Weapons 2025-We came back from hiatus and immediately accused Justin Long (we didn’t)

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.

Transcript

Back From Burnout

SPEAKER_04 0:01

Oh yeah, I guess I don't have to do anything.

SPEAKER_02 0:04

And that's how we're gonna start after four months of being away.

SPEAKER_04 0:10

Well, for for Cass and I, it's been it's been it's been a while. It's been at least like a year or so.

SPEAKER_02 0:20

Really? I think so, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 0:22

Something like that. Has it been a year?

SPEAKER_02 0:24

I'm gonna go look. I'm gonna go look real quick.

SPEAKER_04 0:28

I'm looking right now.

SPEAKER_00 0:29

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 0:39

Um we're all burnt out.

SPEAKER_00 0:40

I think I'm still burnt out, but you know what? That's fine. It's fine.

SPEAKER_04 0:45

It won't let me look at anything. So that's weird. Oh well.

SPEAKER_00 0:51

I can find out in a second.

SPEAKER_04 0:53

Well, hold on. This doesn't matter. Anyway, hello.

SPEAKER_00 0:57

It doesn't matter. We're back.

SPEAKER_04 0:58

We're we're well, kinda. Um the last episode okay, it hasn't been a year. It's

Picking “Weapons” Over “Sinners”

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been May.

SPEAKER_02 1:08

Yeah, I was gonna say it's definitely has not been a year.

SPEAKER_04 1:11

Five months. It feels like a year. It feels like a year. It feels like we haven't done this in a really long time because we haven't. Has anything changed for us?

SPEAKER_00 1:23

Uh no.

SPEAKER_04 1:24

Five months.

SPEAKER_00 1:25

Oh my god. I'm horror.

SPEAKER_04 1:31

I passed 500 subscribers on YouTube. That doesn't really mean shit though.

SPEAKER_02 1:36

I open to Etsy. Nice. Yeah, we've been exciting, guys. Um today we're back with what are we talking about? Weapons? Weapons. Sorry, we were also talking about talking about sinners.

SPEAKER_04 1:53

So I didn't watch sinners.

SPEAKER_02 1:55

Yeah, I plan on watching it this weekend, but but we watched weapons.

SPEAKER_04 1:59

Well, it's good that we're not talking about sinners because Tanya and I did not watch the movie because that wasn't the agreed-upon movie in the first place.

SPEAKER_02 2:07

Look, I've watched it twice. Nice. We'll get there. We'll get there. But today we'll talk about weapons and

Director Context And Cast Notes

SPEAKER_02 2:16

yeah.

SPEAKER_04 2:16

So weapons is directed by Zach Kregger. Uh he was the director of Barbarian, which was a movie that I definitely recommend. We didn't talk about it on the podcast, but I I really liked I liked that movie.

SPEAKER_00 2:29

I liked that movie too.

SPEAKER_04 2:31

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 in it, you know, like how he was in Barbarian.

SPEAKER_00 2:42

But yeah.

SPEAKER_04 2:43

Um, so Zach Krager, he he was in uh The Whitest Kids You Know, and he has a tribute to uh one of the guys, his name was Trevor, and it's the scene in Weapons where uh brings out a plate of hot dogs. There's like seven hot dogs on the plate. That's the tribute to him because it's like a whitest kids you know uh joke, I believe. Oh I wasn't super into that. I have friends that were into it, so uh yeah. Um but anyway, weapons.

The Disappearance Hook

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Last night at 217 a.m., every child from Mrs. Gandhi's class woke up, got out of bed, went downstairs, opened the front door, walked into the dark, and they never came back. When all but one child from the same class mysteriously vanished on the same night at exactly the same time, a community is left questioning who or what is behind their disappearance.

SPEAKER_02 3:39

Uh and they blame the teacher.

SPEAKER_04 3:42

It's crazy that uh Julia Garner, the main chick in this movie, looks like Justin Timberlake from the year 2000.

SPEAKER_01 3:53

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 3:56

That's all I was thinking.

SPEAKER_00 3:58

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 3:59

She so Julia Garner was in a couple other movies that we watched for the podcast. She was in Wolfman and Apartment 7A, and she's a really good actress. Yeah, I like her acting. Uh she's also apparently the Silver Surfer.

