Weapons
Weapons
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!
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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.
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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
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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,
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Zach Creggar's other movie, Barbarian, is also a freaky ride. Glad you enjoyed Weapons, definitely one of my faves this year.
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OH WOW! I didn’t realize Barbarian is made by the same guy. It is now top of my list to check out next.
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Don't look up ANYTHING about it other than like, a 1-2 sentence intro summary. Just buckle up and have fun.
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Lots of great scenes in this movie, but my favorite is Brolin’s WTF when he woke up from his nightmare. So realistic lmao.
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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.
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The gun over the house in that one scene was so weird and out of place.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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It was more about the metaphor I believe. It was kind of obvious.
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Director is a founding member of WKUK, hence the hot dog scene. So funny
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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.
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Great movie, saw in theater knowing nothing about it going in.
I did have to laugh at the Naruto running though
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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.
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Oh wow that is wild!
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That is exactly how the movie feels like to me.
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That makes sense ! I shouldn't poke fun but let's be honest it was kind of funny.
Thats a cool tidbit though
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OMG it really was a great movie.
Julie Garner is one of the best.
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The first half of the movie was a masterpiece, the second half was just not interesting at all.
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This! Some of the best suspense I have experienced in a while on the first half, on the second half the whole thing falls apart and becomes assinine.
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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.
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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.
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I never heard of this movie and i thought you're shitposting with that poster, now you piqued my interest!
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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.
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I loved the theme music for the homeless guy.
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Hmm, I didn’t catch it. I need to rewatch it and absorb that.
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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!