Max Power said:

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I saw this on Friday and really enjoyed it. To me it was Coogler's version of From Dusk Till Dawn, and I mean that as a compliment. A couple brothers on the run and they're trying to live through the night, but even if they do you know they'll always be running from something just trying to survive to the next day. Not only are they trying to survive, but they are looking to have a hell of a time in the process. To me the klan showing up the next morning was just to reinforce that they weren't as free as they thought, they'll have to fight their way through each day. I really liked the scene with the garlic, felt like the blood test scene from The Thing. Definitely a great movie to see at the theater so you get the full experience of the sound and music.

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Pretty good comparison I hadn't thought of.

Thought the movie was pretty good. Music was great. Looked great.

It's not best picture worthy like some want it to be, but I bet it gets nominated.

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Saw it in Max last night. I thought it was pretty good but agree with the critique that the first part was way too long and the objective did not pay off: I didn't care about any of the characters. I thought the vampire scenes were good, but it was all the other stuff that I found either unnecessary or outright pandering to the "whites are bad" narrative. Worth a watch.

One thing I keep thinking about when I think about this movie is how I kinda love how they didn't try to explain vampires to us. We know what they are, and enough of the in movie characters did to quickly explain them and their weaknesses. Didn't waste anytime trying to do their own thing

Learned from Tarantino in that regard... No sense in wasting time explaining the lore if that's not what the movie is about.

"I know what's going on. We got a bunch of ****ing vampires out there, trying to get in here and suck our ****ing blood. And that's it. Plain and simple. I don't want to hear anything about "I don't believe in vampires," because I don't ****ing believe in vampires, but I believe in my own two eyes, and what I saw, is ****ing vampires. Now, do we all agree that what we are dealing with is vampires?"

That being said. I bet this was an absolute blast to watch in the theatres with an audience. It probably really elevated the section of the movie I didn't love sitting alone watching it on my couch.

Just caught this on Hulu, and thought it was a really good movie, a solid 7.5/10. The acting was great and loved the songs throughout.

My only gripe with the movie was that the Vampires went from kill/suck blood at all costs, then Smoke lets Stack live and then Stack and Hailee Steinfeld all of a sudden develop a conscience?

It was an entertaining movie. Not really a fan of one actor playing two parts but besides that no problem with the casting.

Saw this movie and it was ok. They tweaked the storyline of "from dusk til dawn" clearly, but enough so that it was interesting. I enjoyed the setting of 1930's Mississippi, though the cars were way too new and clean for rural America.

I found myself googling stuff like "Haint" and "Mojo Bag" to learn exactly what they were talking about.

* I wish they would have used a real rattlesnake, the CGI was terrible.

* More of the movie should have been seen through the lens of Preacherboy & he should have had more dialogue IMO. As is, screen time is split and we don't get emotionally involved with him enough. He's not that great of an actor though.

*The movie goes all-in with "all white people are bad", except of course the mixed race girl who is in love with Stack. Then there is the revenge porn of killing off the tobacco chewing KKK. I understand 1930 Mississippi from the perspective of Blacks was definitely terrible. This went a little far IMO and more nuance would have made it a little more believable. There are whites that have fought and died for Blacks to be free, marched w/King, fought for & helped pass laws for Equal Rights, even in Mississippi. Only a small percentage were actually in the KKK, even back then… but that goes against the narrative.

*I realize it's a vampire movie and my race thoughts are perhaps a little much. However, Flip the script and have white gangsters blasting stereotyped blacks and you can see where I'm coming from.

*Overall a good, not great, derivative movie. Better than most these days!

I'm still trying to diagnose exactly what I watched.

The scenery and set pieces were very good. It definitely had the look and feel of the great 1930s style movies. The cast was great and most of the writing was well done. However, I would have much rather watched a gangster movie with the twins than watch whatever it turned into.

The "horror" parts to the movie with the vampires were so dumb that it truly takes away from the rest of the great parts of the movie. I didn't even feel anything when main characters died because the silliness was so distracting. There was no point to any of it. Honestly the last scene with the pastor's son in 1992 might have been the most rewarding but it look about an hour of bull**** to get there.

So I can't understand for the life of me why this movie is getting such high praise and possible Oscar buzz. It had some good moments and a ton of potential, but the dumb vampire stuff cancels all of that out.

Mikeyshooter said:

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So I can't understand for the life of me why this movie is getting such high praise and possible Oscar buzz.

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It's a lot like 'Get Out' in that the symbolism drives a lot of the characterizations -- the vampires had to be 'aw shucks' types, the comedic relief was purposely in a Sanford-and-Son-esque way.

It's very much a movie that is going to be viewed differently based on your race. That's not to say "it's not meant for you", simply that it's going to hit different. I liked 'Get Out', but not best-picture-nomination-liked-it (especially with 'elevated' horror like Hereditary or Babadook not getting critic nominations)... But if I was a upper middle-class black movie-goer I think I would have thought it was best-picture caliber.

I think Sinners is similar. Deserving of director and screenplay accolades, but not necessarily for Best Picture.

Now the song and dance stuff I'll never get -- I always feel that's more dorky directors obsessing with injecting musicals into their TV/film.

I finally watched this recently, and while I enjoyed it, I too don't understand the level of hype. It is always amazing to get a well made original movie but I wouldn't associate Oscars with this one.

Two criminal brothers unexpectedly meet a bunch of vampires... isn't that the basic plot of "From Dusk Till Dawn"?

My only real complaint was that I felt like it could have used some editing. It held some shots and scenes forever. I paused it to pee at one point and when I saw the time bar I said out loud "There's 45 more minutes of this???" At a certain point the plot seemed a tad predictable, like we knew the fight was coming and let's just get to it already. I did like the post credit scenes though.

Overall a very solid B to B+ but I would say if it's an Oscar contender then it must be a down year.

I had also seen this episode of YMH a couple weeks before so was cracking up at some of the scenes in the movie: