Thread 213972435

Weapons is just a popcorn flick. It has nothing interesting to say (unlike Sinners)

>>213972435 (OP)
>Sinners
true but this is the same shit

>7.8 imdb as a horror

I don't believe you

>>213972435 (OP)
Tbf I prefer Weapons to Sinners. Sinners last 1/3 was pretty bad while Weapons builds into a very satisfying finale.

haven't sinners but weapons was a great movie. My entire theater enjoyed it and I got properly tuned up during the movie and it was fucking sick

>>213972435 (OP)
>unlike Sinners
LMFAO this movie was 3/10. the dumbest shit I've ever seen. Fuck your taste

>>213972494
Weapons feels like a magic trick that will not be fun to rewatch

>>213972576
Sinners just isn't fun to watch the first or any successive times

>>213972435 (OP)
>Weapons is just a popcorn flick. It has nothing interesting to say
Yes, and that's perfectly fine, quality entertainment is a reward in itself
>(unlike Sinners)
Lol, no (and I say that as someone who liked it)

>>213972435 (OP)
And what does Sinners have to say, aside from white man bad?

>>213972576
I have never once rewatched a movie or tv show.

>>213973415
giving up your culture to assimilate is zombifying yourself.

>>213972435 (OP)
Sinners was just From Dusk Till Dawn with a hack race allegory tacked on.

>>213974189
No1 demanded any giving up. Ppl don't know how to reconcile multiple cultures lack imagination

I got out of the movie. Was it meant to be comedic when Alex was force feeding soup to people under the witch's spell?

Also was the witch really his aunt? Also why did the dad of that one kid return back to normal the moment the witch died but the kids or Alex's parents did not?

>>213972435 (OP)
That's a good thing. I'm tired of everything being a metaphor for trauma or some gay shit.

>>213972435 (OP)
Why should a film have anything to say?
>>213974189
Unless it's whitey

Finally watched weapons because of all the praise. It was okay. I love brolin and the old lady was solid but the mystery was very weak, tension and atmosphere I expected more, and after the midway point it doesn't even come close to having more scares. At best it's mildly disturbing. Shame because the brolin chapter had me excited. You have to absolutely throw out any kind of realism because the thought they wouldn't have better checked that house or found the kids when they ran out or thought the parents were weird.

>>213973464
Congratulations on being a weirdo anomaly some of us actually like movies.

>>213972494
Said the same thing, I kept thinking they’d lose their way.. go into magic or backstory or any number of pitfalls but they stuck one hell of a landing

>>213972435 (OP)
Sinners was cool until the guy actually started playing music and then the whole movie A24'ed all over itself

>>213974668
I love movies that's why I never rewatch them. It keeps my first impression pure and untainted.

>>213974714
you weren't levitating?

>>213974768
If you really loved a movie you wouldn't be able to prevent the desire to watch a great kino again. Silly to worry about tainting your first take, that displays a flaw in yourself

>>213974768
based anxious kino watcher

Sinners didn't say anything original .weapons was at least unique in its structure and premise, even though even though the payoff wasn't that great

>>213974853
>>213974909
It's not a worry. It's the preservation of a time, a place, and an emotional reaction that can't be replicated with repeat views.

>>213975590
That's like saying I'll never look at that painting again because it won't be the exact same subjective internal experience. lmao get a lot of this anxiety ridden sissy

>>213972435 (OP)
It's fun, but drags along in the middle. Ending is hysterical tho.

what's with people saying this movie is a "comedy" or "hilarious" are people so fucking irony-tinged that they just see humor in everything?
>>213976843
what exactly is hysterical about children being made to brutally attack people and tear them apart? are you a psychopath?

>>213972435 (OP)
It's also like really not what you'd think it'd be from its presentation? It looks like it's gonna be some ultra deep mysterious horror thingamajig but it turns out to just be a fun goofy slasher.

>>213976916
Bro there's plenty of comedic elements throughout

>>213976916
>what exactly is hysterical about children being made to brutally attack people and tear them apart? are you a psychopath?

It was meant to be comedic. Like the soup feeding scene, these are bits meant to be comedic.
The ending where they tear the witch apart as she is shrieking and people are just looking with bewilderment is a reference to Smiling Friend's
https://youtu.be/w2u2CiqWsuw?si=bVj_8lzXz2VyrRd6

>>213976916
It's over the top and intentionally framed so as to get a laugh out of you. How autistic do you have to be to not even giggle a little? Whole theatre was laughing their asses off.

>>213977024
You're first meant to laugh but then you actually see the whole ending situation and realize how fucked up it all is.

