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This seems like a good movie and it is making money and has legs, the only criticism I would say from the outside is for a horror the 'Budget' seems high, 100 million will eat into profits.

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as for the whole quota Diversity islamo LGBT open border thing, I think a lot of cinema has moved on, you can make a film with only Black people in the Caribbean, in the US South in Chicago, in Africa it can be a good film, you can make a film with only or mostly Whites and it can be a good film, you can make a film with Yellow Orientals and its another movie that can be good, you can make a Brown Bollywood film or a tanned brown Latino Latina drama and it can be good, you can make a film on Native Americans with Native actors and it can be good...why did they want to mix everything...it seems its moved on

Will this be one of those Iconic 'Black Films' the Tina Turner story What's Love Got to Do with It, Ray, pDon't Be a Menace to South Central, Boyz n the Hood, Car Wash, Harlem Nights, Bad Boyz, House Party, Beverly Hills Cop, Dead Presidents, Coming to America.... new Captain America...well maybe not that, let's forget about that one

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
You're such a little bitch, Second.

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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon

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Double down on bitch like you always do.

It's worked wonders for you so far, huh?



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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon

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Warner Bros and the business of Hollywood

Sinners 2 is already in the works
https://www.shortlist.com/entertainment/sinners-2-is-already-in-the-wo
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

This article is well worth a read, so decide if you want to see the movie or not and read the article when it's appropriate.

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/sinners-film-
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It sounds to me like maybe somebody figured out how to make one hell of a movie that has race inside of it but doesn't obsess over moralizing and preaching from a false platform and just tells a great story.

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

This article is well worth a read, so decide if you want to see the movie or not and read the article when it's appropriate.

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/sinners-film-
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It sounds to me like maybe somebody figured out how to make one hell of a movie that has race inside of it but doesn't obsess over moralizing and preaching from a false platform and just tells a great story.

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What spoilers are in the article? A highly political message:

“Everybody has asked the question, what should we do with the Negro?” Frederick Douglass thundered in a speech in 1865. “I have had but one answer from the beginning. Do nothing with us! Your doing with us has already played the mischief with us. Do nothing with us! If the apples will not remain on the tree of their own strength, if they are worm-eaten at the core, if they are early ripe and disposed to fall, let them fall. … And if the Negro cannot stand on his own legs, let him fall also. All I ask is, give him a chance to stand on his own legs!”

Smoke and Stack couldn’t have said it better themselves. And, like too many Black Americans, they learn the hard way just what happens when the do-gooders, unchecked and unopposed, are allowed to do what they believe is good. We, sadly, have seen this grim scenario play out in reality, more disturbing than anything a scary movie could ever evoke. We know, for example, that while the United States in 1932 was hardly heaven for its Black citizens, two out of three Black children nationwide back then were living in households with both of their parents. Today, nearly a century of aggressive progressive legislation later, the number has plummeted to about a quarter. We also know that every census from 1890 to 1940 marked the marriage rate among Blacks as significantly higher than among whites; by 2021, only 31.2 percent of the Black population was married, compared with 53.9 percent of whites.

The Black family wasn’t decimated by the Hogwoods of this world, rank racists determined to preserve their systems of oppression. It was annihilated by rejecting Frederick Douglass’ wise counsel and replacing pride, particularism, and the joys of tribal loyalties with the gauzy promise of universal, cosmopolitan liberalism and its miracle cures, which have turned out to be poison. It’s not for nothing that the moral backbone of Coogler’s film is Smoke’s wife, Annie, a healer who still remembers how to brew the old world’s traditional remedies out of roots and leaves. She’s the first one to understand that there’s nothing more deadly to the soul than allowing yourself to be bitten by those who want us all to become one indistinguishable horde, all thinking and acting and sounding alike.

This may be why Coogler chose the vampire genre as his vehicle to tell this story. Vampires, as any horror fan could tell you, can’t just walk into your house; they have to be invited in, and much of the fun in Sinners involves the ghouls thinking up clever ways to convince the humans inside the club to have some heart and open wide the door. The message couldn’t be clearer: If you don’t give in to their bullshit, they can’t hurt you, at which point all you have to do is know that dawn will soon come again, destroying the foul creatures once and for all.

Which makes Sinners, alas, required viewing for American Jews. We, too, have fought for the privilege of standing on our own legs, only to sit right back down, invite the vampires in, and let them suck the spirit out of us and replace it with a smile and some platitudes about tikkun olam. And now, as it was for Smoke and Stack and everyone else holed up in the mill with guns and torches and wooden stakes, hoping to make it through the night, it’s time for us, too, to fight back.

Tikkun Olam, a central Jewish concept, translates to "repairing the world." It encompasses a wide range of actions aimed at improving and making the world a more just and equitable place. This can involve social justice work, acts of kindness, and environmental stewardship.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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