SPEAKER_05 4:15

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 4:16

In Fantastic Four, which uh fantastic movie. I like it.

SPEAKER_05 4:23

Do you have those Fantastic Four skins in uh Fortnite?

SPEAKER_02 4:26

Oh I did hear about that. I was gonna make a foreskin joke. I just didn't know. That was gonna get there.

SPEAKER_04 4:35

Uh, but but yeah, she's she's really honestly, she's great in everything that she's been in. Um I haven't seen everything else that she's been in, though, but they I so I don't know how you guys feel about this movie, but I really liked it.

SPEAKER_05 4:50

Uh I I like when the horror movies have just like a little bit of like mystery going on too. Like I want it to be scary, but I want to I want to be like intrigued a little, like, oh, what is causing the spooky?

SPEAKER_02 5:03

I love

Performances, Vibes, And Early Chaos

SPEAKER_02 5:05

um the the twist. I I just I like the chaos in the beginning of where nobody knows what happened, so they're just pointing fingers um and blaming people that really have nothing to do with the blame.

SPEAKER_04 5:24

Danny, if you touch your fucking mouse one more time, I'm blaming bongo cats.

SPEAKER_02 5:29

Leave me be.

SPEAKER_05 5:31

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_02 5:33

Did you guys miss this chaos?

SPEAKER_04 5:35

Oh my god. Um but I like the um it's like it's like watching a band play a reunion show and they all hate each other.

SPEAKER_02 5:45

We don't hate each other. Let's specify that.

SPEAKER_04 5:49

Oh boy, I can't wait to watch Oasis play together. Oh yeah, that's right. They hate each other.

SPEAKER_02 5:54

Um But I like um just the chaos, like and like it felt like actual. Like I think the actual the actors did a great um job just like feeling that like the confusion and anger that they have. Um, I do like question why the act the main actress, uh Lily, I think her name was, right? Um just like wants to talk. Like I understand she wants to talk to the woman. Justine. All right, who the fuck was Lily?

SPEAKER_04 6:28

You should have known that because my name is Justin and that's close. How could you?

SPEAKER_02 6:33

Oh, I'm thinking of I'm thinking of the old lady Lily.

SPEAKER_04 6:36

I'm thinking of that's that's not the main character. No, but I'm pretty sure her name she is a problem. She is a problem. I think her name was Gladys.

SPEAKER_02 6:46

Gladys Lily, yeah. Um, but so Justine, she um I do find it problematic. I understand where she comes from, where she wants to talk to the one kid that didn't disappear in her class, but she needs to like assess the situation. She really does, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 7:05

See, I see, but the thing is too, is that I I think because of how weird it was, she I mean, our our psychosis in general will throw us into some really weird places and justify anything. So I I get it that she's like, I need some kind of answer because in in human nature, we want to justify something

Ethics Of The Teacher’s Choices

SPEAKER_04 7:30

happening for a reason. Like, it can't just be for nothing. It I need some kind of reason of why this happened, and so she's just trying to justify, like, no, what I'm doing is normal because I need this and I come first on this.

SPEAKER_00 7:47

And yeah, no, she knows that he like knows something, like, as the only other 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 the other adults, like literally in the room and figuratively, are just like, oh, he's been through a traumatic event, like, you know, oh, he's not talking, he's traumatized, blah, blah, blah. Like, they're basically just like ignoring him for the most part, um, and like not really dealing with the situation. Also, my take on this movie was interested at first, got really bored. Oh, good, that's the plot twist. Like, yeah, they did kind of like shit that pissed me off. Um, especially watching this movie with Kyle, who um like works in schools and works with teachers and stuff. One, uh, the main character, like it is a huge no-no that you give a kid a ride home from school, uh, which is like something that like.

SPEAKER_04 9:03

They do they do say that too. They were like, you were not supposed to do that.

SPEAKER_00 9:07

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 of plant the seed that like maybe she's not a great person, but like she was doing this, like, you know, to be kind to get this kid home, but like she's a rule breaker, so like what else is she doing? So, like they're putting this in there to add suspicion for us when it's like okay, well, we're clearly like trying to point the blame at the teacher here, like going 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 the little boy when he was like left at the school alone at one point, like, and he ends up like walking home. Um, if this is like modern times, which there's not really an era um in the movie, and so it is sort of assumed modern. At least I assumed it was modern.

