pretty mid, and very retarded ending.

but it was worth it to see julia garner getting fucked. i love that hot little slut so fucking much.

>establish that ring cameras help the investigation
>but none of the ring cameras showed all the kids running to baby yaga's house

>>213513467 (OP)
How black is the dude that fucked her?

>>213513467 (OP)
> a witch did it

kinda boring desu

>>213513467 (OP)
Ending rules when you realize he’s riffing on Raising Arizona. Dude seems to just like making fun movies without overthinking it. Late stage M Night vibes in the best possible ways

I wish the kid slapped the catatonic bully in the face with the spoon while giving him campbellsslop

This shit streaming anywhere? Handcam idc

>>213513958
Hate to be that guy, but try to see it in a theatre. There’s a rhythm in the camerwork that I don’t think will translate very well to smaller screens.

The characters were funny, especially Alden Ehrenreich as the "on the wagon" cop who actually resents his fiance for making him clean up his act and for being his boss's daughter.

It's a film that throws a lot of thematic threads out and just doesn't commit to a single on. I feel like i wasted my time and money on some guy who lazily threw paint on a wall and people are calling it art. The AR 15 in the sky for no fucking reason and cop turning the dashcam off yeah ok

>>213514056
i resent him for railing a drunk horny julia garner

PLEASE LET THIS BE A NORMAL SLEEPOVER
WITH AUNT GLADYS???
NO WAY!!!
AAUGGHHH!!

>>213513467 (OP)
Gladys wasn't scary. I don't know, I feel like he humanized her too much, she just felt like a crazy cunt with powers rather someone who completely abandoned their humanity.

Anyone else notice other numbers shit besides the 2:17 thing? I saw in the classroom there was some fact sheet on the wall that had "the year 1948" on it, hen later the house Brolin goes to to look at their camera footage has the number 1948. Which was the year the state of Israel was founded...

Movie was anti-trump, anti-police, anti-gun, anti-small town, anti-community, anti-conservative in a really disgusting way.

>>213514229
miss your dose?

>>213514206
When she walks into the principal's office to talk with him it feels more like a WKUK sketch than a scene from a horror film.

>>213513686
He's a swarthy white cop.

julia garner was basically ass up cheeks spread in that bar for han solo

>>213514251
Hardly, the movie is largely non-political. This isn’t Eddington slop

>>213514344
Nope, there was an obvious attempt at commentary regarding school shootings, insecure fathers and masculinity, and more. Just came across like more petty leftist slop to me. Sorry, you lost.

I'm a pretty easy sell on movies. I just like going to the theater. I usually enjoy everything I see. This shit was lame. Really feel like Barbarian was way better.

This whole movie goes without anything interesting happening, it's like you know exactly what's going to happen and how it's going to end an hour before it does. I thought it was going to be way more interesting when Brolin saw the gun in the sky. It looked like it was going to be something totally unheard of.

>>213513866
At that point, his bullying was way overshadowed by all the shit Gladys was putting him through.

>>213514079
I feel like the biggest example of this was the cop getting stabbed by needle. Like, what was even the point of that scene? Aside from the end, the cop's whole segment didn't need to exist.

>>213514366
Who is the insecure father? Brolin thought his kid was dead, anyone would express some remorse from not saying I love you more to their child in that circumstance. There’s not much commentary there. Dying cancer witch kidnaps kids to steal a little more life. Everyone in the town sans funny junky guy go through the process of grief. You’re trying too hard

>>213514485
and they show him getting stabbed in the face with 3 more syringes and he even asks the junkie if he has aids. I'm not sure the whole point of it other than a thematic link to go along with alcohol and guns. And what was the point of big titty wife attacking the teacher in the liquor store.

>>213514539
>And what was the point of big titty wife attacking the teacher in the liquor store.
That was a pretty funny gag, you expect it to be some spooky thing about to catch up with her then it's just a woman screaming "YOU FUCKED HIM!!"

>>213513467 (OP)
I don’t get why dads hype it up. I read the script it’s ass.

>>213514590
Lotta stuff here felt right at home with WKYK. The two fat gays eating hotdogs took me right back to watching that shit at two in the morning when I was 13.

>>213514694
The entire movie feels like the build up to a WKUK skit and I mean that entirely as a compliment. The finale was amazing to me, and exactly what I wanted from a WKUK alumni. It was exactly what I expected and there is nothing wrong with a flashy but simple punchline of a horror movie with very obvious themes about parasitism and being a societal or familial leech.

The only bad part about the movie is that it ended with a whimper. All they had to do with give the narrator a fun line to end it with.
"Some of them eventually started to talk again too" was such a lame line to end it on.

