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Whoa! What a fucking head bender of a movie this was. It sucks you in right from the beginning and just gets more intense as it goes a long.
It does leave a lot of questions unanswered but it sure is worth the ride!
That ending. I was laughing my ass off!
HAHA yeah the horde of the little buggers just trashing everything.
The ending was so satisfying seeing her getting ripped apart and the kids getting drenched in blood.
It was the crone’s realization and ohshitohshitohshit that cracked me up. And yeah, just desserts are sweet!
Fucking blows my mind that one of the WKYK guys made this. I guess if you had a comedy troope in the early 2000s you make horror movies now.
The pacing and, I want to say, editing style is so oddly familiar to me when I was watching it. Plus the ending. It feels like a WKUK sketch with budget lol
I didn’t realize it was them, until you pointed that. That it is made by a once comedy troop does not surprise me at all. I list comedy as the toughest type of TV and movies too make. So if you are good at comedy you can easily transition to drama and other genre,
I failed to see the appeal in this movie. Sure, there were a few funny scenes, but the overall flow of the movie was just a snooze fest for me. I generally dislike seeing the same events multiple times from different perspectives, so that might be why I feel like that.
That said, I'm really glad for any originality in new movies and people seem to like this one. You can't please everyone I guess.
It was more about the metaphor I believe. It was kind of obvious.
So proud of my boy Zach from WKUK for this. It was written following the death of Trevor Moore, and showed the various responses to grief.
I loved the 7 hotdogs reference.
As soon as I saw all those hotdogs I was like "what the hell that's so many-... OH nice lol"
I think he failed by not putting any Baked Beans character in it.
Baked beans would be too sexy for a mainstream release.
Director is a founding member of WKUK, hence the hot dog scene. So funny
There were so many little WKUK jokes in this movie, I loved it.
The whale tail on the classroom whiteboard in the beginning of the movie jumped out immediately lol.
The first half of the movie was a masterpiece, the second half was just not interesting at all.
This! Some of the best suspense I have experienced in a while on the first half, on the second half the whole thing falls apart and becomes assinine.
The gun over the house in that one scene was so weird and out of place.
I thought that part was great, captured the vibe of that sort of dream and foreshadowed that character later developing a mental model of what was happening to the victims. Seemed like a realistic depiction of how dreams can be involved with how we process things where it seems like mysterious nonsense in the moment but comes together later.
In an interview with The Big Picture Zach Cregger said he just saw that shot in his head and really liked it and thought it worked well so they included it, wasnt really because of anything but I was curious as to what it meant also.
Yeah that one lost me. I haven't figured out the symbolism,.
The symbolism is the studio saying they dont want a school shooting allegory, or at least dont want it driven home so hard.
Zach Creggar's other movie, Barbarian, is also a freaky ride. Glad you enjoyed Weapons, definitely one of my faves this year.
OH WOW! I didn’t realize Barbarian is made by the same guy. It is now top of my list to check out next.
Don't look up ANYTHING about it other than like, a 1-2 sentence intro summary. Just buckle up and have fun.
Lots of great scenes in this movie, but my favorite is Brolin’s WTF when he woke up from his nightmare. So realistic lmao.
Everything the Brolin character did was excellent, the first time we see him at home he is sleeping in his Son’s room. The amount of grief that illustrated was great.
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I think my favorite was looking directly into the face of a man mindlessly murdering his husband, and remembering what nice people they both were.
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My only complaint was that it was sold to me as a horror. It’s horror in the same way Army of Darkness is a horror movie.
I thought it was a great horror film. There's enough there to be spooky but it's not over the top with jump scares and other genre specific tropes.
Agreed it was more of a Thriller to me. I guess it could be labele d as a horror thriller.
I was horrified
It's significantly less silly. I think it walked the line perfectly because it set the vibe and then subverted it quickly and intentionally. Armies of Darkness plays as comedy from the start, while weapons is brilliant pastiche.
Yeah, agreed. I was just trying to think of horror that isn’t scary. Weapons was a lot of fun. Unlike something like The Ring, which scared me to death.
See, I have never really thought any horror movie has actually been scary. Spooky, sure but the ones that take themselves too seriously just feel try hard, as I struggle to suspend disbelief sufficiently to be properly scared. I love movies like weapons specifically because of how it validates that instinct. The scariest things about this world are often also ridiculous or absurd, so movies which manage to capture the intersection of that conflict really hit home for me.
I don’t generally get scared, but there have been a few that have genuinely scared me.
The Conjuring, The Ring, Sinister, The Descent and Paranormal Activity are all the movies that have genuinely scared me. Outside of Sinister, I’m not sure any of those would scare me a second time.
Great movie, saw in theater knowing nothing about it going in.
I did have to laugh at the Naruto running though
Not sure if its true, but I heard it was inspired by the famous photo of a Vietnamese child running naked in the streets after the village was napalmed.
Oh wow that is wild!
What do you all think the meaning of the AR above the house in the dream was? I read an article that suggested the movie could be partially commentary on a community response following a school mass shooting.