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Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Film "Demand Atlas to Your Town!"

Posted by Paul Constant on Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 3:39 PM

Apparently, against all odds, filmmakers have finished their cut of Atlas Shrugged, Part 2 and scheduled it for an October 12 release date. Now you can "demand" Atlas Shrugged, Part 2 "to your town" by filling out a form online. When I did this, I was told that 64 other people "in [my] area" have demanded Atlas Shrugged, Part 2.

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If you have a disposable e-mail address and you live in Seattle, I urge you to fill out this form. Atlas Shrugged, Part 1 was a terrible movie but a fascinating moviegoing experience, and now, like the Twilight series, I feel like I have to see the whole awful experience to its conclusion. Even though Part 2 has an almost entirely different cast and crew as Part 1, I have to make an effort to finish this job. (I live in fear of the possibility that, if Part 2 does as poorly as the first one, there will never be a part 3 to round out the series. I especially dread this because Part 3 will probably be entirely made up of John Galt's 90-page climactic speech, and I look forward to watching an audience pretend to enjoy that movie.) So let's demand Atlas Shrugged, Part 2 in Seattle. Just because you fill out the form doesn't mean you have to go to the movie. Your assistance in this matter is greatly appreciated.

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I hope when they finally bring in John Galt, he's played by Ron Paul.

I'd definitely pay to see that shit.

Posted by Urgutha Forka on July 24, 2012 at 3:47 PM

That speach has to happen! God I'm excited, I can't believe part 2 even got made.

Posted by marxiano on July 24, 2012 at 3:50 PM

Begging the free market to give you a showing? Um, I'm pretty sure Ayn Rand would oppose that.

Posted by Baconcat on July 24, 2012 at 3:51 PM

@3 Boom!

But I requested it. I was the 89th person in the Seattle-Metro area. So, you're welcome.

Posted by Tracy on July 24, 2012 at 4:00 PM

If someone really wanted Atlas Shrugged in their town, they would step up and pay to bring it in. That's how the free market works, champ.

Posted by Zebes

on July 24, 2012 at 4:03 PM

Number 91! Galt 2012!

Posted by mrbarky on July 24, 2012 at 4:06 PM

Geez. I live in the heart of libertarian country, and only 34 people here requested it.

Granted, most of the lbertarians here are afraid the computer is trying to read their thoughts through their CRT monitors...

Posted by Sheryl on July 24, 2012 at 4:09 PM

Masochist.

Posted by stating the obvious on July 24, 2012 at 4:09 PM

So what you're saying that there are at least 89 uesless breathers in Seattle?

Posted by McGee on July 24, 2012 at 4:11 PM

@9 Galt would outsource himself to China if he believed any of the claptrap his Russian mistress told him.

You'd be far better off watching "Farewell, My Queen!" instead. It might teach you something, plus the addition of nude scenes with Virginie Ledoyen and others make it far more watchable.

Posted by Will in Seattle

on July 24, 2012 at 4:15 PM

Now, if I can get all my 50 fictional accounts to "demand" it in Johnson's Landing, BC, than it will have more people requesting it than live there. Wish me luck.

Posted by Will in Seattle

on July 24, 2012 at 4:17 PM

No no no no! This is a curse to be sworn against a town. I say we make Portland watch it.

Posted by MacCrocodile

on July 24, 2012 at 4:30 PM

I'm going to build my own movie theater and invite the coolest people to see this movie.

Everyone else can just stay home and not watch this movie. Because all the cool people will be in my theater. Watching this movie. In my theater.

Posted by fairly.unbalanced on July 24, 2012 at 4:36 PM

@12 yes, but Portland has to live with us getting the Cup again. How about Spokane?

Posted by Will in Seattle

on July 24, 2012 at 4:57 PM

Lacks the believable characters and compelling plot of Battlefield Earth.

Posted by Proteus on July 24, 2012 at 5:01 PM

"Watch for government officials to beef up inspection of facilities offering the film. Can you think of health department inspections, fire dept. inspections, water & sewer service interruptions, building department inspections, equal opportunity audits..........etc."

CAN YOU THINK OF THIS

Posted by blip on July 24, 2012 at 5:08 PM

@14

As a former liberal resident of precariously balanced Spokane, I'd rather we not make it any harder for my comrades. Send that shit to Idaho or the tri-cities.

Posted by Zebes

on July 24, 2012 at 5:28 PM

103

Posted by ishf on July 24, 2012 at 6:10 PM

If the cast and crew are all new, someone new should review it.

Posted by nos

on July 24, 2012 at 8:23 PM

@19 - I will do this terrible thing for you.

Posted by MacCrocodile

on July 24, 2012 at 9:45 PM

The monologue would be AMAZING in Atlas 3. If only in a Clockwork Orange wire-your-eyelids-open way.

Seriously, most people quit the book when they get to Galt's speech. 90 pages of monologue will crush even the most masochistic of readers.

Posted by sloegin on July 24, 2012 at 10:43 PM

What happened to the cast of Part I? Did they go John Galt?

Good joke. Everybody laugh. Roll on snare drum. Curtains.

Posted by madcap on July 24, 2012 at 11:24 PM

The new cast for "Atlas Shrugged 2" includes the holographic Doctor from "Star Trek:Voyager," the dude who played Jethro in the movie of "The Beverly Hillbillies," Leland Palmer from "Twin Peaks," the dad from "Family Ties," and Teller, of Penn & Teller.

The message here couldn't be clearer:

someone must immediately revive "The Love Boat," as these desperate actors need work so bad, they sound like they're one step away from selling a kidney for cash.

Posted by bobbyjoe on July 24, 2012 at 11:29 PM

THE GUY WHO PLAYED BIFF FROM BACK TO THE FUTURE...

SAMANTHA MATHIS (hot in Pump Up The Volume...played Princess Toadstool in Super Mario Bros???)...

DIEDRICH BADER (aka, Drew Carry's friend who's not Ryan Stiles)...

ARYE GROSS (!!!!!!)...

and playing the role of JOHN GALT:

D.B. SWEENEY (the guy from the ice skating movie who was then in a movie where he was abducted by aliens. oh wait, this was all 20 years ago).

Thanks for playing everyone.

Posted by LEE. on July 24, 2012 at 11:57 PM

Mission accomplished...but only 25 fellow Rand-heads in all of Dallas-Ft.Worth?

My city shames me. Again.

Posted by MarkDallas on July 25, 2012 at 12:30 AM

Read the book. Didn't make it through the first 5 minutes of the movie.

Posted by happy time on July 25, 2012 at 12:45 AM

Michael Gross is in this stinker? He must just be in it for the trains (he's a huge foamer)

Usually, I love a bad film, but anything that exposes, however slightly, the writings of that drug-addled sociopath is an instant NO for me. I'm not an overly sensitive type, but the glee with which she wrote about the train wreck in "Atlas Shrugged" was sickening.

Any Rand is dead. I'm glad she's dead. I don't want to see a film version of any of her grade z romance-novel-meets-snuff schlock.

Posted by Catalina Vel-DuRay