I'm writing this in 2023 and I'm shocked that they are discussing this as far back as 2011. Can you imagine (oh well, yes we can!) how worse it is now since Obama and now under a Biden regime? Ayn Rand really did see the future.

Almost funny to hear them talking about the debt accumulation of 10 years, while the FED is now printing the same amount in a month.

Two types of people in the world:One group does independent, primary source research, questions everything they're told, questions the motivation of both advocates and critics alike, drawing intelligent conclusions,these are called free thinkers.The other group unquestioningly buys almost any nonsense,so long as it's packaged w/colorful phrases as security,safety,equality and social justice,especially if pushed by mannequins that read other peoples' writing("actors"), these are called liberals.

“I hate it when I predict the future with such clarity.” - Ayn Rand

This book could have been written yesterday as a news article!

This book is rated as the second most influential book (next to the Bible) in America, according to the Library of Congress. Even if people like it or hate it... that's pretty impressive. Granted it is severe and bludgeons you over the head with its idealisms, but the messages and insight Ms. Rand knew about government, people, business and politics, decades before it actually unraveled in this country (and other countries), is pretty impressive. People are denouncing this book and Ms. Rand, only because she is calling everyone out and they can't handle the truth.

Anybody here after the train derailments in Ohio and Michigan?

When did streaming really start to take off? Today Atlas Shrugged can be remade as a three season limited series. Imagine each season being ten episodes long. The series would be able to cover the book in more detail.

I love that in the novel when someone stood against the objectivist characters' values the objectivists never yelled or argued. They knew they were right and those incapable of seeing it wouldn't be made capable through arguing or screaming. I think objectivism is beautiful in that a world where everyone believed that their success and survival was their own responsibility, and not something they should be owed by others, would be Utopian.

This is amazing that this can now be moved to the documentary section of the library.

One of the best books ever written - where are you, John Galt ?

Although I read it in high school, I've been listening to it recently. It is now Feb. 3, 2024. DIE (discrimination, indoctrination, exclusion) has been shoved down our throats. As well as rail accidents, we now have increasing problems with airplanes. Corporations 'feel' it is more important to hire based on skin color, gender, disabilities, etc., than merit, skills, experience, etc. Rand's dystopian vision has started, and is coming to fruition NOW.

I loved the book as a novel. I did not think of it as prophesy. However, it's really spot on. Unfortunately, our world has disintegrated. Like "From the Waters of Babylon," we see how consumption and greed can create chaos. We're there. It's a dangerous spot. Freedoms are imperative. And, the ones that are directly related to creativity should never be squashed by government. My mind is my own and is not owned by anyone but me. I am a faith-based person, too! Go Galt!

I remember watching this episode of 'Hannity' when it first aired. I agree with all of the points that Sean Hannity made during this segment.

Only Obama lovers would despise this movie. They are stepping on your toes, aren't they?

Bidens government is the theme of this film. Its happening right now.

Ok, I'm confused... I've seen a female far-left socialist loving this book/movie... is she mad?

Good movies, but it’s 2021. It has had no impact on motivating people to stop their liberties from being stripped

I've read the book, and I love the movie.

High Five. I'm not a liberal nor a conservative (I'm a Libertarian), and I love this book. It's against socialism and unearned wealth. That's the idea! American freedom!! That's what I don't like about Republican and Democrat news, they over do some reviews.

The fact that these movies got out to the public just goes to prove that the devil does not have full control!

I agree. I also feel like another focus of the book that is often ignored is that it is as much about the individual as the government. It has a huge focus on individual achievement and self-realization that is entirely independent of political issues and has a universality of theme.

I wanna see it because Quark from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine is in it.

The fact that this movie was invested upon by people with money, failed, and continues to be talked down on proves Ayn Rand's argument. If everyone actually thought for themselves the world would be chaotically peaceful.

I get a laugh when I hear Republicans revering Ayn Rand as some sort of conservative spokeswoman. She would probably argue that Democrats and Republicans were just two factions of the same party, and that the correct political ideology is probably Libertarianism, because I have yet to meet a Republican who doesn't relish the idea of big military and a Christian theocracy which, rationally, is a form of big government in itself. Not to mention that most Republicans follow the Reganomics model for 'free market' capitalism, which wasn't even around when Rand wrote her novels and developed her philosophy.

