There's an Atlas Shrugged movie coming out today

[Gaith]

and high-speed rail becomes the norm....

How does an America that embraces and requires mediocrity develop a nationwide network of high-speed rail?

What does that say about a political party dead set against allowing even that to happen?

Bingo, that there's the supreme irony of this crapfest: they're trying to market a movie about the construction of totally awesome trains to... the very same dipshits who hate the mere thought of totally awesome trains.

Up next, an equally terrible and low-budget movie about a group of swell and upstanding Halliburton and Blackwater execs who do fantastic Joan Baez cover concerts - sold to the anti-war hippie community! Genius!

If the filmmakers couldn't afford a period setting and had any balls, they'd have rewritten the plot to be about airplanes, but considering these are the same people who think any kind of Atlas Shrugged movie is a good idea, their moronitude is hardly surprising.

 

[Professor Zoom]

If there were always people willing to pay for shorter travel times, and pay enough to keep an airline in business, why did Air France and British Airways retire the Concord?

Welcome to the free market. Concord was to expensive and to small to carry enough people to make it profitable.

However, it hasn't turned people to using zeppelins.

 

[scotpens]

^^ I'd love to see dirigibles make a comeback. Just imagine the majestic sight of a low-flying, 1000-foot-long penis.

 

[Professor Zoom]

^^ I'd love to see dirigibles make a comeback. Just imagine the majestic sight of a low-flying, 1000-foot-long penis.

I would totally do it too. That would be a kick ass way to travel. If I had the time and money.

 

[Gaith]

It's actually not too uncommon to see them floating around the San Francisco bay. I too would love to take such a ride, the combination of flight and (compared to planes) quiet must be wonderful.

 

[Greg Cox]

Just wait until today's steampunk teens are running the country.

It will be the golden age of airships!

 

[Professor Zoom]

Just wait until today's steampunk teens are running the country.

It will be the golden age of airships!

thank god it'll be steampunk teens, if it's Harry Potter teens, I'm outta here.

 

[DrCorby]

It's actually not too uncommon to see them floating around the San Francisco bay. I too would love to take such a ride, the combination of flight and (compared to planes) quiet must be wonderful.

Actually, Phillip Jose Farmer had me longing for modern dirigible flight after extolling their virtues in his Riverworld series. He made them sound fast, reliable, and luxurious!

 

[Gaith]

And an hour over San Francisco will only set you back $500, plus taxes.

 

[the G-man]

Roger Ebert thought that, politics aside, it was tedious.

It may or may not be tedious but Roger Ebert hasn't been able to put politics aside for years.

 

[Rush Limborg]

and high-speed rail becomes the norm....

How does an America that embraces and requires mediocrity develop a nationwide network of high-speed rail?

What does that say about a political party dead set against allowing even that to happen?

Bingo, that there's the supreme irony of this crapfest: they're trying to market a movie about the construction of totally awesome trains to... the very same dipshits who hate the mere thought of totally awesome trains.

Here's the difference.

In the Atlas Shrugged universe, the totally awesome trains are created by...

The Private Sector.

What the Right hates is the government overseeing things like that.

If it becomes profitable to build high-speed rail, the free market will handle it, without assistant from the government.

 

[Professor Zoom]

How does an America that embraces and requires mediocrity develop a nationwide network of high-speed rail?

What does that say about a political party dead set against allowing even that to happen?

Bingo, that there's the supreme irony of this crapfest: they're trying to market a movie about the construction of totally awesome trains to... the very same dipshits who hate the mere thought of totally awesome trains.

Here's the difference.

In the Atlas Shrugged universe, the totally awesome trains are created by...

The Private Sector.

What the Right hates is the government overseeing things like that.

If it becomes profitable to build high-speed rail, the free market will handle it, without assistant from the government.

*biting tongue, not wanting to turn this into the place that shall not be named*

 

[Stone_Cold_Sisko]

I saw a trailer for this... it looked positively awful. Never read the book, don't know anything about it. I mean the trailer was hilariously bad... there was all sorts of standard dramatic music, cues, and cuts...... except the subject matter was anything but dramatic.

I suspect this is one of those things that you have to have read the book to 'get', because the film looked... really bad from the trailer.

 

[Gaith]

Here's the difference.

In the Atlas Shrugged universe, the totally awesome trains are created by...

The Private Sector.

What the Right hates is the government overseeing things like that.

If it becomes profitable to build high-speed rail, the free market will handle it, without assistant from the government.

No. The right-wing animus towards trains isn't just theoretical; it's ideological. Trains, by their comfortable and social nature, naturally bring people together. The right wing only favors that which drives countrymen further apart.

 

[Christopher]

From what I know of the movie, it's not because the world ran out of oil.

According to io9's review, though, it is because turmoil in the Mideast has made oil prohibitively expensive -- which, given current events, feels fairly plausible. In fact, judging from the review, it's probably the least implausible thing about the movie.

 

[Rush Limborg]

Here's the difference.

In the Atlas Shrugged universe, the totally awesome trains are created by...

The Private Sector.

What the Right hates is the government overseeing things like that.

If it becomes profitable to build high-speed rail, the free market will handle it, without assistant from the government.

No. The right-wing animus towards trains isn't just theoretical; it's ideological. Trains, by their comfortable and social nature, naturally bring people together. The right wing only favors that which drives countrymen further apart.

 

[God Magnus]

On what I believe is a coincidental side note, I was tickled to see Armin Shimmerman was in this. Not because of his DS9 days (which is neat of course) but because he also was the voice of Andrew Ryan, the man who followed principles the game writers based on those of Ayn Rand in the "Bioshock" and "Bioshock 2" video games, leading to the creation of the undersea city "Rapture".

 

[Admiral Shran]

Here's the difference.

In the Atlas Shrugged universe, the totally awesome trains are created by...

The Private Sector.

What the Right hates is the government overseeing things like that.

If it becomes profitable to build high-speed rail, the free market will handle it, without assistant from the government.

No. The right-wing animus towards trains isn't just theoretical; it's ideological. Trains, by their comfortable and social nature, naturally bring people together. The right wing only favors that which drives countrymen further apart.

Wow!

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Just wait until today's steampunk teens are running the country.

It will be the golden age of airships!

Just as long as IT'S NOT A BALLOON.

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[scotpens]

It's actually not too uncommon to see [airships] floating around the San Francisco bay. I too would love to take such a ride, the combination of flight and (compared to planes) quiet must be wonderful.

I assume you’re talking about blimps. A blimp is little more than a streamlined balloon with engines. Large rigid airships are a whole different animal.