>>218410235
We talked about it when it released. I was very surprised that Zach Cregger was an actual filmmaker and not just a director. Then I learned David Fincher worked with him to teach him how to edit and Zach actually listened. Then I wasn't so surprised anymore.

Truly a great film. There's so much to analyze. I hope the community is revisited so we can get an answer for why the Feds didn't get involved with 17 missing children.

Also, fuck witches. Hamnet and Weapons should have had the same climax. Total witch death now.

>>218410235
We didn't talk about it because it was fucking trash.

>why is no one talking about this movie?
horror/mystery is really not that popular as people here might think and you are quite late to the party (incels don't like to hear this but most things only have value at release when it's still fresh and relevant, nobody is waiting for your lazy ass to watch it a year later and expect some live discussion)
I still enjoyed it tho, it taps into different things like psychological horror, is there anything scarier than an angry mob of midwits ready to lynch someone just because they need a scapegoat?

>>218410351
you are the midwit

>>218410345
This. True horror comes from shit that’s plausible, not ‘muh witch did it with magic powers’.
From the position of a horror cognoscenti, ‘Weapons’ is as spiritually and morally vapid as Sharknado.

>>218410367
try again without the ad-hominem

this place is full of fucking chatgpt bots lmao. OP can say something retarded or jocular and you will still get plenty of people talking talking with a straight face as if it really happened

The ending was dumb and felt like a reshoot that undercut the whole story/allegory. Directors lately are dangerously afraid of an unhappy ending and it is ruining horror.

>>218410235
it's shit, and was also substantially changed to make it more commercial.
all marketing zero meaning.

>>218410310
Speaking of witched, The VVitch should have ended exactly 2 minutes earlier than it does. It turns a mid-tier movie into a fucking masterpiece if you just cut from the walking into the forest" shot to credits.

>>218410235
The plot revolves around the cops, really the entire country, not actually giving a fuck that the kids went missing. All the kids did was run out the door straight to the house, the dogs would have found them, anyone could have figured that out in no time if they actually tried.

>>218410351
>anything scarier than an angry mob of midwits ready to lynch someone just because they need a scapegoat?
Nothing was going to happen to her
>>218410235
It wasn't that good, they could have fixed some stuff and added more horror before release

>>218410534
Wrong and dumb, go back to playing video games

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>>218410235
>hidden gem

>>218410235
I liked it until the ending. The ending reminded me of the ending of Dennis the Menace, which I like but that's an entirely different kind of movie

>>218410403
You sound like an enormous fag.

>what if kids... but le evil?
trash

>>218410798
But enough about Village of the Damned and Children of the Corn

>>218410524
seething midwit

>what if we took a creepy premise and made it the most boring predictable shit ever

>>218410235
Yeah it's a great flick. I enjoyed it a lot.

>>218410235
I loved it. Just an all-around great time. Comic bits in movies usually fall flat but that WKUK spirit shines through.

It was extremely popular depiste being shitty film.

>>218410235
because it's irredeemably shit

it was one of the most talked about films of 2025

The suspension of disbelief is too much for me with this flick. It's no better than capeshit.

>no one bothered to search inside the house of the only kid that didn't go missing with the catathonic parents
what a stupid ass resolution

>>218410235
I feel like all the criticism of it are retarded manchild tier nitpicks “DAT DOESNT MAKE ANY SENSE”

>>218413733
But they did search the house, which is why Gladys was going to leave town with the kid

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>>218410235
>"hidden gem"
>got astroturfed from day zero on
>earned stellar reviews and a ton of money
>launched Cregger's career in the fucking stratosphere
>hidden gem

With that out of they way, I turned it off after 20 minutes or so. Boring slop.

>>218413813
It’s a shame Sherry didn’t get them out in requiem like she did in 6. I guess there’s always the dlc

>>218410468
Zach said the original ending didn’t test well so he changed it. Can’t remember exactly what it was, but it was more grim than what they ended up doing. At least it wasn’t really a happy ending.

>>218413848
The classy look is much hotter anyway.

