October 10, 2025 • 34 mins
A whole class walks into the night at 2:17 a.m.—and never comes back. That single, eerie beat kicks off our deep dive into “Weapons,” where suspicion spreads faster than facts and the adults who should protect kids keep choosing convenience over care. We talk about how Zach Cregger builds dread without hand-holding, the way Julia Garner’s performance keeps our doubts alive, and why the film’s best moments trust silence, angles, and shadow to do the heavy lifting.
From the teacher’s boundary-crossing choices to the town’s instant need for a scapegoat, we follow the moral fallout that gives this story its bite. We argue over the much-debated cop subplot—tight thematic mirror or needless detour—and unpack the movie’s minimalist approach to blood magic. The aunt figure fascinates: part charmer, part predator, manipulating through objects, hair, and grief while the system looks the other way. We also trace the quiet kid’s arc from passive observer to decisive actor, a counterpoint to the grownups’ noise that leaves real scars in the epilogue.
If you loved Barbarian’s tension but want a slower, stranger hum that rewards attention on a second watch, this conversation is your map. We hit craft (composition, darkness, sound), credibility (school policies, realism), and context (prequel rumors, the new Resident Evil reboot) while returning to the film’s core question: what happens when a community mistakes blame for care? Press play, tell us where you stand on the ending, and if you’re into more smart horror chats, tap follow, download for later, and drop your take in the comments.
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SPEAKER_04 (00:01):
Oh yeah, I guess I don't have to do anything.
SPEAKER_02 (00:04):
And that's how we're gonna start after four months of
being away.
SPEAKER_04 (00:10):
Well, for for Cass and I, it's been it's been it's
been a while.
It's been at least like a yearor so.
SPEAKER_02 (00:20):
Really?
I think so, yeah.
SPEAKER_04 (00:22):
Something like that.
Has it been a year?
SPEAKER_02 (00:24):
I'm gonna go look.
I'm gonna go look real quick.
SPEAKER_04 (00:28):
I'm looking right now.
SPEAKER_00 (00:29):
It certainly has been a hot minute.
But we're back.
Time off.
We needed that time off.
We needed some time off.
SPEAKER_04 (00:39):
Um we're all burnt out.
SPEAKER_00 (00:40):
I think I'm still burnt out, but you know what?
That's fine.
It's fine.
SPEAKER_04 (00:45):
It won't let me look at anything.
So that's weird.
Oh well.
SPEAKER_00 (00:51):
I can find out in a second.
SPEAKER_04 (00:53):
Well, hold on.
This doesn't matter.
Anyway, hello.
SPEAKER_00 (00:57):
It doesn't matter.
We're back.
SPEAKER_04 (00:58):
We're we're well, kinda.
Um the last episode okay, ithasn't been a year.
It's been May.
SPEAKER_02 (01:08):
Yeah, I was gonna say it's definitely has not been
a year.
SPEAKER_04 (01:11):
Five months.
It feels like a year.
It feels like a year.
It feels like we haven't donethis in a really long time
because we haven't.
Has anything changed for us?
SPEAKER_00 (01:23):
Uh no.
SPEAKER_04 (01:24):
Five months.
SPEAKER_00 (01:25):
Oh my god.
I'm horror.
SPEAKER_04 (01:31):
I passed 500 subscribers on YouTube.
That doesn't really mean shitthough.
SPEAKER_02 (01:36):
I open to Etsy.
Nice.
Yeah, we've been exciting, guys.
Um today we're back with whatare we talking about?
Weapons?
Weapons.
Sorry, we were also talkingabout talking about sinners.
SPEAKER_04 (01:53):
So I didn't watch sinners.
SPEAKER_02 (01:55):
Yeah, I plan on watching it this weekend, but
but we watched weapons.
SPEAKER_04 (01:59):
Well, it's good that we're not talking about sinners
because Tanya and I did notwatch the movie because that
wasn't the agreed-upon movie inthe first place.
SPEAKER_02 (02:07):
Look, I've watched it twice.
Nice.
We'll get there.
We'll get there.
But today we'll talk aboutweapons and yeah.
SPEAKER_04 (02:16):
So weapons is directed by Zach Kregger.
Uh he was the director ofBarbarian, which was a movie
that I definitely recommend.
We didn't talk about it on thepodcast, but I I really liked I
liked that movie.
SPEAKER_00 (02:29):
I liked that movie too.
SPEAKER_04 (02:31):
Yeah.
And also has Justin Long in it,and this movie has Justin Long
for a couple seconds.
He's in it, but he's not like init, you know, like how he was in
Barbarian.
SPEAKER_00 (02:42):
But yeah.
SPEAKER_04 (02:43):
Um, so Zach Krager, he he was in uh The Whitest Kids
You Know, and he has a tributeto uh one of the guys, his name
was Trevor, and it's the scenein Weapons where uh brings out a
plate of hot dogs.
There's like seven hot dogs onthe plate.
That's the tribute to himbecause it's like a whitest kids
(03:05):
you know uh joke, I believe.
Oh I wasn't super into that.
I have friends that were intoit, so uh yeah.
Um but anyway, weapons.
Last night at 217 a.m., everychild from Mrs.
Gandhi's class woke up, got outof bed, went downstairs, opened
the front door, walked into thedark, and they never came back.
(03:28):
When all but one child from thesame class mysteriously vanished
on the same night at exactly thesame time, a community is left
questioning who or what isbehind their disappearance.
SPEAKER_02 (03:39):
Uh and they blame the teacher.
SPEAKER_04 (03:42):
It's crazy that uh Julia Garner, the main chick in
this movie, looks like JustinTimberlake from the year 2000.
SPEAKER_01 (03:53):
Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_05 (03:56):
That's all I was thinking.
SPEAKER_00 (03:58):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_04 (03:59):
She so Julia Garner was in a couple other movies
that we watched for the podcast.
She was in Wolfman and Apartment7A, and she's a really good
actress.
Yeah, I like her acting.
Uh she's also apparently theSilver Surfer.
SPEAKER_05 (04:15):
Yes.
SPEAKER_02 (04:16):
In Fantastic Four, which uh fantastic movie.
I like it.
SPEAKER_05 (04:23):
Do you have those Fantastic Four skins in uh
Fortnite?
SPEAKER_02 (04:26):
Oh I did hear about that.
I was gonna make a foreskinjoke.
I just didn't know.
That was gonna get there.
SPEAKER_04 (04:35):
Uh, but but yeah, she's she's really honestly,
she's great in everything thatshe's been in.
Um I haven't seen everythingelse that she's been in, though,
but they I so I don't know howyou guys feel about this movie,
but I really liked it.
SPEAKER_05 (04:50):
Uh I I like when the horror movies have just like a
little bit of like mystery goingon too.
Like I want it to be scary, butI want to I want to be like
intrigued a little, like, oh,what is causing the spooky?
SPEAKER_02 (05:03):
I love um the the twist.
I I just I like the chaos in thebeginning of where nobody knows
what happened, so they're justpointing fingers um and blaming
people that really have nothingto do with the blame.
SPEAKER_04 (05:24):
Danny, if you touch your fucking mouse one more
time, I'm blaming bongo cats.
SPEAKER_02 (05:29):
Leave me be.
SPEAKER_05 (05:31):
Oh my god.
SPEAKER_02 (05:33):
Did you guys miss this chaos?
SPEAKER_04 (05:35):
Oh my god.
Um but I like the um it's likeit's like watching a band play a
reunion show and they all hateeach other.
SPEAKER_02 (05:45):
We don't hate each other.
Let's specify that.
SPEAKER_04 (05:49):
Oh boy, I can't wait to watch Oasis play together.
Oh yeah, that's right.
They hate each other.
SPEAKER_02 (05:54):
Um But I like um just the chaos, like and like it
felt like actual.
Like I think the actual theactors did a great um job just
like feeling that like theconfusion and anger that they
have.
Um, I do like question why theact the main actress, uh Lily, I
(06:18):
think her name was, right?
