Thread 213592417

Great movie until those last 20 minutes

Both RLM and Drinker recommend it, nothing /tv/ can say will dissuade me from watching it now.

Except spoilers but I'm not coming back to this thread to read them.

>>213592473
I knew from the teaser I was going to watch it and nothing else. The across the board praise it received only confirmed my intuition.

>>213592417 (OP)
last 20 minutes were the best

The last 20 minutes saved the movie, as the reveal that there is an actual witch made the movie go downhill.

SPOILER WARNING

It was really cool and mysterious until the voodoo shit. Kinda killed the vibe for the rest of the movie.
And they never really explained how it works, they kept dropping these hints about "parasites" with the classroom and the ant documentary, but I feel like they had no payoff. What was with the black puke that only happened that one time, what was with the spiky tree, what was with the M4 in the sky and the specificity with the time "2:17" other than that's when she performed the ritual? What was with the bell and why did it only work for some and not others? If she was supposedly dying, her condition was awfully good for the entirety of the movie. What was with the kid abductions? Did she have a way to extend her life through the kids or what? Why did the kids randomly turn around towards the druggie? How did Alex's branch send the kids off and not the parents? Why did the branch snap stop Brolin and the parents from attacking? The condition to stop them attacking was dipping the branch in water. What was up with the salt? Was it merely a trigger or was it some sort of boundary that the people under control wouldn't cross? Why was the cop so hypochondriac about the finger cut and the needles?

I am overanalyzing the fuck out of things but plotholes leave a sour taste with just about any movie. If it was just "supernatural", I would shrug it off, but they established so much of the stuff beforehand.

>>213594993
anon.. you're just a stupid person, that's all

Good album cover

>>213595601
Because I am asking questions?
Do you watch AI generated movies because consistent writing and structure means nothing to you?

>>213595552
This is the worst brainlet take ever. Not everything needs some expanded universe with a wiki containing 10,000 pages. Comic book movies and star wars ruined these people.

i just went and saw it this afternoon. Thought it was really cool.

>>213594993
>And they never really explained how it works
Because it’s bloody magic you hack

>>213596269
And I didn't ask for anything that extreme, just explain it in the fucking movie.
I've never watched a single Star Wars movie and the only "comic book movies" I've seen have been Fantastic Four (2005), Ghost Rider and Spider Man (2002)
Do you see how easily you project shit onto others and then attack that strawman?
Does it not matter at all what media you consume, just whatever nonsensical slop as long as you can fry your dopamine receptors with constant visual stimulus? Who needs consistent writing, just have whatever baby sensory shit for you to stare at while you're drooling.
Have you read a single book in your life, nigger?

>>213596359
How do you know? Did you ask the director or the writer? Why add all these details that could be explanatory and then go "oh fuck it, it's just magic"?
Did you watch the movie, like it and now any criticism feels like a personal insult? Detach yourself a little, fucking autist. It wasn't "1/10 worst fucking movie ever made" even with its inconsistencies, it was an 8/10 experience, but could've so easily jumped up to 9 or even a 10 if it wasn't for the lack of so many payoffs.

>>213596197
This is making me laugh more than it should

>>213596269
How am I supposed to enjoy a horror movie without a library investigation scene?

>>213592417 (OP)
I enjoyed the last 20 minutes, especially that junkie guy who kept getting back up

>>213596611
It’s literally magic are you fucking retarded

The people complaining about this movie are the same people complaining about Barbarian having too many tone shifts.

“noo you cant have comedy in my horror movie >:(“

>>213596611
shut up nerd

>>213596690
>you fucking retarded
SAAAAAAR, IT'S MAGICALLY SAR

>>213596611
you are shown exactly how it works retard

>>213594993
>What was with the black puke that only happened that one time?
Occult spell, also shows she’s sick
>what was with the spiky tree
It’s a wand, she is a witch who uses blood magic
>what was with the M4 in the sky
It’s a weapon, also it literally came to the director in a dream
>and the specificity with the time "2:17" other than that's when she performed the ritual?
This is your only good question, I don’t know the answer. Some claim it’s to do with gun rights legislation but I don’t think that’s substantiated
>What was with the bell and why did it only work for some and not others?
It worked for all, when was the bell depicted as ‘not working’?
>If she was supposedly dying, her condition was awfully good for the entirety of the movie.
She, a parasite, drained the life from the kids - her least healthy depiction was prior to the school kidnapping
>What was with the kid abductions?
She was a parasite, an elderly evil person manipulating and draining well meaning people and the youth - she is a BOOMER
>Did she have a way to extend her life through the kids or what?
Yes, obviously
>Why did the kids randomly turn around towards the druggie?
It was dramatic
> How did Alex's branch send the kids off and not the parents?
Used the object which belonged to the kids (the black soup + school placards) on the branch
> Why did the branch snap stop Brolin and the parents from attacking?
It didn’t, the parents didn’t stop attacking until the witch died because she had instructed them ‘kill whoever crosses the salt line’. Once she died her spell ended
>The condition to stop them attacking was dipping the branch in water. What was up with the salt?
No, it was a trigger for them to attack because the witch didn’t want people fucking with the house or her bedroom
>Why was the cop so hypochondriac
Scared of AIDS

>>213594993
she looked like shit the first time she enter the house, and the last time we saw her she looked way younger with more hairs

It's not a good movie at all
>Literally solved 20 minutes in, then it's just time wasting
>Only 3 characters matter, Father, child, witch
>Everything else has no impact on the plot whatsoever
>Entire plot relies on every character basically being retarded, especially the police who seemingly did no investigation at all.
>Witch/Kid was completely underdeveloped plot meanwhile the film is over 2 hours and only has meaningfully half an hour of actual content.
>Not scary
>Lead character is a fucking ugly as fuck zoomer.
>Film completely falls apart with the most basic of scrutiny, like why didn't police bother triangulating location of the kids since they ran literally in a straight line, why did they not find the aunt suspicious, why was the kid who was buying 30 cans of food a day, not under survellience? Why did they ignore a cop of theirs go missing? Why did that cop not bother to radio in he know where the kids are wtf.
Ending scene was fun, but the film would have been more fun if she actually used the kids as weapons.