>>213514401
it could have been some government experiment MKUltra shit
but it had to be a witch cause Cregger probably thinks that an old lady running from a bunch of crazy kids as the climax of the movie would be the funniest thing in the world (it was only mildly funny)
Barbarian was kinda stupid in the third act, and poorly directed (the whole predictable scene with the hobo outsite, and the climax on the watertower were just stupid and poorly done) but at least "serial killer and rapist with underground tunnels who created an incest monster" is somewhat unusual and creative
it just being a witch is too simple, and it's an issue cause the buildup of the movie and how it's structured implied some complex mystery

I liked that they didn't make Justine perfect. Her flaws made her feel more real.

>>213515125
Completely agree

black dude with bleached dreads next to me was high as shit and laughing at everything with a windex bottle laugh. he would not stop after the crackhead gets thrown scene.

>>213515210
my theater had people laughing their asses off at the stupidest shit in the movie. i forgot how easy it was to impress people.

>>213513664
I thought the same thing. Or how literally no one saw them outside as they were running. Alarms got tripped apparently and all the kids would have arrived to Alex's house from different distances.
This kind of plot would make more sense in 2012.

You can tell that Jordan Peele was only interested because it involved some old crone controlling people with mind-altering power.

>>213515243
the justin long cameo had my theater losing their shit.

>>213515320
He definitely has a thing for people being controlled against their will.

She mentions once that she's Alex's Aunt, the family says shes Alex's mother's Aunt, and her comment about a "touch of comsumption" dates back to the 1800s in popularity. So shes far older than she appears. She either charmed the family or has been in it for a long time, leeching off the identities of family members to stay present in it. Her not knowing how to use makeup and really loving the principal's house is throwing me off like she just wants consumption

>>213515586
probably charmed the family, i assume she needed the life force specifically cause she was ancient in age

>"elevated" reddit horror
I shan't be watching

>>213515894
It’s really not. A very dumb fun movie

>>213513467 (OP)
Sigh* another wokeslop comedy horror

>>213516967
Sorry we only watch 10/10 kino masterpiece

>>213513467 (OP)
She was a hot little minx in this. I liked it though

>>213514343
I could smell her through the screen

>>213517004
My favorite movie is The Cremator and even I can appreciate a good ol fashion dumb movie.

>>213517069
Reminder that Jordan Peele wouldn't have axed the 10 minute ass huffing scene. This is what they took from us.

>>213517110
I don't think Peele wasn't seeking to direct the film, it was meant to be entirely Cregger project from the start. He just wanted to attach his production company to the film.

Last 10 minutes was great. The whole audience was cheering and hollering and laughing

One dude in the audience acted like he had never seen a horror movie before key. Kept saying "what the fuck" at every horror movie trope and things you have seen 1000's of time. It was still funny. I forgot how interactive it is seeing a movie in the theaters.

I got hooked up in the retard seats. I think the cashier could tell I have social anxiety after asking if it was gonna be packed and me barely making eye contact with him.

>>213517509
>the retard seats
whats that? (retard here)

>>213517699
It could have just been that I was very pleasant, charming, and shy to the cashier. But most likely it's just because most of the other seats were taken and none of the handicapped seats were reserved.
>if the picture is sideways it's because I'm a retard

>>213517769
lmfao it's like a humiliation chair

>>213517794
kek yeah, exactly what I thought too

>>213513467 (OP)
Yeah, pretty much. Although the ending was so retarded it gave me a good chuckle, so that’s a plus.

I expected MKULTRA and I got Coraline lite instead. Yes, yes, I get it, the movie is unsubtle about the witch being both metaphorically and literally a parasite, and those people seeing kids with her hideous makeup on the kids or the junkie randomly seeing her in the forest was probably some astral projection/spiritual parasitism shit. I still wish they explained what her game plan to save herself actually was. She abducts all these children and has two whole adults at her mercy from the beginning, and then at the end she makes like she was after the teacher all along. Delaying her own escape just to kill her right. Unless she was trying to bodyjack her?

>>213514485
i think the cop/junkie narrative is bashing over the head metaphor of how the most vulnerable are the most susceptible to influence and control, and how that's not exclusive to just kids

>>213513467 (OP)
It was definitely a movie to watch in a theater with others where you can just go with the flow and not worry about missing some kind of deeper meaning. The collective gasp in the theater when the puppet mom opened Julia Garner's car door reminded me that horror movies are fun with a group

its kind of insane how bad movies are now

this was fun to watch in a theater. the whole placed gasped when she opened the car door lol

>>213518308
>now
Horror is rising from the ashes of capeslop like a goddamn phoenix, especially compared what things were like in the endless sequels error. Remember all those Saw/Halloween sequels? Remember Jason in SPACE?

