Welcome back to Ripe Avocados. Today we're going
to review Weapons, directed by Zach Krager. Movie
of the summer, movie of the year maybe. We'll
get into it and see what it was about. So the
movie Weapons, it starts off with 17 kids in
a third grade class at 2 .17am just decide to
get up out of their beds, walk out the door,
and Naruto run down the street. And no one knows
why. And the whole movie is told from multiple
perspectives. One from the teacher of the class,
one from... Thanos, who is the parent to one
of the children that went missing. One was Doctor
Strange's sidekick, Benedict Wong, who is the
principal at the school. And then a cop, a druggie.
And it's all these converging storylines that
slowly reveal kind of where the kids went and
what the whole purpose of it was. Very Tarantino
-esque, too. they slowly but surely start to
realize that uh the creepy clown lady that decided
to show up and down is behind all of the devious
shit um and honestly the kids end up full blitzing
her at the end and tearing her apart so in the
end it was all rainbows and sunshine yeah that
was probably the least graphic human um Dismemberment
of all time. Dismemberment I've ever seen, yeah.
The one that I was least scarred by, but it was
still really disgusting. Yeah. It was bittersweet
in the end. So you know how this works. We'll
do our scores first, and then we'll get into
the entertainment. So we're going to go high
here, Sean. I really liked this movie. I went
8 .6 for entertainment. I went 8 .9 for entertainment.
I went 9 .0 for characters. I went 8 .7 for characters.
I went 9 .2 for cinematography. 9 .3. Should
probably be nerfed because it's a horror movie,
but whatever. It was so good, this movie. So
good. Then I went 8 .9 for writing, which has
to be a horror record. I went 8 .5. Okay. I actually
just changed it, too, from a 7 .9. That's what
I wrote down originally. Damn. The second time
watching it through? Yeah. I watched this movie
two times, back -to -back nights. And so I got
a full dose of weapons. But I think we should
probably just start with our overall reactions
like we normally do. So you really liked it.
Why? I mean, first of all, I... Loved it before
I even saw it. I've seen the trailers so many
times, the teasers and movie previews online,
and it just grabbed me immediately. One of my
favorite movies is Prisoners, right? Little girl
gets abducted, goes missing. Hugh Jackman's doing
literally anything and everything to try and
find her. This movie hooked me in the same way
with those teaser trailers and the full trailers.
I didn't know where it was going to go, and I
think that was fantastic. And it just had a great
mix of a little bit of horror. I would say mainly
thriller, though. I would say Weapons is more
of a thriller movie than a horror, which is probably
why I liked it so much. But it also had elements
of comedy. And it's not like, oh, I'm going to
shoot a joke at you and expect everyone to laugh.
It's just these little subtle things. Following
the characters of the cop and the druggie. Like,
them going back and forth was hilarious. I thought
Austin Abrams, I believe is his name, who played
the druggie, he was fantastic. Yes. And I love
a movie that has multiple storylines. And, again,
that... what's the word i'm looking for the unreliable
narrator almost right you're following all these
people and you're learning more things about
them as you're following the different perspectives
and you're like this person isn't so great actually
so i wonder if they have you know any knowledge
or maybe they have a play in why these kids are
going missing but then of course The creepy clown
lady. Yeah, it's her answer. She's the obvious
answer. Who would you say is your favorite of
the five main storylines? So you alluded to him.
We have we have I'll just this is just for the
viewers. So we have the boy. Oh, fuck. I can't
remember. Alex. Alex. Yes. Sorry. Alex. James,
the homeless guy. Paul, the cop. Archer, otherwise
known as Thanos. And Rose Lane Moore, who is.
