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Deleted part 1 cos apparently Imgur only allows 60 sec vids, and made a 59 second version one without the gif that ended too soon element !
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Deleted part 1 cos apparently Imgur only allows 60 sec vids, and made a 59 second version one without the gif that ended too soon element !
FireIncarnate
Saw this from a local business
KevinBlevenstein
As ronald desantis would say, these sex trafficked children get to travel and see new places!
13579rocket
Those are the actions of some desperate rich people.
Clockworkdancerobot
The rich trying to buy their way into popularity: https://bookriot.com/buying-books-onto-the-bestseller-list/
FairfaxJack
Never heard of it to just now so I looked it up on Wikipedia and found this gem: :"Donald Trump will host a special screening of the film at Trump National Golf Club Bedminster during the third week of July 2023". A literal pedophile and customer of child trafficking supporting a movie that supposedly criticizes child trafficking.
PedroBenecol
This is what worried and puzzles me.
erikleorga
Money laundering?
LordExecutorGrumble
Money laundering.
EllisHobbs
Apeofdeath
If you are wondering what this movie is about: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_of_Freedom_(film)
RenoXIII
Sound of Freedom is what my ass calls a loud, cacophonous fart.
itrytoonlysaypositivethings
Based on the movie posters, I'd guess it's about 2 gay men raising a child.
yn44367
“Ope-enheimer?”
guyepisode81
I work at a movie theater, this movie is definitely sold out every show.
KrisCarterArt
liar.
SleepyHollowAppleTree
Well, yeah, they lie about everything, why would this be any different?
nickelrocket
I was wondering how this shit was #1 mOvIe In aMeRiCa
myr14d
Okay, so QAnon is shit and everything about them is shit. But after reading through the plot of the movie I'm not really seeing any conspiracy theory being pushed by the movie itself - unless it's the fact that child sex trafficing exists. That said, everything else that *surrounds* the movie is kinda terrible what with the Trump screenings and what Caviezel has been saying. It's basically a not terrible movie surrounded by a mountain of shit.
pd8bq
The comments on the trailer are all really bizarre: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Rt0kp4VW1cI
goodtimehadbyall
There is a huge fake push for this movie. The subject isn't Qanon specific, other than they love accusing everyone but themselves of being pedos. The company has site set up where you can 'donate' to 'buy' movie tickets for others. They are using this to make the movie look far more successful that it is. There is massive bot campaign on review sites too. Just standard psudo christian and qanon combining forces.
somerandomusernamebecauseididntlikemyoldone
It does sound like a pretty stupid movie, but that isn't rare. like why did the father just leave his kids with a rando. But my only guess would be about the US side not helping out, like no funding and telling dude to return, and then them passing a new law at the end. also from the real org itself seems suspect, 'The organization has been criticized for its conduct during sting operations and for exaggerated claims regarding its work'. and Ballard left after an internal investigation, etc.
dogmatix
And here I was thinking that the right wing "sound of Freedom" was the "Sound of children screaming" which was removed from that other video...
jonReremy9669
someone with talent and creativity should do this, overlay the sound of freedom logo over the clips of school shootings where it has the caption "sound of children screaming". or have the sound of the sound of freedom trailer dubbed onto those videos... im not saying child trafficking isnt important, just that there is one immediate and effective thing they can do to protect children from harm
justadude41123
Right so I actually saw this movie. There was no political statement, that I could recall. All it did was raise my awareness that sex trafficking crimes are still yet again, by and large not committed by drag queens. Beauty queens might get involved but not drag queens.
CoarseAndSalty
I've been seeing a slew of people who claim that Sound of Freedom is being hyjacked by projector problems and broken AC in theaters. But no real explanation for how that benifits a theater.
StepRightUp
It doesn’t. It might be real people with a conscience tho.
