• • The “gentleman’s F” and the scourge of deliberate mediocrity 
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Atlas Shrugged movie  | By and large, I much prefer the movies I’ve given an F over those I’ve given a D-, or often well above. In other words, when the Atlas Shrugged trilogy finally ends with Dagny Taggart tossing Howard Zinn’s A People’s History Of The United States into the fires of Mordor, I’ll be there on opening day, queuing up with my lightsaber and my Glenn Beck Rally To Restore Honor T-shirt. If the third Atlas Shrugged film is anything like the first two, it’ll be cheap, incompetently staged, atrociously acted, and unctuous to its core, but at least it’ll be an experience.      View blog reactions

• • • Atlas Shrugged: Part II—The Strike 
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Atlas Shrugged movie  |Atlas Shrugged  |Capitalism  |Going Galt  | Atlas Shrugged is premised on the idea that the world only has a few true geniuses—great industrialists, inventors, musicians, and artists, too, albeit plainly none involved in the making of the Atlas Shrugged movies—and “going Galt” means they’re going to take their toys and go home. The arrogance of that is astounding, and it robs both parts of this adaptation of empathy, which is the primordial soup of good drama.      View blog reactions