TPToA Podcast 417 – Weapons

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Weapons

Kids are creepy right? We can all agree on that? Well, you know whats even creepier? When there are meant to be kids and they aren’t there. Or even worse… there’s just one. Weapons is the new horror from Zach Cregger starring Julia Garner, Josh Brolin and Alden Ehrenreich, whose first break out hit Barbarian scared the hell out of us… and guess what? It’s got a whole bunch of creepy not-there kids! But is it actually good? Or is this just a bunch of kids “naruto running” towards oblivion?

Dion, Jill and Quinny are all in or this review, with Quinny being the only one who hasn’t been traumatised by Barbarian yet.

Synopsis

When all but one child from the same classroom mysteriously vanish on the same night at exactly the same time, a community is left questioning who or what is behind their disappearance.

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Dion

Oh, well, hello and welcome to the periodic table of awesome. I’m unsure of who I am at the moment. I could be a weapon, I’m not sure. But you know who I know is absolutely a weapon. Jill. Jill is absolutely a weapon.

Quinny

Look at those ******* guns. Boom.

Dion

And and Quinny is potentially a weapon.

Quinny

Look, I I had to register my entire body as deadly weapon as, as, as legally one is bound to when one is as hard as ******* as I.

Jill

Make a gun.

Dion

Am I was actually going to say if you. If you commit to it quinny, if you if you, if you you put yourself on a regime, if you go to the gym, you could build yourself into a weapon. And.

Quinny

Buddy, I I am a weapon. It’s just like I’m a 10 LB ******* gun. I’m like, you know, you you you’re thinking of like a a fast kind of swishy weapon. I’m more like a like a a fat man bomb that gets dropped off, you know.

Speaker 6

Yeah.

Quinny

So technically, still the weapon.

Dion

I wasn’t gonna. I wasn’t gonna go there.

Quinny

Yeah, well, I know. And as telling us, there’s better being a weapon than being a tool. What are you?

Dion

Yeah, yeah. Now you’re a ******. Don’t don’t tism me. This is that will go down a rabbit hole. We’re not going to do it. Yes. OK. Weapons. We went and.

Quinny

I know, right?

Dion

Saw weapons. We did, we.

Quinny

Can’t get a water bomb is a weapon too.

Dion

All of that what is a weapon? Yeah.

Quinny

Is that my physique? Is that what?

Speaker 7

We’re saying no.

Dion

Philosophically. OK, so story time now. A while back, Jill and I went and saw a.

Jill

Little film we trauma bonded over, but Marion.

Dion

Yeah, we trailer bond, we weren’t. We didn’t know what was going on. We weren’t. It was like, ohh this film. It’s called barbarian. OK, whatever. We’ll go do that. And they were good. They gave us some alcohol. I’m like, oh, yeah. Let’s get on this and started watching a film. And then. Don’t know, maybe. 3045 minutes into it, we started going wait, where the **** is this going? And and it just proceeded to get even ******* more terrifying and crazy all the way to the end. And then we walked out going. That was ******* cool.

Jill

Yes, it was ****** **, but it was cool.

Dion

Yeah, it was.

Speaker

Quinny

You’re not normally a huge horror fan. No, but like you, you will watch it. If it’s in front of.

Dion

I mean, you know, like I’m not the sort of person who’s like, oh, is it gory and horror, sure. Or go and laugh. I’m just more like, I don’t really need to see that. It has to be a good horror, elevated horror. Elevated horror is a discerning horror. Which, you know, like the traditional stuff like nightmare on Elm Street, you know and.

Quinny

13th.

Dion

Friday 13th and I don’t really go into. I don’t need to see Gore for the sake of gore.

Jill

Those are like a sub genre though those are.

Dion

Yeah, yeah. And slasher. Yeah. And but a good.

Speaker 6

Slasher films, yeah.

Quinny

Horror. Torture. ****. Not it’s like, you know, that kind of stuff where it’s just watching people be.

Dion

Nice.

Jill

Like so.

Quinny

Exactly.

Dion

Yeah. Yeah. I mean, like all that kind of stuff can kind of get a bit confused in. But you know, I can’t say I’m a fan of it because, you know, given the choice, I’m not sure that I’d go and see barbarian or weapons again in that kind of sense. But was it a good film? Yeah.

Speaker

But.

Dion

You know, it was just that way that it kind of went through. So sure, I’m not a huge horror fan. Jill. Jill though. Yeah, she yeah loves it. Except for.

Jill

You love it. Clowns. No, no, it I’ll never watch it.

Dion

Yeah. So. It.

Quinny

Ohh, but you’re you’re not looking forward to welcome. To Derry then.

Speaker 6

Yeah.

Quinny

The the prequel to it.

Jill

Good, because I would have thought it was something to do with dairy.

Dion

Yeah.

Speaker 8

Girls and I would have gone and seen it. And I would have been very upset.

Quinny

Why would you would have? It’s a TV series coming out soon and I’m actually really pumped. I’ve.

Speaker 6

Yeah, no.

Quinny

It was one of those books that ******* creeped this **** out of me as a kid and you know, I’m like, yeah.

Dion

Sure.

Jill

I couldn’t stare at a drain for a very long time because my father would say ohh it lives in the trees and it’s little children. So here I am in the shower, not making eye contact.

Dion

Sure.

Speaker 6

Yeah, yeah.

Jill

With the brain.

Dion

With the train.

Jill

Thinking it was any kind of drain that this ******* clown lived in.

Dion

Which which technically it did. So it does live in every drain and it is a clown.

Jill

Yeah. Yeah. And I’m like, don’t look down there cause you’ll see something staring back and. I was *******. He’s terrified.

Quinny

Hi, Georgie.

Dion

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like if if I go down that rabbit hole, I could still easily terrify the **** out of myself.

Quinny

Yep.

Dion

Yes, so.

Jill

I do kind of tend to watch horror as a form of. Therapy. Because I’m in a constant state of fight or.

Speaker 8

Flight with anxiety and if.

Jill

I were to ah. Film. Then I I know that that is something that I can’t control and it’s I just have to go along for the ride. So I just kind of like purges the fright.

Dion

Sure. I mean it’s.

Quinny

Out and also. Yeah, it gives you that, that, that moment of tension and then release, whereas having a life of anxiety means there’s no release. Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 6

Yes.

Quinny

Just tension. Constant ******* ongoing tension.

Jill

Yeah.

Quinny

Yeah. Yeah, no, I get that totally.

Dion

Quinny, do you consider yourself a fan of horror?