>>213592473
Not only should you watch it, you should also try Cuckoo (2024), similar small budget slow burn horror

>>213596938
love it when people breakdown a movie like its a math problem or something that needs to objectively conform to some kind of method. Bottom line is its art and the only thing that matters is how it made you feel. This autistic bullshit you spew is meaningless.

>>213596991
This movie is closer to an AI generated word file than to real art

>>213596938
Good points, anon. Cheers

>>213596963
is hunter a biological female in these movies? I just wonder how these things go. In eurphoria it was a trans, but these other movies?

Gladys is based. God I hate children.

>>213597021
I don't remember, Hunter is kinda middle of the road in this

>>213597106
thats a boy

>>213596938
the kids are used as weapons against her aren’t they? the adults are supposed to be weaponized the kids are just food.

>>213597017
All that matters is what people felt, and that feeling was reportedly compelling. May have not been for you and thats ok.

>>213594993
>what was with the M4 in the sky and the specificity with the time "2:17"
2:17 was the time when all the kids ran out of their houses

>>213596838
>blood on a branch, lock of hair, snap the branch to attack
Okay. Now what about submerging the sticks in water? It stops them? But this wasn't done on the parents, kids or Brolin.

>>213596840
>Occult spell, also shows she’s sick
That doesn't make sense. Nobody else projectile vomited gallons of black shit at any point. And this was way after she had taken control of multiple people and had gotten "better".
>It’s a weapon
Incredibly out of place imagery, an M4 in the sky. When Brolin used the word "weaponized", it felt incredibly hammy
>when was the bell depicted as ‘not working’?
At Wong's house, the bell didn't affect his gay boyfriend.
>It was dramatic
And that makes it silly.
It's already blurring up for me, but I distinctly remember the spell dying because of something different, not Gladys dying

>>213596930
Now that I think about it, true. Could be why the children and the parents were catatonic, maybe she sucked some life force out of them.

>>213597479
>parents, kids or Brolin.
the person that put the spell on them fucking died

>>213596683
That was fucking funny. Brolin just punching the shit out of people all movie.

>>213597479
of course the faggot didnt get witched, its only work if you have a object from the guy you want to posses, the bell isnt shit but just a trigger


did you even pay attention to the movie?

>>213597694
I couldn't see shit, all dark scenes were blurry and dark for me

>>213597730
>its only work if
>the bell isnt shit but
Three letters.
I was thieving Vyres for the whole movie, but other than that, yeah

>>213597747
I've seen some people say the same. I could tell what was happening but it was still kinda blurry. I've also seen people say it might jsut be the theater or projector since they saw shit just fine so i dunno. My theater's screen was pretty crappy I think

>>213597794
I saw it in a real imax and didnt have issues

>>213597794
>>213597747
nah same, all the dark scene looked like shit with a normal projector

>>213597814
i saw it at a sit down and eat longue theater, and I imagine that might be why. Realy comfy place, but the projector wasn't the best. I remember Northman looking really good at that same theater though

>>213592417 (OP)
How come the kids stopped autismrunning in the last part, they just ran normal

so the little fag was either in school or at home cleaning up piss and shut from 17 kids and 2 adults?

How many days passed between the incident and the end of the movie?

>>213598013
that posture is for cruise control, when closing distance the weapon must pump its arms to maintain the balance and agility needed to make the kill.

>>213598119
Wong ran like naruto the whole time

>>213598082
I think they said the school was closed for a month before the conference at the start. The rest of the movie only takes place in a couple days.

>>213596963
this movie sucked kinda

>>213598050
she can just order them to go to the bathroom

seven hot dogs for two gay men seemed excessive

>>213598223
I could down all 7 alone, and I'm only ~80kg

>>213598223
The hotdogs was a referance to WKYK

>>213598268
fuck is that a radio station or something?

>>213598342
Whitest Kids you Know, newfag. The director was part of it.

>>213598357
Sorry, 'Whitest Kids U Know'.
Let me correct that before a fag breaths down my neck

>>213596611
>just explain it in the fucking movie.
because what this movie really needed was a 10 minute exposition dump

>>213594009
What would have been more interesting than the witch? A prank?

I need to know if your theater laughed at the stakeout door hair clipper scene

>>213598424
My theatre was dead silent almost the entire movie which is pretty rare considering it was pretty much full.

>>213598424
Yes, they also screamed at every jump scare. It was fun.

My theater was pretty dead until the end when the stupid flick turned into a comedy and all the normies started laughing at the slapstick violence I was the only who remained silent

>>213598490
Fuck I need to know where you live. Mine was filled with nerdy anime blacks who soi'd out over justin long and were laughing at the principals dialogue early in the movie

>>213598424
They yelled during that scene
When the junkie went into the basement and the kids turned around at him a black lady behind me yelled ‘OH HELL NAH’ which was very kino

>>213598410
Why do you immediately assume that an exposition dump is needed? Do you think exposition dumps are the only way to convey information or what?
Why are you such a disingenuous rat piece of shit?

It's just starting bras

Why are white people so insane you don't see this level of craziness from POC films

>>213598695
Because it was very clearly shown how it works.

>>213598416
ya like what else wouldve been the reveal? Clearly something supernatural was in play so what did you want.

>>213598747
because white people are adventurous. They climb mountains, point a boat somehwere on the ocean and just go forward until they land, they go to space. You know, push humanity forward.

