I think an under discussed aspect of Sinners’ success is that the movies used to be a place you could go to see sex and music, probably the things human beings enjoy the most, and things that have been almost totally absent from most wide-release modern movies.
May 13, 2025 15:22Also vampires, sex, music and vampires, but there have been a lot of vampire movies lately.
So humans … since the beginning of time … have been craving …
… Thanos.
Honestly, checks out.
If this person doesn’t think people want to fuck Thanos they have a different internet than I do
Btw thank you to the 90% of people today who were normal about me pointing out a movie’s financial success and accurately describing some of its content.
The 2010s were the era of “Let people enjoy things.” We’ve graduated to “Actually you didn’t enjoy this, no one enjoyed this.”
I love that you basically said "this film has carnal aspects which hasn't been promoted in films for a very long time" and some of the responses are purely milquetoast-y "that's not what people want" replies.
Which is hilarious, because Sinners being a hit means people *DO*.
It’s weird to live in an era where young folks seem to be far more puritanical than their parents. I am seeing violent games and movies increasingly dismissed as “gore porn” or “violence porn”, for example, which is often the most reductive take I can imagine.
And not just music for music's sake. But soulful music, music that conveyed the feeling and emotions of the characters, music that set the tone, that made you feel something. The musical sequences in Sinners made me feel as exposed as Roberta Flack in Killing Me Softly.
Agreed - it was so refreshing to watch a film aimed at adults that had actual sex and sexuality in it without it being explicitly coded as shameful and wrong.
Everyone Is Beautiful and No One Is Horny - Blood Knife
The human body has become a strange contradiction at the heart of the modern blockbuster. Sexy, yes. But sexual? No.
A big part is the blockbuster world being dominated by IPs originally intended to sell toys and/or comics to children. Disney, Marvel, DC, Lucasfilm, etc, basically infantilized the American public's taste in movies to about the level of an 11 year old.
Everyone Is Beautiful and No One Is Horny - Blood Knife
The human body has become a strange contradiction at the heart of the modern blockbuster. Sexy, yes. But sexual? No.
It's so far ahead of anything recent in terms of storytelling, casting, soundtrack, aesthetic...genuinely GOOD cinema
Feels like too many film scores now are 40% bass vibrations. Idk if Zimmer is to blame or what
This is an incredible point. I am all for the rehornification of film