Quinny

As a kid, **** no. Like I was terrified of anything that looked even remotely like horror, you know, like, even seeing a cover of a VHS of something like extra or fright night or something like that was enough to make me, you know. You have nightmares for ages, so it took me a really long time till I ever went anything near horror and I came to horror through so if I.

Dion

Sure.

Quinny

So right, you know, the first horror that I watched was aliens. And yeah, because that wasn’t really a horror. That was, you know, an action film that had horror elements.

Speaker 6

Hmm.

Quinny

Then I went back and rewatched or watched alien and was scared ********. But then I started to kind of get into it. No invasion of the body snatchers and. Like that and now I have a thing that I’m not in a huge rush to go and watch a horror.

Speaker 6

Sure. Yeah.

Quinny

But I will watch a good one.

Dion

And so back to this whole sort of story when weapons came out and it’s by Zach Krieger, who Jill and I have had the Zach Cregger experience with barbarian. And while we were like, this is gonna be like I I remember I was looking at.

Speaker 6

Hmm.

Speaker

We have.

Dion

Oh great. Ohh wait. OK. Like I’ll go see what this is, but I knew what I was going into. The funniest thing was watching it with Quinn, who had not. Had this experience at. All just going. What the **** I’m like, yeah.

Quinny

No. That’s in fact there. There are multiple times in the film where characters exclaim loudly what the ****? Sure, and I agree wholeheartedly with them.

Jill

Yeah.

Dion

Because there is a part of this where I feel like weapons is communicating with the audio. Once in a really interesting way and it doesn’t spoil anything. I just feel like there are parts of the movie and beats of the story and things that are going where it the the film makers are communicating with the audience going. We’ve just shown you a bunch of ****** ** **** and we’ve had a character on screen and saying what the **** and the whole audience is like. Yeah, what the ****?

Quinny

Yeah, yeah.

Dion

And it really it was an interesting as you were saying, the release of tension and I felt like that came through at the end too where it. Diverged a little bit, but allowed the audience to have that tension released, which has been built up for the whole thing, so I consider this one not particularly a horror, but it is. Let’s be honest. Yeah, it is. Yeah.

Jill

Ohh it is.

Dion

But it is.

Quinny

It’s it’s a proper horror, but you know.

Dion

It’s a it’s a really good tension film.

Jill

Yeah, Arena asked. Is it more of a thriller? But I would say no, it’s definitely.

Speaker 6

And.

Dion

No, no.

Jill

Not not thriller.

Dion

No, because and the horror.

Quinny

It. It does good tension building and it is it has that kind of thriller kind of thing, but no, it’s very definitely.

Dion

Yeah.

Speaker 6

Yes.

Dion

Yeah, as you say, like, oh, I’m not going with jump scares. I’m like, well, maybe this is not for you.

Quinny

In fact, this has moments that are not jump scares, but like there are there are some of the most effective moments of like, skin crawling horror that I have seen in a long time, and hearing a whole.

Dion

Horror. Just dread. That contained no.

Quinny

Audience yeah, react to them and ohh wow.

Dion

With like and they have no blood. It’s just really good ******* creepy ****.

Speaker 1

Yeah, and like.

Dion

That you’re waiting for something.

Jill

I I love all of that stuff. And when one of. The big jump scares happened and I screamed.

Dion

He did.

Speaker

It was great.

Quinny

A big way.

Dion

Yeah, and. And look, let’s be honest, we all knew it was coming. Like that’s one of the great things when you still have that result like ohh ****. Even though I knew it was coming.

Speaker 6

Yeah.

Jill

Yes. Yeah. Like, I’m like, oh, my God, I know this is coming. And then it did. And then I screamed. And I’m like, I haven’t screamed and. It jumps Gary and ages. Yeah. So it was it. Was a good pay off do do you wanna know?

Dion

And the.

Quinny

What the film’s actually about? No, no.

Dion

Not yet. One one second, one second. Can I, can I ask you one question because I don’t actually have any music and you’ve caught me off guard.

Quinny

I think. It. Yeah.

Dion

The last movie that I saw that did the same kind of thing that I really actually didn’t enjoy was smile too. Ohh yeah yeah. So watched that. Yeah, and I mean.

Jill

Never.

Quinny

Ohh you should get into that Joe.

Jill

Yeah, it’s on, it’s on telly. I’ll watch it, yeah.

Quinny

Yeah. That for the for the discomforting side of it, Dee or the.

Dion

No, the the way that it like, I mean smile, which I haven’t seen and I saw smile to going in blind which is a bit funny but I understood the craft and I thought they did it really well but they jump scares became a point where it was. Just this is the building to a jump scare. Whereas I liked weapons more because it was like is it a jump scare? Maybe you know? And it was some sort of smarter done and then sometimes was like, hey, it’s not a jump scare. It’s just something absolutely ******* terrifying that doesn’t really do it. Yeah, it’s it’s. And it’s not about some. That is terrifying. It’s the idea of it is built and constructed in such a great way that the audience is filling in their brain about how terrifying and what bad things could happen, and then it doesn’t really happen that way. It just puts the the situation goes, hey, how would you react to this situation? And everyone in the audience is going *******. No, I don’t want to be in that situation. I don’t want. To do this, I want to leave. Anyway.

Quinny

Absolutely. OK.

Dion

Sorry, synopsis time. Do you know what I’ve got? I’ve got on the boards for the music to go behind. It is stuff.

Quinny

I don’t know.

Dion

From Kpop Demon Hunter. So do you want that? Why not? We haven’t had enough.

Speaker 6

No.

Quinny

Why? No, I mean, hey, by the way, the the golden from K pop demon hunters went to number one of the Billboard charts today. Wow.

Dion

Excellent. Hear it again.

Speaker 7

Yeah, well, let’s go with.

Quinny

We’re just increasing its plays.

Dion

Sure.

Quinny

Jill

You’re gonna give us, like a Anna Delphi.

Quinny

Ohh but I can because you’re a poor.

Dion

Yes, do it.

Quinny

OK, when all but one child from the same classroom mysteriously vanish on the same night at exactly the same time because they’re porous.

Speaker 7

Right.

Quinny

A community is left questioning who or what is behind the disappearances. Sorry that just turned into the chick from SBS.

Speaker 8

This is going.

Jill

I was like, it’s like Christoph Waltz and Christopher Walken met Christoph Walton.

Quinny

First off. I apologize. I apologize to everybody that was, that was the absolute peak of **** accent.

Speaker

Yeah.

Jill

Wait, was that the whole boxes?

Quinny

Yeah. When all but one child from the same club, I can.

