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One of the great things about my chosen home of New Hampshire—like a majority of people in the state, it’s not where I grew up—is the extraordinary number of friends and people I get to visit and talk to (thank you RLCNH and GraniteGrok.com and NH GOP).
One such conversation recently was a true eye-opener. Scary even….
Someone said this was one of the most anticipated movies…..I….no, I was not anticipating it. In fact I didn’t know they were making it. And having watched the trailer, the first two words to come to my mind were ‘Red Box.’
But who am I? Certainly not a qualified movie critic. And this has to be at least as good as most of the crap that Hollywood makes. And Hollywood makes a lot of crap. So will this be more crap? I can’t tell you that from the trailer. Movie trailers are like airbrushed models in print. That’s about as good as it is ever going to look. So does it look good enough? Red Box.
I realize the books continued appeal is why we have a movie based on it. I get the whole idea of going Galt. And that will appeal to a slice of the movie-going public, but how big a slice. Ayn Rand is provocative but can it be translated onto the big screen, and since this is part one, how many more parts must we endure to resolve the driving question of this trailer. Who is John Galt?
One bonus I can comment on is that it is NOT scheduled to be released in 3D. Movies are made in 3D as an excuse to charge 50% more for a ticket, turning a nice family outing to the cinema into another reason to refinance. The movie is not supposed to cost more than dinner is it? For that kind of cash you should get live actors and sets and an intermission so you can hit the restroom and not miss anything.
But that doesn’t get us any closer to the trailer for Atlas Shrugged Part 1. So here it is, on the jump, one of the most anticipated Movies….well, we talked about that already. I watched the trailer. I’m still not anticipating it. Sorry.