# Weapons (2025) Seen it Thread with Spoilers **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [August 19, 2025, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weapons-2025-seen-it-thread-with-spoilers/1022268 "2025-08-19T12:57:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![ASL\_v2.0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asl_v2.0/32/3525_2.png) [@ASL\_v2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASL_v2.0)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2025, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weapons-2025-seen-it-thread-with-spoilers/1022268/41 "2025-11-05T00:20:47Z")
Oh, well of course they’d _Jaws_ this. Sure, Spielberg directed the first blockbuster hit, but they brought in others to do the sequels. It’s a wonder they got the man to direct _The Lost World_! ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2025, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weapons-2025-seen-it-thread-with-spoilers/1022268/42 "2025-11-06T15:40:35Z")
Rewatched this last night with my wife, who definitely did _not_ enjoy it. Got a little too weird for her, I guess. I think she was OK with it up until about the time Aunt Gladys shows up at Marcus’ house. Josh Brolin is quickly becoming my new Ewan McGregor, an actor that for some reason I fail to recognize every time I see him. I know he looks familiar, I just always think he’s somebody else. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2025, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weapons-2025-seen-it-thread-with-spoilers/1022268/43 "2025-11-06T23:13:03Z")
> [@Quimby](#): > > I am not sure how it could have been anything other than supernatural. It could have been a variation of what Gladys used to control Alex: fear for his parents. The evildoers (if not using supernatural powers as Gladys did) could have communicated with each of the seventeen kids in advance, and instructed them to have a clock handy so they could run out of their houses, arms out, at exactly the same time. And if they failed to comply, their families would be harmed. Maybe not likely, but not impossible. ---
**Author:** ![Meatwater](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meatwater/32/20074_2.png) [@Meatwater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meatwater)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2025, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weapons-2025-seen-it-thread-with-spoilers/1022268/44 "2025-11-09T16:28:21Z")
Wait till you learn that his next project is, _Resident Evil_. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2025, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weapons-2025-seen-it-thread-with-spoilers/1022268/45 "2025-11-10T17:32:03Z")
Wait, really? ---
**Author:** ![Meatwater](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meatwater/32/20074_2.png) [@Meatwater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meatwater)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2025, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weapons-2025-seen-it-thread-with-spoilers/1022268/46 "2025-11-10T19:16:18Z")
Yeah really, in an interview I listened too he seems to be a genuine big fan of the series growing up playing them. And he also stated he’s never seen the other movies in the film franchise, so its going to be followed closer to the games more, and feature original characters in a wholly original story. He said its gonna be similar to RE2/RE4 but it isn’t going to feature Leon so I am excited to see what that even means. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2025, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weapons-2025-seen-it-thread-with-spoilers/1022268/47 "2025-11-10T19:43:25Z")
> [@Meatwater](#): > > feature original characters in a wholly original story Ooo, that might be a hard sell for fans. Well, here’s hoping. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2025, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weapons-2025-seen-it-thread-with-spoilers/1022268/48 "2025-11-10T20:03:23Z")
The Silent Hill series has two good movies and a third in the way. It can be done. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2025, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weapons-2025-seen-it-thread-with-spoilers/1022268/49 "2025-11-10T21:23:57Z")
Every interesting filmmaker gets pulled into a franchise eventually. This is just how things work now. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2025, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weapons-2025-seen-it-thread-with-spoilers/1022268/50 "2025-11-10T21:59:14Z")
Sort of. Ari Aster, Oz Perkins, Werner Herzog, and Joko Anwar have yet to be pulled in. Yet. I mean, it could occur. ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2025, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weapons-2025-seen-it-thread-with-spoilers/1022268/51 "2025-11-10T23:14:15Z")
> [@Quimby](#): > > Every interesting filmmaker gets pulled into a franchise eventually. This is just how things work now. If you want to find good movies this days find out who is directing the newest blockbuster and look up what they did before. ---
**Author:** ![Meatwater](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meatwater/32/20074_2.png) [@Meatwater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meatwater)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2025, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weapons-2025-seen-it-thread-with-spoilers/1022268/52 "2025-11-10T23:15:59Z")
Does it count, being pulled in, that Werner Herzog was in The Mandelorian? Even when talented directors do get pulled in to do franchise projects, I don’t see it as a negative much anymore. Largely because we entered the next generation where these directors have grown with said franchise and have passion for the projects. Look at the Fallout TV show, they were genuine fans of the games and made an awesome tv show from it. ---
**Author:** ![echoreply](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/echoreply/32/3641_2.png) [@echoreply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/echoreply)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2025, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weapons-2025-seen-it-thread-with-spoilers/1022268/53 "2025-11-10T23:16:59Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Werner Herzog Well, [sort of](https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/The_Client) [![](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/starwars/images/3/30/TheClient-CGSWG.png) ](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/starwars/images/3/30/TheClient-CGSWG.png) ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2025, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weapons-2025-seen-it-thread-with-spoilers/1022268/54 "2025-11-10T23:36:59Z")
> [@echoreply](#): > > Well, [sort of](https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/The_Client) Are you kidding? I literally own his Funko Pop from that. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2025, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weapons-2025-seen-it-thread-with-spoilers/1022268/55 "2025-11-15T04:00:32Z")
> [@mjmartin](#): > > Huge plot holes: This is the biggest crime/mystery in the country. Every state police and FBI agent in the state would be all over this case. Meanwhile Archer “solves” the mystery by using a totally unique investigating technique of (checks notes) watching the videos and making straight lines of the direction the children were running. Apparently no one had thought of this? Apparently the police were so inept that they couldn’t trip up a grade schooler in their interview. The Witch is able to avoid detection by moving the children for 1 day. No agent thinks to watch Alex’s house? A YouTube channel I sometimes watch mentioned this a specific plot point not only for this film but horror films in general. That any crime like this would be in the news for literally forever. This crime would be the only thing the town would be known for. Also how do Justine and Archer explain to the authorities why she killed a cop and a homeless drug addict in some catatonic couple’s home with a bunch of kids milling around outside after destroying a bunch of property before tearing an old woman apart with their bare hands? Will the police just chalk it up to whatever unexplained weirdness caused the school principal to freak out and murder his husband before chasing Justine around town like a lunatic until he was accidently run over? ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2025, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weapons-2025-seen-it-thread-with-spoilers/1022268/56 "2025-12-24T11:51:04Z")
I watched this movie on a plane recently (after reading the spoilers in this thread: sorry, not sorry). The multiple points of view definitely elevated a decent horror film into something much more fun and clever. > [@Hampshire](#): > > I couldn’t remember where I had seen aunt Gladys before until I was like “Hey, That’s Uncle Buck’s girlfriend!” Same with the cop until “Hey, That’s Han Solo!” And of course the police chief is The Wiz and nobody beats him! [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ZtjI0tDLr3A/hqdefault.jpg "Seinfeld | He's the Wiz") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtjI0tDLr3A) ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2025, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weapons-2025-seen-it-thread-with-spoilers/1022268/57 "2025-12-24T15:26:04Z")
> [@hogarth](#): > > And of course the police chief is The Wiz and nobody beats him! Wow…good catch. How odd. I haven’t seen that Seinfeld clip in 20+ years. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weapons-2025-seen-it-thread-with-spoilers/1022268.md?page=2)