I gotta tell you Vimkuthi, I am a huge Dark tower fan, even though the series ended pretty disappointing, as Stephen King series often do. When Idris was cast as the gunslinger I was not enthused, since he looks nothing like the book describes, the gunslinger is like a throwback to an aged Clint Eastwood type. Then I watched the movie and it turns out he was great. I will watch a movie just because he is in it now! On the other hand sadly, Sony pretty much screwed the pooch. They tried to jam parts of all the books together, when all they had to do was make The Gunslinger the first movie. Now, who knows when we will get another chance to see the live action version. DAMN YOU SONYYYYYY! End of rant. Idris is awesome though, I had no idea he was a kick boxer. Great job as always.
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The trailer made me think that the casting of the main characters was pretty good. It's hard to make a good book to movie adaptation. Even Ender's Game left out some crazy amazing parts. But at least it ended up being pretty damn good. Jamming a bunch of stuff together never helps. The Rurouni Kenshin movies are the only good example I can think of. They made 95 anime episodes into 3 live action movies and it was actually decent work. Atlas Shrugged part 1 wasn't bad either. The reset of the movies went downhill. I watched the movie before the book and I still think the movie is a good way to introduce people into the book.
Yeah, I gotta say Idris's acting was probably the best part. McConaughey not so much. But yeah The adaption was the killer. I haven't seen Rurouni Kenshin yet, I have heard good things. I finally watched Death Note, then went straight into all the Macross and just finished so I might check that out next while I'm on an anime rampage lol. As far as Atlas shrugged, I have to agree... after they lost money on the first one (which I totally liked) they kind of phoned in the sequals. Gotta hand it to them for having the balls to get it done no matter what but...kind of a letdown. I was working through The Virtue of Selfishness when I started steeming and now this has kinda taken over my life haha.
Glad to know that you are an anime fan. Here is one my old review posts: https://steemit.com/entertainment/@vimukthi/why-and-how-you-should-watch-aldnoah-zero-review-analysis-love-letter-and-personal-thoughts
I had some great discussions on the comment section too.
I started with The Fountainhead and still I consider it to be the greatest work in modern literature. Atlas Shrugged didn't have the intensity of The Fountainhead. At times I was physically reading it which is not something I experienced with Atlas Shrugged. I was never interested in Ayn Rand non-fiction. I know the points. So the entire process would a process of getting fed obvious stuff into my brain.
Cool, I will check it out! Yeah, that pretty much sums it up. Objectivism is pretty straight forward. It's pretty much common sense, the only surprising thing is how many people just don't get it. lol