Speaker

Oh.

Quinny

Do a slightly longer. 1 So it’s a a horror film about a community grappling with the disappearance of 17 children from the same class, all vanishing at the same time on the same. Night and it follows. The aftermath, exploring things of trauma, grief, and the unsettling nature of the events of the townspeople, tried to understand. What happened and who is responsible?

Dion

Double s in officers. OK, one of them was backed by K pop and the other was. Just a flat scare. So. OK, yeah, good.

Quinny

Sorry.

Dion

Good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good so.

Quinny

Right. Yeah. That’s how we should do it. That’s that’s how we work there. Yes. And there was a little gesture.

Dion

Now very.

Quinny

In there I’m.

Dion

Sorry, very, very, very importantly, there was a notice in front of the screening. Which was, hey, don’t spoil it for people where people go in and I thought, OK, it’s a bit naff. Let the thing stand on its own. You know, there’s no need to go through it. But it went on upon reflection.

Speaker 8

Yes.

Dion

Having it’s it’s been out for a while now. I actually kind of go. Yeah, I don’t. Really want to. Do a big spoil because not that I think you’d lose anything from it. I just think it’s a more interesting film to not know. Sort of the last third going into it, I think it has a better effect, not not giving a **** about it. Like, don’t really listen. To. People reviewing it and and spoiling stuff because. You kind of lose.

Jill

It. Yeah, I mean, the trailer was enough and then kind of like discovering what is actually going on is I think lends more to the suspense and and keeps it interesting.

Dion

Yeah.

Speaker

Yeah.

Quinny

Yeah, I do want to talk like a little bit structurally about what happens at the end of the film, but I don’t want to talk about.

Jill

Oh yeah. OK.

Quinny

The the the facts of it like you know. But anyway, let’s not talk about that bit. Let’s talk about the beginning of the film. So a base concept, a bunch of kids run away one night. But it’s not just that they run away.

Speaker 7

Yeah.

Quinny

They Naruto runner.

Jill

Naruto run, they’re going to storm area 51. Yeah, at 2:17 in the morning? Absolutely.

Dion

At 2:17 and it’s all through grainy camera footage. And I love the little child like voice, voice over narration of, like, this is a true story. This is the stuff that happened and blah blah blah and I’m like.

Speaker 7

Which is.

Jill

Yeah, it gives it a little bit of found footage vibe.

Dion

Bit Nash.

Jill

Which is yeah. It’s like a bit creepy.

Quinny

Yeah, yeah, this this does that whole found footage and like, different cameras and stuff like that. So much better than that war of. The world’s ********.

Dion

****, don’t. Don’t even. It’s it’s an interesting one too, because what I really like about it is it is. It is an easy to understand story. It’s set in suburban Americana. Sort of. There is something creepy going on in a space that generally wouldn’t be considered creepy, and I think you did it also in barbarian like and I and I really enjoy that. It doesn’t necessarily need. Rich people, poor people. It’s not about, you know, X&Y. It’s like, look, this weird thing happened. Hmm, that has probably been going on for a long time. In this and everyone is unsettled by it, but in the end. Life will keep going. And I really, I really like they explained at the start, they’re like ohh this really strange thing and in the end everyone just sort of accepted it. And moved on because it was too upsetting for people and I really like that it gave it a good basis and a good foundation to sort of settle in and go, OK what the?

Quinny

**** did happen but, but also it it does that that very smart thing of going OK how do people in you know, small towns react to bad things happening? They’ll turn.

Dion

You know clue.

Speaker 7

Insect.

Quinny

And and the the most obvious person to turn on is the the the school teacher. So if every kid from the class Bar 1. You know doesn’t show up who’s the first thing you’re gonna look at the school teacher. You’re gonna ask questions there.

Jill

See, I’m the opposite. I’m like, why is this one? Kid left on, yeah.

Quinny

Oh yeah, 100 percent, 100%.

Jill

What’s going on with this kid?

Quinny

And the the the good thing is they actually show you like they they interview the kid, they do a lot of like they go to great lengths to really show you that due diligence has been done. Yeah. You know, and this is just there is no answer. It’s just ******* weird.

Jill

Yeah, it’s it’s puzzling.

Dion

And and like I love that they used quite well in this, like the vignette sort of style, the way they chop it up and they follow, you know, you get introduced to kind of some of the characters and then you get like as you get introduced to more, it starts replaying their stories. And I like the way that they use that quite effectively, which is like here’s. This person, and this is their story. And then we’ll follow someone else and it overlaps and it overlaps and it overlaps until you finally get to the.

Jill

Yeah. And chill, there’s a point where it’s like, hang on a second. Something really *******.

Dion

Yeah.

Jill

Weird’s going on?

Dion

And until it gets to the point where it’s like, OK, we’ve given you enough back story about how all these things are kind of overlapping and then we’re just gonna follow this one. And explain exactly what happened and you were like by that time you’re like ohh ****. Like, how do you resolve this? What the **** did happen?

Quinny

Yeah.

Jill

Yeah, it was a good point to reveal it as well because like, it was a very kind of slow burn intro to the movie. And I was like, ohh, where is this going like?

Dion

Yeah.

Jill

It’s maybe, yeah, becoming a little bit dull until like you do get that pivot point and it’s like, ohh ****. OK now strap in, cause I’m ready for.

Dion

So.

Quinny

Yeah, yeah, yeah. She’s gotten real ****** **. Yeah, it it’s interesting because I was watching it and my immediate thought was the film rush him on, which is the one where they they tell the same story, but from different perspectives. And you see the way that interacts. It’s like that. But it it’s sort of.

Jill

The rest of it.

Speaker

Hmm.

Jill

Yeah.

Quinny

Just showing you different parts, but then continuing the story on. Yeah, which I thought was really smart.

Jill

And thank God you you made the cultural reference and didn’t go with like Pulp Fiction.

Quinny

Sure. Well, you know, because I’ve all filmically ******* knowledgeable.

Dion

I mean, look, you know.

Jill

It was like, where did that reference come from? Russian.

Dion

Barbarian great one much shorter like Barbarians. Only 100 minutes. Yeah, right. This one’s 128 minutes. So we got almost an extra half hour of, you know, additional weirdness, which I think was deserved in this. Like I really like the pacing and the punch of barbarian because it just kind of like starts off real slow and then starts hammering through this one. Get it? Has the same sort of thing. It starts off real slow, but it gives you time to build that tension. And then I think at the end, a little bit more. Time like. When you start explaining things. I thought it would move a little bit quicker, but I have to admit by the end of it I was like, Oh no, I’m fine with how you. Decided you wanted to go with this and by the time you get to that big turn or the big understanding about what is going on, which I say is like 2/3 of the way. Through the film. It does delve into stuff where I’m like, is this funny? Is this not funny? But also, how are you gonna resolve this? And the only way to do it is. Kind of with a little bit of ridiculousness. But I thought it. Was it served it quite well?

