Sound of Freedom (2023)

This, please. I left another film site and came to this one chiefly because they have descended, over the years, into rancorous, non-stop political infighting and back-biting....I, for one, would vote to keep it that way.

I feel the same way and I'm glad to have a new member here who wants to share not smear. Hope you stick around you seem pretty cool to me

You smooth-talking devil, you. Take me.

I'm planning on watching this movie. Quick question: does it have unsettling moments? I don't mind them, I'm just asking since it's been deemed as powerful so I was wondering if it's because of some explicit scenes, apart from the subject matter in itself.

This may be more evidence of an emerging schism in American patterns of consumption. A significant portion of the country has had enough of Budweiser and Disney and Target and Netflix. These are the people who flock to films like Top Gun: Maverick and stream Chris Pratt's The Terminal list rather than Netflix's Cuties.



It may be telling that this film is beating Indiana Jones. Indie is supposed to be a safe play. It's nostalgia fare, memberberries for millenials, bait for boomers. It's red meat and potatoes. But the masses did not come. Too big to fail franchises are failing. Billions of dollars are being lost. For years they've had a captive audience. Fill the trough and they will come. Now, the herd restless.



We're separating into two different Americas with two radically different visions of itself. We have two national anthems being sung at marquee NFL games. We have graduating college classes segregated by race at major universities. We have 1619 and 1776. We have June Teenth and July 4th. And we just saw Ben and Jerry's parent company Unilever take $2.5 billion stock hit over a tweet shaming the latter holiday. We not only have two different visions, but we don't like each other--thus the proposition is increasingly not "both/and," but rather "either/or." Consequently, it should not be surprising that media may also split with oddball films like this taking the top spot. In the old days, the right-wing counter-culture was relegated to Limbaugh ranting on AM radio. Now we have Jim Caveziel warning about adrenochroming kids in publicity interviews for a film marketed at churches which is beating out Harrison Ford in one of his most beloved roles.



Is this an odd blip in the culture wars or are we witnessing a shift this year?

It may be telling that this film is beating Indiana Jones. Indie is supposed to be a safe play. It's nostalgia fare, memberberries for millenials, bait for boomers

Someone bumped this post, and I just realized my generation got skipped (as usual!) in your assessment. The forgotten generation, indeed!

Someone bumped this post, and I just realized my generation got skipped (as usual!) in your assessment. The forgotten generation, indeed!

I mean, Elon named twitter after y'all. What more do you need?!

SpaceX too?

That's totally sick!