Weapons (Zach Cregger, August 8, 2025) Movie • Page 24

pedro could have worked but i really like brolin in this. love renate in several other things but unless the character was written completely differently idk how she would have played justine. and brian tyree henry is one of the best actors alive but i have to imagine that part changed significantly once alden got attached

 

Wait I read that Brian Tyree Henry was going to be Principal Marcus and was replaced by Wong; and that Tom Burke was going to be Paul and was replaced by Alden.

 

I literally haven't been able to stop thinking about this since I saw it, I really want to see it again

I can't find it now but Cregger said in an interview that he already has a finished script for his followup to Resident Evil that's going to be an original sci-fi horror and that sounds amazing

 

Yeah, he said on The Big Pic Pod that it’s an original story that takes place in Resident Evil. He said if he didn’t get the IP, he would have figured out a way to make it regardless. He was a big fan of the game and hasn’t seen any of the movies.

He also said it’s nothing like Weapons or Barbarian and that it’s a straight-up blockbuster.

 

I missed the "scariest movie" discussion, but I like that both Hereditary and Skinamarink were mentioned. All things considered, Hereditary is the scariest movie I've ever seen, but Skinamarink is the most scared I've been watching a movie, if that distinction makes sense.

One movie that I never want to see again is Possum. It's not scary, but it's the most unpleasantly creepy movie I've seen. Everything about it made me feel terrible in a way that I couldn't quite put my finger on. Just a very ugly and oppressive film, which I mean in a complimentary way.

 

I just went in for Weapons round two and, yeah, this movie is close to perfect. If the plot seems a little messy on first watch, the second watch cleans up a lot. I kept having questions at the beginning of the second viewing that I forgot the movie answered and I felt satisfied with all the answers (like how Gladys hid the kids when the house was checked on).

It's also so interesting seeing how Gladys's plan is failing the whole time. Heck, the kids being summoned in the first place is because her plan is failing, and she flat out tries to leave by the end. She's not an untouchable force, she's a dying woman acting out in desperation. One of the best villains I've seen in a long, long time.

I don't see this getting Oscar buzz, but I do hope it gets a Best Original Screenplay nod. Cause after this viewing, I think it might be the tightest horror screenplay I've seen since Get Out.

 

Omg I didn’t recognise that James was played by Austin Abrams. Or that Paul was Alden Ehrenreich. I’m kinda glad I didn’t know they were in it bc I really liked their portrayals and didn’t automatically associate those characters with the actors’ previous roles

 

I brought this up to a friend as well. It’s also very funny that her entire scheme is shoddily hinged on Alex believing her when she says she’ll know if he tells anyone, and not cracking. No security in place, just vibes

 

oh i didn’t see anything in the deadline article mentioning burke but that makes way more sense lol

 

I really liked the original actress in Worst Person in the World, it’s have been interesting to see her in this role. Definitely a different vibe.

 

yeah i mean she's been great in everything ive seen her in but yeah just as the version we've seen in the film i can't imagine her playing that part

 

Every time I see Alden in something he looks completely different because the only thing I knew he was in before watching was Solo. So whenever I see his name my brain just associates young Han and the handful of things I’ve seen since then look nothing like that

 

Rooney Mara was the original choice for Justine and as good as she'd be I think Julia Garner wound up being the right choice because she could have been 27 or 12

 

Lotta 12 year old teachers suffering from alcoholism where you went to school?

 

Yea

 

yeah I only hang out with cool people

 

The sequence that keeps sticking in my mind is the Josh Brolin dream sequence.

I love that they took some extra time to show him actually exploring this conjured dream version of the neighborhood without immediately forcing any scary elements. The delay of the inevitable jump scare allowed for there to be some tension to accrue before the vision of the rifle floating above the house, which was bizarre and iconic and reminded me of details in dreams that are abstract but feel so important or meaningful in an unexplainable way. It also made space for him to have a sincere expression of emotion that he couldn’t access in his waking life which was smart for subverting expectations and getting in some character development but it also just reminded me of doing the same expression of unexpressable feelings while lucid dreaming.

That whole sequence just scratched this primordial part of my brain and reminded me of the experience of dreaming so well that it sticks out as something extra special. The cherry on top was when he woke up, the person next to me said “what the fuck” out loud right before Brolin shouts out “what the fuck” and the entire theater laughed at both the line and the perfect timing of the back-to-back WTFs.

 

that scene was great. the gun over the house made me scratch my head though. now that i think about it more, maybe it was

 

https://theplaylist.net/josh-brolin...g-avatar-villain-role-james-cameron-20250811/

According to this, “Sicario 3” is gestating

 

That's an insane spread. Who decides to get eat the seventh hot dog?

 

And why only four cookies if seven hot dogs? These are the real questions.

 

A less competent prop master would have gone full psycho mode and ran one line of mustard like a serpentine across all seven dogs. Gotta appreciate the controlled chaos

 

Pretty easy “plot hole” to discredit: the couple clearly started with 8 hot dogs 100% across but quickly realized that, with the perfect 50/50 organization of the two dips and the chip bullpen, the space for dessert could only be spared from the hot dog row. So, they sacrificed one hot dog space to free up room enough for max 4 cookies to sit comfortably. It didn’t take me out of the movie at all to process this in real time in the theater.