>>212461915Also watched last night, also shocked at how bad the film is compared to the hype. I'm not surprised that overtly anti-white movies written by black guys get praised these days, but the film is objectively a 5/10 at best. The tonal change felt hamfisted and was neither interesting or cool. The only two fun characters were the main vampire and the old blues guy so I didn't give a shit about the pointless interpersonal drama for any of the main cast (since half turn vampire right away anyway). The "music is le magic" throughline was literally never expounded upon in the second half of the film. The action scenes themselves were Marvel-tier bad.
Now I'm mad, so here's the trite ass symbolism
>yt """ppl""" can only learn music after turning into literal monsters (because they steal everything)>christianity is evil because its forced on you, unlike magical blues music and dancing and witchcraft, which are all good.... they just are, okay? and we have to have the narrator literally fucking say this two times in case you missed it>america and western efforts towards egalitarianism = vampires spreading their zombie disease making everyone the same, you must resist this, but the greatest disinfectant is the light btw ;)>oh, and if you kill a bunch of yts and empty the full mag into the last living one, you get to go to special Black Person Heaven and are a Good PersonโขCan't believe I got gaslit into watching this shit. They could have redeemed the last scene a little bit by having Smoke just ignore the Klan guy bleeding to death and drift off, but instead they went with the most reddit ending possible. A ripped-off From Dusk till Dawn, which actually had some charm and style. Fuck I'm mad.