August 8, 2025 • 7 mins
The two movies that are coming out in the theaters this weekend are “Weapons “and “Freakier Friday! Joe rates how these movies could perform.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I always love having Joe Neumeyer on. He's our w
(00:03):
ol Laura movie Minute host, also a film journalist from
way back, and it's always interesting to have him on
to talk about a movie. After we had Johnny Olegzinsky on,
and he does a movie. He doesn't always do movies, Johnny,
Johnny olegsenk. He doesn't always do movies, but he did
one this week, and it's the same movie, Joe, that
(00:23):
you are talking about. So we have this clash of
the critics sometimes during the week, and I love to
hear your review as compared to his. So I won't
even tell you what he said. But you're talking about
a horror movie this week.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Right, Uh yeah, Well, there's two films coming out this week,
and obviously you know, there's something for audiences and there's
something for you, something for family audiences, and there's something
for maybe just slightly older audiences. R Sospec. Johnny was
talking about Weapons, this film that's come out that has
gotten pretty good reviews, kind of shockingly. So if you
ask me, I really did like it. I'm giving it
(00:56):
one star. I found it sort of like a subpar
imitation of sort of one of those Jordan Peele movies
like Get Out or US. But I can understand where
where some critics might find it kind of fresh. I'll get,
you know, just a quick little recap. So it takes
place in a town and one morning, seventeen kids at
two seventeen am all get out of their house and
(01:18):
run away from home. They kind of run down the
street in this kind of scary way, almost looking like airplanes.
They put their their arms out, and that's I'm not
giving anything away. That's in the poster. That's the whole setup.
And and the movie unfolds as you try and find
out what happened to these kids, where did they go?
You know it was you know, as the poster makes
it look like could be aliens like Children of the
(01:39):
Damned or something, who knows what it is. Without getting
anything away, I just found it. I found it very slow.
I found it kind of just drags on. I didn't
find any of the scares really that scary. And there's
a there's a sort of a nice little interesting subplot
that they're kind of going after a teacher a little
bit like was it her faultcause all the kids are
(01:59):
in one classroom that teachers say about Julia Garner. You know,
she's fine. I didn't think that the movie really was
that was that scary though. And Josh Brolin shows up.
I always like Josh Brolin shows up. He shouts at
people a little bit, which is always fun. But I'm
giving it one star. It's got a few creepy moments.
But I really I suspect Johnny probably, like a lot
of critics, I liked it a little bit more than
(02:20):
I did. And I think that's I think that's maybe
kind of due to maybe the resurgence in horror film
chic that's going on right now. I think people are
really kind of open to this indie horror stuff that's
going on. Is that what Johnny said?
Speaker 1 (02:32):
It's something amazing. You two are so consistent. Everything you dislike,
he likes everything he dislikes.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
You like.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
It's incredible that we get that difference of opinion. Yeah,
he liked it a lot. He gave it three and
a half stars.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Yeah, I give it one. I mean, obviously, every the
different strokes different folks. I think that, you know, And also,
I gotta be honest, I'm not I'm interested in horror
films that sort of delve a little deeper that kind
of find interesting things, or at least a new angle once,
you know. I was just talking to somebody the other
day about like the great horror films of the eighties,
movies like The Fly or The Saying, or things like
that Invasion of the Body Snatchers or from the late seventies,
(03:09):
and those remakes of of of horror films did something
new and something interesting. I find that the the horror
resurgence that's going on right now not not that interesting.
I find it really sort of it's pared down and
it's and it's bared to the bone, but it's not
that interesting. It doesn't have anything really to say. And
this film doesn't really have anything to say. It's great,
it's great that you want to just make something to
scare people, but it's also just not that scary.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
By the way, is the Exorcist right?
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Oh? Absolutely absolutely. I think we've talked about before. I've
seen it once. I never can see it again. I saw,
you know, I saw when I was a kid, uh
and and I and it was nominated for Best Picture.