Movie wasnt very good. Its kinda funny, but otherwise its not really scary, nor are the characters compelling. Hated the teacher character and wanted her to die.

I was expecting something far more creepy.

>>213598772
I dunno, the kid doing shit? All the teasers seem to imply it and the movie sets up that the kid may want to take revenge on his class for picking on him.

Sure, it may have been predictable, but then why did they set it up that way.

>>213598376
You're an uppity little babyfag aren't yah

>>213598868
the little kid somehow made all of his classmates run out of bed into the night all at the same time?

>>213598799
Those boats are filled with my ancestors, asshole

>>213597479
>>213596611
>>213594993
You sound incredibly stupid

>>213598893
When europeans landed in sub saharan africa there wasnt a spoken language. The best city in Africa (Cape Town) is a European built and maintained city. The most your people have done was have people be on a boat to live a higher standard with white people. As the white peoples burden and ill of course.

>>213598424
Mine laughed when she walked past the car window, but then gasped when she started opening the trunk

>>213598877
how nu.ru

>>213598926
And you are a little vagina afraid of adversity
Don't say anything that might put you under scrutiny, just make blanket statements and general insults and feel like a big boy

>>213592473
>le Drinker
Fuck off faggot

>>213599128
Being a moron who gets confused by a simple movie isn't some brave battle against adversity, get real man.

>>213599176
I wasn't confused, I asked questions about loose ends and now you're changing the narrative, so fuck off

reminder the movie is about addiction and building up a drug tolerance. auntie thought the parents were enough then built up a tolerance to needing and entire classroom to sap energy from

>>213599283
>Did she have a way to extend her life through the kids or what?
>How did Alex's branch send the kids off and not the parents?
>Why did the branch snap stop Brolin and the parents from attacking?
>What was up with the salt?
These aren't "loose ends", these things were very clearly answered in the movie. Everyone else who watched it understood them except for you, because you are a dimwitted buffoon.

>>213599285
That wasn't the real aunt fucking idiot she's been possessing people for a long time

>>213599411
how old do you think she is? 200 years old?

How such a powerful witch got defeated by a little kid is pretty funny to me. Typical evil mages falling prey to their own hubris is a tale as old as time. She didn’t expect her little assistant to be so observant.

>>213599411
I know she isn't the real aunt. Are you autistic?

>>213599431
The kid used her own weapon against her

>>213599411
This. She obviously bewitched the parents into letting her stay with them. If she was truly their aunt, or great-aunt, it would be even more fucked up.

>>213596197
fucking kek. First shit I thought of.

>>213599463
>If she was truly their aunt, or great-aunt, it would be even more fucked up.
My mother aged really well, and she has this funny habit of pretending to be her grandson’s mother when she’s out shopping with him in the cart. It’s possible Gladys really is related to them.

What did the cops and feds do with the crazy witch’s stuff?

Alex you retard. You could have learned more from her.

>>213599348
I simply misremembered parts, I went back to check, the branch Alex made in no way indicated it would send off the kids, the only stuff the bathroom had were Gladys' hair in the basket he pulled it out of
Explain the black puke the one and only time, M4, significance of 2:17, cellar kids doing a random jumpscare, bell doing nothing for Wong's boyfriend and the logistics of her "curing herself"

I watched an interview with the director on this podcast and he actually seems like the most normal dude ever. I'm used to directors being autistic retards like Coogler or Peele. but Cregger seems really cool. He says the only scene he tried to make funny was the Brolin FUCK part.

https://youtu.be/La59OCTmUdc?si=DQE5OfhNvK4t8DQm&t=2803

>>213599643
>Explain the black puke the one and only time
Its a horror flick
>M4
looked cool
>significance of 2:17
The time the kids left
>cellar kids doing a random jumpscare
Its a horror flick
>bell doing nothing for Wong's boyfriend
He was the target
>the logistics of her "curing herself"
She needed to be close to them

>>213599696
>He says the only scene he tried to make funny was the Brolin FUCK part.
no way he filmed the ending and thought that was scary

>>213596963
>slow burn
lel just admit the movie was boring as shit. Also that ending was stupid with zero payoff

>>213599696
>he actually seems like the most normal dude ever.
you sure about that?

https://youtu.be/lPHc68RIYAo?si=5S2R4wd3uTWVnKy8

>>213599962
think he says that's the most shocking part is everyone finding these parts funny

>>213599935
I appreciate the input

>>213599992
junkie part was also funny

>>213600046
oh yea he says other than the obvious funny parts with the junky especially that he's perplexed with people finding the ending and other dark parts funny

>>213599696
Cregger has been streaming on twitch for the last 5 years with the rest of the whitest kids, definitely drop by to check them out sometime. Although they used to be more consistent before Trevor Moore’s dive, I still miss Zach and Trevor’s Friday streams

Should I watch it?
I just got my first job after years of NEETing and so I can afford the ticket

>>213600160
>Cregger has been streaming on twitch for the last 5 years with the rest of the whitest kid
Isn't twitch playing video games? What do they do?

>>213592417 (OP)
You're crazy. The ending was the best part.

>>213599643
The branch was sticking out of the pot separate from everything else. It's an implication you goober, it blows me away how unobservant the average person is. That is the next branch for a mass command like was shown twice previously.
Were you guzzling beer or hitting a bong while watching? It's not a hard movie to follow!

>>213599539
>>213599411
I think she was actually related to them somehow. Alex's parents already seemed to have some knowledge of her when they were still talking normally. Alex's blood also worked on the thorny branch.