Hollywood wasn’t against the movie. Ironically, the organization handling the movie handled both the fundraising and the production with a stunning incompetence that did little justice to the themes of the story. This clip smacks of one of the impotent looters, whingeing “nobody can blame me, if they only gave me a chance”

Happening now in 2019 AOC Bernie Sanders!

I bet you've never read it, Atlas shrugged is pretty damn crazy, and CAN happen.

Well, the free market spoke. It sucks.

As a Libertarian, I find myself agreeing with progressives on the big picture problems of this country - corruption, big banks/corporation control, poverty, etc. - but, it's the solutions where we head in completely opposite directions. Conservatives, I think, are harder to talk to about the big problems. They don't seem to get that big banks are the problem, they never consider talking about the Federal Reserve, or a gold standard. And telling them their foreign policy is socialism is an insult

since 1997 the pentagon has 8 trillion dollars unaccounted for mostly in no contract bids to private sector. They will not be audited. That is 8 trillion tax dollars to debt, I'm sure being spent fairly and wisely.

The irony here is incredible! The movie didn't get made for a long time because it wasn't going to make any money and low and behold it didn't. They're shitting on Hollywood for not wanting to make a movie about free market capitalism, while Hollywood's reason for not making the movie can be easily tied to the same thing. The ignorance is a spectacular sight!

Nothing to do with the film being extremely boring then? Weird how those libs stopped the public going to the cinemas to watch it, ain't it?

It's a shame the movie itself was mediocre. I loved the book, and had great hope for the movie. Dud.

Seven seconds into him talking and he mentions "Hollywood liberals" Thats how you know it's going to be an unbiased news report.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Ayn Rand ended up being a Welfare Queen when she was diagnosed with lung cancer and DEMANDED that the government help her!

The tea party is the one that makes the most sense. They don't want the government infringing on their rights to guns abortions gay sex and drugs. The fact that they're dissolutioned into believing they're free thinkers is irrelevant.

Ayn Rand, to me, was an alarmist philosopher who wrote fantasy novels just to entertain conservatives like Tom Clancy and all the other right-wing ilk. I hated her for that and about her other views on feminism as well.

Vlad, there is no need for a comma after the word "prostitute". Sentences start with capital letters. you have an extra "the" after the word "but". Here's the point: you don't get to sling mud until you get your own 'stuff' together. Stossel is not my favorite human being, but it appears to me that he is a long way from being a moron. You, on the other hand, cannot compose an ordinary sentence. Being charitable, I will assume that English is probably not your native tongue. That's fine and I thank you for making the effort to communicate in the only language in which I am fluent. However, there is an American idiom that refers to people "living in glass houses" which suggests that they should not throw stones at others. Stossel has worked his way up the corporate food chain. He's had crappy assignments and he's had a few good breaks. He's earned the right to speak his mind over the airwaves and via internet because he's proven that he has a good mind and can articulate thoughts clearly. You, on the other hand, are still struggling with English. Disagree with Stossel on his facts, if you wish, but you have no standing to attempt to assassinate his character or demean his accomplishments.

The bailout of GM was nowhere close to "socialist," and even the economists of the right agree it was needed and worked.Unions are not REMOTELY "bad" we all benefit from them unless you want to be a slave, give up any vacation time, protection for your safety, the 40 hour week and 5 day week. And NO India is NOT socialist, nor are workers better off ANYWHERE without unions, only the greedy CEOs and corporations, that's NOT "better off" for the nation.

So Hollywood was against making a movie...that it made. Because it was forced to make it by...something. Somehow.

Yes, it DOES mean that society should provide food or food services like SNAP for every person, in particular every child. And yes, it DOES mean we have a responsibility to provide that educational opportunity for EVERY child whose family doesn't choose to send them to private school or to home school. YES it MUST be provided, that is the ONLY way the opportunity will be there, and has been proven to be the best way to do so.

Very few societies tolerate anyone or anything that designates their flaws and shortcomings, that's why. Steinbeck might have won a Nobel prize for the Grapes of Wrath, but hey, we prefer Miley Cyrus twerking right? Side note; I hate politics, because it hates me thinking.