oh my god how do i not have her name janice something
right julia garner right but her character's
name is oh um i think it's janet justine justine
yeah justine gandy justine gandy okay so out
of those five which which one of those initial
five storylines did you think was the best one
i mean of course following justine is was fantastic
to me just from a viewing experience it reminded
me a lot of uh that show outsider the outsider
with jason bateman on hbo max just because it's
set in a small town and it's like someone a figure
in their community that you would want to believe
and love and like she's taking care of the kids
like how could it be her but then the whole community
shifting and especially led by archer who's josh
brolin's character um being like why the fuck
is she the only one still here like she has to
know something so i thought following uh her
character and seeing all the shit that she has
to deal with from the community but also from
gladys the witch lady i thought that was fantastic
but ultimately the ones i love following the
most was probably the cop and the druggy I thought
their storylines were hilarious. I won't say
they were pivotal to the storyline, but I thought
it was great to get their perspectives and see
how much damage Gladys is doing within this community.
Right. I completely agree with one part of that.
I loved James. He was my favorite character probably
in the whole movie. I think when Paul and James
start their little tango when... when he's arresting
him multiple times or attempting to arrest him
the second time it the whole the story picked
up a lot from that point it was very interesting
before that but a lot of investigative stuff
you know rose langmore or oh my god miss gandy
but we all know her as rose langmore from ozark
she and josh brolin are doing their detective
handiwork rose langmore finds the cult house
or the the house where everything is is deriving
from very early the one house with newspaper
over every single window yeah she finds it very
early josh brolin's also doing his detective
work and we're figuring out more pieces of information
then we see the zombified principle principle
like attack him and then from that point forward
we're like what the is happening and then we
see the cop and and the drug dealer or the the
druggie going going back and forth i just thought
that that whole perspective was really cool and
you mentioned the unreliable narrator i mean
when when james is running from what he thinks
is gladys what a what an awesome way to tell
that little little spiel of the story because
james is just losing his i mean we see him literally
shoot up um or do some meth like five minutes
before this camera wise um But it's... Oh, my
God, man. The way they paced all those storylines,
there was not one bit of information in this
entire movie that I thought was unnecessary or
dulling the plot in any way. Yeah. Like, from
the beginning, we get that narrator from the
trailer that we all heard, like the creepy little
kid talking about how his... I think it's a female,
but she's describing her classmates leave. Yeah.
And the one thing I want to... take this to is
just the marketing of this movie was so well
done because you're right the trailer was good
but they hid that one huge piece of information
from the actual script that we didn't know which
is that alex is actually the one surviving kid
in this classroom in the whole trailer you're
made to believe that nobody else in this class
is there it's just empty basically and then right
away a minute in we're like oh okay At least
that was my reaction to that. I was like, okay,
this is really going to make me think now. No,
I completely agree. And also, to your point about
there not really being a scene that was unwarranted
or didn't add to the plot, big shout out to Zack
Greger. I've seen multiple interviews with him
talking about he storyboarded this whole thing
and worked with his... uh videographers and cinematographers
on shooting the whole thing before they even
shot the movie like they had still images of
what exactly they wanted to do and he said they
only probably cut three scenes maybe so they
really compacted this whole crazy story with
multiple perspectives into two hours and it was
incredible yeah and i i agree i mean i think
zach gregor right now is My second favorite director
alive. He's done two movies. He's done two movies.
Barbarian and this, but I cannot stop. Three
if you include The Fail Miss March. Was he the
lead director on that movie? I think he was.
Okay, but was it co -directing or anything like
that? Because I was looking more into it, and
it looks like Barbarian was his first one. Maybe
solo. He might have co -directed with his best
friend Trevor Moore. Rest in peace. Okay. Well,
I'm a huge fan of his. And I do want to counter
what you were saying before. I think this movie
was just half horror, half thriller. And it's
just an ode to Zack Greger. I think, yeah, it's
very involved. It makes you think a lot. And
there is not any stupid jump scare horror that
is not necessary in this movie. It's just really
fucking weird, creepy, but... It all makes sense.
