Cacs cannot be serious comparing Sinners to From Dusk Till Dawn

[Ozymandeas]

They have to be

I watched From Dusk Till Dawn a few weeks ago and not only have the special effects aged horribly, but it just felt like a run of the mill horror movie. No disrespect to Tarantino. I'm sure it was hot shyt back in 1996 but, in 2026, their comparisons sound ridiculous as fukk to me. Sinners is a beautiful film because of the emotional facets of the movie. You have the brotherly bond of the twins. Sammie's decision to go against his father & pursue music. Smoke & Annie mourning their daughter. Mary & Stack being forced to be apart. Delta Slim remembering his brother. His story resonated with me the most because he would've been a young man right after slavery ended so you know it was an extremely brutal world for him. Sinners even made you understand Remmick. It showed why immortality is a curse. Eventually you live so long you're a man from a forgotten time. Even the music in Sinners tells a story.....all of the music is telling a mournful story in some way. Where the fukk is all of this stuff in From Dusk Till Dawn? Shyt is bland in comparison. Legion with Paul Bethany did the whole horror movie set in a restaurant diner steeze a decade later and it was 10x better. Get out of here

 

[Bugzbunny129]

Not that deep bro. 2 Vampire movies about 2 brothers locked in a bar fighting off vampires

 

[Ziggiy]

Besides the brother/vampire aspect they have almost nothing in common.


Coogler is the FAR superior storyteller to Rodriguez. Its an insult to compare the two.

 

[WhoShotCha]

Yeahhh From Dusk Till Dawn is one of my favorite movies ever and I actually thought Sinners sucked. I'm nevertheless happy Sinners has the success it has because I am a big Coogler fan and supporter. But I was really, really dissapointed in Sinners. It felt like a movie I find scrolling through Netflix but with elite cinematography.

 

[Doomsday]

It's definately similar. Movie starts out as a crime drama with two brothers and turns into a Vampire movie later. The only difference is that in the new era of social media Sinners second half wasn't a surprise to the audience.

 

[Sensitive Christian Grey]

They only care about that flick cos of Salma Hayek

 

[Devilinurear]

They have alot in common.

 

[Piff Perkins]

Besides the brother/vampire aspect they have almost nothing in common.


Coogler is the FAR superior storyteller to Rodriguez. Its an insult to compare the two.

Other comparison is the genre switch. Both films rug pull you into a genre film you didn't expect (if you went in not knowing what it's about).

The reason it's a bad comparison to me is that From Dusk Till Dawn is pretty straight forward besides that switch. You go from a crime film into a horror/action film. Whereas the first half of Sinners is more of a drama that borderline feels like an epic. Something is being built. I've always felt like the vampire stuff was the weakest part of the film. Its biggest strength is the atmosphere, characters, and setting it presents before all hell breaks loose.

So when I hear people - mainly white people - make a 1:1 comparison between the films what I'm hearing is that the first half was meaningless to them. Which is on point because a lot of white people have zero interest, empathy, or curiosity about non-white characters in films unless it's a subservient role. So they don't give a shyt about two brothers dealing with two commanding love interests, or a drunk musician recounting grief he's seen, or a young guitarist escaping the shackles of family/religion. None of that shyt matters to them so the movie doesn't really start for them until the first vampire shows up burning in the sun.

 

[Jaguar93]

Man look… I love Sinners, but it most definitely shares similarities with From Dusk Till Dawn. The only difference is that From Dusk Till Dawn has more of a B-movie/grindhouse tone. While Sinners’ tone is more grounded and serious. Hell From Dusk Till Dawn shares many similarities to the movie Vamp. Which was released in 1986 lol.

 

[2 Up 2 Down]

The fact that people dapped the OP

Every movie buff thought From Dusk Till Dawn when the vampire bar stuff happened.

 

[Ozymandeas]

It's definately similar. Movie starts out as a crime drama with two brothers and turns into a Vampire movie later. The only difference is that in the new era of social media Sinners second half wasn't a surprise to the audience.

It’s like saying Twilight and Underworld are the same movie because they have vampires Im legitimately befuddled by y’all. There’s zero emotional weight to From Dusk Till Dawn.

 

[Ozymandeas]

Other comparison is the genre switch. Both films rug pull you into a genre film you didn't expect (if you went in not knowing what it's about).

The reason it's a bad comparison to me is that From Dusk Till Dawn is pretty straight forward besides that switch. You go from a crime film into a horror/action film. Whereas the first half of Sinners is more of a drama that borderline feels like an epic. Something is being built. I've always felt like the vampire stuff was the weakest part of the film. Its biggest strength is the atmosphere, characters, and setting it presents before all hell breaks loose.

So when I hear people - mainly white people - make a 1:1 comparison between the films what I'm hearing is that the first half was meaningless to them. Which is on point because a lot of white people have zero interest, empathy, or curiosity about non-white characters in films unless it's a subservient role. So they don't give a shyt about two brothers dealing with two commanding love interests, or a drunk musician recounting grief he's seen, or a young guitarist escaping the shackles of family/religion. None of that shyt matters to them so the movie doesn't really start for them until the first vampire shows up burning in the sun.

Exactly. This is all im saying. They clearly don’t care about any of that.

 

[Devil Plisken…CMS]

Yeah it’s similar…is this not Hollywood?

That’s how it goes

 

[spliz]

Outside of the bar shyt and vampires. It's not really the same. And I'm a person that saw From Dusk Till Dawn on release. And I'm not gonna bash that movie just because I like Sinners. I WILL say the vampire shyt in Sinners isn't the best part of the movie by a long shot. The world building prior was fire. The element of surprise wasn't there with Sinners either because people knew what we was getting into automatically. Love the atmosphere of both. Why can't muthafukkas just enjoy shyt anymore? I hate this timeline man.

 

[Bugzbunny129]

The way yall wax poetic about sinners is hilarious.

It was a good pop corn horror flick. The oscar got yall talking about it like its the godfather lmao. This place lol