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Speaker 5: All Right, I'm not gonna make you wait for it.
Speaker 5: Sinners is my favorite movie so far this year. It's
Speaker 5: only April, but this one's gonna be a tough one
Speaker 5: to beat. It's a terrific movie. It's a terrific vampire movie.
Speaker 5: It's a terrific period movie, and it's a terrific black movie.
Speaker 5: Here's a good bed at the trailer right here. It's long,
Speaker 5: but it's good.
Speaker 4: We've been going a long time.
Speaker 6: Be back man, you twins, now we cousins.
Speaker 4: There are legends of people with the gift of making
Speaker 4: music so true, making conscious spirits from the past and
Speaker 4: the future. This gift can bring fame and fortune.
Speaker 6: Will somebody tag me?
Speaker 2: But it also can piece the veil between life and dance.
Speaker 3: Listen here, this ain't no house party.
Speaker 6: Awesome you keep dancing with the devil. Careful boy, You're
Speaker 6: gonna bite off logan.
Speaker 5: You can too.
Speaker 6: One day it's going to follow you home because it's
Speaker 6: a problem.
Speaker 7: Now the hell going on?
Speaker 4: Oh we heard tale of a party.
Speaker 6: This world already left you for dead. I can save
Speaker 6: you from your faith. You don't need no saying yes
Speaker 6: you do and you are.
Speaker 4: I am your way out.
Speaker 7: Don't care.
Speaker 6: It's all better now, just.
Speaker 5: A lit.
Speaker 6: I don't believe you imagine.
Speaker 7: Ghosts do.
Speaker 6: Just powers? Somebody please take me who We're you gonna
Speaker 6: kill every laze? What are you?
Speaker 4: Now?
Speaker 5: Did I miss a bleep there?
Speaker 7: If?
Speaker 5: So? Lucky you if you're watching on the live stream.
Speaker 5: Sinners stars Michael B. Jordan and is directed and written
Speaker 5: by his frequent partner Ryan Kugler. And right out of
Speaker 5: the gate, there's a gimmick that could have ground the
Speaker 5: whole thing to a shrieking halt and turn it into
Speaker 5: a joke. Jordan is playing twin brothers, and I kept
Speaker 5: waiting for that to get ridiculous, but it's played straight,
Speaker 5: and it's seamless enough that eventually you just settle into
Speaker 5: it and stop looking for bloopers. It's the nineteen thirties
Speaker 5: and the brothers are some sort of former gangsters returning
Speaker 5: from Chicago to their really imposed impoverished hometown in Mississippi,
Speaker 5: where a lot of their friends are still picking cotton,
Speaker 5: and the Blues is their transcendent form of entertainment if
Speaker 5: they're not in church, and I mean transcendent in ways
Speaker 5: that I'm not going to spoil. The brothers are well dressed,
Speaker 5: they're flush with cash and weapons, and they want to
Speaker 5: open their own juke joint. And it's lucky. This is
Speaker 5: decades before a Yelp, but also really extremely unlucky as well,
Speaker 5: vampire unlucky. They take their time getting there. The story's
Speaker 5: immersive in a way that reminded me of Black Panther,
Speaker 5: which is also a Kugler deal. The brothers have to
Speaker 5: assemble a team first, just like in a western or
Speaker 5: a superhero movie, and it's a great cast that includes
Speaker 5: some familiar faces and some new ones. The vampires are creepy,
Speaker 5: and they're led by a kind of a charismatic musical
Speaker 5: redneck who you heard in the trailer. It's also an
Speaker 5: R rated movie with some grown up content, and by
Speaker 5: that I mean dirty sex, which is refreshing. I keep
Speaker 5: wondering why American movies have gotten so puritanical, yet they
Speaker 5: show violence and gore that would gross out a corner
Speaker 5: with no problem about the only things I wasn't crazy
Speaker 5: about with Sinners. The dialogue was hard to understand pretty
Speaker 5: often due to what I guess was some sort of
Speaker 5: period authentic mumbling and slang. I'm gonna be one of
Speaker 5: the geezers who watches it with the subtitles on when
Speaker 5: it's available at home, and I am going to watch
Speaker 5: it again, and it almost overstays. It's welcome. It's a
Speaker 5: good two hours and seventeen minutes, and I think I
Speaker 5: could have trimmed that seventeen pretty easily. But if you're
Speaker 5: going into this, you're gonna leave feeling satisfied. And I
Speaker 5: think a little move too, especially by an epilogue. You
Speaker 5: want to make sure that you stay for or when
Speaker 5: the credits start rolling. I'm trying not to tell you
Speaker 5: too much. In fact, I would avoid the trailers for
Speaker 5: Sinners too, because some of them give too much away.
Speaker 5: Now I want to bring too waala into this twiler.
Speaker 1: There.
Speaker 5: Did you like Sinners as much as I did?
Speaker 2: I think I loved it more. I loved every single
Speaker 2: thing about this film from the beginning This film is
Speaker 2: set in a point of time and in the South
Speaker 2: when my grandmother, not my great grandmother, my grandmother was
Speaker 2: ten years old in that same period in Texas. My
Speaker 2: grandmother used to tell me stories about my great grandmother
Speaker 2: and sharecropping and farming and all that. So watching this film,
Speaker 2: it took me immediately to a place of stories that
Speaker 2: I grew up listening to and hearing my grandmother talk about.