And all of these characters, we're going to talk
about them now, their actions in all horror movies
that we watch for the most part, there's usually
like one really stupid character that just like
drives the plot and makes it keep going. But
in Barbarian and this movie especially, I thought
the way he made certain characters choose certain
things was so fucking amazing. So I'll transition
it now to that, right? The thing that... i thought
was so amazing about this movie was how how it
was like right under their nose everyone in this
town that we're following there's this demon
house basically in the middle of town literally
smack dab in the middle they show us a map of
it like four times there's a demon some crazy
shit's going on right in the middle of this town
and who's the first person to see it it's a school
teacher What does she do? She peeks inside because
she's like, this is fucking weird. And she gets
freaked out, drives away, and calls the principal,
tells him what she's thinking. Like, this is
weird. Like, one of my students has no lights
on in his house. All his windows are taped up.
That's fucking weird, right? Josh Brolin goes
nowhere near that house until the end of the
movie. The first person to enter this house has
every motive and necessity to enter that house,
and that's James, the homeless guy. And we see
his whole path of why he even decided to go in
there, right? If it was pouring rain, would he
have gone in there? Probably not. If he didn't
just get clocked in the face for stabbing the
cop in the face with his needles. Probably not,
right? He's literally living in the woods. He
probably would have been totally cool just hanging
out there. But he had all this weird shit drive
him towards that house. He goes in it and then
push comes to shove, right? Then Paul goes in
there because Paul is going through all these
other tribulations with his life. And then eventually,
you know, Josh Brolin and... Rose Langmore go
back so I thought that was so fucking well thought
out like I really like James's character and
Paul like I mentioned before just because of
how those two guys were both lying out of their
teeth and they both wanted something to better
their lives paul was more so just trying to maintain
the image he had of like a good life like he's
got a wife he's got a good job his his father
-in -law is his father -in -law we assume he's
probably going to be in line to get a good couple
promotions in that department but he's really
just a piece of shit like cheating on her doing
all this stuff but we see we see why i mean his
wife is kind of annoying or whatever i'm not
condoning that um but then And James, for the
same reason, he just ran out of supply. And he's
like, I need to get high right now. what does
he do he starts trying to accumulate as much
money as he can and i mean that that opening
shot where you switch to james's perspective
because you see him earlier in the film like
trying to haggle justine for like opening the
door like hey i just need like enough money to
get a bus ticket to go see my sister or some
yeah but the first scene you see from his perspective
him calling his family, asking them for money,
while constantly trying to open car doors as
he's walking through the neighborhood. It's perfect.
Yeah, and I like, too, his interaction with Rose
Langmore, too, where he, I just think his character
was really innocent, and he wasn't creepy or
weird in any way. Sure, like, when a homeless
guy's trying to open the door for me when I'm
going to McDonald's in, like, New York, it's
fucking annoying and it's weird. Um, and this
was probably annoying to her. I mean, she doesn't
give a fuck about this guy, but he literally
just wants drugs and he's not trying, he's not
going to like chase her and like rob her or whatever.
Like, yeah, he's, he's burgling, burglarizing
an empty house later on and like carjacking.
He's not a, he's not a perfect person by any
means, but I just think his actions made so much
sense. Yeah. I also thought, um, again coming
from james's perspective when he finally goes
into the house and i'm glad you brought that
up too because you're right when from justine
the way they shift perspectives you learn more
and more like from justine's perspective you're
only from the outside she's peeking in through
one of the newspaper cracks but with james's
character he actually goes in there and you see
what's actually going on in that house let me
ask you a question how many horror movies out
if you were to watch 100 horror movies and and
this is kind of a hard rhetorical to ask but
say another character is in that same scene with
different director i think what 80 90 of the
time that first character is going to go into
that house which she doesn't yeah 100 But again,
the genius of the plot lines for five separate
characters. Exactly. That's some Christopher
Nolan, Quentin Tarantino shit. Yeah. And again,
each character is just imperfect. Like none of
them are perfect. None of them are someone that
you look at and you're like, I'm 1000 % like
rooting for this person. Everyone has their own
little qualms. I thought Archer was the most
solid guy though. he he didn't really do anything
wrong he was just not working really and like
grieving his son but he didn't take anything
to drastic measures i thought originally again
just great camera work and great storytelling
yeah he made it seem like he was going to break
into to her house in the very beginning i don't
know if that was his plan or he was just following
her or whatever they also made it seem like rose
langmore was going to follow um alex and maybe
It would get weird and something. Like when she
starts stalking him at the school in the beginning.