>>213514079
This is Ari Aster too

this and longlegs both have the same issue where they build a really effective mystery but then the answer is a kitschy halloween monster which feels old hat. In both cases it feels liek an attempt to elevate them and make them scary again but it kind of undercuts the film as a whole. Both have a lot of really great moments in a vacuum that keep me from saying they're outright bad, but I can't say they're what I was hoping they'd be. Feel like the movie should've opened and focused on alex from the start and then shifted to the other characters.

also feels like there's a few motifs in this flick that don't come full circle. There's the gun in the dad's nightmare that never really comes up, the 8 ball imagery thats only in the opening and closing credits, the broadcast towers that come up, and even the title itself. None of them really feel like they come together to actually mean anything.

>>213518414
post-postmodern is a wasteland of distraction in search of meaning and purpose (besides political)

Is it important or interesting at all that apparently this movie was a method for him to deal with his good buddies death? Or was I the only one who noticed that in interviews.

>>213518336
>Remember all those Saw/Halloween sequels? Remember Jason in SPACE?
yeah but those were never lauded. they always got shit ratings from critics.

had some genuinely inspired moments, but literally no character development, themes as texture instead of text.
Hilarious that people were comparing this to Magnolia, if anything it felt like Village/Lady in the Water era Shyamalan (not an insult, I still liked this)

no gladys chapter? ending glosses over main character? b

Maybe I'm still high on the fact that I find it amazing that in this day and age it's still possible to find a movie that's not catered to ADHD zoomers or brainlet people. It's real slow in its build up, but starts to pick up speed after 40 minutes. Then it slows down again, and ends with a nailbiting final act.

It really takes a different route to the standard formula of: Getting to know the kids -> kids disappear -> parents reaction -> teacher and a parent team up and continue to find clues leading to the end. It just throws that in the trash and starts within 5 min with the disappearance having happened almost a month ago. Ballsy, but it works.

Sound design and choice of music is amazing. There are moments of pure silence, and a sick soundtrack for the 'action' oriented scenes that really fit the tone.

The movie's vibe starts to change after 2/3 in and normies might experience this as a negative thing but it's so well executed. Rather than quipping, there are moments of humor that don't change the vibe or tone at all. It's really well placed and scarcely used.

The way it was filmed definitely deserves praise. There's just something about the shots they went with. From simple things like Paul the cop getting in his car and slamming his door shut with the camera almost mounted on the door and the screen shaking as he slams it shut. The principal running in the background to his target while Gladys exits the house. Even an extremely simple chase scene of the junkie gets raised to an exciting level thanks to the work of smart camera work and backed by the soundtrack.

There's gore for sure, and gore is often used as a cheap shock tactic, but they are so scattered throughout the movie and so unexpected and meaningful. I really thought they weren't going to show Gladys getting ripped apart by the kids.

>>213518769
The direction was pretty great. You're always in the scene, great momentum.

>>213518769
The Witch's backstory is left out, and I find this to be a good thing since it still adds a certain feel of mystery even when the movie is done. Not everything needs to be explained, and her motives for doing all this is explained well enough.

The movie isn't without flaws though. Brolin's acting is good, and the kid playing the junkie does a real good job. But not everyone is up to the same standards. Some characters like Paul received a LOT more backstory than they actually needed. The 'twist' is so easily spotted even before halfway through on the board of the classroom and again on an animal docu that's explicitely shown. The investigation of the only kid not disappearing and his parents is straight up bonkers, since any cop with a brain (and FBI was involved) would instantly spot the massive red flags with that family and their aunt who just moved in. The dad suddenly had a stroke? Convenient timing. And they never question the mom? What's their explanation there, she also happens to have had a stroke? No way that Gladys wouldn't have become suspect number one and the kid wouldn't have been removed from the house. It's about their only lead, so you would also expect them to at least frequently keep tabs on the house.

Again, maybe I'm just giving the movie more credit than it deserves simply because of the day and age it was released in. A time where you can absolutely demolish any new release if you even think of daring to go over details. But as it stands right now, I'd give it a 8.5/10. Solid from start to finish.

as much as the director denies it for whatever fucking reason it's a clear critique of parental roles over children with a deep evocation of the uvalde shooting. A cop, a parent, a principal, a teacher. Clear defined cookie cutter roles of adults who should protect children. The movie has shots of empty classrooms, bullying, upset parents, teddy bears and memorials in front of the school, and AR15s. side note: auntie gladys telling the kid "don't tell anyone, I'll know" heavily reminds me of a SA angle like perks of being a wallflower, and the kids being catatonic after being "saved"

This is gonna sound controversial
But I want sex with Julia Garner

>>213518794
I feel like the witch's backstory like you say really is just not necessary. I think the people who are asking for a backstory just want more of the movie itself and don't really care for the witch's backstory.

That being said, I don't think the backstory of the witch would work at all in the film. She is clearly many hundred years old (the use of the word consumption) and seems to obey some very old-timey set of supernatural "rules" - for example the salt. Not only that, but unless my memory is wrong she needed to be invited into somewhere to go in, she only entered the house once the gay guy actually invited her in.

