SINNERS' IMAX Encore! Vampire Flick Set To Return After THUNDERBOLTS* Two-Week Run

@MakeAmericaGrea - I know, he's more of a Beauty.

@MisterBones - He’s definitely in a position where they’ll let him make whatever he wants.

@Vigor - whats your rating for each?

@Vigor — MBJ has truly proven himself. He and Coogler, as a duo, have been hit after hit. Creed is one of my all-time favorites. I like that Coogler’s movies give you the Black experience without the heavy-handed stuff that some people do. It’s more like: “This is a film, it has Black people in it, and this is the experience sometimes,” whereas others are like: “LOOK AT WHAT BLACK PEOPLE GO THROUGH.” I often use the movie Emergency as an example — terrible, terrible usage of the Black experience.

Thunderbolts was excellent. Beautifully shot, emotionally charged, and had something to say.

I’m going 9/10 for both

@KennKathleen — Some people try too hard. In the movie I mentioned, two Black guys find a drunk white girl passed out. Instead of calling the police, they inexplicably put her in their car and drove around while her sister followed them. The film builds to a moment where the guys try to explain themselves and beg her not to call the police. She calls anyway; the police show up, arrest them aggressively, but later the charges are dropped. At the end, for some reason, the girl comes to apologize to the Black guy, and he shuts the door in her face.

That’s not the Black experience—it’s very try-hard. The sister was absolutely right, and honestly, if you have my unconscious sister in your car, you won’t need to worry about me calling the police or hearing your side Because we would’ve handled that ourselves.

Sinners just showed what it was like to be black in that era, but it didn’t make that the whole movie.

Does that make sense?

@KennKathleen — Yeah, I guess you could say that. But that’s my point: it’s not necessarily a genuine Black experience, yet we keep getting the same movies. More so, these forced scenarios that don’t actually happen, or hyperbolic versions of real-life situations. Personally, I don’t want to keep seeing it.

A movie like The Wood is just about growing up in Inglewood, California. Everything doesn’t have to be racial or anything like that, and I hope they start telling those types of stories again instead of making everything Black and white

@KennKathleen - sinners does have racial implications 100% but it’s not the whole plot. You’ll see once you see it. A lot of people thought sinners was going to be a “white people bad vampire” movie and that turns out not to be the case.

I just saved it to my watch queue.

@KennKathleen - The movie is called Sinners, so obviously there are many religious connotations and symbolism in it. While I think he made some good observations in his video, I also think he was reaching quite a bit. Take Mary, for instance—using Nehemiah 13 as a way to say God said “don’t date interracially” is the kind of biblical interpretation people use to justify racism and, in more extreme cases, genocide. Nehemiah speaks to being “evenly yoked” on a religious level—meaning you should date a fellow Christian—not that you shouldn’t date a white person if you’re Black. He could’ve easily said Mary was an adulterer as well.

He also said something about house parties and how people get killed there, ignoring that most house parties end without violence or anything like that. Rap music—or any music that isn’t strictly “God’s music”—isn’t the root of evil, and it’s disingenuous to insert your own views into these things and try to pass it off as a breakdown. That’s really my problem with organized religion.

I’ve never seen a movie where Coogler sought to imply that Black people were somehow higher on a hierarchy than other races, and that’s not what I took from Sinners.

It felt like he used music as a way of putting down the community and villainizing it. I don’t think that’s what Coogler was doing. I feel like Sammie’s voice during his performance was showing how music has a way of bringing us together—the past, present, and future; people from all colors and creeds; and how it transcends genres. In that scene it drew the Vampires to them, yes, but they can't come in unless you invite them in. An important detail

@KennKathleen — An excerpt from Wikipedia: In Jewish theology, being "chosen" is understood as being selected for a particular mission or purpose, not as a statement of inherent superiority. This concept emphasizes responsibility and service rather than privilege.

Skepticism over Wikipedia is fine, but they do cite sources. My interpretation of all of those sources is the same: Don't date those who don't serve the same God as you, because you will stray from your duty to God as the "chosen people."

@MyCoolYoung - Your dedication to knowledge is inspiring. For that, I will give you the Biblical teaching of the chosen. To the law:

Isaiah 41:8 kjv
But thou, Israel, art my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend.


Isaiah 43:10 kjv
Ye are my witnesses, saith the Lord, and my servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me.

Isaiah 44:1 kjv
Yet now hear, O Jacob my servant; and Israel, whom I have chosen:

The scriptures give both privilege AND responsibility.


If we read down, we get the understanding why God chose us to be a special people above all nations.

Deuteronomy 7:7-8 kjv
The Lord did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people:

8 But because the Lord loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the Lord brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

As far as how God feels about the other nations...

Exodus 11:7 kjv
But against any of the children of Israel shall not a dog move his tongue, against man or beast: that ye may know how that the Lord doth put a difference between the Egyptians and Israel.


Psalms 147:19-20 kjv
He sheweth his word unto Jacob, his statutes and his judgments unto Israel.

20 He hath not dealt so with any nation: and as for his judgments, they have not known them. Praise ye the Lord.

Isaiah 40:15-17 kjv
Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.

16 And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt offering.

17 All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.

*double clarification*

2 Esdras 6:54-56 kjv
And after these, Adam also, whom thou madest lord of all thy creatures: of him come we all, and the people also whom thou hast chosen.

55 All this have I spoken before thee, O Lord, because thou madest the world for our sakes.

56 As for the other people, which also come of Adam, thou hast said that they are nothing, but be like unto spittle: and hast likened the abundance of them unto a drop that falleth from a vessel.

Romans 3:1-2 kjv
1 What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision?

2 Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God.

Romans 9:3-4 kjv
3 For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:
4 Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises;

Revelation 21:9-12 kjv
And there came unto me one of the seven angels which had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues, and talked with me, saying, Come hither, I will shew thee the bride, the Lamb's wife.

10 And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God,

11 Having the glory of God: and her light was like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal;

12 And had a wall great and high, and had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel:

It's a lot to chew on... but I've been enhancing in wisdom since I've slowed down on my comic reading. I hope you take the time to look into it for yourself.

Isaiah 64:4 kjv
For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee, what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him.

Ecclesiasticus 19:19-20 kjv
The knowledge of the commandments of the Lord is the doctrine of life: and they that do things that please him shall receive the fruit of the tree of immortality.

20 The fear of the Lord is all wisdom; and in all wisdom is the performance of the law, and the knowledge of his omnipotency.

@MakeAmericaGrea - Disney and Marvel Studios Ruled 2024 As DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE, INSIDE OUT 2 & MOANA 2 Reportedly Top Profit Charts.

I thought you said Disney was going broke.

https://comicbookmovie.com/disney/disney-ruled-2024-as-deadpool-wolverine-inside-out-2-moana-2-reportedly-top-profit-charts-a219149#gs.m15d7y

@WeaponXCII - think so sucks if it’s true just came out last week

@WeaponXCII - IMAX for two weeks.

@WeaponXCII - Just the IMAX experience, correct. They need to make room for Mission Impossible.