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.
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.
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.
The gun over the house in that one scene was so weird and out of place.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
I see them a lot on Lemmy
Click me to see more
The triple colons don’t work for me, so whenever people use those it just shows the contents directly. Whereas >!spoiler!< shows up as:
An idea to test:
!>! Does this work? !<!<
Firefox Mobile:
Sync:
I don’t know what the rules are to make this shit work.
Interesting! So now I was curious and had to look it up. Here’s the GitHub issue. It seems they can’t agree on a default for inline spoilers (like from your ff screenshot) and now there are a ton of different options with limited support.
But it also reads like the drop-down spoiler with the ::: is the default for Lemmy in general and the issue with these come from your app/frontend. Here’s also a post on Lemmy about this issue from 2 years ago. Seems things haven’t changed since then :/
I made another edit to my original comment attempting to use that syntax, and it actually does work on Sync (although it looks a little weird), but it doesn’t work on Voyager or the mobile site. Curious how it looks on your end and what the problem is with it.
e: Now it’s working on all three even though I didn’t change anything. ???
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.
Another poster in this thread pointed out that it was made by the guys who made/where the Whitest Kids U Know. I am not familiar with their work, but it doesn’t surprise me that a comedy troop/writers did well at this.
It is like the saying if you a make it in New York you can make it anywhere. If you can make it in Comedy you can make it any genre.
It’s also funny that in WKUK they always struggled to make good endings to sketches, and Zach NAILED it here. Very WKUK-type ending.
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,
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.
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.
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.
I wasn’t sure that I wanted to watch this but now I definitely want to watch this
There’s a few jump scares. Other than that it is a lot of fun! Very well made also.
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.
It’s not what I’m looking for when I go to a horror movie. There’s a few jump scares, but that’s mostly in dreams, which I don’t count.
It is pretty unique. I’m not a huge horror fan in general though so it was right up my alley.
I was horrified
Agreed it was more of a Thriller to me. I guess it could be labele d as a horror thriller.
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!
HEHE, I shit post a lot but not about movies and TV shows. The poster is spot on for this movie. many parts seem comical in nature but they are off the hook messed up.
It’s absolutely crazy to me that you didn’t hear about this movie.
I’m only aware of movies that’s being posted here as i don’t have any other social media and i avoid ads like a plague.
I’m the same way and regret nothing. I have personal social contacts and YouTube reviewers who recommend plenty of content. I go into movies without any knowledge or expectations and love it.
One of my favorite experiences is starting the Substance, thinking to myself how pretty Demi Moore is and admiring her as an older woman, and then gradually learning what the film is about.
That sounds terrible. Using only a single source, and one so very limited.
I’m not a movie buff so i’m not too worried about it. It’s also helps that i don’t like cinema experience, and this way means the one that i heard is always the cream of the crop or at least very fun to watch.
I loved the theme music for the homeless guy.
Hmm, I didn’t catch it. I need to rewatch it and absorb that.
