>>213640036 (OP)
One of the most entertaining movies ive ever seen in the cinema. Haven't seen a crowd laugh and scream in the cinemas more than with this film. It's a modern classic already and no amount of anti-shilling will make people think its bad.

The assault rifle sounded creepier in the script

>>213640068
Horror is so lame it has no choice but to be good

>>213640068
fpbp. it was great honestly.

>>213640036 (OP)
How can we discuss the movie when the HDrip hasn't been released yet?

>>213640068
It's already a hit. You can stop shilling.

>>213640036 (OP)
>Read pic rel
I really want to know what happened, those kids must have had a good/crazy reason... and the script has to be tight in order to explain it.
>Something supernatural made them do it
nvm then

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>>213640558
what should have happened in your opinion?

>>213640558
Yeah, like Barbarian, the movie becomes way less interesting once they reveal what's happening too soon and then you're just like 'ok then that's it?'

>>213640558

>>213640036 (OP)
Maybe it's because I watch way too many cop shows, but the fact that the kid was super suspicious and no one bothered to check on him after the initial check rubbed me the wrong way. And it bugged me more when they brought it up in the story and they were like "it's probably nothing" they and the explanation for why the kids went missing fell flat for me. Everything else was great.

>>213640068
I can't keep rewriting my experience in every weapons thread but yes, this was my exact same experience too in the theater

>>213640036 (OP)
It was ok. The structure makes is seem more complicated than it really is. In reality, you could remove half of the movie and lose nothing relevant for the plot. While the character building is interesting, it doesn't do enough to get the viewer emotionally attached to those characters. The cop and the junkie where interesting characters, but they do literally nothing to move the plot forward and when they die, you feel nothing.

>>213640683
>Someone says he can make three elephants fit in a tiny box
>Turns out he can't do it
>People get disappointed
>"Well how would YOU have done it huh?"
That's how you sound.
It's just a bummer to read an interesting premise that turns out to be retarded. But to be fair the director never promised a non-supernatural answer, so I'm not mad, the blame is on me and I'm just disappointed.

>>213640854
im just asking what you were hoping to see, anon

>>213640176
Cope.

>>213640558
>all the kids come back at the end ....

>>213640781
Or why didn't the cops care about his parents unable to speak but that's the little girl did say they were useless

>>213640951
That's why*

>>213640036 (OP)
Junkie had the best pov

>>213640068
>that scene where Brolin kept knocking out and junkie and eventually throwing him
Haven't laughed that hard at the movies in a while

>reee its not mkultra
>reee its not 5g towers
>reee its not evil children
>reee its not a pied piper
>reee its not aliens

LMAO
So many faggots got filtered by a witch.

>>213641060
It was pretty funny but nothing to roll off your seat

*snap cunt*

>>213641060
Yes lmao I laughed the hardest out of anyone at that scene in the theater and felt kinda embarrassed afterwards.

>>213640036 (OP)
>Undercooked script
Why was Archer shown sleeping in Matthews room? Why was Matthew shown to be bullying Alex? What WAS Archer's whole role about beside plot puncher? there's answers in the film that connects these but I don't think it would be a stronger film to focus on explicating messages. let it be an entertainment vehicle with subtext residue that's there if you want to pick up the log

>>213641060
You's made that sound way funnier than it was but his wtf after the dream was funny

>>213641224
The whole audience laughed at that too. It was great

>>213641192
You reckon the assault rife was meant to say Matthew would be a school shooter? Probably not

>>213641258
no, I'm talking about ARCHER

>>213641224
yeah my audience laughed a lot but not at that sequence. I thought okay comedy rule of 3 now how's he gonna kill him already. think people were too locked in for a horror payoff climax to squeeze in evil dead slapstick

>>213641308
They turned Gladys into a joke for the finale but at least it was funny

>>213641269
Archer?

Was there any reason for justines hair

>>213641338
That's the whole point. A wicked sorcerer is always just some human hiding behind wicked powers. She's just a frighteningly powerful frail old lady. Undone by her own hubris. Classic.

