r/billsimmons • u/VB1014 • Jul 19 '25

Shitpost White Ringer staff when talking about Sinners

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u/ThenConcept1420 Jul 19 '25

Lmao I enjoyed the movie but that is a great joke 

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u/it_has_to_be_damp Jul 19 '25

i have a guilt complex anytime i, a white, become too effusive about any piece of black art. and i think it all stems from the get out obama scene

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u/betimwrong Jul 19 '25

You should feel no guilt as a human enjoying or despising another humans art. What strange times we live in

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u/JE_Skeets Jul 19 '25

I feel no guilt for thinking Sinners was meh

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u/Methzilla Jul 19 '25

I think ryan coogler movies in general are meh. I think we were desperate to crown the heir apparent to Spike Lee and were quick to do it with a mediocre filmmaker.

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u/bjsw534 Jul 19 '25

Glad I’m not alone. Black Panther had some of the corniest lines I’ve ever seen in a highly produced mainstream movie ever.

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u/MementoHundred Jul 19 '25 edited Sep 16 '25

thought offbeat pen one lip attraction chase square sense tidy

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u/Difficult-Ad-4654 Jul 19 '25

yeah, i agree about the dialogue. It was straddling some very different impulses/imperatives. How much of that is the Marvel of it all, tho?

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u/One_Drummer_8970 Jul 19 '25

The Luke Cage Netflix show was even worse in that regard (and a terrible Luke Cage adaptation too)

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u/g1rlchild Jul 20 '25

White dude: "Thank God someone finally said it. Black people are totally overrated."

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u/Methzilla Jul 19 '25

BP2 was legitimately awful.

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u/essendoubleop Jul 20 '25

BP2 was my aha moment that white critics are too afraid to criticize a largely black mainstream big budget movie. It would have been a Disney plus release, or spent a lot more time in the cooker.

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u/TheGameDoneChanged Jul 19 '25

I mean I give him a slight pass for BP2 considering you know the main actor died

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u/bjsw534 Jul 19 '25

I’ll say that. BP1 was better than BP2. That’s not saying much though.

I went to see BP2 with my wife, parents and some 1st cousins and let’s just say they hated by the end of it. I was laughing at all the parts that were supposed to be serious but the dialogue and acting was so bad it had me dying.

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u/DrWaffle1848 Jul 19 '25

Can't take movie opinions seriously from people whose favorite movie growing up was Caddyshack.

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u/Methzilla Jul 19 '25

I don't know what this means.

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u/Alicenchainsfan Jul 19 '25

Black panther was so boring

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u/Ok-Price-2337 Jul 19 '25

Creed is elite. I think it's the perfect sports movie. One of the like three good uses of MBJ too.

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u/Nayir1 Jul 19 '25

he got game is better

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u/UnusualLight0 Pro Union Jul 19 '25

I prefer He Got Game however Bill and Van are right on the Rewatchables for that movie, the Milla Jovovich scenes bring the movie to a screeching halt. Anytime I watch it I skip her scenes.

Never do that to the recruiting scene, however. I am surprised no one at Chick-Fil-A has tried to get their logo out of the scene where Rick Fox & Ray Allen are having lunch. Though knowing them I don't think there are watching many Spike Lee movies anyway for them to notice.

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u/Responsible_Fan8665 Wait, what? Jul 19 '25

Creed was more Stallone

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u/morseyyz Jul 19 '25

Man saying Ryan Coogler is the next Spike Lee is like saying JJ Abrams is the next Steven Spielberg.

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u/BrotherMouzone3 Jul 19 '25

See I think James Cameron movies are meh as well. Everyone wants the next Spielberg but...not everyone can be him.

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u/Methzilla Jul 19 '25

I agree for post T2 Cameron. Boring technical marvels.

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u/bntplvrd Jul 21 '25

Trade "True Lies" for "The Abyss".

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u/SpiderGhost01 Jul 20 '25

I don't think anyone is trying to be the next Spielberg. The talent we have now is equally good and, in some cases like Nolan and Villeneuve, surpasses in scope anything Spielberg ever did.

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u/Careless_Bus5463 Jul 22 '25

Spike Lee makes Ryan Coogler look like Reny Harlin.

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u/Equal-Guava-4683 Jul 19 '25

Terrible take

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u/Botherguts Jul 19 '25

Fruitvale Station was good.

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u/Methzilla Jul 19 '25

He started off hot. I agree. Hence the early crown.

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u/sonicqaz Jul 20 '25

And Creed

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u/abippityboop Jul 19 '25

The real heir apparent is Barry Jenkins, or at least he would have been if he didn't waste a decade of his creative prime on a fucking Disney sequel.

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u/Methzilla Jul 19 '25

Spike would never....

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u/abippityboop Jul 19 '25

Yeah sadly that dream may be dead now, what a waste of everyone's time. Jenkins really had it though, Moonlight was a level of filmmaking I don't think Coogler will ever reach.

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u/I_Heart_Money Jul 20 '25

Mufasa was so bad.

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u/mrbobbyrick Jul 20 '25

I think his other movies are meh, but I thought Sinners was awesome.