Atlas Shrugged: Part II - 5% vs 81% on Rotten Tomatoes - Galt's Gulch

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Atlas Shrugged: Part II - 5% vs 81% on Rotten Tomatoes

Posted by sdesapio 12 years ago to Movies

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Posted by Eudaimonia 12 years ago

Just like Rand's books, the critics hate it but the people love it.

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  Posted by DR_BRETT 12 years ago
  
  The SO-CALLED "critics" -- are, in fact, NOT critical .
  
  (Not a rebuke, but a point aside)
  
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Posted by Solver 12 years ago

This extremely lopsided score reminds me that I really really disliked a recent movie I saw called, “Melancholia.” This was a movie critics liked, audiences less so. One said it was "a beautiful movie about the end of the world." Another, "an extraordinarily ambitious exercise in nihilism." Most seemed to like it because it was about sadness and depression.
For the first 10 minutes of this movie the world ends in slow motion and all life in the universe is extinguished while music plays. That was the best part. Then in what must be some kind of flash back it is all about two sisters – one a bitch and the other with her son and hating that her sister's a bitch. At the end of the movie three of them get in a magic cave they built while the planet Melancholia crushes them in to dust. My only guess why these critics liked this movie is that some want everything thing to be fair and equal for all of eternity.
That's my view anyway.

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  Posted by DR_BRETT 12 years ago
  
  The "Critics" hate themselves, and wish for suicide (but are too cowardly) .
  
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Posted by jmlesniewski 12 years ago

Part 2 is objectively better than Part 1, and Part 1 got 11% on Rotten Tomatoes. That is all you need to know about the Part 2 rating.

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Posted by bigjim 12 years ago

Any movie that had this high of a ratio of audience acceptance to critical rejection would make me want to go see it.

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  Posted by freedomforall 12 years ago
  
  But bigjim, you are biased in favor of reason.
  
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Posted by DR_BRETT 12 years ago

Rotting Vegetables = POISON, not "compromise" food .

(Yes, I realize Tomato is Fruit.)

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  Posted by overmanwarrior 12 years ago
  
  That sort of tells the whole story. The critics are way out-of-line from what people want. I mean 5%? I bet some of those critics liked the film 'Grey' and thought that 'Atlas' was inferior to that Liam Nieson film of late. They would of course be wrong.
  
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    Posted by Eudaimonia 12 years ago
    
    I've not seen "Taken 2", but I am a fan of Luc Besson, especially as he's figured out and is vocal about the threat of Islamic Supremacism.
    
    "Taken" touched on that threat as did "From Paris with Love".
    
    BTW, it's really, really sad that before ASP1 & 2 the only pro-America movie I can remember was Luc Besson's "From Paris with Love."
    If you haven't seen it, do so.
    
    Just wait until the Marxist Media and the Collectivist Critics figure out this recurring, underlying theme in Besson's films as of late.
    
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