Giving her backstory would pull the setting of the film hundreds of years back at least, which isnt necessary considering we already have her motivation.

>>213514320
Jewish, actually

>>213518794
>Some characters like Paul received a LOT more backstory than they actually needed.
I thought his total crashout was one of the funnier parts of the film. A white knuckling drunk who completely fucks up his entire life all in one go is kino.

>>213518414
Long legs didn't have the balls to let itself be stupid and funny. At least not deliberately.

>This thread

>>213519043

Like I care what this Fineassy sissy is blabbing about

>>213514079
Not surprising if you saw Barbarian.

>>213519043
i remember someone did the math on fennessey's letterbox'd and the dude has to severely neglect his wife and daughter to watch movies

>>213519043
Faggessey has dogshit takes, this is undercooked and

>>213519054
you're just mad you'll never get the fennussy.

>>213519043

>>213518769
I like the foreshadowing of Brolin painting Witch on Julia Garner's car early in the movie

>>213518945
HOW DARE YOU

>>213519194
it was a great way to say ‘this is a world that believes in witches’, initially I wondered if Garner would end up being revealed as the antagonist/a witch

>>213519211
I never really noticed her before this but she is crazy fuckable god damn

what was the point in making the main character an alcy

I have a question, maybe I missed a mechanic from the witch, why did she send wong after julia gardner instead of just using her magic on her directly and order her to kill herself?
The witch sees that julia is looking around the house, so she gets in her car when julia is drunk and cuts a piece of her hair, something that, like it was shown to the kid at the table with his parents, is enough to create a 'weapon', and, like it was shown when she commanded the kids to leave their homes, she doesn't need to be near her targets to command them, so why risk sending wong? Especially when she makes such a big deal to the kid that nobody must know she's around. And then at the end of the movie, the witch weaponizes josh brolin instead of her again, only to have her fighting han solo and have some sort of payoff to their affair, I guess?

>>213519194
>>213519219
movie needed more broken town witch hunt vibes

>>213518769
Very good summary. The sound and music definitely made it for me. Particularly when every time the door opened it was silent. And when someone came running out or jumped out it was SILENT. Minimal jump scares, just pure good old fashion unnerving.

>>213519247
We got about 15 minutes of it at least

>>213519247
It’s clear he didn’t quite have the juice to juggle a true ensemble, they abandoned that witch hunt angle pretty quick.

>>213519239
My guess is one: the magic takes a lot out her, her health is weak and it can be implied that she needs the hostages to perform the magic and stay alive, so she does everything to manipulate rather than direct magic on everyone. Second: I assume she wants to rap up investigation with the teacher being blamed and to draw as little attention as possible to herself.

>>213513467 (OP)
LOOK, THERE'S THE WEAPON FROM WEAPONS (2025)!
...wait a second, there was no weapon in weapons(2025)

Everyone gasped at the potato peeler scene. I'm thinking a lot of people out there no longer want Saw and Terrifier levels of gore. They want something that feels a little more realistic and relatable. I felt the side of my face during that scene

lol

>>213519350
It got spoiled for me, but I honestly thought it was gonna feel more surreal. It kinda fell flat and no one in the audience even reacted.

>>213519346
yea I had to look away. It reminded me of the cheese grater in evil dead rise

>>213519380
What the fuck were you expecting? The audience to start clapping or cheering? Fucking Amerimutts

>>213517509
>One dude in the audience acted like he had never seen a horror movie before key. Kept saying "what the fuck" at every horror movie trope and things you have seen 1000's of time.
Were you at my screening?

>>213519401
No lol, I just thought it was gonna be a more surreal or weird moment.

>>213519350
I assumed it meant that Brolin was figuring it out. He later said that the zombie people were “weaponized”. He must have been thinking about the concept after watching the kids runs the same way

>>213519416
Olympia, WA?

>>213519451
Never mind, Britbong.

>>213519330
>she wants to wrap up the investigation with the teacher being blamed and to draw as little attention as possible to herself.
But she had the perfect opportunity to stage a suicide for julia gardner as she was being blamed by everyone for the disappearance of the kids, everyone would accept without a doubt she finally had enough and killed herself, instead, the witch risked herself by showing up unannounced to wong's house where there could have been witnesses and had wong's husband killed there, to then have wong run across half of the town to get to julia gardner, it was a very lazy way for the writers to end the conflict between josh brolin and julia.

>>213519429
Felt plenty weird and surreal in the moment. The effect was probably lost on you because it lacked the element of surprise

>>213519346
>I'm thinking a lot of people out there no longer want Saw and Terrifier levels of gore. They want something that feels a little more realistic and relatable.
Maybe, just maybe many people enjoy both. And perhaps there is room for both. The idea that movies have to follow linear trends to try to appeal to the widest audience possible is one way bad art is made.

