WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.919 Welcome back to Ripe Avocados. Today we're going 00:00:02.919 --> 00:00:07.259 to review Weapons, directed by Zach Krager. Movie 00:00:07.259 --> 00:00:10.419 of the summer, movie of the year maybe. We'll 00:00:10.419 --> 00:00:29.850 get into it and see what it was about. So the 00:00:29.850 --> 00:00:37.729 movie Weapons, it starts off with 17 kids in 00:00:37.729 --> 00:00:42.090 a third grade class at 2 .17am just decide to 00:00:42.090 --> 00:00:45.310 get up out of their beds, walk out the door, 00:00:45.329 --> 00:00:49.909 and Naruto run down the street. And no one knows 00:00:49.909 --> 00:00:53.670 why. And the whole movie is told from multiple 00:00:53.670 --> 00:00:56.390 perspectives. One from the teacher of the class, 00:00:56.649 --> 00:01:01.570 one from... Thanos, who is the parent to one 00:01:01.570 --> 00:01:04.750 of the children that went missing. One was Doctor 00:01:04.750 --> 00:01:09.170 Strange's sidekick, Benedict Wong, who is the 00:01:09.170 --> 00:01:13.489 principal at the school. And then a cop, a druggie. 00:01:13.750 --> 00:01:16.810 And it's all these converging storylines that 00:01:16.810 --> 00:01:20.890 slowly reveal kind of where the kids went and 00:01:20.890 --> 00:01:24.609 what the whole purpose of it was. Very Tarantino 00:01:24.609 --> 00:01:31.359 -esque, too. they slowly but surely start to 00:01:31.359 --> 00:01:35.700 realize that uh the creepy clown lady that decided 00:01:35.700 --> 00:01:39.140 to show up and down is behind all of the devious 00:01:39.140 --> 00:01:46.900 shit um and honestly the kids end up full blitzing 00:01:46.900 --> 00:01:49.680 her at the end and tearing her apart so in the 00:01:49.680 --> 00:01:53.019 end it was all rainbows and sunshine yeah that 00:01:53.019 --> 00:01:59.250 was probably the least graphic human um Dismemberment 00:01:59.250 --> 00:02:01.390 of all time. Dismemberment I've ever seen, yeah. 00:02:01.569 --> 00:02:05.109 The one that I was least scarred by, but it was 00:02:05.109 --> 00:02:08.550 still really disgusting. Yeah. It was bittersweet 00:02:08.550 --> 00:02:11.110 in the end. So you know how this works. We'll 00:02:11.110 --> 00:02:12.650 do our scores first, and then we'll get into 00:02:12.650 --> 00:02:15.990 the entertainment. So we're going to go high 00:02:15.990 --> 00:02:19.750 here, Sean. I really liked this movie. I went 00:02:19.750 --> 00:02:23.150 8 .6 for entertainment. I went 8 .9 for entertainment. 00:02:24.400 --> 00:02:29.159 I went 9 .0 for characters. I went 8 .7 for characters. 00:02:30.280 --> 00:02:35.520 I went 9 .2 for cinematography. 9 .3. Should 00:02:35.520 --> 00:02:38.379 probably be nerfed because it's a horror movie, 00:02:38.500 --> 00:02:41.460 but whatever. It was so good, this movie. So 00:02:41.460 --> 00:02:44.180 good. Then I went 8 .9 for writing, which has 00:02:44.180 --> 00:02:49.590 to be a horror record. I went 8 .5. Okay. I actually 00:02:49.590 --> 00:02:52.189 just changed it, too, from a 7 .9. That's what 00:02:52.189 --> 00:02:55.310 I wrote down originally. Damn. The second time 00:02:55.310 --> 00:02:57.430 watching it through? Yeah. I watched this movie 00:02:57.430 --> 00:03:00.949 two times, back -to -back nights. And so I got 00:03:00.949 --> 00:03:06.530 a full dose of weapons. But I think we should 00:03:06.530 --> 00:03:08.770 probably just start with our overall reactions 00:03:08.770 --> 00:03:10.830 like we normally do. So you really liked it. 00:03:10.969 --> 00:03:16.659 Why? I mean, first of all, I... Loved it before 00:03:16.659 --> 00:03:19.620 I even saw it. I've seen the trailers so many 00:03:19.620 --> 00:03:22.780 times, the teasers and movie previews online, 00:03:23.000 --> 00:03:26.340 and it just grabbed me immediately. One of my 00:03:26.340 --> 00:03:28.939 favorite movies is Prisoners, right? Little girl 00:03:28.939 --> 00:03:33.240 gets abducted, goes missing. Hugh Jackman's doing 00:03:33.240 --> 00:03:35.240 literally anything and everything to try and 00:03:35.240 --> 00:03:38.479 find her. This movie hooked me in the same way 00:03:38.479 --> 00:03:40.719 with those teaser trailers and the full trailers. 00:03:42.270 --> 00:03:44.169 I didn't know where it was going to go, and I 00:03:44.169 --> 00:03:48.789 think that was fantastic. And it just had a great 00:03:48.789 --> 00:03:52.650 mix of a little bit of horror. I would say mainly 00:03:52.650 --> 00:03:55.349 thriller, though. I would say Weapons is more 00:03:55.349 --> 00:03:58.550 of a thriller movie than a horror, which is probably 00:03:58.550 --> 00:04:01.370 why I liked it so much. But it also had elements 00:04:01.370 --> 00:04:05.370 of comedy. And it's not like, oh, I'm going to 00:04:05.370 --> 00:04:08.150 shoot a joke at you and expect everyone to laugh. 00:04:08.289 --> 00:04:10.449 It's just these little subtle things. Following 00:04:10.449 --> 00:04:13.129 the characters of the cop and the druggie. Like, 00:04:13.189 --> 00:04:16.610 them going back and forth was hilarious. I thought 00:04:16.610 --> 00:04:19.129 Austin Abrams, I believe is his name, who played 00:04:19.129 --> 00:04:24.149 the druggie, he was fantastic. Yes. And I love 00:04:24.149 --> 00:04:29.889 a movie that has multiple storylines. And, again, 00:04:30.029 --> 00:04:33.730 that... what's the word i'm looking for the unreliable 00:04:33.730 --> 00:04:36.470 narrator almost right you're following all these 00:04:36.470 --> 00:04:38.709 people and you're learning more things about 00:04:38.709 --> 00:04:41.350 them as you're following the different perspectives 00:04:41.350 --> 00:04:44.970 and you're like this person isn't so great actually 00:04:44.970 --> 00:04:49.970 so i wonder if they have you know any knowledge 00:04:49.970 --> 00:04:54.310 or maybe they have a play in why these kids are 00:04:54.310 --> 00:04:57.329 going missing but then of course The creepy clown 00:04:57.329 --> 00:05:01.069 lady. Yeah, it's her answer. She's the obvious 00:05:01.069 --> 00:05:04.209 answer. Who would you say is your favorite of 00:05:04.209 --> 00:05:06.629 the five main storylines? So you alluded to him. 00:05:06.649 --> 00:05:09.310 We have we have I'll just this is just for the 00:05:09.310 --> 00:05:13.029 viewers. So we have the boy. Oh, fuck. I can't 00:05:13.029 --> 00:05:16.730 remember. Alex. Alex. Yes. Sorry. Alex. James, 00:05:16.769 --> 00:05:21.149 the homeless guy. Paul, the cop. Archer, otherwise 00:05:21.149 --> 00:05:25.509 known as Thanos. And Rose Lane Moore, who is. 00:05:26.079 --> 00:05:29.620 oh my god how do i not have her name janice something 00:05:29.620 --> 00:05:33.920 right julia garner right but her character's 00:05:33.920 --> 00:05:38.259 name is oh um i think it's janet justine justine 00:05:38.259 --> 00:05:42.500 