>>213600178
Chat and rewatch sketches from their 2000s show and make each other crack up. They had a dungeons and dragons session that lasted a while too

>>213600186
I was playing video games on the side, I've watched exactly 2 movies this year, Green Book and this

>>213599449
he turned the weans against her

>>213598424
No, I’m glad they didn’t. I’ve been hearing this gets a laugh, but to me it was the creepiest shot in the film, would’ve been ruined by laughter… the biggest laugh in my theater by far was after Archer gets jumpscared and he goes “what the FUCK”

>>213600160
Zach is going to get too famous to do that anymore I foresee :/

>>213592417 (OP)
That was kino. But I wish it had a happier ending. Also dumb ass crowd kept laughing the entire time

>>213594993
I thought 2:17 symbolized the seventeen kids that left the classroom and the two that were left, Alex and Justine.

>>213592417 (OP)
americans too stupid to realize its an allegory for school shooters and classrooms of kids disappearing. even has giant flying ar15 and still doesnt click. just seal clap at movie.

>>213600269
Agreed. It was the most unsettling scene in the movie for me and my full theater didnt ruin it either. How the body was animated really rubbed me the wrong way and the static camera with the door being opened not revealing the invader. Good scene.

>>213600309
>going to get too famous
but it flopped

>>213594993
How are you supposed to make movies when even if you literally explain stuff in your movie retarded redditors still cry about not understanding it?

Every one of your questions except the black goo and the tree is literally explained in the movie or you're just straight up wrong

Some random ones:
>Scared of needles
Cop asks the drugie about aids in the movie
>Why Archer stops choking Justine after the kids attack
He doesn't, he's still chocking her afterwards only stopping after the witch died
>Kids lifesteal
Witch explains in the movie that his parents didn't provide as much as she thought they would when she asks him to take personal stuff from the classmates
Etc

If you're too stupid to understand such a simple movie stick to shit like Marvel and cartoons

>>213599431
>powerful witch

She wasn't powerful, though. She was weak and arrogant and ended up getting defeated by her own hubris.

>>213600339
You think about americans all day. Nobody knows or cares where you are from.

>>213600339
>even has giant flying ar15

That was unironically the most jarring part of the movie. It made no sense thematically and just came off as a weird non-sequitur.

>>213596938
Quality post.

>>213594993
>Why was the cop so hypochondriac about the finger cut and the needles?
you wanna just get stabbed by junkie needles? fucking idiot moron

My favourite horror films are
>hereditary
>occult
>noroi the curse
>texas chainsaw massacre
Will I enjoy this?

>>213600494
Go back to letterboxd

>>213600425
nooooooo why didnt the dream sequence make sense why did it have weird things dreams arent weird!!!!!!

>>213600505
Never used it before, I only post here about movies

>>213592417 (OP)
I was loving it thinking it was a brilliant allegory about school shootings in a republican town where people can't deal with the consequences of the kind of society they have built. But then in the last 20 minutes it turns out what the movie is criticizing are drag queen "grooming" children? That's what I got from it at least and it ruined the movie for me. So fucking ignorant. I thought by now horror was above fear mongering against marginalized communities. And after Barbarian's brilliant take down on the real danger of toxic masculinity I was expecting something equally insightful here. But now looking back on Barbarian, for a movie about the risks women go through on a daily base, there was zero trans representation in it. So I guess Creggers was always just another TERF midwit loser. At least this movie is flopping hard. Couldn't even open above 100 millions. People recognize bullshit when they see it.

>>213600494
you will like this movie if you enjoyed prisoners, magnolia and evil dead 1

>>213600462
When he did the body search and got cut, he was almost hyperventilating and it drove him to the impulsive destructive behaviour in front of the dashcam, that wasn't a normal reaction
you'd think there would be a payoff to displaying him as this hypocondriac, but it's all forgotten once he enters the house, nothing about his wife or anything

>>213600494
Its hereditary and prisoners. Yes you will.

>>213600508
I respect this movie the most for explicitly showing when something was a dream or not. Literally had scenes of the characters going to bed before each sequence. Dream sequence fake outs are the most god awful annoying trope that many movies still continue to have

>>213600585
I love Prisoners
Evil Dead 1 was good despite the goofy special effects
Never seen Magnolia
>>213600606
Nice

>>213600508
It was still an non-sequitur and it had nothing to do with the plot.

Stop being a dumb nigger.

How did it take them so long to find where the kids ran off to? Are you telling me the only footage any of them had was from the ring cameras of the kids running out of the house? That’s preposterous, not to mention retarded. Those kids would have triggered plenty of cameras while they were running through people’s backyards and through the middle of the street

>>213600626
>theres cameras everywhere!!!
it was set in a small town in the US not london

>>213600580
Pedro Pascal was going to originally play Brolin's role, but dropped out right before filming when he realized the script had a transphobic subtext and he has a trans sister, so that bigoted shit didn't fly with him. He justified it saying it was a scheduling conflict with F4, but Julia Gardner is in both, so that's obviously bullshit. Go watch F4 instead of this. That movie is a killer, but sadly it isn't performing as well as it should.

>>213600727
Literally every other person in a random small town in the US has cameras inside and outside their house

>>213600727
I have 3 cameras on my house. Driveway, Doorfront, and backyard. With flood lights.

>>213600783
>>213600810
stop being schizo

>>213600837
The movie literally established that there were drug addicts in the town that were breaking into random houses, any responsible white household is going to have a ringer camera at the minimum

>>213600736
Garner probably did her mocap and voice lines in 2 days while pascal was the main character

>>213600837
western countries are now low trust societies. You just wake up?

>>213596840
>I don’t know the answer. Some claim it’s to do with gun rights legislation but I don’t think that’s substantiated
2:17 am is when Trevor Moore actually took a swan dive off the balcony but paramedics weren't on the scene to pronounce him dead until about 2:30.

>>213592417 (OP)
Amy Madigan is in this.
It's Chanice from Uncle Buck.