>>213640068
Wow cool! And yet I will never watch this gay piece of shit.

>>213641414
Witches collect sympathetic materials to save for later. Once they have something of you, you're essentially a sleeper agent of theirs, to be used or activated at any point, even years later.

I don't think you realize just how horrifying this level of power is. The ability to take out rivals from the safety of your basement a thousand miles away in total anonymity is a lot more terrifying and effective and world shaking than any sniper could ever hope to be.

>>213640036 (OP)
why? theres a mystery, we learn about it, then the heroes come in and save the day. what more do you need?

>>213641452
Effective movie title

>>213640781
The cops are useless and didn't bothered to check the child and his family.

>>213641452
Never fucking mind. She had to be attacked so she did need the hair

>>213640926
yeah but they were so traumatized they never TRULY came back. it's pretty deep

>>213641452
Yeah that's how magic worked in history, too. It's always chalked up to circumstance or coincidence, or happenstance, etc, and people always blamed some unseen sorcerer, or pointed fingers. But had that shit actually worked...

is this really the first and most representative use of the Pied Piper in horror films? hard to believe that especially with "folk-horror" being in vogue for over a decade. I guess you could argue IT but nothing really on this scale and structure afaik

>>213641452
>>213641529
It doesn't matter how good of a fighter you are, or how muscular you are, when lethal accidents can happen anywhere, at any time, and the people who make the accidents happen are the winners of history.

How many 666 did you count

>>213640558
>>Something supernatural made them do it
>nvm then
>NOOOOO IT HAS TO BE OVERLY COMPLEX AND 2DEEP4U!!!!
Yeah mother fucker, lots of horror stories are pretty straight forward. Witches, demons, ghosts, haunted objects. What is this, fucking some faggy romanian despair film?

>>213641551
I'd say Children of the Corn approximates it

>>213641560
There's a 6 on her bell. Definitely associated with Satan.

>>213641418
Why did it have to be a Ferris Bueller callback?

>>213641505
Yeah but why take her hair and then have the principal attack her in broad daylight when you could just take some object out of her car and turn her into a mindless slave/another person to drain of life?

>>213641604
does the triangle have some occult meaning or just a pictograph for (3)6s

>>213641646
>Yeah but why take her hair and then have the principal attack her in broad daylight when you could just take some object out of her car and turn her into a mindless slave/another person to drain of life?
Yeah, that was retarded.

>>213641646
Brilliant plot hole, there's gotta be more

>>213641646
It doesn't matter when there's a fork face stabbing scene. No, but really. I don't have an answer I'll pass the ball to the other anons itt

>>213640036 (OP)
Brolin stole the show, the dream sequence was so good

>>213641452
I'd rather be attacked by an unarmed naruto-running fasto than be shot at by a sniper rifle

>>213641646
Why didn't she go buy 15 dollar silver spray paint...

>>213641446
hating things is not a personality

>>213641755
idk he's an important cipher for the film but Brolin's star power and melodramatic acting felt like it was in a different movie for me

>>213641498
>whole story happens because "cops are useless"

why wasn't there national news interest in a whole classroom disappearing lol. the FBI would have shit up the place for months.
its really because the script is garbage.

>>213641551

I know justine is new but she should have noticed the name tags

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tP4yX2rkpBc

One of my top favorite Mr. Show sketches

>>213641782
fuck the fuckin yankees

Did Gladys even heal. Nah she did look weak when she got there

Yes, lots of movies have plot holes, but are still enjoyable. I'll take being entertained over every little detail being air tight. Isn't cinema a form of escapism?

>>213641192
Matthew 2:17

>>213642044
she went from completely bald to having some white hair
Nanny McPhee rejuvenation-mogs her

>>213641646
Because that's boring?
>MUH HECKINN REALISMMMMS!!!
kys its a horror flick

why did some people have dreams about the witch even though they've never seen her (and she never saw them) before?

