Atlas Shrugged DVD Screwup

[Sleepy]

I found this rather amusing.

news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/atlas-shrugged-film-producers-replacing-100-000-dvd-213051848.html

Basically, the description on the Atlas Shrugged DVD cover declared it to be a story of courage and self-sacrifice, which, if you know anything about Ayn Rand, sounds like a complete load of crap. I admittedly haven't read the story, but given her infamous rejection of altruism, I think it's safe to say they screwed up pretty badly here.

[Mlle Antéchrist]

Ah, I love the smell of irony in the morning.

[DeadpanDoubter]

I love this.

I also love a comment I saw, in reply to someone stating that, despite her beliefs, Ayn Rand drew Social Security:

Did she pay into social security?
If she did, then she has a right to withdraw her funds.
Nobody likes being told to save money, or eat their veggies.
So what?
Both are good for you.
Too many think a hot bag-o-fries is a good vegetable, and saving is for old folks.
Get over it.

[terri]

Here's the AV Club's take:
www.avclub.com/articles/atlas-shrugged-producers-boldly-release-unregulate,65031/

[RavynousHunter]

Ayn Rand espouses radical (and idiotic) ideals; immediately backtracks on them when convenient. Just like every other extremist, neh?

[Sleepy]

Haha, it didn't take too much sifting through the comments before I found Rand = Hitler.

[Damen]

Heh, I like this quote:

Ayn Rand believed in the free market and the free market spoke. The Atlas Shrugged movie bombed.

And this one:

“Ayn Rand is dead. So, incidentally, is the philosophy she sought to launch dead; it was in fact stillborn.” - William F. Buckley

And this one:

Isn't the "comes to life" part equally misrepresentative?

[N. De Plume]

“Ayn Rand is dead. So, incidentally, is the philosophy she sought to launch dead; it was in fact stillborn.” - William F. Buckley

Last I heard the philosophy was disappointingly alive in the current crop of neo-cons.