Do You Even Have the Patience to Laugh at Atlas Shrugged Part I ?

It is so off-the-wall, yet so very bad. So boring, yet not even unintentionally comic. So dumb they don't even know what year they're in.

Surely, not even the most ardent Rand kool-aid drinkers can stand to watch this without falling asleep.

It streams now, on netflix.

I wanted to hang on until Armin Shimerman (Principal Snyder from Buffy) showed up, but I couldn't.

In the meantime I'll be watching the last two episodes of Boardwalk Empire's season one (2010). This one wins without challenge the award for the best television series watching in these last four weeks: Justified, Game of Thrones and Boardwalk Empire. Except for Treme, which is in a class all its own, it's also the best series I've watched in the last two or three years. Downton Abbey was ridiculous and very bad. I never could get beyond season 2 of The Vampire Diaries. Sons of Anarchy stalled out (needed to clean its carbs maybe?). Hell on Wheels, with that tired old wife and kids in the refrigerator of the Confederate Hero lone blahblahblah, black side kick -- argh. The Young Sherlock Holms -- well Jeremy Brett's The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes still has all my Holmes love. I still love The Good Wife, particularly for its timely issue court cases. I still love White Collar, for its escapist fluff, bantering, non-angsty love songs to New York City. Perhaps Good Christian Bitches, er, Belles, as it was renamed, if it calms down some, might come in for regular watching.

But Boardwalk Empire has them all down on the mat in comparison, from directing, to dialog, to acting, to mise en scene, to costumes, to stories, to history. Additionally the big boardwalk stage set is in Red Hook and I've walked it. :)