I felt like they came up with the "All the kids dissappear at the same time" premise without much thought on how to bring it all home. Like was just using Pied Piper as an analog so weak they thought adding a generic witch would help?

>>213513467 (OP)
Found out the guy that made barbarian made this and it made so much sense

>>213519553
Read how he wrote Barbarian. Same thing basically. He should take longer to flesh out a better story, screenplay.

>What if guns, WERE PEOPLE!

>>213519553
Honestly it got way to wacky with the magic tree, needed to be toned down and way less MCU tier jokes.

>>213519607
>Magic branch breaks
>All the kids look to Gladys
>"Well, that just happened."

>Someone said Weapons is like if LONGLEGS stuck the landing.

Longlegs was better and I can’t understand how some people didn’t see the cult/demon angle mile away

>>213519553
I was ready for a much more sinister reveal, that the witch would be eating the children to recover her strength and even look a bit younger, as it's the classic witch trope in fairy tales, and it would have made more sense for the gruesome ending, with the children doing it to her, but I guess the writers didn't want it to be that cynical and dark, showing dead eaten children.

>Zach Cregger wants to make a ‘Weapons’ sequel
>“I have another idea for something in this world … and I’d like to see it on the screen one day”

>>213519642
There's just no fucking bite to villains anymore, hell they could of just been shriveled up husks instead of gore eaten.

Lame ending
Anyone else thought that the schizo guy’s missing son was revealed to be the kid who bullies Alex would actually lead to something? I was hoping that Alex would go beastmode and revealed to have taken an item of his (like his hair since he was always in the basement) so he could have him killed as revenge

Is it weird that this movie had a similar vibe to this movie but fell flat


Movie would have been better if she ate the kids

>>213519680
>Ok...Vampires....but they're really big pharma.

>>213519737
the movie kinda tries to introduce different subplots, like han solo's wife, the police chief, the recording of the aggression on the methhead, and the bullying on the little kid, but they never go anywhere, I guess if this was a limited series of like 5 or 6 episodes instead of a movie, it would have been much more tight with those characters, while also giving more presence to the witch affecting the whole town, kinda like the It entity doing it to Derry.

>>213519851
It definitely felt Stephen King inspired in that way but I never really had a problem with it for the same reason because stuff like It, Tommyknockers, The Stand always had those side stories that built up its setting as having a personality of its own

villain isn't scary cause she only astral projects and even sends little axe man out to buy soup and she interacts with people in broad daylight.

>>213519946
it didn't make much sense to me that the witch was causing nightmares to julia gardner and josh brolin, when she's telling the kid nobody must know she's around, it's contradictory, the horrible visions would work in a script where the witch would be planning on doing something to the whole town and not just the kids, like in a stephen king story.

>>213520016
is it implied in the movie that she's the one sending nightmares to them at all?

>>213520025
well they didn't know her I think, so unless the secret twist is that julia gardner, josh brolin and the methhead have the shinning, she should be the one projecting herself to them, just to taunt them I guess?

>the kids running with their arms at their side is based on the little girl from the Vietnam War that was naked after getting napalm

What did he mean by this

I feel like y'all are ignoring the narrator. The entire movie is told from the perspective of a kid. If anything the weird shit that goes no where makes sense if you see it as a campfire horror story turned into a movie.

>>213513664
Anyone who didn’t lose their kid probably didn’t bother to check their camera feed, and it would take a lot of coordination within the community and luck to find the ones with useful footage.

>>213520055
Maybe she can't help it. Magic doesn't always work with rules. Maybe she leaves an imprint of herself. It doesn't have to be explained it's weird magic bullshit.

So, how do you guys feel about Zach doing a Brian Azzarelo Joker adaptation after Weapons? He's such hot shit right now that DC will scoop him up so WB keeps him in-house.

>>213520148
Some Anon said something about Jeremy Saulnier doing a Rorschach movie which was obvious bullshit but now I kinda want it

>>213520137
it sounds like an oversight, not necessarily a plothole, not that I care that much, because I still liked the movie. I was more annoyed about this >>213519239, than about the nightmares.

>>213520148
apparently he's doing a resident evil reboot next year already too(?)

Shills are working hard today

>>213520148
He got the rights to Resident Evil which is literally perfect for his sense of horror and comedy. If anyone can adapt it, it's someone with his attitude.

