tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1740670447258719504.post4821240884348159961..comments2024-03-27T03:00:27.024-04:00Comments on Facts & other stubborn things: Atlas Shrugged on NetflixEvanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12259004160963531720noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1740670447258719504.post-8560242489650194462012-03-20T21:31:45.348-04:002012-03-20T21:31:45.348-04:00Actually, the problem with the villains in the mov...Actually, the problem with the villains in the movie (I don't have the book in front of me to check, but I recall them being a bit better) is that their villainy is simply pathetic. There is a scene in the movie in which a representative of the State Science Institute asks Reardon to hand over Reardon Metal in return for government money. It's established that the government really wants this metal, even as it condemns it, and will do (and in fact do) anything they can to get it. Except, Reardon tells the guy that if he just says that Reardon Metal is good, then he will sell it to the government. But the bad guy is unable to say it's good, that was too much and the bad guy couldn't say. Ummm...what? So the bad guys are what, incapable of lying or saying something that they don't fully believe? If you carry out the idea that the villains are those who can't express their judgement to such an extreme as this, they stop being worth watching.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1740670447258719504.post-34662077023285543472012-03-19T08:09:26.732-04:002012-03-19T08:09:26.732-04:00sometime i gets login problmessometime i gets login problmesnetflix sign inhttp://www.logindiscover.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1740670447258719504.post-42783784402958850362012-03-18T04:00:41.246-04:002012-03-18T04:00:41.246-04:00If what you say is the case then the book shouldn&...If what you say is the case then the book shouldn't drive "liberals" and "progressives" up the wall, but it does. It drives them batshit crazy in fact.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1740670447258719504.post-20339636689772944252012-03-16T15:40:54.479-04:002012-03-16T15:40:54.479-04:00Ayn Rand was pretty explicit; she wanted to write ...Ayn Rand was pretty explicit; she wanted to write black vs. white hat morality tales so as to add clarity to her ideas and to provide a response to similar works from authors on the left. Dickens wrote entertaining morality tales that had clear good and and bad guys and so have many famous and well regarded writers. There is a lot of making mountains out of mole hills regarding Rand.Algernon Sidneyhttp://algernon.sidney.comnoreply@blogger.com