Atlas Shrugged,  Ayn Rand,  Day By Day

Day By Day April 15, 2011 – Picture Show

Day By Day by Chris Muir

There is a good summary of reviews of Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged-Part 1 movie here.

P.J. O’ Rourke’s review for the Wall Street Journal is here.

Atlas shrugged. And so did I.

The movie version of Ayn Rand’s novel treats its source material with such formal, reverent ceremoniousness that the uninitiated will feel they’ve wandered without a guide into the midst of the elaborate and interminable rituals of some obscure exotic tribe.

Meanwhile, members of that tribe of “Atlas Shrugged” fans will be wondering why director Paul Johansson doesn’t knock it off with the incantations, sacraments and recitations of liturgy and cut to the human sacrifice.

Read it all……

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