yeah justine gandy justine gandy okay so out 00:05:42.500 --> 00:05:44.819 of those five which which one of those initial 00:05:44.819 --> 00:05:47.000 five storylines did you think was the best one 00:05:47.000 --> 00:05:52.379 i mean of course following justine is was fantastic 00:05:52.379 --> 00:05:55.819 to me just from a viewing experience it reminded 00:05:55.819 --> 00:05:59.740 me a lot of uh that show outsider the outsider 00:05:59.740 --> 00:06:03.399 with jason bateman on hbo max just because it's 00:06:03.399 --> 00:06:07.379 set in a small town and it's like someone a figure 00:06:07.379 --> 00:06:11.240 in their community that you would want to believe 00:06:11.240 --> 00:06:14.160 and love and like she's taking care of the kids 00:06:14.160 --> 00:06:16.860 like how could it be her but then the whole community 00:06:17.700 --> 00:06:20.680 shifting and especially led by archer who's josh 00:06:20.680 --> 00:06:24.399 brolin's character um being like why the fuck 00:06:24.399 --> 00:06:27.879 is she the only one still here like she has to 00:06:27.879 --> 00:06:31.379 know something so i thought following uh her 00:06:31.379 --> 00:06:34.339 character and seeing all the shit that she has 00:06:34.339 --> 00:06:36.660 to deal with from the community but also from 00:06:36.660 --> 00:06:40.680 gladys the witch lady i thought that was fantastic 00:06:40.680 --> 00:06:44.740 but ultimately the ones i love following the 00:06:44.740 --> 00:06:47.839 most was probably the cop and the druggy I thought 00:06:47.839 --> 00:06:52.560 their storylines were hilarious. I won't say 00:06:52.560 --> 00:06:55.319 they were pivotal to the storyline, but I thought 00:06:55.319 --> 00:06:57.459 it was great to get their perspectives and see 00:06:57.459 --> 00:07:01.279 how much damage Gladys is doing within this community. 00:07:02.500 --> 00:07:06.779 Right. I completely agree with one part of that. 00:07:06.819 --> 00:07:10.560 I loved James. He was my favorite character probably 00:07:10.560 --> 00:07:13.480 in the whole movie. I think when Paul and James 00:07:13.480 --> 00:07:17.790 start their little tango when... when he's arresting 00:07:17.790 --> 00:07:19.750 him multiple times or attempting to arrest him 00:07:19.750 --> 00:07:23.149 the second time it the whole the story picked 00:07:23.149 --> 00:07:25.930 up a lot from that point it was very interesting 00:07:25.930 --> 00:07:29.329 before that but a lot of investigative stuff 00:07:29.329 --> 00:07:34.649 you know rose langmore or oh my god miss gandy 00:07:34.649 --> 00:07:37.449 but we all know her as rose langmore from ozark 00:07:37.449 --> 00:07:40.949 she and josh brolin are doing their detective 00:07:40.949 --> 00:07:44.649 handiwork rose langmore finds the cult house 00:07:44.649 --> 00:07:48.079 or the the house where everything is is deriving 00:07:48.079 --> 00:07:50.699 from very early the one house with newspaper 00:07:50.699 --> 00:07:55.139 over every single window yeah she finds it very 00:07:55.139 --> 00:07:57.600 early josh brolin's also doing his detective 00:07:57.600 --> 00:08:00.160 work and we're figuring out more pieces of information 00:08:00.160 --> 00:08:04.399 then we see the zombified principle principle 00:08:04.399 --> 00:08:08.079 like attack him and then from that point forward 00:08:08.079 --> 00:08:10.660 we're like what the is happening and then we 00:08:10.660 --> 00:08:15.850 see the cop and and the drug dealer or the the 00:08:15.850 --> 00:08:18.129 druggie going going back and forth i just thought 00:08:18.129 --> 00:08:20.470 that that whole perspective was really cool and 00:08:20.470 --> 00:08:22.709 you mentioned the unreliable narrator i mean 00:08:22.709 --> 00:08:26.029 when when james is running from what he thinks 00:08:26.029 --> 00:08:29.649 is gladys what a what an awesome way to tell 00:08:29.649 --> 00:08:31.490 that little little spiel of the story because 00:08:31.490 --> 00:08:35.690 james is just losing his i mean we see him literally 00:08:35.690 --> 00:08:40.190 shoot up um or do some meth like five minutes 00:08:40.190 --> 00:08:44.539 before this camera wise um But it's... Oh, my 00:08:44.539 --> 00:08:47.000 God, man. The way they paced all those storylines, 00:08:47.100 --> 00:08:49.360 there was not one bit of information in this 00:08:49.360 --> 00:08:52.440 entire movie that I thought was unnecessary or 00:08:52.440 --> 00:08:55.940 dulling the plot in any way. Yeah. Like, from 00:08:55.940 --> 00:08:58.399 the beginning, we get that narrator from the 00:08:58.399 --> 00:09:00.519 trailer that we all heard, like the creepy little 00:09:00.519 --> 00:09:04.980 kid talking about how his... I think it's a female, 00:09:05.080 --> 00:09:07.919 but she's describing her classmates leave. Yeah. 00:09:07.919 --> 00:09:10.820 And the one thing I want to... take this to is 00:09:10.820 --> 00:09:13.399 just the marketing of this movie was so well 00:09:13.399 --> 00:09:16.820 done because you're right the trailer was good 00:09:16.820 --> 00:09:20.100 but they hid that one huge piece of information 00:09:20.100 --> 00:09:23.379 from the actual script that we didn't know which 00:09:23.379 --> 00:09:26.700 is that alex is actually the one surviving kid 00:09:26.700 --> 00:09:29.159 in this classroom in the whole trailer you're 00:09:29.159 --> 00:09:32.000 made to believe that nobody else in this class 00:09:32.000 --> 00:09:36.039 is there it's just empty basically and then right 00:09:36.039 --> 00:09:39.149 away a minute in we're like oh okay At least 00:09:39.149 --> 00:09:41.169 that was my reaction to that. I was like, okay, 00:09:41.289 --> 00:09:44.610 this is really going to make me think now. No, 00:09:44.690 --> 00:09:48.350 I completely agree. And also, to your point about 00:09:48.350 --> 00:09:53.610 there not really being a scene that was unwarranted 00:09:53.610 --> 00:09:57.049 or didn't add to the plot, big shout out to Zack 00:09:57.049 --> 00:10:00.110 Greger. I've seen multiple interviews with him 00:10:00.110 --> 00:10:03.549 talking about he storyboarded this whole thing 00:10:03.549 --> 00:10:08.009 and worked with his... uh videographers and cinematographers 00:10:08.009 --> 00:10:10.649 on shooting the whole thing before they even 00:10:10.649 --> 00:10:14.409 shot the movie like they had still images of 00:10:14.409 --> 00:10:16.870 what exactly they wanted to do and he said they 00:10:16.870 --> 00:10:20.570 only probably cut three scenes maybe so they 00:10:20.570 --> 00:10:24.789 really compacted this whole crazy story with 00:10:24.789 --> 00:10:28.350 multiple perspectives into two hours and it was 00:10:28.350 --> 00:10:32.529 incredible yeah and i i agree i mean i think 00:10:32.529 --> 00:10:36.289 zach gregor right now is My second favorite director 00:10:36.289 --> 00:10:39.970 alive. He's done two movies. He's done two movies. 