I agree with all of that. I wish they had had flashbacks showing the motor company and how the well-intended policies brought out the worst in people.

Also do you think the critics will trash this one as much as the other two?

What was bad about the movie? Did it look like a TV movie? Was this the best cast compared to the other 2?

Is Lillian in this movie? She had a small role in part 3 of the book but she was important to understanding Cheryl's suicide.

Electricution

The casting is hard for those of us who know the book well. But I thought Galt did a good job, Dagny was pretty good, Francisco was poorly cast, but does not play a big part.

Hear hear

The best thing I can say about the AS movies so far is that they have got my 17 year old son interested in AR and her works. I have enjoyed the movies because I share their point of view, but I think it is difficult, almost impossible, to translate those works to the screen and do them justice. However, I salute the effort and hope the movies affect other people who are unfamiliar with AR as they did my son.

Hank I and Dagny I could do that to ya...

That's an odd statement, would you care to expand on that, please?

I hope you're right about things being better in AS3. Personally, I think it would have been far better if this movie had not been made.

I waited a looong time before I read Atlas Shrugged. 40 years ago when I was in my late teens, I voraciously read everything Ayn Rand wrote. This book I had always saved until I could absorb it slowly. Sadly, my "theater of the mind" had a richer grasp of the time and places than the movies. I will jump at the opportunity to see ASIII as soon as it releases, appreciating the effort to bring this book to the screen.

thanks

I enjoyed it and think it is probably the best, although there are still a number of changes to be made. It is not as action oriented as AS I, but I don't want to give away any spoilers.

It was part of the Atlas Summit. several gulchers saw it who were attending

Thanks db. I'll start telling people I know someone who screened it and its the best of the three. Should help to get people to the theaters.

I see. So they conflated the Thompson Harmonizer with the torture chamber. Bad. They should have left the Xylophone in there, to show you just what a jerk Robert Stadler really was.

Yes - but the audio makes it sound like "Project F"

How did you manage that? Nice.

Update. I did find a couple of people who liked AS I better.

Just tell me one thing, if you feel it wouldn't be too great a spoiler:

Does ASIII mention Project X, and specifically the Thompson Xylophone/Harmonizer, or not?

I was very pleased, especially with John Galt's manifesto. Gratefully, this classic diatribe is reduced to about three minutes. I hope Jim Taggart's wife's apology to Dagney will wind up on the cutting room floor. I could have easily enjoyed an extra 30 minutes in Atlantis.

Also enjoyed your presentation on patent law.