By far the best film of the year.
If the Oscars respected horror even a little bit this would win best film for it's critique on how society reacts to school shootings.
Beautifully shot. Great dialogue. Some really amazing, gruesome shots.
By far my favorite of the year. Eden being the second.
I knew when I saw the old school new line cinema intro that it was kino.
Film of the year. 10/10
Not only a great ride but a great criticism of society that doesn't get in the way of the kino
Can't wait to watch it again

>>213572655 (OP)
It was alright.

>>213572655 (OP)
I liked it up until the final scene in the house, seems like they couldn't write a good climax

>>213572655 (OP)
I watched Eden last night

>>213572763
What made it not great?

>>213572791
Talk about a great film. When the climax hits you're like "ohmygodohmygodohmygoooood"

>>213572885
Why'd she do it

>>213572655 (OP)
>School shootings
I keep seeing people saying this but I don't see it. The kids disappear, they don't die. They're being used to give life force to a literal witch and every kid survives

I liked the slow pace it had as a result of the structure. The fact that we see some events from multiple perspectives gives the movie a lot of space. The best horror movies are compelling when you're watching the in-between bits of people talking and trying to live their lives. Those parts allow for cool stylistic flourishes and atmosphere building. Halloween is great in this respect

>>213572974
Ana de armas? She was rich and drunk off power. As shown with having two lovers.

>>213573103
Nah, the chicken

>>213573082
It's a metaphor, anon. Don't you remember the beginning?
"WHY ONLY HER CLASS?!?! WE WANT ANSWERS!!! WHERE ARE THE KIDS WHAT DID SHE DO!!!!!"
do they have to spell it out for you more?

>>213573100
I wish they showed a little bit more of the witch before the third act. A little bit of an exposition dump. But rarely a film is perfect. Crossing my fingers that the Oscars recognize this and put it up for best film.

>>213573135
tell it to your 9th grade english students we don’t like that fag shit here

>>213573115
If I remember correctly, Jude law was going to kill everyone to get his power back. They had already killed 2 people and they believed he was going to kill them too.

>>213573178
I mean I didn't make the movie. If this is too deep for you that's actually crazy. Don't watch any charlie Kaufman movies your brain will explode

>>213573172
i doubt it gets nominated for anything. they rarely recognize horror in any category

>>213573255
I know it won't. But it should be. They like social commentary and Zach lays it on pretty thick in this one.

>>213573218
Sydney Sweeney told vanessa he's gonna want everyone off the island which he would never get rid of vanessa and vanessa did say twice he's changed and not following his rules anymore it was just pretty extreme. I feel like you have to know history to watch it or it helps

>>213573172
I was thinking about this but it worked so well. It made you think. You saw the family helping her with the large potted tree. You saw her use the branches of the tree and she didn't have to say "I USE THIS SPECIAL MAGIC TREE TO CONTROL PEOPLE WITH A RAGE SPELL BY WRAPPING THEIR PERSONAL BELONGING AROUND IT AND PRICKING MY FINGER AND COVERING IT WITH BLOOD AND SNAPPING THE BRANCH". It was pretty obvious but it still made you think. Most movies would have her spell it out or have the kid explain it to somebody else so the audience would understand.

The entire theatre laughed out loud when the dad woke from his dream and said WHAT THE FUCK!?.

The ending scene was great. Funny like something from Pirates of the Carribbean or JackAss (midgets running) but a gruesome ending that shows it all happening.

>>213572857
It dragged on a bit too much. I didnt care for the emotional drama. I get that you need to have it in there to create a connection with the characters but I felt lots of it could have been cut. I liked the ending well enough.

I believe they all liked do thought Vanessa was worthless and going to die on the island because of her scoliosis and Jude law was counting on that.
I only watched the film. If you can't link something I can read for the history side of it I'd be very pleased anon. Thank you for learning me something.

>>213573336
I would have appreciated a couple more "clues" besides the dreams. Or at least have the witch snapping the sticks in the dreams. I needed a little more connection.
Still my favorite of the year next to Eden. I love it when people just know how to make a film.