No, you're missing the bigger point: Government ALWAYS goes too far. Regulate a little? They can't do it. Regulate everything? That's more like it...

5:15 Nice to mention at the end of the converstain you're gonna view the movie you just reviewed.

"VERY child has the right to educational opportunity" And every child has a right to eat. But that doesn't mean government should run grocery stores. A right, means no one can deny something, it doesn't mean that it must be provided. "ducation is NOT inexpensive for the disabled or the needy," Only if you don't understand economics. Two children in private school can be taught for the cost of one in a public school.

This movie is the wet deam of fox news...

And of course it's beyond idiocy to think that the ONLY choices are no minimum wage or 1000 dollars an hour. "It's morally reprehensible to have kids if they can't care for them" a remarkable statement given the right's vicious attacks on women's right to choose, but no it's not "immoral" for poor people to have children, our SOCIETY should be far more responsible in helping meet their needs. That you think we should let them starve to discourage "Illegitimacy" is what's truly perverse.

Ayn Rand was a very confused individual she thought existence existed. Everyone knows that when the last person leaves a room that that room ceases to exist.

The movie is incredible! My husband and I loved it. I have a Masters Degree in Economic theory and he is a Pharmacist so I think this movie would appeal to the more educated viewer! I thought the book sucked when I read it years ago but the movie is excellent!

Rand was a dreadful novelist; her characters are caricatures. I've always been amused that libertarians think it reasonable for an architect to blow up a building because he believes his labor to have been corruptly used. Imagine a world full of people like Roark.

Its funny how Stossel and Hannity try to portray themselves as the modern-day protagonists of the story.... when it reality, they are plain douchebags Though, just imagine this movie with Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie ... sublime!

I clearly stated that that only registered Nazi voters were eligible to receive benefits from these social programs. Not "social programs" but social programs since that is exactly what they were. Furthermore, the point of my comment was to illustrate how the Nazi's were NOT socialists and that their use of the word socialism in their party name pertained to their adoption of social programs which alone hardly makes a socialist.

The first movie sucked. The 2nd and 3rd were god AWFUL.

I keep telling you I'm on your side!Debra Wasserman-Schultz advocates NO restrictions on who can vote, no need for ID and no restrictions on mail-in ballots, etc.In other words, you go to poll, ask for ballot & vote.This allows our side to cast extra votes on behalf of those elderly, minorities & others that don't normally vote.What's wrong with you using votes not cast by your elderly neighbors. Afterall who you'll vote for somebody good, not some tea bagger. This is why we must support this

Rand had plenty of opportunity to get this film done right during her lifetime. And she blew it. Then . . . she left her hard-earned estate to an incompetent who sold the movie rights to other incompetents. Her bad again. Result: this gawd awful excuse for a film.

It has nothing to do with the book's ideology. Despite Hollywood's percieved 'liberal politics' the fact is that ALL films in the USA are made by businessmen. If they thought there was enough of an audience for 'Atlas Shrugged' as a film they would have put $100M behind it (which is probably what it would have needed to be true to the book).

No... The reason that marijuana was outlawed is because the tobacco industry was losing money to the pot growers. The tobacco industry had a lobby and marijuana growers didn't. Big tobacco lied about how bad pot was and hid the truth about their own product.

So Congress acting in concert with the President are incapable of violating the Constitution? Surely you aren't arguing that Congress' consent is all that is required for an action to be constitutional. Many acts of Congress and of Presidents have been voided as unconstitutional by the Supreme Court, which has itself occasionally upheld plainly unconstitutional actions and legislation, demonstrating that it too is subject to human fallibility. Placing faith in those who seek power is folly.

It's so refreshing to have Stossel and Hannity explaining how big capitalists have no say in government. Oh, I'm sorry, I slipped into their parallel universe for a second.

Don't cloud the issue with fact! Just because Hitler was an anti-gun, bisexual, vegetarian, atheist who believed everything ultimately belonged to the Reich doesn't mean he bears any resemblance to the modern antigun, bisexual vegetarian, atheist who believes everything belongs to the state and labels himself a "socialist".

