Thread 215639733

I don't get the hype

>>215639733 (OP)
horror movie grading curve

Not everything is about you. Hope that helps.

>>215639733 (OP)
It was great

ending was awesome

>>215639733 (OP)
The movie is a metaphor about LGTB+ indoctrination in elementary schools.

>>215640194
It's a metaphor for school shootings you dumb street shitter

>>215639733 (OP)
What element is Justine? If you can't answer this without thinking, you don't get cinema; you just like movies. This movie made me realize that somewhere after Barbarian, Zach Cregger went from a director to a filmmaker.

On a side note that deserves Reddit spacing, I loved that Paul and James were diametrically opposed to each other like St. Paul and St. James the Just in Galatians.

>>215639733 (OP)
yeah i thought it was garbage too. wasn't scary at all. the director has some weird fetish for making pretend horror movies which are just really comedies but "spooky" like jordan peele ". barbarian was like that too.

>>215640219
In what way?

>>215640309
17 is the same number of victims from Parkland for one.

I found it really interesting she had a twig specifically for stabbing your cheeks and nothing else. I found the story of Alex rather depressing and it felt like misery porn.

>>215640170
it was a reddit ending

I legit asked myself what was the point in making this movie

>>215640449
>ending has payoff
>le reddit ending
kill yourself

>>215640417
Okay, but I'd prefer some analysis regarding the characters and the events.
I mean, the villain is a typical left wing deranged Karen. She is put down by the monster she herself created. She is being pursued by a a White couple. As a matter of fact, family and community play a central role in the film.

There's no talk about incels, bullying or something that points to schools shooting.
At least that's how I perceived it.

>>215640479
Updoot!

>>215640285
She was pointless.

>>215640285
Imagine being an absolute faggot.

>>215640219
No it wasn't

>>215640479
It had payoff but also not a happy ending since the kid's parents are now comatose and the kids are permanently fucked up. Loved it

>>215640219
No it's not. That would be too obvios, chud. The main idea of the movie is that the kids are used as weapons.

>>215640491
>>215640309
>>215640520
Josh Brolin plays a bereft parent who, consumed by grief, becomes obsessed with getting his child back. Julia Garner is the teacher who couldn’t have prevented the kids from disappearing but nevertheless becomes a town scapegoat. The surviving kid is keeping secrets and complicit in the disappearances. Each of these characters is allegorical; the interpretation is up to the viewer.

>>215640532
The old bitch getting ripped to pieces was awesome

>>215640906
>vaguely describe the premise of the movie and common character motivations
>"IT'S AN ALLEGORY ABOUT SCHOOL SHOOTINGS"
umm actually it's about all those kids that were trapped in a cave in thailand.
Josh Brolin plays a bereft parent who, consumed by grief, becomes obsessed with getting his child back (from the cave). Julia Garner is the teacher who couldn’t have prevented the kids from disappearing from the cave but nevertheless becomes a town scapegoat (for responsibility of the children in the cave). The surviving kid is keeping secrets (that got them trapped in the cave) and complicit in the disappearances

i liked it. i went to the movies by myself and a hot chick had to sit next to me because the theater was full mfw

>>215639733 (OP)
You won't meet people irl that like it, only on the internet. Make of that what you will.

>>215641417
Granted I don't have sex. But if I were a sex haver, and I managed to do the sex with a cute girl like Julia Garner, I can't imagine a single scenario where I would wear all my clothes, including my jacket, and have her wear all her clothes, when mating pressing her into the bed. So it was very immersion breaking to see this scene in the film.

>>215641888
Trips of trvth.
>Mfw she keeps her bra on

>>215639733 (OP)

Cregger is lucky that he had to recast four of the leads and managed an upgrade on every one

>Pedro Pascal as Archer Graff, ultimately played by Josh Brolin.
>Renate Reinsve as Justine Gandy, ultimately played by Julia Garner.
>Brian Tyree Henry as Principal Marcus, ultimately played by Benedict Wong.
>Tom Burke as Officer Paul, ultimately played by Alden Ehrenreich.

>>215642064
>Thanos
>Silver Surfer
>Wong
>Han Solo
It was like he raided Disney and got everyone who was sick of green screens.

>>215641183
average narutofag

>>215640519
So imagine being you? Never go full retard.

>>215640219
It's a metaphor for feminism destroying families. Notice that evil enters the home through the woman in the film. Notice that the end result is fewer children. Notice that a witch did it. School shootings and mindless violence against others is a side effect.

>>215640302
I wouldn't say it's garbage, it's moreso the typical horror movie that's not really scary, doesn't have a throughline, and not a single character changes. Garner and Brolin's good performances were basically wasted by the script

Voodoo is not scary. Simple as.

>>215641183
me when someone send me the current location of the nearest jannigger/mod through telepathy

Woah so deep

>>215639733 (OP)
The premise was good.
The trailer didn't spoil too much.
It was a real movie (not some blumhouse production).

>>215642689
The gun spirit felt threatened by children being used as weapon so he offered the dad guidance to uncover the mystery and stop the witch.
NRA be praised!

It is completely unacceptable to have the premise of your script be completely disarmed by the most simple scrutiny.

There is no fucking way in hell that the FBI wouldn't have had the house of the one boy who didn't vanish on 24h surveillance. They would have found out about the zombie parents missing work, the boy buying groceries, and basically the whole scheme in 5 minutes.