00:10:40.730 --> 00:10:43.090 Barbarian and this, but I cannot stop. Three 00:10:43.090 --> 00:10:47.009 if you include The Fail Miss March. Was he the 00:10:47.009 --> 00:10:49.909 lead director on that movie? I think he was. 00:10:50.309 --> 00:10:53.289 Okay, but was it co -directing or anything like 00:10:53.289 --> 00:10:55.029 that? Because I was looking more into it, and 00:10:55.029 --> 00:10:58.850 it looks like Barbarian was his first one. Maybe 00:10:58.850 --> 00:11:02.330 solo. He might have co -directed with his best 00:11:02.330 --> 00:11:06.470 friend Trevor Moore. Rest in peace. Okay. Well, 00:11:06.570 --> 00:11:10.009 I'm a huge fan of his. And I do want to counter 00:11:10.009 --> 00:11:11.529 what you were saying before. I think this movie 00:11:11.529 --> 00:11:16.190 was just half horror, half thriller. And it's 00:11:16.190 --> 00:11:19.110 just an ode to Zack Greger. I think, yeah, it's 00:11:19.110 --> 00:11:22.870 very involved. It makes you think a lot. And 00:11:22.870 --> 00:11:26.129 there is not any stupid jump scare horror that 00:11:26.129 --> 00:11:29.389 is not necessary in this movie. It's just really 00:11:29.389 --> 00:11:33.419 fucking weird, creepy, but... It all makes sense. 00:11:33.639 --> 00:11:35.960 And all of these characters, we're going to talk 00:11:35.960 --> 00:11:40.120 about them now, their actions in all horror movies 00:11:40.120 --> 00:11:42.100 that we watch for the most part, there's usually 00:11:42.100 --> 00:11:44.519 like one really stupid character that just like 00:11:44.519 --> 00:11:46.259 drives the plot and makes it keep going. But 00:11:46.259 --> 00:11:49.200 in Barbarian and this movie especially, I thought 00:11:49.200 --> 00:11:52.299 the way he made certain characters choose certain 00:11:52.299 --> 00:11:56.279 things was so fucking amazing. So I'll transition 00:11:56.279 --> 00:12:00.720 it now to that, right? The thing that... i thought 00:12:00.720 --> 00:12:04.580 was so amazing about this movie was how how it 00:12:04.580 --> 00:12:07.120 was like right under their nose everyone in this 00:12:07.120 --> 00:12:09.419 town that we're following there's this demon 00:12:09.419 --> 00:12:12.220 house basically in the middle of town literally 00:12:12.220 --> 00:12:14.039 smack dab in the middle they show us a map of 00:12:14.039 --> 00:12:17.820 it like four times there's a demon some crazy 00:12:17.820 --> 00:12:19.899 shit's going on right in the middle of this town 00:12:19.899 --> 00:12:23.299 and who's the first person to see it it's a school 00:12:23.299 --> 00:12:26.980 teacher What does she do? She peeks inside because 00:12:26.980 --> 00:12:29.279 she's like, this is fucking weird. And she gets 00:12:29.279 --> 00:12:33.539 freaked out, drives away, and calls the principal, 00:12:33.740 --> 00:12:36.580 tells him what she's thinking. Like, this is 00:12:36.580 --> 00:12:39.320 weird. Like, one of my students has no lights 00:12:39.320 --> 00:12:41.320 on in his house. All his windows are taped up. 00:12:41.500 --> 00:12:44.940 That's fucking weird, right? Josh Brolin goes 00:12:44.940 --> 00:12:47.019 nowhere near that house until the end of the 00:12:47.019 --> 00:12:50.299 movie. The first person to enter this house has 00:12:50.299 --> 00:12:54.159 every motive and necessity to enter that house, 00:12:54.240 --> 00:12:56.860 and that's James, the homeless guy. And we see 00:12:56.860 --> 00:13:00.659 his whole path of why he even decided to go in 00:13:00.659 --> 00:13:02.960 there, right? If it was pouring rain, would he 00:13:02.960 --> 00:13:05.700 have gone in there? Probably not. If he didn't 00:13:05.700 --> 00:13:08.940 just get clocked in the face for stabbing the 00:13:08.940 --> 00:13:12.480 cop in the face with his needles. Probably not, 00:13:12.659 --> 00:13:15.240 right? He's literally living in the woods. He 00:13:15.240 --> 00:13:17.500 probably would have been totally cool just hanging 00:13:17.500 --> 00:13:20.360 out there. But he had all this weird shit drive 00:13:20.360 --> 00:13:23.919 him towards that house. He goes in it and then 00:13:23.919 --> 00:13:27.259 push comes to shove, right? Then Paul goes in 00:13:27.259 --> 00:13:30.100 there because Paul is going through all these 00:13:30.100 --> 00:13:32.379 other tribulations with his life. And then eventually, 00:13:32.480 --> 00:13:37.039 you know, Josh Brolin and... Rose Langmore go 00:13:37.039 --> 00:13:40.159 back so I thought that was so fucking well thought 00:13:40.159 --> 00:13:42.759 out like I really like James's character and 00:13:42.759 --> 00:13:44.600 Paul like I mentioned before just because of 00:13:44.600 --> 00:13:47.220 how those two guys were both lying out of their 00:13:47.220 --> 00:13:51.100 teeth and they both wanted something to better 00:13:51.100 --> 00:13:53.659 their lives paul was more so just trying to maintain 00:13:53.659 --> 00:13:56.240 the image he had of like a good life like he's 00:13:56.240 --> 00:13:59.799 got a wife he's got a good job his his father 00:13:59.799 --> 00:14:02.659 -in -law is his father -in -law we assume he's 00:14:02.659 --> 00:14:05.379 probably going to be in line to get a good couple 00:14:05.379 --> 00:14:07.639 promotions in that department but he's really 00:14:07.639 --> 00:14:10.000 just a piece of shit like cheating on her doing 00:14:10.000 --> 00:14:12.179 all this stuff but we see we see why i mean his 00:14:12.179 --> 00:14:14.139 wife is kind of annoying or whatever i'm not 00:14:14.139 --> 00:14:18.740 condoning that um but then And James, for the 00:14:18.740 --> 00:14:22.179 same reason, he just ran out of supply. And he's 00:14:22.179 --> 00:14:26.289 like, I need to get high right now. what does 00:14:26.289 --> 00:14:29.649 he do he starts trying to accumulate as much 00:14:29.649 --> 00:14:32.830 money as he can and i mean that that opening 00:14:32.830 --> 00:14:35.450 shot where you switch to james's perspective 00:14:35.450 --> 00:14:37.769 because you see him earlier in the film like 00:14:37.769 --> 00:14:41.509 trying to haggle justine for like opening the 00:14:41.509 --> 00:14:43.549 door like hey i just need like enough money to 00:14:43.549 --> 00:14:46.370 get a bus ticket to go see my sister or some 00:14:46.370 --> 00:14:49.049 yeah but the first scene you see from his perspective 00:14:49.840 --> 00:14:53.039 him calling his family, asking them for money, 00:14:53.080 --> 00:14:56.580 while constantly trying to open car doors as 00:14:56.580 --> 00:14:58.399 he's walking through the neighborhood. It's perfect. 