FeedThe Fountainhead
June 14 2009, 8:00pm
Letting Ayn Rand adapt her own novel for the screen was a terrible terrible wonderful amazing awful idea. I'm torn between giving this a 3 and giving it a 9, so I guess I'm going with a 6.
Gary Cooper is actually really awesome as Roark, and he wades gamely into the thick of Rand's atrocious polemics poorly disguised as "dialogue." I must've asked myself probably every 2-3 minutes "how on earth did this movie ever get made?"
And I'm still not sure of the answer. King Vidor plows through the material & deserves most of the credit for making the damn thing somewhat watchable. The set design is remarkable throughout, and I probably would've enjoyed the thing more if I'd just turned the sound off entirely. I could never recommend this with a straight face to anyone, but for all my friends who consider themselves connoisseurs of le bad cinema: unless you've seen The Fountainhead, you're just fronting.
Gary Cooper is actually really awesome as Roark, and he wades gamely into the thick of Rand's atrocious polemics poorly disguised as "dialogue." I must've asked myself probably every 2-3 minutes "how on earth did this movie ever get made?"
And I'm still not sure of the answer. King Vidor plows through the material & deserves most of the credit for making the damn thing somewhat watchable. The set design is remarkable throughout, and I probably would've enjoyed the thing more if I'd just turned the sound off entirely. I could never recommend this with a straight face to anyone, but for all my friends who consider themselves connoisseurs of le bad cinema: unless you've seen The Fountainhead, you're just fronting.