>the socially aberrant homeless vagrant's arc ends dragged and consumed in a domicile by an authority figure under the auspice of protecting property
pottery

Was that the same soup from the shining

>>213642188
One of the best scares in the film justine in bed

I'm autistic enough to tell Gladys is over 200 years old because she used "consumption" an archaic term for tuberculosis

>>213641192
>Why was Matthew shown to be bullying Alex?
This is a red herring, it makes you think Alex may have done the whole thing as revenge.
The cop getting stuck with a needle the first time is also a red herring, made me think the junkie was somehow behind it and injected the kids with some shit that made them act weird.
What's funny is that those red herrings were inconsequential and didn't throw off any character who was investigating the missing children, they were aimed at the audience.

this is soup. soup for my family

>>213642298
>I'm autistic enough to tell Gladys is over 200 years old because she used "consumption" an archaic term for tuberculosis
they literally tell you this in the movie

>>213642231
I will fucking pull your pants down in front of all your friends

>>213642188
to suggest that gladys isnt their real aunt and just mindbreak the parents to think shes part of the family

>>213642379
>Damn that kid's family must love soup, they go through like ten cans a day

>>213642386
When?

>>213642449
right after she says consumption. the principal says something like
>lol consumption isnt that like what the pilgrims had?

Why didn't the witch just mind control every party that posed a threat to her before their dreams betrayed her presence?

>>213642350
idk about that, Matthew is clearly imitating the bullying behavior of his father which serves as thematic doubling seeing dad sleeping in Matthew's room in a kind of retrograde adolescence, weaponizing paranoia and anxiety, acting as protector of home and community seeking to brutalize the aberrant to maintain status quo of suburban facade .

the needle poke was the most affecting shock of the film for me, good audience reaction but I think it's just that - and he's a junkie as part of the tapestry of dysfunction under that facade^- alocholism, infidelity, opiods etc

Armond review when?

>>213642545
lol i missed that. Nice

>>213642649
>Armond Review
chatGPT kinda cookin with this one

I really like the first act I hope it kept its mysterious vibe but I understand how they're avoiding it being too serious bc of insidious syndrome

>>213640781
"Media literacy" enthusiasts say this is because this is supposed to be an analogy for a school shooting and the assault weapons ban where adults were all apathetic and did nothing for children suffering or something

>>213642876
>ESL posting while watching a shitty camrip
kill yourself immediately

>>213642350
I thought for a second it was an actual living parasite even though the hair strongly suggest it was voodoo shit.

>>213642554
She would need to mind control the entire town which would be unfeasible. Controlling too many people would make people notice, which is what ended up happening. The smarter move would be to control the top authorities such as the mayor and the police chiefs.

the movie Longlegs wanted to be if Perkins weren't so incompetent. already has a new one coming out soon, if it's bad I'm done with him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOZjfK6zIro

>>213643659
>The smarter move would be to control the top authorities such as the mayor and the police chiefs.
That wouldn't of worked either. When you're hexed you're basically a vegetable, you cant hold conversations which is something the chief and mayor would need to do frequently.

>>213641927
people would do well to apply the same critical lens as Hanging Rock but to the suburbs in Weapons but I know that's asking a lot for a silly horror film. the school shooting meme is nonsense though

>>213643659
The smart move would've been to have the teacher kill herself back when the community suspected her involvement the most.

>>213642379
If a kid is seen buying soup that automatically alerts all of the most serious authorities, MI6, MI5, MI7, FBI and the illuminati imc.

>>213644066
>if it's bad I'm done with him
>clearly targeted at women
I've got bad news anon

>>213640068
You have to keep in mind that /tv/ generally hates horror and unironically prefers capeshit and starshit

why are some people saying it's "not really" horror

>>213645647
Because they can’t into tone shifts.

