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RiaW #90: Atlas Shrugged: Part 1 – The Movie Reviewed

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After a fifty year wait, Atlas Shrugged is finally a movie. Kind of. It’s a movie the same way YouTube clips of people talking in limos and building train tracks would be a movie.

The production values are just this side of a Lifetime Movie (Alternate title: “Not Without My Train Tracks”), but as an added bonus this movie definitively proved you can  take a 1000 page book and cram that expansive feeling of boredom into a two-hour movie.

Not to worry though, as we took that stagey drama and made stagey drama-ade. Comedienne Bri Pruett, came by to bring the pain and the funny. If you’re in Portland be sure to catch her on 4/22/11 at the Bridgetown Comedy Festival.

Also giving us a much-needed assist was the ever-insightful Comrade DougJ of Balloon Juice. Doug took the side of “pro-reason” in our first-ever tag team debate. Read it and Weep debates: Now with 50% more tags!

Lastly, we’d like to give a shout out to Brian and Erin, who provided Ezra with the second most appropriate snack imaginable during the movie: Limited-Edition Reagan Library jelly beans. (The first was Rearden Popcorn.)

0 comments on “RiaW #90: Atlas Shrugged: Part 1 – The Movie Reviewed

  1. Alex Falcone says:

    After the Audible ad about railroads made out of rape, I played the song “Tracks of my Tears.” I thought I should point it out in case you didn’t catch it.

  2. Pere Ubu says:

    Objectivists should not be allowed to piggyback off others’ arguments! Sheer parasitism! Also, their speeches were less than an hour long so I doubt their Objectivist chops.

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