AMC Boycott Calls Grow Over 'Sound of Freedom,' CEO Says Claims 'Garbage'

[EvilEyeFleegle]

Too funny. Some folks are just primed to find a conspiracy..in the most mundane events. A/C goes out..conspiracy. Equip malfunction...conspiracy. Lines too long...conspiracy. Lines too short...conspiracy. Film sold-out..conspiracy. Theater empty..conspiracy.
Get a fuckin' grip people!

AMC boycott calls grow over 'Sound of Freedom,' CEO says claims 'garbage'

Adam Aron said "conspiracy theorists" were making up lies that the biggest movie theater chain in the U.S. was trying to suppress the film.

www.newsweek.com

The CEO of major U.S.-based cinema chain AMC Theatres has dismissed claims that his company was stopping screenings of the film Sound of Freedom as "garbage."
Adam Aron took to Twitter to shut down "conspiracy theorists" who called for a boycott of his company over accusations that it was blocking the film from being shown.
AMC has more than 600 locations across the country with around 7,850 screens, making it the largest theater chain in the U.S.
Some people have complained of broken air-conditioning, canceled screenings and technical issues when they tried to watch the movie, with some seeing those incidents as a deliberate attempt to stop people seeing the film.
"Sadly, conspiracy theorists are so prevalent in America. So much garbage information is spread. More than ONE MILLION people have watched Sound of Freedom at AMC Theatres. More than at any other theatre chain on the planet. Yet people falsely claim otherwise. It is so bizarre," Aron tweeted.
Angel Studios, who distributed the film, told Newsweek AMC has been "wonderful to work with."
"Our theatrical partners at AMC, CineMark, Regal, and beyond have been absolutely wonderful to work with—they're helping us add theaters as we speak in the middle the busy summer movie season," said Matthew Faraci of Angel Studios.

 

[1srelluc]

LOL....."Busy summer movie season"?

 

[bodecea]

When your movie doesn't match expectations, it's time to make up excuses, I guess. Just like making up excuses for bombing an election.

 

[EvilEyeFleegle]

LOL....."Busy summer movie season"?

Yeah..well..they can dream, right?

 

[1srelluc]

Yeah..well..they can dream, right?

AMC is doing a bit better but they are still in the red.

 

[Esdraelon]

When your movie doesn't match expectations, it's time to make up excuses, I guess. Just like making up excuses for bombing an election.

I haven't watched the film yet but I probably will. From what I've read, for the budget and compared to that geriatric version of Indiana Jones, the Caviezel movie far exceeded expectations. As for conspiracy theories, I think we've been bombarded with so much information, much of which is just wrong, to the point where a rational person stops listening because they know it's a waste of time. There is no way to ferret out the truth.

 

[shockedcanadian]

Too funny. Some folks are just primed to find a conspiracy..in the most mundane events. A/C goes out..conspiracy. Equip malfunction...conspiracy. Lines too long...conspiracy. Lines too short...conspiracy. Film sold-out..conspiracy. Theater empty..conspiracy.
Get a fuckin' grip people!

AMC boycott calls grow over 'Sound of Freedom,' CEO says claims 'garbage'

Adam Aron said "conspiracy theorists" were making up lies that the biggest movie theater chain in the U.S. was trying to suppress the film.

www.newsweek.com

The CEO of major U.S.-based cinema chain AMC Theatres has dismissed claims that his company was stopping screenings of the film Sound of Freedom as "garbage."
Adam Aron took to Twitter to shut down "conspiracy theorists" who called for a boycott of his company over accusations that it was blocking the film from being shown.
AMC has more than 600 locations across the country with around 7,850 screens, making it the largest theater chain in the U.S.
Some people have complained of broken air-conditioning, canceled screenings and technical issues when they tried to watch the movie, with some seeing those incidents as a deliberate attempt to stop people seeing the film.
"Sadly, conspiracy theorists are so prevalent in America. So much garbage information is spread. More than ONE MILLION people have watched Sound of Freedom at AMC Theatres. More than at any other theatre chain on the planet. Yet people falsely claim otherwise. It is so bizarre," Aron tweeted.
Angel Studios, who distributed the film, told Newsweek AMC has been "wonderful to work with."
"Our theatrical partners at AMC, CineMark, Regal, and beyond have been absolutely wonderful to work with—they're helping us add theaters as we speak in the middle the busy summer movie season," said Matthew Faraci of Angel Studios.

