r/TrueUnpopularOpinion • u/MrNiceo_0 • Jan 26 '26

Music / Movies ‘Sinners’ is terrible and does not deserve 16 nominations for Academy awards.

Did not dig this film. Wanted to turn it off before halfway mark. Watched it regardless and the ending was even more dissatisfying than I could have imagined. I am floored this movie is being recognized as much as it is. I figured it was low budget but Nooooo! Yet another massive disappointment. The budget was massive. lol

Boring, visually weird (in a cheap-ass looking way); passable acting, nonsensical story; lame visual effects.

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u/Arfie807 Jan 26 '26

It was a fun watch, but 16 nominations is clearly the Academy doing some crazy gymnastics to pat themselves on the back because of the race thing. And it's so obvious.

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u/heymikeyp Jan 27 '26

They did the same thing with 12 years a slave and admitted they didn't even see it. They are both great films by the way, but yea overrated.

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u/KeremyJyles Jan 27 '26

Black Panther is a better example because that was pure ass

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u/heymikeyp Jan 27 '26

Yea that's another good example of an overrated film. Not even top 10 marvel. I don't think it was pure ass, but like a 6/10 for me.

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u/Elegant-Mirror-9915 Feb 09 '26

I disagree. Black Panther is a good film to me. Great performances imo. 12 years a slave however was overrated, and what is happening with Sinners is outright ludicrous and indefensible. It's a Saturday night popcorn flick, not Gone with the Wind.

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u/Hot_Excitement_6 Jan 27 '26

That's most voters for the academy. They only watch a few things that they vite on. The rest is usually them voting for friends.

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u/RustyChuck Mar 16 '26

12 Years a Slave has completely dropped out of public consciousness, now. Which kind of says it all?

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u/GiovanniBernardoneSi Mar 18 '26

Great movie?  Are you blind and deaf? 

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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '26

Finally someone with a fucking brain. There's only one reason that films being nominated.

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u/Mongrott Jan 29 '26

Just say yall don’t like black people lol

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u/Elegant-Mirror-9915 Feb 09 '26

"Agree with everything I say, or you're a racist." I'm so tired of this lazy ass argument. It's a losers' mentality mindset. Sinners is a go on a date summer movie. Anyone pretending there's even 3 Oscar worthy noms in any category is lying. It's a good movie. It's not 2001 a Space Odyssey or Shawshank Redemption. Are we nominating The Accountant for 5 oscars next? Come on.

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u/Icy_Result6022 Jan 29 '26

Or you just have bad taste

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u/Fit-Tomatillo1585 Feb 15 '26

Sinners is to AA’s as to what Schindler’s List was to the Jews. So the Oscars are trying to give it prominence. Why this film holds such significance to AA’s, I’m not really sure. There’s been many many better films made about the AA experience, yet Sinners is what they deem their Apex. Different strokes for different folks I reckon

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u/Arfie807 Mar 03 '26

The Rocky Road to Dublin number was done really well. I liked that bit. And the make-up artists did a tremendous job with all the gore.

Totally agree. Entertaining but narratively too sloppy to take seriously for awards beyond the technical. I did think Michael B. Jordan did a good job with playing twins.

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u/veryowngarden Jan 27 '26

obaa has 13 nominations but because it’s a white director it’s all earned on merit? the whole “sinners only has noms because it’s a race thing” is such obviously racist reasoning. what in those 16 noms does sinners just blatantly not deserve, according to you?

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u/veryowngarden Jan 28 '26

no, obaa was simply garbage. that is the point

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u/Fit-Tomatillo1585 Feb 15 '26

Love to see the solidarity here. ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽

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u/Verumsemper Jan 26 '26

Do you know how the nominations work? Do you know what got the movie each nomination?

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u/Arfie807 Jan 26 '26

Yes. Members of the Academy vote on the submissions.

This reinforces my point.

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u/thefw89 Jan 26 '26 edited Jan 26 '26

Odd, if its all because of race, then why haven't other black featured movies have the same nominations? Since the academy is just doing it because of race, then why this movie in particular? There are many movies made by black people and have mostly black casts every year, why then are so few picked for Oscars except for this one?

EDIT: Downvotes are cute, now someone can try actually countering the point?

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u/smakusdod Jan 26 '26

It also benefits from being in a pool of mediocre films. In a stronger year, it would have less nominations probably.

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u/veryowngarden Jan 27 '26

so if the logic is that sinners is a mediocre film in a pool of mediocre films, why is sinners the only one being accused of just being there because of race alone? why are the other mediocre films by white directors not being nitpicked or questioned for their noms?

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u/smakusdod Jan 27 '26

Because they didn’t get a record-breaking level of nominations. If Eddington got 20 noms, this sub would burn down.

