music, not stilted dialog. We the fans have already accepted a change of cast from part I to part II. Will you give us a whole new cast for part III?

The first two movies were good and did their jobs. The last is the key to getting the message across to non fans, just preaching to the choir won't do any good. If we don't want the world to end up being like the book and the movie a curiosity it must be the best written script ever done. Rand may have been an aetheist but I will say God help the writers and producers in making the hard decisions before them. My choices are B. then E. The rest will come from the best of these two.

Movies are the directors medium, big named actors are for ticket sells. The script is the foundation for everything. And this movie is about ideas. Freedom, industry, morals, a philosophy of personal responsibility and reward for ones own ideas and labors. The philosophy is the story and has to be told so that people will learn and want to act on what they have learned.

Part of the problem in viewing the movie is that it was so limited to the number of theaters you could actually see it at. Many people who would be interested in seeing this are older and do not like to drive very far. I am 64 and had to drive about 100 mile round trip just to get to the closest theater. Also, many libs, I believe had a pre-set idea that it would not be a movie they liked because it was so big among the conservatives. I thought the movie was great. I read a blog by a lib who supposedly had seen it and the message went right over his head, just like all the truth seems to. They are clueless and too many of them are unreachable, that is what brainwashing does.

I was SEVERELY disappointed in the change of cast for the main characters. I throughly enjoyed the original actors and thought it was very distracting to change them midstream. It bothered me during the complete viewing of the second film. When you have a movie in 3 parts like that and they do not age drastically, requiring or at least allowing for a change in actors, to change them like that is really a spoiler for the movie. It will always ruin it for me.

B