I'm like okay. Is she going to be a little fucking
weird here. Well because they talk. They bring
that up too. Like I think Archer might even bring
it up. At that. When they're having that whole
parent teacher conference thing. Where he's like.
She's had past problems with students. Like she
got fired from her last one. And had to move.
So again all these little things. And again even
with Archer's character. Yes. He reminded me
a lot of Hugh Jackman willing to do anything
to try and find his son. But you see his son
Matthew bullying the shit out of Alex in school.
Yeah. And I'm sure Matthew, like, granted, they
don't go into a lot of the personal life of Archer
and what his relationship is with his son. But
I guarantee there's probably a little underlying
shit there where Matthew is learning, you know,
bully tendencies from his father. Oh, definitely.
Yeah. But to go back to James's perspective,
going into the house, it reminded me a lot of
Justin Long's character in Barbarian, where he's
clearly in a very serious situation here, but
he's just, his mind is so focused on wanting
drugs, wanting to steal. There's two people in
a catatonic state sitting right in front of him,
and he's just like, fuck it, let me go to the
silverware drawer. yeah that was the tape measure
scene for exactly exactly yeah and i loved it
i loved every second of it because zach crager
can do that shit because he made it so yeah it's
not like stolen valor or any any nonsense like
that um i do want to correct what i said before
archer is not the most pure character that we
see it's 1000 alex the kid and The only negative
things you can make on him, and you and I were
talking a little bit about this offline, and
I completely see your point, like I changed my
perspective on this. He agrees to go along with
his crazy Aunt Gladys or whatever, but at a huge
threat to his life, safety, anything he knows.
I mean, this kid is fucking like six years old
or seven, and he's intentionally, I'm sure he
was picked because he's very small, petite kid,
but. I loved this kid, dude, because he was just
so poised and handled everything like just a
G. He is witnessing pure horror at his house
just over the course of about a week during this
movie. And he never sways whatsoever. He's literally
grocery shopping. He's walking home miles to...
A literal cult dungeon of a house where his parents
are zombies. He has no idea what's going on.
There are kids kidnapped at his school that he
unmistakably took part in helping do. But he
was just tricked by his Aunt Gladys. And he's
taking care of all of them. Washing them, feeding
them. I mean, it's insane. I will say, my favorite
storylines or perspectives to follow were the
cop and James. problem because just because there
was a lot of humor there and it was just fun
to watch um but alex's storyline really kind
of put the whole story together seeing this kid
like seeing him interact with his parents when
they were alive and well like the dad really
loving like he had such a great home life and
this parasite of a witch injects herself into
that life and just sucks all the fun all the
life and color out of his life pretty much and
has it so alex is basically her little pawn working
in this dungeon of hers it's it's such a tragic
storyline and even at the end the fact that his
parents are probably never ever going to be the
same yeah like they're just going to be stuck
in that vegetative state um it's honestly pretty
tragic and horrifying but it was all props to
that actor i honestly think zach crager got towards
the end and he was like i might be able to make
this a sequel so i'm not going to completely
wrap it up here because he said like some of
the kids started talking again and we see josh
brolin immediately start talking and he was the
one in the shortest amount of trance yes i would
assume that over the course of time they'll all
regain that but i don't i mean it's obviously
supernatural and it's up to zach zach crager
like who knows the parents might have been under
the trance like too long and their brain is just
zapped yeah one more line or dialect I want to
bring up before we go to cinematography is the
one of the conversations between Paul and James
that I thought was so good when he first arrests
him and I was saying how they're both just like
lying out of their teeth Paul or James originally
is like I was just trying to go to work man like
I forgot my key right which we didn't know at
the time I'm like oh yeah maybe maybe he was
I don't know and uh And Paul, the first thing
he says is, you got anything in your pockets?
