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I haven't seen it since theaters and in my memory it's a good movie but if I had to put money on it I'd bet that my enjoyment was 90% the soundtrack the soundtrack to 2 was way worse and, surprisingly, so was the movie
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i don't agree with taubin on everything but she rules https://twitter.com/HoeffnerJoe/status/1681617958139772928
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Blood Boils posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0Oz9CrhYJg i shall watch this
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Mantis42 posted:Unfortunately Johnny Black doesn't seem to have been shot on the same sort of film stock they used for Black Dynamite, so it's more digital looking. And I don't think it looks as funny but we'll see. It def doesn't look as good as black dynamite but that's ok it still looks promising
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The Barbenheimer combo sat above 90% in both cases.
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loquacius posted:https://twitter.com/metalinjection/status/1681683109069070336?t=sH64764SXaZki10YtwTJnQ&s=19 I just heard the news today
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Sound of Freedom, a Christian thriller about a former federal agent rescuing children from exploitation, is this summer's surprise box office hit. Made for about $15 million, it earned almost as much on its release day as the final installment of Indiana Jones and has raked in more than $85 million since opening earlier this month. But the movie is also being criticized as a vehicle for conspiracy theories and misleading depictions of human trafficking — landing it in the middle of the country's politically polarized culture wars. The film, based on a real-life, controversial anti-trafficking activist, is being heavily promoted in conservative media. Former President Donald Trump is hosting a screening on Wednesday at his golf club in Bedminster, N.J . A big part of its success is an appeal from its star, Jim Caviezel, who comes on screen at the end urging viewers to buy more tickets so other people can see it and help end child trafficking. It's a model distributor Angel Studios calls "pay it forward." Caviezel, who previously played Jesus Christ in Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ, is also drawing attention to the film in other ways. For years, he's been a prominent promoter of the false, violent QAnon conspiracy theory — specifically, the baseless claim that an international cabal of elites is abusing and killing children to extract a substance called adrenochrome. These wild claims have become deeply enmeshed with narratives about child trafficking in recent years, from the QAnon predecessor Pizzagate conspiracy theory, which falsely alleged a pizza parlor in Washington, D.C., was home to a child sex ring, to false claims that online retailer Wayfair was selling children in the guise of furniture. In press appearances promoting Sound of Freedom, Caviezel continues to spout QAnon falsehoods. On a recent episode of former Trump adviser Steve Bannon's podcast, Caviezel claimed "the whole adrenochrome empire" is driving demand for trafficked children. "It's an elite drug that they've used for many years," he asserted, falsely claiming it is "10 times more potent than heroin" and "has some mystical qualities as far as making you look younger." Despite Caviezel's comments, Sound of Freedom itself doesn't contain any references to adrenochrome or other conspiracy theories. It was actually filmed before QAnon conspiracy theories became a widespread phenomenon. Executives at Angel Studios, the film's distributor, have publicly rejected any association with conspiracies. So have Tim Ballard, the former federal agent Caviezel plays in the movie, and his organization, Operation Underground Railroad. (Angel Studios declined NPR's interview request. Operation Underground Railroad did not respond to NPR's questions.) But Ballard recently told right-wing podcadster Jordan Peterson that claimed adrenochrome harvesting is real. His statements, and Caviezel's, have an impact on how Sound of Freedom is being received, said Mike Rothschild, author of The Storm Is Upon Us: How QAnon Became a Movement, Cult, and Conspiracy Theory of Everything. "It's being marketed to QAnon believers, it's being embraced by this community and its leading actor is a huge part of the QAnon community," he said. Indeed, QAnon adherents have eagerly anticipated its release and greeted the film as a way to bring new believers into the fold. "New to Q? With the 'Sound of Freedom' movie dominating the box office and giving Hollywood seizures, we have a lot of new eyes on us!" read the title of one popular thread on a QAnon website last week. In addition to the controversies around QAnon, the rescue story told in Sound of Freedom has also become a lightning rod. Many of the missions Operation Underground Railroad describes are hard to verify or contain significant misrepresentations, according to extensive reporting by Tim Marchman and Anna Merlan of Vice News. "They're not whole cloth falsehoods, but they reassemble things that are true or close to being true into stories that are just wildly and completely different from what actually happened," Marchman said. Operation Underground Railroad has denied Vice's findings. (Ballard recently left the group.) On screen, Sound of Freedom goes even further in fictionalizing Ballard's story, showing him single-handedly taking on a crime syndicate in Colombia. These popular depictions raise concerns among anti-trafficking experts, who say they offer an incomplete portrait of a real and urgent problem. "Because trafficking is so varied and does span so many populations, it really tests our brain to not, not distill it down to some sort of 'this is what a common victim of human trafficking looks like,'" said Elizabeth Campbell, co-director of the University of Michigan's Human Trafficking Clinic. "By doing that, I think we make actual victims of human trafficking more invisible and more vulnerable to exploitation." She said trafficking takes many forms, including forced labor, which is often under-reported, and affects victims of a wide range of ages. Some trafficking involves kidnapping by strangers, as depicted in Sound of Freedom, but often it's committed by people close to the victim who exploit trust, she said. In a long blog post about the film, Angel Studios acknowledged some elements are fictionalized and said the film takes "creative liberties in depicting the different methods of child trafficking." Campbell worries the picture of trafficking and how to address it presented by Operation Underground Railroad and, by extension, Sound of Freedom, diverts people's attention, resources and policy proposals away from where they're most needed. "It becomes easy for people to say, 'Well, if I just spread a message that we need to support law enforcement in freeing these child victims,' they don't have to do the hard work of asking what role they play in the purchasing of goods for forced labor, or they don't have to play the hard role of figuring out how do we reduce poverty and the sort of inherent vulnerability that comes with poverty that leads to this kind of exploitation," she said. "Those difficult questions are never asked because we're just sort of saying, 'Well, the best thing you can do is support this particular group in this one particular action against these particular bad guys.'"
