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Military bases do have theaters and movie screenings on a regular basis. They also partner with Hollywood studios for special screening events.
Like this one.
The Army and Air Force Exchange Service is offering free exclusive military screenings of “Elvis” at Air Force and Army bases worldwide Saturday, nearly two weeks before the new release hits theaters stateside.
AAFES is partnering with Warner Bros. to screen the film at more than 20 Army and Air Force bases, including Ramstein Air Base, Germany, where the free showing starts at 11:30 a.m. at the Exchange Reel Time Theater. Doors open at 10:30 a.m., and seats will be available on a first-come basis.
AAFES theaters are currently screening the Barbie movie, Nun II, Oppenheimer, The Flash, and My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3. But the Sound of Freedom is a no-go because, apparently unlike Barbie or Oppenheimer, both of which are leftist screeds, it’s too ‘Christian’ and political.
U.S. Southern Command, or SOUTHCOM, has canceled two planned showings of the Christian thriller “Sound of Freedom” at its headquarters in Doral, Fla., the command confirmed Wednesday.
The summer’s surprise box office hit about a former federal agent rescuing children from sex trafficking has earned nearly $182 million in the U.S. and Canada since its July 4 release.
The free screenings, originally planned for Aug. 28 and Oct. 19, were canceled after Military Times inquired about the event, according to the outlet. Critics have also questioned the showing of a political-leaning and heavily Christian faith-based movie on a federal base — especially as troops are required to remain apolitical at work.
Really? Are they?
How exactly does remaining apolitical jibe with all the critical race theory endorsed by the military brass? Troops aren’t required to remain apolitical when watching movies in their free time. This is just political discrimination by the ruling leftist elite.
It’s fine to air leftist screeds in movie theaters, just nothing that even implies anything conservative.
UPDATE: AAFES reached out to specify that the SOUTHCOM cancellation was not reflective of it.
“Our military customers and family members asked us to screen ‘Sound of Freedom,’ and we do our best to serve those who serve,” its social media account informed me. “In July, the Exchange and Horizon Distribution teamed up to make the movie available at all of our 46 Reel Time Theaters worldwide, including deployed locations.”
“Our theaters have been scheduling and screening the movie and our customers have responded in appreciation.”
It’s really sad to see all the trickle-down sorrow the administration has pushed on the branches. Showing propaganda to the troops has been a long-standing tradition of the armed forces, but the messages were primarily designed to pump up the soldier, sailor, airmen or marine, not drag them through the social or societal muck of the day.
There were times in the Navy, especially underway in deep ocean, when it was easy to slip back in time. Shipboard life was as it always had been because the focus was on duty….until a Honolulu radio station was picked up or we got buzzed by a Russian jet and realized it wasn’t 1945. I guess what I’m saying is that the military always took the superfluous off the servicemen’s plate intentionally to allow greater focus on the task at hand, that is until now. Now, they get an extra helping of confusion.
What I haven’t quite figured out yet is why the “molders of men” would intentionally sabo the nation’s primary source of national security. Even bad guys need armies, just ask President Xi. The sad state of recruitment and the even sadder state of recruit-aged men and women are indicative of multiple “flies in the soup” placed there by powers who’d rather tear down than build up.
Tearing down is what the Left does. Always. Everywhere.
What if our bad guys aspire to be rewarded by the globalist bad guys? Our bad guys are already being made very wealthy by treasonous acts.
Our Military Forces should be allow to see Sound of Freedom their Americans have the right to do so
If they are saying a movie against child trafficking is a political issue favoring the right, they’re indirectly actually admitting that the left supports child trafficking or is at least opposed to exposing it and those guilty of it. That’s a helluva stance to take!
I’m having a hard time remembering, how did you predict those “leftist screeds” were going to perform at the box office?
go back on your meds, schmuck
The Military Times is a far left, fringe, leftist, propaganda organ, so it is not surprising that the leftist activists at the Military Times “inquired about” the free screenings. The Military Times has no objection to taxpayer-funded drag queens at military installations or taxpayer-funded abortion or any leftist cause, so if such events happen in the military, the Military Times will never “inquire” about such events supported by leftists.
Unlike the federal bureaucracy, AKA The Swamp, where decisions are disguised by committee, *someone* in Southcom put rank and signature on that order, even if by proxy. Get that officer’s name mentioned in a Congressional hearing, and he/she and/or the underling (who signed “for”) won’t do that again.
Far too many jackass work rules and regulations are promulgated essentially anonymously. Name and shame!
Just going to say that “Sound of Freedom” played at Ramstein, and at other nearby military base movie theaters (it’s where I saw it). Most movies play in USAREUR-AF theaters at some point (even if only once), so “Barbie” playing (as did “Oppenheimer”) didn’t surprise me; it’s business. People requested “Sound of Freedom,” and it did well in terms of ticket sales. Can’t speak to what happened with SOUTHCOM, but the simple reality is this: too many faith-based films are very poor in terms of production quality, and storytelling (“Left Behind,” anyone?). “Sound of Freedom” was very impressive both in terms of quality and storytelling; to nobody’s surprise, it’s doing well at the box office. If you make a high-quality film, people will want to see it. It’s a business. If people of faith ask for quality, Hollywood will acknowledge it. If they settle for schlock, it’ll be noticed.
My only issue with the article was describing the movie as “Christian”. It wasn’t. It was a movie in which a character was Christian. (And he didn’t preach in the slightest.)