{"id":5859,"date":"2011-04-19T08:09:42","date_gmt":"2011-04-19T13:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=5859"},"modified":"2011-04-19T08:09:42","modified_gmt":"2011-04-19T13:09:42","slug":"p-j-orourke-on-the-atlas-shrugged-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=5859","title":{"rendered":"P. J. O&#8217;Rourke on the <i>Atlas Shrugged<\/i> Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some people have asked me if I&#8217;ll be reviewing the <i>Atlas Shrugged<\/i> movie, since one of my gigs is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/bib.html\">reviewing science fiction movies<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0452011876\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=lawpershompag-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=217145&#038;creative=399349&#038;creativeASIN=0452011876\">Ayn Rand&#8217;s original novel<\/a> certainly qualifies as science fiction. (I&#8217;m also familiar enough with the novel to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.locusmag.com\/2010\/April1st_AtlasSequel.html\">craft this parody of it<\/a>.) But I thought it would be nearly impossible to do justice to the source material in movie form; a TV miniseries would probably be more appropriate to fit that sprawling, didactic story. <\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;m glad the inimitable P.J. O\u2019Rourke <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/ideas-market\/2011\/04\/06\/atlas-shrugged-and-so-did-i\/\">has saved me the trouble<\/a>. He&#8217;s seems to have done a good job of dissecting the movie&#8217;s flaws (and advanced word has been very negative just on the story-telling and movie pacing fronts) without rejecting the underlying message.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some people have asked me if I&#8217;ll be reviewing the Atlas Shrugged movie, since one of my gigs is reviewing science fiction movies, and Ayn Rand&#8217;s original novel certainly qualifies as science fiction. (I&#8217;m also familiar enough with the novel to craft this parody of it.) But I thought it would be nearly impossible to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":18,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,11],"tags":[1111,1113,1112,1110],"class_list":["post-5859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-media-watch","tag-atlas-shrugged","tag-ayn-rand","tag-movie-review","tag-p-j-orourke"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5859"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5864,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5859\/revisions\/5864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}