Atlas Shrugged

To my infinite surprise, this actually looks like they took the book seriously. I was expecting another STARSHIP TROOPERS debacle.

One cannot tell from the trailer, of course, what they changed and what they kept, but unlike the trailer for GREEN HORNET, I do not see anything here indicating that the film-makers despised the source material.

Maybe this is a sign. Perhaps films like this get made when a sufficient number of people, weary with the false narratives, airy promises, and empty rhetoric of the idolaters of the all powerful Nanny State, would like instead to see a return to a more honest, rational and practical way of life. Perhaps. Or this could be a final farewell before the euro-collapse of the American Dream.

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