00:14:58.960 --> 00:15:02.000 Yeah, and I like, too, his interaction with Rose 00:15:02.000 --> 00:15:05.179 Langmore, too, where he, I just think his character 00:15:05.179 --> 00:15:07.820 was really innocent, and he wasn't creepy or 00:15:07.820 --> 00:15:10.399 weird in any way. Sure, like, when a homeless 00:15:10.399 --> 00:15:11.899 guy's trying to open the door for me when I'm 00:15:11.899 --> 00:15:13.879 going to McDonald's in, like, New York, it's 00:15:13.879 --> 00:15:16.809 fucking annoying and it's weird. Um, and this 00:15:16.809 --> 00:15:18.710 was probably annoying to her. I mean, she doesn't 00:15:18.710 --> 00:15:20.889 give a fuck about this guy, but he literally 00:15:20.889 --> 00:15:23.289 just wants drugs and he's not trying, he's not 00:15:23.289 --> 00:15:25.870 going to like chase her and like rob her or whatever. 00:15:25.929 --> 00:15:29.450 Like, yeah, he's, he's burgling, burglarizing 00:15:29.450 --> 00:15:32.830 an empty house later on and like carjacking. 00:15:32.889 --> 00:15:35.230 He's not a, he's not a perfect person by any 00:15:35.230 --> 00:15:37.450 means, but I just think his actions made so much 00:15:37.450 --> 00:15:41.850 sense. Yeah. I also thought, um, again coming 00:15:41.850 --> 00:15:44.309 from james's perspective when he finally goes 00:15:44.309 --> 00:15:46.529 into the house and i'm glad you brought that 00:15:46.529 --> 00:15:49.970 up too because you're right when from justine 00:15:49.970 --> 00:15:53.149 the way they shift perspectives you learn more 00:15:53.149 --> 00:15:55.269 and more like from justine's perspective you're 00:15:55.269 --> 00:15:57.730 only from the outside she's peeking in through 00:15:57.730 --> 00:16:01.029 one of the newspaper cracks but with james's 00:16:01.029 --> 00:16:04.639 character he actually goes in there and you see 00:16:04.639 --> 00:16:07.039 what's actually going on in that house let me 00:16:07.039 --> 00:16:09.440 ask you a question how many horror movies out 00:16:09.440 --> 00:16:11.759 if you were to watch 100 horror movies and and 00:16:11.759 --> 00:16:14.059 this is kind of a hard rhetorical to ask but 00:16:14.059 --> 00:16:17.399 say another character is in that same scene with 00:16:17.399 --> 00:16:22.259 different director i think what 80 90 of the 00:16:22.259 --> 00:16:24.080 time that first character is going to go into 00:16:24.080 --> 00:16:28.269 that house which she doesn't yeah 100 But again, 00:16:28.429 --> 00:16:33.590 the genius of the plot lines for five separate 00:16:33.590 --> 00:16:35.610 characters. Exactly. That's some Christopher 00:16:35.610 --> 00:16:38.210 Nolan, Quentin Tarantino shit. Yeah. And again, 00:16:38.549 --> 00:16:42.389 each character is just imperfect. Like none of 00:16:42.389 --> 00:16:44.210 them are perfect. None of them are someone that 00:16:44.210 --> 00:16:47.730 you look at and you're like, I'm 1000 % like 00:16:47.730 --> 00:16:50.029 rooting for this person. Everyone has their own 00:16:50.029 --> 00:16:52.490 little qualms. I thought Archer was the most 00:16:52.490 --> 00:16:56.259 solid guy though. he he didn't really do anything 00:16:56.259 --> 00:17:01.200 wrong he was just not working really and like 00:17:01.200 --> 00:17:03.159 grieving his son but he didn't take anything 00:17:03.159 --> 00:17:06.859 to drastic measures i thought originally again 00:17:06.859 --> 00:17:09.079 just great camera work and great storytelling 00:17:09.079 --> 00:17:11.539 yeah he made it seem like he was going to break 00:17:11.539 --> 00:17:15.259 into to her house in the very beginning i don't 00:17:15.259 --> 00:17:17.160 know if that was his plan or he was just following 00:17:17.160 --> 00:17:19.500 her or whatever they also made it seem like rose 00:17:19.500 --> 00:17:23.579 langmore was going to follow um alex and maybe 00:17:24.160 --> 00:17:26.940 It would get weird and something. Like when she 00:17:26.940 --> 00:17:28.640 starts stalking him at the school in the beginning. 00:17:28.720 --> 00:17:31.259 I'm like okay. Is she going to be a little fucking 00:17:31.259 --> 00:17:33.859 weird here. Well because they talk. They bring 00:17:33.859 --> 00:17:36.599 that up too. Like I think Archer might even bring 00:17:36.599 --> 00:17:39.460 it up. At that. When they're having that whole 00:17:39.460 --> 00:17:42.079 parent teacher conference thing. Where he's like. 00:17:42.220 --> 00:17:45.839 She's had past problems with students. Like she 00:17:45.839 --> 00:17:48.519 got fired from her last one. And had to move. 00:17:49.240 --> 00:17:52.000 So again all these little things. And again even 00:17:52.000 --> 00:17:54.579 with Archer's character. Yes. He reminded me 00:17:54.579 --> 00:17:56.920 a lot of Hugh Jackman willing to do anything 00:17:56.920 --> 00:18:00.740 to try and find his son. But you see his son 00:18:00.740 --> 00:18:03.480 Matthew bullying the shit out of Alex in school. 00:18:03.779 --> 00:18:07.420 Yeah. And I'm sure Matthew, like, granted, they 00:18:07.420 --> 00:18:09.799 don't go into a lot of the personal life of Archer 00:18:09.799 --> 00:18:12.440 and what his relationship is with his son. But 00:18:12.440 --> 00:18:15.279 I guarantee there's probably a little underlying 00:18:15.279 --> 00:18:18.599 shit there where Matthew is learning, you know, 00:18:18.619 --> 00:18:22.960 bully tendencies from his father. Oh, definitely. 00:18:23.200 --> 00:18:28.440 Yeah. But to go back to James's perspective, 00:18:28.779 --> 00:18:32.339 going into the house, it reminded me a lot of 00:18:32.339 --> 00:18:36.720 Justin Long's character in Barbarian, where he's 00:18:36.720 --> 00:18:40.000 clearly in a very serious situation here, but 00:18:40.000 --> 00:18:43.759 he's just, his mind is so focused on wanting 00:18:43.759 --> 00:18:46.700 drugs, wanting to steal. There's two people in 00:18:46.700 --> 00:18:49.039 a catatonic state sitting right in front of him, 00:18:49.079 --> 00:18:51.559 and he's just like, fuck it, let me go to the 00:18:51.559 --> 00:18:54.279 silverware drawer. yeah that was the tape measure 00:18:54.279 --> 00:18:57.660 scene for exactly exactly yeah and i loved it 00:18:57.660 --> 00:18:59.279 i loved every second of it because zach crager 00:18:59.279 --> 00:19:01.720 can do that shit because he made it so yeah it's 00:19:01.720 --> 00:19:04.539 not like stolen valor or any any nonsense like 00:19:04.539 --> 00:19:08.000 that um i do want to correct what i said before 00:19:08.000 --> 00:19:12.339 archer is not the most pure character that we 00:19:12.339 --> 00:19:18.609 see it's 1000 alex the kid and The only negative 00:19:18.609 --> 00:19:20.650 things you can make on him, and you and I were 00:19:20.650 --> 00:19:22.390 talking a little bit about this offline, and 00:19:22.390 --> 00:19:24.890 I completely see your point, like I changed my 00:19:24.890 --> 00:19:28.130 perspective on this. He agrees to go along with 00:19:28.130 --> 00:19:32.089 his crazy Aunt Gladys or whatever, but at a huge 00:19:32.089 --> 00:19:34.930 threat to his life, safety, anything he knows. 