And I'm thinking, this dude's trying to just
fucking rob this guy, the cop. Did you think
that too? No. Oh, that's what I took from it.
Because he was already drinking on the job, and
he found some guy who's like a victim if you're
looking to rob somebody. I mean, no one's accounting
for this guy, you know what I mean? Yeah. And
he was already pissed off with all his personal
stuff going on at home. I was just kind of wondering
why he was asking him all that stuff. I get that
James ran from him and did all that stuff before.
But I thought that was just a funny scene. Because
they're both just lying back and forth. And then
we get the confirmation later on. I mean, all
their dialogue was hilarious. When he first sticks
him, he's like, do you have AIDS? He's like,
I don't know. Just Paul lying through his teeth
the whole time, too. He shows up at the bar with
Rose Langmore. And he's like, is it okay if I
hug you? And he doesn't drink in front of her.
He's like, no. He's like, I'm in no rush. I mean,
he literally tells her that he split up with
his wife. Yeah. Yeah. And, and I, I, yeah, it
was just, his lines were very well matriculated.
They, they all were, but he was just an incredible
like lying douchebag, but he, he got, he got
what he deserved. All right. Do you want to do
cinematography? Yeah. So I, I loved it. Obviously
I think the, just the whole, fucking arms running
around was so creepy i saw an interview where
zach crager was just like i thought that thing
looked so weird and creepy so i just told them
to do it and it it definitely did look really
fucking creepy um i like was trying like sometimes
i'll cope with myself when i'm at a horror movie
and try and laugh if there's something that's
like really crazy it's supposed to make me scared
but i'm you know just coping with it But even
when, like, dude, when the kids were fucking
running up that street when we see it happen,
I was getting chills. Like, and I know it's literally
just, you know, 17 actual kids running. Like,
there's no CGI or anything like that. Sorry,
I hit my mic. But the way they're, like, hopping,
too, it just looks so fucking weird. And the
way the Asian... principal is running too when
he cuts it like three times because he's running
so far that was such an effective yeah way to
cut that and make it seem even more fucking weird
and creepy when julia gardner is talking to josh
brolin at the gas station and it just pans with
her eyes looking off into the distance and you
just see benedict long fucking sprinting down
and his eyes are just bulging out because he
just got finished smashing his husband's face
in No, I thought one of the craziest scenes though,
and I'm sure it's being talked about online,
but when Julia Gardner is staking out the house
and she falls asleep in the car. Best scene of
the movie. So many horror, because I was expecting
the jump scare. I was expecting the jump scare.
And again, credits to Zach Kreger here. doesn't
even give you a jump scare but just gives you
chills down your entire body because the suspense
building up was insane you see the mom coming
out the house walking all the way down standing
in front of the door and i expected her to like
smash the window do something crazy nay -naying
all the way down and then you just see her walk
around and then hear her opening the car door
like I know my jaw dropped and I heard so many
audible gasps in the theater when that happened.
Yes. And he kept zooming in on that door to the
house too. Like that weird shot where he's zooming
in on the door. That scene was so fucking good.
I don't care if you're even a horror fan. If
you watch that. And not even to mention just
the time lapses too. And again, creating the
unreliable narrator. rose langmore is sitting
in her car she's staking it out she's got some
buddy walk by her i'm thinking okay maybe maybe
that's alex's mom or something i don't know had
nothing to do with it right it's just some some
stroller and then flashes again it's pitch black
outside but she's been drinking so what do we
know what she's seeing is actually real or not
and then out of literal darkness comes a knife
wielding like zombie yeah It's still from that
same shot. It was just so, so well done. I have
nothing but good things to say about that. Also,
another shot that stuck with me, of course, was
Josh Brolin, his dream sequence, talking to his
son. So emotional. The things he was saying,
you're like, Jesus Christ, this is like a tearjerker.