Quinny

I think the thing that worked for me about it was the way the characters each sort of had their their very clear part of the story. 3 and when it intersects with one particular place, that’s where **** starts to go badly wrong for everyone you know you’re you’re trying to. Everybody’s trying to work out. Something and they’ve all got their their challenges. So you’ve you’ve got our our Julia Garner. Who’s been Justine, who obviously school teacher Josh Brolin is the dad of one of the. Benedict Wong is one of the the principal principal of the the school. Alden Ehrenreich is one of the cops, and Austin Abrams is is a a junkie for I mean, for lack of any better description.

Jill

He’s.

Dion

Just cop.

Quinny

And each of them.

Speaker 6

They’ve.

Quinny

Their their thing, their story, their interaction, yeah.

Speaker 7

Sure.

Jill

And each of their encounters with what is going on. And so you kind of get their perspective on. Ohh man, how do we trying?

Speaker 8

It’s hard not to spoil it, but.

Dion

Isn’t it you? You get there? It’s, it’s. Yeah, they they put out like, I mean the the, the film posits a strange occurrence, and then all of these different people come into it at different ways, like their their approach that they’re in, they’re affected by it in different ways. And the way that they approach it is. All 100% what everyone knew and I would do like. Yeah, there are no, there is no stupid situation. I have to admit there’s nothing stupid about each of these characters and decisions they’re making along the way. It’s just that there is something else affecting them and we as the audience know that there is something real bad. Happening and we can’t stop them, even though within their characters like, you know, the problem with horror and like that kind of stuff. You’re like, don’t go into there. That’s stupid. You never do that. Stop splitting. Up. I don’t think there’s one character in this that makes a dumb.

Speaker 6

Yeah.

Dion

Every single character is like. This is weird. But I need to find the kids. And I’m just going to do something that’s seemingly innocuous but suddenly ends up in a world. Of hurt. Like and, that’s what I thought was great about it. Isn’t one of those things like watch out for the slash? Are they going to get you? It’s like, no, they don’t know they’re. Going to be gotten. Because they’re doing something really boring, like going to a house. In the middle of the day, yeah. And then, you know, bad **** happens not because they made a dumb decision, because something else is affecting them.

Quinny

Yes. Yeah, it’s, it’s smart and it doesn’t treat its audiences in any way stupid. Yeah, it takes some weird turns. Ohh.

Dion

100%.

Quinny

Like, yeah, there’s, I don’t know whether we talk about it afterwards or what, but there’s stuff to in the last act that I was just like, what the ****? And it really there was in some very strange directions. But up until that point, you’ve also had a bunch of pretty ******* weird moments. And there’s a point where.

Speaker

Yeah.

Quinny

Like you said, Joe, it’s gone fairly slowly for a while. Yeah. And then there’s a point. Where it just suddenly ramps up and it’s no longer creeping dread. Now it’s running ******* screaming, running, screaming, terrifying.

Jill

Naruto running.

Quinny

This is ******** terror.

Dion

And. Look, I I. Liked it because they set everyone up as an unreliable narrator or character, but everyone is in is is unreliable in this you immediately start following Justine, who’s the school teacher, and they go to great lengths to explain why. Maybe she.

Speaker 6

Yeah.

Speaker

It.

Dion

You know, and they do all of that like maybe the father, like is Josh Brolin’s character is maybe he’s got something to do with it because he seems. Overly crazy at certain points of time, but. Ultimately it’s it’s it’s very sane reactions to a very insane situation, and I think that was the success of how it worked.

Speaker 6

For me, does that make sense? Yeah. Here’s one roll. Sorry.

Dion

Hmm, also shot beautifully. Also shot. Beautifully.

Quinny

Shot beautifully and a lot of it in the very, very, very dark.

Dion

But that’s what worked, man.

Quinny

Absolutely. Like there are a lot of sequences moving around through dark houses and at night and stuff like that, which you know is one of those great tropes of all things horror. I do remember watching something recently only in the last couple of years where I was blown away that they did a horror, but in full daylight.

Jill

Oh, OK.

Quinny

And I’m bugged if I remember what it was, but it it it really impressed me that they managed to do. In full light, this one does a bit of it here and then the really.

Speaker 7

The character I.

Quinny

Wanted to call out that I thought was really impressive. Was James the our junkie buddy, really?

Speaker 8

OK, well, I was impressive.

Quinny

His character, like in terms of performance wise. Not likable, not likable at all, but the energy that he came at that with.

Speaker

No.

Quinny

Like the the really nervous ****** ** energy and the like. The complete sort of. Unreliability of the character I was like ****, that’s a really good performance. I don’t like the guy. I don’t like him at all, but that’s cause it’s a really good performance.

Speaker 8

Yeah.

Jill

Yeah, that’s true.

Dion

You know? Yeah. I mean, yeah, that was like, I mean, to be honest, halfway like by the time we got to that character, I didn’t know how they were going to make him scary because he is just a junkie. And they did do some pretty good, scary, scary scenes with that just really boring situation. Technically, when you look back at it after the jump scares and after everything has happened, you’re like ****. That was so tense. For something that was really boring.

Quinny

There is a sequence and I the possibly the sequence that the whole cinema reacted to the most.

Speaker

MHM.

Quinny

And. I don’t. It’s what I love about it and I’m not going to try and describe it because it it would be doing it a disservice to describe the sequence. But what I loved about it was that it was. Fear created almost purely through sound. Like there’s a visual element to it. Something that is this growing danger.

Dion

Yeah.

Quinny

But then the use of sound was the thing that made the whole audience go **** no. Like literally the guy behind me when you heard a particular sound that door open just went oh, no. Oh, no, no.

Speaker

Yeah.

Quinny

No. And I heard.

Jill

The dream sequence.

Speaker 6

No, no, no. OK, it’s.

Dion

It’s this like this, like stalking sequence.

Quinny

In a car.

Speaker 7

Ohh.

Dion

Yeah. Yeah, right.

Speaker 7

Yep, Yep.

Dion

See this is this is what I’m talking about the the the ability to create tension based around very boring, very banal, very normal ****.

Speaker 6

Mm-hmm.

