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I'll be upfront with my bias: I strongly agree with Ayn Rand's politics, philosophy, and worldview. Atlas Shrugged is my favorite book. I think Ayn Rand had int

I'll be upfront with my bias: I strongly agree with Ayn Rand's politics, philosophy, and worldview. Atlas Shrugged is my favorite book. I think Ayn Rand had integrity as a person, and she's one of my heroes. That said, I agree that the movie doesn't look great. I'll almost certainly go see it anyway, but I'm bracing myself to be disappointed. Anyone who hasn't read Atlas Shrugged owes it to themselves to pick it up. Love it or hate it, it's highly influential.

michaelchisari 16y ago
I think Ayn Rand had integrity as a person This is totally off-topic, but... really? What are your thoughts on her refusing to pay people back including her family, taking large amounts of government assistance, and idolizing a serial killer? It was nice, watching the trailer, and being a cinephile, being able to recognize all the C-list character actors. The pawn shop owner from The Crow was an especially good find. Who knows, it might be better than the trailer lets on, but it doesn't do a good job of selling it.
- relic17 16y ago
  Could you please provide a reference to the sources for these claims? Thanks.
  - michaelchisari 16y ago
    http://www.slate.com/id/2233966/ http://www.slate.com/id/2233966/ The newspapers were filled for months with stories about serial killer called William Hickman, who kidnapped a 12-year-old girl called Marion Parker from her junior high school, raped her, and dismembered her body, which he sent mockingly to the police in pieces. Rand wrote great stretches of praise for him, saying he represented "the amazing picture of a man with no regard whatsoever for all that a society holds sacred, and with a consciousness all his own. A man who really stands alone, in action and in soul. … Other people do not exist for him, and he does not see why they should." She called him "a brilliant, unusual, exceptional boy," shimmering with "immense, explicit egotism." http://www.boingboing.net/2011/01/28/ayn-rand-took-govern.html http://www.boingboing.net/2011/01/28/ayn-rand-took-govern.ht... An interview with Evva Pryror, a social worker and consultant to Miss Rand's law firm of Ernst, Cane, Gitlin and Winick verified that on Miss Rand's behalf she secured Rand's Social Security and Medicare payments which Ayn received under the name of Ann O'Connor (husband Frank O'Connor). There was a huge, multi-page expose about all of this stuff, but I'm having trouble digging it up. I'll edit this comment with it once I find it, but google searches will easily come up with all of this information.
awj 16y ago
...Objectivist opponents and proponents agreeing on something? I take it the apocalypse is about a year early?
uwe 16y ago
Or you can let somebody else read it, so you don't have to: http://www.buffalobeast.com/?p=3903 http://www.buffalobeast.com/?p=3903 "BEAST philosopher-at-large Michael Caigoy reads Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged, so you don’t have to"

michaelchisari 16y ago

I think Ayn Rand had integrity as a person This is totally off-topic, but... really? What are your thoughts on her refusing to pay people back including her family, taking large amounts of government assistance, and idolizing a serial killer? It was nice, watching the trailer, and being a cinephile, being able to recognize all the C-list character actors. The pawn shop owner from The Crow was an especially good find. Who knows, it might be better than the trailer lets on, but it doesn't do a good job of selling it.

relic17 16y ago
Could you please provide a reference to the sources for these claims? Thanks.
- michaelchisari 16y ago
  http://www.slate.com/id/2233966/ http://www.slate.com/id/2233966/ The newspapers were filled for months with stories about serial killer called William Hickman, who kidnapped a 12-year-old girl called Marion Parker from her junior high school, raped her, and dismembered her body, which he sent mockingly to the police in pieces. Rand wrote great stretches of praise for him, saying he represented "the amazing picture of a man with no regard whatsoever for all that a society holds sacred, and with a consciousness all his own. A man who really stands alone, in action and in soul. … Other people do not exist for him, and he does not see why they should." She called him "a brilliant, unusual, exceptional boy," shimmering with "immense, explicit egotism." http://www.boingboing.net/2011/01/28/ayn-rand-took-govern.html http://www.boingboing.net/2011/01/28/ayn-rand-took-govern.ht... An interview with Evva Pryror, a social worker and consultant to Miss Rand's law firm of Ernst, Cane, Gitlin and Winick verified that on Miss Rand's behalf she secured Rand's Social Security and Medicare payments which Ayn received under the name of Ann O'Connor (husband Frank O'Connor). There was a huge, multi-page expose about all of this stuff, but I'm having trouble digging it up. I'll edit this comment with it once I find it, but google searches will easily come up with all of this information.

awj 16y ago

...Objectivist opponents and proponents agreeing on something? I take it the apocalypse is about a year early?

uwe 16y ago

Or you can let somebody else read it, so you don't have to: http://www.buffalobeast.com/?p=3903 http://www.buffalobeast.com/?p=3903 "BEAST philosopher-at-large Michael Caigoy reads Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged, so you don’t have to"