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 been allowed to walk home like that without like expressed

School Realism And Plot Gaps

SPEAKER_00 10:25

permission from a parent, um, which like we kind of clearly don't get. Um, like somebody there would have been other adults around like watching him and like making sure he was okay and he would have not been able allowed to walk home on his own. Um was really bored with the whole cop sequence. Um it is really funny to me that time and time again, any time that we are shown a cop in a horror movie, they're fucking useless. Um I like that it was a trope. Um I don't think his entire thing was even necessary. Like, we already saw the kind of like drug addict homeless guy like in other clips. And like that entire like chapter of the two of them could have just been cut out and then just like cut to the drug addict person seeing Mikey's house. Is that his name? I can't remember what the fuck the 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 there for 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, I found the kids, and that's why he needed I know, but like the entire sequence leading up to that with the like the scuffle between the two of them and him like punching the guy and all that, like that didn't add 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 the situation

The Cop Thread: Necessary Or Not

SPEAKER_04 12:05

that that's the only thing I could like truly think of because like other than when he becomes a doll and accidentally like kills himself um at the end, um he thought it was really funny when um I think it was Josh Brolin's character just picking him up and constantly like throwing him, like the the drug addict character. Yeah, like he just and it just gets back up again and just starts running out again. He keeps I I thought that part was really funny.

SPEAKER_02 12:35

I laughed pretty hard when he yelled at him. Uh the uh guy was trying to give knowledge, like a tip off that he thinks he knows where all the kids are, and the cop's just like, I told you to fuck off and like 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 we had never gotten the like uh like the drug addict, like trying to rob the place and then the cop being bored and like chasing him down and like you know, trying to arrest him and then getting stabbed. Well, he wasn't bored for anything.

SPEAKER_04 13:16

I mean, he the guy was like breaking the law. He was trying to break the water.

SPEAKER_00 13:19

He was breaking the law, but the cop was also bored. Like the cop got lucky. Yeah, but like lucky happenstance that the cop happened to be driving by and look down that alley and go, oh, that guy's trying to break in right 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 a like you know, experience the the drug addict uh scoping out the kid's house. Like, that would have been just like the opening chapter to that. Like, all right, we know he's a drug addict, we've seen him in his like little tent or whatever. Um scope out the house, because we already know the house is abandoned because of what's her face, goes in, breaks in, has his whole experience in there, sees the kids, and then he goes and tries to tell the cops, and then 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 to see the conflict with the cop. Like, drug addicts always have conflicts with cops. It just it I feel like it added an an extra layer that we didn't need. It was just like there was too there's too many storylines.

SPEAKER_04 14:41

Like I feel like the storylines wrapped up pretty

Theme: Adults Failing The Kids

SPEAKER_04 14:45

well though, and then like I I I didn't I mean, like I I didn't feel like any part of the movie felt 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 there was too like not much with the um like him breaking into that place, 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 we took out what he was doing and when he ran into him or not. Um and uh I think like the cop can stay in it because like I mean there is a past relationship between our main girl Justine and the um police officer.

SPEAKER_00 15:34

Yeah, like the copying in the movie is fine, but like I just I feel like his entire 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 is uh it seems like nobody actually cares about these kids because they're all so preoccupied with their own shit, and when anyone's trying to get to the kids, so they're they're wanting to do something else instead. And I think that's the whole thing of like you guys say you care about the kids, but like what 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 the symbolism

Blood Magic, The Aunt, And Control

SPEAKER_04 16:25

of the the the actual like weapon coming up from the house. That part was I I was like, I feel like I should I feel like it's really obvious what this or what we're saying here, but like I don't know what we're saying here, and I feel I felt really stupid. It's like I was like, I should know what they're saying. It's and like I said, it's probably really obvious.

