# "Sound of Freedom" - anyone seen this movie, and if so, what did you think? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [July 20, 2023, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sound-of-freedom-anyone-seen-this-movie-and-if-so-what-did-you-think/987278 "2023-07-20T01:41:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2023, 10:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sound-of-freedom-anyone-seen-this-movie-and-if-so-what-did-you-think/987278/61 "2023-08-09T10:12:06Z")
> [@Grrr](#): > > The number of people in thread actually giving props to this movie is like a punch to the gut. > > I thought this place was immune from such nonsense. Hell, some of us even enjoyed Battlefield Earth. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2023, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sound-of-freedom-anyone-seen-this-movie-and-if-so-what-did-you-think/987278/62 "2023-08-09T12:29:38Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > There there, the “props” I’m seeing here are basically along the lines of “good, although/even if not factual”. Propaganda by shitty people with shitty agendas can still be good, and sometimes even great, cinema. (See also: Triumph of the Will.) Agreed. I give it props for being a much better movie than I expected, not for being a Q-anon funded right-wing extremist movie. If I had absolutely no idea who made it and just randomly streamed it on some service, I would have thought, “That was pretty good.” I have seen quite a few Christian movies made by Christian directors and production companies. This, which was done mostly outside those companies, was better than almost all of them. > [@Smapti](#): > > Hell, some of us even enjoyed Battlefield Earth. Has anyone enjoyed that as it was intended, though? I love Battlefield Earth as a hilarious mess that is fun to watch the Rifftrax of and other reviewers mocking analysis of. Nostalgia Critic did a very fun review of it at one point. I know they meant it sincerely, but it is almost a comedy. Kind of like The Room. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2023, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sound-of-freedom-anyone-seen-this-movie-and-if-so-what-did-you-think/987278/63 "2023-08-09T22:19:37Z")
If it wasn’t so tragic it would be funny how many times I’ve seen the comment “The only movie I’ve seen in theaters in years is Sound of Freedom” in comments about the SAG strike. It’s coming from exactly the kind of people you would expect. I don’t doubt the movie could be entertaining. I like Jim Caviezel as an actor. He’s really good and a compelling presence on screen. I don’t know if I managed to get through all of BFE. I will admit I did like the book quite a bit when it came out. Somehow I managed to have never heard of Scientology before I read it. If I knew about the background I probably couldn’t have allowed myself to like it. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2023, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sound-of-freedom-anyone-seen-this-movie-and-if-so-what-did-you-think/987278/64 "2023-08-09T23:19:15Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > …I like Jim Caviezel as an actor. He’s really good and a compelling presence on screen… He was atrociously boring in Person of Interest. That show was loved by many, but my wife and I found to be dull and he was the worst thing in it. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2023, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sound-of-freedom-anyone-seen-this-movie-and-if-so-what-did-you-think/987278/65 "2023-08-09T23:46:02Z")
I liked it but it lost me after awhile. I guess I stopped being a person of interest. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2023, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sound-of-freedom-anyone-seen-this-movie-and-if-so-what-did-you-think/987278/66 "2023-08-10T00:03:46Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > I liked it but it lost me after awhile. I guess I stopped being a person of interest He emotes far more in Sound of Freedom. I’m pretty sure he can act, but Person of Interest wanted him to be very dry and he was. ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2023, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sound-of-freedom-anyone-seen-this-movie-and-if-so-what-did-you-think/987278/67 "2023-08-11T17:51:24Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > Propaganda by shitty people with shitty agendas can still be good, and sometimes even great, cinema. (See also: Triumph of the Will.) And _Hero._ ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2023, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sound-of-freedom-anyone-seen-this-movie-and-if-so-what-did-you-think/987278/69 "2023-08-12T23:45:24Z")
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**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2023, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sound-of-freedom-anyone-seen-this-movie-and-if-so-what-did-you-think/987278/70 "2023-08-13T02:36:26Z")
> [@Biffster](#): > > But this adrenochrome talk sounds about as convincing as the pizzagate scandal, and Jim “Jesus” Caviezal seems to be buying into it. They’re the same thing. > **[Pizzagate conspiracy theory](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pizzagate_conspiracy_theory)** > > "Pizzagate" is a conspiracy theory that went viral during the 2016 United States presidential election cycle, falsely claiming that the New York City Police Department (NYPD) had discovered a pedophilia ring linked to members of the Democratic Party while searching through Anthony Weiner's emails. It has been extensively discredited by a wide range of organizations, including the Washington, D.C. police. > In March 2016, the personal email account of John Podesta, Hillary Clinton's campaign ch... > QAnon, which has been likened in the media to “Pizzagate on steroids”, and a “big-budget sequel” to Pizzagate, linked the child trafficking ring to a nefarious worldwide conspiracy. It also developed Pizzagate’s claims by adding the concepts that the sexual abuses are part of Satanic rituals and that the abusers murder the children to “harvest” the adrenochrome from their blood, which they then use as a drug or as an elixir to remain youthful. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2023, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sound-of-freedom-anyone-seen-this-movie-and-if-so-what-did-you-think/987278/71 "2023-08-13T03:45:46Z")