>>218410351
>is there anything scarier than an angry mob of midwits ready to lynch someone just because they need a scapegoat?

Yep, a child being forced to be an adult, and to care for adults, with suffering and death as the consequences. You must be a child yourself, not to see it.

>>218410235
I liked it, but it's a movie that becomes less interesting and less ripe for discussion after you've seen it and everything is explained. Arguably it's less than the sum of its parts

not hidden in any way
also not good
very obvious they had a fun/humorous ending and worked backwards from there, making a shitty pointless movie with no scares along the way
literally want to see
>what timmy gon do?
he is underrated in wkuk

>>218410235
I hope Resident Evil has a reference to the Slow Jerk the way Weapons referenced 7 hotdogs.

>>218410235
It's not as great as that. It's an okay watch with an okay plot. The way the storytelling is done is quite simplistic, which may be charming in a way for some. For others like me it can feel like things were brought to an abrupt end and we're left without answers. There isn't any explicit explanation we get as viewers.

>>218410468
>>218413880
I too wouldn't exactly call it a happy ending given the specific details that I won't spoil for anons here. But yeah, it was also not exactly an unhappy ending. That is a kind of resolution that's reached in the end.

its a witch.... thats it

Why was the Asian principal gay

>>218414402
crust

>>218414402
Because he's asian.

>>218414264
Just remembered, the original ending didn’t have the narration, it was just Josh Brolin picking up his kid and walking away as it cut to the credits.

>>218414402
So they could have the hotdog scene.

>>218410456
This is all of 4chan really. You can just make any statement in the OP and people will act like it's true.

>>218414445
I can see why people didn't like that ending, although I wouldn't be surprised if they had ended up liking it. This movie is the definition of average, in no particularly disparaging meaning of the term. Just very basic in all aspects and meant to be appealing to a wide group of people.

>>218410235
It was talked about tons when it came out like a year ago
My main issue with the movie is it falls apart if you think about the premise for one minute. The cops would immediately get a warrant and search the homes of the two common threads on the case, being the teacher and the one student in the class that didn't go missing. And spoilers, it's case closed within 24 hours if they do that
Besides that, it is a well directed/shot/acted movie, and creative. But like most mystery box stuff the answer to the mystery is disappointing and it needs to forgo common sense a little too much to make the premise work

>>218413786
they didn't check the underground with the almost 20 kids simply standing there, and thus ending the scheme inmediately

>>218414264
>storytelling is done is quite simplistic
>There isn't any explicit explanation we get as viewers
I don't think you're qualified to make judgements about the quality of storytelling.

>>218410235
this movie sucked. its scariest part was a jumpscare and half of the movie doesnt move the plot in any meaningful way or in a way that pays off. i would say zach needs to stick to sketch comedy but i doubt he would even be as funny. he 100% has trolls remorse going off the wkuk streams before trevor died

>>218415334
not that anon, but Weapons sucked ass
no scares
no interesting characters
it's just a witch, and a boring one
the somewhat fun 'children kill the bad lady' ending was the only entertaining part, and in hindsight was just kind of dumb
movie did not benefit at all from the multiple timeline/perspectives
it was just bad

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Looking forward to the threads when Resident Evil releases.

It was the definition of mid. There was no point of the druggie's story, it was literally padding.

>>218415291
Did u actually watch the movie?

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I thought Julia Garner's character was one of the more realistic alcoholics I've seen in a movie. The functional kind, not the constantly shit faced in public kind.

>>218414402
Perhaps the brutal head crushing kill would have been seen as too off-putting if it was done to a wife instead.
They didn't want to make people think of real life domestic/spousal violence, and there's kind of a sad double standard where you don't think of it as much if it's a gay couple

>>218414402
The weapon he chose to wield was unconventional.

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>>218410235
talked about it plenty when it came out. best horror movie I've seen from 2025.

