Jan 16, 2024
brand new tale by ayn rand: robin hood was evil
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brand new tale by ayn rand: robin hood was evil
My heart hurts but Mike is actually back, so that's makes it hurt a wee bit less
"the diamond band on the wrist of her naked arm gave her the most feminine of all aspects: the look of being chained." .............. GET ME OUT OF HERE
dagny wonders if her brother resents working with the Obviously Better contractor bc people doing their job well reminds him how bad he is at his own .. lmao
Hows the game. Isnt baseball such a beautiful sport. Thanks angels for the funniest thing you can do and making our division worse.
aaand of course an 60h+ audiobook wasn't enough for me so i also watched the movie trilogy they made for atlas shrugged 🤡
cons of the movies:
shit
bad
sucked
embarrassing
ugly as fuck and it wasn't just the 2010s fault. the production design doesn't look like anyone even put thought into it and is made worse by how every key set changes completely between each movie. dagny's apartment and office are described as basically barren several times, come on that can't be hard. also in the first movie it's WAY too obvious that jim's and dagny's office are the same room. have you tried trying.
the casting is horrendous. even if you ignore the fact that the every single characters is recast for each movie (very hard to ignore. the 2nd and 3rd movie is just a never ending "wait who the fuck is this".), the casting is just straight up incredible bad and gets worse each time. for the third movie it really seems like they just took whoever. they don't look like they're even trying to act sometimes.
they don't understand their own fucking book. they don't understand the characters. they don't understand what the point of specific scenes is. most scenes are roughly the same as in the book but the screenwriters don't seem to understand why they happen this way or literally any characters motivation behind doing anything. which is impressive bc 80% of the book is characters explaining their world view and monologuing about why they act how they do. of course all that fucking introspection had to be cut down for the movie but even the key moments where their actions speak for their convictions are fumbled every time. fumbled with really really simple remarks that could easily be avoided if the writers understood their own material. and for a story that is about characters believing fiercely in their ~unusual moral code~ this is a death sentence.
but i mean ... not like there is anything else this story has going for it.
and the lack of character motivation or understanding combined with the previously mentioned abyssal acting sucks every bit of passion and emotions from the story. stalest, most dramaless action i have ever seen. actors walk on screen and recite words. reminds me of primary school plays except they're much more fun
no mention of quentin growing carrots in a defunct parking lot. okay this one is just petty but it was maybe the only thing i liked about the book.
bad vfx. im very lenient in this regard but i felt i had to at least mention it bc it's really really bad and it's distracting.
the story was always stupid but the way they cut it down makes it unclear to the point where is complete gibberish. saw some deleted scenes of the second movie that would have curbed this but alas .. you had them? you cut all the scenes that make your movie make sense legible?
incredibly, these 2011-2014 movies are a SETBACK in terms of feminism to the 1957 book ???!?!
there's another million little things i hate about these movies but they're not even worth the effort of writing them out. im just so fucking pissed.
genuinely the worst movies i have ever seen. and there's a thing where very bad movies get kind of fun to watch again you know? much too stale for that. these movies are the true low point of the fun to watch curve.
pros:
it was shorter than the book so it was over more quickly
this is a book from 1957 but the first part can basically be summarised as rearden being a victim of cancel culture. so many of rand's points are identical to modern day american liberals. she even had all that "facts over feeling" crap in there, they've come up with nothing else since huh