CoarseAndSalty
My suspicion is that the server they download the movie from is hot garbage and folks are going to see it in the middle of a heatwave.
narcoleptiKnickers
ˈɑpənˌhaɪmər
TI99Kitty
Wait... You mean it ISN'T pronounced "open-hymer?" 😲
stiltsonwheels
Hotjoe1991
I find it extremely hard to believe that this lady has not heard it said correctly several times before.
KommSusserTod
https://www.npr.org/2023/07/19/1188405402/qanon-supporters-are-promoting-sound-of-freedom-heres-why For the uninitiated, such as myself. Lordy, I didn't know that Cavaziel was full on nutter.
gnomedeplume
when he plays the role of an action hero he thinks he really is an action hero, he's completely unable to discern fiction from reality.
darthsatoris
His insanity is retroactively making Person of Interest a worse show by having him be associated with it... I really liked that show.
thedudeman519
I loved it it was like Diet Punisher on network TV
gnomedeplume
all I remember is the main character trying to sound like Plainclothes Batman, guy probably thought he really was Batman
thrashingcows
UnattendedDeviant
I was worried it was really gonna be packed.
IAmTheMightyLeon
When I went it was packed.
muddiekins
Where? And did you find anything factually objectionable?
IAmTheMightyLeon
Chicago. And no, there was nothing factually objectionable. The film doesn't go anywhere near any conspiracy theories at all.
HiHowAreYou92
Seriously I saw the movie not know the controversy and I'm confused. The movie was just sad like. Hey there are child sex traffickers and that's bad but it is a reality. I guess I could see people seeing it a little as pro US propaganda but if you ignore the US side of things I felt it was worth the watch.
PhilKenSebban
jeez its bad, Jim Cavez has really gone off the deep end https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rt0kp4VW1cI
ASquirrelNamedLloyd
My nail tech tried to talk to me and some other lady about it. I don’t know anything besides what y’all share so I said “isn’t that guy bonkers?” Immediate deflection. Also she did a crap job mah toes
gnomedeplume
he's been completely unhinged for years https://twitter.com/Hudson_of_Sam/status/1452775591367819275?t=-4PH_XFWhV13_GH4K9RLAA&s=19
PhilKenSebban
Fark, that was a hilarious read. Love the 'They believed he was the dumbest man alive'
PhilKenSebban
Just read he;s Wikipedia page. He mentions about 'adrenochroming'. The hyperlink took me to the Qanon wikipeida page which refers to arenochroming as: Hollywood elites engage in "adrenochrome harvesting", in which adrenalin is extracted from children's blood to produce the psychoactive drug adrenochrome. These people are fuckin wild in their beliefs. They just wanna be superheros to have some meaning to their lives.
KungFuTreacheryQ
Who has time to worry about this nonsense
KrisCarterArt
people who give a shit.
LarvaLamp
This is my question as well.
Spiderbutts
Because once unhinged and dangerous ideologies make it into a mainstream blockbuster it can shift a whole chunk of our culture.
BobberAnne
I don't understand. What does this movie have to do with Qanon? My parents (anti-trump folks and very much NOT Qanon) saw it and said it was pretty good. Granted, they'll go see almost any movie with a positive message, but my dad is usually a pretty harsh critic afterwards. Is it really wacko?
Saker82
It is a very subtle kind of propaganda. The movie will have a similar negative affect to "Stranger Danger" since; statistically, more children are abducted by people they know. The slogan led them to suspect outside individuals when they should have been watching their own relatives. SoF acts similarly with its implication that foreign agents are kidnapping children out of Walmart parking lots when alot of the children being trafficked are also run aways and some even sold by their parents.
Saker82
It will have people watching and falsely accusing Latinos and immigrants leading to more hysteria and won't prevent any child abductions. Additionally the only source that these events even happened is Tim Ballards word and the girl Ballard saves; Rocio, does in fact exist and has come forward and stated that no one saved her, she escaped on her own. So the entire climax of the film is pure fantasy.