>>213642113
She wasn't ever bald she had her wispy old lady hair in tight little braids. I also don't really think she ever looked any more "healed" but I also wasn't looking for it. Also this movie "The Home" have really similar themes and both have a lot of dream sequences but the main difference is that film is pure schlocky crap (but still enjoyable)

>>213642697
Nigger it is the literal follow up line. Did you hear consumption and immediately start going on your phone reading about it? Going to reference the Oregon trail too?

>>213644486
Why don't they alert the first 4 or final mission impossible films?

>>213640036 (OP)
the fact THE jordan peele … lost the bidding war for this film should tell you everything you need to know about how good it’s going to be.

>>213640683
My bet for part of the way was "Resident Evil-style government/big business clone/human experimentation shenanigans, somehow looping back around to a thematic deconstruction of aged suburbia and related institutions like schools and construction." Like suburbia is a tool for indoctrinating kids rather than nurturing independence or something. Certainly wasn't expecting, "Literal carpetbagging (((witch))) kidnapping children to use in arcane youth-extracting (((blood rituals)))." It kind of works but it's also kind of blase.

>>213641192
>Why was Archer shown sleeping in Matthews room?
Hint it's a dream.
>Why was Matthew shown to be bullying Alex?
Give a reason why he was willing to sacrifice his classmates.
>What WAS Archer's whole role about beside plot puncher?
Found the house and saved teach several times.

>>213642109
This makes me nervous >>213646712
>Then what was said through the prophet Jeremiah was fulfilled:

>>213642203
The teacher kills him. Education is the key to ending poverty.

>>213647074
I'm asking about themes and character not what happened in the plot, don't agree on #2 either

>>213645647
because horror and comedy dont mix.
there is no horror when the goal is to get laughs out of me.

>>213647198
Two is clearest. You said "shown", and that's clearly the reason why it's shown; it provides the second layer of motivation beyond protecting his parents. Why it happens at all? Dunno, because he's a kidlet? (This is often the reason, speaking from experience.) Thematically? I dunno, maybe something about alienation and neuroticism versus action orientation (reflected in the situation each boy's parents find themselves in; Alex's are catatonic and Matthew's are, "I gotta find my son!" and, "I'm going to work.").

>>213640036 (OP)
I think they could have leaned more into the cops and parents being apathetic/useless as a metaphor for school shootings as that was clearly the intent but they didn't really commit. The first half is good at building the tension & mystery but then its sort of dropped once they reveal its a witch doing it to stay alive and you are now just waiting for the characters to catch up with the audience.

>>213647555
it
is
NOT
about
SCHOOL SHOOTINGS
it's about AIDS and fat asian homos!

>>213647200
What a ridiculously ignorant thing to say considering the vast history of horror comedy goes back to before any of us here were even born. Mixing humor with scares is nothing new.

>have heard multiple people being confused by brolin dreaming of a giant floating gun
>when the movie is called weapons and a witch turns people into WEAPONS
people being metaphorically illiterate never ceases to amaze me

https://youtu.be/LCYr6SL5UOI?t=295
>It's not about school shootings to me, right? Um although I completely understand how people jump to that conclusion and it doesn't bother me that that people would think that way.
the gun came to him in a dream, the associations are poetic and evocative but there's nothing to substantiate a full reading. if anything it's deliberate smart marketing to weaponize redditor buzz catnip like that

>>213648152
and it did just that. Redditors love school shootings, its like midwit crack to them. They love placing all the violence issues on white people when it only accounts for 0.002% of gun violence, but amplify it 100,000% and scream at the rooftops about it.

