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!
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.
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.
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!
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.
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,
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.
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,.
Substance abuse.
Are you being facetious? A floating gun over is a symbol for drug abuse?
No, and they've been pretty explicit about this in every interview about it.
The sudden personality changes, the "monster" that takes over your psyche. Multiple characters also have addictions, some illegal, some socially acceptable.
Edit: sorry, early morning misread. The film was about substance abuse, Archer's dream about the floating gun specifically had 2:17 which was when the kids were weaponised. It's a dream couched in crazy dream logic about events.
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.
SPOILERS for the 2025 film Weapons.
Let's see if this spoilers tag works.
e: I think this should work for most people??
Spoilers
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.
You could use the preview of your post to check if it works before posting. It didn't work this time :(
I did. The problem is that different apps seem to work differently, and it's quite frustrating. If I've understood my search correctly, spoilers aren't supported by Lemmy's backend.
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.
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!
That is exactly how the movie feels like to me.
That makes sense ! I shouldn't poke fun but let's be honest it was kind of funny.
Thats a cool tidbit though
OMG it really was a great movie.
Julie Garner is one of the best.
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.
I really don’t know. Clearly the parents and the community is going the same range of emotions that a community that endured a school shooting has to deal with but the floating gun was a bit too on the nose.
I never heard of this movie and i thought you're shitposting with that poster, now you piqued my interest!
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