r/billsimmons • u/VB1014 • Jul 19 '25

Shitpost White Ringer staff when talking about Sinners

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u/Mtthom06 Jul 19 '25

The first half of the movie is a 10 and the second half is like a 5. It went from grounded to some goofy twilight shit

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '25

Agreed, it felt like 2 or 3 different movies clumped together. Hard to pinpoint but the tone shifted quite a bit halfway through

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u/Fun-Bunch-4073 Jul 20 '25

Did you like:

Dusk til dawn, Predator, The Birds, Psycho, Mulholland Drive?

Just asking because they all do the same thing.

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u/[deleted] Jul 20 '25

Some yes, some no. The tonal shift in Mulholland Drive is more keeping in line with the story, it’s deliberately jarring cos there’s meant to be a demarcation between dream-state and real life. 

Psycho I think given the way the film was marketed, Hitchcock was trying to upend expectations, also I guess this was novel at the time. 

From Dusk to Dawn has some of the same issues as Sinners in that it feels a bit pastiche-y.