>>213594993
Oh no no no bruh this dude can't think for himself !!! Might as well go watch WEAPONS ENDING EXPLAINED

>>213599643
>M4
I saw a snippet of an interview that said Cregger doesn't even know. He basically says he's trying to pull a David Lynch move there, where he thinks about the scene and waits for his subconscious to spit out an image, and then he puts the image into the movie without analyzing it or second-guessing. I guess a dream scene is a good time to let Lynch's influence in.
>significance of 2:17
It's when the kids left. Outside of that, there is no significance, and I don't see why there should be. I think the only purpose of stating the exact time of the incident is to demonstrate that it happened at a specific time, and not to say that there's anything special about the time.
>bell doing nothing for Wong's boyfriend
The movie explains this one. The attack spell has five elements: the twig, the item belonging to the controlled person (Wong's ribbons), the hair of the target (other gay guy), and the blood of the controller (Gladys), and the bell. Gladys snaps the twig to put Wong under her spell, which makes him drop the phone and freeze. Then, Gladys rings the bell, which causes Wong to attack and kill his target. Then, Gladys replaces the now-dead gay guy's hair with Justine's hair, snaps the twig again, and rings the bell again to make Wong go after Justine.
We can infer that the twig Alex picks up at the end has his classmates' possessions wrapped around it already, and we see him do the rest.
>black puke
>kids turning around
These two are like cinema sins-tier complaints. I think these two things happen just to make the movie scarier, and I don't think that makes it bad.

>>213598424
I love having a theater with black people in it. They yelled but then when she just cut her hair they said "DA FUQ?!"

>>213600160
Newsboyz was so kino

post >yfw Justin Long shows up

The ending of the film gave me 80s/90s horror film vibes. Not the gratuitous violence of the children tearing apart the witch, which was so graphic that it made me check the early life section of the director. But just in general, the uplifting satisfaction you got from seeing a bunch of kids run after her was very 80s/90s

>>213599696
Zach may seem normal, but he walks around town with a gallon of PCP

Gf said the cop was hot. I know for a fact there’s some fake-sleazy leftist male that she works with that has the same stupid mustache and haircut. Should I be worried or nah?

This movie ruled. Captivating premise with a satisfying resolution. What else can you ask for?

>>213601524
shes comfortable enough to degrade you and call other men hot infront of you. I'd say its when not if.

>>213601387
Ugh is that homo gonna be in all of this directors movies?

>>213601539
Gratuitous nudity from Julia Garner like she got fucked with her clothes on -_-

>>213600346
>$70 million worldwide gross on weekend 1 from a $35m budget
It's a huge hit, cope and sneed

It's weird that Josh Brolin can change up his personality, but he insists on looking the same in every movie.

>>213592417 (OP)
Most horror movies have bad 3rd acts but at least this one was funny instead of underwhelming.

>>213594993
If anything it explained too much too early and it took some of the horror away. Once you see the witch do the ritual on the on Wong you know everything you need to know. Before that when weird shit was just happening with no explanation it was much more effective.

>>213601665
it will hit 100m+ its a massive hit critically and box office. Its undeniable

>>213600346
You are thinking capeshit. A horror movie getting $70 million on its first weekend is really good.

If the movie is an allegory for gun violence does that make Alex a school shooter?

> Director of Weapons Zack Cregger spoke to Vanity Fair and explained more about Gladys, where she came from and what she represents – as well as how Amy Madigan influenced a lot of the decisions around how to play her. He explains how Gladys and her witchcraft represent alcoholism and claims it to be autobiographical to his own childhood.

“The last chapter of this movie is straight-up autobiographical. That was my childhood. You live with an alcoholic parent, and there’s this inversion of the dynamic. The child can become the [caregiver].”

“This foreign substance comes in and it changes everyone’s behavior,” Cregger says. “The house becomes a scary place. You can go to school and act like everything’s cool, and then you come home and you hide from a zombie parent. That felt so real to me.”

>>213602064
Sounds like bullshit. Sounds like he wanted to make a school shooting allegory movie, but can't sell it like that and can't talk about it like that because of the rabid 2A crowd.

>>213601329
I miss it

>>213601905
I also thought this was going to be an "elevated" horror movie about school shootings but when it turned out that the kid didn't want any of this I wasn't sure what the message was supposed to be.

After learning that the director is from WKUK, I think the weapon motif was just meant to fuck with people. I don't think Cregger actually has anything to say, he probably just wanted to make a fun movie or something.

>>213592417 (OP)
A comedian was murdered for this

>>213600371
>She wasn't powerful, though.
Are you retarded? Do you not understand what a person could do with what she did casually?

>>213602384
>I also thought this was going to be an "elevated" horror movie about school shootings but when it turned out that the kid didn't want any of this I wasn't sure what the message was supposed to be.
this is so embarrassingly midwit.
>was wishing for gay social commentary
>was waiting for the movie to spell out a "message" to him
jesus

>>213602284
What does the witch represent if this is a movie about school shootings? The dark side of white america?

If Weapons happened in real life (assuming the occult powers in the film are also real):
>witch summons all of the children at 2:17
>the children run outside
>flood lights and motion detectors are going off all across the neighborhood since children are sprinting through people’s backyards and down the street
>since so many children are missing, it becomes a federal investigation and massive amounts of funding and manpower are assigned to it
>immediately the federal agents gather camera footage from citizen recordings and are able to deduce where the children are before lunch time
>a squad of elite tactical special forces breaches the house and kills the witch
The end

>>213596611
She's a witch that can control people using what's effectively voodoo doll rules. The movie actually gets pretty detailed in how the mechanisms work.

>>213602471
If you enjoy making yourself mad I won't stop you, but that's not what I said. I don't care since I had fun with the movie anyway. I'm just discussing a film on the film & television board.