Um just like wants to talk.
Like I understand she wants totalk to the woman.
Justine.
All right, who the fuck wasLily?
SPEAKER_04 (06:28):
You should have known that because my name is
Justin and that's close.
How could you?
SPEAKER_02 (06:33):
Oh, I'm thinking of I'm thinking of the old lady
Lily.
SPEAKER_04 (06:36):
I'm thinking of that's that's not the main
character.
No, but I'm pretty sure her nameshe is a problem.
She is a problem.
I think her name was Gladys.
SPEAKER_02 (06:46):
Gladys Lily, yeah.
Um, but so Justine, she um I dofind it problematic.
I understand where she comesfrom, where she wants to talk to
the one kid that didn'tdisappear in her class, but she
needs to like assess thesituation.
She really does, yeah.
SPEAKER_04 (07:05):
See, I see, but the thing is too, is that I I think
because of how weird it was, sheI mean, our our psychosis in
general will throw us into somereally weird places and justify
anything.
So I I get it that she's like, Ineed some kind of answer because
in in human nature, we want tojustify something happening for
(07:31):
a reason.
Like, it can't just be fornothing.
It I need some kind of reason ofwhy this happened, and so she's
just trying to justify, like,no, what I'm doing is normal
because I need this and I comefirst on this.
SPEAKER_00 (07:47):
And yeah, no, she knows that he like knows
something, like, as the onlyother like person in the room,
like she doesn't have answers,he's the only other one there's
everyone through his window,too.
Yeah, but like also all of theother adults, like literally in
(08:08):
the room and figuratively, arejust like, oh, he's been through
a traumatic event, like, youknow, oh, he's not talking, he's
traumatized, blah, blah, blah.
Like, they're basically justlike ignoring him for the most
part, um, and like not reallydealing with the situation.
Also, my take on this movie wasinterested at first, got really
(08:32):
bored.
Oh, good, that's the plot twist.
Like, yeah, they did kind oflike shit that pissed me off.
Um, especially watching thismovie with Kyle, who um like
works in schools and works withteachers and stuff.
(08:53):
One, uh, the main character,like it is a huge no-no that you
give a kid a ride home fromschool, uh, which is like
something that like.
SPEAKER_04 (09:03):
They do they do say that too.
They were like, you were notsupposed to do that.
SPEAKER_00 (09:07):
Yeah, uh, she got fired from her first job for
that.
So, like on one hand, I'm like,yes, okay, uh like they're
including this to like sort ofplant the seed that like maybe
she's not a great person, butlike she was doing this, like,
you know, to be kind to get thiskid home, but like she's a rule
(09:31):
breaker, so like what else isshe doing?
So, like they're putting this inthere to add suspicion for us
when it's like okay, well, we'reclearly like trying to point the
blame at the teacher here, likegoing real hard at it in the
beginning, and it's like, okay,well, obviously she's not the
one who did it, so like, cool.
Um, and then like the um thelittle boy when he was like left
(09:55):
at the school alone at onepoint, like, and he ends up like
walking home.
Um, if this is like moderntimes, which there's not really
an era um in the movie, and soit is sort of assumed modern.
At least I assumed it wasmodern.
SPEAKER_04 (10:13):
Yeah, because they're using like they're using
smartphones, I believe.
SPEAKER_00 (10:17):
Yeah.
So he would have never beenallowed to walk home like that
without like expressedpermission from a parent, um,
which like we kind of clearlydon't get.
Um, like somebody there wouldhave been other adults around
like watching him and likemaking sure he was okay and he
(10:41):
would have not been able allowedto walk home on his own.
Um was really bored with thewhole cop sequence.
Um it is really funny to me thattime and time again, any time
that we are shown a cop in ahorror movie, they're fucking
useless.
Um I like that it was a trope.
(11:03):
Um I don't think his entirething was even necessary.
Like, we already saw the kind oflike drug addict homeless guy
like in other clips.
And like that entire likechapter of the two of them could
have just been cut out and thenjust like cut to the drug addict
person seeing Mikey's house.
(11:25):
Is that his name?
I can't remember what the fuckthe kids were.
SPEAKER_04 (11:27):
Well, the the reason that he even got into the house
though was because of the cop.
So the cop needed to be therefor him to get into the drug.
SPEAKER_00 (11:34):
Yeah, but like well, I mean he got into the house
before, but it was like, hey, Ifound the kids, and that's why
he needed I know, but like theentire sequence leading up to
that with the like the scufflebetween the two of them and him
like punching the guy and allthat, like that didn't add
(11:56):
anything to the story for me.
SPEAKER_04 (11:58):
No, uh I feel he was more comic relief than anything
because like I found thesituation that that's the only
thing I could like truly thinkof because like other than when
he becomes a doll andaccidentally like kills himself
um at the end, um he thought itwas really funny when um I think
(12:20):
it was Josh Brolin's characterjust picking him up and
constantly like throwing him,like the the drug addict
character.
Yeah, like he just and it justgets back up again and just
starts running out again.
He keeps I I thought that partwas really funny.
SPEAKER_02 (12:35):
I laughed pretty hard when he yelled at him.
Uh the uh guy was trying to giveknowledge, like a tip off that
he thinks he knows where all thekids are, and the cop's just
like, I told you to fuck off andlike get the fuck out of here.
SPEAKER_01 (12:52):
I was like, what the fuck is happening?
This is great.
SPEAKER_00 (12:56):
Like, see, I would have been much more interested
in that interaction if like wehad never gotten the like uh
like the drug addict, liketrying to rob the place and then
the cop being bored and likechasing him down and like you
know, trying to arrest him andthen getting stabbed.
Well, he wasn't bored foranything.
SPEAKER_04 (13:16):
I mean, he the guy was like breaking the law.
He was trying to break thewater.
SPEAKER_00 (13:19):
He was breaking the law, but the cop was also bored.
Like the cop got lucky.
Yeah, but like luckyhappenstance that the cop
happened to be driving by andlook down that alley and go, oh,
that guy's trying to break inright there.
SPEAKER_04 (13:34):
Like I mean, I feel like cops see some pretty wild
shit anyway.
SPEAKER_00 (13:39):
But like, I think it would have been a lot funnier
and more interesting to be alike you know, experience the
the drug addict uh scoping outthe kid's house.
Like, that would have been justlike the opening chapter to
that.
Like, all right, we know he's adrug addict, we've seen him in
his like little tent orwhatever.
(14:00):
Um scope out the house, becausewe already know the house is
abandoned because of what's herface, goes in, breaks in, has
his whole experience in there,sees the kids, and then he goes
and tries to tell the cops, andthen you have like this conflict
between the cops and him.
Like, it would have been like,oh, okay, clearly he's had a
run-in before.
Like, I don't think we needed tosee the conflict with the cop.
(14:23):
Like, drug addicts always haveconflicts with cops.
It just it I feel like it addedan an extra layer that we didn't
need.
It was just like there was toothere's too many storylines.
SPEAKER_04 (14:41):
Like I feel like the storylines wrapped up pretty
well though, and then like I I Ididn't I mean, like I I didn't
feel like any part of the moviefelt like it shouldn't have been
there.
SPEAKER_02 (14:54):
I uh I kind of see like see what Cass is saying,
and I do like agree, like therewas too like not much with the
um like him breaking into thatplace, like he wasn't really we
didn't need that information.
It was unneeded information,like it doesn't change the
storyline no matter what, if wetook out what he was doing and
(15:15):
when he ran into him or not.
Um and uh I think like the copcan stay in it because like I
mean there is a pastrelationship between our main
girl Justine and the um policeofficer.
SPEAKER_00 (15:34):
Yeah, like the copying in the movie is fine,
but like I just I feel like hisentire chapter of chasing down
the drug addict was meh.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_04 (15:46):
But like I said, I I think it him encountering like
the drug addict and stuff,because like I I think I think
the main point of the movie isuh it seems like nobody actually
cares about these kids becausethey're all so preoccupied with
their own shit, and whenanyone's trying to get to the
kids, so they're they're wantingto do something else instead.