Dion

In this is great. By doing you know great things. I was like, great. It’s gonna be in the middle of night. It’s like 2:00 AM. She’s creepy anyway. Yeah. And now we’re going to make this creepier by, you know, making it sound like there aren’t many sounds like you can hear things, but you don’t need to see it. Like, if you hear, don’t show.

Quinny

Yeah.

Speaker 6

Hmm.

Dion

It can be very creepy and I like that too when there are inside certain other houses and they’re doing the low light stuff that you kind of do.

Jill

Not just sound, but like lack of sound.

Dion

And yeah, lack of sound is a great. A great way to do that.

Jill

I think one of my favorite sequences was the dream sequence of Josh Brolin’s character because it was shot from like first person perspective. So really felt like a dream. And because it was like, you know, semi dark and like the cameras turning as if like. A person is walking through a house and you know doors are opening, but you’re not seeing it because it’s as if you’re doing it. Was absolutely terrifying because there’s like. If anybody has ever had a nightmare where, like you can’t control what’s going on and you’re like, fighting with yourself to even accomplish something within the dream, it felt just like that and that. Was that was. Really incredible bit of movie making, I thought.

Quinny

And and the the every time you round a corner or whatever, you’re expecting something to. Be there to to, you know, wanna hurt you or whatever. Cause you know vaguely where what we’re kind of doing here. We’re in horror territory. Yeah, but.

Dion

Yeah, yeah. And on top of that, I also love the the interesting ability here to allow the audience to really use their imagination while they’re watching this because.

Speaker 6

Mm-hmm.

Dion

Setting up a camera. Like we we had in the end of the trailer there or not at the end of the trailer, but like there’s scenes of like an open doorway, it’s pitch black. You can’t really see anything inside, but can you because your mind starts to fill things in?

Speaker 8

Yeah, I know. Cause it felt. It’s exactly like nightmares that I have where you’re like you’re looking and you’re looking. And it’s like you’re trying to make out something and it’s like is that.

Dion

Exactly.

Speaker 8

Something? Or is it just like?

Dion

Is it a shape? Is it a shape in the room or is it just your? Your chair group has come alive, or those those other ones, so I thought was really good, which is moving around the house and everything is normal and fine. But wait.

Speaker

Yeah, my God.

Dion

What is that like when you when your brain finally kicks in and goes, that’s not actually supposed to be there. That is not what you expect in that sort of thing. And you have to come back to it and you realize ****.

Speaker 6

Mm-hmm.

Dion

That’s terrifying. Like, these are the successful things about it, which is why I really hated watching it. But I enjoyed the. **** out of. The movie, like it was just fun and it was really fun. It, like really, as I said, it was really fun taking quinny along. So I recommend someone take someone who hasn’t seen their **** before.

Jill

Hey.

Dion

Hey, sorry Jill.

Jill

Yay on the titz off scale.

Dion

Yes, titz off none left **** all gone flying everywhere.

Jill

None left. That’s a big fat 0 on. The **** off scale.

Dion

They, they they, they were like, you know, Shinkansen hanging out the window. ****, they’re just gone.

Quinny

Love that we both.

Speaker 7

Had the same age. I love that they’re.

Dion

Connected though. I just thought that they’re like.

Quinny

Well, they connected for a while and then they go. Right. I I don’t know how many tips are off for me because I was scared titless.

Speaker 8

Ah, well, there you go. That’s zero as well.

Quinny

Yeah.

Speaker 7

Yeah, like.

Jill

I don’t know, just like in the last couple of movies that I’ve seen this month, I’ve just have not had. A reaction like I did. With this one MMM.

Quinny

Yeah. Yeah. Well, and and you, you come out of it with a very distinct sense of man. I’ve watched something. Yeah, like. You know, it wasn’t safe. It wasn’t normal. It it. It didn’t feel like just your average ******* horror. Like, oh, God. What was that movie we watched a couple of years back for? None. Like, based on The Conjuring thing.

Speaker 8

Yeah.

Jill

Yeah.

Quinny

And it was just like, yeah, it’s a horror film. Yes. There’s a spooky nun. Cool. Like, in some ways, smile was a little bit like that, though I did find it was creepy as ****. But this, I don’t know, this was doing something different. This was really going into a different level of. Scary.

Dion

I I feel like collectively. Everyone was like in the film that I was sitting there going. And yes and. Everyone just kind of decided not to talk about it anymore, cause too many people died and it was too freaky. And I’m like, yes, kind of like barbarian. Kind of like weapons. We’ve watched it now and ****, you know, a lot of stuff happened and things are good, but like. Just collectively not gonna watch it again. Or not gonna talk about it because you’re still processing stuff about it. Umm. Yeah. Anyway, look. But also, you know, I can see why some people were unhappy with it.

Quinny

What? Where do you think? It didn’t work.

Dion

It’s interesting because, well, I don’t think it it’s. I can see how some people were a bit unhappy with it because they might have wanted to go more into the slasher horror kind of stuff at the end because I feel like there was the turn that happens and it goes into more explanations. You don’t really understand.

Speaker

Oh.

Dion

Exactly what’s going on, but came to me. It became more comedy and I was like ohh, I’m getting this now. You just have to go with it and you know the ending isn’t as satisfying. I think that some people were really after because it has no resolution for the characters. But. You know, I feel like after the tension of the 1st. Aaron, Aaron. A bit. I was like, I’m happy for it to just help me relieve the tension.

Quinny

Yeah.

Dion

Yeah. And also, you know, people could be sitting there going. Ohh, I didn’t. You know, everyone thought it was great, but I didn’t like it. Like, yeah, OK, I did.

Speaker 6

Hmm.

Dion

It was fun.

Quinny

I’d I’d like predicate because thing I went in after hearing a ton of fat, and though I enjoyed it, I’m still firmly bitted.

Dion

Still, yeah, sure.

Quinny

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, like I can see why. So there is a massive tonal turn. Like. Yeah, and there’s a point where, like it goes. We’ve already talked about where it ramps up, the action, kind of the the like, the threat becomes a lot higher. Mm-hmm. But then there’s another point a little bit later on where it takes a fairly sharp left turn. Into what could be seen as comedy.

Dion

Yeah.

Jill

Yeah. I mean, I think it’s a comedic moment, but it kind of like washes all of the drama and the the evil away and kind of leaves you with. OK, this was a really ****** ** situation and you know a number of horrific things happened, but by the end of it, we’re all able. To walk away. Like and put the situation behind us and I think. If it hadn’t have ended, you know very finally like the way it did. Then it kind of leaves you open to explore that situation maybe happening again. So I think like, yeah, I think I feel like the comedic twist of the ending. Was to relieve all of the tension that we built throughout the whole movie.