I liked it. A black guy in the theatre said it was like an episode of courage the cowardly dog, which I thought was apt.

>>213572774
In a rare case of the script being better than the film. I wonder what the studio made him do.

>>213572655 (OP)
>the best film of the year
No
>how society reacts to school shootings
It wasn't about school shootings

>>213572655 (OP)
it was shit

>>213572655 (OP)
The tranny tried to kill everyone around them. That's what the movie is about.

>best film of the year
eddington. but weapons was good

>>213573135
If you actualy knew your shit you'll realize that the metaphor of the movie is about alcoholism

>>213572655 (OP)
>By far the best film of the year.
That's not really a compliment.

>>213575875
There is no metaphor, it's about a witch

>>213572655 (OP)
No way is Weapons better than The Day the Earth Blew Up

>>213572655 (OP)
I love that New Line Cinema intro.

So the police, feds, and government aren't questioning the multiple deaths and the woman that was just ripped apart by a bunch of kids?

>>213572655 (OP)
Felt more like a modern retelling of a Brothers Grimm story. Not complaining about it though. I much rather prefer it over goreslop.

>>213577181

Yeah bro we need a sequel that answers all these burning questions. We need to see who was question and for how long and what questions were asked specifically. Maybe a movie trilogy that explains all this.

>>213572655 (OP)
What the fuck? It's fucking retarded? I just watched it after RLM sucked it's dick so much. What's so good about it?
>Some dumb faggot witch puts kids in the basement and for a month not one person was able to do a welfare check on the house even though some dumb fucking boomer was able to pin point the exact location all the kids went to

Is this a movie about the most incompetent law enforcement agency?
Some fucking tweeker solved the mystery in two minutes. And his part was the most interesting part of the story
What was the teachers role anyways? Why so much highlight on her?

>>213572655 (OP)
It's not about school shootings, retard. It's about grooming school children into transitioning.

What was the point of Josh Brolin dreaming about the AR15 and the 2:17 shit. School shooting metaphor for no reason?

The film cynically uses school shooting imagery for effect but doesn't actually engage with it as an idea, and totally gives up on actually having anything to say by the final act. Stop being so easily impressed.

>>213577275
A weird visual Zach had in one of his dreams

>>213577229
A point is made in the movie that the townsfolk are reluctant or avoidant and don't want to communicate. It is not a picket fences kind of small town, it's one where people are standoffish.
To that end Brolin had to be pushy to even get that other video from the ring cam to do his own investigation.
I think everyone was mostly in shock that the kids simply ran off in such a weird manner that they couldn't formulate a scenario to start investigating what's going on.

I mean realistically the feds would be all over this and in a minute they'd notice that there's a bizarre kooky lady with a braindead dad living with the only kid that didn't disappear and they'd investigate every single detail about them.
And when they searched the house they'd search it thoroughly and notice many footprints the kids left in the backyard etc etc..

But it could also be possible that the witch had some other spell cast as well that we didn't know about to deflect them.

>>213577336
Maybe just having to question a weird old lady is enough to raise suspitions

>>213577336
Yeah, 17 kids running off, this would be news for months, feds would be all over it, and everyone would be checking all house cameras to see where they ran off to.

They aren't dead, so it's not like the cops search for a week and throw up their hand and say oh well we can't find them. It would be an ongoing search for many months to possibly years, as they know the kids aren't dead when they ran off.

>>213577336
It's not like the kids even were able to hide their tracks or anything. What the fuck is the point of the the K-9 unit if it couldn't detect a scent that was literally in the same neighborhood.

Ngl I expected a way more interesting twist. Some
>It's just a literal witch
Is so fucking lame
Why is the movie even called weapons?
I thought it was going to be some kind of secret warfare thing, like some sort of military disease caught astray

Legitimately fucking lame movie.

>>213572655 (OP)
>Minority quota checkbox gay and poc couple appears
>they get destroyed the most gruesome way in the whole movie

Even I felt bad for them

>>213577424
>Why is the movie even called weapons?
The same reason Barbarian was given its name.

>>213573606
What was the ending of the script?