(16:08):
And I think that's the wholething of like you guys say you
care about the kids, but likewhat the fuck are you even
doing?
SPEAKER_02 (16:15):
Yeah.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_04 (16:17):
Um that's what I gathered from it.
I could be way off on it.
Um I didn't really get this thesymbolism of the the the actual
like weapon coming up from thehouse.
That part was I I was like, Ifeel like I should I feel like
it's really obvious what this orwhat we're saying here, but like
(16:38):
I don't know what we're sayinghere, and I feel I felt really
stupid.
It's like I was like, I shouldknow what they're saying.
It's and like I said, it'sprobably really obvious.
SPEAKER_02 (16:46):
And if anyone wants saying like what everything
meant for it, but um I do findit um like how horrible is it to
get arrested, and then the copthat's the only way out of the
car locks you in the car andthen is just gone for hours as
you're stuck in there.
SPEAKER_00 (17:06):
Yeah, that's that's pretty shit.
SPEAKER_02 (17:08):
Yeah, that that was pretty like horrible.
Um and then uh to wrap up thathe gets controlled by the uh
unknown lady uh which is doingblood magic.
And um who isn't?
Yeah, right?
Who isn't?
Uh I am curious if she isactually related to the uh the
(17:32):
little boy's mother, or if uhshe just I think it was it was
the easy victim.
Yeah, because but it like sheseemed to like know her prior to
it though.
Like she was like, Yeah, yeah,no, that is that is her.
So um so pretty much our littleboy's parents um the mother's
(17:54):
great aunt or aunt, she'ssomething like that.
Um, is she said she's very sickand she just needs help until
she's able to um transfer oversomewhere.
Husband wasn't into it, but thenhe was like, fine, whatever.
Well, dad just sealed theirfate, so uh and she just took
advantage of them.
I kind of like the witch'scharacter though, because she's
(18:16):
like kind of fun.
SPEAKER_04 (18:19):
Like how long legs a little bit, yeah, yeah.
Like Nicolas Cage's character.
I thought you watched that withus.
Nope.
SPEAKER_02 (18:29):
No, Cass, you definitely watch Long Legs.
SPEAKER_00 (18:32):
No, I did not.
SPEAKER_04 (18:34):
I wasn't in that episode for the Nicolas Cage
month.
SPEAKER_00 (18:37):
I thought I think that was the one that I missed.
Oh because I know I missed one,yeah.
SPEAKER_02 (18:43):
And then we're gonna scroll to it, and it's like
we've watched a lot of movieshere at apartment theater.
So, but I I do enjoy thecharacter.
I thought she was entertaining.
I love how like manipulative shewas like shown to be and how
easily she manipulated people.
Um and then as soon as she itit's just clearly not going her
(19:06):
way, she just kills them.
SPEAKER_00 (19:09):
Yeah, and I think she was a personification of
like narcissism.
Yeah, that makes sense.
SPEAKER_04 (19:16):
Like, okay, yeah, you weren't there.
I just listened to a little bitof the episode.
Yeah, you weren't there.
unknown (19:20):
Okay.
SPEAKER_04 (19:22):
Because I at the very beginning, I'm like, I'm
missing this person today.
And so, yeah, because we wererunning into a theme of uh who
am I missing last time?
SPEAKER_02 (19:30):
Yep, I know.
Uh, but yeah, I thought Ithought she was a fun character.
Uh certainly interesting.
SPEAKER_04 (19:40):
Um I like that they didn't over-explain like the
blood magic or whatever.
Like, yes, I love that.
Yeah, figure out what she'sdoing with the spells.
It's just like she's just doingspells.
Like everybody, every singlething that they're doing, it's
you can just tell, like, they'relike, I hope this fucking works
because I've no idea what to donow.
SPEAKER_00 (19:57):
What I like uh a part of with the blood magic
shit because the the kid kind oflike picks up on what she's
doing and you know replicateswhat she does.
Yeah.
Um she wears a wig and he getssome of the wig hair and uses
it.
And I'm like, so I'm like, okay,like my brain is going like full
(20:26):
magic deep dive into that.
I'm like, okay, part of thereason your hair works is
because it's part of you, butthat's a wig, so is it actually
part of her?
Yeah.
SPEAKER_02 (20:36):
She's able to to control all the kids just by
items.
It's by something they own.
So like her owning the wig.
I see what you're saying though,but um but yeah, it wasn't it
wasn't just hair.
SPEAKER_00 (20:51):
Yeah, yeah, but she's the kids with something of
them, but then controlled theparents from their hair.
SPEAKER_04 (20:57):
I think it's like it's probably different spells
do like need different things.
So I think he was just doingsomething that was just like
once again.
I think it was like a I don'teven think he knew that this was
gonna do anything for him.
SPEAKER_03 (21:11):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_04 (21:11):
And it was just like, I'm about to get murdered
by my own parent.
Fuck.
SPEAKER_02 (21:16):
Yeah, that's gotta be horrifying.
That poor kid, years of therapy,like he's never not gonna be in
therapy.
I love how he was um hischaracter is very quiet and um
just like the quiet kid.
Uh, he doesn't stand up forhimself, and by the end of the
movie, like he's able to standup for himself and save his
parents and the other kids.
SPEAKER_04 (21:37):
And I love that like uh as much as he could of the
parents because they just theystill weren't like well, yeah.
SPEAKER_02 (21:43):
At the end they said they just turned into uh shells
pretty much.
Um at the end of the movie, likeyou have a slow narrative of um
uh like some of them were ableto like eventually like get back
to normal.
SPEAKER_04 (22:02):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_02 (22:02):
Well, they said out of all of the 22 kids, only two
kids started talking after ayear.
Yeah, yeah.
So like is that like uh it justshows like how fucked up their
spells were?
Uh the the scenery in the wholemovie, I loved it though.
Like the imagery, um, how thingswere angled, the tone they used.
Um, like I think it was verywell shot, especially the scene
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when the drug addict was in thebasement and found all the kids.
SPEAKER_04 (22:30):
Um you guys feel like this movie was like a
little too dark at times, like Icouldn't see what the fuck I was
looking at at times.
SPEAKER_00 (22:40):
No, I'm trying because I remember there being a
movie recently that I gotannoyed that it was too dark,
and I can't remember if it wasthis movie or not.
It might have been.
SPEAKER_04 (22:51):
Yeah, I felt like there were some times where like
especially when uh Josh Brolin'scharacter runs into like the
woods, and I was like, I can'tsee him.
I don't know where we're at.
But I I also think it might havejust had to do with like the bit
rate of like the movie becauselike I ended up finding like a
better version of it, and I waslike, oh, whoops.
(23:14):
I keep forgetting that too.
I'm like, oh man, I need abetter version of this movie
because yeah, any dark scenes,and you have like a this site's
not the best site for watchingstuff on.
It's like I can't see anythingnow.
Um, but yeah, uh this moviethough, it was interesting, it
was it was different and weird,and uh it's not as horrifying as
(23:35):
Barbarian was because that wasshit.
SPEAKER_05 (23:39):
Like when you get in the basement of Barbarian,
you're like uh uh everythingjust keeps getting worse.
SPEAKER_02 (23:46):
I don't think I've ever watched Barbarian, dude.
It's it's it's wild in 22?
Yeah, yeah.
No, I definitely have notwatched that.
SPEAKER_05 (23:56):
Yeah, it's it's uh it's a wild movie.
SPEAKER_04 (23:59):
I I did it a lot, and I think that uh I I mean I'm
definitely looking forward tothe next movie that this guy
made.
Oh, because he's making aResident Evil movie.
SPEAKER_02 (24:12):
Oh, he definitely likes his basements, I see.
SPEAKER_04 (24:15):
Yeah, so he is uh directing the Resident Evil the
the rebooting it again.
SPEAKER_02 (24:24):
Oh barbarians on Disney Plus, apparently.