00:19:35.029 --> 00:19:37.490 I mean, this kid is fucking like six years old 00:19:37.490 --> 00:19:40.849 or seven, and he's intentionally, I'm sure he 00:19:40.849 --> 00:19:44.329 was picked because he's very small, petite kid, 00:19:44.509 --> 00:19:49.700 but. I loved this kid, dude, because he was just 00:19:49.700 --> 00:19:54.539 so poised and handled everything like just a 00:19:54.539 --> 00:19:59.579 G. He is witnessing pure horror at his house 00:19:59.579 --> 00:20:02.420 just over the course of about a week during this 00:20:02.420 --> 00:20:06.660 movie. And he never sways whatsoever. He's literally 00:20:06.660 --> 00:20:11.599 grocery shopping. He's walking home miles to... 00:20:12.240 --> 00:20:15.440 A literal cult dungeon of a house where his parents 00:20:15.440 --> 00:20:18.240 are zombies. He has no idea what's going on. 00:20:18.359 --> 00:20:20.519 There are kids kidnapped at his school that he 00:20:20.519 --> 00:20:24.680 unmistakably took part in helping do. But he 00:20:24.680 --> 00:20:26.819 was just tricked by his Aunt Gladys. And he's 00:20:26.819 --> 00:20:30.299 taking care of all of them. Washing them, feeding 00:20:30.299 --> 00:20:35.319 them. I mean, it's insane. I will say, my favorite 00:20:35.319 --> 00:20:39.339 storylines or perspectives to follow were the 00:20:39.339 --> 00:20:43.039 cop and James. problem because just because there 00:20:43.039 --> 00:20:44.960 was a lot of humor there and it was just fun 00:20:44.960 --> 00:20:50.339 to watch um but alex's storyline really kind 00:20:50.339 --> 00:20:53.140 of put the whole story together seeing this kid 00:20:53.140 --> 00:20:55.880 like seeing him interact with his parents when 00:20:55.880 --> 00:20:59.359 they were alive and well like the dad really 00:20:59.359 --> 00:21:02.599 loving like he had such a great home life and 00:21:02.599 --> 00:21:06.500 this parasite of a witch injects herself into 00:21:06.500 --> 00:21:10.710 that life and just sucks all the fun all the 00:21:10.710 --> 00:21:14.630 life and color out of his life pretty much and 00:21:14.630 --> 00:21:19.309 has it so alex is basically her little pawn working 00:21:19.309 --> 00:21:23.309 in this dungeon of hers it's it's such a tragic 00:21:23.309 --> 00:21:26.309 storyline and even at the end the fact that his 00:21:26.309 --> 00:21:28.650 parents are probably never ever going to be the 00:21:28.650 --> 00:21:31.009 same yeah like they're just going to be stuck 00:21:31.009 --> 00:21:35.329 in that vegetative state um it's honestly pretty 00:21:35.329 --> 00:21:39.250 tragic and horrifying but it was all props to 00:21:39.660 --> 00:21:42.740 that actor i honestly think zach crager got towards 00:21:42.740 --> 00:21:44.960 the end and he was like i might be able to make 00:21:44.960 --> 00:21:46.819 this a sequel so i'm not going to completely 00:21:46.819 --> 00:21:49.059 wrap it up here because he said like some of 00:21:49.059 --> 00:21:51.420 the kids started talking again and we see josh 00:21:51.420 --> 00:21:53.259 brolin immediately start talking and he was the 00:21:53.259 --> 00:21:55.960 one in the shortest amount of trance yes i would 00:21:55.960 --> 00:21:58.279 assume that over the course of time they'll all 00:21:58.279 --> 00:22:00.839 regain that but i don't i mean it's obviously 00:22:00.839 --> 00:22:03.299 supernatural and it's up to zach zach crager 00:22:03.299 --> 00:22:05.660 like who knows the parents might have been under 00:22:05.660 --> 00:22:08.900 the trance like too long and their brain is just 00:22:08.900 --> 00:22:13.180 zapped yeah one more line or dialect I want to 00:22:13.180 --> 00:22:15.420 bring up before we go to cinematography is the 00:22:15.420 --> 00:22:17.859 one of the conversations between Paul and James 00:22:17.859 --> 00:22:20.920 that I thought was so good when he first arrests 00:22:20.920 --> 00:22:23.200 him and I was saying how they're both just like 00:22:23.200 --> 00:22:25.900 lying out of their teeth Paul or James originally 00:22:25.900 --> 00:22:28.500 is like I was just trying to go to work man like 00:22:28.500 --> 00:22:31.339 I forgot my key right which we didn't know at 00:22:31.339 --> 00:22:33.500 the time I'm like oh yeah maybe maybe he was 00:22:33.500 --> 00:22:36.859 I don't know and uh And Paul, the first thing 00:22:36.859 --> 00:22:38.859 he says is, you got anything in your pockets? 00:22:38.900 --> 00:22:41.160 And I'm thinking, this dude's trying to just 00:22:41.160 --> 00:22:44.079 fucking rob this guy, the cop. Did you think 00:22:44.079 --> 00:22:47.920 that too? No. Oh, that's what I took from it. 00:22:47.980 --> 00:22:50.099 Because he was already drinking on the job, and 00:22:50.099 --> 00:22:54.339 he found some guy who's like a victim if you're 00:22:54.339 --> 00:22:56.480 looking to rob somebody. I mean, no one's accounting 00:22:56.480 --> 00:22:58.339 for this guy, you know what I mean? Yeah. And 00:22:58.339 --> 00:23:01.579 he was already pissed off with all his personal 00:23:01.579 --> 00:23:05.549 stuff going on at home. I was just kind of wondering 00:23:05.549 --> 00:23:07.950 why he was asking him all that stuff. I get that 00:23:07.950 --> 00:23:10.170 James ran from him and did all that stuff before. 00:23:10.869 --> 00:23:12.710 But I thought that was just a funny scene. Because 00:23:12.710 --> 00:23:14.490 they're both just lying back and forth. And then 00:23:14.490 --> 00:23:16.670 we get the confirmation later on. I mean, all 00:23:16.670 --> 00:23:18.890 their dialogue was hilarious. When he first sticks 00:23:18.890 --> 00:23:20.950 him, he's like, do you have AIDS? He's like, 00:23:21.069 --> 00:23:25.369 I don't know. Just Paul lying through his teeth 00:23:25.369 --> 00:23:27.950 the whole time, too. He shows up at the bar with 00:23:27.950 --> 00:23:29.970 Rose Langmore. And he's like, is it okay if I 00:23:29.970 --> 00:23:32.589 hug you? And he doesn't drink in front of her. 00:23:32.710 --> 00:23:35.430 He's like, no. He's like, I'm in no rush. I mean, 00:23:35.490 --> 00:23:38.150 he literally tells her that he split up with 00:23:38.150 --> 00:23:43.549 his wife. Yeah. Yeah. And, and I, I, yeah, it 00:23:43.549 --> 00:23:47.329 was just, his lines were very well matriculated. 