Is the argument that people would boycott AMC because they showed a movie exposing pedophelia? There is no way I believe that to be true.

 

[EvilEyeFleegle]

Is the argument that people would boycott AMC because they showed a movie exposing pedophelia? There is no way I believe that to be true.

No, the argument is that there is a conspiracy to delay or stop the showing of this movie..for various 'Q' related reasons--and that a boycott should be instigated against AMC for their actions in 'slow-playing' the movie showings.
Basically, the nutz are including AMC into their great world-wide pedo conspiracy theory~

 

[whitehall]

AMC claims that there is no boycott. The post that whines about conspiracy is a conspiracy itself.

 

[EvilEyeFleegle]

AMC claims that there is no boycott. The post that whines about conspiracy is a conspiracy itself.

Please quote the part of the OP article that states that there is no boycott...I'll wait...LOL!

In point of fact, afaik..there is no boycott..just some whining from the fringe conspiracy theorists--channeling their inner Q.

 

[Seymour Flops]

"Sound of Freedom" viewers forced to evacuate movie theater, video claims

A viral TikTok video seems to show movie watchers being removed from a screening of "Sound of Freedom" without explanation.

www.newsweek.com

Last movie they attacked like this was "What is a Woman." If they are trying to hide what they're doing, they really suck at hiding stuff.

They didn't act this way over the Mel Gipson Jesus movie as much as they hated it. Movies exposing pedophilia and the transgenderization activists who enable pedos hits way too close to home.

 

[EvilEyeFleegle]

"Sound of Freedom" viewers forced to evacuate movie theater, video claims

A viral TikTok video seems to show movie watchers being removed from a screening of "Sound of Freedom" without explanation.

www.newsweek.com

Last movie they attacked like this was "What is a Woman." If they are trying to hide what they're doing, they really suck at hiding stuff.

They didn't act this way over the Mel Gipson Jesus movie as much as they hated it. Movies exposing pedophilia and the transgenderization activists who enable pedos hits way too close to home.

Hmmm..where in 'The Sound of Freedom' was the part about 'transgenderization activists'?

Anyway, without knowing the reason for the theater evac...and whether it's some deep-fake BS---can't really draw much of a conclusion.

One million people have seen this movie..so what exactly would be the point of some clandestine conspiracy shit anyway?

 

[Seymour Flops]

Hmmm..where in 'The Sound of Freedom' was the part about 'transgenderization activists'?

Anyway, without knowing the reason for the theater evac...and whether it's some deep-fake BS---can't really draw much of a conclusion.

One million people have seen this movie..so what exactly would be the point of some clandestine conspiracy shit anyway?

Why is the left so enraged by a movie about children being rescued from a pedophile ring?

In light of accusations by the right that the transgenderization of children movement is a vaguely camouflage movement to sexualized children for the gratification of members of the movement, it seems they would be out front in cheering the movie's concept, if not the movie itself.

Suppose that the right is completely wrong about people who are pushing for transgenderization of children being pedophiles. What a wonderful opportunity for them to step forward and say that Tim Ballard is a hero who deserves to be depicted as such.

Instead we immediate get the cries of "QAnon."

The woke claim to love transgender children and accuse the non-voke of attacking them. Loving children does not include finding sexual gratification with them. If they don't get that, I don't know how it could be explained to them with words alone.

But, one way or another, it will be explained to them.