Well, that's wild.
Okay.
Um, anyways, uh so yeah, I Ithink this was a well-shot
movie.
I think the cast was great init.
Um, I think like I could havedone without like some of the
like details.
Uh I love that they didn'tover-explain stuff.
(24:45):
Like, that's one thing, like,directors stop over-explaining
things, just let it be.
There's mystery in uh theunknown.
SPEAKER_00 (24:55):
Like, don't give us a fucking epilogue of
explanation, just like visuallyexplain it to us.
Yeah.
Which I think is what this moviedid very well is like gave us
visual explanations for things.
SPEAKER_04 (25:08):
Uh, there are talks of a prequel um movie.
SPEAKER_00 (25:13):
Prequel for what?
Resident Evil?
SPEAKER_04 (25:15):
No weapons, the movie we're talking about.
SPEAKER_00 (25:18):
I was like, what?
SPEAKER_04 (25:20):
No, this so there's a there's there's a lost
storyline that is now being eyedas backbone of the prequel.
It's gonna be centered around uhthe Aunt Glady character.
He had yeah, so he had so herevealed that he had written
material focused squarely on uhcut it from weapons for length.
(25:40):
That lost storyline is now beingeyed as the backbone of the
prequel.
Now that might not be like and Idon't know.
If anything, it could be likehow like X and Pearl were, like
were um it's related, but itdoesn't feel the same.
SPEAKER_00 (25:59):
Yeah.
So I mean maybe I I kind ofliked that we didn't have a
whole lot of background on theant, to be honest.
SPEAKER_04 (26:08):
Yeah.
Right.
But it's I feel like like withhow X and Pearl was though, it's
like I feel like the movie, whenI finally watched it, like
justified itself and was like,oh, this is this is really
interesting.
I think if they can if they makeit well done, you know, I think
it could work.
SPEAKER_05 (26:30):
Like, I'll give it a shot, if anything.
SPEAKER_04 (26:34):
Just like how I'll give this Resident Evil.
This movie better not be dogshit.
I can't I can't take it anymore.
If I get one more shittyResident Evil movie, I'm gonna
lose my goddamn mod.
I need something.
Anything.
SPEAKER_02 (26:53):
I feel you.
But uh, yeah, I think it was itwas a good movie.
I haven't seen a good horrormovie in a hot minute, and that
was uh good.
Sorry, I just saw it.
That was good, yeah.
Danny approved.
SPEAKER_04 (27:12):
That was a movie that I watched and enjoyed.
Danny, apart from theater.
Wow, right on the front of thebox, too.
Yeah.
I'm going places.
Uh I gave it a four point five.
SPEAKER_00 (27:28):
Out of what?
Out of five.
Okay.
Out of five, yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_04 (27:32):
Yeah.
Doing like the letterboxscoring.
SPEAKER_00 (27:35):
Yeah.
I don't know.
I was kind of uh moderatelydisappointed in the uh, oh, it's
an old ancient witch feeding offof their life sources.
That's what happened.
(27:56):
Yeah.
Like conclusion.
I was like, was it done kind ofcreatively and maybe a little
bit more interesting than whatwe've seen in the past?
Uh sure.
Debatable.
Maybe debatable.
SPEAKER_04 (28:12):
I mean I so I did so from like the other hor horror
movies that have come out thisyear, we didn't talk about this
movie, but uh Bring Her Back.
I still need to watch that one.
SPEAKER_02 (28:24):
Yeah, I I gotta watch it.
I've been dying to watch it.
SPEAKER_04 (28:28):
So it was like, I don't know, like people, I I
don't feel like I mean the moviewas hyped up, and I that uh to
me was the best movie so farthis year.
Um, but like going from that tothis, I mean they're very
different, but it was just likewhy do people talk about this
one more than that one?
But then again, it's likewhatever.
(28:50):
I also I'm just glad that we'regetting good horror movies,
yeah, and then I don't have torely on a fucking franchise
thing.
It's kind of like how well, Imean, talk to me is gonna have a
a sequel, uh, apparently.
And I'm like, please don't beshit.
I really liked that first movie.
unknown (29:06):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_02 (29:07):
Oh I do, however, want to say how much I enjoyed
the scene where the one fatherwas yelling at her at the gas
station and as she's lookingbehind him, watching somebody
run up to her.
Like, I just found that scene soentertaining.
SPEAKER_04 (29:24):
Dude, their eyes freaked me the fuck out, too.
SPEAKER_00 (29:28):
Yeah, the visual effect of that is like pretty
good.
I'm like, oh, okay, like that'spretty from the trailer.
SPEAKER_02 (29:34):
I thought it was a zombie movie, so it was it
really did take me aback when Irealized it was not a zombie
movie.
SPEAKER_04 (29:42):
I I mean I go in blind for every movie I watch
because like I don't want to seea trailer for anything.
I the only thing I go off of isletterbox, and I go off of the
one image and the poster, andI'm like, I wonder what this is
gonna be, and then go fromthere.
And sometimes Uh, I find a goodmovie, and a lot of times uh
(30:03):
they end up being really bad.
But you know, like I don't wantto have expectations going into
something.
SPEAKER_01 (30:11):
Fair.
SPEAKER_04 (30:12):
I feel like this is a movie that and I feel like
we've kind of had like the thedeath of this in a way of the
second watch of a movie.
Uh like we don't really go backand watch a lot of movies.
We're we're constantly consumingnew movies, and I feel like this
(30:33):
one especially, and like a lotof like horror movies that are
getting like really high praiseand stuff.
I feel like there's a lot moregoing on that people will miss,
or like they they have like aexpectation of what that movie
is gonna be, and then they goand watch it again.
It's like well, now that I knowwhat it was supposed to be, now
I'm seeing it in a differentlight.
(30:54):
So I think that for likeanything that gets like highly
regarded, I think it's like ayou know, maybe come back to it
when you're in a differentmindframe.
SPEAKER_00 (31:02):
Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_04 (31:03):
Mind frame, mind space, whatever.
Mind space whenever you're in adifferent uh mainframe.
Whenever your AI downloads,whenever you're downloaded into
the the AI mind space uh andforced to look at garbage, you
(31:24):
know, we'll remember the goodstuff.
And when you get back to thespace station, when we're all
evaporated from the earth in2020.
God.
SPEAKER_02 (31:40):
All right.
Well, I guess get us out ofhere, Justin.
SPEAKER_04 (31:45):
Thanks for watching.
Um or listening.
We're here.
SPEAKER_00 (31:51):
We're here.
We're moderately queer.
SPEAKER_04 (31:54):
Thank you for the people who were downloading the
episodes.
Uh, we do see that it's thething that gets us through the
day.
Uh really is like 140 downloads,and we were like, how come
people are downloading theepisode when we're not doing the
show?
What the fuck?
But hey, it's fine with me.
If please continue to downloadthose episodes, it still helps
(32:18):
us.
Uh, if we have any shit takesthat you want to uh argue about,
you can leave a comment on uhSpotify and whatever else things
that we're on.
Uh but yeah, thank you guys forchecking out the the channel and
stuff.
And we also stream Dannystreams, ice stream.
(32:39):
Uh Cass is gonna be on thosestreams too.
SPEAKER_00 (32:42):
So sometimes, yeah.
Mostly I just eat ice creamthough.
SPEAKER_04 (32:46):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (32:47):
And she screams.
SPEAKER_04 (32:48):
Yeah.
So either way, we all appreciateyou for for coming around and
hanging out and listening to usramble about stuff.
Um we're not like fully back uhor anything, but like if there's
movies that we want to talkabout, we're gonna we're gonna
do it.
Um, but there's some that I'vebeen thinking that we should
(33:09):
talk about.
But we might talk about bringher back, uh, it sounds like.
So I I hope we do, because yeah,like I said, that's if we don't
do an episode on it, just know Iloved it.
Uh I had a I felt terrible thewhole time watching it, but it
was amazing.
