The Fountainhead

King Vidor, Patricia Neal, Gary Cooper and Peter Lorre do a bang-up job making this movie thoroughly watchable, in spite of Ayn Rand's insipid, illogical, extremist, didactic script. Should you watch it? Only if you've got some time on your hands and would like to see some hilariously subversive sexual tension between Neal and Cooper.

I read The Fountainhead in high school, and it was a pretty entertaining novel, and I thought it had a lot of interesting ideas and a lot of messed up ideas, but it wasn't until I got to college and had to read real philosophy, real social theory, and real critical theory that I realized everything Ayn Rand wrote was a bunch of bullshit. So the script of this movie, if you have half a brain on your shoulders, will feel clunkier than Mighty Ducks 3, but the acting, and King Vidor's direction, won't disappoint. Just don't forget while you're watching that WE HATE COMMIES. DON'T LET THEM INFILTRATE. YAY CAPITALISM!