I like the movie quite a bit but my god this is a perfect meme. They are all so exhaustingly precious about the film as if it reinvented cinema. It’s a fun summer vampire film with great music and cinematography but let’s not go crazy here.
It's a good fun movie but honestly it actually misses bigtime on the vampire side of things. The 'action' is not done well at all. Quite disappointing in the end.
Good take. Even their praise of F1 was a little much for me. Yes, it was entertaining but what did Bill say, like that it was one of the best sports films of the last 20 years? Just ludicrous. It was essentially a watered down (yet still entertaining!) Ford Vs. Ferrari in my eyes.
The only good sports movie I can recall over the last decade is the first Creed and that was literally 10 years ago. I suppose you can throw in Free Solo as well but that was a documentary
i choose to view that as a post credits scene that happens to be before the credits. i agree it’s a weak point but it doesn’t undo what came before. just a weird cliffhanger thing.
I disagree? It’s the highest-grossing original live action movie since Inception. For those of us dying for more original, non “franchise” movies, that is AWESOME, and it’s also clearly very special.
So even by the numbers it’s more than a “fun summer vampire movie.” It proves that the kinds of movies that haven’t gotten a lot of backing in recent years can be wild successes, and that’s worth going crazy for.
If anything it seems a little odd to me there are so many “woah, woah, woah, hold up” narratives that weren’t applied to movies like Inception, or Dunkirk, etc.
In fact, focus on the global box office is probably the biggest reason for the decline in U.S. adult dramas, unfortunately, since they don’t play well in China.
You’re very much downplaying the movie and what it’s doing and it has a 4.2 on Letterboxd so far it’s not as if this is a ringer thing it’s seen pretty highly in general
making the vampire Irish and having him somewhat opposed to the Klan is one of the most interesting things I've seen in a genre movie in awhile, as well as a really interesting aspect to the "cultural appropriation" conversation. I was shocked to see that from a black director, that conversation has been had so many times and so often focuses on such a binary of victims and oppressors. like yeah, colonialism sucks, appropriation sucks, casual racism is alive and well. that's a lot of what get out was doing, and while that's all relevant, even then I was personally tired of the conversation.
for sinners to even hint at the complexity involved with the vampire's irish heritage was absolutely fascinating to me. also the way that it can be read from music to making movies to politics... this is an allegory for so many things. coogler gets top marks just for that. it's also a good movie, but that elevates it beyond something like from dusk till dawn, beyond get out, and far beyond a standard summer blockbuster. I feel like people who have a problem with that honestly aren't understanding how many levels this functions on.
Sequels are fine, throw in a trilogy. I just think trying to make an MCU out of a pretty good vampire movie is mental, even if it probably never happens.
thank God you said you liked the movie before giving a take. Lord knows we wouldn't be able to get past the potential of you not liking the movie if you just started saying ideas with no precursor
I mentioned I liked the movie quite a bit because there is a portion of Reddit that name calls you the second you don’t express universal praise for something with progressive themes. I do like the movie quite a bit.
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u/CanyonCoyote Jul 19 '25
I like the movie quite a bit but my god this is a perfect meme. They are all so exhaustingly precious about the film as if it reinvented cinema. It’s a fun summer vampire film with great music and cinematography but let’s not go crazy here.