Weapons (Zach Cregger, August 8, 2025) Movie • Page 23

You sound like my wife

 

The series of events that led to the circumstances under which I watched Skinamarink are too mundane to drone on about in this thread, but basically I watched it completely alone in darkness and silence while temporarily living by myself on a mattress in the kitchen of my completely empty (no furntiture, lamps, curtains, etc - like literally backrooms/liminal spaces type shit) childhood home. I get how that movie did very little for some folks but it sure did a number on me. It is the only time I’ve ever had to rewatch a movie the following day in a different setting just to trick myself into associating it with something else lol. Played it on my phone at my desk the next day at work

Otherwise yeah the aforementioned head banging scene in Hereditary got me real bad. The way it lets you assume she’s pounding on the door with her fists before smash cutting to that shot is just so intense

 

Lights off, sound up is THE ideal way to get Skinamarink'd for sure

 

I have eddington and sinners above this for the year I think.

 

Eddington's probably my #1 right now. Sinners and this are neck and neck for 2.

 

For a sec I thought, oh shit Conan O’Brien was chasing her

 

Saw a video point out that apparently in the script, Cregger’s reference point for the way the kids are running was the infamous Vietnam War photo of the naked Vietnamese child running away. Hadn’t crossed my mind but I definitely see it now

 

I have not gotten to Eddington yet but liked this a great deal more than Sinners, which I liked but seemingly less so than most others

For horror its Weapons at #1 for me but overall I think it’s my #2 behind Sorry, Baby

 

I wondered how they got such tight shots of her maneuvering through the store without knocking anything over. That’s wild.

 

I have this at 9 on my year end list so far. Top ten…all movies I liked.

1. Eddington
2. Friendship
3. 28 Years Later
4. Sinners
5. Eephus
6. Black Bag
7. The Shrouds
8. Mickey 17
9. Weapons
10. Warfare

 

At the 3 spot for me, at the moment.

 

This rocked

 

eephus and black bag are great, Mickey 17 not so much.

 

I don't even know if I could put together a top 10 right now. There's been a lot of good to great movies, but I know that will get shaken up in the great "Dash to watch everything in November and December" awards rush.

Bottom 3 are definitely "War of the Worlds," "Death of a Unicorn" and "I Know What You Did Last Summer." I never saw "Opus," but that sounds like a contender.

 

I wouldn’t be able to put together a top 10 either. Right now, I’d probably put Sorry, Baby at number one? But I haven’t really seen anything released in 2025 that has really blown me away yet. I also get confused about what even counts and doesn’t count as a 2025 release so I just go by whatever Letterboxd has listed as the year.

 

Yeah I’ve slept on quite a bit due to it just being a busy life year for me. I keep a running annual list each year on Letterboxd, currently it only sits at 21 movies and I really only loved like five of them

 

Can confirm that Opus is terrible. Worst thing I’ve seen this year.

 

The official WKUK channel just posted this 2 days ago lol

 

Even though I like Pedro Pascal, Josh Brolin fit the part way more.

 

Black Back rocked.

 

Opus isn’t terrible just was a let down.

 

I liked Malkovich's performance and the production design. Everything else? Not great.

 

before i saw the movie, i saw the originally planned cast list and was kinda bummed bc i prefer several of the original actors to those in the final cast

then i saw the movie and now im wondering how some of them were planned any differently to begin with