SPEAKER_02 16:46

And if anyone wants saying like what everything meant for it, but um I do find it um like how horrible is it to get arrested, and then the cop that's the only way out of the car locks you in the car and then 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 that he gets controlled by the uh unknown lady uh which is doing blood magic. And um who isn't? Yeah, right? Who isn't? Uh I am curious if she is actually related to the uh the little boy's mother, or if uh she just I think it was it was the easy victim. Yeah, because but it like she seemed 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 little boy's parents um the mother's great aunt or aunt, she's something like that. Um, is she said she's very sick and she just needs help until she's able to um transfer over somewhere. Husband wasn't into it, but then he was like, fine, whatever. Well, dad just sealed their fate, so uh and she just took advantage of them. I kind of like the witch's character though, because she's 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 with us. 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 movies here at apartment theater. So, but I I do enjoy the character. I thought she was entertaining. I love how like manipulative she was like shown to be and how easily she manipulated people. Um and then as soon as she it it's just clearly not going her 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 bit of 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 were running into a theme of uh who am I missing last

Visuals, Darkness, And Craft

SPEAKER_04 19:30

time?

SPEAKER_02 19:30

Yep, I know. Uh, but yeah, I thought I thought 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's doing with the spells. It's just like she's just doing spells. Like everybody, every single thing that they're doing, it's you can just tell, like, they're like, I hope this fucking works because I've no idea what to do now.

SPEAKER_00 19:57

What I like uh a part of with the blood magic shit because the the kid kind of like picks up on what she's doing and you know replicates what she does. Yeah. Um she wears a wig and he gets some of the wig hair and uses it. And I'm like, so I'm like, okay, like my brain is going like full magic deep dive into that. I'm like, okay, part of the reason your hair works is because it's part of you, but that'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 the parents 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 doing something that was just like once again. I think it was like a I don't even 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 his character is very quiet and um just like the quiet kid. Uh, he doesn't stand up for himself, and by the end of the movie, like he's able to stand up 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 they still 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, like you have a slow narrative of um uh like some of them were able to 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 a year. Yeah, yeah. So like is that like uh it just shows like how fucked up their spells were? Uh the the scenery in

Comparing Horror: Barbarian, Others

SPEAKER_02 22:15

the whole movie, I loved it though. Like the imagery, um, how things were angled, the tone they used. Um, like I think it was very well shot, especially the scene when the drug addict was in the basement 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 I couldn'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 got annoyed that it was too dark, and I can't remember if it was this 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's character runs into like the woods, and I was like, I can't see him. I don't know where we're at. But I I also think it might have just had to do with like the bit rate of like the movie because like I ended up finding like a better version of it, and I was like, oh, whoops. I keep forgetting that too. I'm like, oh man, I need a better version of this movie because yeah, any dark scenes, and you have like a this site's not the best site for watching stuff on. It's like I can't see anything now. Um, but yeah, uh this movie though, it was interesting, it was it was different and weird, and uh it's not as horrifying as Barbarian was because that was shit.

SPEAKER_05 23:39

Like when you get in the basement of Barbarian, you're like uh uh everything just 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 not watched 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 to the next movie that this guy made. Oh, because he's making a Resident 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 I think this was a well-shot movie. I think the cast was great in it. Um, I think like I could have done without like some of the like details. Uh I love that they didn't over-explain stuff. Like, that's one thing, like, directors stop over-explaining things, just let it be. There's mystery in uh the unknown.

SPEAKER_00 24:55

Like, don't give us a fucking epilogue of explanation, just like visually explain it to us. Yeah. Which I think is what this movie did very well is like gave us visual explanations for things.

SPEAKER_04 25:08

Uh, there are talks of a

Prequel Rumors And RE Reboot

SPEAKER_04 25:10

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 eyed as backbone of the prequel. It's gonna be centered around uh the Aunt Glady character. He had yeah, so he had so he revealed that he had written material focused squarely on uh cut it from weapons for length. That lost storyline is now being eyed as the backbone of the prequel. Now that might not be like and I don't know. If anything, it could be like how like X and Pearl were, like were um it's related, but it doesn't feel the same.

SPEAKER_00 25:59

Yeah. So I mean maybe I I kind of liked that we didn't have a whole lot of background on the ant, to be honest.

SPEAKER_04 26:08

Yeah. Right. But it's I feel like like with how X and Pearl was though, it's like I feel like the movie, when I finally watched it, like justified itself and was like, oh, this is this is really interesting. I think if they can if they make it 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 dog shit. I can't I can't take it anymore. If I get one more shitty Resident 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 it was a good movie. I haven't seen a good horror movie

Praise, Quibbles, And Ratings

SPEAKER_02 27:00

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 the box, 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 letterbox scoring.