It just like talked it's uh wellit's by the same director as uh
(33:31):
Talk to Me.
And that movie also made me feellike shit.
Uh, and I thought it wasincredible.
So yeah, um sucks.
Yeah, they're on a winningstreak, and I'm looking forward
to more uh by them.
But anyway, thanks for beinghere.
Make sure to subscribe andfollow and whatever the fuck you
do.
Um mainly downloading theepisode helps us out the most.
(33:51):
You don't even have to listen tothe episode download it.
Um, but listen to it, tell yourfriends, and uh get the fuck
out.
Bye.
SPEAKER_02 (33:58):
Bye.
Bye.
Oh no, it's not letting me endit.
SPEAKER_01 (34:04):
Oh no.
Oh yeah, I guess I don't have to do anything.
SPEAKER_02 (00:04):
And that's how we're gonna start after four months of
being away.
SPEAKER_04 (00:10):
Well, for for Cass and I, it's been it's been it's
been a while.
It's been at least like a yearor so.
SPEAKER_02 (00:20):
Really?
I think so, yeah.
SPEAKER_04 (00:22):
Something like that.
Has it been a year?
SPEAKER_02 (00:24):
I'm gonna go look.
I'm gonna go look real quick.
SPEAKER_04 (00:28):
I'm looking right now.
SPEAKER_00 (00:29):
It certainly has been a hot minute.
But we're back.
Time off.
We needed that time off.
We needed some time off.
SPEAKER_04 (00:39):
Um we're all burnt out.
SPEAKER_00 (00:40):
I think I'm still burnt out, but you know what?
That's fine.
It's fine.
SPEAKER_04 (00:45):
It won't let me look at anything.
So that's weird.
Oh well.
SPEAKER_00 (00:51):
I can find out in a second.
SPEAKER_04 (00:53):
Well, hold on.
This doesn't matter.
Anyway, hello.
SPEAKER_00 (00:57):
It doesn't matter.
We're back.
SPEAKER_04 (00:58):
We're we're well, kinda.
Um the last episode okay, ithasn't been a year.
It's been May.
SPEAKER_02 (01:08):
Yeah, I was gonna say it's definitely has not been
a year.
SPEAKER_04 (01:11):
Five months.
It feels like a year.
It feels like a year.
It feels like we haven't donethis in a really long time
because we haven't.
Has anything changed for us?
SPEAKER_00 (01:23):
Uh no.
SPEAKER_04 (01:24):
Five months.
SPEAKER_00 (01:25):
Oh my god.
I'm horror.
SPEAKER_04 (01:31):
I passed 500 subscribers on YouTube.
That doesn't really mean shitthough.
SPEAKER_02 (01:36):
I open to Etsy.
Nice.
Yeah, we've been exciting, guys.
Um today we're back with whatare we talking about?
Weapons?
Weapons.
Sorry, we were also talkingabout talking about sinners.
SPEAKER_04 (01:53):
So I didn't watch sinners.
SPEAKER_02 (01:55):
Yeah, I plan on watching it this weekend, but
but we watched weapons.
SPEAKER_04 (01:59):
Well, it's good that we're not talking about sinners
because Tanya and I did notwatch the movie because that
wasn't the agreed-upon movie inthe first place.
SPEAKER_02 (02:07):
Look, I've watched it twice.
Nice.
We'll get there.
We'll get there.
But today we'll talk aboutweapons and yeah.
SPEAKER_04 (02:16):
So weapons is directed by Zach Kregger.
Uh he was the director ofBarbarian, which was a movie
that I definitely recommend.
We didn't talk about it on thepodcast, but I I really liked I
liked that movie.
SPEAKER_00 (02:29):
I liked that movie too.
SPEAKER_04 (02:31):
Yeah.
And also has Justin Long in it,and this movie has Justin Long
for a couple seconds.
He's in it, but he's not like init, you know, like how he was in
Barbarian.
SPEAKER_00 (02:42):
But yeah.
SPEAKER_04 (02:43):
Um, so Zach Krager, he he was in uh The Whitest Kids
You Know, and he has a tributeto uh one of the guys, his name
was Trevor, and it's the scenein Weapons where uh brings out a
plate of hot dogs.
There's like seven hot dogs onthe plate.
That's the tribute to himbecause it's like a whitest kids
(03:05):
you know uh joke, I believe.
Oh I wasn't super into that.
I have friends that were intoit, so uh yeah.
Um but anyway, weapons.
Last night at 217 a.m., everychild from Mrs.
Gandhi's class woke up, got outof bed, went downstairs, opened
the front door, walked into thedark, and they never came back.
(03:28):
When all but one child from thesame class mysteriously vanished
on the same night at exactly thesame time, a community is left
questioning who or what isbehind their disappearance.
SPEAKER_02 (03:39):
Uh and they blame the teacher.
SPEAKER_04 (03:42):
It's crazy that uh Julia Garner, the main chick in
this movie, looks like JustinTimberlake from the year 2000.
SPEAKER_01 (03:53):
Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_05 (03:56):
That's all I was thinking.
SPEAKER_00 (03:58):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_04 (03:59):
She so Julia Garner was in a couple other movies
that we watched for the podcast.
She was in Wolfman and Apartment7A, and she's a really good
actress.
Yeah, I like her acting.
Uh she's also apparently theSilver Surfer.
SPEAKER_05 (04:15):
Yes.
SPEAKER_02 (04:16):
In Fantastic Four, which uh fantastic movie.
I like it.
SPEAKER_05 (04:23):
Do you have those Fantastic Four skins in uh
Fortnite?
SPEAKER_02 (04:26):
Oh I did hear about that.
I was gonna make a foreskinjoke.
I just didn't know.
That was gonna get there.
SPEAKER_04 (04:35):
Uh, but but yeah, she's she's really honestly,
she's great in everything thatshe's been in.
Um I haven't seen everythingelse that she's been in, though,
but they I so I don't know howyou guys feel about this movie,
but I really liked it.
SPEAKER_05 (04:50):
Uh I I like when the horror movies have just like a
little bit of like mystery goingon too.
Like I want it to be scary, butI want to I want to be like
intrigued a little, like, oh,what is causing the spooky?
SPEAKER_02 (05:03):
I love um the the twist.
I I just I like the chaos in thebeginning of where nobody knows
what happened, so they're justpointing fingers um and blaming
people that really have nothingto do with the blame.
SPEAKER_04 (05:24):
Danny, if you touch your fucking mouse one more
time, I'm blaming bongo cats.
SPEAKER_02 (05:29):
Leave me be.
SPEAKER_05 (05:31):
Oh my god.
SPEAKER_02 (05:33):
Did you guys miss this chaos?
SPEAKER_04 (05:35):
Oh my god.
Um but I like the um it's likeit's like watching a band play a
reunion show and they all hateeach other.
SPEAKER_02 (05:45):
We don't hate each other.
Let's specify that.
SPEAKER_04 (05:49):
Oh boy, I can't wait to watch Oasis play together.
Oh yeah, that's right.
They hate each other.
SPEAKER_02 (05:54):
Um But I like um just the chaos, like and like it
felt like actual.
Like I think the actual theactors did a great um job just
like feeling that like theconfusion and anger that they
have.
Um, I do like question why theact the main actress, uh Lily, I
(06:18):
think her name was, right?
Um just like wants to talk.
Like I understand she wants totalk to the woman.
Justine.
All right, who the fuck wasLily?
SPEAKER_04 (06:28):
You should have known that because my name is
Justin and that's close.
How could you?
SPEAKER_02 (06:33):
Oh, I'm thinking of I'm thinking of the old lady
Lily.
SPEAKER_04 (06:36):
I'm thinking of that's that's not the main
character.
No, but I'm pretty sure her nameshe is a problem.
She is a problem.
I think her name was Gladys.
SPEAKER_02 (06:46):
Gladys Lily, yeah.
Um, but so Justine, she um I dofind it problematic.
I understand where she comesfrom, where she wants to talk to
the one kid that didn'tdisappear in her class, but she
needs to like assess thesituation.
