I really wanted to like this - mini rant
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Sinners
realmv5 — 9 months ago(June 17, 2025 07:38 PM)
The vampire scenes were well done, those parts were great. But a 2 hour movie where an hour of it is "white people bad", "white people dumb", "white person should have trusted this non-white person now they're going to pay for it"… I mean, are people really this allergic to just making a good movie without obsessively inserting their personal/political opinions into it?
When that happens it takes the viewer out of the moment.
Forget about all the scenes hyper focused around race.. even just the historical inaccuracies alone were annoying the whole time. No woman 100 years ago would ever say "you should steal this pussy". Like really, it's not hard to write better dialogue for the time period you're in without making it completely unrelatable.
This movie had so much good potential, it's a shame they wasted an hour of the talent. The ending was pretty lackluster too.
If they actually would have just made a straight up good vampire movie with the theme and talent they had it could have probably been an 8 or 9, and I rarely give movies that good of a rating. That's how well I thought they executed the other parts.
But because they bogged it down so much BS I had to drop it to a 6.
So it's better than average, but has too many flaws to recommend.
I only recommend 7 or higher to friends.
They could have easily done the same premise of 1920/30s creepy white vampires trying to get at black people in a blues bar…without spending over an hour of it alone focused on race. The plot idea itself was good, but just executed in a crappy way.
10% of a movie like this focused on race is one thing (with the plotline/time period it's understandable it would be talked about) But this was like 60% of the whole movie. Like we get it, you're bitter and you have personal hang-ups with white people. How about just making a movie worth your actual potential instead of letting your feelings get too much in the way?
I didn't even know this was about vampires at all until the movie was already half over (I like to go into movies totally blind).
I thought I was just watching some woke version of a 1920's blues bar where the twin brothers criminal past would catch up with them. That's how long it took for them to get past the woke and into the vampires. It was almost like the vampires were a minor subplot lol.
To end on some positives: Acting was pretty good (I thought so anyways but I'm no expert), the music was great all throughout, I can't remember a song I didn't like. The Irish jig scene was really well done. There was a lot of talented people in the cast. And the way the vampires were depicted/acted/how they used their abilities, was damn near perfect. Which is why I was so disappointed that they weren't in the movie for very long