Jo Piazza mounts a spirited but ultimately futile defence of a movie that only appeals to audiences with hearts so small the Grinch would be jealous.
The success of "Atlas Shrugged" occurred despite near universal panning from movie critics.
Budget: $15,000,000 (estimated)
Gross: $1,686,347 (USA) (17 April 2011)
How this is called a success is beyond me, but then I don't understand conservative economic theory either.
Best bullshit:
The website Rotten Tomatoes, which charts both reviews and audience sentiment, gave the film just a 6 percent positive rating from critics, but an 85 percent positive from audience members, with more than 7,000 viewers weighing in...
..“Shrugged” producer Harmon Kaslow contends that the site is biased and has only compiled negative reviews of the film.
“I think Rotten Tomatoes has put up only a selected number of reviews and it appears the reviews they have selected are primarily the negative ones,” Kaslow told Fox411.com.
So they claim RT is fucking with the critics results, but the suspiciously high number of positive reviews is passed over without comment.
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