She really does, yeah.
SPEAKER_04 (07:05):
See, I see, but the thing is too, is that I I think
because of how weird it was, sheI mean, our our psychosis in
general will throw us into somereally weird places and justify
anything.
So I I get it that she's like, Ineed some kind of answer because
in in human nature, we want tojustify something happening for
(07:31):
a reason.
Like, it can't just be fornothing.
It I need some kind of reason ofwhy this happened, and so she's
just trying to justify, like,no, what I'm doing is normal
because I need this and I comefirst on this.
SPEAKER_00 (07:47):
And yeah, no, she knows that he like knows
something, like, as the onlyother like person in the room,
like she doesn't have answers,he's the only other one there's
everyone through his window,too.
Yeah, but like also all of theother adults, like literally in
(08:08):
the room and figuratively, arejust like, oh, he's been through
a traumatic event, like, youknow, oh, he's not talking, he's
traumatized, blah, blah, blah.
Like, they're basically justlike ignoring him for the most
part, um, and like not reallydealing with the situation.
Also, my take on this movie wasinterested at first, got really
(08:32):
bored.
Oh, good, that's the plot twist.
Like, yeah, they did kind oflike shit that pissed me off.
Um, especially watching thismovie with Kyle, who um like
works in schools and works withteachers and stuff.
(08:53):
One, uh, the main character,like it is a huge no-no that you
give a kid a ride home fromschool, uh, which is like
something that like.
SPEAKER_04 (09:03):
They do they do say that too.
They were like, you were notsupposed to do that.
SPEAKER_00 (09:07):
Yeah, uh, she got fired from her first job for
that.
So, like on one hand, I'm like,yes, okay, uh like they're
including this to like sort ofplant the seed that like maybe
she's not a great person, butlike she was doing this, like,
you know, to be kind to get thiskid home, but like she's a rule
(09:31):
breaker, so like what else isshe doing?
So, like they're putting this inthere to add suspicion for us
when it's like okay, well, we'reclearly like trying to point the
blame at the teacher here, likegoing real hard at it in the
beginning, and it's like, okay,well, obviously she's not the
one who did it, so like, cool.
Um, and then like the um thelittle boy when he was like left
(09:55):
at the school alone at onepoint, like, and he ends up like
walking home.
Um, if this is like moderntimes, which there's not really
an era um in the movie, and soit is sort of assumed modern.
At least I assumed it wasmodern.
SPEAKER_04 (10:13):
Yeah, because they're using like they're using
smartphones, I believe.
SPEAKER_00 (10:17):
Yeah.
So he would have never beenallowed to walk home like that
without like expressedpermission from a parent, um,
which like we kind of clearlydon't get.
Um, like somebody there wouldhave been other adults around
like watching him and likemaking sure he was okay and he
(10:41):
would have not been able allowedto walk home on his own.
Um was really bored with thewhole cop sequence.
Um it is really funny to me thattime and time again, any time
that we are shown a cop in ahorror movie, they're fucking
useless.
Um I like that it was a trope.
(11:03):
Um I don't think his entirething was even necessary.
Like, we already saw the kind oflike drug addict homeless guy
like in other clips.
And like that entire likechapter of the two of them could
have just been cut out and thenjust like cut to the drug addict
person seeing Mikey's house.
(11:25):
Is that his name?
I can't remember what the fuckthe kids were.
SPEAKER_04 (11:27):
Well, the the reason that he even got into the house
though was because of the cop.
So the cop needed to be therefor him to get into the drug.
SPEAKER_00 (11:34):
Yeah, but like well, I mean he got into the house
before, but it was like, hey, Ifound the kids, and that's why
he needed I know, but like theentire sequence leading up to
that with the like the scufflebetween the two of them and him
like punching the guy and allthat, like that didn't add
(11:56):
anything to the story for me.
SPEAKER_04 (11:58):
No, uh I feel he was more comic relief than anything
because like I found thesituation that that's the only
thing I could like truly thinkof because like other than when
he becomes a doll andaccidentally like kills himself
um at the end, um he thought itwas really funny when um I think
(12:20):
it was Josh Brolin's characterjust picking him up and
constantly like throwing him,like the the drug addict
character.
Yeah, like he just and it justgets back up again and just
starts running out again.
He keeps I I thought that partwas really funny.
SPEAKER_02 (12:35):
I laughed pretty hard when he yelled at him.
Uh the uh guy was trying to giveknowledge, like a tip off that
he thinks he knows where all thekids are, and the cop's just
like, I told you to fuck off andlike get the fuck out of here.
SPEAKER_01 (12:52):
I was like, what the fuck is happening?
This is great.
SPEAKER_00 (12:56):
Like, see, I would have been much more interested
in that interaction if like wehad never gotten the like uh
like the drug addict, liketrying to rob the place and then
the cop being bored and likechasing him down and like you
know, trying to arrest him andthen getting stabbed.
Well, he wasn't bored foranything.
SPEAKER_04 (13:16):
I mean, he the guy was like breaking the law.
He was trying to break thewater.
SPEAKER_00 (13:19):
He was breaking the law, but the cop was also bored.
Like the cop got lucky.
Yeah, but like luckyhappenstance that the cop
happened to be driving by andlook down that alley and go, oh,
that guy's trying to break inright there.
SPEAKER_04 (13:34):
Like I mean, I feel like cops see some pretty wild
shit anyway.
SPEAKER_00 (13:39):
But like, I think it would have been a lot funnier
and more interesting to be alike you know, experience the
the drug addict uh scoping outthe kid's house.
Like, that would have been justlike the opening chapter to
that.
Like, all right, we know he's adrug addict, we've seen him in
his like little tent orwhatever.
(14:00):
Um scope out the house, becausewe already know the house is
abandoned because of what's herface, goes in, breaks in, has
his whole experience in there,sees the kids, and then he goes
and tries to tell the cops, andthen you have like this conflict
between the cops and him.
Like, it would have been like,oh, okay, clearly he's had a
run-in before.
Like, I don't think we needed tosee the conflict with the cop.
(14:23):
Like, drug addicts always haveconflicts with cops.
It just it I feel like it addedan an extra layer that we didn't
need.
It was just like there was toothere's too many storylines.
SPEAKER_04 (14:41):
Like I feel like the storylines wrapped up pretty
well though, and then like I I Ididn't I mean, like I I didn't
feel like any part of the moviefelt like it shouldn't have been
there.
SPEAKER_02 (14:54):
I uh I kind of see like see what Cass is saying,
and I do like agree, like therewas too like not much with the
um like him breaking into thatplace, like he wasn't really we
didn't need that information.
It was unneeded information,like it doesn't change the
storyline no matter what, if wetook out what he was doing and
(15:15):
when he ran into him or not.
Um and uh I think like the copcan stay in it because like I
mean there is a pastrelationship between our main
girl Justine and the um policeofficer.
SPEAKER_00 (15:34):
Yeah, like the copying in the movie is fine,
but like I just I feel like hisentire chapter of chasing down
the drug addict was meh.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_04 (15:46):
But like I said, I I think it him encountering like
the drug addict and stuff,because like I I think I think
the main point of the movie isuh it seems like nobody actually
cares about these kids becausethey're all so preoccupied with
their own shit, and whenanyone's trying to get to the
kids, so they're they're wantingto do something else instead.
(16:08):
And I think that's the wholething of like you guys say you
care about the kids, but likewhat the fuck are you even
doing?
SPEAKER_02 (16:15):
Yeah.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_04 (16:17):
Um that's what I gathered from it.
I could be way off on it.
Um I didn't really get this thesymbolism of the the the actual
like weapon coming up from thehouse.
That part was I I was like, Ifeel like I should I feel like
it's really obvious what this orwhat we're saying here, but like
(16:38):
I don't know what we're sayinghere, and I feel I felt really
stupid.
It's like I was like, I shouldknow what they're saying.
It's and like I said, it'sprobably really obvious.
