Did you know there's a movie version of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged?
No? Well, you're not alone. The first part of a trilogy (!!!) based on Ayn Rand's libertarian bible was released in limited theaters on Friday and it currently has an 8 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes. That's really awful.
Some choice critic reviews:
Ayn Rand's monumental 1,168-page, 1957 novel gets the low-budget, no-talent treatment and sits there flapping on screen like a bludgeoned seal.
Sitting through this picture is like watching early rehearsals of a stage play that's clearly doomed.
This comically tasteless and flavorless adaptation of Ayn Rand's bombastic magnum opus delivers her simplistic nostrums with smug self-satisfaction.
However controversial, Rand's ideas deserve better than this watered-down, uninspired bilge.
Even the staunchest Objectivists will object to a final product that is, for all intents and purposes, little more than this decade's "Battlefield Earth," albeit with fewer Dutch angles and somewhat neater facial hair.
In other words: Shit Sandwich.
By the way, anyone truly "going Galt" would never pay to see a movie in the first place because it contributes to the economy. Good idea for a movie. Oh, and they're making two more parts!