>>213640068
the movie isn't a masterpiece by any stretch of the imagination, but it's more creative and interesting than 95% of the shit that is talked about on this board. most people here would rather endlessly complain about "wokeness" in capeshit

>>213648152
>Like subtext is subtext again in that it can be about whatever you want it to be about and it's a movie.
Look, I am very done with horror as some sort of didactic, you know, tool. Like I don't need to go see a horror movie and feel like well I didn't learn a lesson so it can't be good and like honestly I'm done with it.
>This movie is something deeply personal to me and it does have substance to me and I don't really give a fuck if everybody understands what I'm saying with it. That's okay. As long as people are having a blast and they're scared and they're laughing and they walk out, they feel like it was satisfying and a good story, then that's the point. You know what I mean? And that's enough.
HOLY BASED

>>213640143
Paypigs gonna paypig

>>213641515
Ya it’s super deep, just like Rick and Morty. It’s totally not retarded, they’re just not sophisticated enough to understand!

>>213648152
if anything the movie is about over-consumption and the unending need to have more combined with how people cant help but find scapegoats in tragic situations when the real answer is right in front of them.

>>213640036 (OP)
the script was definitely undercooked, but honestly i really enjoyed this. it was also nice to see a horror movie that wasn't a hamfisted metaphor for trauma or racism or whatever.

>>213640036 (OP)
I am glad they are doing horror about witches.
Was cool when she named an outdated illness to the asian guy

>>213649650
It's just an outdated name. And it should have been a major clue, it's called consumption because it sorta eats you alive. You don't get a touch of it, you used to get it and die before therapies existed for it.

only other anon that seemed to see the big picture
>>213581245
there's even more to it and though not super deep but man, these threads have been oblivious

>>213648142
yeah she turns people into weapons not assault rifles, hence why it confuses people

>>213651028
indeed. guns don't kill people, children kill people

>>213651028
>she turns people into weapons not assault rifles
A witch that turns people into assault rifles would have been fucking badass

>>213651080
between the parasite foreshadowing and infected ant reference I did wonder if they were going to gonzo body horror with freaky growth weapons or something. happy with what we got though

Who or what or where did Gladys get her magic from? There are probably others out there.

why did my theater bust up laughing when this guy appeared?

>>213652027
They probably have seen Barbarian.

>>213651282
In the script Garner tries to find information on the "ministry of silly walks" which I assume is a coven Gladys is part of (probably what the emblem she always wears represents).. Although in this universe it doesn't seem the witches have powers themselves, they just know how to perform rituals but keep the knowledge within their circles.

>this was the only black person with a speaking role
do better Zach

>>213650976
This post is retarded. The names missing means nothing and would be a dead end. The name tags were burned and used to make the zombie kids. The only thing you can infer from that is that maybe it was a part of the kid's plan or maybe it's just a coincidence. The ring footage was looked at by the cops already. Archer says that when he goes to the other parent's house and ask to see their footage. It just leads him to Alex's house which was already searched by the feds and cops. Marcus isn't admonishing Justine because she cares too much it's because she wants to talk to Alex to make herself feel better. She follows Alex's bus and watches his house for hours. When she finally works up the nerve to talk to him she only mentions herself. There was no way to logically solve this case if you don't know magic exist. For the ordinary person the case went like this
>17 kids from one class leave their house at 2:17AM and disappear except one child and the teacher
>the child and teacher's houses are searched and nothing is found
>weeks pass and the principal of the school attacks the teacher at a gas station after killing his husband
>he's hit by a car
>the next day the 17 kids show up again rampaging through a neighborhood and tearing the aunt of the only not missing kid apart
>the rampage started in the house of the one kid that didn't go missing where a junkie and dead cop are found
>everyone who survived can't speak
The only person who can give the whole rundown is Alex. I'm not even sure if he fully understood everything outside of the magic. Even if they pin it on Gladys "it was magic" doesn't exactly fly in court.

>>213641060

>>213652252
>In the script Garner tries to find information on the "ministry of silly walks"
I’ve read the script retard

>>213652577
Then why ask a retarded question that was answered by the script?

Why was the old clown lady shown to both blonde lady and Josh brolin in their dreams...and then junkie during the day? Both were precursors to them going to the house and it's not like she wanted them their....everyone's eventual prying is what ultimately fucked up everything for her ..

