Atlas Shrugs as Algore Speaks

Atlas Shrugs as Algore Speaks

Change may be the only constant but some things and people never change, are as predictable as the New York Yankees, as constant as the weather. Go figure.

Atlas, the mythological Titan who supported the heavens, shrugged in Ayn Rand’s classic novel and liberal movie critics did likewise in reviewing “Atlas Shrugged: Part 1.” Rand’s Atlas got tired of doing all the heavy lifting but movie critics never tire of panning any film that isn’t PC.

Remember 2004′s “The Passion of the Christ”? Critics went at the first installment of a promised trilogy adapting Atlas Shrugged from its sprawling thousand pages to the movie screen with a comparable passion, which must mean it’s a pretty good flick.

Ripping all but one of its cast, the reviews range from calling it “ordinary,” to “anticlimactic,” to “dull,” to “barely professional,” all of which just might be translatable as encomia coming as they do from the likes of Roger Ebert. See review excerpts here: http://on.wsj.com/hIfDON and clips here: http://bit.ly/fUklt3

Good luck in seeing “Atlas Shrugged: Part 1,” though. On Long Island with our 2 1/2 million residents, it’s only being shown at 3 venues and nationwide is getting little exposure. Even so, the preliminary estimated opening weekend gross is $1.677 million, or $5,590 per theater, not bad considering you may have to travel a few hundred miles to view it.

You don’t have to travel nearly as far to see the Goreacle who would make Atlas wince. . .
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