Who Is This Nobody?
by digby
OMG, I’m so totally excited. It’s finally here:
It’s got good production values and the jump-cuts-per-millisecond of a real trailer. And Michael Lerner is Barney Frank! Best of all, the makers know that story appeal isn’t as important to their intended audience as faithfulness to the Rand philosophy, so while it’s hard to figure out what or who exactly we should be rooting for — Two unpleasant people and their railroad? Capitalism?
Noooo, we are supposed to root for the two most hottest hotties making super charged love on a fast moving train full of money. That’s what Atlas Shrugged is really all about. They should have hired the people who wrote the Twilight series to really do it justice.
And I just can’t buleeeve that Brad Pitt didn’t fight for the role of a lifetime. Or anyone recognizable for that matter. What, Gary Sinese and Kelsey Grammer had scheduling difficulties? And I think Angie Harmon would have been fine as the toothsome Dagny if she could be spared from her obscure cable TV series. I guess the Hollywood liberal conspiracy runs so deep that they couldn’t even hire the handful of quasi-famous C-list conservative celebrities for the most important wingnut movie of all time. Sad.
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