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Rye wrote:I hope the Bioshock movie comes out with the second one. It's slated for 2013, so maybe.
I...very much doubt that, since no movie studio wants to touch it so the project is basically abandoned.
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The cinemetography is decent, but it does not provide any reason why a viewer should give two shits about the heroes in this.

They shouldn't be asking "Who is John Gault?" but "Why should an audience become emotionally invested in John Gault?"

And given the stance of the philosophy behind this movie, it's likely a question they would not even consider.
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Patrick Degan wrote:But AS is also preaching to a relatively small congregation. To any moviegoer coming off the street, if this film comes off as a preachy, incomprehensible mess, they're going to walk out wondering how to get their money back. And the producers are counting on this one being the first part of a trilogy, the second two parts will fail or perhaps not even be finished if part one tanks.
Tea Partiers will eat this shit up, conservative groups will buy the DVDs in bulk to hand out (like they do with books), and it will easily (and unfortunately) turn a profit since the budget was only $15 million.
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It'll be Passion of the Christ for the Wall Street set.
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Holy shit, I like a guy eating in a hella expensive restaurant wondering what's wrong with the world.

He is such a poor, poor man. I weep for him.

Also, how is "How deep is the ocean?" a useless question?
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I was expecting a lot more publicity given the movies themes and origins. As jollyeaper said this is practically in the same vein as that infamous Mel Gibson film. Yet it has not gained the limelight. I guess Ayn Rand is not so well known amongst the general population who don't read much anyway.
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Sarevok wrote:I was expecting a lot more publicity given the movies themes and origins. As jollyeaper said this is practically in the same vein as that infamous Mel Gibson film. Yet it has not gained the limelight. I guess Ayn Rand is not so well known amongst the general population who don't read much anyway.
I do agree with the sentiment that this movie will likely find a dedicated, influential audience. Probably not in the theaters, I think it'll flop, but I think it'll be a tremendous cult fav, and I mean cult in the worst sense. Shrugged still moves a ton of copies each year and the damaging thing isn't the breath of the appeal but the positions of the people it appeals to. They're precisely the ones in a position to do so much damage to society.

The movie Wall Street was meant to be an indictment of the place but it's instead been hailed as a triumphant tale, recasting Gecko from villain to Greek hero. The man on the street might not be quoting the greed speech by heart but the brokers on Wall Street do. They're the ones in position to do the most damage.
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PeZook wrote:how is "How deep is the ocean?" a useless question?
There isn't any deep philosophical meaning to a known fact of geography.
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Actually it used to be a decent appeal to the mysteries of nature. Why is the sky blue? Where does lightning come from? Fucking magnets, how do they work? You were left to invoke magic for most of human history. That human intellect could find answers to these questions changed everything. There was no longer a need to cower in superstitious dread of things we couldn't understand. Of course, people remain free to refuse understanding.
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Patrick Degan wrote:
PeZook wrote:how is "How deep is the ocean?" a useless question?
There isn't any deep philosophical meaning to a known fact of geography.
Except that the depth of the ocean varies, in the same fashion the height of the sky can be defined (Troposphere, ozone layer, whatever) but can also be looked at as being infinite if you just go up and up into space.

Don't knock an abstract question just because it's said by the villains in a Randian novel :D
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PeZook wrote:Holy shit, I like a guy eating in a hella expensive restaurant wondering what's wrong with the world.

He is such a poor, poor man. I weep for him.

Also, how is "How deep is the ocean?" a useless question?
Well, obviously he is someone who deserves to be in that restaurant, otherwise the free market would have him begging for food on the street./sarcasm
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This movie should only be made by either Zack Snyder or Kerry Conran in the same vein as Watchmen or Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow. FFS, there's no listing for the swashbuckling Ragnar Danneskjold on the movie's IMDb page! :banghead:
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The Grim Squeaker wrote:
Patrick Degan wrote:
PeZook wrote:how is "How deep is the ocean?" a useless question?
There isn't any deep philosophical meaning to a known fact of geography.
Except that the depth of the ocean varies, in the same fashion the height of the sky can be defined (Troposphere, ozone layer, whatever) but can also be looked at as being infinite if you just go up and up into space.

Don't knock an abstract question just because it's said by the villains in a Randian novel :D
So what if ocean depths vary from location to location? Those are still just facts of geography and hardly profound in the way Ayn Rand thought it should be.
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Patrick Degan wrote:
So what if ocean depths vary from location to location? Those are still just facts of geography and hardly profound in the way Ayn Rand thought it should be.
Ayn Rand thought a society with everyone acting like sociopaths was a good idea. I'm not sure we need to bother pointing out the other flaws in her thinking. XD
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Patrick Degan wrote:
The Grim Squeaker wrote:
Patrick Degan wrote:
There isn't any deep philosophical meaning to a known fact of geography.
Except that the depth of the ocean varies, in the same fashion the height of the sky can be defined (Troposphere, ozone layer, whatever) but can also be looked at as being infinite if you just go up and up into space.

Don't knock an abstract question just because it's said by the villains in a Randian novel :D
So what if ocean depths vary from location to location? Those are still just facts of geography and hardly profound in the way Ayn Rand thought it should be.
The height of the sky is also a fact depending on how you define the atmosphere (And a consistant one, as opposed to oceanic depths).
And the Ocean isn't Blue :D (Another of the questions as I recall) ;)
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Patrick Degan wrote:So what if ocean depths vary from location to location? Those are still just facts of geography and hardly profound in the way Ayn Rand thought it should be.
It's a pretty typical mythic standard. Some of the oldest human literature uses it (book of Job, for instance).
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