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The entire point of The Old Guard was that no one knew when or why they lost immortality. It’s what gave their lives meaning no matter how long they were. Netflix giving it a straight to the point answer on how, when, and why was the worst possible thing the could have done tbh

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i almost inhaled my juice... the "ONE! ACTION!" and then the immediate SMACK

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Warner bros will pay for their crimes

Film media pages are already starting marketing campaigns for Hailee over Wunmi. Hailee is great but this would be slap in the face for the point of Ryan Coogler’s film. Not sure how you can watch Sinners and focus on her character; I get the obsession for Remmick but Mary ?? Jayme Lawson and Wunmi Mosaku had more of a compelling performance. Jayme had to sing, dance, and act. Ugh

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SINNERS (2025) dir. Ryan Coogler

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SINNERS 2025, dir. Ryan Coogler

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SINNERS 2025, dir. Ryan Coogler

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And I will hear, though soft you tread above me And all my grave shall warmer, sweeter be And you will fall and tell me that you love me

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Another reason I respect Sinners is how Pearline is treated.

She is a married woman that sleeps with Sammy, when she dances and sings she does it in a seductive/sexy way but she is never treated or viewed as a negative figure. She isn’t a whore, or a slut, and she isn’t viewed as a temptation to Sammy.

In fact, the only part of the movie where you are supposed to disagree or (maybe) dislike Pearline is when she doesn’t want to eat the garlic. The movie makes us grieve her when she is killed.

Any other horror movie would have given her a brutal death, it would have been “deserved”.

Instead, Sinners goes out of its way to show that she is a human being, and despite her sins we love her. Decades after she is killed, Sammy names his bar after her despite knowing her for one day. The movie honors her.

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Something about how black music in this case the blues being one of the only forms of expression, emotional/spiritual outlets allowed lest you be threatened for your life with any other form of expression of discontent. You can’t fight back you can’t stage an uprising you can’t even cry but you can sing and make music. And that form of expression that is so sacred yet precious to maintaining your humanity being a beacon for vultures or vampires to witness and prey upon your supposed shared suffering for their own agenda to mutate or spoil or co-opt for profit, greed, or supremacy/erasure. That expressing vulnerability in a way so beautifully could be taken advantage of at any point by wolves in sheep’s clothing. This is why Sammy clings in tears to his broken guitar after everything. They can’t take away his connection to humanity even after all that he’s been subjected to. Even if it calls on the wolves or the Devil himself yet again because to do so means forfeiting his soul.

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Do you see my vision

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"I been hearin' about this one particular young man all day. Supposed to be a bad blues man. Preacher Boy where ya at?"

"I LIED TO YOU" Introduction SINNERS (2025) dir. Ryan Coogler

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we are all sinners

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Remmick was in awe of Sammie’s gift he did not have interest in Sammie romantically, what he wanted was Sammie’s talent so he could summon his ancestors. Please put the fanfics down and actually think more in depth about things

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I've been all over this world. I've seen men die... in ways I ain't even know was possible.

MICHAEL B. JORDAN in SINNERS (2025) dir. Ryan Coogler

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Some after "Sinners" reading material if you're interested in Black American and Indigenous History (and the immigrants who came over, too). I put in the Jones-Rogers book too so y'all won't think the 58% had no serious role in shaping the horrors of America.

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i know i shouldnt be suprised but sinners being out for less than a week and already tumblr is fandomifying and 'poor wet pathetic cat'-ifying the main white man villain of the movie is so... disapointing??? like did the fucking point of the movie really go over your heads that badly or are you just willingly ignorant and stupid?

AND BEFORE ANYONE STARTS; im not saying you cant like remmick, he's a very interesting character, a great villain, and jack o'connell gave a great performance playing him, nor do i care if you think hes sexy, I think hes sexy

but i think to come out of a movie where vampires serve as a metaphor for how black american communities have the life sucked out of them by white people via cultural appropriation (remmick wanting to use sammie's gift to summon his own ancestors) and forced assimilation (all the turned vampires singing and dancing along with remmick's irish folk song and dance juxtaposed with the blend of cultures during sammie's song in the juke joint) and for your main take away to be 'aww the main villain is just a misunderstood sadboy' or 'idc abt the atrocities he looked sexy doing them (when the atrocities in question were racism)' then youre just being so disengenuous and antithetical to the whole point of the film?

and dont come at me with the 'let people enjoy things' bullshit, sinners is a movie FUNDAMENTALLY about racism and racial dynamics in the united states, and i do think focusing on your little y/n x [whiteboy of the month] fics and 'hes so babygirl' posts do actually stunt your own critical engagement with the message this movie was trying to convey to its audience

i think its also a disservice to remmick's character; the moral nuance that comes to light when you consider his position as an irish immigrant to the US, a victim of the colonialist british empire just like the black main cast (although in a very different way) and how, whilst his desire to reclaim his ancestry and heritage is understandable and even relatable, his pursuit of sammie and willingness to kill literally everyone else at the juke joint is allegorical for how, regardless of their own marginalisation, white people will prey upon and steal from black culture(s) and destroy/disenfranchise black communities to serve their own interests, and the movie is NOT subtle about this either, delta slim literally lays it out for us "white folks like the blues just fine, they just don't like the people who make them"

idk im yelling into the void here, the ppl im complaining about are never going to give a shit about racism or even just critically engaging with art when theres a new cute whiteboy to write fluff and angst about, but its just soooo annoying to see, yet again, how fandom spaces, which SHOULD be about uplifing and celebrating art in all its diversity and complexity, once again is nothing more than people ignoring anything that actually makes them have to confront reality and filing off the serial numbers to slot characters into pre-determined fanon molds so they can pump out incorrect quotes and coffee shop AUs en masse until the media iliterate heat death of the universe

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if you are in or reasonably near to New Orleans, Louisiana, go see SINNERS while it’s at the Prytania Theater. they got one of only five 70mm prints on film, not digital, and the viewing experience in a hundred year old single-screen movie house cannot be beat. get to it.