3. TIL Ayn Rand's pro-free market novel Atlas Shrugged was adapted into a three par...

TIL Ayn Rand's pro-free market novel Atlas Shrugged was adapted into a three part film series in the 2010s. After the first two movies bombed, the producers resorted to Kickstarter to fund the third film.

The comments here reflect nothing more than the intolerance and ignorance of the left.

With that said the movies sucked, not because the book sucked, but because the directors and actors sucked.

The book on the other hand wasn't bad and if read with an open mind, possess some good questions regarding topics like the unrestricted free market, government cronyism, bureaucratic mismanagement, intellectual property, and human behavior. In the end the book and its message are no different than any other philosophy or political ideology book in that it expresses its ideas in absolute terms and they cannot be converted to the real world because nothing in the real world works in absolute terms.

Agree, disagree, or somewhere in the middle doesn't matter. The book is worth the read.

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