>>213652252
>Although in this universe it doesn't seem the witches have powers themselves, they just know how to perform rituals but keep the knowledge within their circles.
That’s all magic. Magic is materialistic. Magic is in the world.

>>213652592
It’s not in the script dumbass

>>213652252
>>213652613
She got her shit from the Devil it’s not her power alone. Demons handing humans a toolset of powers is typical “lol let’s cause some havoc” trolling behaviour.

>Le parasitic witch suckin' the chillrens' grief-y bits!
I don't even need to see this to know that it's shit. Normies have absolute dogshit taste when it comes to horror films.

>>213652607
Brolin and Garner were obsessed with the case so that could link to her magic. They only saw her in dreams related to the disappearance. The junkie only saw her after he left the house. She could put some kind of curse or something on those getting too close

>>213652406
yes that's Marcus' perspective of Justine though also says her prior offense was giving a kid a ride home because she cares too much and we later see her in flashback trying to coax Alex to open up in the classroom.
I'll grant you the nametags but the logistics are not really important to the larger point regarding the thematic subtext about how the idea of normativity and community is enacted when fractured and displaced. Facade of domestic life (addictions, infidelity, insecurity). Parent/kid dynamic of protection, paranoia and projection (brolin/son bully), Alex as caretaker for alcoholic parent allegory (Cregger's interview).

>>213652789
I can see that communal aspect, especially when compounded with the weaponization motif and generational parasitizing. doesn't need to have an explicit message but it's nice to chew on and mull over afterwards while being fun in the moment

I don't understand the witch's motivation. She got the children, ok, now what? She didn't use them at all since she's not healing. What is she doing with them?
Before the end she plans to run away with the child somewhere else to do it again I guess? But what is she going to do with the enchanted people? Just leave them there? If you do abandon them, that includes the parents and if you leave them behind you the kid will rebel which fine, not a big deal, but then why are you telling him to pack away? Just kill him/vodoo him and leave him too
Funny movie but pretty fucking dumb

>>213652789
there was that whole monologue about Brolin not being able to say I love you to his son too, and he still doesn't say it when he rescues him, just "I found you". That and the final shot on Matthews face being carried - Brolin's paternalism as an enactment of faux communal order in place of love, think that's a good cipher within the semiotic network of other themes

>>213652789
>also says her prior offense was giving a kid a ride home
Also hugging a kid. While they are innocent and a sign of a good teacher now you can't do that. Especially when it comes to elementary school students. Giving them a ride has you alone with the child in your car and can be considered kidnapping. The other can be assault. I'd argue that doesn't mean Marcus doesn't care about the kids I'd say he's the more of a sterile by the books way of child rearing while Justine is actually personable.
> the thematic subtext about how the idea of normativity and community is enacted when fractured and displaced. Facade of domestic life (addictions, infidelity, insecurity). Parent/kid dynamic of protection, paranoia and projection (brolin/son bully), Alex as caretaker for alcoholic parent allegory (Cregger's interview).
Now that I can see. The therapy sessions offered by the school that are impersonal but there to check a box. How we're first introduced to Paul as a soft spoken voice of reason when he's actually a cheating hot head. Alex being shown as a shy creepy kid when he's actually the bravest character.

any webrips out or just cams for now

>>213653077
>She didn't use them at all since she's not healing
She was healing. When we first see her she's bald and too frail to walk on her own. After she takes the life force of Alex's parents she has some hair and is able to walk on her own. When she takes the kid's life force she has more hair and is able to run full speed.

>>213653197
Just go watch it

>>213653197
>he missed cheapy tuesday

>>213653256
yea I went last night. it's really nice having a locally owned theater that does retro screenings and has it's own horror festival. all the horror heads in town know to just go on Tuesday for the new releases for cheap and it's just like a full Friday night premiere

>Undercooked script

Fucking faggie shit is that, you fucking homo?

>>213651282
Witches get their powers from Satan. Are zoomers so fucking dumb they don't know this?