>>218415291
>the underground
>simply
>scheme
Saaars we are in presence of ceo! Giving the curry and poo flakes benchod

>>218414544
OP has a 13" penis and a harem of women bound in his basement

[Spoiler]I would know - I'm one of them

>>218410716
even an enormous fag is right twice a day

>>218415903
I'm going with this. They still play into the masculine and the feminine as the principle has a Mickey Mouse shirt and his fella has a Minnie Mouse shirt and it is the one in the Minnie shirt that invites the evil into the home (because this is a deeply Christian rooted movie, after all.)

>>218410235
It's not good. It's not funny or scary. The atmosphere is wrong for either, it's not even clear it's supposed to be either. The broken narrative serves to limit suspense. Too many characters so you don't care about anyone, basically a major problem with all post diversity checklist products. The plot itself doesn't make sense as far as not getting caught immediately.
Oh yeah the cop getting stabbed by needles was funny.

>>218415334
I think I am. I don't think you are qualified to assess criticisms of things you like maybe. There's a difference between storytelling that lets the viewer do some of the work and put together pieces of the puzzle, and what you see with Weapons. Where the story is simple (not much of a puzzle to solve there) and progresses in an easy to understand way without any explicit explanations, and which leaves you as the viewer with an unsated curiosity that had been building up since the start. Nothing is explained, no answers given, we learn nothing about Gladys or what exactly she had been doing or what her backstory is. The movie expects it to be self-evident and expects that level of depth, if you can call it that, to be enough for the viewer. So it leaves it there instead of building upon it, and that's what makes the movie simplistic. The format and storytelling is similar to what you'd see in children's bedtime stories that are supposed to start and end in the span of 10-15 minutes. They aren't supposed to be complicated. The stage is set, and the problem in the story arises and is then resolved shortly after. The story isn't fleshed out in any way, it's simple and basic. And that may well be something you like and enjoy, I already stated some people might feel there's a charm to things being simple like that. But it's not my cup of tea.

>>218410403
No, a witch is fine, but the director has to have some basic respect for the idea of witchcraft and some interest in it, and it has to be written in a way that believably weaves this supernatural evil into a story that takes place in the world we live in. Hereditary, for example, succeeds at this. Weapons doesn't.

>>218410235
Did Trevor really need to be sacrificed to Moloch for this to come out thought?

>>218410235
I fucking hated the Finale "haha a bunch of kids cannibalizing a witch, im sure Jay from RLM will love this!".
If you can't take your movie seriously then why would you expect me to do so? Low-brow trash and at the same time pretentious as fuck "it's like... just like a school shooting, those suburban white people are mindlessly blaming each other instead of sticking together and doing the right thing".

Fuck you movie.

>>218410235
The praise this film got is one of the most confusing receptions a film has gotten in recent memory for me. It was completely unremarkable.

>>218410235
Was there ever any explanation of the gun in the sky or why the clouds on the poster look like a UFO?

I'm watching this rn and I turned it off at the 38 minute mark. It's just boring

>>218419563
It seems "deep".

>>218419653
In what regard, what deepness is it adding to the plot?

>>218419669
It isn't and it adds nothing. It just appears to be deep.

>>218419683
>It just appears to be deep.
How so? Why do you associate shapes in clouds with being deep and what depth of appearance is added with their inclusion?

The only one I see trying to appear deep is you with your retarded descriptions that make no sense, but you feel smug saying it anyway.

>>218419720
Try reaching out to a friend or family member if you need someone to talk to, anon. Take care of yourself.

>poster is just a bunch of kids T-posing

lmao, what kinda dogshit is this

>>218419761
You replied to me, so try actually answering a question instead of just saying retarded nonsense to show off how retarded you are if you think you think you have an answer to a question someone asks instead of just wanting attention for being retarded.

>>218419807
normie kryptonite.
the only reason the movie made so much money is that they thought that image looked intriguing.

>>218419232
The VVitch did it well too. Weapons is just retarded.

>>218410716
I’d rather be an enormous sounding fag who’s right than someone who thinks Weapons is a good movie.