 

[EvilEyeFleegle]

Why is the left so enraged by a movie about children being rescued from a pedophile ring?

In light of accusations by the right that the transgenderization of children movement is a vaguely camouflage movement to sexualized children for the gratification of members of the movement, it seems they would be out front in cheering the movie's concept, if not the movie itself.

Suppose that the right is completely wrong about people who are pushing for transgenderization of children being pedophiles. What a wonderful opportunity for them to step forward and say that Tim Ballard is a hero who deserves to be depicted as such.

Instead we immediate get the cries of "QAnon."

The woke claim to love transgender children and accuse the non-voke of attacking them. Loving children does not include finding sexual gratification with them. If they don't get that, I don't know how it could be explained to them with words alone.

But, one way or another, it will be explained to them.

Why the hell are you so invested in believing that the left is enraged about this film? There is no evidence of such a rage, or an anti-movement..or really anything but praise for the movie.
Is your contention that anything less than over-the-top and vocal support is de facto opposition?

Your post is not really about the movie, now is it? Just a vehicle to air your weird beliefs and culture warrior BS.--that's all you got going on~

The calls of Q are all about your ilk and their obsession with thinking and alleging that pedophilia is somehow related to political party affiliation..which is simple crazy.

 

[TNHarley]

Too funny. Some folks are just primed to find a conspiracy..in the most mundane events. A/C goes out..conspiracy. Equip malfunction...conspiracy. Lines too long...conspiracy. Lines too short...conspiracy. Film sold-out..conspiracy. Theater empty..conspiracy.
Get a fuckin' grip people!

AMC boycott calls grow over 'Sound of Freedom,' CEO says claims 'garbage'

Adam Aron said "conspiracy theorists" were making up lies that the biggest movie theater chain in the U.S. was trying to suppress the film.

www.newsweek.com

The CEO of major U.S.-based cinema chain AMC Theatres has dismissed claims that his company was stopping screenings of the film Sound of Freedom as "garbage."
Adam Aron took to Twitter to shut down "conspiracy theorists" who called for a boycott of his company over accusations that it was blocking the film from being shown.
AMC has more than 600 locations across the country with around 7,850 screens, making it the largest theater chain in the U.S.
Some people have complained of broken air-conditioning, canceled screenings and technical issues when they tried to watch the movie, with some seeing those incidents as a deliberate attempt to stop people seeing the film.
"Sadly, conspiracy theorists are so prevalent in America. So much garbage information is spread. More than ONE MILLION people have watched Sound of Freedom at AMC Theatres. More than at any other theatre chain on the planet. Yet people falsely claim otherwise. It is so bizarre," Aron tweeted.
Angel Studios, who distributed the film, told Newsweek AMC has been "wonderful to work with."
"Our theatrical partners at AMC, CineMark, Regal, and beyond have been absolutely wonderful to work with—they're helping us add theaters as we speak in the middle the busy summer movie season," said Matthew Faraci of Angel Studios.

Im not buying into all the bullshit, but you realize how stupid this is, right?
This is like a cop investigating himself.
Geezus

 

[Seymour Flops]

Why the hell are you so invested in believing that the left is enraged about this film? There is no evidence of such a rage, or an anti-movement..or really anything but praise for the movie.

It is not just the criticism, it is the tone-deafness about how it sounds for people already under reasonable suspicion over the way they advocate that children be treated to reach so hard to ascribe bad movivations to people who enjoy a movie about stopping child abuse.

Let me ask you a question to illustrate what I mean: Is there any harm from providing a child psychological, medical, and surgical gender-affirming care?

Is your contention that anything less than over-the-top and vocal support is de facto opposition?