>>215641183
me when I'm on a train in britain

>>215643951
Maybrook is cursed and the feds know this.

>>215640219
>>215640194
It's a metaphor about boomers draining the life of America's youth while using them to fight their proxy wars

>>215642689
That entire scene was basically shoehorned in as if didn’t fit into the story at all.

>>215642689
>Movie is called "Weapons"
>Show a weapon
>No actually it has nothing to do with guns at all
What the literal fuck

>>215642738
>>215644270
>>215644239

If David Lynch did it you'd all be fellating him for it

>>215644351
Yes.

>>215641183
I felt so bad for this guy. He was just a nice principal and the only real voice of reason and didn't deserve his death. Also, the feral wide-eyed faces of the slaves when active were surprisingly unnerving.

>>215644412
He was a crust buster, he got what he deserved

>>215644412
He was a homosexual

>>215644351
No. And he wouldn’t do it anyway.

>>215642689
Gee whiz, does this guy have some kind of problem with yacht-sized things?

>>215639733 (OP)
i want to fugg zach cregger

>>215641090
Holy shit you might be on to something

>>215639733 (OP)
It just that all entertainment has such a low bar these days.
Too many characters, including the entire police department being stupid. The time jumping character POVs seemed to be just to add time to the flick. Would have been better without trying to do the whodunit mystery shit. Should have tried to be either horror or comedy. It failed with both.

>>215642689
Oh no, not the AR15 ASSAULT RIFLE! This is so scary!

>>215639733 (OP)
There's a rumor that a neighbors surveillance camera captured Trevor's final moments and that he Naruto ran and dove head first off of his balcony with no explanation.

it was fine

After years of shit something good comes out that basically why this movie is so hype.its a great movie but no masterpiece

>>215641183
/pol/ when trannie mentioned.

>>215641183
Linkara when Lightbringer mentioned.

>>215641183
Mohammad when Zutt is mentioned

I watched Barbarian without knowing anything about it, and that's why I loved it. I wonder what this movie would have been like if I hadn't seen the spoilers about the witch on this forum.

>>215642064
>Justin Long as James

Ok but why does the witch make them run like Naruto?

on its own it pretty average. but I think the whole conspiracy angle some are pushing with it kind of makes it spookier

>>215641183

he needed to work on his naruto run

>>215646135
They're not naruto running, just to their sides at 45 degrees. If anything i'd assume it's more a reference them acting like "heat seeking missles" as brolin said.

>>215639766
This, detract 2 points from every horror movie score

>>215640219
Well then it's poorly done. Focused too much on the wrong characters and used the wrong magic system.

>>215642064
The Dad is obsessed with getting his son back or getting some sort of revenge/closure.
The Teacher is a childless alcoholic.
The Principal is a fatass who eats/is involved with food in all of his scenes (except possessed).
The Junkie is a junkie.
The Cop is an alcoholic who relapses.

the extra perspectives added nothing and took what should have been a solid 9/10 horror movie down to a 5/10

the giant AR-15 looked like a unity asset.

>>215639733 (OP)
It affirms my political beliefs *claps like monkey*

>>215639733 (OP)
best scene in the movie

>>215639733 (OP)
Yeah, me neither. Everyone acts like this is the best horror movie ever when it's just an okay horror movie.

>>215639733 (OP)
I really liked this a lot until it went fully nihilistic

>>215640417
>Reaching this hard
There's like hundreds of school shooting to choose from, literally any number works

>>215646012
All movies are better when you know nothing about them before watching

>>215639766
This. The bar is in hell when it comes to horror. Same with comedies which is why they all died off.

>>215642440
>not a single character changes
Get off this board

>>215643951
That is a perfectly valid criticism however there is always a certain suspension of disbelief we need to apply to horror movies like Nightmare on Elm Street (why aren't the cops guarding the surviving kids) Or even Friday the 13th (why do they keep reopening the summer camp).

>>215649591
Only real niggas got this reference

>>215646012
I didnt know anything going in and it still sucked.

>>215639766
>>215646311
yep. saw it last night, was pretty great as a horror movie, decent enough as a regular movie

>>215642689
This was definitely the worst part of what I would call a good movie. That dream sequence did not have to happen at all. Why did it even happen? Was the witch fucking with him or did the director run out of ideas on exposition and put this in?

>>215652659
I must be one fake nigger then

Have you seen the shit we had for "movies" in the last 10 year?
Weapons was really fucking good for a 2025 movie. It was okay/decent for a 2015 and before movie.
And Julia Garner is very ugly-hot in it.

>>215653433
Alcoholic Julia Garner owes me hungover sex and cuddles

>>215639733 (OP)
The reception it got is honestly bewildering. If it were just fun or creepy but not feeling like it really stands out in the genre that would be one thing, but it's not even fun or creepy. It's boring.

>>215652600

nitpicking plot holes is what zoomers think film criticism is and it's so tiresome

>>215652974

Seemed like misdirection. Like the director wanted you to think this was leading to be commentary on school.shootings.

>>215649591
do americans really just wear their shoes indoors all the time?

>>215641183
>Dattebayo!

>>215639733 (OP)
I was expecting something auteuristic, so the movie being a borderline comedy was a surprising treat.
>>215652974
It was worth it for Josh Brolin's, "WHAT THE FUCK?!"

>>215653158
https://youtu.be/MRh91b74zTU?si=gOSKqLgcSzWn8ZW-

>>215653723
True, funniest part of the movie