>>218410235
the boy is icsh

>movie so dull that anons would rather bicker about their interpretations of superficial symbology than discuss it
Gladys was a great villain but the ending was super anticlimactic after a slow burn that rivalled BCS. Methhead was unnecessary, could tell they wrote him in just to invent a reason to explore the house from a different character's perspective before the final act.
And they never really delve into the workings of the strange spiky plant. Of course they played the nature documentary on the TV when Gladys shows up at the gaybros' house, but is it a self-propagating organism like the Cordyceps fungus that has selected Gladys to spread its influence, or is its only her bloodline who can use the plant and thus how Alex can use it against her?
There's a whole lot of tension-building between Justine being ostracized and confronted, the dream sequence & the cop's AIDs scare but the jumpscares are foreshadowed and kinda weak, there's no payoff. Feels like a 10 year old's first horror movie, except for the sex & gore.

>>218410235
i started fast forwarding the movie about halfway though and stopped fast forwarding only a few minutes before the end credits rolled.

this movie was twice as long as it should be.

>>218420162
>Methhead was unnecessary, could tell they wrote him in just to invent a reason to explore the house from a different character's perspective before the final act.
No, the whole point of the methhead was so the cop would try to give the teacher AIDS, his wife would find out, and he would get kicked out of his house and need a reason to redeem himself alone instead of calling in backup.

>>218410235
omg are those children running away randomly? argh i'm going crazy!!

>>218419605
I just finished it. Unhinged but not very scary. This movie was hyped as hell before it came out but I don't really see what the big deal is honestly. I could see normies losing their mind over this but for me, it's just Monday.

>>218410235
because only weirdo samefags were making threads for like 2 weeks straight
just made the whole discussion around the film feel disingenuous

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haha your parents are mine, now open the soup

>>218420425
Its just as weird when you samefag how bad you think it is, it just makes your criticisms of the film feel disingenuous for your own personal attention seeking purposes.

Movie was shit
>the cop, the junkie and the principal had barely any connection to the missing kids. Their story segments could have been cut entirely
>Gladys for some reason was putting herself into peoples dreams
>Josh Brolin was onto something with the Ring Doorbell footage. He should have went to as many parents as possible, checked if they had some kind of Ring doorbell/security cameras, then determined which direction their kids were running in. Then took the info to the cops. Instead he did his house, another, then stopped
>annoying narration at the beginning and end of movie, we don't know who this narrator was
>after Gladys gets the kids to the house, she has them run out in the middle of the night because she knows the cops are coming in the morning. WHERE did the kids go? Why did nobody see them? When did they get back to the house?

>>218420550
>Instead he did his house, another, then stopped
You don't need that many point to triangulate something, you only need 3 points, his, the school and the other one which is why he found the house after those 3 and didn't need to keep asking after that.

>>218420572
>You don't need that many point to triangulate something, you only need 3 points, his, the school and the other one which is why he found the house after those 3 and didn't need to keep asking after that.
No, he should have done more. 2 houses could just be an odd coincidence, more data would have helped. If he did 5 houses and all their kids went in the same direction, it would have been a big break in the case. 2 houses wasn't enough to bring to the cops. That's what he should have done. It also would have gotten more parents involved. And I don't get why Justin Long and his wife didn't seem to care. A fellow parent of a missing kid might have a clue and they just don't give a shit? They don't want to check other parents cameras? They don't want the cops and FBI to know? It was so fucking stupid.
And I assume Gladys was using the kids to get better, but she looked the fucking same after the kids were having the life sucked out of them by her or whatever she was doing.

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Why didn't she just mind control Justine instead of sending a guy running halfway across town? She had her hair, the bar for weaponization already seems low cause apparently a kid's hand-drawn name is enough despite her saying she needs "an object from each of their homes".

>>218420675
This too. Why even show her cutting Justine's hair to not even use it? It's amazing how movies like this get praised nowadays. It was mediocre at best with lots of plotholes, but zoomers just buy into any hype.

>>218420616
>2 houses could just be an odd coincidence, more data would have helped
But it wasn't, he had all the data he needed which is why he correctly identified the house they were in.