It was the scaries some of all time. I never
need to see The Exorcist again. It's too terrifying.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
It's funny. I saw when I was a kid too,
and I met my neighbors. I've they new neighbors had
moved in. My parents weren't home. I was not going
to in the house by myself, and I went next
door and knocked on the door and met my neighbors
and they they let me stay there.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
So heads were spinning around. I think it was yeah,
as long as our heads weren't spinning, it was they
were safer than the movie. The other movie that's out
this weekend. I want to throw it out there too
for families, because it's also not that good. I'm getting
a two stars. It's Freaky or Friday. It's the sequel
to the Freaky Friday remake from two thousand and three
that Jamie Lee curtis a veteran of horror films. Jamie
(04:29):
lac created from Halloween and Halloween two, and she was
the scream Queen back in the seventies and eighties. So
in two thousand and three, as you recall, she and
Lindsay Lohan did a remake of the Disney film Freaky Friday,
which I actually liked. I thought it was a fun remake.
Back in two thousand and three. This is the sequel
to this over twenty years later, twenty two years later,
and it kind of doubles the stuff that's going on,
(04:53):
all the magic, but it's not that magical of a film.
They switched bodies with Lindsay Lohan's teenage daughter and her friend,
and they kind of have to ever even get back
into the same bodies. It's, you know, half the fun
but double the complications. But I'm giving it two stars
because the two of them, Lohan and Curtis, are really
old pros. They really do great And Lindsay Lohan obviously
(05:14):
has had you know, lots of issues and problems over
the last twenty years or so. But when you she's
really good. She's good in this film, and she's good.
She was good in the original too, and some of
the things that she did in the in the early aughts,
it's just that obviously her personal life derailed her when
but when she's obviously got a role like this, she
can click. So for families, if you want to go
see it, it's really it's a safe film for families.
(05:36):
It's just not that it's not that good for audiences
to really kind of get into so two stars for
Freaky or Friday. But it's a remake of a of
a a sequel to a remake that was already made
like two or three times before. But by the way,
speaking of horror film, there was a there was just
there was a crazy thing called Freaky back in twenty twenty.
I just thought of this right now. That was sort
of a twist on Freaky Friday. But did it with
(05:57):
Vince Vaughn as a serial killer and he and a
young girl switch bodies or something like that. That was
I thought that was kind of an interesting, weird twist
on this whole thing and brings everything full circle to
talk about horror films and Freaky Friday.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
If I've just been wondering when Hollywood's going to come
up with something new. They've been so safe in doing
all of these remakes. I think they're afraid to lose
money anymore. But I can't imagine this is successful. I mean,
I know they get some people because they remember the
first movie to come back, but the box office has
been horrible.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Yeah, no, it has been. I mean it's obviously even
the things like Fantastic Four, which started off really high,
made a lot of money. Then dropped like sixty or
seventy percent in its second weekend, which is always a
sign that you know, obviously everyone's sort of seeing everything
on its first weekend. But when there's a big drop
off like that, it means word of mouth isn't that good.
And I didn't mind Fantastic four. I mean, and for
what it is, it's it's okay, it's the best version
(06:51):
of that story of that comic book movie. But yeah,
when it was a huge drop off like that, word
of mouth as people are walking out after the first
weekend and tell people think, don't go, don't go, or
people aren't going back again. So there's a huge drop off,
and there's you know, there's gonna be sequels coming up
this fall. We're gonna see what's going on. But exactly like,
there's nothing original sort of comes out of Hollywood, and
when it does, it doesn't it doesn't seem to do
(07:13):
as well. It's unfortunate. Maybe audiences don't know quite what
it is and Hollywood doesn't quite know how to make
them anymore, you know, how to really make a fresh sect.
F one was interesting, but it also had lots of
different elements that were that were similar to other movies.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
You know, the best and most interesting stuff now are
the new series on Netflix and on Apple, and they're
the best things that are out there. It's a shame.
