Weapons (Zach Cregger, August 8, 2025) Movie • Page 7

eastern time

bitch

 

i lied im seeing it friday

 

Oh then i retract the bitch part

 

good

 

Seeing this tomorrow at 2:17 aka 5:15pm

 

unfortunately another lesson in not always buying into the hype for me. just way too long, choppily structured and inconsistent for me to love it. flashes of greatness for sure but for each one there's two just silly/ridiculous moments that completely took me out of it. you could cut the cop character entirely and lose nothing

Cregger has the juice as a director but I am not convinced he's up to much as a writer, this and Barbarian are both a handful of great moments and then paper over the rest with vibes and hope nobody notices. also really wish he'd stop putting Justin Long in stuff!

 

My friend and I couldn’t work out a day to see this together and I have today off work so I’m going to a 2:17 show. Stoked!

 

About to see this

 

I have no clue what this is about besides it's a horror movie with Julia Garner. So I am going in blind.

 

Seeing this tonight

 

I’m mildly worried because the Barbarian crowd seems to be loving this and I think that is an uneven and deeply flawed movie with an all time terrible final 10 minutes. I’m hoping this can hold it together for its full runtime.

I think I joked in here when it came out but no movie embodies the horse drawing meme more than Barbarian.

 

so you love everything up until the tonal shift?

 

I think the first section with Skarsgard is nearly perfect (like that’s one of the best horror movies of the decade). The flashback section in Detroit is solid. After that it just descends into looney toon bullshit that just doesn’t work. The final showdown on the water tower (?) is so tonally at odds with the rest of the final. Found it to be a total face plant.

 

I loved it. Really because the first section could be *any* horror movie…a double booked Airbnb where the other person is a creep. When it goes completely fucking bananas, that’s what makes it special.

 

Pretty much exactly how I feel about Barbarian. Still really excited about this though.

 

That Friday night when everyone in the crowd had no idea what the movie was about but had a feeling it was up to something…. Amazing time at the movies for everyone to laugh in disbelief at once

 

Seated!

 

That fucking ruled

 

Just got out

I think I like Barbarian more but I also love Barbarian so that was gonna be hard to top. I pretty much also loved this, the way it was told is my favorite aspect of it.

Josh Brolin waking up from the dream and going WHAT THE FUCK was so real

 

What a crazy Campbell's Soup product placement

 

I liked this way more than Barbarian

 

I really liked this, but I do have a lot of questions. That's sort of the nature of the thing, but I'll need more time to myself to determine if those questions bother me enough to hinder the full experience.

If the tonal shift in Barbarian bothered you I will say the final like four or five minutes of this are unexpectedly hilarious and I did not anticipate that at all.

 

SO GOOD

 

I loved the ending. When the little kids were ripping the witch apart I had the biggest smile on my face. My audience was laughing. So fun and satisfying.

 

My crowd went ape shit