SPEAKER_02 (16:46):
And if anyone wants saying like what everything
meant for it, but um I do findit um like how horrible is it to
get arrested, and then the copthat's the only way out of the
car locks you in the car andthen is just gone for hours as
you're stuck in there.
SPEAKER_00 (17:06):
Yeah, that's that's pretty shit.
SPEAKER_02 (17:08):
Yeah, that that was pretty like horrible.
Um and then uh to wrap up thathe gets controlled by the uh
unknown lady uh which is doingblood magic.
And um who isn't?
Yeah, right?
Who isn't?
Uh I am curious if she isactually related to the uh the
(17:32):
little boy's mother, or if uhshe just I think it was it was
the easy victim.
Yeah, because but it like sheseemed to like know her prior to
it though.
Like she was like, Yeah, yeah,no, that is that is her.
So um so pretty much our littleboy's parents um the mother's
(17:54):
great aunt or aunt, she'ssomething like that.
Um, is she said she's very sickand she just needs help until
she's able to um transfer oversomewhere.
Husband wasn't into it, but thenhe was like, fine, whatever.
Well, dad just sealed theirfate, so uh and she just took
advantage of them.
I kind of like the witch'scharacter though, because she's
(18:16):
like kind of fun.
SPEAKER_04 (18:19):
Like how long legs a little bit, yeah, yeah.
Like Nicolas Cage's character.
I thought you watched that withus.
Nope.
SPEAKER_02 (18:29):
No, Cass, you definitely watch Long Legs.
SPEAKER_00 (18:32):
No, I did not.
SPEAKER_04 (18:34):
I wasn't in that episode for the Nicolas Cage
month.
SPEAKER_00 (18:37):
I thought I think that was the one that I missed.
Oh because I know I missed one,yeah.
SPEAKER_02 (18:43):
And then we're gonna scroll to it, and it's like
we've watched a lot of movieshere at apartment theater.
So, but I I do enjoy thecharacter.
I thought she was entertaining.
I love how like manipulative shewas like shown to be and how
easily she manipulated people.
Um and then as soon as she itit's just clearly not going her
(19:06):
way, she just kills them.
SPEAKER_00 (19:09):
Yeah, and I think she was a personification of
like narcissism.
Yeah, that makes sense.
SPEAKER_04 (19:16):
Like, okay, yeah, you weren't there.
I just listened to a little bitof the episode.
Yeah, you weren't there.
unknown (19:20):
Okay.
SPEAKER_04 (19:22):
Because I at the very beginning, I'm like, I'm
missing this person today.
And so, yeah, because we wererunning into a theme of uh who
am I missing last time?
SPEAKER_02 (19:30):
Yep, I know.
Uh, but yeah, I thought Ithought she was a fun character.
Uh certainly interesting.
SPEAKER_04 (19:40):
Um I like that they didn't over-explain like the
blood magic or whatever.
Like, yes, I love that.
Yeah, figure out what she'sdoing with the spells.
It's just like she's just doingspells.
Like everybody, every singlething that they're doing, it's
you can just tell, like, they'relike, I hope this fucking works
because I've no idea what to donow.
SPEAKER_00 (19:57):
What I like uh a part of with the blood magic
shit because the the kid kind oflike picks up on what she's
doing and you know replicateswhat she does.
Yeah.
Um she wears a wig and he getssome of the wig hair and uses
it.
And I'm like, so I'm like, okay,like my brain is going like full
(20:26):
magic deep dive into that.
I'm like, okay, part of thereason your hair works is
because it's part of you, butthat's a wig, so is it actually
part of her?
Yeah.
SPEAKER_02 (20:36):
She's able to to control all the kids just by
items.
It's by something they own.
So like her owning the wig.
I see what you're saying though,but um but yeah, it wasn't it
wasn't just hair.
SPEAKER_00 (20:51):
Yeah, yeah, but she's the kids with something of
them, but then controlled theparents from their hair.
SPEAKER_04 (20:57):
I think it's like it's probably different spells
do like need different things.
So I think he was just doingsomething that was just like
once again.
I think it was like a I don'teven think he knew that this was
gonna do anything for him.
SPEAKER_03 (21:11):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_04 (21:11):
And it was just like, I'm about to get murdered
by my own parent.
Fuck.
SPEAKER_02 (21:16):
Yeah, that's gotta be horrifying.
That poor kid, years of therapy,like he's never not gonna be in
therapy.
I love how he was um hischaracter is very quiet and um
just like the quiet kid.
Uh, he doesn't stand up forhimself, and by the end of the
movie, like he's able to standup for himself and save his
parents and the other kids.
SPEAKER_04 (21:37):
And I love that like uh as much as he could of the
parents because they just theystill weren't like well, yeah.
SPEAKER_02 (21:43):
At the end they said they just turned into uh shells
pretty much.
Um at the end of the movie, likeyou have a slow narrative of um
uh like some of them were ableto like eventually like get back
to normal.
SPEAKER_04 (22:02):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_02 (22:02):
Well, they said out of all of the 22 kids, only two
kids started talking after ayear.
Yeah, yeah.
So like is that like uh it justshows like how fucked up their
spells were?
Uh the the scenery in the wholemovie, I loved it though.
Like the imagery, um, how thingswere angled, the tone they used.
Um, like I think it was verywell shot, especially the scene
(22:26):
when the drug addict was in thebasement and found all the kids.
SPEAKER_04 (22:30):
Um you guys feel like this movie was like a
little too dark at times, like Icouldn't see what the fuck I was
looking at at times.
SPEAKER_00 (22:40):
No, I'm trying because I remember there being a
movie recently that I gotannoyed that it was too dark,
and I can't remember if it wasthis movie or not.
It might have been.
SPEAKER_04 (22:51):
Yeah, I felt like there were some times where like
especially when uh Josh Brolin'scharacter runs into like the
woods, and I was like, I can'tsee him.
I don't know where we're at.
But I I also think it might havejust had to do with like the bit
rate of like the movie becauselike I ended up finding like a
better version of it, and I waslike, oh, whoops.
(23:14):
I keep forgetting that too.
I'm like, oh man, I need abetter version of this movie
because yeah, any dark scenes,and you have like a this site's
not the best site for watchingstuff on.
It's like I can't see anythingnow.
Um, but yeah, uh this moviethough, it was interesting, it
was it was different and weird,and uh it's not as horrifying as
(23:35):
Barbarian was because that wasshit.
SPEAKER_05 (23:39):
Like when you get in the basement of Barbarian,
you're like uh uh everythingjust keeps getting worse.
SPEAKER_02 (23:46):
I don't think I've ever watched Barbarian, dude.
It's it's it's wild in 22?
Yeah, yeah.
No, I definitely have notwatched that.
SPEAKER_05 (23:56):
Yeah, it's it's uh it's a wild movie.
SPEAKER_04 (23:59):
I I did it a lot, and I think that uh I I mean I'm
definitely looking forward tothe next movie that this guy
made.
Oh, because he's making aResident Evil movie.
SPEAKER_02 (24:12):
Oh, he definitely likes his basements, I see.
SPEAKER_04 (24:15):
Yeah, so he is uh directing the Resident Evil the
the rebooting it again.
SPEAKER_02 (24:24):
Oh barbarians on Disney Plus, apparently.
Well, that's wild.
Okay.
Um, anyways, uh so yeah, I Ithink this was a well-shot
movie.
I think the cast was great init.
Um, I think like I could havedone without like some of the
like details.
Uh I love that they didn'tover-explain stuff.
(24:45):
Like, that's one thing, like,directors stop over-explaining
things, just let it be.
There's mystery in uh theunknown.
SPEAKER_00 (24:55):
Like, don't give us a fucking epilogue of
explanation, just like visuallyexplain it to us.
Yeah.
Which I think is what this moviedid very well is like gave us
visual explanations for things.
SPEAKER_04 (25:08):
Uh, there are talks of a prequel um movie.