>>213602498
If occult powers in the film were real then the federal agents would be in the employ of the Evil One and never solve the crime because it's a mass trauma mind control event broadcast to everyone's homes.

>>213602284
whatever helps you cope

>>213594993
This movie sucks but you're legitimately retarded

>>213597021
Yeah the monster tries to impregnate hunter by stuffing her eggs inside her

>>213592417 (OP)
I got ads for this. "'Weapons in theatres,' on such and such a date" they said.
NOT the best choice of words.

>>213601524
She thinks it's hot to cheat on you and get aids. Drop her.

>>213602498
>>213602569
It is real life, the movie is a soft disclosure of the use mkultra to weaponize individuals and how abducted children are used to extend the lives of aging ghouls in power.

>>213599992
Total horseshit, the pack of feral kids tearing an old woman apart is not inherently funny. That scene following the lead kid as she smashes through the house closing the distance is sick as fuck
But he deliberately had the witch go "oh no!" and waddle out of the house old-woman-style, he deliberately had the shots of the woman running past the camera, then a comedic beat, then the pack of kids running past the same spot like Scooby Doo, and he deliberately chose to shoot it in broad daylight
He has to be fucking with people by saying that wasn't intentional

>>213603502
Honestly I laughed during that scene but I don't know if it felt "funny" in the moment, it felt "cathartic", it's a relief that the witch is getting what's coming to her in the most entertaining possible way.

Honestly the best horror ending I've seen in years.

>>213601626
I would rather see the cop's fat titty wife naked

>>213602478
Child abuse/broken homes

>>213599990

Didn't watch the while video but if I ever saw anyone carrying a gallon of substance called PCP, I would run and get the fuck away from that person as fast as possible before he becomes homicidal and cannibalistic.

>>213603502
the only interview i've seen with the director he said that he deliberately made shit on the line of being funny/disturbing. he said that he even sat in during test screenings and the movie had wayyy more moments like that but if he didn't hear the audience laugh he cut it out. reminds me of ari aster where it confuses audiences whether or not things should be funny

>>213597068
She struck me as a hilariously Roald Dahl esque character. You can almost visualize Quentin Blake's illustrations of her fleeing in terror at the end.

>>213600601
Fucking moron, he’s not a hypochondriac. He’s freaking out because he just got stabbed by a needle owned by a homeless junkie. You should be freaking out if that happens to you, because that’s how you catch a disease. Why do you think he asked if the junkie had AIDs the second time?

>>213600619
The rifle is in Archer’s dream because there’s a poster on his sons wall showing an army dude holding an M4, the poster is shown to be positioned in a spot where Archer would be staring at it when laying on his side in his son’s bed - as he’s shown to be when we first see him.

>>213600178
what the other guy said, but Zach would do weekly dark souls streams attempting to do no death runs.
people should chill out about him making Resident Evil (plus if the secret Gotham City crime drama script he talked about is any indication Leon Kennedy or somebody will probably show up at the end)

>>213597021
Cuckoo she was just a girl.

>>213602399
“Tonight, a comedian died in Montclair, New Jersey. Somebody knows why.”

>>213600580
The witch wasn't supposed to be a drag queen, retard. She represents Laura Loomer and female conservatives who lull conservatives into supporting the same weapons that are killing our children. That's why the movie is called The Weapons. It's literally about weapons.

>>213597068
Nah the kids ripping her to shreds was hilarious and cathartic

>>213602498
Yeah, I was also thinking this, the conceit of the story would almost only work properly if it was in a very dated, rural, "darkness still exists here" setting like To Kill a Mockingbird, in fact even the claim that they disappeared into the night seems hard to buy when you see the shots of the well illuminated neighborhood with all of the motion sensor lights turning on.

Mostly just funny to think about because criticizing dreamlike kafkaesque satire for "not being realistic" is for losers.

>>213600601
This has to be bait

>>213605356
No, it’s some zoomzoom who hasn’t grown up enough yet to understand why you don’t want to get stabbed by random needles.

>>213601231
Did Alex ever ring the bell? I don't remember

>>213605301
>>213600580
>That's why the movie is called The Weapons.

God this place has the funniest shitposts.

>>213592417 (OP)
THE NEW LONGLEGS

>>213605425
longlegs was shit compared to this

>>213596840
I think the time is specifically 2:17 because it was 17 children that went missing.

>>213605425
Gladys and Cobble linked up! need it or keep it?

>>213601524
woof

>>213605533
It's 217 because that's the bad room number from The Shining (in the book). At least Zach says he thinks that's where it came from. It sounds more like he chose 217 because it sounded ominous and then remembered that detail later.

The fact that everyone sees their pet political complaint in this movie must be really entertaining to him when he's explained already that the core stuff with Alex and Gladys is about the horrors of having an alcoholic parent. Fantastic rorschach test of a film. I think the rest of the stuff with the teachers, parents, and police is mostly commentary on how society is so ineffectual at helping kids in horrible situations.

>>213605669
That makes a lot of sense but I'm still pretty sure that's at least why the specific number of kids who went missing was 17

>>213605448
Longlegs had a better start but this had a better end.

>>213605699
Yeah, I think the number of kids was chosen to line up with the 217 number rather than the other way around. It's fun to try to pull meanings out of it though.

It was pretty obviously about how Taylor Swift intends to use her significant influence over people to turn them into weapons for the latest gynocracy.

>>213605559
make way for trans villains

>>213605872
Neither of these characters are intended or even implied to be trans in any way

the crackhead should be the protag for the resident evil movie

>>213600339
>t. midwit who probably hasn't seen the movie

>>213605898
He is and the movie is gonna suck. Well, it’s probably not gonna suck, Zach knows how to make a good film on the levels that count, it’s just gonna disappoint all the RE fans.