>>213976989
there's a few moments of comic relief, yes
>>213977024
>soup feeding is comedic
it's not, it's sad and disturbing that a small child is forced to feed his parents soup under duress, psycho

>>213974390
>Was it meant to be comedic when Alex was force feeding soup to people under the witch's spell?
No...?
>Also was the witch really his aunt?
I don't think so. Since nobody actually knew or met her.
>Also why did the dad of that one kid return back to normal the moment the witch died but the kids or Alex's parents did not?
He was only under her spell for a moment. The others were under the spell for a long term, and suffered long term brain damage from being in a catatonic state.

Two good horror kinos. I'm proud, Hollywood.

>>213976916
getting torn apart by children is the hilarity. imagine dying to a child.

>>213977326
theyre not children though its just a rage virus at that point

The best part was the 7 hotdogs.

>>213977147
>Since nobody actually knew or met her
his mom did. I think

>>213976916
I thought people were overstating the comedy, it was slightly comedic but not that funny. Most of what people say was funny wasn't really funny I just felt bad for them. We're out of touch now, this is what people find funny now.

>>213976933
Barbarian was the same way. It was a bait and switch.

>>213976916
the gas station had me laughin

unrelated do gay couples really wear matching mickey shirts to eat full trays of hot dogs while watching parasite documentaries

>>213977143
A kid feeding soup to his classmates because they are under the spell of an old lady with clown make up borders on the absurd which makes it funny. Him buying all the soup at the store and walking by himself to his creepy house where police couldnt bother to monitor is hilarious. A fucking druggie noticed shit was amiss when he saw the newspapers sitting in the driveway.

>>213977024
The soup scene was not played for laughs.

>>213972564
I'm not sure anon... Sinners was surprisingly good, above average I would say

>>213974768
I do this too, it also feels more productive to watch something new to me than retread my feelings on something I've already seen

>>213972435 (OP)
Sinners sucked, audiences don't need to be preached to. Movies should be fun, all of the best movies are fun to watch and don't contain any or much social commentary. That's why weapons was so refreshing, it wasn't trying hard to be anything other than entertaining.

>>213972435 (OP)
agree

>>213972435 (OP)
It's a really good movie, it doesn't need a deep theme, everything was just done really well. It wasn't trying to be profound so why should I judge it as if it were?

What does Sinners have to say? How easy it is to ripoff From Dusk till Dawn?

>>213972435 (OP)
Would you have preferred it actually be the anti firearm propoganda people thought it would be?

>>213974768
you can have more than one first impresssion you know? you are not the same person than you were when you first watched it (and if you are that's kind of sad desu)

>>213978716
There was not much comedy in the movie aside from the finale. Other than the crackhead scenes and the gay couple eating a big tray of hot dogs I didn't notice any deliberate attempts at comedy, the film is morbid and you're kind of fucked in the head for thinking there was much to laugh at. The ending is only really funny because the rest of the movie has been such a showcase of misery up until that point.

>>213972435 (OP)
>trannies bad
>yt pipo bad
They both have the same message.

>>213972435 (OP)
This movie helped me realize that its good practice to have very distinct character "types" in movies like these since names won't always stick in your brain. When you say
>the teacher
>the father
>the principal
>the kid
>the witch
>the cop
You know which character I mean since there's really only 1 significant role for each of those. Probably pretty obvious for 99% of people but it's something that dawned on me watching Weapons.

>>213972435 (OP)
Hey guys. during the dream sequence... what was with the gun above the house?

A movie can't be good unless its talks about how white men are mean to women and brown people.

>>213980456
>anti firearm propoganda
the giant floating AR15 made me lol

>>213980806
some anon in another thread said thats the best way the father can process whats going on and identify it as "danger" because its above the house of the monster

>>213981707
It was above his own house. It's how he interprets the "weaponized" movement of the people under the control of the witch. An AR15 is the first thing an average American man would think of when he thinks of a weapon.

>>213980870
Is it wrong tho? look at what you just said and tell me this is not a reality!

Weapons doesn't have a three act structure

>>213974639
a fair assessment. i agree with most of this. i will say it was still one of the better movies ive seen in theaters since covid. And aside from the gay couple there is no woke bullshit in the movie

>>213977024
you're autistic, nothing about the soup scenes was intended to be humorous.

>>213976916
There was definitely a lot of intended comedy (I mean James was pretty much nothing but goofball junkie shit to laugh at) but the movie also takes a lot of risks as far as walking the line between goofy and creepy. One scene in particular, when the mom initially walks out of the house with that weird stilted posture, got laughs in the theater when I saw it, which kind of annoys me. It's hard to do uncanny stuff in horror cuz theres always a chance audiences will just find it funny since "horror" to them is a scary demon screaming and tearing someone's dick off rather than anything grounded but unnatural.

>>213983386
usually just nervous laughter anon but yeah

>>213972435 (OP)
>(unlike Sinners)