00:23:47.450 --> 00:23:49.769 They, they all were, but he was just an incredible 00:23:49.769 --> 00:23:53.230 like lying douchebag, but he, he got, he got 00:23:53.230 --> 00:23:56.109 what he deserved. All right. Do you want to do 00:23:56.109 --> 00:24:00.230 cinematography? Yeah. So I, I loved it. Obviously 00:24:00.230 --> 00:24:04.519 I think the, just the whole, fucking arms running 00:24:04.519 --> 00:24:06.680 around was so creepy i saw an interview where 00:24:06.680 --> 00:24:08.420 zach crager was just like i thought that thing 00:24:08.420 --> 00:24:10.980 looked so weird and creepy so i just told them 00:24:10.980 --> 00:24:13.740 to do it and it it definitely did look really 00:24:13.740 --> 00:24:17.579 fucking creepy um i like was trying like sometimes 00:24:17.579 --> 00:24:19.500 i'll cope with myself when i'm at a horror movie 00:24:19.500 --> 00:24:21.299 and try and laugh if there's something that's 00:24:21.299 --> 00:24:24.980 like really crazy it's supposed to make me scared 00:24:24.980 --> 00:24:28.420 but i'm you know just coping with it But even 00:24:28.420 --> 00:24:29.960 when, like, dude, when the kids were fucking 00:24:29.960 --> 00:24:32.279 running up that street when we see it happen, 00:24:32.480 --> 00:24:35.519 I was getting chills. Like, and I know it's literally 00:24:35.519 --> 00:24:38.299 just, you know, 17 actual kids running. Like, 00:24:38.299 --> 00:24:40.000 there's no CGI or anything like that. Sorry, 00:24:40.099 --> 00:24:42.660 I hit my mic. But the way they're, like, hopping, 00:24:42.819 --> 00:24:46.079 too, it just looks so fucking weird. And the 00:24:46.079 --> 00:24:50.069 way the Asian... principal is running too when 00:24:50.069 --> 00:24:53.009 he cuts it like three times because he's running 00:24:53.009 --> 00:24:56.130 so far that was such an effective yeah way to 00:24:56.130 --> 00:24:58.849 cut that and make it seem even more fucking weird 00:24:58.849 --> 00:25:01.930 and creepy when julia gardner is talking to josh 00:25:01.930 --> 00:25:05.470 brolin at the gas station and it just pans with 00:25:05.470 --> 00:25:07.450 her eyes looking off into the distance and you 00:25:07.450 --> 00:25:10.690 just see benedict long fucking sprinting down 00:25:10.690 --> 00:25:13.210 and his eyes are just bulging out because he 00:25:13.210 --> 00:25:16.549 just got finished smashing his husband's face 00:25:16.549 --> 00:25:20.660 in No, I thought one of the craziest scenes though, 00:25:20.839 --> 00:25:23.140 and I'm sure it's being talked about online, 00:25:23.339 --> 00:25:28.259 but when Julia Gardner is staking out the house 00:25:28.259 --> 00:25:31.920 and she falls asleep in the car. Best scene of 00:25:31.920 --> 00:25:34.240 the movie. So many horror, because I was expecting 00:25:34.240 --> 00:25:37.039 the jump scare. I was expecting the jump scare. 00:25:37.519 --> 00:25:42.480 And again, credits to Zach Kreger here. doesn't 00:25:42.480 --> 00:25:44.660 even give you a jump scare but just gives you 00:25:44.660 --> 00:25:46.980 chills down your entire body because the suspense 00:25:46.980 --> 00:25:50.059 building up was insane you see the mom coming 00:25:50.059 --> 00:25:53.779 out the house walking all the way down standing 00:25:53.779 --> 00:25:55.799 in front of the door and i expected her to like 00:25:55.799 --> 00:25:59.799 smash the window do something crazy nay -naying 00:25:59.799 --> 00:26:03.099 all the way down and then you just see her walk 00:26:03.099 --> 00:26:06.019 around and then hear her opening the car door 00:26:06.019 --> 00:26:10.109 like I know my jaw dropped and I heard so many 00:26:10.109 --> 00:26:12.410 audible gasps in the theater when that happened. 00:26:12.829 --> 00:26:16.630 Yes. And he kept zooming in on that door to the 00:26:16.630 --> 00:26:19.549 house too. Like that weird shot where he's zooming 00:26:19.549 --> 00:26:23.490 in on the door. That scene was so fucking good. 00:26:23.670 --> 00:26:26.089 I don't care if you're even a horror fan. If 00:26:26.089 --> 00:26:28.029 you watch that. And not even to mention just 00:26:28.029 --> 00:26:31.869 the time lapses too. And again, creating the 00:26:31.869 --> 00:26:35.210 unreliable narrator. rose langmore is sitting 00:26:35.210 --> 00:26:37.890 in her car she's staking it out she's got some 00:26:37.890 --> 00:26:41.069 buddy walk by her i'm thinking okay maybe maybe 00:26:41.069 --> 00:26:43.410 that's alex's mom or something i don't know had 00:26:43.410 --> 00:26:45.250 nothing to do with it right it's just some some 00:26:45.250 --> 00:26:48.109 stroller and then flashes again it's pitch black 00:26:48.109 --> 00:26:51.670 outside but she's been drinking so what do we 00:26:51.670 --> 00:26:53.849 know what she's seeing is actually real or not 00:26:53.849 --> 00:26:58.730 and then out of literal darkness comes a knife 00:26:58.730 --> 00:27:02.720 wielding like zombie yeah It's still from that 00:27:02.720 --> 00:27:06.819 same shot. It was just so, so well done. I have 00:27:06.819 --> 00:27:08.819 nothing but good things to say about that. Also, 00:27:08.839 --> 00:27:11.819 another shot that stuck with me, of course, was 00:27:11.819 --> 00:27:16.519 Josh Brolin, his dream sequence, talking to his 00:27:16.519 --> 00:27:20.799 son. So emotional. The things he was saying, 00:27:20.859 --> 00:27:23.240 you're like, Jesus Christ, this is like a tearjerker. 00:27:23.599 --> 00:27:26.140 He's just a father that wants to see his son 00:27:26.140 --> 00:27:28.920 again. Doesn't understand why this has happened. 00:27:29.950 --> 00:27:33.390 light switches on and it's clown face you're 00:27:33.390 --> 00:27:36.430 like jesus christ and of course josh bullen's 00:27:36.430 --> 00:27:39.650 reaction to that dream sequence is now so iconic 00:27:39.650 --> 00:27:41.789 like i know everyone's talking about that what 00:27:41.789 --> 00:27:45.410 the fuck i also liked in that dream sequence 00:27:45.410 --> 00:27:48.009 when he actually sees the house and i mean we 00:27:48.009 --> 00:27:51.960 get a an actual picture of an AK -47 or whatever 00:27:51.960 --> 00:27:54.440 over the house. It is a dream sequence, though. 00:27:54.500 --> 00:27:56.980 I thought this was really cool, man. It kind 00:27:56.980 --> 00:27:59.680 of reminded me of Enemy, that old David Fincher 00:27:59.680 --> 00:28:02.039 movie with... With Jake Gyllenhaal. Yeah, with 00:28:02.039 --> 00:28:03.619 that thing that's just constantly appearing. 