I love to go to the movies, but they're not
making it really easy for me to go there. Joe Neumeier,
film journalist and wo R Movie Minute host with us
every Friday at nine to thirty nine. Thank you so much, Joe,
(07:49):
Talk to you next week.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Talk Toler, Larry.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Thanks
I always love having Joe Neumeyer on. He's our w
(00:03):
ol Laura movie Minute host, also a film journalist from
way back, and it's always interesting to have him on
to talk about a movie. After we had Johnny Olegzinsky on,
and he does a movie. He doesn't always do movies, Johnny,
Johnny olegsenk. He doesn't always do movies, but he did
one this week, and it's the same movie, Joe, that
(00:23):
you are talking about. So we have this clash of
the critics sometimes during the week, and I love to
hear your review as compared to his. So I won't
even tell you what he said. But you're talking about
a horror movie this week.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Right, Uh yeah, Well, there's two films coming out this week,
and obviously you know, there's something for audiences and there's
something for you, something for family audiences, and there's something
for maybe just slightly older audiences. R Sospec. Johnny was
talking about Weapons, this film that's come out that has
gotten pretty good reviews, kind of shockingly. So if you
ask me, I really did like it. I'm giving it
(00:56):
one star. I found it sort of like a subpar
imitation of sort of one of those Jordan Peele movies
like Get Out or US. But I can understand where
where some critics might find it kind of fresh. I'll get,
you know, just a quick little recap. So it takes
place in a town and one morning, seventeen kids at
two seventeen am all get out of their house and
(01:18):
run away from home. They kind of run down the
street in this kind of scary way, almost looking like airplanes.
They put their their arms out, and that's I'm not
giving anything away. That's in the poster. That's the whole setup.
And and the movie unfolds as you try and find
out what happened to these kids, where did they go?
You know it was you know, as the poster makes
it look like could be aliens like Children of the
(01:39):
Damned or something, who knows what it is. Without getting
anything away, I just found it. I found it very slow.
I found it kind of just drags on. I didn't
find any of the scares really that scary. And there's
a there's a sort of a nice little interesting subplot
that they're kind of going after a teacher a little
bit like was it her faultcause all the kids are
(01:59):
in one classroom that teachers say about Julia Garner. You know,
she's fine. I didn't think that the movie really was
that was that scary though. And Josh Brolin shows up.
I always like Josh Brolin shows up. He shouts at
people a little bit, which is always fun. But I'm
giving it one star. It's got a few creepy moments.
But I really I suspect Johnny probably, like a lot
of critics, I liked it a little bit more than
(02:20):
I did. And I think that's I think that's maybe
kind of due to maybe the resurgence in horror film
chic that's going on right now. I think people are
really kind of open to this indie horror stuff that's
going on. Is that what Johnny said?
Speaker 1 (02:32):
It's something amazing. You two are so consistent. Everything you dislike,
he likes everything he dislikes.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
You like.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
It's incredible that we get that difference of opinion. Yeah,
he liked it a lot. He gave it three and
a half stars.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Yeah, I give it one. I mean, obviously, every the
different strokes different folks. I think that, you know, And also,
I gotta be honest, I'm not I'm interested in horror
films that sort of delve a little deeper that kind
of find interesting things, or at least a new angle once,
you know. I was just talking to somebody the other
day about like the great horror films of the eighties,
movies like The Fly or The Saying, or things like
that Invasion of the Body Snatchers or from the late seventies,
(03:09):
and those remakes of of of horror films did something
new and something interesting. I find that the the horror
resurgence that's going on right now not not that interesting.
I find it really sort of it's pared down and
it's and it's bared to the bone, but it's not
that interesting. It doesn't have anything really to say. And
this film doesn't really have anything to say. It's great,
it's great that you want to just make something to
scare people, but it's also just not that scary.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
By the way, is the Exorcist right?
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Oh? Absolutely absolutely. I think we've talked about before. I've
seen it once. I never can see it again. I saw,
you know, I saw when I was a kid, uh
and and I and it was nominated for Best Picture.
