I watched Weapons (2025) the other night. Not my usual goto type of movie but I quite enjoyed it. I like the parallel story line style and all the performances were really good. And for a disbelief-suspending movie it was pretty easy to follow. I have to admit, I had no idea what was coming for most of the movie and when the reveal was revealed, I was a bit let down. Idunno … a witch? That’s it? Okay, I guess. But, again, I’m not exactly a horror movie afficianado, so what the hell do I know.
Good jump scares. Totally disgusting gore. Weird dream sequences. A less than happy ending.
I concur with everything you said except to me, no jump scare is good, and the gore/scenes are about as intense as anything I tend to see. I mentioned upthread the scene where Marcus caves in another man’s face with his own head. I don’t ever want to see that again
The witch angle, though perfectly played by Amy Madigan, doesn’t really make sense here. Or maybe ‘mesh’ would be a better term. All the crazy stuff we get to see is great but a little more character/plot development would have been more satisfying. Also, the atmosphere and mystery of it add a lot, and the way some scenes were shot(?) edited(?) is just freaky.
Superman (2025), well, probably the first time I’ve actually enjoyed a straight superhero movie for a very long time (apart from The Suicide Squad). I guess I really am a James Gunn fan. A lot better than I expected, and really showed Lex Luthor as the threat he is, and, in effect, a god vunerable (never really like Supes before this). Excellent.
Hollywood made a major musical with a good cast, high production values, decent songs, and amazing performances. And then didn’t advertise or do much with it. So it bombed.
The songs are the weakest point and that pulls this movie down. However, the performances are amazing and Jennifer Lopez deserves an Oscar nomination for this movie, as does Tonatiuh*(who I have never heard of until now).
Rent this! It’s a beautiful production and a really good movie. I’m stunned the studio that made it did nothing with it. Why did this bomb? Why did it barely get noticed in theaters?
*Seriously, who is this guy? He was amazing throughout.
Overall a good movie but lacks the fun of the original movie. It’s significantly more true to the book until it isn’t which is the problem, it loses a lot of steam in the 3rd act because it’s clear they didn’t know how to end it. It’s one of those movies that has multiple points where it could have ended but it just kept going which really sours the experience which is bad because I really liked Glenn Powell in the role and the bad guys are also really good in it.
Coincidentally, New York Times yesterday ran a story about how every comedy and drama Hollywood has produced this year has bombed. This was one of them; that Julia Roberts one was another.
I let myself get suckered into another Liam Neeson movie with The Marksman. He’s really too old for these macho roles, and while he’s a competent actor, he’s terrible at physical acting, i.e. fistfights and the like. I’m just over halfway through and have yet to figure out why the title is pertinent. Other than the fact that he owns a gun, it seems irrelevant.
I saw this yesterday. Yes, not as fun as the Arnold Schwarzenegger version but that one was deliberately not quite serious. This was more serious and, reading the summary of the novel plot in Wikipedia, much more faithful to it.
Chiming in to talk about Weapons. We saw it a few days ago. It really drew me in, very suspenseful, and the pacing was excellent. The first hour flew by. We were making wild guesses about what was going on. When they showed that large AK47 (??? I don’t know guns) in the sky with the the 2:17 time superimposed on it, I guessed that everybody had PTSD after a school shooting where only the teacher and Alex survived. But, no, it turned out to be supernatural/horror which was a real disappointment. I love Amy Madigan, and I thought she was great here (if I hadn’t recognized her very recognizable voice, it would have taken me a while to figure out it was her), but the character came out of nowhere and didn’t really connect. So, strong recommendation for the first 3/4 of the movie. Make up your own ending – you can probably do better.
I do remember many months ago hearing about the production, but I guess I figured it hadn’t been released yet. To see it hit home-streaming was a shock.
No joke. Kiss of the Spider Woman feels like an Oscar-level movie, but where the heck did it go?
Well, it was a musical re-make of a previous play/movie, so maybe people either hated musicals or had seen it before and didn’t want to see the same story again?
Saw House of Dynamite (NFLX) the other night. Pretty good, not great, was left confused as to why they couldn’t wait until the missle impacted prior to making a decision. (And, yes, I know there’s a thread about this movie, decided to put this here.)
What a mess. It was independently funded (Affleck & Damon among others), and Bill Condon insisted on a theatrical release. So, Lionsgate dumped it into more than 1,300 theaters, but only (as far as I can tell) advertised in places like YouTube.
It looks like it’s also being review-bombed on IMDb.
Watching tonight on Max. It’s pretty good. I get a little annoyed with them racing around. I understand they’re apes, but I don’t understand why they’re running just for the heck of it. It’s jarring to watch.
Funny how the apes have settlements and attack other ape settlements. They take prisoners to work as slaves. Very similar to early humans.
Interesting ending. The next movie should follow that development up and be really exciting. Can’t keep humans down forever.