A critic tweets what he see in the new Atlas Shrugged movie while he watches it

Posted by Solver 13 years, 10 months ago to Entertainment
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An interesting study in psychology of what a liberal mind perceives reality to be.
The liberal bias while catering to his tweety followers reeks throughout:

(Possible spoilers WARNING!)
(Reality is what you believe it should be WARNING!)

“People STREAMING in now. 17 in all! It's a party!”
“Holy sh*t! The Matt Damon movie about evil natural gas people buying out farming towns. This will NOT please the Objectivists”
“People still slowly filing in. How will Objectivists ever prevail if they're always LATE?”
“Finding Nemo 3D. If Ayn Rand had written this, that pathetic little taker would have had to make his own way home. “
“Why would anyone turn a clean energy solution over to the STATE? They would only use it to help peasants. Good call. “
“Samantha Mathis looks so tired and sad. Like she got cast in Atlas Shrugged Part II or something.”
“In this movie, the hero refuses to sell steel for a project in the public interest. The villain gives poor people money.”
“Teller just cameoed. TELLER. And he spoke. This movie is all about surprises.”
“Morales is camping it up something rotten. In a speech about how money is YOUR GOD. He is a hero.”
“A story about billionaires heroically strangling the world by taking their ball and going home creates something of an empathy problem.”
“Henry Reardon will NOT sell metal to the government. He will NOT. It's all quite cinematic.”
“Hank Reardon is on trial. And in a way, so are we all.”
“The speech that brings a courtroom to its feet: "I'm rich. So f*ck everyone else. Eat sh*t. S*ck it. I'm rich. Thank you, your honor."
“Who's on the line? Oh, only PRESIDENT RAY WISE!”
“The President has just turned America into a grim Communist hellhole. This is implausible. He's not even KENYAN”
“Wait: why are the Occupy hippies PROTESTING the Communist edict? It's almost like this movie is ideologically incoherent.”
“In a stroke of metaphorical genius, a train just sputtered to a halt. Yes, the big setpiece so far is a train slowing down.”
“Oh, a train crash. Much better and more symbolic. Pity about all the dead ideological mouthpieces, though.”
“In Rand-iverse, hundreds of casualties are acceptable if they teach our heroine to STOP TRYING TO HELP PEOPLE BECAUSE IT IS POINTLESS.”
“So it turns out John Galt was a bitter factory worked who got all pissed about equal pay and decided to make the world sorry. Thanks!”
“And here's DB Sweeney as John Halt, officially making this Pump Up the Volume/Cutting Edge slashfic.”


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  • Posted by DR_BRETT 13 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I bet many of those "critics" -- shake their Commie Fist at the universe (AT REALITY) all the day long .
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  • Posted by $ jmlesniewski 13 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    An o does not make a short i sound. I'm not going to debate basic English rules, for spelling, reading, or speaking.
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  • Posted by LetsShrug 13 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    So Stock affects the ton to tun, but Rear doesn't affect the den to din? (Actually I would pronounce Stockton as Stocktin. StocktUn would sound like something coming out of Kevin Costner's mouth in Dances with Wolves.)
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  • Posted by LetsShrug 13 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Well thank you for the lesson in what sounds vowels make. Are you saying that you really pronounce it Rear-den or Rear-don? Listen to how it's said in the movie...nobody is saying it that way...it comes out sounding like Reardin..not Rear-DIN or RearDON, or RearDEN...just "Reardin". Watch and listen to David Kelley even... (Pronounced "Kelly", not "Kel-ley") He says, Hank's name right at the beginning of this and he pronounces it "Hank Reardin". http://www.atlassociety.org/atlas-shrugg...
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  • Posted by $ jmlesniewski 13 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    So Don and Den are pronounced the same? "O" and "E" have completely different vowel sounds. The "Rear" doesn't affect the pronunciation of the second syllable. It's not "Reard-en." It's "Rear-den."
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  • Posted by LetsShrug 13 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    That would come out awkwardly if spoken like that. ReardEn and ReardOn both come out sounding like Reardin... short i sound.
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  • Posted by DR_BRETT 13 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Tell your parents about The Maniac right outside your Front Door .
    (*slight sarcasm, friendly*)
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  • Posted by DR_BRETT 13 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Sound conclusion based on reality = KNOWLEDGE (Evaluation Of Reality) .
    Man requires a Value Scale, not, mere raw facts .
    ("Just" my aside)
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  • Posted by lostinaforest 13 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I'd give my opinion of "BastardKeith", but my parents taught me that if I hadn't anything nice to say about someone, then I shouldn't say anything at all ;)
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  • Posted by overmanwarrior 13 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Because its the progressive way to show that one is not any better than anyone else. It's his call sign to the world that he doesn't think much of himself, which he believes will make him more popular. The sickness of progressivism. LOL, that's my opinion. : )
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  • Posted by XenokRoy 13 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Really, "BastardKeith", now why does that just make me chuckle that some liberal actually called himself a bastard. :)
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  • Posted by 13 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    His twitter handle: "BastardKeith"
    Now don't go and make him a even bigger hero to his followers.
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  • Posted by overmanwarrior 13 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    it quite tellng. I would expect to hear things like that out of an 11 year old, but not a grown person of any develped mind. Amazing stuff.
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  • Posted by 13 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Some gems,

    He is stunned that "the hero refuses to sell steel for a project in the public interest"
    But the "public interest" is a weapon of mass destruction.

    He says, "casualties are acceptable if they teach our heroine to STOP TRYING TO HELP PEOPLE BECAUSE IT IS POINTLESS.”
    But the opposite happened. Dagny came back to work to save the railroad (thus the people) due the accident.

    And my personal favorite,
    "“People still slowly filing in. How will Objectivists ever prevail if they're always LATE?”
    As if only Objectivists watch Atlas Shrugged films. As stupid as saying something like only Blacks watch Spike Lee films.

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  • Posted by overmanwarrior 13 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Another hapless fool breathing, eating, and not caring how anything really works--who thinks the philosopher Kant was the king of thought, when in fact he was a devil of philosophy--a shapeshifting idiot of emotional propaganda!
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  • Posted by $ jmlesniewski 13 years, 10 months ago
    1. What is this guy's Twitter handle? 2. It REALLY bugs me when people spell Rearden "Reardon." It is very clearly pronounced Rearden in the movie. Does this guy just not know how to spell? 3. This person is not demonstrating very smart thinking. Ex: Giving money to the poor is necessarily good.
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  • Posted by overmanwarrior 13 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Wow, what a piece of work. But his comments reflect many of those strange people like him. It would seem that they didn't know that Ayn Rand had seen communism up close and knew what it looked like. http://overmanwarrior.wordpress.com/2012...

    That link if for all those who didn't see the post here about that last week. I bet many of those critics who are so angry about the material in Atlas have never read 'We The Living'.
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