BobberAnne
Dang. I had no idea. Can you link me a source on where she said that? I'm sorry, I know it's kind of a lmgtfy moment, but I didn't see it in a quick google search, and I'd love to show my folks. I'd hate to think they're recommending it to people without knowing the whole story, ya know? Thanks!
jwillustrat
I had to look up astroturfing.
soromon
CORE is an astroturf lobbyist for factory farms and Phillip Morris. CORE got paid about $500k to make people hate PETA, which they achieved largely through astroturfing. As a result, most people will auto-upvote any 'Fuck PETA' post because some chihuahua got picked up in a raid a dozen years ago - while at the same time the same people won't give two shits about how fucking horrible Tyson Foods is for the mistreated animals, the underpaid employees, or the consumers of nasty factory farm meat.
Ozimbah
I mean, the facts on why people say 'Fuck PETA' are publicly available - https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-peta-responsible-deaths-thousands-animals-1565532 https://www.theatlant65532">https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-peta-responsible-deathic.co">65532">https://www.newsweek.com">s-thou">ic.co">65532">https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-peta-responsible-deaths-thousands-animals-1565532 https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/03/petas-terrible-horrible-no-good-very-bad-history-of-killing-animals/254130/ https://www.zmescience.com/feature-post/pieces/peta-killing-campaign-28032019/ https://petakillsanimals.com/proof-peta-kills/
soromon
One of your links is the exact website run by CORE. Just shows how effective lobbyists can be. Factory farms spent a paltry $500k, and basically turned the attention of the entire nation away from their horrible practices and focused it on their largest critic instead.
Deathbetray
To save anyone else from having to Google it: "Astroturfing is the practice of hiding the sponsors of a message or organization to make it appear as though it originates from, and is supported by, grassroots participants. It is a practice intended to give the statements or organizations credibility by withholding information about the source's financial backers."
XeononSolomon
Not to show my small townedness but it's wild to me you can buy tickets in advance to a movie.
Sidewaysgts
I basically never go to a theater where i *cant* reserve the seats i want.
insertwittyjoke
In the city it's pretty necessary or you risk showing up to the theatre and not being able to see the show at all because the theatre sold out. Had that happen more than once
arjim
This is the best thing that ever happened to movies. AMC A List Pass w/ 1/2 price Tuesdays means I never get there and find out my family doesn't have seats together.
somerandomusernamebecauseididntlikemyoldone
waiting in line works if you have time in your life to kill or a small enough group that has easy access to that venue. buying movie tickets in advance has been a thing since the 90s, so it's about time to get used to it
LarvaLamp
How busy are you people if waiting in line for a movie is too tall of an order?
somerandomusernamebecauseididntlikemyoldone
return to office bullshit + shitty mass transit and constant construction, so 3 hour roundtrip commute, 9-10 hour workday min, + cooking, sleeping, everything else to stay alive/acceptable in modern society, so why go all the way to a theater that could already be sold out but still have to wait in line to find that out? don't understand why you want to waste even a minute with pointless waiting. this seems like the easiest time saving even if you live in a town of 2 people with a 1 seat theater
LarvaLamp
Sounds like you don't have enough time to even watch a movie, let alone wait for one.
TI99Kitty
"so why go all the way to a theater that could already be sold out but still have to wait in line to find that out?"
somerandomusernamebecauseididntlikemyoldone
yeah usually a movie eats into my sleep time these days, but I got plenty of movies in over covid lockdowns
MaybeIllDisappear
This movie has an 8.1 rating on IMDb, it looks like it is ballot stuffed with bots who gave it a 10, and a modest amount of real people who gave it a 1.
slayston
Alright..I'm now determined to (illegally because the movie sounds iffy as fuck) watch this and give it a 1 to 10 rating based SOLELY on it's movie qualities while ignoring every stupid political commentary it might make.
goodtimehadbyall
Look at all the fake reviews on RT. It is insane how much they are pushing their lame ass movie.
