from Rational Review, here is J. Neil Schulman's review of Atlas Shrugged part 1.

First Impressions of Atlas Shrugged: Part 1

Here is the excerpt that really brought the value of the movie to me.  I plan to see it, if it is shown in my area.

There is, in the movie, a new railroad bridge made out of a new kind of steel - lighter, stronger, and cheaper than steel - and this bridge is elegantly simple.

Atlas Shrugged: Part 1 is that bridge.

If you've loved the novel and understand the limits of independent film, you should appreciate the film adaptation.

It might of won 4 Oscars including best Director, Best Actor & Best Picture, but I found the Kings Speech incredibly boring & am I the only who did?

Christopher Hitchens wrote a piece last month criticizing the film for not being historically incorrect http://www.slate.com/id/2282194/. Well Braveheart was historically inaccurate (in fact seriously inaccurate) but I can’t deny that I thought it was a great film.

Okay I’ll admit being as I’m a hardcore republican I’m fed up with Hollywood lording awards on films that are flattering about the British monarchy, particularly as it imbeds a false impression of the British monarchy upon the masses etc & as a consequence there are political views opposing the monarchy that get emotively shouted down just ought heard.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6W07bFa4TzM

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00x8fw4 first episode was on last night & it looks as if the BBC has spent big bucks on this series & it looks as if its going to explore some interesting ideas.

I thought it about time this forum had a thread where people can recommend movies they’ve recently seen or criticize films they’ve recently seen.

It seems alien invasions are currently the fashion for blockbuster US TV series.

We already had the first season of V & now there’s The Event

I know people around these parts liked V but personally I prefer The Event as its a lot more ambiguous as to what the aliens intentions happen to be.

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/britains-trillion-pound-horror-story

90 minutes of the most libertarian thing that’s been on British television all year

If you’re not a libertarian before you watched this documentary you will be after watching it

I'll post a link when the program is posted online

 Barbara Billingsley, who played June Cleaver on Leave It To Beaver, has died.

Here's her famous scene from "Airplane".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKfS3udCCx0

Just this year, I got "Body Snatchers" from Netflix.  I wanted to watch it for the umpteenth time.  This disk had a nice, but short, interview with McCarthy.   I was still holding out hope that he would be immortal like the college professor, Prof. Walter Jameson, he played in "The Twilight Zone". 

It began last Sunday & its in fact rather good.

They’ve transplanted the whole thing to modern day London & Sherlock Holmes is being played as a somewhat Aspergers odd ball.

Something people might want to check out.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00t4pgh

I just watched Nathan Fillion and Neil Patrick Harris in a Joss Whedon production called Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog.  It was pretty damn funny.

DYK that Joss's Brother is named Jed, and he scored this flick?  Weird, but funny, and that is what it was designed to be.

Hey Guys:

Was thinking about an old computer game I used to play on my 486 called space quest!

Does anyone remember this game? It came out of sierra software in the 80s and 90s.

One of the best textline computer games I ever played.

Just had a convo with Furb he reckons it reminded him of red dwarf! I'm so down with that.

Disappointing no one has written a space quest movie on the misadventures of Roger Wilco. Would be really cool to see something like that.

I seem to recall particularly the joke they had in the game where Roger wilco was moving around the game and Vader and Skywalker having a fight in the halls. This sort of humour totally rocks!

Check out the SQ fansite @ http://www.spacequest.net/

cheers,

Right now the only show I'm waiting for is The Cape but does anyone know if there will be any series premiering with a pro-liberty slant to it?

Just finished watching the Sergio Leone classic For a Few Dollars More (1965)

A Clint Eastwood classic!

Got me thinking about how not many really good Westerns are made these days.

Gotta get some more westerns like that in the pipeline I reckon. Classic stuff!

An interesting footnote is the fact that Lee Van Cleef who played Colonel Douglas Mortimer also appeared in the Twilight Zone in 1961.

I really hope someone out there writes a classic novel or something with that "period piece" style in mind.

The last good Western I remember was Unforgiven in the 90s.

Any thoughts?

cheers,

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I think I was twelve when Captain Planet first came out and I admit that I was swept up in the whole Eco-movement at the time so I loved the show and rarely missed an episode. Despite enjoying it at the time I questioned some of the points the show was trying to get across and how they portrayed the American character Wheeler. As the show progressed I started cheering for the bad guys because I thought they were cooler and more interesting while the Planteteers were pompous, pretentious, meddlesome and boring. When I started to study writing more I would happen to catch reruns of the show on Cartoon Network and realized how poorly the characters were developed and relied heavily on the celebrity names behind the voices. 

Growing up I don't think I've ever saw the Billy Jack movies and reading the synopsis on badmovies.org I generally avoided watching them. Thanks to netflix I've given them a chance. I was surprised at the anti-government message throughout the 3 films I've watched. The series starts with Born Losers which doesn't have a strong anti-government overtone but it shows the ineffectiveness of the local officials when a biker gang begins to initiate force upon the townsfolk. I don't know how prevalent the topic of police brutality was featured in movies around 1967 but it was interesting to see cops portrayed in a negative light even though the guys getting worked over were scummy.

Is Milwaukee Bucks Point Guard Brandon Jennings a fellow conspirator?  At 0'29" into the highlight footage I captured the screen shot below so you can see what I mean.

I hardly ever get to see sports on tee-vee, so I completely flipped out when I saw this while on a weekend get away in Nevada.

Here is the screenshot of what I saw:

ESPN has taken the video down.

I am listening to Ziggy's podcast about Dr Who and his possible leftist persuasion, I am not sure why is there a big debate. I started watching Dr Who after I heard Gard talk about it many times, I started watching it from Christopher Eccleston(9th doctor). Around at the end of that season when Dr Who goes with Captain Jack and Rose back to World War 2(its that episode where a creepy kid wears a gas mask and keeps on saying 'Are you my mommy?'), where Dr Who tells that boy's mother "Don't forget the Welfare State"(right when they are trying to give her hope about allied victory in the war).

That line just greatly turned me off with the series, and I didn't watch the next season and the new doctor. I don't understand the big debate.

Neat interview with Frank Herbert and David Lynch discussing the early 1980's film version of Dune. Part 1/6. Herbert also discusses his thoughts on politics. He seems to think the US government of his day was broken and that it required more checks & balances. He proposed setting up all kinds of independent review boards from the local to federal level that would wield power over elected reps.