Hell, some of us even enjoyed Battlefield Earth.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
And Hero.
They’re the same thing.
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.
“Sound of free tickets–freedom inside.”
Data and Lore.
The van should have no windows except in front. You obviously would not be a successful serial killer or kidnapper.
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.
Those windowless vans always creep me out ever since it occurred to me that they’re just little portable rooms.
Sean Bean is in a few Christian movies and he is pretty good.
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.
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.
One does not simply walk into a Christian movie.
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.