>>213600339
None of the kids are dead though so it being a school shooting allegory wouldn't make any fucking sense.

>>213606089
Wouldn't it?

>>213605892
Lmao

>>213606082
Most RE fans just want a movie that follows one of the games' plots even though most of them wouldn't be that good for a horror movie. RE3 would work as an action movie though.

>>213598549
were you in my theater? legit same kind of faggots in those same moments

Holy shit that one schizo anon was right?

>>213598424
i had some old lady with the most annoying laugh during every scary part. like say teehee as gay as you can and thats what she sounded like

>>213606413
Shame that the movie has literally nothing to do with the games other than references to umbrella and being set in a hospital in the woods at the periphery of Raccoon City.

>>213605379
How old are you?

>>213601231
The only serious and satisfactory reply in the thread, thank you.

>instead of instructing the zombie mom to kill Justine, she just orders it to snip off some hair instead
>weak old granny on death's door overpowered Josh fucking Brolin in a basement
ok

people said this was a good movie btw

>>213594993
>expecting a supernatural horror movie to explain how every bit of the supernatural stuff works
You’re a special person, please go back to redit

Completely agree. Last 20 mins completely broke any suspension of disbelief.

How TF didn't the feds figure out where the kids were if it took the hick and the school teacher 5 mins with a map? Also how many cameras and sensors did those kids set off running towards Alex's house? You're also telling me the feds searched Alex's house and spoke to zombie mom and didn't figure ANYTHING out?

Ludicrous. Took the film from a solid 9/10 to a 7 at best.

should've been about alien abductions instead of christcuck demonic possession bullshit

i know it's been done before with The Forgotten (2004) , but it was a good plot which should've been repeated here

how woke is this?
the lead actress seems sus

>>213605321
Thanks for the spoiler!

>>213608534
aliens are fucking gay and you are a faggot

>>213600160
They died with Trevor.

>>213602498
>immediately the federal agents gather camera footage from citizen recordings and are able to deduce where the children are before lunch time
>It all disappears along with anyone involved
ftfy

>>213608748
t. christcuck

go suck jesus' cock

Post a gif of the kid eating a knife. I heard that was the worst scene.

>>213609083
That was Bring Her Back. A girl in the cinema when I saw it had to leave because of that scene.

I think the potato peeler scene was dumb and not convincing at all.

>>213609149
i thought it was unnecessary but that's about it. just blow his brains out and i'm fine with it

>movie about missing kids
>obvious spooky house of the only survivor with newspaper windows, stroke parents and an aunt with no ID
>missing kids are in the first place they should look

>>213609149
>me wondering why this film is rated 18 in the UK
>peeler scene
Ah, there you go. Our government hates the depiction of make-shift weapons.

>>213609149
I thought it was supposed to be a laugh

>>213599020
Watched the movie at the kinoplex twice and had that exact reaction both times.

>>213608635
it's not

>>213608534
did you just find out about the spoiler tag or what

>>213608534
no, it should've been some sort of parasite like they teased with the classroom question and documentary, not some fucking voodoo shit

>>213605448
this

>>213608534
No one believes in round earth and your Star Wars space fantasy anymore, NPC boy. Everyone knows earth is flat, the fantasy of aliens have long lost it's intrigue..

>>213600580
lol

>>213592417 (OP)
No the last 20 mins was great, the only slow part was the cops chapter
When the gun appeared in the sky and i thought it was going to be a fucking school shooting allergoey and groaned.
“Like all the of the kids disappeared”
It being actual supernatural was a million times better
>>213594993
Its witch magic dummy

>>213602399
Zach was only a good comedian in wkuk which ended like 20 years ago outside of random tour dates which nobody went to see

Was barbarian good? I missed it when it was in theaters

>>213600267
you got the funny bone

>>213600580
>>213605301
You know Zach is some libtard right? so while this is bait, its also probably 100% true.

Why did the movie push at 2 different times about parasites but they never even showed the witch being one.
Wouldn’t it have made sense to include one scene of Alex going down the steps and seeing her suck out life or whatever out of one of the kids or show her more proactive in the community not knowing shes feeding off of them

>>213610140
It’s heavily implied she’s doing the life force stuff off screen

>>213609915
I liked barbarian more than weapons desu

So who were the Weapons?

>>213611051
He wrote the movie in a few days after trevors death, so i think its like 5 mumble jumble ideas trying to come across as a point.
Its definitely supposed to say something about school shootings with the candle lighting, distraught griefing parents, empty class room except the one bullied kid, and the movie just gives up being subtle just showing off an ar15 with the kill count on the side randomly at some point.
Alex’s 2 parents, 17 kids.
But the actual in universe weapons being like tranced shaman zombies has nothing to do with that because its a supernatural witch movie lol. He should have made a stronger connection between real weapons and the trance zombies because i literally forgot about the school shooting shit in the second half when the dad just says
“What are they some kind of heat seeking weapons?”
I liked it but it really shows it was written in a few days.

>>213598891
Some.atheists are perpetually butt hurt at the mere mention of the supernatural! The hypocrisy is real!!!!

>>213592417 (OP)
The last 20 minutes are the best part.

>>213596840
>This is your only good question, I don’t know the answer. Some claim it’s to do with gun rights legislation but I don’t think that’s substantiated

Matthew 2:17 in the bible describes the fulfillment of a massacre of children - The Slaughter of the Innocents.

>>213597792
Personal objects used in the ritual bind the owner of said object to the will of the spellcaster. (Kids objects, Wong's award, etc.)

Hair bound to the stick makes you the target of those bound to the will of the spellcaster. (Teacher, gay boyfriend, etc.)

Dunking the stick removes the target.

Death of the spellcaster removes all spells.