SPEAKER_00 27:35

Yeah. I don't know. I was kind of uh moderately disappointed in the uh, oh, it's an old ancient witch feeding off of their life sources. That's what happened. Yeah. Like conclusion. I was like, was it done kind of creatively and maybe a little bit more interesting than what we'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 this year, 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 movie was hyped up, and I that uh to me was the best movie so far this year. Um, but like going from that to this, I mean they're very different, but it was just like why do people talk about this one more than that one? But then again, it's like whatever. I also I'm just glad that we're getting good horror movies, yeah, and then I don't have to rely on a fucking franchise thing. It's kind of like how well, I mean, talk to me is gonna have a a sequel, uh, apparently. And I'm like, please don't be shit. I really liked that first movie.

unknown 29:06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 29:07

Oh I do,

Second-Watch Value And Expectations

SPEAKER_02 29:10

however, want to say how much I enjoyed the scene where the one father was yelling at her at the gas station and as she's looking behind him, watching somebody run up to her. Like, I just found that scene so entertaining.

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's pretty from the trailer.

SPEAKER_02 29:34

I thought it was a zombie movie, so it was it really did take me aback when I realized 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 see a trailer for anything. I the only thing I go off of is letterbox, and I go off of the one image and the poster, and I'm like, I wonder what this is gonna be, and then go from there. And sometimes Uh, I find a good movie, and a lot of times uh they end up being really bad. But you know, like I don't want to 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 the death of this in a way of the second watch of a movie. Uh like we don't really go back and watch a lot of movies. We're we're constantly consuming new movies, and I feel like this one especially, and like a lot of like horror movies that are getting like really high praise and stuff. I feel like there's a lot more going on that people will miss, or like they they have like a expectation of what that movie is gonna be, and then they go and watch it again. It's like well, now that I know what it was supposed to be, now I'm seeing it in a different light. So I think that for like anything that gets like highly regarded, I think it's like a you know, maybe come back to it when you're in a different mindframe.

SPEAKER_00 31:02

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 31:03

Mind frame, mind space, whatever. Mind space whenever you're in a different uh mainframe. Whenever your AI downloads, whenever you're downloaded into the the AI mind space uh

Closing, Streams, And Future Picks

SPEAKER_04 31:20

and forced to look at garbage, you know, we'll remember the good stuff. And when you get back to the space station, when we're all evaporated from the earth in 2020. God.

SPEAKER_02 31:40

All right. Well, I guess get us out of here, 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 the thing that gets us through the day. Uh really is like 140 downloads, and we were like, how come people are downloading the episode when we're not doing the show? What the fuck? But hey, it's fine with me. If please continue to download those episodes, it still helps us. Uh, if we have any shit takes that you want to uh argue about, you can leave a comment on uh Spotify and whatever else things that we're on. Uh but yeah, thank you guys for checking out the the channel and stuff. And we also stream Danny streams, ice stream. Uh Cass is gonna be on those streams too.

SPEAKER_00 32:42

So sometimes, yeah. Mostly I just eat ice cream though.

SPEAKER_04 32:46

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 32:47

And she screams.

SPEAKER_04 32:48

Yeah. So either way, we all appreciate you for for coming around and hanging out and listening to us ramble about stuff. Um we're not like fully back uh or anything, but like if there's movies that we want to talk about, we're gonna we're gonna do it. Um, but there's some that I've been thinking that we should talk about. But we might talk about bring her 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 I loved it. Uh I had a I felt terrible the whole time watching it, but it was amazing. It just like talked it's uh well it's by the same director as uh Talk to Me. And that movie also made me feel like shit. Uh, and I thought it was incredible. So yeah, um sucks. Yeah, they're on a winning streak, and I'm looking forward to more uh by them. But anyway, thanks for being here. Make sure to subscribe and follow and whatever the fuck you do. Um mainly downloading the episode helps us out the most. You don't even have to listen to the episode download it. Um, but listen to it, tell your friends, and uh get the fuck out. Bye.

SPEAKER_02 33:58

Bye. Bye. Oh no, it's not letting me end it.

SPEAKER_01 34:04

Oh no.