re: Finally Got Around to Watching Sinners

Posted by The Ramp

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Posted on 10/26/26 at 7:52 am to Sam Quint

that movie was average at best

Posted by 3nOut

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Posted on 10/26/26 at 9:11 am to Sam Quint

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Not sure if serious.

NOPE and Us didn't touch on race at all IMO.

Get Out seemed to be lambasting rich white coastal elites more than southerners.

Posted by Flats

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Posted on 10/26/26 at 9:31 am to 3nOut

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Get Out seemed to be lambasting rich white

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white

How is that not about race? And it didn't just touch it, it hit you over the head with it.

I'm ok with that because the movie was pretty up front about what it was, but race was the point of the movie. I haven't seen the other two.

Posted by Byron Bojangles III

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Posted on 10/26/26 at 9:58 am to dallastiger55

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Best picture lol

We all know why it was nominated.

and we all know why this board hates it

Posted by Sun God

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Posted on 10/26/26 at 10:17 am to Byron Bojangles III

It was a meh movie

Why wouldn’t this board hate it

Posted by SCLSUMuddogs

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Posted on 10/26/26 at 10:21 am to PurpleandGold Motown

It was alright for my purposes, but it was just a movie that was on when I was about to go to sleep in a hotel room. I thought the scene where knockoff Bootsy Collins and break dancers showed up was pretty odd though.

This post was edited on 10/26/26 at 10:22 am

Posted by Flats

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Posted on 10/26/26 at 11:29 am to Sun God

quote:
It was a meh movie

Posted by Sam Quint

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Posted on 10/26/26 at 11:38 am to 3nOut

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NOPE and Us didn't touch on race at all IMO.

lol dont tell that to the critics

Posted by taylork37

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Posted on 10/26/26 at 2:39 pm to PurpleandGold Motown

It's kinda funny that folks blame race for why the movie had the reception it did and why it won the awards it got (which I do agree with the argument) but at the same time lack any self awareness when claiming the movie as "objectively terrible".

The movie was a decent one time watch but by no means was an "objectively terrible" movie. By definition it can't even be that.

Posted by BigGreenTiger

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Posted on 10/26/26 at 3:27 pm to PurpleandGold Motown

I thought it was good.

good, not great, not worthy of academy awards... just good.

Posted by SlowFlowPro

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Posted on 10/26/26 at 3:50 pm to BigGreenTiger

Yeah.

Anyone who tries to act like it was really bad/shitty is just trying too hard...harder than the people who gave it 16 Oscar nominations.

Posted by wildtigercat93

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Posted on 10/26/26 at 3:50 pm to Sun God

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It was a meh movie Why wouldn’t this board hate it

Hating something you find “meh” is a bit contradictory

Posted by Macintosh

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Posted on 10/26/26 at 5:32 pm to PurpleandGold Motown

its a decent movie with a stupid segment for 'da culcha' but yeah everyone who glazed this movie are either black or dont want to look racist

Posted by Sam Quint

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Posted on 10/26/26 at 8:05 pm to taylork37

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It's kinda funny that folks blame race for why the movie had the reception it did and why it won the awards it got (which I do agree with the argument) but at the same time lack any self awareness when claiming the movie as "objectively terrible". The movie was a decent one time watch but by no means was an "objectively terrible" movie. By definition it can't even be that.

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Agreed. It was objectively "fine"

Posted by PurpleandGold Motown

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Posted on 10/26/26 at 8:12 pm to taylork37

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It's kinda funny that folks blame race for why the movie had the reception it did and why it won the awards it got (which I do agree with the argument) but at the same time lack any self awareness when claiming the movie as "objectively terrible".

The movie was a decent one time watch but by no means was an "objectively terrible" movie. By definition it can't even be that.

I never brought race into this. In fact, slavery and vampirism is well trod soil in fiction. This movie was just poorly written, poorly executed and poorly acted.

I think what really turned me was that it could not just lean into anything. Was it a think piece about sharecropping and Jim Crow? Was it a gangster movie? Was it a horror film? A creature feature? It never decided. It tried to be everything and was nothing.

Great movies don't try to be everything. They pick a lane, excel and proceed at speed.

I stand by my assertion, this movie was arse.

Posted by 632627

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Posted on 10/26/26 at 9:43 pm to Roaad

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The music was phenomenal

Yeah it was, both the jazz and irish stuff.

The music makes the movie, and I’m pretty sure anyone’s appreciation of the movie hinges on how much they enjoyed the music

Posted by RohanGonzales

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Posted on 10/26/26 at 9:54 pm to SlowFlowPro

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.harder than the people who gave it 16 Oscar nominations.

You cannot help being a chode.

Posted by JDsJersey

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Posted on 10/26/26 at 10:44 pm to blueboy

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None of them have ever won the Black Director Challenge - making a movie that isn't in some way about racial shite.

It's actually kind of incredible that I can't think of even one.

Four Brothers, King Arthur, Hope Floats, Nope, Training Day, Southpaw, Shooter, Widows, etc aren't about race. There are a ton more examples.

Inside Man wasn't about race either, so even Spike Lee himself wins the challenge.

This post was edited on 10/26/26 at 10:47 pm