‘Atlas Shrugged’ Now Out in Blu-Ray and DVD
PJTV has an interview with producer Harman Kaslow
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“Take Shelter” Movie Shocks!
Are you crazy if you see bad things coming down the road (in America) or are you really seeing “something evil this way comes.” “Take Shelter” by Jeff Nichols is on one level a look at Curtis, played exceptionally well by Michael Shannon, a man slowly going crazy like his mom before him. Your heart might break at the hurricane he brings into his loving family’s life.
But, on another level, what if the doctor is wrong and Curtis is really seeing the future? We know that the majority of Americans feel the country is on the wrong path. Incomes for the 99% are stagnant, unemployment is near depression highs, debt is almost unmanageable, countries are on the verge of bankruptcy. I’m tempted to say, “Dogs and Cats sleeping together!” The New Yorker writes that Nichols “…has caught the way the dangers of the world intersect with insanity…”
My wife and I liked the movie. The audience, not so much. We heard a few boos at the end. Maybe, it’s easy to be in denial about the consequences of our actions here in the U.S. Maybe, it’s a liberal crowd of people who would vote for Obama again. Whatever, it is hard to be the nail that sticks up. We don’t respect or even listen to the views that go against the MSM’s doctrine. For me, though, it feels like we are running out of time!
“Seven Days in Utopia”
I just ordered “Golf’s Sacred Journey” by David L Cook and soon to be in theaters starring Robert Duval and Lucas Black.
Movie Review: Atlas Shrugged
Last night my wife Bev and I saw “Atlas Shrugged” at the Fox. The crowd was late arriving, but the place looked sold out by the time the film rolled. To me, the audience looked younger and grungier than typical movies at the Fox. I was excited. Afraid I would not be able to see the film on Saturday night, I bought tickets online through Fandango. The Friday night show at 7:25 was sold out.
I thought the film was almost exactly like the book. I knew just when to echo those famous words, “Who is John Galt?” Dagny Taggert was played by Taylor Shilling. She is perfect. She’s beautiful, thin, well dressed and when she turns those big, round, blue eyes on you…well she’s perfect. Hank Rearden played by Grant Bowler was a great pick, too. I just pictured him a little fatter.
The book to Ayn Rand ten years to write and was published in 1957. I’ve read it at least four times. To me the film, set in 2016, had a perfect balance between modern and an smokey, film noir look of the fifties. The bad guys from James Taggert, and Wesley Mouch, to the lobbyists and the union leaders were taken right out of Washington D.C. today.
Watching the film brought on a certain sadness. It could have been a documentary of our times. On the other hand, there was joy that finally many will see this film that haven’t read the book.
One moment of joy was watching the train run on Rearden Steel. My only nit would be the bridge across a chasm that was built in something under six months. When the film ended, the whole audience, with the exception of Bev who thought it had a made for TV look, erupted in enthusiastic applause.
April 15th: The Premiere Of Atlas Shrugged
The Humble Libertarian has info on the premiere of “Atlas Shrugged” and a sneak preview, the first I’ve seen, of Hank Rearden’s ungrateful family.
I’m having difficulty waiting!
“Silver Circle” - They Want To Be At Sundance!
When the dollar loses its place as the world’s reserve currency, the Federal Reserve steps in to “protect” the nation.
Inflation has skyrocketed and families are suffering everywhere to provide and keep food on the table. The question keeps resurfacing: Can the very reason we got here be the answer to get us out? Join the Rebels in this film to find the answers.
You can help with a donation.
“The Stoning of Soraya M” And The Burka
Last night Beverly and I watched the movie “The Stoning of Soraya M.” The story is based on the book of the same name and an actual murder by stoning in 1986 in Iran. Yes, death by stoning continues to this day. Amnesty International says “there are at least 11 individuals at risk of execution by stoning in Iran.”
Maybe, I get angry at the way women are treated in lands operating under Sharia or maybe I’m just an angry guy. However, I just don’t see the attraction of Islam for anyone except men who are used to having power. I’m certain western women would not put up with being treated as second class. And yet, we have women of the Muslim faith who emigrate to the west and continue wearing the clothes that are a symbol of their loss of human rights.
The movie tells the story of Soraya M, married to Ghorban-Ali and mother of two boys and two girls. The husband beats her and wants a divorce to marry a 14-year old, but he is unwilling to support two families. Soraya will not give him a divorce for she has no way to support herself.
With the help of the local Mullah, Ghorban-Ali concocts a scheme to have authorities find her guilty of adultery, a finding that sentences her to death by stoning. After her death, Ghorban-Ali would be free to remarry. It is nuts that a woman is considered guilty when accused and must prove her innocence. A man is considered innocent unless proven guilty. Soraya is convicted because her hands touched a widower and she smiled at him.
The movie shows the men in agreement, even Soraya’s father considers her a whore. The women who should unite against the men and this abomination of stoning are riddled with those who would believe the worst of Soraya. I think women are their own worst enemies. There is even one devout bureaucrat who doesn’t want Soraya murdered and prays for God’s will. He prays for a sign that will allow him to cancel the execution.
You want to know what we are up against? We are fighting the dark ages, the superstitious and instead of saying enough!, we have many women among us who want to find some way to compromise, to find some moderate way. Just today Candy Spelling writing at The Huffington Post is not a fan of the French decree of banning the burka. She says it only affects 2,000 women. Banning the Burka is, in Spelling’s words “…an all-out assault on religious freedom and women. It relates to the burkas and niqab worn by some of the most-religious women to conceal either all but their eyes or their identity completely.” No she didn’t gnash her teeth and rant about the loss of human rights. She’s ok with the subjugation of women apparently as long as they have the freedom to show that they are Muslim.
Spare me!
Movie Review: The Book Of Eli
We rented “The Book of Eli” last night and I found it particularly moving.
Imagine a world that had been destroyed by war and as a result, all Bibles are burned by a population that believes that religion caused the suffering. Imagine God speaks to one man. Tells him where the last Bible is hidden and instructs him to take the Bible west where it will be safe. Imagine the journey our hero, Denzel Washington, makes, walking for 30 years to the west. Imagine that our hero has God;s promise that he will be protected if he has faith. Imagine that there is someone out there on the road that will do anything…to get the book that Eli carries.
A chill went up my spine when Eli quoted the 23rd Psalm and I could repeat the words my father taught me. My heart was at peace at God’s will for Eli and for us all as the credits rolled.
‘MAYBE I’M NOT THE GUY’
Radioequalizer has libtalker Ed Schultz on MSNBC reading Obama’s mind as he thinks “‘MAYBE I’M NOT THE GUY”
As opposed to Tom Cruise (George Bush) in Knight and Day “flashing his billion-dollar grin” saying “I’m the guy! I’m the guy!”