PapaSez
By 'RT' I assume you mean the russian, state-controlled international news television network funded by the russian government.
goodtimehadbyall
Sorry, meant on Rotten Tomatoes, but the Russians being involved would be amusing.
Pooteruni
Somehow there are multiple 5 star reviews for July 21, 2023 and it is still the 20th....
kickmyballsrealhard
I reckon anyone actually going to see it seriously will give it a 10 as well because they eat that shit up like Joey Chestnut at the Nathan’s hot dog contest. You can literally tell them anything as long as it isn’t on “mainstream” media, they will unapologetically believe it.
christophersouthworth
I wonder if QAnon's "Joey Chestnut" realizes he's eating turd dogs? "Wow, this texture is so soft. Ghuhhhh. *Must power through it* Ghuhhhhhhh" *intense, sustained, painful puking noises ensue*
The1nOnlyJoe
Seriously I watch most movies for entertainment. I understand that it's not the truth.
Saker82
Wait. Are you saying that conservatives, incels and neo-nazis are actually going on Rotten Tomatoes and posting FAKE REVIEWS to make Bloodsport 2.0 (Now with emotional manipulation!) seem like a good movie when it isnt!?
CatBeagler
This is because the owner of OUR shows up after the movie and uses all the emotions he's created in his viewers to ask them to buy tickets for their friends. It's an MLM style grift. The next step is to claim Democrats either don't want to save kids from sex trafficking or are behind it.
TheFoodBaby
It has 100% audience rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Something is fucky.
pareidoliaperson
I guess it's time to make an imdb account. If you post a negative comment on hollywood you'll never be read. So fuck youtube. Will also make a rottent tomato account just 1 star these mofos. My guess is they're supressing the sound of NADQ. Projecting mother fuckers.
GundamHeavyarms
funnily enough, my grandpa is saying the seats are sold out because George Soros doesn't want people to see the truth
BigVag
That makes sense....s/
ExTechOp
I've learned that any reference to George Soros is really a dogwhistle for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Jewish_conspiracy
thatsbadmmkay
Gonna have to take him out back
IonlycommentTroyandAbedgifs
Sounds like time to let grandpa wander in the street during rush hour.
GamersPlane
George Soros is funding qanon?!? Who's side is he on! /s (or maybe that's the next conspiracy theory...)
TheWombatStrikesAgain
Yes, the all-controlling billionaire alpha jew with a fleet of space lasers wants to stop a movie from being shown, and the best way he can think of is buying every single seat for every single showing. Seems legit. /s
FuManLu
This was the best logical retort I have heard so far.
shadowmega
QAnon, umm, finds the way.
gnomedeplume
is that why I haven't been getting my antifa supersoldier cheques in the mail, is this what he's been spending all that money on
LespritDeLescalier22
Aaaaaaand there it is
WeSingLalaWhileTheDevilDoesTheChaCha
What is, the goto antisemetism or the blatant stupidity?
LespritDeLescalier22
Yes
narcoleptiKnickers
Time to get grandpa's medication adjusted.
TheOnlyPtylerdactyl
He's got that Dr Strangelove disease
DarthMatta
You mean... syphilis?
m0problems
There's a medication that cures Qanon? Big if true...
Yotarian
Lead.
meauho
Kevorkian's prescription pf Potassium Chloride & Pancuronium Bromide was pretty effective
EmanNiemThcin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potassium_cyanide
JCstormz
They are using their "best seller" trick for movies now, pac's and special interest buying in mass
AvidApostate
Isn't that how Taylor Swift got her start?
PutItInNeutral
Of course they are. That way, they don't have to pay for storage of all those useless books that no one wants.
TheGhostofElizabethShue
You mean all those people who seem, to put it mildly, allergic to reading, *weren’t* buying Don Jr’s terrible book?
littlecoatfatguy
jwillustrat
*en masse
LordLobster
They meant in Massachusetts
GiantSquanchy
no one likes a smart asse
SyntheticCK
Doesn't that just translate to "in mass" though?