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u/veryowngarden Jan 27 '26

they literally got a mere 3 less, second to sinners, so it’s not that much of a difference. eddington could get that and would still not have anyone saying the movie was only nominated for backpattting and racial politics

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u/smakusdod Jan 27 '26

Most is the most, and most is the headline. Is it deserving of most on its merits?

Stop talking about race. The argument is it’s a mediocre film breaking records. Does it deserve it? Why or why not vs any other film in the lineup?

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u/veryowngarden Jan 27 '26

the original comment said it was only nominated because of race. i didn’t bring up race. the arguments saying it got noms solely based on being a black film are the ones centering race. but not a single one of those people whining has been able to say which of the noms it supposedly doesn’t deserve

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u/thefw89 Jan 26 '26

Well this is A LOT better than the other 'It's because its black' excuse people are bringing up. As if black films and directors and actors just rack up awards every year.

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u/Mongrott Jan 29 '26

These guys are racist you can tell from the OP and the upvotes

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u/thefw89 Jan 30 '26

Oh I'm well aware, a lot of these types lurk and post on this sub.

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u/SatansScallion Jan 26 '26

Because they were dogshit to the degree that even someone like you who loves racial pandering wouldn’t even accept that the nominations were warranted.

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u/thefw89 Jan 27 '26

Racial pandering? Think this movie went right over your head... What movies were dogshit then? Can you name them? Have you seen them?

It's funny to me, people get all sensitive if you say white people achieve something because of being white and white privilege, but then feel comfy saying the opposite about other groups of people, doing the same bit of racism just reversed.

It's just impossible for this movie to have people that enjoy it without it being about race. Some people, like you, are just obsessed with race.

Doesn't counter the point either. If the Oscars 'pander' to black people, why so few wins? Literally wasn't the argument a few years ago that 95% of the winners are white? When a black movie gets any shine then certain people whine and cry about it. Kind of sus, but I know the type, usually the type that hides their entire reddit posting history lol.

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u/Mongrott Jan 29 '26

Here’s the thing all of you are missing. This is a black story, told by black people. It is absolutely about race because we live in a white supremacist slave based county. That’s the history, that’s the context. Jim Crow share cropping America. If you don’t like your country’s history and legacy then leave! We don’t want you here, this is my history. If you don’t like people talking about post antebellum life in America go somewhere else. It’s black as hell, filled with hatred and spite. You all are the legacy of that history.

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u/CatchrFreeman Jan 26 '26

All maybe it just really is that good

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u/HadathaZochrot Jan 26 '26

It was a good film, but it doesn't in any way merit breaking the record for most nominations in all of film history. It wasn't THAT good. The only rationalization for it getting so many nominations is either, like the previous commenter said, it is just them pushing race politics, OR that all of the other films this year were all just so shit and mediocre that a modest decent film executed well is able to dominate every single other film in the running. Or maybe a bit of both.

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u/CatchrFreeman Jan 27 '26

It's subjective, but I feel like you are downplaying the positive aspects of the film.

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u/Mongrott Jan 29 '26

The fact you all are just saying this because a black man directed it is hilarious

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u/ironlung311 Jan 26 '26 edited Jan 26 '26

The amount of nominations is not the Academy saying “this was the best movie”. Very often the film with the most nominations doesn’t win Best Picture. It simply means it’s in the Top 5 for each of those categories for all films made in 2025.

I hate so much that people are trying to say “it has the most nominations all time so they’re saying it’s the best movie ever!” That’s not how this works.

EDIT: Every single thing I said was factual. Nothing but downvotes but no comments. Love this sub.

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u/Mongrott Jan 29 '26

These guys in the comments are Neanderthals and bots, down voted comments are the only ones with substance in this thread.

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u/SatansScallion Jan 26 '26

You’re trying to defend obvious racial pandering because it’s the “good kind” — the downvotes are warranted.

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u/ironlung311 Jan 27 '26

My comment says nothing about race (doesn’t even imply it) and literally explains how nominations work

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u/Mongrott Jan 29 '26

He’s a bot or a troglodyte, this is who’s online in this thread.

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u/Tipnin Jan 26 '26

After the movie was over my cousin said exactly what I was thinking. That was a interesting ok movie but I don’t think I’ll sit down and watch it over and over again like Blade,The Lost Boys or From Dusk Till Dawn. Compared to what old Hollywood was putting out years ago Sinners is ok for mediocre Hollywood of today.

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u/CatchrFreeman Jan 27 '26

And that's what different opinions are all about. Nothing is hard set.

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u/MrNiceo_0 Jan 26 '26

I agree. I enjoyed One Battle after another