All of this is clearly spelled out and, in some cases, repeatedly demonstrated in the movie. I rated the film 6/10 originally... now settling in closer to 5/10. It has a lot of problems but not explaining things is NOT one of them. If anything, the film explains too much, it makes the witch and magic mundane.

>>213605892
oh no no no

OP is obviously engagement farming

>>213611946
He should have post the witch on pol, and talked about trannies being pushed.
Rookie mistake

Is it a zoomer phenomenon to laugh during unsettling parts?

>>213596611
Are you the same anon from the NoES thread that was arguing Freddy's Revenge didn't do a good job at being a repressed fag allegory?

what was with the giant AR-15?

>>213610140
She sucks out the life force of whatever simply by being in the house it seems. Pretty lame.

>>213612104
Pretty comfy ngl, but I would've varied the condiments more on the hotdogs and swapped the carrots with an actual salad.

>>213592417 (OP)
Mediocre movie, very obviously the exact same guy as Barbarian cranking his gimmick in that movie up to 11.

>>213599696
>Coogler
Coogler speaks like a mumbling ghetto thug iirc, not so much an autistic weirdo

>>213600580
Lol I never this was gonna be yoinked from a leftyfag forum and lo and behold it is:
https://rdrama.net/post/387457/thoughts-on-weapons-2025

Did the kids and the parents of Alex ever getting back normal again after the ending?

>>213612039
I've watched like 8 movies in the last 10 years, don't @ me, my life doesn't revolve around media consumption

>>213600837
Everyone now has to have ring cameras so they can see precisely when their amazon package gets delivered, so they can clout chase with accidents being caught on camera and doing fake skits and because faceberg would have everyone believe that someone is constantly trying to steal their kids and traffic them. Adults are now so overprotective, retarded, and jealous of the youth getting to do the things they did when they were younger that they will financially incentivize their kids keeping location tracking on their phone when they go off to college.

>>213612579
No they getting back not again with the ending after.

>>213600346
Capeshit grifter bros have ruined an entire generation of men.

>>213612104
Seven hotdogs? That's a little high.

I liked this movie and Barbarian. I’m excited to see what he does with Resident Evil.

>>213612826
I like that hes doing an original story in the re universe. Who cares about an adaptation of a certain game.
At worse you get an inferior product, best you get something par with a story from 25 years ago

>>213612593
I get it. You aren't like the other girls.......I mean /tv/ posters.

>>213612900
I visit this board like once a year, give it a rest

>>213612691
he's a big guy

>>213612894
Actually i say fuck it, just do whatever. The entire point of biohazard is that you can just make up whatever monster and call it a mutation of whatever virus. Re8 straight up just added vampires and werewolves and nobody cared. Throw in some umbrella logo somewhere and niggas call it a great continuation of the franchise despite the fact it had nothing to do with the previous shit.
Re4 didn’t have zombies, umbrella, or pretty much anything but a character who was barely a character in his last game shooting bio weapons in some part of the world. Who cares

I think the movie was honestly pretty boring. I don't understand why people think it is a top-shelf film.

The ending was so bad. The acting was so stupid. The old cancer lady running around screaming was so badly acted, it ruined the film for me.

It was not even scary, let alone a horror film. It was at best, a thriller/suspense <(suspense....Ha)

>>213612977
You write like a faggot

>>213612443
For both Barbarian and this movie, I was initially interested before getting so fucking bored towards the third act that I kept skipping ahead every 5 seconds till some action beat happened. This director is gonna be another grossly overrated shitstain like Denis.

>>213612996
I guess a faggot would know right? kek

>>213613061
Nobody says kek anymore, 2016 ruined this site

>>213612925
You're so above it and have better things to do with your time. Hell, you're probably the only one here that has sex.

>>213608283
She couldn't order to kill without the hair.

>>213613073
>he's still trying to gatekeep memes
lol...lmao even

>>213613112
Better things to do, yes. No, I have never had sex specifically because I focus on those "better things". If there was some personal tracker for how many replies you've made, I have max 50 total for this board.

>>213594993
Anon, you really got to be retarded if you need it explained to the face.
It was fucking blood magic. Thats literally it.
But fuck it, im bored, ill explain.
>Whats with the black puke?
That was the guys organs. Dude got turned into a meat puppet.
>What was the spiked tree?
Magic tree.
>Whats up with the M4 and the 2:17?
Thats the dad just having a nightmare. Its either nothing or just a small piece of foreshadowing thanks to magic still lingering around.
>Whats with the bell?
Its part of the spell. The gist is that the witch would grab a stick from the magic tree. If you put something thats yours, like blood, you pretty much designate yourself like somekind of master. If you put someone elses shit like hair or trinkets in the stick with your blood, you now have control of the person. Then you can make some kind of trigger using the bell or the salt, where "If you do shit= this happens" with the person under control.
>If she was dying, why was it that she good? Whats up with the abductions then? Did she had a way to extend her lifespan?
She is apparently taking life force from whoever ends up under her control. Thats why she wanted the kids. The takes control of them like a puppet master, and syphons their life. The more she takes control, the stronger she is.
>How did the branch snap sent off the kids after Gladys, and stopped the parents?
Gladys burned the kids stuff and put the ashes on that branch. When Alex put his blood on it and a hair of Gladys (not the ones wrong the wig, one of her actual hairs) he pretty much took control of the kinds. When the kids killed Gladys, she was no longer in control of anyone because the main master is fucking dead. The control was now of Alex by default.
>Whats up with the salt?
Trigger. Like the bell.
>Why was the cop scared of the niddle pinch?
Anon, he got pinched by a crackheads needle. Sometimes that shit has aids or disease. You can't really cure that shit. plus drugs or infections.

Imagine having that power and still losing to some little kid.

>>213601905
How is it an allegory for gun violence lol?