“Sound of free tickets–freedom inside.” ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2023, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sound-of-freedom-anyone-seen-this-movie-and-if-so-what-did-you-think/987278/72 "2023-08-13T03:48:58Z")
Data and Lore. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Duality](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.duality/32/4098_2.png) [@Mr.Duality](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Duality)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2023, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sound-of-freedom-anyone-seen-this-movie-and-if-so-what-did-you-think/987278/73 "2023-08-13T12:26:45Z")
The van should have no windows except in front. You obviously would not be a successful serial killer or kidnapper. ---
**Author:** ![MrAtoz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MrAtoz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrAtoz)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2023, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sound-of-freedom-anyone-seen-this-movie-and-if-so-what-did-you-think/987278/74 "2023-08-13T13:25:24Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > I have seen quite a few Christian movies made by Christian directors and production companies. This, which was done mostly outside those companies, was better than almost all of them. That’s one of the things that’s giving this movie some of its cred. Used to be, the best you could do for a “name” actor in your Christian movie was Kirk Cameron. Jim Caviezel, by contrast, has actual talent. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2023, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sound-of-freedom-anyone-seen-this-movie-and-if-so-what-did-you-think/987278/75 "2023-08-13T14:51:42Z")
> [@Mr.Duality](#): > > The van should have no windows except in front. You obviously would not be a successful serial killer or kidnapper. Those windowless vans always creep me out ever since it occurred to me that they’re just little portable rooms. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2023, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sound-of-freedom-anyone-seen-this-movie-and-if-so-what-did-you-think/987278/76 "2023-08-13T15:08:46Z")
Sean Bean is in a few Christian movies and he is pretty good. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2023, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sound-of-freedom-anyone-seen-this-movie-and-if-so-what-did-you-think/987278/77 "2023-08-13T15:49:56Z")
Does he die? You’d think they’d have cast him as Jesus with his track record. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2023, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sound-of-freedom-anyone-seen-this-movie-and-if-so-what-did-you-think/987278/78 "2023-08-13T16:35:53Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > Does he die? You’d think they’d have cast him as Jesus with his track record I apologize. I didn’t mean Sean Bean. I meant _Sean Astin_. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2023, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sound-of-freedom-anyone-seen-this-movie-and-if-so-what-did-you-think/987278/79 "2023-08-13T18:13:29Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > Those windowless vans always creep me out ever since it occurred to me that they’re just little portable rooms. Actually, that’s a description of any fully enclosed vehicle. My Chevy Spark compact car is definitely a little portable room. A windowless van, on the other hand, is a portable hiding place. Same with delivery trucks, semi trucks with trailers, etc. Writers of various media have exploited that fact in many stories. ---
**Author:** ![Biffster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biffster/32/339_2.png) [@Biffster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffster)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2023, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sound-of-freedom-anyone-seen-this-movie-and-if-so-what-did-you-think/987278/80 "2023-08-13T18:23:05Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Sean Bean is in a few Christian movies and he is pretty good. One does not simply walk into a Christian movie. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2023, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sound-of-freedom-anyone-seen-this-movie-and-if-so-what-did-you-think/987278/81 "2023-08-14T01:01:24Z")
Nicolas Cage was in a remake (!!!) of “Left Behind.” Melissa Roxburgh, who starred in “Manifest” as Michaela Stone, was in a Christian movie fairly recently. Several of the actors in the early 1990s TV series “Northern Exposure” were in a movie a few years back called “All Saints”, which as Christian movies go was fairly liberal (and also pretty good, too). “All Saints” actually had a PG-13 rating, which was understandable because it was based on a true story about a fading Episcopal congregation that embraced KaRen refugees from Burma/Myanmar and one refugee said that soldiers from opposing forces regularly raped the women, and sometimes the men too. (Obvious trigger warning.) There’s also a Mormon-run movie studio called Feature Films for Families, and while those do not preach any religion, they have moral messages along with the plot. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sound-of-freedom-anyone-seen-this-movie-and-if-so-what-did-you-think/987278.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sound-of-freedom-anyone-seen-this-movie-and-if-so-what-did-you-think/987278.md?page=5)