You know, if Hollywood doesn’t want us to think that they are a nest of pedos, we are not sure this is the way to disprove it.
Last Friday a movie about Chris Hansen and his show To Catch a Predator was released called Primetime, starring Robert Pattinson. Here’s a trailer for it:
Now, to start with, we haven’t watched it. Given how expensive movies are, we almost never go out to the movies. Even if we were interested in seeing a movie, we figure we can almost always wait until we have the opportunity to watch it for free or as part of a streaming service we already paid for. And if we can be coaxed into the theaters, it has to be for an experience we can only have in the theaters. As a rule, that doesn’t apply to mere character dramas, like this. Even if we thought this movie looked good (and it doesn't), it looks like there’s nothing special about seeing it in a movie theater.
But we are being reliably told that this is a hatchet job on Hansen and pretty much everyone who wants to go after pedophiles. For instance, we get this from Conservative film critic Christian Toto:
I can't shake the horrible feeling this film gave me ...https://t.co/Ar471EG8bb
— Christian Toto (@HollywoodInToto) September 28, 2026
From the article:
‘Primetime’ is unabashedly one-dimensional in its critique of ‘To Catch a Predator.’ [Robert] Pattinson’s [portrayal of Chris] Hansen is a vain, selfish jerk who even exposes his young children to his show in one awful sequence.
You have to strain to see any redeeming qualities in his on-screen character.
Is the real Chris Hansen a vainglorious jerk? Maybe. Who knows? That approach still doesn’t make for a compelling story. Plus, why would the creative team behind ‘Primetime’ go out of its way to suggest he is?
And it’s not just Hansen who comes off poorly. His investigative teammates aren’t much better. They’re creepy, aggressive and far too eager for fame.
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Indeed, there is no attempt to recognize that Hansen, whatever his motives, was doing a good thing. Call us crazy but we care a lot more about actions than motives.
More from the article:
Why would a major motion picture go out of its way to turn someone who helped catch child predators into the story’s villain? Meanwhile, there’s little to no effort to dramatize just how cruel and dehumanizing the predators’ handiwork is.
One of the child predators caught in Hansen’s web uses crutches to walk, a sympathetic visual.
That’s a choice.
His assessment is backed up by this Twitter/X user, too:
Just got out of Primetime and I have to say… this was even worse than I expected lmao
— pagliacci the hated 🌝 (@Slatzism) September 25, 2026
It wasn’t just a Chris Hanson character assassination, but a paranoid Reddit-tier indictment of basically anyone who expresses condemnation of pedophilia in general.
The pedophiles are… pic.twitter.com/nFs5yMYDfV
The cut off text (with mild censorship for naughty, naughty words):
The pedophiles are largely portrayed sympathetically in comparison to Hanson’s savage sociopathy. The anti-pedophile characters are almost all shown as either bumbling idiots or secret predators themselves.
At one very bats**t point, Hanson’s murky conscience is challenged by a rabbi he catches in a sting who the audience is almost led to forget was there to rape who he thought was a little boy (promised to him 3000 years ago ofc).
Just to break in there, is she saying that the movie implied that this rabbi was trying to claim that his faith justified this? Oy vey.
Back to the (censored) cut off text:
The climax of the film is a pedophile District Attorney killing himself after being aggressively pursued by Hanson and police.
In those final moments, the pedophile is portrayed as an uncertain, misunderstood, almost innocent guy who, again, you’re nearly instructed to forget had been exchanging lewd messages with a child. The decoy he’d been speaking to is shown crying as he solemnly sings the pedophile Seasons of Love from the gay musical Rent over the phone in the lead up to the sting and suicide.
While it was advertised as a critique of sensationalizing predator hunting, throughout the film Hanson’s desire to ‘use’ pedophiles for his own ‘gain’ was very clearly framed as the biggest sin.
Even as I was leaving the theater, I overheard someone ask ‘was Chris Hanson really that evil?’
The only saving grace of the movie was Robert Pattinson’s acting, which was 10/10 despite the overall narrative being s**t.
Returning to Mr. Toto, he puts the movie into the larger context of rumors about Hollywood and even Disney’s attempt to bury Sound of Freedom, which includes information that this author had never heard before:
Disney once held the rights to the fact-based tale tied to child sex trafficking. The company refused to let it grace theaters. A key player behind the movie told the press that Disney said it wasn’t ‘right for us.’
Angel Studios eventually swooped in and bought the film rights, years after its completion. The title became one of 2023’s biggest sleeper hits. ‘Sound of Freedom’ earned $184 million stateside, more than ‘Fast X,’ ‘Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny’ and ‘Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning.’
A little digging shows that Disney got the film as part of the Fox merger from a couple years ago, but the true revelation is that Disney had the movie finished and they refused to release it, reportedly because it wasn’t right for them. Gee, what about that movie’s message wasn’t right for Disney?
Meanwhile, we have heard endless whining about how Warner Brothers canceled a Batgirl movie, and two Looney Tunes movies (The Day That the Earth Blew Up and Coyote vs. Acme). The Looney Tunes movies were reportedly canceled purely because they ran the numbers and realized that the movies weren’t likely to make back their money, and, therefore, it made more financial sense for them to write it off as a tax loss — at least until a third party bought the movies from them. It pains us to admit this, but the Looney Tunes just aren’t very popular with younger kids these days. As for the Batgirl movie, the allegation is that they were not only afraid it would bomb, but that it would do damage to D.C. Comics as a movie brand.
So, people endlessly whined when it looked like those movies were never going to be released, but no one complained about a movie that was pretty explicitly designed to drum up support for efforts to stop child predators? And not even for a reason related to finances — whether it is direct number-crunching for the Looney Tunes movies, or protecting the value of a brand as alleged with the Batgirl movie — but because the movie wasn't 'right' for them? Obviously, you don’t release Sound of Freedom with Disney branding, but Disney has numerous brands which they use to routinely release movies that are decidedly not for kids. So, where was the outrage over that movie being almost buried?
Overall, it seems to us that Hollywood is perfectly willing to leave money on the table and it is hard not to think some of it is for ideological reasons. For instance, just this past summer, America celebrated its 250th anniversary. And yet, did Hollywood release any movie celebrating our revolutionary past? No, it fell on Angel Studios — the same studio that released Sound of Freedom — to give us Young Washington:
To sum this up, on July 3, 2026, this movie studio had the crazy idea of releasing a movie about frickin’ George Washington and it became a decent hit (and we enjoyed it). How did Hollywood miss such an easy lay-up? It’s such an obvious move, it’s hard not to believe that ideology played a role.
And the same studio has another crazy idea for marketing a movie, this Christmas. Are you ready for this crazy idea? They are releasing a movie called Zero A.D.: The Birth of Christ:
My Gosh, they are releasing a movie about the birth of Christ, near Christmas? It’s an idea so crazy, it just might work!
Jokes aside, it is another case of Hollywood basically leaving money on the table for Angel Studios to snap up for itself. That would be the third time Hollywood did this, and we find it hard to believe that ideology didn’t play a role in that. What does it say about Hollywood that they keep leaving money on the table like this?
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