Quinny

Absolutely now.

Jill

But to do it in a way that wasn’t necessarily with a scare.

Quinny

Yeah, though I I would say that they I felt like we started to get elements of comedy earlier. Ohh, OK. Like essentially when we’re introduced to one of the characters that we haven’t talked about that does. Kind of push the film into a different space. It goes from being kind of. Of. This uncertainty about what? Is happening too. Suddenly there is a. Focus for it. And the focus is. Or could be. Are let down 4 people and I. Yeah. So I had that that moment where I was like that’s that’s a weird ******* choice and I’m still creeped out. But yeah.

Dion

Should.

Jill

I I’ll stand by that choice because I think it was. It’s a good way to catch you unawares.

Quinny

Yeah, yeah, very true. Very, very.

Dion

True. So, Jill while. Try and find your **** to. Reattach them.

Speaker

Shouldn’t.

Quinny

Somewhere in the fields of Japan and all. Through the.

Dion

Quinnie, do you have a rating for for weapons?

Speaker 7

Yeah.

Quinny

Oh yes, that’s a good question. OK, I’m going to go.

Speaker 6

Adding.

Quinny

I was genuinely creeped out by most of the film, and I think it works. Incredibly well as a. Really. Proper, good, scary ******* horror. Your your mileage is going to vary as to whether or not the last bit like the the last. From a certain point onwards, works for you. For me, it did kind of make me go. Huh. But it still kept the tension pretty high. So yeah, that’s where I’m at. It’s 84. If you’ve got a number, drop it.

Dion

Jewel. Right.

Quinny

In that chat. I look for them.

Dion

I was going to go 85. Ah, but I’m not. I’m gonna go 86 because I like round math. So, dude, Jill, you could totally frustrate me but.

Jill

Even number.

Dion

Getting an odd number.

Quinny

That prick dangers jumped to 93, so **** you.

Dion

Yeah.

Jill

Well, then I’ll bring it back and. I’ll, I’ll go. For a 91 so that we can.

Speaker 6

Oh ****.

Jill

Even it up.

Dion

All right.

Jill

We’re going to go 90, but because of the odd number, I’ll go 91 even it.

Dion

Yeah. Out again. Yeah, 86. I really. I really enjoyed it. I thought it was just, like, kind of watching barberry and like, what the **** is happening? But it’s really good. Can I recommend it to people? Yes, with, with, with ******* guard rails as in. You know, Peter didn’t come. That’s OK. She’s not going to see this. You know, she’s going to be like, Nope.

Quinny

Not the kind of thing that.

Dion

Beck’s gonna like. No, no, all of those kinds of things like it. It’s not for everyone. But I do think it’s great. So, yeah, that was my 86. And, Jill, you’ve already got not 91.

Speaker

No.

Jill

At 91, I I have a horror friend and I immediately went to her and said hey, I watched weapons and she said Ohh good, I’m going to go and see it on Friday. And then when she came back to me, she.

Speaker 8

Said what the ****? That was so good.

Jill

Like that ending was So what the ****? And I’m like, yeah, but it was great. And like, yeah, we were just, like, dissecting, you know, the way that they built tension and all that kind of stuff and the pay offs were were all really good. I got to say the creative.

Speaker 6

Yeah.

Jill

Format for the storytelling was was great. I thought that was very inventive for like a horror film. Yeah, the.

Speaker 8

Anything that made me ******* scream, I’m like, yes. Big ticks so.

Quinny

Yeah, it takes a bit to actually get you to scream. I I heard you scream and I thought that wouldn’t have.

Jill

There were so many moments throughout the film where I actually had to stop eating and drinking because holding on to the chair and I’m like, crawling back into the chair, like with my arms crossed thinking Oh my God, Oh my God, Oh my God. And yeah, it it made me out loud scream, not just like shock. No, I screamed. And thank God it was like a loud. Tension release in the. Audio of the film as well to kind of cover up. The embarrassment of me screaming in a horror movie, but yeah.

Dion

And. I had the yeah.

Jill

Really thoroughly enjoyed.

Speaker

It.

Dion

I had The thing is like I I like weapons as a journey. Of a film. Like.

Speaker 6

Hmm.

Dion

I don’t think that there’s like there’s no point talking about A twist or a turn or this thing and this other what the **** I’m like. I like the journey of the film. Yeah, I mean.

Jill

I feel like you don’t get to have all of this fun in the end of the movie if you don’t put in the work at the start of getting through the build up.

Dion

Yeah. And by chopping it up and following.

Quinny

Yeah, you’ve gotta get to know the characters.

Dion

Yeah. And chopping up and following people with different experiencing not the same time from a different perspective, but also like different times at different perspectives. Once you understood the establishment of the character.

Jill

Yeah, but you kind of start to get little other pieces in within these people stories so that you can, like, try to build what’s happening before it’s just revealed to you in the movie. So like you as an audience are actually doing work in the film.

Dion

Yeah.

Speaker 6

Hmm.

Quinny

Too. I like that. I really like the feeling that it was showing me things. But I wasn’t. Being spoon fed them exactly and there are certain things that they showed and implied, but never actually said. So you have to make the assumption that that character did that. They may not have, but did fairly heavily implied. I live with that. I love being asked as an audience to put a little bit of thought in.

Speaker 6

Yeah. MHM.

Dion

Crazy concept. Look, Speaking of James, I actually have a James Heavy trailer for this. Just goes on about that. We’ll do that and then come back and try not to spoil, but still talk about.

Speaker 7

Oh, OK.

Dion

It a bit more depth, OK.

Speaker

I’m calling about the $50,000 reward. For information about the missing kids. Because I know. Where they are. Filter. Help me. Help me. Come on. Please help me.

Dion

Oh yes, we. Yeah, that was James. He was the the junkie, and he had tent and a very bad experience in a tent.

Jill

Sure. Just sure, we’ve all had a bad experience in the tent.

Quinny

Yeah, yeah. Mine was really intense.

Dion

Ohh George yes, and thankfully for people who haven’t seen it. And you’re like, no.

Speaker

Jill

You up for that one?

Dion

Thank you. I’m like, yeah, yeah, but. It’s a really it’s. It’s so good how it makes you go. ****. I don’t wanna know about that, but it gives you an understanding back when you like, I feel like. Having watched it and then you look at all of the tents and and spooky scenes that were through earlier in the movie, you’re like, ohh, that’s not that spooky when you really think about it. It was our own imagination making it spookier than we thought. But again, of course no like.

