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Just finished watching the Fantastic Four: First Steps…. All I have to say is that that’s real family

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3 girls who wear blue dresses and go to magical places, i think they'd be friends

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You know when Annie placed her hand on Smoke's chest, and then he put his hand over hers while looking at her? You know when Smoke opened his jacket and showed he was still wearing the Mojo bag she'd given him and she looked up to him with the most roundest, softest brown eyes ever? Yeah that.

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I dont take any critique of Mary and Grace to be in good faith anymore. Because if its not about misogyny, then why is Annie always "too motherly" and Pearline always "doing too much"? Why isnt Cornbread a problem for also going out and getting turned before they knew Remmick was a vampire? Why isnt Smoke an asshole for leaving the grieving mother of his child all on her lonesome and why isn't Stack an asshole for sending Mary out in the first place?

Why are ALL the characters people have problems with in this movie the women?

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we’re all sinners

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I disagree with this but I can see why you have this opinion

Hot take but Yelena is already a better written character than Natasha ever was and she's only been in 2 movies and a couple TV episodes

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THAT WAS LITERALLY ALL I COULD THINK AB

did I love the new thunderbolts movie, yes.

would have I appreciated added a Natasha scene in there somehow even if it was a younger actress playing Natasha and yelena in the flashback, absolutely.

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Smoke and Annie were and look the same age. I know you lot aren't USED to seeing dark skinned Black women as love interests (especially plus sized ones) on screen but seriously, get a fucking grip. There was NOTHING to suggest she was any grown man's mama or sister. That is called bias.

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Also there’s something so important to me about Smoke and Stack openly saying they love each other and constantly proving that they love each other

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every time someone reduces mary's character in sinners to "white woman who caused all the problems" i slam my head into the nearest wall at a high velocity

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I forget how common car tints are, someone just called my car a fishbowl and I completely didn’t get what they meant 😭

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No she most definitely would’ve. Plenty of people like her were in the past, she would not be an exception. If the wrong person peeped her ancestry, she is done for. Thats the whole reason her husband and none of his family came down with her when her mother died. They don’t know and for good reason.

Stack also literally mentions this hypothetically, he said if someone were to put a hand on her, he and Smoke would kill them. If this wasn’t a legitimate fear, he wouldn’t have brought it up.

Mary.....babe.....You're not the one who would be strung up and castrated if yall are caught. And you know that. So stfu and g'on somewhere, leave Stack alone.

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The funniest part of Sinners was when the Native Americans just said “yeahhh good luck with that”

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pov: you’re watching that one scene in Sinners (2025)

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One of my favorite aspects of Sinners how they use the musical scenes to build tension. Because they start out small, with just Sammy and Stack in the car, then the performance with Slim at the train station, and then working up to the scenes in the barn.

The first juke sequence is the most visually stunning, of course. It's chaotic but overwhelmingly positive, beautiful, and joyous. When we move to Pearline's song, things start to darken. The thumping stomps are timed with the twins beating the man with the loaded dice. We've already seen violence in the film, but this is a steep escalation intentionally set to music.

Then, we think the tension is going down when the ******** show up (no spoilers 🤫), but they are so immediately unsettling that we never feel at ease. Their music is sweet and their voices are soothing, but it's a front, one that fractures pretty quick but shatters completely with the Rocky Road to Dublin.

Rocky Road is a perversion of the first juke scene, twisting the joyful chaotic energy of the dance into a masterfully disturbing parody, where the full evil and madness (and twisting of spirituality) of the ******** is put on display.

It's just such a good way to build the narrative. I love love love how serious they were about making music the keystone of every filming decision.

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I love that Ryan Coogler cast a big, thick and glorious dark skinned black woman as the main love interest and I love that the sex scene was unapologetically sexy and passionate. I loved seeing this big strong and muscular black man bend this big, thick ebony goddess over and gave her some hot and heavy soulful kind of love. It wasn’t wrong or gratuitous.

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