He's just a father that wants to see his son
again. Doesn't understand why this has happened.
light switches on and it's clown face you're
like jesus christ and of course josh bullen's
reaction to that dream sequence is now so iconic
like i know everyone's talking about that what
the fuck i also liked in that dream sequence
when he actually sees the house and i mean we
get a an actual picture of an AK -47 or whatever
over the house. It is a dream sequence, though.
I thought this was really cool, man. It kind
of reminded me of Enemy, that old David Fincher
movie with... With Jake Gyllenhaal. Yeah, with
that thing that's just constantly appearing.
The giant spider in the sky? That's a weird -ass
movie, dude. I know, but didn't it look exactly
like that? Just like that looming figure in the
sky. I will say when I saw that... like m4 ar
-15 in the sky with the giant 217 on it i was
like what the fuck is going on yeah but i can
make it's a it's a dream like they make it clear
yes yes and he does such a good job of just staying
within those lines like there is supernatural
pieces to it but his movies two of them mind
you right feels so realistic no again uh we talk
about zach we're talking about zachary so much
but again it's just his genius when it comes
to directing. Like, both Barbarian and this movie,
yes, they have supernatural elements to it, but
the movie itself seems so grounded within the
community it's filmed in and within reality that
it seems like it could happen. Right? Like, I
don't think there's some seven -foot giant in
a basement of an Airbnb in, like, a bando in
Detroit right now. But, like, fuck it. It could
happen due to, like... 20 plus fuckings of incest
i mean yeah it's a movie you know at the end
of the day it's it's a movie but it's just really
really good writing and storytelling um along
with just the way he shoots it dude he he doesn't
have one lens he's using he he has all these
different ways of conveying the story we just
talked about the stakeout scene i loved the very
end when i think gladys is getting chased by
the kid zombies basically and it looked like
the last of us kind of right we get we get the
point of view of like season one last of us too
i'll throw that in there um but the girl's running
like a fucking zombie she's running through the
house you can hear her panting you can hear her
socks running on the hardwood DK Metcalf just
chasing down the ride receiver i think that was
filmed out of like an iphone that's what it sounded
like but it was so dope dude like that's that
the way he shot that was really cool and he just
is this guy is one of the best directors alive
right now like and we're gonna just keep talking
about him here but um i yeah the cinematography
was so good the music was very good too they
had that weird almost like rom -com intro song
so that's the thing i actually enjoyed that yeah
like Because, again, based on the trailers, you
would think that opening scene would be hella
creepy. But it almost felt like a fantasy. That
these kids are just walking out the house, running
down the street, and disappearing into the night.
It was romanticized. Yes, exactly. And yes, it
was weird. It might not have matched the tone
that people might have thought going into the
movie. But I thought it was a great way to set
it. and then of course then it cuts to then following
the different perspectives it wouldn't have worked
either had he not spent so much time pumping
that trailer to every known market in the world
because we all knew the general plot if he just
started it with it being 217 that night and watching
all the kids run out and playing creepy music
it would have been like okay yeah we get it but
we all knew that yeah you you can't say all this
shit about the trailer and and then just repeat
it because a lot of movies do that and then we're
like all right We're not going to watch the trailer
now, but I'll watch his trailers for sure going
forward. All right, do you want to do the writing?
Yeah. Okay. So, yeah, we talked about the characters'
POVs. I mean, it was very well done. This was
a very nonlinear storyline, too, but everything
connected. Everything made sense, and that's
why we're both in the high eights here for a
horror movie, which is seemingly impossible to
do because we've done a bunch of them on the
channel now. And this hits all the bars, man.