It was the scaries some of all time. I never
need to see The Exorcist again. It's too terrifying.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
It's funny. I saw when I was a kid too,
and I met my neighbors. I've they new neighbors had
moved in. My parents weren't home. I was not going
to in the house by myself, and I went next
door and knocked on the door and met my neighbors
and they they let me stay there.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
So heads were spinning around. I think it was yeah,
as long as our heads weren't spinning, it was they
were safer than the movie. The other movie that's out
this weekend. I want to throw it out there too
for families, because it's also not that good. I'm getting
a two stars. It's Freaky or Friday. It's the sequel
to the Freaky Friday remake from two thousand and three
that Jamie Lee curtis a veteran of horror films. Jamie
(04:29):
lac created from Halloween and Halloween two, and she was
the scream Queen back in the seventies and eighties. So
in two thousand and three, as you recall, she and
Lindsay Lohan did a remake of the Disney film Freaky Friday,
which I actually liked. I thought it was a fun remake.
Back in two thousand and three. This is the sequel
to this over twenty years later, twenty two years later,
and it kind of doubles the stuff that's going on,
(04:53):
all the magic, but it's not that magical of a film.
They switched bodies with Lindsay Lohan's teenage daughter and her friend,
and they kind of have to ever even get back
into the same bodies. It's, you know, half the fun
but double the complications. But I'm giving it two stars
because the two of them, Lohan and Curtis, are really
old pros. They really do great And Lindsay Lohan obviously
(05:14):
has had you know, lots of issues and problems over
the last twenty years or so. But when you she's
really good. She's good in this film, and she's good.
She was good in the original too, and some of
the things that she did in the in the early aughts,
it's just that obviously her personal life derailed her when
but when she's obviously got a role like this, she
can click. So for families, if you want to go
see it, it's really it's a safe film for families.
(05:36):
It's just not that it's not that good for audiences
to really kind of get into so two stars for
Freaky or Friday. But it's a remake of a of
a a sequel to a remake that was already made
like two or three times before. But by the way,
speaking of horror film, there was a there was just
there was a crazy thing called Freaky back in twenty twenty.
I just thought of this right now. That was sort
of a twist on Freaky Friday. But did it with
(05:57):
Vince Vaughn as a serial killer and he and a
young girl switch bodies or something like that. That was
I thought that was kind of an interesting, weird twist
on this whole thing and brings everything full circle to
talk about horror films and Freaky Friday.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
If I've just been wondering when Hollywood's going to come
up with something new. They've been so safe in doing
all of these remakes. I think they're afraid to lose
money anymore. But I can't imagine this is successful. I mean,
I know they get some people because they remember the
first movie to come back, but the box office has
been horrible.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Yeah, no, it has been. I mean it's obviously even
the things like Fantastic Four, which started off really high,
made a lot of money. Then dropped like sixty or
seventy percent in its second weekend, which is always a
sign that you know, obviously everyone's sort of seeing everything
on its first weekend. But when there's a big drop
off like that, it means word of mouth isn't that good.
And I didn't mind Fantastic four. I mean, and for
what it is, it's it's okay, it's the best version
(06:51):
of that story of that comic book movie. But yeah,
when it was a huge drop off like that, word
of mouth as people are walking out after the first
weekend and tell people think, don't go, don't go, or
people aren't going back again. So there's a huge drop off,
and there's you know, there's gonna be sequels coming up
this fall. We're gonna see what's going on. But exactly like,
there's nothing original sort of comes out of Hollywood, and
when it does, it doesn't it doesn't seem to do
(07:13):
as well. It's unfortunate. Maybe audiences don't know quite what
it is and Hollywood doesn't quite know how to make
them anymore, you know, how to really make a fresh sect.
F one was interesting, but it also had lots of
different elements that were that were similar to other movies.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
You know, the best and most interesting stuff now are
the new series on Netflix and on Apple, and they're
the best things that are out there. It's a shame.
I love to go to the movies, but they're not
making it really easy for me to go there. Joe Neumeier,
film journalist and wo R Movie Minute host with us
every Friday at nine to thirty nine. Thank you so much, Joe,
(07:49):
Talk to you next week.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Talk Toler, Larry.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Thanks
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