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I would say liquidating the studios is a weird move but hey, they just delete content now to save 30 bucks on residuals so why not just delete everything and reap the tax benefits for the next century.
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Nearly as dumb as all the farmers selling off agricultural land to housing developers and solar panels or wind farms. Except we can live without massive studios and IP rights. Food, not so much.
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loquacius posted:https://twitter.com/metalinjection/status/1681683109069070336?t=sH64764SXaZki10YtwTJnQ&s=19 where's a somali pirate crew when you need them
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I'm now switching sides of the argument yeah it's not like walmart would rather shutter a location than allow a single one to unionize 
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The Sound of Freedom is the future of American Kino
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Skaffen-Amtiskaw posted:Nearly as dumb as all the farmers selling off agricultural land to housing developers and solar panels or wind farms. Except we can live without massive studios and IP rights. Food, not so much. yeah not enough people are aware of the fact that theres no shortage of new movies to watch without the major studios the main impact of them actually taking their ball and going home is that smaller distributors would finally be able to sell movies to theaters again because the disney protection racket would be dead a big reason why its so important to discredit sound of freedom as being a bad movie for bad people is that as a film from a minor distributor its success calls attention to the fact that the problem with hollywood isnt that people dont watch movies anymore its that the major studios have been insisting on using a really stupid business model for about a decade now thats completely anathemic to the ideals of creativity and free competition that everyone pretends are so important to the cultural dominance of american film
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i liek watcvhing good movies but also sometimes bad ones too
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exmarx posted:the full quote is so much worse
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Some Guy TT posted:a big reason why its so important to discredit sound of freedom as being a bad movie for bad people is that as a film from a minor distributor its success calls attention to the fact that the problem with hollywood isnt that people dont watch movies anymore its that the major studios have been insisting on using a really stupid business model for about a decade now thats completely anathemic to the ideals of creativity and free competition that everyone pretends are so important to the cultural dominance of american film lol no. the entire thing is astroturfed
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Mamma mia Italy investigates Placebo singer for calling far-right PM ‘racist’ and ‘fascist’ www.theguardian.com posted:
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Some Guy TT posted:yeah not enough people are aware of the fact that theres no shortage of new movies to watch without the major studios the main impact of them actually taking their ball and going home is that smaller distributors would finally be able to sell movies to theaters again because the disney protection racket would be dead sound of freedom is still a bad movie for bad people
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nah cuz i'm a good person. an angel, in fact.
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the whole reason i'm here is because liberals and fascists are bad people, lol
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mawarannahr posted:Mamma mia placebo ftw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wgthb2pQCaQ
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loquacius posted:https://twitter.com/metalinjection/status/1681683109069070336?t=sH64764SXaZki10YtwTJnQ&s=19 The Sound of Freedom
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gradenko_2000 posted:The Sound of Freedom
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finally a viable alternative to the traditional hollywood blockbuster model. and all it takes is a decade of deranged conspiracies obliterating the brains of a hundred million people
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indigi posted:lol no. the entire thing is astroturfed astroturfing is still a better less stupid business model than whatever it is the major studios are doing that they claim will collapse if theyre not allowed to maintain a database of robots and holograms to make movies
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Some Guy TT posted:astroturfing is still a better less stupid business model than whatever it is the major studios are doing that they claim will collapse if theyre not allowed to maintain a database of robots and holograms to make movies it's almost as if capitalism is the real problem here
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oh poo poo Creamerie season 2 is out
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Fellatio del Toro posted:oh poo poo Creamerie season 2 is out  quote:Alex, Jaime and Pip are three friends living on a New Zealand dairy farm eight years after all men on Earth have been killed by a mysterious virus. An organization called Wellness now runs their community and controls repopulation via lottery, using sperm saved from old sperm banks. The friends' lives are thrown into disarray when they encounter a man whom they assume to be the last surviving man in the world. As season 1 concludes and season 2 begins, they stumble upon a laboratory where some of the very few surviving men are being held hostage, tied to their chairs, gagged and naked, with pumping devices attached to their genitalia, extracting their semen which will then be used to impregnate women.
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the movie kicks rear end actually jim caviezel ftw
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croup coughfield posted:the movie kicks rear end actually jim caviezel ftw
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croup coughfield posted:the movie kicks rear end actually jim caviezel ftw He was great in Ravenous (1999)
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mawarannahr posted:uhh wtf well dont spoil yourself on one of the funniest scenes lol
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mawarannahr posted:person of great interest to me  He must be stopped from saving the little children.
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croup coughfield posted:that show kicked rear end I started watching like a month before Snowden's big dump and it made it seem like we were living in the personverse as the story unfolded
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