>>213519642
Eating her would have definitely been much more disturbing. I would have liked that. But tearing her apart was still very gruesome and enjoyable

>>213520086
kek I was waiting for a dumbass in the theater to yell out Nauto

>>213520184
It sounds like a great idea at first but then you remember that the guy who made Green Room is probably not the best guy to handle a character like Rorschach, lol. Jesse Plemons also is way too old to play Walter in what I assume to be an origin story movie (cause what else would you base a Rorschach movie on?)
>>213520189
He's filming it this fall and could be finished with it soon since it's pretty low budget. It could be that his next movie is this DC project.
>>213520194
I'd love to see it happen because I love that book and it would make for a killer movie but Joaquin Phoenix and his fucking stupid OC movies made sure that well is not just poisoned but nuked to orbit after THAT scene in FOOLY A DOODOO.

If this movie had just been the first chapter stretched out for 90 minutes, it would have been a better movie.

Julia and Zach seem like a really good fit. I'd like to see her again in his next film

>>213520291
I disagree, it would have been more effective to focus on the little kid for the whole movie and his relationship with the witch instead, because julia gardner and josh brolin were fine, but han solo and the methhead were complete filler, they only existed to become obstacles at the end of the movie.

>>213520194
>He got the rights

No, he was hired by Sony to write and direct the film. Big difference.

>>213520416
>they only existed to become obstacles at the end of the movie

Instead of fighting two dudes, the final fight should have been against the army of kids. Creggers chickened out here.

>>213513467 (OP)
Cop really felt like Trevor, also it’s like he thought of the rabid kids chase scene and the entire movie was worked backwards from there. He’s been pretty middling in general but Resident Evil is such an insanely easy homerun that it’ll save him, it’s almost impossible for it to not be good.

>>213520500
>Resident Evil is such an insanely easy homerun

That's why every Resident Evil adaptation is universally beloved, right? Even the Netflix series.

>>213520500
Resident Evil is co-written by the guy who wrote Army of the Dead, Day Shift, Army of Thieves, Rebel Moon and Ballerina.

>>213520544
>>213520536
It's another Joker situation where they took an unrelated script and plastered an IP name over it.

>>213520544
Well that's not good

>Weapons is a 2025 Black Comed-
pass

>>213520536
Those are more about how remarkably bad those “creatives” are, also probably some level of thinking they know better than the silly little video game. Just stick to the fucking atmosphere and don’t make it some other shit.

>>213513467 (OP)
I would've watched it in the cinema, but it's 20,- a ticket. Fuck that shit.

>>213520127
>17 kids randomly go missing
>ah, dont worry guys we sent 5 people to the woods we might find something

should i have an edible

This movie has a bad case of Screenwriter's Voice. None of the dialogue is natural or makes much sense. You'd think someone like Zach with some acting/performing experience wouldn't be this bad at writing dialogue. It's that classic case of someone writing stuff on paper without thinking how stiff, awkward and bad it sounds when spoken outloud.

>>213519480
Hair makes you a target not a weapon.
Everyone made into a target had their hair taken, everyone made into a weapon had an earthly possession.

Marcus' husband had his hair cut. Target.
Justine had her hair cut. Target.
Gladys herself had her wig cut. Target.

>>213514251
Christ you people are as bad as the wokies

>>213520876
>t. covert wokie

>>213520845
you'd think based on irl witchcraft and other works of fiction about this subject, being able to put a spell on someone would require an actual part of the person, like blood or hair, to make a direct contact, and not just use an object from the person, which can be shared with several people, but I guess you're right. then again, the witch could have also taken something from julia's car when she cut her hair, but I guess I'm nitpicking, it just makes more sense if the spell worked the other way around

>>213514273
Found the jew

>>213520876
>Jamie, pull up the "HOW DO YOU DO FELLOW ANTI-WOKE PEOPLE" meme

torrent when?

>>213514036
Imagine watching a horror movie in the theatre. absolute waste. You need to watch it alone in your dark apartment.

>>213520721
>The one kid 's dad came to the police interview with a crazy old lady and a face full of holes and isn't talking, he's cleared

>>213513467 (OP)
Is it as good as Bring Her Back or Longlegs? We've had a few decent horror movies this year.

>>213521085
>>213520721
The movie has a low opinion of police competence and integrity and it’s quite upfront about that.

>>213521079
That's kinda true. As I watched Weapons in the theater I was comparing it to when I watched Barbarian in my dark apartment. I liked Barbarian overall more, but also I wasn't surrounded by people and had more of breadth to contemplate what was going on and could pause when I needed to piss or think about something in the film

>>213521104
Definitely better than both

>>213521085
There's a lot of suspension of disbelief in all horror movies but I also thought that was silly

>>213521196
or the kid walking home alone and buying soup for 20 people in a town where that's the biggest story

>>213514251
>anti-trump
Good, I hate Israel

IS NO ONE GOING TO MENTION THE WHOLE RUNNING THING PUT IN THE MOVIE SEEMED LIKE A BLATANT CULTURAL "LASSO" TO WRANGLE A DEMOGRAPHIC OF YOUNGER ADULTS THAT MAY REALLY LIKE THRILLER MOVIES, KNOW E CULTURE, AND BE A FAN OF OR AWARE OF CERTAIN MEDIA LIKE ANIME OR MORE SPECIFICALLY NARUTO WHICH HAS A VERY SIMILAR RUNNING AESTHETIC AS IN THE MOVIE AND THAT JUST HAPPENS TO BE WIDELY KNOWN ABOUT IN THE AFOREMENTIONED DEMOGRAPHIC??...
I don't know who's more low IQ, Hollywood for having no better ideas and stooping so low as to use such a pathetic cheap trick of pop culture consciousness, or the people that will deny this was even a thing intentionally implemented.
>Inb4 retards with muh "it's not the same, they lean forward in Naruto!!"

