Where the fuck did the Choctaws go...?

Had a free trial of Prime recently.  I actually detest Prime.  For one, there's never really anything on there (though now I'm sad to know that Supernatural is on there, but I still won't be keeping Prime), but also that my telly, which is fairly new (three years?) is a Fire TV, so is Prime, but won't actually play Prime or Freevee (or whichever is the free app that says it's now on Prime to watch for free).  

Anyway, not really the point.  The point is that on our telly in the den, it'll play just fine & I saw that they had Sinners, so waited for my sister to get home from house sitting so we could watch it together.

I was... not impressed.  

I think that it was because it was hyped up so much, so without that it might have been a pretty OK film, but with the hype it fell flat?

Besides just general hype, I was sorta led to believe that The Choctaw Vampire Hunters would have a much larger presence in the film.

or videos like this one.

No... they did not have a large presence.  They were in it for all of what...?  Five minutes?

I mean, I LOVE that they were in it.  They were awesome, however, take them out of the film & you still have a film.  They weren't essential to anything that happened.  At all.  So, why include them in the first place & go to ALL the trouble of accurate representation for such a minuscule amount of screen time & really they didn't do anything for the story line except, 'Woah!  They are badass, wait where the fuck did they go?!'?

And I could have sworn that I saw a clip where they told the people opening the juke joint that they shouldn't be there.  How did I make that up, but I can't find that on the internet now?  Was it a cut scene that got leaked?

But, I wasn't expecting to watch what I actually watched.  People with ill-gotten gains coming back home to po-dunkville in the thirties to open a Juke Joint & having sex & having their clientele turned into vampires with the main vampire guy saying he's saving them from the clan.

I don't like sex scenes in films.  I don't care who they're between.  I'm not a prude, but it messes up my own fantasies, so I don't want to then imagine those people when I'm trying to think other things, ya dig?

I detest the hot, blazing, poor delta of Mississippi, especially in the 20s or 30s.  The Waltons is different.  They're poor in the 30s, but they live in the mountains & pretty much everyone is happy.  That time period in the south is nothing but hate.  I don't like The Odyssey really & while I don't mind retellings of things, it's why I didn't like Oh Brother Where Art Thou.  The fucking setting, man.  

I don't mind knowing history (like I don't want to believe things were all kittens & rainbows), but I will avoid a film if it's set in time time period.  I did not know this film was set in 30s delta Mississippi.

Though it was interesting that the vampire knew the clan was going to kill them all & wanted to "help" them not be slaughtered.  Or that the remaining brother killed the clan at the end.  That was cool.

And while it was cool that music can have such a huge influence (& that was a cool scene), it was also slightly unnerving.  I can't explain it.  My sister once made me watch some TikTok about a person warning what you're listening to, because music is power.  Music is power.  So, it was interesting point that you can call your ancestors (or your people from the future as well), but that you can also call... other things that you don't want.  This is why it was cool, but also unnerving.

But also there was the vampires all being of a hive mind.  I've seen that played out in something else before (not often, but once or twice in something), it was unnerving that all of them, mostly black & one Chinese guy) just all singin' & dancin' to some Irish tune that they would never have known had they not now been connected to the main vampire who was Irish.

All I could see was slavery.  He "set them free" so they wouldn't be killed by the clan & live happily ever after as one family, but really they were being forced to do things they wouldn't have done, because before hand, they thought the white people were creepy (the three vampires that showed up & the music they were playin'), which means they wouldn't have normally just gotten on board with the Irish sing-along.  

Is that the message of that?  Or did I find it creepier than it was supposed to be?  That forced Irish sing-along?  I also did find it nice that at the end of the film, two of the vampires had promised not to hurt the kid before running away (so they were not killed with everyone else), & they still didn't even after finding him again.

But what was it specifically about this film that made it great?  Was it just a good film & not great, but had too much hype?  Am I focusing too much on the story & there are other factors like being about black people, directed by a black guy?  Which I'm cool with other factors, but those tend to be lost on me.  I always find the specifics in things & I'm rubbish at seeing the entire picture sort of thing.  

What was it?  Because honestly the film left me feeling... not great.  I couldn't get it off of me & I hate films like that.  It is also not the "art makes you think" sort of thing.  It did make me think, but that wasn't it.  It's like it oozed out off the screen & onto me.  Something about it didn't set well with me & I'm not sure what it was.  Because there are films I don't like, but make me think, but do not make me feel... this way.  

And I just kept thinking how could I have not realized how this film would play out.  Was there too much emphasis on the Choctaw people & then I'm sitting there through the whole thing wondering when they'll come back to enjoy the film?

But seriously, tell me why people kept talking about it & saying that it was such a fantastical film.  I need to understand a different film perspective than my own.