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berryfairyghost) wrote2025-07-05 04:07 am
berryfairyghost) wrote2025-07-05 04:07 am
Watched Sinners & Blade! Also some Vampire talk! 🩸
Finally watched Sinners (2025)! And it was as good as my social media bubble said it would be!
I cried like a baby during the "music reaching across time" scene. It was suuuch a beautiful and powerful scene!
And yoo, Ryan Coogler sure writes compelling villains.
Sinners came out at a great time for me tbh. I've been having a vampire reawakening these past couple of years.
I can trace the recent interest sparking all the way back to when I got through all of Netflix's Castlevania (2017-2021). Then I took up my partner's recommendation and actually played Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (1997). Then I got really into Midnight Mass (2021) because I love me some Mike Flanagan (and also because I grew up in a close-knit catholic sea-side community). But then the fire of hyperfixation really spread after watching (and re-watching) the Interview with the Vampire (2022) series. By then Castlevania: Nocturne (2023) and some dabbling in V Rising (2024) just helped spread the flames.
I never saw myself as a huge vampire fan growing up. I felt more kinship with "wilder" things like werewolves when given the choice between the two (probably due to some psychological neurodivergent gender thing... and also probably due to being somewhat of a closet furry haha). But in hindsight, I may have had some classic "vampire periods."
I avidly read and watched Twilight back in its heyday. I was also really into True Blood in college, and though I didn't get to finish it, I got quite a few seasons deep. Also, as a proper baby queer, I enjoyed Interview with the Vampire (1994) when I watched it in my preteen years. I remember enjoying some of the Underworld movies too. Oh! And Hellsing Ultimate (2006)! That was also so amazing!
After I sat my partner down to watch Sam Reid and Jacob Anderson make outand have sex in a coffin, he's been wanting to return the vampire favor and sit me down to watch Blade (1998) and Queen of the Damned (2002) since he found out I hadn't seen either one. So after finishing Sinners, we decided to turn it into a vampire double feature day, and we watched the first Blade movie. And y'all, it was so! freaking! rad!
Wesley Snipes was so cheesily badass. And it was so fun to see prime y2k goth rave aesthetics and sick 90s special effects! Some of the CGI held up. I thought the skeletons burning up looked really cool. But of course the CGI blood was insane hahaha~ We've really come a long way animating liquid. Still! The extra-cheezy crudeness of the CGI blood added to the movie's charm.
Also! I really love going back far enough to see movies that were recorded in actual film. There's something inimitable about film grain and dust particles. The slightly crunchy texture of everything is just! so pretty?? idk, I wish I had the words. Where's an info-dumping film student when you need one?
I'm really looking forward to adding more to my vampiric media experience. The What We Do in the Shadows franchise is definitely in my queue. Judging by the presence of Taika Waititi and Kristen Schaal, by the screencaps I've seen on tumblr, I'm pretty certain I'll enjoy it.
Bonus vampire cosplay:
My 2013 Marceline cosplay (that got me and my Princess Bubblegum ex-girlfriend scolded for holding hands in public.
I cried like a baby during the "music reaching across time" scene. It was suuuch a beautiful and powerful scene!
And yoo, Ryan Coogler sure writes compelling villains.
- Here he is in a podcast interview (tiktok: 2min:38sec) talking about writing the villain's perspective on racial inequality as an Irish person who suffered English colonization firsthand.
- And here's an interesting 2min:32sec tiktok media analysis on the villain, and how the villain's identity relates to both blackness and whiteness in the movie, his proximity to whiteness, and the repetition of oppressive societal patterns.
Sinners came out at a great time for me tbh. I've been having a vampire reawakening these past couple of years.
I can trace the recent interest sparking all the way back to when I got through all of Netflix's Castlevania (2017-2021). Then I took up my partner's recommendation and actually played Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (1997). Then I got really into Midnight Mass (2021) because I love me some Mike Flanagan (and also because I grew up in a close-knit catholic sea-side community). But then the fire of hyperfixation really spread after watching (and re-watching) the Interview with the Vampire (2022) series. By then Castlevania: Nocturne (2023) and some dabbling in V Rising (2024) just helped spread the flames.
I never saw myself as a huge vampire fan growing up. I felt more kinship with "wilder" things like werewolves when given the choice between the two (probably due to some psychological neurodivergent gender thing... and also probably due to being somewhat of a closet furry haha). But in hindsight, I may have had some classic "vampire periods."
I avidly read and watched Twilight back in its heyday. I was also really into True Blood in college, and though I didn't get to finish it, I got quite a few seasons deep. Also, as a proper baby queer, I enjoyed Interview with the Vampire (1994) when I watched it in my preteen years. I remember enjoying some of the Underworld movies too. Oh! And Hellsing Ultimate (2006)! That was also so amazing!
After I sat my partner down to watch Sam Reid and Jacob Anderson make out
Wesley Snipes was so cheesily badass. And it was so fun to see prime y2k goth rave aesthetics and sick 90s special effects! Some of the CGI held up. I thought the skeletons burning up looked really cool. But of course the CGI blood was insane hahaha~ We've really come a long way animating liquid. Still! The extra-cheezy crudeness of the CGI blood added to the movie's charm.
Also! I really love going back far enough to see movies that were recorded in actual film. There's something inimitable about film grain and dust particles. The slightly crunchy texture of everything is just! so pretty?? idk, I wish I had the words. Where's an info-dumping film student when you need one?
I'm really looking forward to adding more to my vampiric media experience. The What We Do in the Shadows franchise is definitely in my queue. Judging by the presence of Taika Waititi and Kristen Schaal, by the screencaps I've seen on tumblr, I'm pretty certain I'll enjoy it.
Bonus vampire cosplay:
My 2013 Marceline cosplay (that got me and my Princess Bubblegum ex-girlfriend scolded for holding hands in public.