Atlas Shrugged: Part 1

So stupid seeing the rich guys called "producers" who are out to save America. They are out to save their money. Period.

If you have an incredibly simplistic view of a complex society, this is for you. Only unrealistic stereotypes of capitalists can save us from the evil non-producers!

Amazing film! The leftists will hate it! Too much truth

Apart from the bad direction and bad acting, this film makes me wonder why Ayn Rand was seen as an intellectual. The underlying arguments this story is trying to make could be ripped apart by the average 12 year old in about 15 minutes.

I've never seen a movie that is a more true to life depiction of human government, if left to government itself. Constantly trying to help people, but constantly hurting them instead. Power corrupts. But, I can also see why many people ideologically disagree with the conclusions drawn. However, I truly loved it.

The story the Left loves to hate.

First off, I'm open to Miss Rand's general take on social philosophy, so I'm not badmouthing the movie on ideological grounds. The plain truth is that it sucks infected donkey balls. Bad script, bad direction, bad casting, and bad acting. The only GOOD news is that in the "trilogy" of films made to serialize the book, THIS PoS is as good as it gets. So, don't waste time on this because it goes from so-so here to bad in Part 2 to just plain laughable in the finale. I'd give this two stars instead of one but I want to steer you clear of the whole steamin' pile. If you dive in, don't say I didn't tell you so.

There's a huge rift between people who "get" Ayn Rand, and people who don't. Most critics of this movie probably are actually criticizing the philosophy and not the movie in various guises, or perhaps even in self-deception. An equal quality movie on a philosophy they agreed with would almost certainly get much higher ratings from the critics. It's common for people in the liberal arts to dislike highly capitalistic themes—and in particular—reputed movie critics fit that bunch. It's almost as if they fear this message getting out and catching on. The movie attempts to compare a highly capitalistic system with a system that's based on wealth redistribution, and what Rand might see as an unachievable goal of fairness (when it's attempted by the state) (that consumes snowballing amounts of resources as if fails to achieve progress). There's an element of clunkiness in the awkward manner it does this, and that's carried over from Rand's novel itself. That would be the biggest fault in both the novel and the movie. I feel the critics exaggerate how bad this is, but really it's almost something that would not bother a more rational and less intuitive sort of person The concepts turn over rocks in people's minds and they fear what critters they may see. Thus, you'll not get a fair judgement of this movie from anyone but the people of whom it attempts to redeem.

By no means perfect considering this film is the highest quality of the 3 movies in the trilogy from a production standpoint. The acting is very good from the cast the are brought in front of the camera.

Great story and i love the message behind it.