Speaker 7

No, sure.

Quinny

Like it’s scary.

Dion

Yeah.

Quinny

It’s it’s interesting, I think I said to you guys afterwards, I I thought we were going perhaps to go in a different direction with it. So there’s a there’s a Stephen King short story that I love super short, like, only like 5 or 6 pages or something like that called suffer the little children. It’s in one of his short story collections and it’s about a teacher. Who starts seeing out of the corner of their eyes their their primary school kids? As like little demons like you know that they’re they’re wrong. They’re twisted. There’s something ****** ** about them, but only out of the corner of their eyes. So when they turn and look at them.

Jill

Ohh, I see kids like that all the time.

Quinny

Yeah. So that’s just being a teacher. But then, yeah, one day teacher goes and 1 by 1 calls all the kids at her office. Cool. Yeah. And I thought maybe we were going to go into that direction and I was like, because that’s one. Of my favorite stories, but it’s still ****** **.

Dion

Yeah, the welcome to. The thing about the unreliable like characters that we’re we’re following here and like I think yes, Karina, I’m not. I don’t want to talk about the spoiler of the twists, that of why is it like, why is this all happening? Mainly because I don’t think it’s it. It doesn’t do anything to give you. A reason to go see the movie.

Speaker 6

Hmm.

Dion

I’d rather talk around it and let people go and see it and say, hey, did you like that? Cause it’s ****** **, isn’t it? Like I don’t really.

Jill

Yeah, like, don’t be like my mother who told me that. Bruce Willis was dead the whole time, so that I don’t even bother to watch 6th sense. Yeah. And to this day have not watched it.

Dion

You know, Jill, I gotta say I’m. I’m. I’m with you on that because it was spoil. It was spoiled for me in the break room at at a work thing. And I was like, ohh. And they’re like, oh, you haven’t seen I’m like, no, because it came out yesterday.

Jill

What’s the point? There. Yeah. Thanks.

Speaker 6

Thanks.

Quinny

Yeah, yeah, I remember.

Dion

So I’ve never actually watched it.

Quinny

Trying to watch like Battlestar Galactica, the the 2000 series, and then somebody said to me, oh, I can’t believe that such and such and such and such and such for the final styles. And I was like. What the ****? And they’re like, ohh. It’s a joke. And I’m like you weren’t ******* joking.

Dion

Thanks.

Quinny

That’s cool. Well, I got to interview them this ******* weekend. So great.

Dion

Well, look, the the I think the the the non spoilery things I can say about it is that I was disappointed with. Was that the whole mystery is all about the kids. All right.

Speaker 6

Dion

And then you really don’t get a good resolution with the kids.

Jill

Yeah.

Dion

And it’s just a little bit you, you, I understand why they did the things that they did, but there isn’t. There isn’t a great resolution really.

Jill

Yeah, I feel like you don’t always have to have that in a film.

Speaker 7

No, and there is something.

Jill

It’s like we said, like it was. It was really. The journey of the movie that was the reward.

Dion

I got to say by the end of it, like the the kid who plays Alex, Carrie Christopher, he like I didn’t give a **** about.

Jill

Gorgeous little kid.

Dion

I yeah, I I was really disappointed with that kid right up until towards the end. And then I’m like ohh, that that kid did a really ******* good. Like having to do with a lot of adult themes and adult concepts by the end. And you’re like, holy ****, that kid is either gonna be a freaking St. or the devil.

Quinny

And I do like that whilst it’s avoiding tropes all over the place, you know, and it’s doing everything it can to try and not be the obvious or whatever you do still end up in a haunted house in a way. And you know it, it’s becomes.

Speaker 6

Yeah.

Jill

Yeah, with your don’t go in the basement moment.

Quinny

I know you. You’ve got 100%, you’ll do not go in the basement moment. And I was like, yeah, cool. We’re we’re. You know, we’re hitting on those things because I do think there is something like really archetypal about certain ideas and horror concepts. And being chased around your own house. Is terrifying, and people that you know not being themselves is terrifying. Yeah, yeah.

Dion

You know, and now you’ll never look at a kid in a playground running like that with their arms out. Being a plane without going whoop.

Quinny

Have you ever Naruto run?

Dion

Didn’t you? You asked that question.

Jill

God, I I. Have dignity.

Quinny

I asked it off microphone.

Jill

I have dignity I.

Quinny

Thank you.

Jill

Run.

Quinny

I have seen so many people Naruto run around conventions.

Jill

I bet you.

Quinny

Have you know I’ve seen so many *******.

Jill

Yes. Yeah, they don’t do it ironically either.

Quinny

You. This. No. And I just wonder, I I I look at this and I was like, was that intentional? Did they know that they were doing that? Oh, isn’t it? No, no.

Jill

This is not a Naruto. Arm is like the arms have to be out back behind you, yeah.

Dion

Out. Yeah, they’re gonna be.

Quinny

Ohh. OK, right. Sorry, right, right. Just like.

Jill

This was like.

Dion

Yeah, this is just.

Jill

Just to the side.

Dion

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Sort of straight down kind of thing, but I mean don’t take anything you see on anime and try and replicate it and realise you’ll just hurt yourself.

Quinny

Yeah. Or someone.

Dion

Else. Yeah, yeah, yeah, all parties.

Quinny

Teapots. Right. OK, yeah.

Dion

Fair enough. Kind of planking. If only they were yelling, skippity rears when they ran around.

Quinny

Yeah, like there are. There are so many really good, very quick jump scares. Like, you know, there are there’s moments in a bed, there’s moments, you know, all over the place where you just like, really good. Momentary jump skis, but it also does that very clever thing of going we’re building up to a a jump scare and then we’re going to give you something that isn’t the jump scare. But. That can be really obvious. Like we all know that if you’re gonna build up to a jump scare, you’re not gonna give us the jump scare. You’re gonna add in a a thing. This one I was like actually that were pretty good. Like they weren’t fake outs or anything. These felt like something that still maintained the tension.

Speaker

See.

Dion

See, I really wish we’d had been able to arrange it earlier for you to have seen, barbarian. I get before this.

Speaker 6

One going on about barbaric.

Jill

We keep talking about it. We keep talking about it, but only.

Dion

Like.

Jill

For a very good.

Speaker 7

Reason. OK so so.

Dion

I warn you, I. Don’t you, Connie? It’s not a fun watch. I’m not recommending this to you because I think you’re gonna have a good time. I’m recommending it for you because all of the tense and scary things that you kind of felt from weapons, you’re going to get in barbarian again.