00:28:04.700 --> 00:28:07.960 The giant spider in the sky? That's a weird -ass 00:28:07.960 --> 00:28:10.720 movie, dude. I know, but didn't it look exactly 00:28:10.720 --> 00:28:14.079 like that? Just like that looming figure in the 00:28:14.079 --> 00:28:18.420 sky. I will say when I saw that... like m4 ar 00:28:18.420 --> 00:28:21.180 -15 in the sky with the giant 217 on it i was 00:28:21.180 --> 00:28:25.160 like what the fuck is going on yeah but i can 00:28:25.160 --> 00:28:27.859 make it's a it's a dream like they make it clear 00:28:27.859 --> 00:28:31.460 yes yes and he does such a good job of just staying 00:28:31.460 --> 00:28:33.720 within those lines like there is supernatural 00:28:33.720 --> 00:28:37.259 pieces to it but his movies two of them mind 00:28:37.259 --> 00:28:42.019 you right feels so realistic no again uh we talk 00:28:42.019 --> 00:28:44.160 about zach we're talking about zachary so much 00:28:44.160 --> 00:28:46.970 but again it's just his genius when it comes 00:28:46.970 --> 00:28:49.549 to directing. Like, both Barbarian and this movie, 00:28:49.710 --> 00:28:52.190 yes, they have supernatural elements to it, but 00:28:52.190 --> 00:28:56.029 the movie itself seems so grounded within the 00:28:56.029 --> 00:28:58.869 community it's filmed in and within reality that 00:28:58.869 --> 00:29:02.329 it seems like it could happen. Right? Like, I 00:29:02.329 --> 00:29:06.009 don't think there's some seven -foot giant in 00:29:06.009 --> 00:29:10.329 a basement of an Airbnb in, like, a bando in 00:29:10.329 --> 00:29:13.269 Detroit right now. But, like, fuck it. It could 00:29:13.269 --> 00:29:18.779 happen due to, like... 20 plus fuckings of incest 00:29:18.779 --> 00:29:20.940 i mean yeah it's a movie you know at the end 00:29:20.940 --> 00:29:23.500 of the day it's it's a movie but it's just really 00:29:23.500 --> 00:29:27.160 really good writing and storytelling um along 00:29:27.160 --> 00:29:30.400 with just the way he shoots it dude he he doesn't 00:29:30.400 --> 00:29:33.700 have one lens he's using he he has all these 00:29:33.700 --> 00:29:35.519 different ways of conveying the story we just 00:29:35.519 --> 00:29:38.500 talked about the stakeout scene i loved the very 00:29:38.500 --> 00:29:42.180 end when i think gladys is getting chased by 00:29:42.180 --> 00:29:45.619 the kid zombies basically and it looked like 00:29:45.619 --> 00:29:48.940 the last of us kind of right we get we get the 00:29:48.940 --> 00:29:51.599 point of view of like season one last of us too 00:29:51.599 --> 00:29:55.720 i'll throw that in there um but the girl's running 00:29:55.720 --> 00:29:57.420 like a fucking zombie she's running through the 00:29:57.420 --> 00:29:59.640 house you can hear her panting you can hear her 00:29:59.640 --> 00:30:02.339 socks running on the hardwood DK Metcalf just 00:30:02.339 --> 00:30:05.140 chasing down the ride receiver i think that was 00:30:05.140 --> 00:30:07.259 filmed out of like an iphone that's what it sounded 00:30:07.259 --> 00:30:10.099 like but it was so dope dude like that's that 00:30:10.099 --> 00:30:13.900 the way he shot that was really cool and he just 00:30:13.900 --> 00:30:16.420 is this guy is one of the best directors alive 00:30:16.420 --> 00:30:18.460 right now like and we're gonna just keep talking 00:30:18.460 --> 00:30:21.519 about him here but um i yeah the cinematography 00:30:21.519 --> 00:30:25.180 was so good the music was very good too they 00:30:25.180 --> 00:30:29.859 had that weird almost like rom -com intro song 00:30:29.859 --> 00:30:35.900 so that's the thing i actually enjoyed that yeah 00:30:35.900 --> 00:30:38.950 like Because, again, based on the trailers, you 00:30:38.950 --> 00:30:40.990 would think that opening scene would be hella 00:30:40.990 --> 00:30:46.289 creepy. But it almost felt like a fantasy. That 00:30:46.289 --> 00:30:48.549 these kids are just walking out the house, running 00:30:48.549 --> 00:30:50.690 down the street, and disappearing into the night. 00:30:50.970 --> 00:30:55.170 It was romanticized. Yes, exactly. And yes, it 00:30:55.170 --> 00:30:58.150 was weird. It might not have matched the tone 00:30:58.150 --> 00:31:01.670 that people might have thought going into the 00:31:01.670 --> 00:31:04.069 movie. But I thought it was a great way to set 00:31:04.069 --> 00:31:08.049 it. and then of course then it cuts to then following 00:31:08.049 --> 00:31:10.650 the different perspectives it wouldn't have worked 00:31:10.650 --> 00:31:13.369 either had he not spent so much time pumping 00:31:13.369 --> 00:31:16.170 that trailer to every known market in the world 00:31:16.170 --> 00:31:18.509 because we all knew the general plot if he just 00:31:18.509 --> 00:31:21.390 started it with it being 217 that night and watching 00:31:21.390 --> 00:31:23.349 all the kids run out and playing creepy music 00:31:23.349 --> 00:31:25.150 it would have been like okay yeah we get it but 00:31:25.150 --> 00:31:28.269 we all knew that yeah you you can't say all this 00:31:28.269 --> 00:31:30.710 shit about the trailer and and then just repeat 00:31:30.710 --> 00:31:32.470 it because a lot of movies do that and then we're 00:31:32.470 --> 00:31:34.309 like all right We're not going to watch the trailer 00:31:34.309 --> 00:31:37.109 now, but I'll watch his trailers for sure going 00:31:37.109 --> 00:31:39.630 forward. All right, do you want to do the writing? 00:31:39.910 --> 00:31:43.109 Yeah. Okay. So, yeah, we talked about the characters' 00:31:43.769 --> 00:31:46.509 POVs. I mean, it was very well done. This was 00:31:46.509 --> 00:31:50.829 a very nonlinear storyline, too, but everything 00:31:50.829 --> 00:31:53.630 connected. Everything made sense, and that's 00:31:53.630 --> 00:31:56.710 why we're both in the high eights here for a 00:31:56.710 --> 00:31:59.289 horror movie, which is seemingly impossible to 00:31:59.289 --> 00:32:00.849 do because we've done a bunch of them on the 00:32:00.849 --> 00:32:03.299 channel now. And this hits all the bars, man. 00:32:03.420 --> 00:32:07.140 This movie was phenomenal. You can poke holes 00:32:07.140 --> 00:32:10.839 at, I guess, Alex being a kid and going along 00:32:10.839 --> 00:32:14.779 with his crazy aunt. But I don't think that's 00:32:14.779 --> 00:32:18.380 a plot hole. Yeah, no, it's not. Because he's 00:32:18.380 --> 00:32:20.720 a kid that loves his parents. And he sees this 00:32:20.720 --> 00:32:24.099 lady force his parents to stab themselves in 00:32:24.099 --> 00:32:26.420 the face with a fork. Like, of course, he's going 00:32:26.420 --> 00:32:28.700 to do anything he can to be like, no, no, stop 00:32:28.700 --> 00:32:32.660 that. Like, I'll do whatever. Right. And I saw 00:32:32.660 --> 00:32:35.299 an interview where Zach Kreger says like, yeah, 00:32:35.420 --> 00:32:37.759 there might be like a couple plot holes here 00:32:37.759 --> 00:32:42.079 and there, but like, who cares really? Like the 00:32:42.079 --> 00:32:44.500 whole, the cop car sitting outside the house 00:32:44.500 --> 00:32:47.319 the whole time. Like the fact that he doesn't 00:32:47.319 --> 00:32:49.079 show up back at the station and no one's like, 00:32:49.140 --> 00:32:52.279 where the fuck is Paul at? Like, no, that should 00:32:52.279 --> 00:32:54.960 probably investigate this, but that's true. But 00:32:54.960 --> 00:32:59.240 that was also the same. I believe, um, Josh Brolin 00:32:59.240 --> 00:33:01.940 and, judy is it judy garland what's her last 00:33:01.940 --> 00:33:05.279 name julia garner julia garner julie garland's 00:33:05.279 --> 00:33:07.680 another famous actress i just she's older though 00:33:07.680 --> 00:33:10.119 but when they