>>213574929
Yes it was

>>213575875
Two things at once. Obviously the main character. Zach said that each character was about how he reacted to his best friend killing himself. You're not cool for like deciding this other thing.

>>213572655 (OP)
you want me to spend £10 just to go see one fucking movie

>>213575875
If you actually knew your s*** you could realize that a movie usually has to deal with several things. Yes, the part of her story was about alcoholism. It's very funny to try to talk with somebody who's still stuck on the girl on the train. But for real good for you.

>>213577424
When that teaser trailer first came out I said to myself
>this is gonna be a modern take on the pied piper myth or a witch or some fairytale shit like that
lo and behold

Is Redditeapons worth watching if I didn't like Redditlegs?

>>213577285
I am op and I agree with this. It still is the best film of the year. I don't think that you have to absolutely buy into every part of your film.

The first hour of this movie is NOTHING. Literally nothing. I feel like crazy, why is everyone praising this?

>>213572655 (OP)
>it's critique on how society reacts to school shootings

I love how horrorfags always try to find some elevated meaning in their horroslop. My favorite one was all the fan theories about Longlegs from the title to child abuse committed by step-fathers and then the writer-director's Reddit AMA was just one big "I made up some spoopy shit it's a horror flick LMAO".

>This BBC gangbang clip starring Kagney Linn Karter is actually an unauthorized adaptation of The Camp of the Saints, with its subtle critique of mass immigration from African countries into the West and the tragic suicide of a blue-eyed blonde white girl in her prime which represents Europa killing itself

That's what you horrorfags sound like.

>>213578208
Have you ever watched Eden?

>>213578208
I love retards who love to react. Never watch. Only react. Chat gpt ass response

>>213578208
It's just what the movie is about and on. I'm sorry to tell you. This is a movie about school shootings and how Zack reacted to how his brother Trevor died. You can keep trying to make things up but that's what this movie is about so you can keep doing whatever you want

Crazy telling everybody how stupid you are right in the open.

>>213572655 (OP)
shill elsewhere jeet

>>213578249
Dogs yelp when they get hit with a stick.

>>213578267
You can keep trying to make things up but that's not what this movie is about.

>>213578399
You're just stupid and bad at this and I can't make up excuses for you anymore

>>213578399
The movie is 1000% about school shootings and if you refuse to admit that then I wonder what your real motives are

>>213577058
Both movies are woke trash.

>>213578615
>You're just stupid and bad at this

That's what your sister said when you raped her.

>>213578637
Room temperature IQ.

>>213578187
I think Eddington blows this out of the water it's not even close.

>>213578002
They were 3 weeks away from adopting and molesting a child. It was the most justifiable act the witch made

>>213578775
This is what Democrats do when you give them reasonable things to talk about. They say that you raped your sister. Very nice!.

>>213572655 (OP)
>Film of the year. 10/10
is this a meme? it was maybe a 6, why 10

>>213578775
>>213579050
It was very fun. It was provocative it gave me something to talk about. It was well written. Everybody had fun going to see it. Or do you want me to give you some weird description? Why I thought it like excelled something else?

>>213579050
God forbid a n**** enjoy something

>>213579069
>It was well written.
>the kids are in the spooky house with the newspapers on the windows.
nigga pls

>>213579069
It wasn't well written, though.

>>213575409
>paddington
based and true

>>213575875
There are metaphors but that ain't it
>Boomers sucking the souls out of the youth to keep their bullshit going
>Parents helicoptering the teachers so much they burnout and get fired for caring about kids
>Faggot government middle managers don't give a shit about anything and exist to risk mitigate, whilst lacking any reasoning skills whatsoever
Funniest part are retards like this >>213573082
The assault rifle in the dream is the parent jumping to conclusions and not noticing the literal demon above his fucking head which caused all the misery in his life.

>>213573082
Sorry didn't mean you in >>213579611
I meant OP who is a faggot

>>213572791
year/director?

>>213577275
I took it as the obsession that parents would have in America of gun violence against their kids. His brain was jumping to conclusions like 'it was the teacher' ,'it was guns', etc. Whilst just saying 'what the fuck' to the actual answer because it was so nonsensical.

