Weapons (Zach Cregger, August 8, 2025) Movie • Page 26

this reminds me of that character in It Follows who has that weird clamshell e-reader thing, and they just never mention it

 

Hey I just rewatched that last night

 

A horror movie on a message board and we just cut to different cast members sitting at their desks.

 

In Back to the Future - one of the best Hollywood screenplays ever written, a high school student is best friends with a crazy old scientist and they just go with it.

Sometimes, it’s better to ignore the logic of reality for the sake of the movie

 

They were all Democrats.

 

Why didn’t the state DA file charges against Gladys

 

Regardless of whether it’s a fairy tale or not (fairy tales can still include realistic depictions of humans/society), it’s very silly to see a movie like this and immediately wonder how Reddit would fit into the picture lol. If your brain has to go there, just imagine Justine has been emailed by reporters or approached by some Reddit cop off camera at some point and we weren’t shown the interaction because it was irrelevant or uninteresting

 

They probably would have triangulated where the kids ran to in like 2 days instead of a parent coming up with the idea over a month later.

But for me these movies operate on nightmare logic there’s no need to pick every nit.

 

The most obvious gripe is probably how those kids were able to run from all over the city through yards, driveways, presumably main streets without being detected by a single person or enough cameras to pinpoint the direction they were headed or where they stopped. But it’s like, idk, just pretend there are less cameras/useable footage around or something. It’s fine

edit: beaten to it by a minute but yeah

 

No but for real a r/fauxmoi blind item about a new “IT” girl in town being spotted looking sloppy in grieving parents’ nightmares would have been kinda fire.

 

What was missing from this movie was a 22 year old or 47 year old true crime podcaster who was trying to destroy Julia Garner, exactly what I want from a movie

 

Gladys weaponizing Brolin didn’t make sense to me. Brolin could have given her five Stone Cold Stunners in the time it would have taken her to steal his dog tags, wrap them around the branch, cut her hand, bleed onto the branch, ring the bell, and then snap the branch.

Plus why not just sic the kids on him lol (maybe that’s what she did? Have the kids hold him down or something while she does the spell? But if so, they should have showed that).

Definitely plot holes all over, but I grade horror on a curve since it usually relies on people being dumb idiots. Still thought it was a great movie.

 

I don’t believe in plot holes

 

Technically the kid belongs to him so couldn’t she have just wrapped the kid around the stick?

 

Fucking lol.

 

Going to see this tomorrow night. I'm such a scaredy cat I read the script over the weekend. I think it'll actually be fun to be see how it changed from the page to the screen.

 

A review of Weapons (2025)

 

Bless Sarah Squirm for her spoiler free review.

 

She left the stick controlling the kids upstairs. I think she needed to take them with her and turning them to weapons probably uses all their energy.

 

About to see this again

 

Loved this. My theater audience didn't laugh at all. I can't wait for movie theaters to stop existing

So excited to see what he's gona do with Resident Evil

 

But who is the narrator tho

 

Mickolas

 

Simply wait for streaming if you don’t want to go to the theaters instead of wanting theaters to no longer exist.