>>218416190
This was so fucking dumb
>where did the kids go?
>they clearly had to stand still for hours because the cops came in the daytime, and the witch wouldn't have the kids run back to the house during daytime, so it's at least 15 hours
>then they ran back to Alex's house
So with the entire town on edge, Gladys had the kids run out of the house, stay in some magical place where they wouldn't be seen for 15 hours, then run back to the house....all without being seen by anyone

>>218420713
>But it wasn't, he had all the data he needed which is why he correctly identified the house they were in.
Not enough for the cops. They would have thought he was a crazy parent playing detective. But if 5 houses showed footage of the kids running to that area (and Brolin didn't know the house in particular, Justine told him), the cops would have looked into it. And Brolin not going to the cops with this is fucking stupid.

Zach I know you're lurking, good vibe good characters great camera work but you gotta flesh out the plot more my guy

>>218420805
>great camera
This was shit too. Parts of the movie were too fucking dark.

Josh Brolin's kid was the one that threw a pencil at Alex. I'm not sure the purpose of that in the movie.

>>218420827
To make it easier to justify why Alex works take their stuff for his obviously evil aunt: they were picking on him and had been for awhile

I swear to God, it's like you guys didn't even watch this movie

>>218420883
You're a retard. Alex did exactly what his aunt said and took the stuff from ALL the kids in his class. We only see the Brolin kid being the bully. So what was the point? If you bullied Alex or not, your stuff got taken for the Gladys.

>>218420937
You didn't watch the movie

Gladys was awesome
I don’t like how they’re trying to Reddit her tho
We don’t NEED a prequel

>>218420945
>You didn't watch the movie
Explain in detail what I missed.

>>218420955
The second time he got picked on, the two kids following Matthew were egging him on and laughing very loudly about it, enough so Alex could hear. Shall we go on? I just watched this movie an hour ago, I remember it pretty vividly

Weapons? More like Plotholes.

>>218420979
>The second time he got picked on, the two kids following Matthew were egging him on and laughing very loudly about it
Uh, that was the FIRST time. The pencil throwing was the second time. And 2 kids were laughing at the kid being a bully. Okay, so that's 3 kids...out of 17.
>Shall we go on?
Sure, please. So far your reasoning is fucking retarded.
>"Alex justified it because uh, one kid was a bully and two others laughed".
Alex was going to do what his aunt wanted whether he was bullied/laughed at or not.

>>218420675
Because she’s a witch and she wants to be as nasty as possible

>>218421006
Ok

>>218421018
You lost. The bully scenes added nothing to the film.

>>218420979
>tranny is ready to post a whole ass pedo thesis on a seconds long interaction of children
Never beating the allegations.

>>218421033
Lmao, what did I lose, pray tell

>>218421046
>Lmao, what did I lose, pray tell
You responded "Ok" instead of address my counterarguments which proved your arguments were nonsensical.

>>218421049
You really won, anon. Congratulations

>>218421081
>You really won, anon. Congratulations
I don't care about winning. I care about you losing.

>>218421084
I really lost to your superior intellect. Congratulations again

>>218410468
I thought the ending was fine but I feel like the ending it was actually going for would've been too upsetting for the average normie.

>>218415664
I can feel the kino, i'm precumming

Tim Robbinson ruined that kind of movies for me forever.
30 childrens dissapeared, call the national guard doing it by yourself is absolute retardation

>>218422288
The WKUK cuck may have sacrificed his best friend to the jews but he still made a funny feature length skit about gays browns and women not realizing what was happening in a small town
Rest In Power Trevor Zach is still based though he sacrificed you to jewish talent agents and producers.

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>>218410235
I think the most unsettling scene in this movie for me (in a good way) is the scene where the posessed Principal runs across the grass in broad daylight to attack the teacher. You can sorta see his face is fucked up but you can't quite make out the details.

The dream-like vibe of that scene is remarkably similar to some nightmares I've had in the past.