Producers had trouble getting it made because it had a piss poor script, zero actors of any note who had expressed real interest in it and had a $20 million dollar budget. Hollywood is a business. Most of the studios believed Atlas Shrugged to be a lousy product, and they were absolutely correct. Isn't it ironic that the when ordinary people don't succeed that objectivists/libertarians are so quick to call them lazy and unproductive but when their own product can't get financed and (continued)

Isn't Atlas Shrugged a blueprint/codebook, not a telling of the future, but how they want the future to unfold. It wasn't supposed to be revealed to the general public.

That's a truly despicable notion. EVERY child has the right to educational opportunity, it should not depend on giveaways, but a strong public education system where EVERY kid has a chance is the only proper way. And, again, we ALL benefit from an educated populace. Education is NOT inexpensive for the disabled or the needy, that you think it's easy and cheap shows you know absolutely nothing whatsoever about schools or education except what you've been fed by the far right.

Why does Hannity support this book yet hate Ron Paul so much? Especially when Ron Paul would support him cutting down his tree because he understands property rights. Atlas Shrugged was a GREAT film!!!

That's contradicting Rand's philosophy that no man should rule over another man.

I love this myth of 'Liberal' Hollywood. Hollywood is a total company town, run by businessmen with the sole purpose of making as much money as possible.

Actually, Atlas Shrugged was almost made with a large budget and a name cast. That fell apart, and this movie was rushed into production to avoid losing the rights. It has nothing to do with "Liberal Hollywood" but rather, just Regular Hollywood.

The only difference between $8 mimum wage and $100 min. Is how many people will be unemployed as a result, how many businesses (that hire), will not be able to do business in the market, and how much costs of goods sold (which affect the poor the most) will cost. "NLY for a decent living wage for workers," And who decides what is decent, that should be the workers themselves. And what is decent about employment? If there was zero unemployment, there might be SOME legitimacy to what you say.

That's flat out untrue, I'm not remotely "closed-minded" just because I won't swallow lies. No, disagreeing is NOT an attack, an attack is an attack. And I don't need "job applications," I've had the same career for over 30 years. I do fine, but that's far from the purpose of the human life.

Do any of these conservatives who claim to love this book ever figure out that Rand blames Christianity as the cause of looting.... that Galt specifically cites Original Sin as the most hateful concept ever?

Modern day Russians refer to the old Soviet Communists as fascists. Word "fascist" derives from the Latin word fasciae, meaning to bind together, and could be interchangeable with totalitarianism. "Right & left" are antiquated terms of 20th Century, more to describe intended alliances than anything more noble.Sadly,contemporary people still try to use these meaningless labels to condemn or condone a regime or an oligarch.I usually ignore the flowery prose of the tyrant who in end still oppresses

I would say a big reason the movie failed was because of the awkward chemistry between the two leads, to the point that when there was finally a love scene it was like watching two magnets with Aspergers clink together.

A funny similarity: in my country some guys wanted to make a movie about opressive bureaucrats and how they are ruining private firms. Guess what-nobody wanted to help them make this movie, till conservative newspaper have made this public and a lot of people from business circles have invested in it. And despite all the oposition from artists and movie institutions (yes, all controlled by the state) it is going to be made.

I am aware that teachers are badly underpaid and that it's destructive and stupid for our nation to not pay teachers better. This stat is absolutely meaningless, teachers are PROFESSIONALS and SHOULD be paid as such. The problem of underpaying other working people is not solved in the slightest by further screwing teachers or blaming them for something they have nothing to do with at all, except providing an opportunity for the kids of those underpaid people to have a chance at a better life.

guess what, people? i live in Europe and you want to know in how many cinemas this movie went on? ZERO.

I find that many people who have been taught that others must be sacrificed for various greater goods actively hate Rand's book and this movie. No wonder the world is a mess.

"Fascism" with a capitol "f" is a specific political party started by a former member of the Italian Socialist Party, Mussolini.His social security program was adopted by Roosevelt, and until 1936 invasion of Ethiopia, was held in high regard in US.Abandonment by West sent him to Hitler.Oddly, likes of Joe Kennedy & British elite, felt that Hitler was a "positive" force to ally with. Fascism with a small "f", long predates & doesn't describe a particular party, but how an oligarch imposes rule.

Kindof interesting that Armin Shimerman is in this movie, since he was the voice of Andrew Ryan, a character largely inspired by the writing of...Ayn Rand.