>>213579720
Ron Howard, this year. It's not as good as Ransom, rush or even maybe in the heart of the sea. But it's still good

>>213572655 (OP)
>for it's critique on how society reacts to school shootings

>YOU DONT REACT TO SCHOOL SHOOTINGS THE RIGHT WAY!!

really nigger?

>>213572655 (OP)
The trailer is scarier than the whole movie

>>213579811
thanks, there were like a dozen films titled Eden that popped up, perhaps I'll check out Ransom instead

>>213578637
>>213578267
Disagree the movie isn't about school shootings, it definitely is about Trevor dying though and trying to rationalise the feelings.

>>213579788
>>213577275

If we take the Stephen King inspiration/parallel then when a force of evil moves into town there is usually an opposing force trying to balance this out. Basically the townsfolk are "inspired" to act and remove the evil.
To that end both the teacher and Brolin have "prophetic dreams" that guide them to the witch, so they can eliminate her.
The gun dream can simply be a way of this "good force" to tell Brolin that he has to kill the evil person in that house and it's conveying that in a way that Brolin gets the idea that violence is necessary.

>>213579920
>violence is necessary

Thx. Not watching chud propaganda.

>>213579920
Sure that is a valid interpretation but I like my theory interpretation. The overall thing being that the elderly are just sucking the youth out of everyone and the only good ending we can have is our children destroying them.

So is this film about alcoholism and its effect on your kids, society's relationship with school shootings or the generation wars between young and old people?

>>213580060
We live in a society.

>>213577141
Don't we all?

>>213579916
Bro is this you?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0q3K6FPzY18
"Girl, you walk like a bitch"
When I was ten, someone said that
And it's just self-defence
Until you're building a weapon
She believed my projection
And now I totally get it
Forgot that inside the icon
There's still a young girl from Essex

>>213579920
God thank you fuck it's like these people don't even read!!!!!

>>213579916
Glad we can agree on one thing. Seems like a very cathartic piece of work. From what I read he said "each view was a different way I felt after a friends death" which is heavy.

>>213580004
>like my theory interpretation
nah, yours is incel zoomer shit "my life is shit and it's everyone else's fault, never mine"

>>213580060
I don't think it's about alcoholism because the main character who has a problem with alcohol doesn't really confront any of it, and in fact the alcohol doesn't really hamper her decisionsnor make her a bad teacher. She sleeps with her ex while drunk but he lied and said he was single, and it doesn't really lead to anything. The alcohol made her the prime suspect of Brolin but she's not bothered by the police by the time the movie starts or considered untrustworthy because of it.

I don't think it's about school shootings either, because the one kid who would be the stand-in for the school shooter didn't really do anything wrong before the witch showed up and threatened his parents, and in the end he kills her so I'm not really following any metaphor. "Weapons" as a title probably refers to the puppet people who can be sicced on anyone, so technically the witch is the one holding the weapon, the gun? Heh

And finally, I don't think it's about generational divide, because yeah ultimately the movie is caused by the witch using kids to get youngers (which you can take as a metaphor of the old generation robbing the youngs of their opportunities), but apart from this, there's no really any point where age groups are pitted against one another. The school staff genuinely does have the best interest of the kids at heart, and while Brolin is noticeably older than pretty much everyone he interacts with except the police chief, he doesn't throw his age around like it gives him any kind of legitimacy.

So ultimately, I think it's a movie without a message, it's about a witch using kids to get younger, in the end she dies, that's it.

>>213580256
That would make sense retard, except the resolution is in the movie. We need to destroy all boomers.

