I know we have an Atlas Shrugged thread in the Books section, but I just watched Part 3 of the movie, and it's so damn hilarious, but what stood out to me is the end.
While John Galt is being tortured, Dagny Taggart arrives on a roof via helicopter and walks right up to a guard and points a gun at his face.
She and the guard talk. He doesn't go for his weapon, or try to apprehend Dagny, or reach for a radio. What he wielded were the words I'm just following orders. And for that, he gets a bullet in the head.
When she gets to Galt he's flat lined, but she revives him by saying the words in the pledge of their childless paradise - something like "I won't live for anyone else, and won't ask them to live for me" but much longer. Please note that she wants him to live at that moment. Also, the torture device was the harnessing of electricity, which the character in the movie is outraged that it's being used by the government in this way, but in real life Thomas Edison invented the electric chair (much like how in The Fountainhead Hoard Rourke is based on Frank Lloyd Wright, but Rourke's houses always come in under budget).
Oh! and the paradise place has like 2 kids, the children of a mom who has a food truck (a fucking food truck!!!!). She didn't want her kids being told what to think. Well, now their not being told anything. They were just sitting on a bench like a couple doofs. One was strumming a guitar she couldn't play and the other was just smiling like someone who doesn't know what a song is.
Something really incredible about the paradise place is that they aren't coming up short on anything. Parsley? Rice? They probably got it. There's even a montage of Dagny and John Galt hanging out and they are in a restaurant. What? Is someone going to tell me that Galt recruited someone who was like "Yeah, I'm not putting up with giving my all and getting so little in return" and then became a busboy for these guys?
I AM NOT recommending it. But if you want to watch something enormously stupid, this would be a good one.