WEBVTT - Bonus* Sinners Movie Review 

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<v Speaker 1>Twist. I'm a homegrow that knows a little bit about

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<v Speaker 1>everything and everybody, you know, if you don't lie about that, right,

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<v Speaker 1>all right? So I told y'all that I was going

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<v Speaker 1>to get into my thoughts about Sinners, the movie by

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<v Speaker 1>Ryan Coogler, because it is. It's insane. If you haven't

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<v Speaker 1>seen it, go watch it. But let's get on into it.

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<v Speaker 1>Sinners is a horror film starring Michael B. Jordan by

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<v Speaker 1>Ryan Cougler and Baby. I've seen the film twice so

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<v Speaker 1>the opening weekend placed Sinners number one in the box office.

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<v Speaker 1>They made forty eight million dollars domestically and sixty three

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<v Speaker 1>point five million dollars globally, nineteen point two million dollars

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<v Speaker 1>domestically just in the opening day, and that number was

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<v Speaker 1>actually captured before the opening day even closed. This made

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<v Speaker 1>this the second biggest opening day for an original horror

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<v Speaker 1>film this decade. But this also made this film the

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<v Speaker 1>biggest debut in post pandemic history for an original film,

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<v Speaker 1>and Ryan Cougler and the cast earned a rare A

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<v Speaker 1>Cinema score. This is the first horror film to do

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<v Speaker 1>this in thirty five years. Don't You don't even Gotta

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<v Speaker 1>say nothing, y'all, Like that is so fire and Sinners

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<v Speaker 1>needs to make two hundred to two hundred and twenty

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<v Speaker 1>five million dollars globally in order to break even theatrically.

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<v Speaker 1>So the money that was put out to push the

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<v Speaker 1>film to do everything that they needed to do, you know, globally,

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<v Speaker 1>that is that's that's the number that they need to return.

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<v Speaker 1>Right now, this movie has surpassed a Minecraft movie already

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<v Speaker 1>numbers wise, right, A Minecraft movie is set to make

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<v Speaker 1>is predicted to make seven hundred million dollars globally. A

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<v Speaker 1>Minecraft movie is in seventy six international markets. Centners movie

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<v Speaker 1>is in seventy one international markets. So I'm gonna read

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<v Speaker 1>a tweet from Variety. This happened early in the release

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<v Speaker 1>of the movie. Variety released this statement, I mean this

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<v Speaker 1>headline on X. Sinners has a mask sixty one million

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<v Speaker 1>dollars in its global debut. It's a great result for

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<v Speaker 1>an original R rated horror film. Yet the Warner Brothers

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<v Speaker 1>release has a ninety million dollar price tag before global

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<v Speaker 1>marketing expenses, so profitability remains a ways away, y'all. They

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<v Speaker 1>hadn't even closed out Sunday. They hadn't even closed out

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<v Speaker 1>all seventy two hours of the weekend, and these were

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<v Speaker 1>the headlines every time they talk about black movies in

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<v Speaker 1>the theaters. Instead of talking about how well they're doing,

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<v Speaker 1>they talk about what is not being done. Let's talk

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<v Speaker 1>about what's actually happening here, and if they're not gonna

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<v Speaker 1>do it, I will. So I saw some people upset,

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<v Speaker 1>and I wanted to get on here and have a

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<v Speaker 1>conversation about that, because what is what Centners is doing

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<v Speaker 1>outside of hitting all the marks we talked about earlier

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<v Speaker 1>making all of the money, making Michael be Jordan look

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<v Speaker 1>damn good, because baby, the muscles were muscle ling, okay,

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<v Speaker 1>Michael B Jordan. And I don't know if it was

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<v Speaker 1>like the muscles with the guns and the action and

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<v Speaker 1>the but Michael b Jordan was he was giving it up. Okay,

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<v Speaker 1>he was looking good. So there's most conversations happening, but

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<v Speaker 1>I'm gonna focused on three. So the Bible thumpers right

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<v Speaker 1>now are having a conversation as they always do anytime

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<v Speaker 1>a black horror film drops. The Black Bible Thumpers come

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<v Speaker 1>out and they start having a conversation about black magic

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<v Speaker 1>and witchcraft and vampires and you know, darkness and the

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<v Speaker 1>devil and all of these things. And I get it.

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<v Speaker 1>I was raised very traditionally in a very black traditional church.

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<v Speaker 1>Where As I was watching this, I was like, my

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<v Speaker 1>grandmother would be pissed at me sitting here watching this

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<v Speaker 1>movie right now. But I think when they start having

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<v Speaker 1>a conversation around black magic and a lot of that thing,

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<v Speaker 1>a lot of those things in the movie, you really,

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<v Speaker 1>honestly just begin to see our healing power, Like especially

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<v Speaker 1>strong Black women in faith, Like strong Black women rooted

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<v Speaker 1>in spirituality and faith, they always emerge as being the

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<v Speaker 1>leaders of their relationships, of their families or their communities,

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<v Speaker 1>and they're often overlooked. What they do is often overlooked,

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<v Speaker 1>is often mopped until it's like the world is exploding.