Speaker 2: I know you and Fush couldn't see it, but there
Speaker 2: was the point of time when the film came to
Speaker 2: an end and I did everything I could to hide
Speaker 2: my face in my sweater and cry. I went to
Speaker 2: my car and cried for a good twenty minutes after
Speaker 2: because of how deeply this film touched me. This film
Speaker 2: is transcendent on a whole bunch of different levels. Beyond
Speaker 2: the good acting, beyond the good storyline, beyond the good action,
Speaker 2: the jump effects, you know, jump scares. When it needs me,
Speaker 2: this film took me to a place that I didn't
Speaker 2: think it was actually going to. I didn't think the
Speaker 2: film was going to go that deep into this storyline
Speaker 2: and into this this level of storytelling, and wow, it did,
Speaker 2: and it's haunting. It's very very haunting in what it
Speaker 2: did for me. And you missed the second end credit scene,
Speaker 2: which is actually even more of a rewarding ending when
Speaker 2: you get to that second end credits.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Wow, Yeah, there's a second end credit scene.
Speaker 5: Okay, you got to tell me about that. Off the air,
Speaker 5: I moved by it as well. In fact, I think
Speaker 5: it's kind of an instant classic. That's the first thing
Speaker 5: I thought when I left there. It's also a great
Speaker 5: looking movie, and I mentioned that it was good on
Speaker 5: all sorts of fronts as a period movie and also
Speaker 5: as a black movie. But it also did not feel
Speaker 5: like a lecture. Ever, it was entertaining from start to finish.
Speaker 5: What do you think about that?
Speaker 2: No, absolutely, there were several messages that I know were
Speaker 2: directly and pointedly for the African American artists, without saying message,
Speaker 2: without trying to preach. There was a side of the
Speaker 2: South that they were trying to show. There's a side
Speaker 2: of the South that they were highlighting that I think
Speaker 2: more filmmakers when they tell these stories, when they go
Speaker 2: into stories about the past involving African Americans, there is
Speaker 2: a type of story that Moe and I do not
Speaker 2: go and see. We do not participate with, we do
Speaker 2: not support, and those are inward. You can't do that
Speaker 2: moviees And it is when you have a movie about
Speaker 2: I don't care a team of basketball players who are
Speaker 2: from a certain part of the town and could never
Speaker 2: play basketball, but they all come together and in the
Speaker 2: end they beat that team, and it's like, oh, I
Speaker 2: guess you in words can do that. Be it pilots,
Speaker 2: be it debaters, be it swimmers, you name it. There
Speaker 2: are too many films that come out where they tell
Speaker 2: these stories and it starts with us being this thing,
Speaker 2: this pejorative, and in the end it's like, I guess
Speaker 2: we had you pejoratives all wrong.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I use the term. When you and I
Speaker 5: were just talking off the air the other day, we're
Speaker 5: talking about black movies and I mentioned that I wasn't
Speaker 5: crazy about the kind that I think are just suffering porn.
Speaker 5: Does that make sense to you?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 2: Yes, too many of those that just absolutely suck. This
Speaker 2: film instant classic. I mean, this is one I will
Speaker 2: watch again and again and again. It's got that level
Speaker 2: of talent behind it. It's gonna be hard to beat
Speaker 2: that film this year.
Speaker 5: Now. I haven't said fruit Vale Station but of all
Speaker 5: the Coogler movies that I have seen, I think this
Speaker 5: is the best. I think he's really come into his
Speaker 5: own as a filmmaker. And even the stuff that I
Speaker 5: wasn't crazy about, I wouldn't take out of the movie
Speaker 5: because that's his vision.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, yes, I took it all and say, you
Speaker 2: know what, he wanted to put this in for a minute.
Speaker 2: He wanted to stretch the scene out for a minute,
Speaker 2: which is why I need to go back and see
Speaker 2: it again. I understood all the dialogue, and I think
Speaker 2: it's maybe just because I'm more used to hearing that
Speaker 2: level of dialogue. I was like, and then my mom
Speaker 2: thinking of myself, I wonder if everyone else knows what
Speaker 2: they're saying, because I know what they're saying.
Speaker 5: Yeah, if I had a time machine and I was
Speaker 5: transported back to then I would have been the guy
Speaker 5: going huh it was a vernacular line?
Speaker 4: Was it vernacular?
Speaker 1: It was that?
Speaker 5: And the delivery as well. Yes, yeah, well we both
Speaker 5: loved it. Foush. I don't think you loved it quite
Speaker 5: as much, but it was good. It's just I think
Speaker 5: I guess the wave was sold to me.
Speaker 7: I thought it was a little bit more like action,
Speaker 7: you know, filled a little bit, but I mean, yeah,
Speaker 7: you guys hid everything on the mark, especially the especially
Speaker 7: the having trouble understanding them for a decent amount of
Speaker 7: the film. It was kind of hard.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 5: They immerse you in the world so that when the
Speaker 5: action finally does happen, it feels very earned to me,
Speaker 5: if that makes sense to you. Yeah, all right, Well
Speaker 5: there's your report. Moe.
Speaker 4: You got to see this. You should have been there.
Speaker 4: I should have been there, but life was life and
Speaker 4: then gotten away. Well, I'll try to see it this weekend.
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