Sinners (2025)

Szlia

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American sign language was developed at a time schools in the South were segregated. Apparently there are a lot of local dialects of American Sign Language because there are not that many schools and not a lot of interactions between people that learned and taught in different schools, add segregation in the mix and you have a group of Black American Sign Languages in the South. I think there is a good deal of mutual intelligibility between these dialects and families, but enough differences for them to be considered different things. That being clarified, It makes sense when you have a movie set in a black community in the South to have BASL as an option.
 

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I demand a movie be made of the white vampire that was running from Indians. An origin story.

Drop the whole make believe fairy tail land type shit where black people are walking around nonchalant with the Klan brothers in the area. Never mind the white woman fucking the black guy. Or the black guys working for the mafia (lol do wut?). Or the asian store keepers actually LIKING black people, *raffs*. Or the attire - where black people can barely afford fucking drinks at their blacks only club, paying with "Plantation" tokens - but they can apparently afford the nicest fucking garments that were available in the time period? (I can keep going, this movie is so fucking full of shit that its like a fucking comedy.)

Basically, take out all the hypocrisy and the budget they probably spent on this pile of shit would be just enough to make a good vampire movie based off the original vampire. Queue up that WW2 shit theyre talking about and throw in a healthy dose of toxic masculinity and you'll see old white dudes come alive.

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American sign language was developed at a time schools in the South were segregated. Apparently there are a lot of local dialects of American Sign Language because there are not that many schools and not a lot of interactions between people that learned and taught in different schools, add segregation in the mix and you have a group of Black American Sign Languages in the South. I think there is a good deal of mutual intelligibility between these dialects and families, but enough differences for them to be considered different things. That being clarified, It makes sense when you have a movie set in a black community in the South to have BASL as an option.
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ROFL - So it is the same just louder.

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Adebisi

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I thought this movie was great until mid way thru where it felt lazy and weak. The almost Ocean's Elevenesque assembly of a crew to pull off a banging nightclub was fun. The two dance scenes were legit amazing. The final vampire confrontations were clunky and the bonus kkk killing at the end felt almost tacked on.

I was super annoyed that after they build to this badass scene where the vampires are dancing and singing and getting ready for vampire shit...

Really fucking great scene. I'm pumped.
But then It leads into the vampires just arguing by the door. Not great.

I do give props to the director for creating something that is original. It's your vision to destroy, versus say the Russo Brothers getting their mitts on The electric state and turning it into dog shit.