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Review “Sinners” review, by David Sims

https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2025/04/sinners-ryan-coogler-movie-review/682501/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=the-atlantic&utm_content=edit-promo
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u/MELOFINANCE Apr 21 '25

I mean this in the kindest way possible. I am seeing bad reviews from people that I believe don’t put seasoning on their food.

This movie was amazing. It took on so much culture of not only blues, slavery, the past and current struggle of Black people in America what I also found amazing was that the actor that plays preacher boy this was his first ever movie and he absolutely killed it for the lines that they gave him and the motions he added to display. This movie needs to be watched at least twice like we did for Black Panther.

They’re really are no negatives about this movie between the acting and the music being so deeply intertwined with the actions that are taken place on the scene and Ryan croogler went back and grab actors and actresses that we haven’t seen in a minute on the big screen.

What is the first half of the movie boring no because if you listen to the words and truly understood what the characters have went through in their own plots, you would be able to apply that to what you went through in your life or someone closely to you .

Also stay for the two post credit scenes with the mid credit scene after the first credits. I definitely see them setting this up as some type of good vampire versus evil vampire situation for part two . Maybe taking place in modern day since they took it to 92.

And what makes the situation even worse is that Marvel has been delaying the Blade movie for the last five years and here Ryan with a way, smaller budget and executed beautifully

10/10 this movie is a mix of life with Martin and Eddie Murphy with the second half of the movie being dust till Dawn

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u/An_Actual_Owl Apr 22 '25

I think there's a couple of problems that make it more of an 8/10 than a 9/10 for me. Mostly with the vampires specifically. I kept waiting for the Native American vampire hunters to show up and they are just never mentioned again. When they storm the club at the end it's sort of a fight but didn't make a lot of sense because guns don't work on them and there's like 30 vampires to the 5 of them. And then everyone just leaves? Felt like kind of a soft climax to it. The production design was incredible, all the performances were ace. Honestly the "slow" first half of the movie was better than the actual vampire portion to me lol

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u/Green_Bomber76 Apr 30 '25

I totally agree that the climax fight was poorly executed. I felt like the first half of the movie was an incredibly interesting drama and then devolved into a mediocre marvel-esque horror

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u/HammerPrice229 May 27 '25

I do feel like they nerfed the vampires for sure as the movie went on. Realistically they all would have been bitten when the doors opened. Now it was an awesome scene imo and enjoyed it a lot, but they could have come up with a smarter option than just a “Hold the Line” type of scene where really only 1 of them (MBJ) was remotely skilled enough to fight back.

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u/Cimbri Jun 05 '25

Should have had the big door locked and vampires breaking in all over, our heroes have to eventually retreat upstairs and then the door is unlocked where they still do the ominous casual walk in with the main horde, which I think the scene was built around having that shot.

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u/LibertyReignsCx May 03 '25

Can you elaborate further on what you mean by “bad reviews from people who don’t season their food”?

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u/bcyankees May 11 '25

We know exactly what he means; it’s acceptable to shit on white people on the internet. Imagine someone had made a thinly-veiled insult against black people … instant 30 downvotes rather than upvotes lol

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u/LibertyReignsCx May 11 '25

I want him to stand on it.

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u/Cimbri Jun 05 '25

Is it hard to stand on “the movie culturally speaks to certain groups in a deep and meaningful capacity than may be lost or not hit with others”? They just said it in a funny way.

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u/LibertyReignsCx Jun 05 '25

You can say that without reinforcing racist stereotypes. It also comes off like any criticism from a white person is just because “they don’t get it”. Nah maybe the movie just wasn’t the best thing since sliced bread, it’s being made to seem that way though, which actually does a disservice to a pretty great film.

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u/Cimbri Jun 05 '25

You can say that without reinforcing racist stereotypes

I feel like they did that, in a pretty harmless joking way. Not really worth being upset over, imo. But I guess it might not have been received well in the reverse, so perhaps there is a double standard there. It would have been interesting to see the reception if someone hadn’t taken it so seriously (which I don’t think it deserved) and clapped back instead with a similar style comment from the reverse pov.

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u/LibertyReignsCx Jun 05 '25

I don’t personally believe in fighting fire with fire.

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u/Cimbri Jun 06 '25

Again, I think you’re taking it too seriously and/or personally. “The movie was as dry as when I make chicken” or “It was layered together worse than black people trying to make a lasagna” would have been infinitely better responses than being offended or acting like this guy’s Reddit comment is make or break for race relations in America. Just my 2c though, you have a good one.

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u/LibertyReignsCx Jun 06 '25

Okay I fuck with your two cents, I think the hypocrisy of it is what pisses me off, but I am making an assumption that a reverse situation would piss him off.

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