>>213514401
You sound pretty reasonable. What did you think of the Naruto run bullshit?

>>213518308
What’s sad is that with movies like Weapons, the bar is so low younger audiences can’t even tell what a great film looks like. That’s why every month there’s a hype train for some nothing movie

>>213521277
I don't think anyone's thought of Naruto in 20 years

>>213513467 (OP)
Was the giant floating AR-15 from the leaked script in the final cut? Shit's fucking cringe.

I’m starting to think all the loose ends in this movie are intentional. The bully, the AR-15 above the house… none of it goes anywhere, and maybe that’s the point. Just a pile of red herrings

>>213521359
Just curious. Did some of you read the entire leaked script?

>>213521376
No, I just saw the memes about it.

>>213521359
Yeah
It was pretty unnecessary and is going to drive a lot of stupid discussion over shit that doesn't matter
It's a pretty good film though

>>213521359
yes, and if you watch the current cam version it's fucking weird because you can barely tell what that is, as it's a night scene. for a moment, it kinda gave me ufo horror vibes.

>>213513686
It was Young Han Solo
>>213514056
I was surprised Toby Huss was the police chief and he barely does anything, seemed like a waste

>>213521277
it's called the sonic run.

>>213518794
They do say in the opening narration that "the feds covered it up because of how badly they botched the case" so I feel like that was a deliberate mistake.

Did the Willow dvd mean anything or was it for 40 year olds like me to give a sensible chuckle. I thought it would have been way more kino if it was a Goonies dvd

>>213519642
I was surprised there wasn't any cannibalism because she mentions to Alex that "she can make her parents eat each other" when she controls them. I assumed that was what Alex was making the other kids do at first. I get that they weren't gonna kill the kids since that would have ended a bit too bleak but I wish they paid that off

>Not one person in town was awake at 2 in the morning to see 17 kids running like demons through the neighborhoods
Legitmately not possible

Pied Piper was staring him right in the face and Zach did just another LE EVIL WITCH bullshit. What an uncreative, generic, soulless fuckhead. Have it be like Prisoners where some disregarded outcast uses supernatural means to make the kids disappear and the entire towns people are at his mercy. Fuck's sake. but that would take actually being creative and good at writing to pull off which Zach isn't. He's good at killing his friends though.

>>213521655
That's what I was thinking, or at least had the kid be like communicating with someone through the internet

Why did Gladys look like a clown

>>213521671
The entire Magnolia gimmick amounted to nothing but being a fucking gimmick as the story is generic as shit and doesn't justify the gimmick at all. At least, if someone gets the idea to make an actual horror movie Pied Piper, Zach the Cuck can't say he copied him because he didn't even fucking do it himself.

>>213521696
I wanted it so bad to be some kind of crossdressing tranny Pied Piper but that would be too heckin' problematic. Hell, they're already getting riled up about it on social media, the insane asylums of the modern day.

Any Julia Garner sex scenes?

>>213521736
Han solo missionary fucks her for 3 seconds and shows nothing

Also everything about this movie's marketing and things like the running seemed like extremely obviously sniping and pandering to a target audience at this point in time in our culture. I'm not too mad at it but wow it's fucking amazingly over the top synthetic cash grab shit at levels never seen before. Fuck any talk about the legitimacy of the movie. Most big movies have some covert messaging, political, occult, cultural programming shit or otherwise, which this one may have too but just from the trailers it was obvious this was a cheap cash grab playing on a younger pop culture consciousness as a means of drawing in an audience. In this case a zoomer to younger millennial audience. There was a time when movies weren't so on the nose or desperate essentially to corral an audience in such a tacky way. The people that made this movie basically prioritized attention grabbing components over making an actual stellar movie. Facts.
They essentially said...
>Let's make some fuckin scary movie and put in some shit that will catch the eye of zoomers since they're the target demo. But what exactly shall we put in??? Oh I know!! Let's have the zombieish people run like Naruto motherfuckers!! So when they see the trailer they see like A ZOMBIE.. wait for it...DOING THE NARUTO RUN!!! *finger claps all around*
Smdh.