>By far the best film of the year.
>If the Oscars respected horror even a little bit this would win best film for it's critique on how society reacts to school shootings.
>Beautifully shot. Great dialogue. Some really amazing, gruesome shots.
>By far my favorite of the year. Eden being the second.
>I knew when I saw the old school new line cinema intro that it was kino.
>Film of the year. 10/10
>Not only a great ride but a great criticism of society that doesn't get in the way of the kino
>Can't wait to watch it again

>>213573250
don’t start your arguments with “I mean” it makes you sound insecure

>>213572655 (OP)
I do not believe I have ever felt more at an odds within regards to a film's critical reception than with Weapons.
It's not that it's a bad film necessarily. It's just not particularly outstanding.
Its comic tendencies feel dissonant in conjunction with its ambitions for the disturbing and mysterious, with such scenes as Brolin exasperatedly smashing in the face of the stubbornly reviving drug-addict in what should have been a briskly paced finale, Garner's smug morning serenade after having seduced the cop, and Brolin cursing expletives after pouring his heart out in the dream. Levity's fine, but the film made humour a vital part of its character in a way that diluted the horror and tension.
The parasitical symbolism was foreshadowed to the extent that it felt like the Director was insecure if people would pick up on it. The AR15 felt like an amateurish grab at the absurd in an effort to seem profound. The phantasmal version of the witch haunting people's dreams is the opposite of what a parasite trying to appear harmless would do.
The plot also weirdly naïve. Why did it take Brolin's layman character to work out that all the footage of the kids had them racing forth in a straight line, and then mapping out the coordinates? Why did none of the neighbouring houses in the community query as to why the windows of the house belonging to the only non-missing kid were papered up? Why did none of his neighbours pose any questions as to the abrupt infirmity of the social and sunny parents? Why was the ritual, alchemy, and black magic of a centuries-old witch so easy for a child to imitate and channel with precise invocation?
Even the structured approach of framing it by successive characters only served to cheapen the suspense by revealing too much, and drawing out the plot to the point where it felt like the ending had to be precipitated so that the witch could be torn apart by the kids in a contrived ironic twist.
Weapons is a glorified Goosebumps episode.

we should kill witches in real life

>>213580494
I want to marry a witch.

>>213572655 (OP)
AI slop

>>213572655 (OP)
This poster was prompted

>>213580261
Getting drunk and passing out in her car while on stakeout was a consequence of her drinking.

>>213580443
Brolin fighting James the junkie was slapstick comedy. He literally throws him across the room 4 times and keeps getting attacked.

Imagine being such pathetic shills: they can't say that it was a financial flop or a critically panned movie so now they resort to the extreme talking point of AI.
They're so desperate, along with whoever is sending them.

>>213577229
One of the big links in the movie is the failure for any responsible figure in the community to actually protect these kids in any way shape or form.
The movie literally opens with the child saying the case was pushed aside and forgotten by police and authority out of embarassment for being unable to solve it.

The townsfolk readily pin Garner as a scapegoat despite no evidence and refuse to help eachother look for meaningful answers, particularly brolin's search.

The police are shown to be completely unconcerned, corrupt, nepotistic, and inept in their investigation, apparently not noticing clues such as every name except alex's being missing in the classroom and not being able to track the children's locations despite having
actual video evidence of over half the class.
The principal admonishes garner's care for her students and only acts because garner strongarms him by saying its a legal requirement to do so utterly unconcerned when off the clock.
The druggie who actually knows where the kid is repeatedly steal's children's property doesn't care at all about the children actually being there and only thinks to report seeing the children at all due to the $50,000 reward for doing so.
All this with the clearly unaffected yet disturbed relative of the only remaining child who has recently shown up after the parents "having a stroke".

>>213577229
Jay just loved the spectacle of Gladys getting torn apart at the end.

>>213577229
It's about the decline of trust and care in modern society. People will watch a terrible inexplicable tragedy occur and will do everything to put up a show of sympathy, but will never actually do anything or take any action to correct or understand what happened. More than that, society will actively push back against and even punish people who do care and try to do something (Justine is the only one who wants to check on Alex and make sure he is okay, which would instantly lead to finding the kids, but people tell her she is wrong for doing so and even see her as a threat). A key thing about this movie is that it's very character driven, and half the time it focuses on events that are completely unrelated to the disappearance of the 17 kids, even though the characters in these events are extremely close to the case and even have the answers right in front of them but just don't care (Paul, James, Marcus, the entire police force).

>>213577229
yeah agree. it's fine. not quite good. certainly not great