I have to ask: which corporations are "running" the government? Why do you assume corporations necessarily support free markets?

I have two types of cancer. No government can stop me from eating weed. Stossel for prez, Swann for Vice Pres, Ron Paul for new Chairman of the Fed!

This video stops dead in its tracks at the 1:20 mark and refuses to play any further.....any idea why, and will anybody correct this?

No freedom means I can freely take your property. You are clearly telling me I can't do something by marking it as owned. Who told you that you could own anything?

Hey I'm on your side comrade.My ancestors were"helping" get big city Democrats elected since the '20.Ever hear of the"Purple Gang". We both agree there must be a final solution to the tea baggers and other conservatives so our utopian socialist state can occur. Unfortunately we're still in minority compared to knuckle dragging tea baggers so enhancing vote("vote early & often")is an acceptable tactic since we still can't win w/ regular votes. Keep eye on goal. Imagine: NO CONSERVATIVES!

She was a "Pop-culture" figure and a novelist, period. The only people more embarrassingly clueless about academic Philosophy than she was are her disciples. She should have stuck to novels.

Government intervention isn't the problem, far too LITTLE is the problem. Greed is the problem.

Moussolini was the head of the Italian Socialist Party before splintering off to form the Fascist party.He defined Fascism as abandoning the backwardness of the right while not following the destructiveness of the left.This was called at time the "Third Way."(Wiki definition)

", of course. Minimum wage laws do NOT hurt workers " Cool, we should then raise minimum wage to $1000 dollars an hour, everyone will be RICH, RICH, RICH! Starting a family is a choice, it is morally reprehensible for someone to have kids if they are not capable of taking care of them. Funny fact that illegitimacy is correlated with government welfare, because institutional welfare creates perverse incentives.

The term fascism does not date back to ancient Rome.

That's idiocy, of course. Minimum wage laws do NOT hurt workers IN THE SLIGHTEST. Corporate greed hurts workers. NOBODY is "worth less than minimum wage." Our minimum wage is FAR below the poverty level a person working full time should be able to feed their damn family. You place the "value" of labor ONLY based upon the greed of the corporation, which will NEVER value work at any level above the lowest they can get away with.

notice how many time obama says he is going to "let" us do something as if he could take it away.

Atlas Shrugged wasn't attacked by liberals or Hollywood. Atlas Shrugged is simply a shitty book. The poor man's Orwell.

In public schools teachers pay does not correlate with cost per student. You do the math. In private schools teachers pay is entirely dependent on how good of a job they do. "by denying education to the disabled and kids from poor families" I would not be denying anyone anything. It would be entirely their decision on how the child should be educated. If society thinks it is important, then charities would be established. Especially now with internet, education could be very inexpensive.

No corruption is someone in a position of authority using that position to gain a personal advantage, eg a cash bribe, skimming funds for personal use, inserting relatives into subordinate positions at the expense of better candidates, awarding contracts for supplies to an entity you have a direct share of ownership. You're describing dissatisfaction with a system you view through personal bias. That's not corruption.

To not address the false paradigm: That the right (in actuality, Ultra conservatives are moderate) blames the government and the left blames corporations. i blame people who aren't willing to think more then those who take advantage of them.

I cant find this movie anywhere. Pls help.

I thought the reason these films almost did not get made was because movies cost money and there is barely a market?

You're thinking of the crony companies reliant upon government for their existence, which is the antithesis of what should make for a successful company. Take away government interference, subsidies, exclusivities, preferences, corruption, licences, and companies would need to go back to how they all started in the first place: Providing a good or service to a customer at a competetive price in a free market where a competitor's price keeps them honest, rather than govt protecting them.

In a free market, high markup results in new competition. Government limits the number colleges by numerous means. Some colleges have high tuition because they are prestigious, but many colleges and especially trade schools are affordable. My college was paid for, by the business I ended up working for. If the cost was too high for that business, they would not have paid it. But government gets all the money it wants by theft and cost does not factor.

I was just explaining why it was outlawed. I agree, pot should be legalized. It has way more benefit than harm; as you mentioned, it is not just medical, but has many different uses. There have been many arguments about it over the years, but it was the tobacco industry's faulty statistics about how much harm it caused that gave legislatures the motive to outlaw it.