TheGhostofElizabethShue
This shit must cost hundreds of millions of dollars. They worry about shadowy cabals trying to control society yet they have enough private wealth in their corner to force a movie to the top of the charts. Who’s fucking paying for this?
SuperIncoherentRantingMan
Doubtful. I'm sure the talent was cheap, they already had the sets and just had to clear them of business for the day, and I'm sure they had technical experts lined up for blocks based on the GOP track record.
mechanicalchaos
I've had it explained to me that a lot of these obvious money-loss endeavors done by high profile people are just for money laundering and hidden contributions.
Frederf
Peanuts, PEANUTS compared to 5% off capital gains across the board.
hotfezz
"Top of the charts"
barbarian818
Russians I think. They're ahead in Cold War 2.0
b1candy2
'They worry about'. It's projection. They're guilty of what they accuse.
1eudaemonia
same gullibles that give trump money
MatrimBloodyCauthon
The space lasers.
Twrecks123
Perhaps. It could be the production company and some theater companies/owners doing it. That wouldn’t cost much.
Pentjotal
In the NY Time best Seller book, they added a little sign, that meant crates of that book were sold in bulk, so people know they are not a Best seller, but just a book they want to promote, like most republican books, or trump's family book.
darkmyst30
Could be stolen cards as well.
Bhargo
they accuse the other side of having a shadowy cabal because THEY have a shadowy cabal and expect everyone else to be as corrupt as they are.
AndrewCowbell
Like who really fund who say he fund this
pareidoliaperson
From very first look at the trailer it looked shady ass fyck. Also fuck youtube for recommending and fuck their ai generated top comments praising that's on there on every video who are positive about every fucking dumb movie. And it's always a template comment.
wetAnimal
Billionaires who want crazy conspiracies to cover up their basic rich asshole exploiting people conspiracies.
jonReremy9669
people who buy supreme court justices... youre friendly gated neighborhood nazi memorabilia enthusiast
tweedyone
It’s the same people who buy boxes and boxes of books to be a NYT best seller.
ClarkKentfield
You can rent out a entire theater for $400
thedudeman519
That's not going to give you inflated gate numbers though
TheGhostofElizabethShue
The point is to goose the box office, getting a deal kind of defeats the purpose.
pareidoliaperson
It scares me to know who behind the productions are. Also Fuck Mel Gibson that piece of turd
TheRedBaron8
What does Gibson have to do with this astroturffed piece of shit?
pareidoliaperson
https://youtu.be/bDQSXCWvMDs
TheSilverSeraph
It is not surprising that those into conspiracy theories will do stuff like this. Projection at the projection cinema. Nice
CoarseAndSalty
Apparently at the end of the film there's a plea to purchase tickets for the film to raise awareness of child trafficking.
thedudeman519
Everything is a fucking grift. Jesus
nangke
A legit call to action would be a QR code to donate to anti-trafficking groups or victim support
InfocalypseRising
The people doing this ARE the shadowy cabal. Or they’re trying to be, anyway.
masterk999
Your math is wrong. The movie has grossed $100million so it could not cost more than that. Also remember that the production company gets back 50% of each ticket sold so that brings the cost down to 50million. But I do not think ALL the sales are fake. In deep red states it is probably doing well. So if you figure perhaps 20% of the sales are fake that leaves a cost of just $10 million. In any regular movie that is just part of the marketing budget.
AlcoholicsAnonymousBYO
Figure, how?
soromon
Follow the money. A person is getting paid to buy those seats, and they should be easy to track down. Someone is employing that person.
CatBeagler
It's the fucking mormons. The guy who made the movie is Mormon and he's asking everyone that watches it to support him by buying tickets for their friends and telling them to post about it as if the story it's based on isn't wildly exaggerated and as if he isn't causing more problems than he's solving.