>>213653314
Saw it last night at the Titan Luxe. It's like Hawaiis version of the IMAX. Not as good as IMAX but it was 12 dollars instead of 20 for a ticket. My girlfriend and I have been going almost every Tuesday since the beginning of Summer and we both agreed this was movie we've seen so far. Bring her back was also good and actually had quite a few similarities to weapons...but was less funny and harder to watch

Thanks for reading my blog

awesome album

>>213651150
no, the kids weren't the parasite, that was the aunt and what she represented

>>213640068
this, I don't give a fuck about "elevated" or "thought provoking" or whatever it is you fags complain about, most horror movies are inherently retarded, it's all about how compelling and entertaining they are

This is a premise, not a movie

>>213653077
She couldn't stand when she first arrived

>>213640854
But the foundation of the movie of mind controlled children either has to be supernatural or scientific, it's either a curse, or a machine, or a being...I don't get what the gripe is. If it was the military, people would say that's woke, if it was aliens, people would say that's stupid, if it was a satanic cult, people would say that's contrived. And I like Gladys.

>>213641094
technically she is a pied piper, I would have emphasized her syphoning their life forces though, maybe show one of the kids drained of life

>>213653077
It's like the Dark Crystal and Skeksis. She's draining their essence but it's not enough to fully restore her anymore. She wanted the kid to come with her so she could have a human to use as a point of entry in a new area.

>>213651028
anon, what is an AR? It is a weapon.

Why wasn't she naked?

>>213653896
It would have made more sense if it was like a missile or something similar

Ah willow

I dare one of you to try the spell

>>213640068
>everyone in the theater started cheering at the ending
it was kino

>>213654049
That got a good chuckle out of me

>>213654084
seems you need a special kind of twig or root from a specific plant or tree in order for it to work which I don't have

>>213641646
The witch is trying to remain under the radar, at least as far as the police being involved. Moving 17 missing kids while there are surveillance cameras everywhere isn't easy and she has to prep to do it. Justine is the prime suspect who all the heat is on (and the theme of the movie is a witch hunt, after all), so if she just went missing, then they'd start looking elsewhere for answers and start likely probing Alex and the house again. That's why she used the principal, who she needed to kill anyways since he was going to report to the police, to do a murder-suicide. I also think they had writing constraints, since they have to demonstrate how the weaponizing works, but they can't use the kids since they're in hiding, nor could the kids be shown getting killed. Also Benedict Wong just looked freaky as fuck.

they never revealed who wrote bitch on the whores car

>>213654268
Witch and brolin did

>>213654268
sir, your media literacy?

Am I misremembering hard or wasn't there an X-Files or Millennium episode with this plot? All the kids in one class got up and left their house in the middle of the night and disappeared and the teacher got the blame because all they had in common was them being in her class.

People keep saying brolin was a bully but the paint was pretty random

>>213654299
ARRRGHGHHG WHAT DOES IT MEAN?!?!?!

>>213653521
Kek

>>213653077
It did seem like she was healing, she was much more energetic and her hair had grown back, but they couldn't heal her too much or she wouldn't look scary anymore. She was also using Alex to run all her errands, especially feeding the zombie kids which looked tedious as fuck.

>>213653472
Not ALL witches you bigot

There was absolutely no reason to make the principal gay.
Other than that, good movie.
>>213641060
It reminded me of Yoneda in Yakuza 0

>>213644066
Nepos losing is a good win

>>213654268
why do you think they make a scene about Brolin ordering the wrong paint for that construction job?

>>213654317
he is a bully, or at least aggressive, and his son is a bully

>>213642388
I want her so fucking bad. Those little faces she makes at the cop with her lips when he says he’s single. She did a lot of that in Ozark and fuuuuuuuuck.