show up i think it's dawn of that 00:33:10.119 --> 00:33:13.460 same night so yeah i i hear you there probably 00:33:13.460 --> 00:33:15.660 would have been another cop on scene sooner than 00:33:15.660 --> 00:33:18.900 that but i just give him the nod because he spent 00:33:18.900 --> 00:33:22.599 so much time showing us how paul got there in 00:33:22.599 --> 00:33:24.400 the first place and it all made so much sense 00:33:24.400 --> 00:33:28.319 and paul's also not he doesn't have his dude 00:33:28.319 --> 00:33:30.730 doesn't have his fucking camera on remember yeah 00:33:30.730 --> 00:33:33.130 he takes his camera off when he starts chasing 00:33:33.130 --> 00:33:35.609 james you could throw that in there and he i 00:33:35.609 --> 00:33:38.089 don't think his fucking commissioner gives a 00:33:38.089 --> 00:33:40.450 fuck where he is yeah probably not you know i 00:33:40.450 --> 00:33:44.069 think he'd skip town because he does not want 00:33:44.069 --> 00:33:47.009 to show his face around that precinct again so 00:33:47.009 --> 00:33:51.029 i will say though big credit to the writing and 00:33:51.029 --> 00:33:54.779 i'm glad you touched on this earlier When you're 00:33:54.779 --> 00:33:56.640 watching this and you're seeing the multiple 00:33:56.640 --> 00:33:59.900 perspectives and you get a glimpse into the life 00:33:59.900 --> 00:34:01.640 of the different people, right? The principal, 00:34:01.859 --> 00:34:04.579 Benedict Wong. You get a glimpse into the druggie's 00:34:04.579 --> 00:34:08.519 life. But each character and each perspective 00:34:08.519 --> 00:34:12.820 that you follow adds a little bit more to the 00:34:12.820 --> 00:34:15.940 overarching storyline, right? With Benedict Wong's 00:34:15.940 --> 00:34:19.690 character... you see how Aunt Gladys is actually 00:34:19.690 --> 00:34:22.550 manipulating and hypnotizing these people. You 00:34:22.550 --> 00:34:24.730 see what she does with his ribbons to the stick 00:34:24.730 --> 00:34:27.050 and then snaps it. So that's where you get a 00:34:27.050 --> 00:34:28.969 glimpse into how she's actually controlling these 00:34:28.969 --> 00:34:31.489 people. With James' character, like we mentioned 00:34:31.489 --> 00:34:34.210 earlier, you actually get to step foot in the 00:34:34.210 --> 00:34:36.630 house with him and see what's going on inside 00:34:36.630 --> 00:34:40.010 versus Justine earlier, who's just on the outside 00:34:40.010 --> 00:34:42.550 kind of scoping it out, just talking to Alex. 00:34:43.030 --> 00:34:45.699 So, and then of course it... wraps it all up 00:34:45.699 --> 00:34:48.860 with alex in the end showing exactly what the 00:34:48.860 --> 00:34:52.360 fuck has been going on yeah um so i thought the 00:34:52.360 --> 00:34:55.300 the writing there the the pacing and the multiple 00:34:55.300 --> 00:34:58.880 perspectives was absolutely perfect and we don't 00:34:58.880 --> 00:35:02.820 see that enough in movies i want to say too that 00:35:02.820 --> 00:35:09.760 after the first segue when the kid is narrating 00:35:09.760 --> 00:35:13.260 the opening monologue I don't think anybody else 00:35:13.260 --> 00:35:18.840 had lines up until that point. I think it was 00:35:18.840 --> 00:35:21.480 just the narrator, and then you had the gavel, 00:35:21.559 --> 00:35:23.519 or it probably wasn't a gavel, but whatever they 00:35:23.519 --> 00:35:25.559 were using to convene at the school for that 00:35:25.559 --> 00:35:28.300 board meeting, it went right there. I'd probably 00:35:28.300 --> 00:35:29.960 have to watch it a third time to get that for 00:35:29.960 --> 00:35:32.139 sure, but I'm pretty sure there's not actual 00:35:32.139 --> 00:35:35.179 dialogue until we see Judy's name come on the 00:35:35.179 --> 00:35:37.760 screen, and then it just takes off. Just Dean's 00:35:37.760 --> 00:35:41.179 name. justine judy dude i'm i'm never gonna get 00:35:41.179 --> 00:35:44.219 get this girl's name correct but she's a fantastic 00:35:44.219 --> 00:35:48.980 actress um yeah all the marvel actors decide 00:35:48.980 --> 00:35:56.230 to convene for this movie the um The top Letterboxd 00:35:56.230 --> 00:35:59.130 comment I saw was, like, my favorite person that 00:35:59.130 --> 00:36:02.030 they didn't find in this movie was Pedro Pascal. 00:36:02.349 --> 00:36:06.030 Yeah, I saw that shit, too. You told me this. 00:36:06.030 --> 00:36:09.889 Pedro Pascal was rumored to be the Archer character 00:36:09.889 --> 00:36:13.170 that Josh Brolin ended up playing, who I thought 00:36:13.170 --> 00:36:16.869 did a fantastic job. I'm not... Pedro Pascal 00:36:16.869 --> 00:36:18.989 would have been fucking awesome in this movie, 00:36:19.130 --> 00:36:21.769 though, dude. He would have been. You know he 00:36:21.769 --> 00:36:23.630 would have been. He would have been so good. 00:36:23.809 --> 00:36:26.170 But I'm tired of seeing his face a little bit. 00:36:26.309 --> 00:36:28.329 It probably would have taken more away from the 00:36:28.329 --> 00:36:29.590 overall story because we would have been like, 00:36:29.650 --> 00:36:31.889 okay, that role was so good. We'd probably be 00:36:31.889 --> 00:36:35.090 hearing Oscar here, Oscar there, whatever. But 00:36:35.090 --> 00:36:37.429 Josh Brolin was fucking awesome, too. I thought 00:36:37.429 --> 00:36:41.070 he was fantastic. In no way, shape, or form made 00:36:41.070 --> 00:36:43.929 the movie worse or better, but Pedro Pascal would 00:36:43.929 --> 00:36:46.849 have been so good in that role. There's something 00:36:46.849 --> 00:36:50.949 about Josh Brolin that just like... exemplifies 00:36:50.949 --> 00:36:54.309 stern dad like i don't know what it was but he 00:36:54.309 --> 00:36:57.730 he captured that role really well again it reminded 00:36:57.730 --> 00:37:00.289 me of hugh jackman from prisoners he's just a 00:37:00.289 --> 00:37:03.530 really stereotypical traditional american man 00:37:03.530 --> 00:37:06.489 that's just what he looks like yes um then no 00:37:06.489 --> 00:37:10.349 like bad bad connotation to that but yeah so 00:37:10.349 --> 00:37:13.030 like We've both touched on this, the writing. 00:37:13.150 --> 00:37:15.869 I think it was very well done. I think this movie 00:37:15.869 --> 00:37:19.030 overall was really well done. So our final score 00:37:19.030 --> 00:37:23.469 here, we went with an 8 .9 out of 10 for weapons. 00:37:23.590 --> 00:37:26.489 That's got to be the highest horror movie we've 00:37:26.489 --> 00:37:30.210 done, or I guess horror slash thriller. But you 00:37:30.210 --> 00:37:32.230 can find all of our reviews on our website. It'll 00:37:32.230 --> 00:37:34.409 be linked in our YouTube, our TikTok, all of 00:37:34.409 --> 00:37:36.650 our social media sites. And we'll be back next 00:37:36.650 --> 00:37:38.570 Tuesday with another one. Deuces. Peace out.