SPEAKER_00 (25:13):
Prequel for what?
Resident Evil?
SPEAKER_04 (25:15):
No weapons, the movie we're talking about.
SPEAKER_00 (25:18):
I was like, what?
SPEAKER_04 (25:20):
No, this so there's a there's there's a lost
storyline that is now being eyedas backbone of the prequel.
It's gonna be centered around uhthe Aunt Glady character.
He had yeah, so he had so herevealed that he had written
material focused squarely on uhcut it from weapons for length.
(25:40):
That lost storyline is now beingeyed as the backbone of the
prequel.
Now that might not be like and Idon't know.
If anything, it could be likehow like X and Pearl were, like
were um it's related, but itdoesn't feel the same.
SPEAKER_00 (25:59):
Yeah.
So I mean maybe I I kind ofliked that we didn't have a
whole lot of background on theant, to be honest.
SPEAKER_04 (26:08):
Yeah.
Right.
But it's I feel like like withhow X and Pearl was though, it's
like I feel like the movie, whenI finally watched it, like
justified itself and was like,oh, this is this is really
interesting.
I think if they can if they makeit well done, you know, I think
it could work.
SPEAKER_05 (26:30):
Like, I'll give it a shot, if anything.
SPEAKER_04 (26:34):
Just like how I'll give this Resident Evil.
This movie better not be dogshit.
I can't I can't take it anymore.
If I get one more shittyResident Evil movie, I'm gonna
lose my goddamn mod.
I need something.
Anything.
SPEAKER_02 (26:53):
I feel you.
But uh, yeah, I think it was itwas a good movie.
I haven't seen a good horrormovie in a hot minute, and that
was uh good.
Sorry, I just saw it.
That was good, yeah.
Danny approved.
SPEAKER_04 (27:12):
That was a movie that I watched and enjoyed.
Danny, apart from theater.
Wow, right on the front of thebox, too.
Yeah.
I'm going places.
Uh I gave it a four point five.
SPEAKER_00 (27:28):
Out of what?
Out of five.
Okay.
Out of five, yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_04 (27:32):
Yeah.
Doing like the letterboxscoring.
SPEAKER_00 (27:35):
Yeah.
I don't know.
I was kind of uh moderatelydisappointed in the uh, oh, it's
an old ancient witch feeding offof their life sources.
That's what happened.
(27:56):
Yeah.
Like conclusion.
I was like, was it done kind ofcreatively and maybe a little
bit more interesting than whatwe've seen in the past?
Uh sure.
Debatable.
Maybe debatable.
SPEAKER_04 (28:12):
I mean I so I did so from like the other hor horror
movies that have come out thisyear, we didn't talk about this
movie, but uh Bring Her Back.
I still need to watch that one.
SPEAKER_02 (28:24):
Yeah, I I gotta watch it.
I've been dying to watch it.
SPEAKER_04 (28:28):
So it was like, I don't know, like people, I I
don't feel like I mean the moviewas hyped up, and I that uh to
me was the best movie so farthis year.
Um, but like going from that tothis, I mean they're very
different, but it was just likewhy do people talk about this
one more than that one?
But then again, it's likewhatever.
(28:50):
I also I'm just glad that we'regetting good horror movies,
yeah, and then I don't have torely on a fucking franchise
thing.
It's kind of like how well, Imean, talk to me is gonna have a
a sequel, uh, apparently.
And I'm like, please don't beshit.
I really liked that first movie.
unknown (29:06):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_02 (29:07):
Oh I do, however, want to say how much I enjoyed
the scene where the one fatherwas yelling at her at the gas
station and as she's lookingbehind him, watching somebody
run up to her.
Like, I just found that scene soentertaining.
SPEAKER_04 (29:24):
Dude, their eyes freaked me the fuck out, too.
SPEAKER_00 (29:28):
Yeah, the visual effect of that is like pretty
good.
I'm like, oh, okay, like that'spretty from the trailer.
SPEAKER_02 (29:34):
I thought it was a zombie movie, so it was it
really did take me aback when Irealized it was not a zombie
movie.
SPEAKER_04 (29:42):
I I mean I go in blind for every movie I watch
because like I don't want to seea trailer for anything.
I the only thing I go off of isletterbox, and I go off of the
one image and the poster, andI'm like, I wonder what this is
gonna be, and then go fromthere.
And sometimes Uh, I find a goodmovie, and a lot of times uh
(30:03):
they end up being really bad.
But you know, like I don't wantto have expectations going into
something.
SPEAKER_01 (30:11):
Fair.
SPEAKER_04 (30:12):
I feel like this is a movie that and I feel like
we've kind of had like the thedeath of this in a way of the
second watch of a movie.
Uh like we don't really go backand watch a lot of movies.
We're we're constantly consumingnew movies, and I feel like this
(30:33):
one especially, and like a lotof like horror movies that are
getting like really high praiseand stuff.
I feel like there's a lot moregoing on that people will miss,
or like they they have like aexpectation of what that movie
is gonna be, and then they goand watch it again.
It's like well, now that I knowwhat it was supposed to be, now
I'm seeing it in a differentlight.
(30:54):
So I think that for likeanything that gets like highly
regarded, I think it's like ayou know, maybe come back to it
when you're in a differentmindframe.
SPEAKER_00 (31:02):
Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_04 (31:03):
Mind frame, mind space, whatever.
Mind space whenever you're in adifferent uh mainframe.
Whenever your AI downloads,whenever you're downloaded into
the the AI mind space uh andforced to look at garbage, you
(31:24):
know, we'll remember the goodstuff.
And when you get back to thespace station, when we're all
evaporated from the earth in2020.
God.
SPEAKER_02 (31:40):
All right.
Well, I guess get us out ofhere, Justin.
SPEAKER_04 (31:45):
Thanks for watching.
Um or listening.
We're here.
SPEAKER_00 (31:51):
We're here.
We're moderately queer.
SPEAKER_04 (31:54):
Thank you for the people who were downloading the
episodes.
Uh, we do see that it's thething that gets us through the
day.
Uh really is like 140 downloads,and we were like, how come
people are downloading theepisode when we're not doing the
show?
What the fuck?
But hey, it's fine with me.
If please continue to downloadthose episodes, it still helps
(32:18):
us.
Uh, if we have any shit takesthat you want to uh argue about,
you can leave a comment on uhSpotify and whatever else things
that we're on.
Uh but yeah, thank you guys forchecking out the the channel and
stuff.
And we also stream Dannystreams, ice stream.
(32:39):
Uh Cass is gonna be on thosestreams too.
SPEAKER_00 (32:42):
So sometimes, yeah.
Mostly I just eat ice creamthough.
SPEAKER_04 (32:46):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (32:47):
And she screams.
SPEAKER_04 (32:48):
Yeah.
So either way, we all appreciateyou for for coming around and
hanging out and listening to usramble about stuff.
Um we're not like fully back uhor anything, but like if there's
movies that we want to talkabout, we're gonna we're gonna
do it.
Um, but there's some that I'vebeen thinking that we should
(33:09):
talk about.
But we might talk about bringher back, uh, it sounds like.
So I I hope we do, because yeah,like I said, that's if we don't
do an episode on it, just know Iloved it.
Uh I had a I felt terrible thewhole time watching it, but it
was amazing.
It just like talked it's uh wellit's by the same director as uh
(33:31):
Talk to Me.
And that movie also made me feellike shit.
Uh, and I thought it wasincredible.
So yeah, um sucks.
Yeah, they're on a winningstreak, and I'm looking forward
to more uh by them.
But anyway, thanks for beinghere.
Make sure to subscribe andfollow and whatever the fuck you
do.
Um mainly downloading theepisode helps us out the most.
(33:51):
You don't even have to listen tothe episode download it.
Um, but listen to it, tell yourfriends, and uh get the fuck
out.
Bye.
SPEAKER_02 (33:58):
Bye.
Bye.
Oh no, it's not letting me endit.
SPEAKER_01 (34:04):
Oh no.
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