Cinema

Atlas Shrugged

POSTED BY: piratenews
UPDATED: Thursday, May 19, 2011 23:22
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KWICKO

Wednesday, May 18, 2011 11:26 PM

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Originally posted by AURaptor:

Anyway, as I said...

Not the greatest flick, quite average, if even that.

Liked seeing some familiar faces, and if part 2 is made, I'll certainly go see that as well.

Sounds like snobjectivists are really into supporting blandness.

Your "review" boils down to "not great, average at best, I'll certainly go see Pt. 2"

Kinda like, "Yeah, Scream 3 really sucked - can't wait for 4, though!"

I'll let you in on a little clue: Two of shit, is still shit. If they really wanted to fuck you, I guess they'd make Parts 3, 4, and 5, since you're such a fanboy that you'd line up for those as well!

"Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservatives." - John Stuart Mill

STORYMARK

Wednesday, May 18, 2011 11:31 PM

Im sure there are some scientologists waiting for Battlefield Earth 2.

"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."

AURAPTOR

Thursday, May 19, 2011 1:06 AM

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Originally posted by Storymark:
Im sure there are some scientologists waiting for Battlefield Earth 2.

Now that was darn near funny.

" I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend. "

KIRKULES

Thursday, May 19, 2011 1:49 PM

I enjoyed the movie, so did my apolitical wife and left leaning libertarian friend. I do think reading the book first is a good idea, but the movie is worth watching even if you haven't.

DREAMTROVE

Thursday, May 19, 2011 4:47 PM

Two,

Curious to see where the data got corrupted. I feel I can reject the conclusion out of hand on two very obvious grounds: 1) politics are inherited, but not genetic, and 2) people change.

But that said, it's possible that what they're looking at is religious brains vs. academic ones, and then is the difference the cause, or are they both brainwashed in different ways?

My offhand guess is that a lot of left-thinking is fairly left-brained, and comes from academia. If you learn your politics this way, you probably have a different structure to that information than if you learn it at the dinner table, church, or figure it out for yourself.

That's what a ship is, you know - it's not just a keel and a hull and a deck and sails, that's what a ship needs.

TWO

Thursday, May 19, 2011 5:52 PM

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Originally posted by dreamtrove:
Two,

I feel I can reject the conclusion out of hand on two very obvious grounds: 1) politics are inherited, but not genetic, and 2) people change.

But that said, it's possible that what they're looking at is religious brains vs. academic ones, and then is the difference the cause, or are they both brainwashed in different ways?

The students self-reported their political attitudes confidentially on a five-point scale from "very liberal" to "very conservative" and then their brains were scanned in an MRI. I don't want to spoil the story by giving away the surprise ending, but I will give you a paragraph so you will want to read the rest online:

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To test the hypothesis that political liberalism (versus conservatism) is associated with differences in gray matter volume in anterior cingulate cortex, we recorded structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans from 90 healthy young adults (61% female) who self-reported their political attitudes confidentially on a five-point scale from "very liberal" to "very conservative" [3, 7]. We then used voxel-based morphometry (VBM) analyses [8] to investigate the relationship between these attitudes, expressed as a numeric score between one and five, and gray matter volume. We found that increased gray matter volume in the anterior cingulate cortex was significantly associated with liberalism (Figure 1A) (R = 22.71, T(88) = 2.633, p = 0.010 corrected; see Experimental Procedures for full details of analyses). We regressed out potential confounding variables of age and gender in our analysis (see Experimental Procedures). Therefore, our findings are not attributable to these factors.

Political Orientations Are Correlated with Brain Structure in Young Adults, Current Biology 21, 677–680, April 26, 2011

PDF: http://bit.ly/lqLQn9 or Summary: www.cell.com/current-biology/retrieve/pii/S0960982211002892

The Joss Whedon script for "Serenity," where Wash lives, is
Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/two

DREAMTROVE

Thursday, May 19, 2011 8:32 PM

I don't think you've removed age when your subjects are students. As someone who studies the brain a lot, I haven't seen any actual brain talk here, might just be technobabble.

Color me highly skeptical.

That's what a ship is, you know - it's not just a keel and a hull and a deck and sails, that's what a ship needs.

KWICKO

Thursday, May 19, 2011 11:22 PM

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Originally posted by Storymark:
Im sure there are some scientologists waiting for Battlefield Earth 2.

LOL.

And given the reactions and the attendance levels (they fell off a cliff after opening weekend), I think the post-mortem on the movie would read, "Atlas Shrugged - And So Did Moviegoers".