Critique-Opolis
Jay & Louisa deliver a fiery, opinion fueled overview of movies, social movements, cultural behaviors and eating habits - dovetailed with a honey-based recipe and reviews of the most obnoxious movie/media news headlines we can get our eyeballs in front of. For our latest editions, we will be reviewing scripts from the infamous Hollywood 'Black List' (scripts with a ton of 'buzz' that have yet to secure a deal or go into production) - and adding our own casting and story development suggestions.
Critique-Opolis
Weapons Part 1
Brace yourselves. Jay made Louisa watch a horror movie! Well, okay, it's not like it was forced, but it did take a bit more convincing than usual. We got through the movie and Louisa doesn't need therapy.
Weapons is Zach Cregger's sophomore endeavor (the first being Barbarian). Pretty impressive as he took a $38 million dollar budget and transformed it into $268 million, but we will discuss line producing and accounting another day.
With a cast that was rounded out by Josh Brolin, Julia Garner, and Amy Madigan, Weapons has been suto-marketed as a supernatural/psychological horror, but we think that it fits better in the thriller/psychological mystery section (but if Blockbuster were still in business, it would probably be in the horror section).
In short, 17 kids get up at 2:17 in the morning and run out of their homes to God knows where. 7 members of the community have converging perspectives on what happened to them. Oh, and a mysterious woman named Gladys who looks like she raided Cesar Romero's wardrobe when he played the Joker, keeps popping up and giving the audience the non-descript "ick."
This episode has a Part 2.