Your post is not really about the movie, now is it? Just a vehicle to air your weird beliefs and culture warrior BS.--that's all you got going on~

Sound of Freedom: the QAnon-adjacent thriller seducing America

Jim Caviezel stars as a hero trying to stop child traffickers in a paranoid new movie turning into a surprise box-office hit

www.theguardian.com

Following that money leads back to a more unsavory network of astroturfed boosterism among the far-right fringe, a constellation of paranoids now attempting to spin a cause célèbre out of a movie with vaguely simpatico leanings. The uninitiated may not pick up on the red-yarn-and-corkboard subtext pinned onto a mostly straightforward extraction mission in South America, pretty much Taken with a faint whiff of something noxious in the air. Those tuned in to the eardrum-perforating frequency of QAnon, however, have heeded a clarion call that leads right to the multiplex.

'Sound Of Freedom' Is a Superhero Movie for Dads With Brainworms

'Sound of Freedom': Jim Caviezel child trafficking thriller is a box-office bash, and QAnon believers are celebrating

www.rollingstone.com

Caviezel, best known for being tortured to death in Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ, has become a prominent figure on the conspiracist right, giving speeches and interviews in which he hints at an underground holy war between patriots and a sinister legion of evildoers who are harvesting the blood of children. It’s straight-up QAnon stuff, right down to his use of catchphrases like “The storm is upon us.” Here, he gets to act out some of that drama by playing a fictionalized version of Tim Ballard, head of the anti-sex trafficking nonprofit Operation Underground Railroad (O.U.R.), in a feature film that casts the operator as a Batman-style savior for kids sold into the sex trade.

I Saw the Grim Child-Trafficking Movie That’s Filling Theaters. People Acted Like They Were at Top Gun.

Around me, people gobbled popcorn and trash can–sized sodas, waiting for a very different kind of movie.

slate.com

The pedophiles and child traffickers in Sound of Freedom are sweaty, sharp-toothed deviants, as they’ve been depicted in movies as far back as Fritz Lang’s M nearly a century ago. But the movie darkly hints that there are more well-connected and outwardly respectable variants out there, willing to pay six figures and up for what Caviezel’s character, who poses as a businessman trying to set up a high-end members-only club for child rapists, calls “a little pedo action.” Although the movie makes no reference to QAnon or its associated conspiracy theories, which only began to leak into the mainstream the year before it was completed, Caviezel has been enthusiastically using his press tour to profess his belief in an international black market where a barrel of children’s body parts goes for a thousand times the price of oil. Ballard himself has circulated wild and unsupported figures about the extent of the sex-trafficking industry, including the claim that 10,000 children are smuggled into the U.S. for sex every year, which was picked up and used as a campaign talking point by Donald Trump. (Trump also made Ballard the co-chair of a State Department advisory council on human trafficking.)

Instead of again bringing up "QAnon," which I would have never heard of if not for liberal message board posters obsessing over it, decrying the seemingly unfair portrayal of pedophiles and child trafficers in the movies, and complaining that the hero Ballard publicizes the children smuggled into the country by the cartels, the left would have gained more credibility by talking about how we can be bipartisan in opposing those practices.

The calls of Q are all about your ilk and their obsession with thinking and alleging that pedophilia is somehow related to political party affiliation..which is simple crazy.

Your party has earned the reputation for supporting sexualizing children. With this movie, it had the opportunity to take a stand against human trafficing and child sexual abuse, but instead is chosing to sling the "Q" nonsense.

 

[Harpy Eagle]

Why is the left so enraged by a movie about children being rescued from a pedophile ring?

Can you give some examples of this "enragement"?

Thanks

 

[blackhawk]

I have no interest in blathering on endlessly over moronic conspiracy theories from either the right or the left. It is one of the few things both do excel at though.

 

[Seymour Flops]

Can you give some examples of this "enragement"?

Thanks

Post # 16

 

[Harpy Eagle]

Post # 16

Does not really seem like anyone is enraged, and Caviezel has gone off the deep end that is for sure. People will not see a movie if they have negative feelings about the star. I know a lot of people that will not go to a Tom Cruise movie because they do not like him as a person.