>>213654213
>cameras everywhere
>meanwhile none of them were able to record the 17 kids, cop, principle, junkie, dad and teacher walking into alex's house over the course of a month

>>213648142
If I make a movie set in caveman times and have one of them hallucinate an iPhone because it’s about our deep desires as social creatures or whatever that’s still going to look kind of silly.
I know this movie is set in modern times but nothing about it suggest even bringing up AR-15s.
Reminds me of when blackklanssman had conversation about “muh racist president” when it came out in Trump’s first term or how it ended with fucking Charlottesville footage lmao.
At least this was a way better movie, but that just makes the AR-15 hallucination stick out like a sore thumb even more.

>>213644066
Nic Cage as Mrs. Doubtfire putting magic balls in dolls was such a letdown

The witch getting ripped apart by children at the end was straight out of Smiling Friends lmao.
Great movie.

>>213654645
was it a bit jarring? sure. but its a dream, dreams are jarring, they slam different images/sounds/things together. if there is ONE valid medium to have these jarring combos in, its dreams.

>>213654663
yeah hard to imagine what it'd be like with someone other than cage. his meme prowess can be noxious but sometimes results in kino, thought The Surfer recently was great

>>213652789
>>213653143
>>213653148
Between this and Barbarian, the idea of the family structure hiding underlying evils, and the idea of the house being an accursed place where those evils manifest, are interesting. Very insular in the former, which makes sense given it's about more or less incest (and exploitation of the property system), but I couldn't help noticing the emphasis on all the house settings. Justine and the Principal being attacked in their own homes. Paul being confronted by his fiance at home, Brolin depressed in his son's room as well as being a project manager, even the junkie living in his shitty tent, all to parallel with Alex's house being the base. It goes well with the idea of a witch infiltrating your village.

>>213651282
Sounds like just the rituals, otherwise Alex would not gave been able to beat her in the end (unless he also had powers).

>>213652027
Subliminal mind propaganda from the Mac vs. PC ads

>>213654710
Maybe, but it seems like an “I can see what they’re going for and it isn’t working for me” kind of scene.

>>213654645
How do you see an AR-15 in a movie called Weapons about kids and not get that its hinting about? He was trying to be blunt as possible, and it was also to symbolize Brolin being weaponized later. The witch is a metaphor for how people are manipulated and radicalized to the point of violence, and the victims are left as traumatized husks.

>>213655148
>>213654967
I do agree it was pretty heavy-handed though, there was probably a more seamless way to get the same idea across. But maybe he just thought it'd be funny to put a giant fucking gun in the sky.

>>213655148
I mean I get it but I didn’t like that particular visual in the context of the story. The visual itself is cool though.
>>213655191
Reminded me of a CoD zombies mystery box

Why does Cregger make his male characters chuds

>>213640068
based, most /tv/iggers watch a shitty camrip though and will never experience it

>>213654566
There aren't cameras on that street or they'd know where the kids are already, but that leaves her kind of stuck to keeping the kids in that area. She also can't risk a neighbor or passerby happening to see them, the whole town knows about the case. I wish they showed where she hid them though when the detectives came.

>>213655230
Yeah some people in the crowd sounded confused when the gun appeared. I would've had the son pull the gun out on his dad or something instead. But I guess it wouldn't be as symbolic that way.

>>213654725
yeah I like how he just uses themes and motifs as texture without dragging down the vehicle for spectacle and humor. No point trying remake/outdo Blue Velvet but as a genre picture though not all empty calories either. Will be keen to see how that evolves over his career in different forms but it's refreshing for horror and he knows that, see his comments here. >>213648406

>>213655315
I’m guessing she hid them out in the woods somewhere.

>>213648903
>over-consumption
I don't think so but the scapegoat thing is true, it's a literal witch trial, and the fact there's some police corruption thrown in goes to show, most bad situations just need a fall guy to tide it over.

>>213655643
over-consumption is represented in multiple characters, justine, paul and james have drug addictions. the witch has to consume people's life force to survive and will always need more, the principal loves him some hotdogs and movies.

>gay couple shopping for sugary breakfast cereals
>chooses the "Fruity" Pebbles
It's 2025, Zach!