>>213521743
I gasped because I saw what it looked like when I fucked my ex gf

>>213521702
>he entire Magnolia gimmick amounted to nothing but being a fucking gimmick as the story is generic as shit and doesn't justify the gimmick at all
I don’t even like Magnolia, but the people comparing this to it are retarded. Three out of six POVs here just become horror deaths. In Magnolia, the stories all mostly had some buildup to a meaningful climax.

>>213521776
I completely agree. I read the script last week out of curiosity, and it quickly became apparent that this movie was made for marketing and didn’t actually have any deep, thematic idea behind it. All the creepy images exist solely to suggest some deeper mystery in the trailers.

If Cregger was a competant writer, this movie would have had a mindfuck ending that raises more questions than answers like Memories of Murder aor The Wailing but zoomers have never seen a good movie in their life so they are going to eat this shit up

>>213521788
Disgusting monkey hair, every goddamn time. She looked better as silver surfer because she had human looking hair not this ape shit.

>>213521879
Zach is a tool. He's just one of those horror grifters who can't get anything that's remotely respectable made so they become masters of garbage aka horror the lowest common denominator media in existence, FAR lower than even superhero media (capeshit).

One of the worst movies I've ever seen. I'll crash out about in a thread tomorrow during burger hours.

>>213513467 (OP)
Julia gets fucked? Any nudity?

>>213521879
>Memories of Murder
>good
Textbook example of "it's good cause it's asian".

>>213522336
dig in your butt twin coz ts isn't it

>>213522336
The ending is good and more interesting than anything Hollywood has put out this year

>>213521655
I still like what they did but I think a Piped Piper angle would've been top tier. When Gladys dolls herself up in the hideous red wig and clown makeup, it's the exact image that comes to mind when I think of a horror movie version of the Piped Piper, she had the perfect look for the character.

>>213522260
Nothing below her neck is in frame

>>213522465
Honestly the tune of the piper could have become iconic

>>213513467 (OP)
>julia garner getting fucked
Wait what? I just got off from a third world cinema. When the cop said he's not drinking, the next immediate scene is Julia drinking from a mug in her room

>>213513467 (OP)
Porn is cucked
Masturbation is homosexuality

they should have gotten an actual male/tranny to play the aunt. longlegs did it way better.

>>213519461
My condolences.

>>213521104
imo, this movie had the same problem as longlegs

>have a suspenseful, interesting first half with lame paranormal shit at the end

>>213521104
Longlegs isn't a good movie. Bring Her Back is pretty good but it is also extremely forgettable.

why the pulp fiction editing? it doesn’t add to the movie in any substantial way

>>213524447
It tricks you into thinking you're watching a good movie and then surprises you with five bad movies.

>>213524447
This >>213524488 then it gives something the critics can hype up as artistic and deep. I swear they're given notes at this point

>>213514079
Gun in the sky was a red herring to make you believe it was about school shootings.

>>213521618
>T, never grew up in the suburbs

>>213521577
Movie is obviously supposed to be a fairytale with a witch and a boy. Willow is just another way of pointing that out.

>>213519834
lol I thought the same thing

>>213524885
I grew up in a town of 20,000. Theres always some tweaker, cop or somebody awake and looking around.

why did she even need the kids? they never even showed her harvesting their blood or getting younger/healthier

This movie sucked ass. Watch The Killing if you want good horror.

>>213514694
>>213514886
exactly. rip trevdog

>>213515210
absolute kino

>>213518271
exactly the moment that was best for my theatre too

>>213514036
>>bigger screen
Get closer to the monitor....

>>213518902
not to mention “we don’t want to get CPS involved” from the gay principal

Now that I think about it Josh Brolin’s plan of comparing Ring doorbell footage feels like it’d be one of the first things the police would do to start their investigation.

good movie?

>>213520148
he unironically is too good to do capeshit

>>213524447
I wasn't as marvelled by this movie as much as others appear to have been, but I thought the character by character structure of stratified viewpoints added that tinge of pulpy small-town Stephen King-esque horror the film was practically dripping with, showing the disaffected lives of those affected by the Witch's web-like parasitic influence. The pulp-fiction style with scenes blending into one another also served to add some neat little revelations that suited the unravelling plot before Gladys is revealed, even if none of them were particularly earthshattering, like why Marcus, the Principal has been weaponised by puppet magic, and why Witch is scrawled on the car. The drawback is naturally that a more traditionally structured single viewpoint film wouldn't have spent so much time building up the relatively safe and forgettable finale of the Witch's ironic demise, which is over and done with in a flash.

>>213514251
>he thought wkuk was 2 party political

>>213521218
what, a nigga can’t eat some soup?

>>213521879
>>213521917
go watch some more le epic ari aster slop faggots

>>213522578
You got cucked then. There is a 4 second clip of them fucking. It happened during his chapter.