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Rebellions are built on hope.

watching sinners with an inflation calculator open in a second tab so i can understand just what kinda money the smokestack twins are throwing around. nerdiest possible movie experience i think.

tbqtalks

Okay coming out of lurking for this because among the many great features of Sinners is you don't actually have to go outside of the movie to understand what kind of money they're throwing around. The movie tells you itself.

In the scene where Smoke teaches the young girl how to negotiate, they're standing in front of of a cafe. The shot of them negotiating is framed so that you see a sign in the cafe window advertising a Ham and Eggs breakfast - in other words, a full meal - for 25 cents. The editing makes sure to put that sign back into frame whenever the question of the value of money arises in their discussion.

Smoke offers her 10 cents a minute and asks if that works for her. She says yes. He says no, it does not and tells her to negotiate higher. The 25 cent sign is framed in the shot when he tells her no, reminding us *why* it's not a good value.

She comes back with 50 cents - which the sign has informed us is the cost of *two* meals. Smoke tells her that's too much and counters with 20, which is just under a full meal but we now know that's a fairly respectable price because we just got the high/low contrast of 10 being too little and 50 being too much.

The negotiation ends with her getting 20 cents per minute and we now know 1) 25 cents is the cost of a filling meal in this environment 2) This girl only needs to do five minutes of work to be able to feed herself for a over day (20 cents per minute times five is a dollar, which is four meals) 3) Smoke has the kind of money to throw around that over a day's worth of food for someone can be to him - as it is to our modern eyes - mere pocket change and 4) Smoke's the kind of person who can both be a violent gangster but also care about teaching this girl how to look out for herself so that one day maybe she too can throw over a day's worth of food around like pocket change.

Combined with 5) you can now use that 25 cents = a meal to do the math every other time money gets mentioned in the movie to understand just how much cash the Smoke Stack boys are dealing with.

And that's just ONE detail which, thanks to props (Hannah Beachler), editing (Michael P Shawver), and cinematography (Autumn Durald Arkapaw), told you almost everything you needed to know about how finances work in this environment. This movie is unfair to all other films in how fucking good it is.

tishrivers

Young, Gifted, & Black: HAPPY BLACK HISTORY MONTH!

mummer

This… “could mean nothing”? Oh, okay. I see. You think this has nothing to do with you. You go to your tags, and you type… I don’t know, #DOOMED BOSTON YAOI on that one article about Ben Affleck showing up ringless at Matt Damon’s house, for instance, because you’re trying to tell the world that you take yourself too seriously to care about their cultural impact and shared filmography, but what you don’t know is that that post is not just about “doomed Boston yaoi”, it’s not about J-Lo, it’s not even about Good Will Hunting; it’s about the extent to which they have purposely and publicly entwined themselves— not just in life but as a PR strategy— ever since the calculated awards narrative of the 1998 Oscar race. Perhaps even earlier. You think it’s a coincedence that they make sure to talk about each other in every interview they’ve ever done. What am I saying? You’ve never seen The Last Duel. You haven’t even seen Dogma. You’re also blithely unaware of the fact that, after the 2010s, when Matt was dithering in between franchises, and Ben was being widely mocked as Batman, I think it was Artists Equity, wasn’t it?… where they leveraged their public partnership to collaborate as film producers and bolster one another’s images. Hmm.. I think we need a feel-good sports biopic here. Perhaps some clever Dunkin ads? And then Matt and Ben posting quickly showed up in the posts of eight different popular bloggers. Then it filtered down through the reblogs of thousands of plebeian Tumblr users who proudly watch a single movie per year in the cinema, and then through viral tweets and TikToks from normies in your area… and then trickled on down into some tragic casual corner of the internet where you, no doubt, fished it out of the bottom of your likes. However, that article represents millions of posts about countless incidents of publicly expressed affection— real affection, of course, but also the fuel of a carefully crafted public image strategy (the dichotomy of which only increases the entertaining tension and romance of their relationship), and it’s sort of comical how you think that you’ve made a choice that exempts you from sincerely caring about Matt Damon and Ben Affleck when, in fact, you’re reblogging a post that was selected for you by the people in this room… from a pile of what “could mean nothing.”

conmasamormujer-deactivated2026

I hate when ppl act shocked that rappers know "high brow" cultural references. It's so condescending "this dumb black guy knows about art" as if they're not the main producers of modern culture.

chilewithcarnage

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i swear to god if one more stupid fandom ruins a beautiful text post i am calling the police

I am obligated to reblog this again, because it is now Superwholock, and therefore perfection.

fatefulfindings

people need to remember that every tumblr post in 2012 was like this

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showmethesneer

Luke and Leia:

Luke and Leia if they both grew up on Alderaan:

Luke and Leia if they both grew up on Tatooine:

thesulkycroissant

It's so important to me that Jonathan is so soft in the Superman movie. Jonathan is there asking Lois with worried eyes if their boy is going to be okay. Jonathan is there tearily telling Clark he's proud of him. Jonathan is there recognizing how upset Clark is and coaxing him to talk about it. Jonathan loudly loves his son. There is no guessing game, no question, no room for uncertainty.

And Clark reflects that every day as Superman.

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SINNERS (2025) dir. Ryan Coogler

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SINNERS 2025, dir. Ryan Coogler

ohmovie

Yao as Bo Chow in SINNERS (2025) dir. Ryan Coogler

imperfectlyperfect78

I just know he was their look out wen they was kids getting into sh!t🥹

alchemyfreak123

Women of Sinners - Sinners (2025) dir. Ryan Coogler

gender-luster

"rebellions are built on hope" coming from a random ghorman bellhop, who cassian met twice is really the most andor/rogue one thing ever. because he is SO random. they all are. every rebel. every member of rogue one. they are just random, ordinary people, who were willing and brave enough to give up everything for even a chance at freedom. and that is so important

melkingmd

The Pitt 1.11 + The Onion Headlines

slayianthe

i’m so appreciative to suzanne for reframing the rebellion from the original trilogy as a “they saw their moment and took it” type situation and showing us that they’ve been trying, over and over, with so many failed attempts, to break the arena and incite a rebellion for decades. in this current political climate never giving up hope is so essential. haymitch wasn’t the first nor the last, and they kept going even when it seemed completely futile, and that’s what counts, and what ultimately saves them all.

dramaticallychill

a thing that i particularly love about the hunger games prequels is how it shows that people have been fighting against the games since their inception

when i was younger and read the original trilogy for the first time i was so bothered how it was 74 years of games, i remember thinking how could it have gone on so long without anyone doing anything

these prequels highlight that people have been fighting from the get-go: lucy gray's defiance, reaper ripping down panem's flags to cover the fallen tributes, haymitch's games and how many others shared his ideologies - the capitol just drowns them out, they rewrite their stories so their efforts are forgotten

liberation takes time and it's built upon the actions of those in the past

the-moon-stole-my-heart

MY THOUGHTS EXACTLY OMG. It’s so so so so so UGH. Like the way they were scheming? And it heavily implies haymitch and katniss were not the only tributes they’ve tried to have destroy the arena. But the footage and tributes were ERASED

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