CatBeagler
It's just like every other Mormon celebrity MLM influence grift in Utah and the Mormons fall for it every time.
SarcasticComment
it's the same way I had a teenager at my door step ready to talk about why it is so important we "ammend ohio's constitution away from voter input". The kid was paid to go door to door. I doubt the 19 year old honestly gave 2 fucks about Issue 1.
medimr
Indeed. Somewhere in the ballpark of $100 million. Which is what this movie has apparently "made" so far.
SarcasticComment
the sad "fun part" is they can milk gullible poor morons of their money in the same way mega churches do to the point it likely isn't wealthy people paying for it.
TheGhostofElizabethShue
Plus however much to actually run the scam.
ThrowTheAccountAway
I dont think Putin pays his basement workers much
MidoryMoon
Ask the guy who spent 44 billion dollars on the account I used to post photos of my cats on. Hundreds of Millions is nothing to these morons.
AgainstMethod
That money meant something to him
Wookieoo7
Someone paid you fourty four million for your alt account? Man alive am I making the wrong choices in life
myr14d
I'm guessing you're probably joking, but just in case you're not, he's taking about Musk buying twitter.
Isthe4thtimethecharm
It is sad that we can not rely on anyone's ability to understand something.
CookWithMeVideos
That was 44 Billion
theshinobi23
Which is also the amount stated in the original comment. The reply got it wrong and said million. /gallery/WDXznEd/comment/2339481573
neilp20063000
They *are* the shadowy cabal. Fuxking assholes
HiHowAreYou92
I watched the movie not knowing any of this stuff. Obviously a dramatization, but I liked it shedding light on a topic that you don't see much in movies but is definitely happening. I see how it might be seen as like pro US propaganda but I didn't take it like that at all it was just a sad and difficult movie to watch. Not sure why everyone is so against it, then again I don't know the background of who made the movie. As someone who is pretty left leaning I didn't see anything wrong with it.
IAmTheMightyLeon
The people who have a problem with it are people who haven't seen it. It's a pretty sad and hypocritical state of affairs.
HelloThere1812
Just because we haven't seen it doesn't mean we can't be against QAnon and its conspiracy theories which they made into a movie! Now we have proof they're just astroturfing ticket sales across the country to the tune of $100 million. Anyone who supports that movie is supporting QAnon.
PavelNova
As someone who hasn't seen it but is curious, what are the QAnon conspiracy theories in this movie?
HelloThere1812
I don't know cuz I ain't watching it.
HiHowAreYou92
As I have mentioned I am very left leaning I watched it and it seemed more like just trying to expose the child sex trafficking industry. But I guess the background of it is supposedly pro American prop. Just giving my objective opinion.
Spiderbutts
I am not interested in seeing it (not really because of the controversy, just, I'm not really excited to watch children be abused), but this article sums it up fairly well. Tldr, it's mostly the actor and the person the movie is based on. https://www.npr.org/2023/07/19/1188405402/qanon-supporters-are-promoting-sound-of-freedom-heres-why
Spiderbutts
What I do know for sure is the activist this film is about has been accused of falsifying numbers so his organization looks more successful than it is. All in all this movie seems to be unhelpful in shedding light on the realism of it all, but I personally expect that from a movie. People shouldn't be taking any "based on a true story" film as gospel.
HiHowAreYou92
Totally fair, I'm just saying I had no idea. Just saw the ad looked it up and went. And it definitely did not feel like qanon conspiracy stuff. Objectively I thought it was an interesting movie, but for sure if any of the money goes to supporting repub/qanon groups I would suggest not paying and just pirating it.
HelloThere1812
Well you can get free tickets since they're literally giving them away online to go see it if you want to subject your brain QAnon garbage. I keep my brain safe from stuff like Fox News or anything Right-wing really, and if the right is saying Sound of Freedom is a good movie, I know it's not.
HiHowAreYou92
Ok but that's what I am saying. I am definitely a lefty and I didn't see what was wrong with the movie.