This movie was phenomenal. You can poke holes
at, I guess, Alex being a kid and going along
with his crazy aunt. But I don't think that's
a plot hole. Yeah, no, it's not. Because he's
a kid that loves his parents. And he sees this
lady force his parents to stab themselves in
the face with a fork. Like, of course, he's going
to do anything he can to be like, no, no, stop
that. Like, I'll do whatever. Right. And I saw
an interview where Zach Kreger says like, yeah,
there might be like a couple plot holes here
and there, but like, who cares really? Like the
whole, the cop car sitting outside the house
the whole time. Like the fact that he doesn't
show up back at the station and no one's like,
where the fuck is Paul at? Like, no, that should
probably investigate this, but that's true. But
that was also the same. I believe, um, Josh Brolin
and, judy is it judy garland what's her last
name julia garner julia garner julie garland's
another famous actress i just she's older though
but when they show up i think it's dawn of that
same night so yeah i i hear you there probably
would have been another cop on scene sooner than
that but i just give him the nod because he spent
so much time showing us how paul got there in
the first place and it all made so much sense
and paul's also not he doesn't have his dude
doesn't have his fucking camera on remember yeah
he takes his camera off when he starts chasing
james you could throw that in there and he i
don't think his fucking commissioner gives a
fuck where he is yeah probably not you know i
think he'd skip town because he does not want
to show his face around that precinct again so
i will say though big credit to the writing and
i'm glad you touched on this earlier When you're
watching this and you're seeing the multiple
perspectives and you get a glimpse into the life
of the different people, right? The principal,
Benedict Wong. You get a glimpse into the druggie's
life. But each character and each perspective
that you follow adds a little bit more to the
overarching storyline, right? With Benedict Wong's
character... you see how Aunt Gladys is actually
manipulating and hypnotizing these people. You
see what she does with his ribbons to the stick
and then snaps it. So that's where you get a
glimpse into how she's actually controlling these
people. With James' character, like we mentioned
earlier, you actually get to step foot in the
house with him and see what's going on inside
versus Justine earlier, who's just on the outside
kind of scoping it out, just talking to Alex.
So, and then of course it... wraps it all up
with alex in the end showing exactly what the
fuck has been going on yeah um so i thought the
the writing there the the pacing and the multiple
perspectives was absolutely perfect and we don't
see that enough in movies i want to say too that
after the first segue when the kid is narrating
the opening monologue I don't think anybody else
had lines up until that point. I think it was
just the narrator, and then you had the gavel,
or it probably wasn't a gavel, but whatever they
were using to convene at the school for that
board meeting, it went right there. I'd probably
have to watch it a third time to get that for
sure, but I'm pretty sure there's not actual
dialogue until we see Judy's name come on the
screen, and then it just takes off. Just Dean's
name. justine judy dude i'm i'm never gonna get
get this girl's name correct but she's a fantastic
actress um yeah all the marvel actors decide
to convene for this movie the um The top Letterboxd
comment I saw was, like, my favorite person that
they didn't find in this movie was Pedro Pascal.
Yeah, I saw that shit, too. You told me this.
Pedro Pascal was rumored to be the Archer character
that Josh Brolin ended up playing, who I thought
did a fantastic job. I'm not... Pedro Pascal
would have been fucking awesome in this movie,
though, dude. He would have been. You know he
would have been. He would have been so good.
But I'm tired of seeing his face a little bit.
It probably would have taken more away from the
overall story because we would have been like,
okay, that role was so good. We'd probably be
hearing Oscar here, Oscar there, whatever. But
Josh Brolin was fucking awesome, too. I thought
he was fantastic. In no way, shape, or form made
the movie worse or better, but Pedro Pascal would
have been so good in that role. There's something
about Josh Brolin that just like... exemplifies
stern dad like i don't know what it was but he
he captured that role really well again it reminded
me of hugh jackman from prisoners he's just a
really stereotypical traditional american man
that's just what he looks like yes um then no
like bad bad connotation to that but yeah so
like We've both touched on this, the writing.
I think it was very well done. I think this movie
overall was really well done. So our final score
here, we went with an 8 .9 out of 10 for weapons.
That's got to be the highest horror movie we've
done, or I guess horror slash thriller. But you
can find all of our reviews on our website. It'll
be linked in our YouTube, our TikTok, all of
our social media sites. And we'll be back next
Tuesday with another one. Deuces. Peace out.