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<v Speaker 1>I think we saw you will see if you have

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<v Speaker 1>not watched it yet, and if you did watch it,

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<v Speaker 1>you see that story life and play out, and you

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<v Speaker 1>know exactly what I'm talking about. I'm not going to

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<v Speaker 1>give it away. But it also dies into, like, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>the struggle with God that I think black people have,

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<v Speaker 1>especially Black people in poverty or in really hard situations,

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<v Speaker 1>they're always asking God why. Like there's a lot of

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<v Speaker 1>loss in this film, there's a lot of like we

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<v Speaker 1>had to fight, we had to kill, we had this,

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<v Speaker 1>we had to that. So God in the conversation around

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<v Speaker 1>that is like everybody's trying to get away from God

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<v Speaker 1>in this movie, and they're trying to find something, whether

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<v Speaker 1>it's money, whether it's love, whether it's wholeness, whether it's

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<v Speaker 1>a friend group, whatever, And it all comes back to

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<v Speaker 1>at the end of the day, the person who is

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<v Speaker 1>the main character in this film, taking us right back

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<v Speaker 1>to God. And I feel like that's what the vampires

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<v Speaker 1>kind of showed. It was like, here's these these bad

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<v Speaker 1>people who are doing these bad things. But because of

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<v Speaker 1>it's like a cause and effect. Because of that, people

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<v Speaker 1>are coming together, they're having a fight together, they're realizing

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<v Speaker 1>who really is there for them. They're realizing what happens

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<v Speaker 1>when you, you know what I mean, give your power and

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<v Speaker 1>your energy to the negative thoughts in the you know,

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<v Speaker 1>all the stuff that the devil tries to wrap you

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<v Speaker 1>up into, especially when you're doing well. You figured out something,

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<v Speaker 1>You figured out a way to make some money and maneuver.

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<v Speaker 1>I also thought that, you know, there was like such

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<v Speaker 1>a black versus white conversation in this movie the white

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<v Speaker 1>passing conversation was like one that I think a lot

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<v Speaker 1>of people didn't really sit with. I think a lot

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<v Speaker 1>of people just saw black versus white, because that is

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<v Speaker 1>very prevalent in the movie, especially before the time period

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<v Speaker 1>that the movie is during the gym Crow period, so

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<v Speaker 1>especially during the time period the movie is placed in

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<v Speaker 1>where the movie is placed, and that is very prevalent.

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<v Speaker 1>There's a lot of like leaning into Irish culture as well.

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<v Speaker 1>And it made me like google the Black struggle and

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<v Speaker 1>the Irish struggle. In this film, you really get a

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<v Speaker 1>sense of like, if we had all just figured it

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<v Speaker 1>out and work together, could it have been better? Because

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<v Speaker 1>at one point they were the white people, weren't weren't

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<v Speaker 1>fooling with this little set of white people, this set

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<v Speaker 1>of Irish people, right, and they were pushed away. They

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<v Speaker 1>were they were that they were able to assimulate back

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<v Speaker 1>into culture way differently and come up of course, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>and and that's a conversation for another day, but it

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<v Speaker 1>was there for them too. So even with you know,

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<v Speaker 1>certain people of certain uh you know, backgrounds, choosing to

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<v Speaker 1>be so black versus white, when in reality, there are

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<v Speaker 1>sectors of these cultures where it's like y'all weren't accepted either.

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<v Speaker 1>They wasn't fooling with y'all either, to the point where

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<v Speaker 1>they bring the KKK into this, and I'll just give

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<v Speaker 1>y'all a little spoilers, so spoiler alert. Some of the

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<v Speaker 1>evil people that are Irish, they even lean into the

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<v Speaker 1>fact that they had to bring in a member of

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<v Speaker 1>the k KKK and kind of work this person so

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<v Speaker 1>that they had an inside man because they wasn't fooling

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<v Speaker 1>with them either, nor were they fooling with us this

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<v Speaker 1>whole movie either. So that was it made me look

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<v Speaker 1>look up that and again I'm not comparing the two

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<v Speaker 1>because black is black, period, and you can't tell me

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<v Speaker 1>nothing about what we're dealing with it if you look

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<v Speaker 1>like a white man white men, you know what I mean, period,

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<v Speaker 1>you just can't tell me it's just not happening. And

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<v Speaker 1>I'm trying to figure out, like what Ryan Cookleer's point

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<v Speaker 1>and that was, and honestly, it made me want to

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<v Speaker 1>do more research. And we're reading around that and I

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<v Speaker 1>love films that do that, but the White Passing Conversation,

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<v Speaker 1>it brought that up a ton because the ability to

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<v Speaker 1>just kind of like move in an out of different

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<v Speaker 1>cultures in different sectors, different music, different energies, different you

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<v Speaker 1>know what I mean, struggles versus non struggle, and to

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<v Speaker 1>turn it on and turn it off. The ability to

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<v Speaker 1>do that it comes back to, you know, backfire in

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<v Speaker 1>this film really heavily, like extremely heavily. Y'all, y'all gotta

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<v Speaker 1>go see this movie. But I will say though, like

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<v Speaker 1>the way that mainstream media covered this movie, I think

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<v Speaker 1>it's not going to do anything but help it. I

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<v Speaker 1>got to move on now because it's so hard to

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<v Speaker 1>talk about the film without giving y'all the film. But

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<v Speaker 1>please go see Centers if you have seen it already,

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<v Speaker 1>drop alone to comments some of the conversations that you

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<v Speaker 1>picked up from the movie. There's a lot more like

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<v Speaker 1>I was in the movie, like writing down like a

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<v Speaker 1>notepad of just different things I wanted to research, and

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<v Speaker 1>like just just so much stuff, just soul, my stuff.