>>218421940
Which is one of the reasons why horror these days is pure slop. Cinema in general, but horror particularly, ought to be challenging - it ought to be HORRIFYING. It ought to make you uncomfortable. It ought to disturb and disquiet you. But now everything is ruined by being test audienced to death. You don't create art by committee.

They didn't run the Wicker Man or the Exorcist through a test panel to see if they approved of it. Several films recently have very obviously been on the receiving end of clumsy studio interference regarding the ending - this, the Running Man and the Long Walk come to mind as well. It's like they don't trust audiences to deal with an unhappy or ambiguous ending.

>>218410235
the naruto running turned this into a comedy for me

>>218422819
The attack in the gas station was a racist dog whstle lol. Some fat ugly gook getting stomped out for attacking a "white" woman by white Chad. Zaxh is a clever man.

I’m so happy witchcraft isn’t real bros

Imagine if some insane old person could just fuck your brain up from afar like that

>>218414402
so the audience will feel more satisfied by the gruesome way him and his partner get murdered

>>218422877
The witch was pedo coded she didnt care about niggers or chinks you racist tranny.

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>>218415903
no such thing as a gay couple, neither of them have a self lubricating vagina. Just like there is no such thing as a lesbian couple because no one has a pork sword

>>218422873
We would be using witches and wizards to snipe political rivals lool

>>218415883
A million percent. As a sober guy who really wasn't fucking sober at one point I appreciated the realism.

"Weapons" was good, but it wasn't great. It's just that 2025 was such an absolutely horrible year for movies that "Weapons" stood out.

If the Academy had any decency, they'd cut the awards show this year to 15 minutes and only give out 2 or 3 Oscars. The rest of them wouldn't be deserved. Not for 2025 movies.

>>218410235
The second half is shit and ruins the first half with glaring plot holes

>>218415883
I thought she was super cute

>>218410468
I loved the ending lol but it probably only hits if you go into the movie blind.

>>218422997
A man and a woman can still be a couple even if some medical condition or disability prevents them from having sex the normal way

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>Justine relapses into alcoholism and has a one-night stand with her married ex-boyfriend
They just can't help themselves

>>218419475
>it's like... just like a school shooting, those suburban white people are mindlessly blaming each other instead of sticking together and doing the right thing".
Schizo here, I interpreted it as hinting that school shootings are MK ULTRA false flags

>>218422873
>>218423061
This
Magic is fucking scary bros

>>218425739
It's not real, don't worry

>>218410310
>There's so much to analyze.
like "why couldn't the police dogs smell the kids?" and "why was the disappearance of 30 kids not national news?"

>>218410235
Dogwater film.
Only first half is watchable
Main actress is unbearable

>>218410235
>why is no one talking about this movie?
Because it was overhyped and completely falls to pieces in the third act.

>>218413880
he never said that

>>218410403
The power of true horror has always been the existential dread of facing forces who are unstoppable and undefeatable and come from another plane of existence that you can not hope to defeat. All horror that has a protagonist who defeats the forces of evil and wins the day is basically just capeshit.

>>218410235
Is this really what normalfags think peak filmmaking is? I heard it being praised but it was literally just a 5/10 dumb horror flick I won't even remember in a few months from now. I mean it was somewhat better than the usual generic slop you get from this genre, but seriously?

>>218419475
same type of unable to room read autist that doesn't get the 3rd act in sunshine

>>218410235
fuck you zach it wasn't worth killing trevor over.

>>218420883
also it was to set up their bully kid/bully parent cliche that was later subverted
Remember most posters on 4chan are.retarded mexicans (redundant)

>>218419563
It's a genius and subtle metaphor, so it's understandable that you didn't get it at first. You see the assault rifle is a Weapon™ just like how the kids are used as Weapons™. Bravo Zach!

>>218420738
It's okay, she put a tarp over them.

>>218426519
i dunno the mars trailer was pretty grim, maybe its for the best.

>>218423788
...how

>>218421084
You were based until here. Its not about winning or losing its about being objectively correct and dabbing on mitwits