Quinny

OK so. Can you give me a like give me a vague synopsis of what barbarian is about.

Dion

It’s about the dangers of Airbnb.

Jill

Yeah.

Quinny

Oh, right.

Dion

Sounds boring, huh? Definitely not.

Jill

Yeah, but Justin Long is in it, but. And he’s the red herring.

Speaker 6

Eh.

Quinny

Right, so This is why you were all very excited when. He showed up in this.

Jill

Yeah. We’re Justin long shows up in a horror movie. Yeah, right.

Dion

As the thing like. It’s it’s done it it, it does a little bit of vignette things where it sort of takes the the two things it’s like it’s following Justin Long and it’s following another character. And they’re both standing at the same Airbnb and then it’s following one.

Jill

Yeah, there’s like, a really good fake out in the beginning because you’re like, ohh, this is very much going to be this thing and then it’s not. And then you’re like, but wait, what the **** is actually happening?

Dion

Yeah. Yeah, it’s like. Yeah. And by the time you find out what the **** is actually happening, you’re like. What the **** is happening?

Jill

Yeah. And you’re like, why and why and why?

Dion

No, no. And then it.

Speaker

Speaker 6

Yeah.

Dion

Just turns out it was just really, really ******* creepy.

Speaker

Yeah.

Dion

Yeah. Anyway, but it is more. It is more your traditional horror.

Speaker 6

Yeah.

Dion

You know.

Quinny

Right cause I I looked at that and I thought it sounded a bit more like the torture pointy kind of things like.

Speaker 6

This.

Jill

Body horror elements in it, that’s for sure.

Dion

There’s a little bit of torture **** because I’ve gotta also say there was just that thing of like, I don’t want to be in that situation and it’s a bit too graphic for me. Yeah, but you don’t like, you know, it’s. It’s just a good. It was the start of the way of building tension and and confusing you by going. We’re going to present you with a thing that says you’re going down this road, but it’s just going to kind of keep going. And then it’s actually like, wait. I was on on a road at all. I was actually on a lake. How did I get in this lake? And I’m not in a boat. What is going on?

Quinny

Sorry, I just I wanted to look up torture **** films cause I’m trying to think of it and particular one.

Jill

What kind of results did you?

Quinny

Just get well. Yeah, it was not a. Good time hostel. That was the one that I was trying. To. Find the name of hostel and hostel too.

Speaker 6

Yeah.

Quinny

But I love it.

Jill

Ohh, not not hostile you’re saying hostel?

Quinny

Hostile. Sorry. Yeah. Like that was one of those ones where it’s just like, you know, bad things happen to people. Human centipede, that kind of thing, bad things happened to people. It’s about the the torture.

Speaker

Oh.

Jill

Yeah, yeah.

Quinny

Salo. 120 days of sort. Sort of I was. I’m looking down this list, and I’m like, oh, yeah, I remember that when I run into that one. Yeah. Yeah. OK. And then I get. Justin Bieber never say never like. Well done to whoever ******* wrote that.

Jill

Well done.

Quinny

List because that was. Comic timing, like you wouldn’t believe.

Speaker

Ohh dear look.

Dion

There’s, you know, like, weapons isn’t a perfect film. There are some beats, I think didn’t quite. Planned and some decisions, as you said like it it goes a bit strange in the end. You’re like you’re going to go with it or you’re just going to be like oh.

Speaker 6

Hmm.

Dion

That’s sure that’s. Stupid. It’s like, no, I was. Yeah. No, I was 100% there for it too.

Quinny

I I yeah, I actually thought and I said to a couple of people, I thought it let off the the accelerator a little bit when they introduced the.

Dion

The reason?

Quinny

The reason? Yeah, like the to me when we started to get a few answers as to what was causing this, I felt like the tension ratcheted down a little bit.

Dion

Yep. I feel like they’ve they’ve followed that through with the comedy though, but they did ramp back the they did get back to the tension as they try to resolve everything as you get to the resolution.

Speaker 6

Hmm.

Dion

You’re wrapping. You’re ramping that sort of thing up again. Yeah. I thought they did it quite well. And, you know, the the end of it was. Fun.

Jill

I think it’s just like we’re going to blow off all. Of the steam that. Yeah, you know. Yeah. Of this movie? Yeah. And we’re going to do it in a comedic way, just to kind of like, yeah, that all out, you know.

Dion

Yeah. I mean, I feel like by the end of it, the audience was all kind of like, oh, ****, that was weird and ****, and I don’t know, but it was much more. Or interesting to to see that whole audience who had who had. Spent. You know good hour and a half tense as ****, absolutely sitting there going. What the **** is happening? I don’t want to be in this audience or thankfully, we’re all experiencing this together to then have a bit of a OK, well, OK, ****. OK. What was that all about? And I love confusing a confused audience. Not a confused.

Speaker 6

Hmm.

Dion

Audience like why was Ice cube in an ad for Amazon for 80 minutes? But more like that. Was that good like I had that the thing when at the end of it I was like, is that was that a good movie?

Speaker 6

Yeah.

Quinny

And I think people will take away from it what they what they will, you know, they’ll they’ll either enjoy bits of it or they want or they’ll find that some of it worked for them and some. Of it didn’t. Yeah, but. It’s done very well. That’s something that I do, you know, I’m happy to report that it’s. Done a lot better than most of the other films were released this weekend.

Jill

Quinny

Like based on its budget and everything, it’s kicked the **** out of a couple of much bigger films.

Jill

Good for.

Quinny

Them. Yeah, one of them being freakier Friday.

Dion

Look, I’m. I’m.

Jill

The Disney cash grab.

Dion

I’m happy that Zach Cregger, you know, survived the bidding war for weapons.

Speaker 6

Yes.

Dion

And that Jordan Peele fired a couple of people over not getting it.

Jill

Ohh, Jordan Peele movie coming out soon. Him.

Dion

Oh yeah. Yeah. Yes, but he was. Yeah, he was trying like Jordan Peele was trying to get Zach Craig as, Umm, spec script for his production company and did not get it. And then fired two of his management people for not getting it. OK. And I’m like, OK, but the really interesting thing I think for the next project that has been announced for this director is the Resident Evil reboot. Oh ****. And he’s writing directing. It. Ohh so it was like OK. Interesting. Yeah. Hmm. I mean, you never like a franchise with an established fan base, and many temps is fraught with peril. Yeah, absolutely.

Speaker

Yes.

Jill

But it means we don’t have to see *******. Milla Jovovich wheeled out again.

Dion

You’d leave Miller alone. She’s the supreme being.

Quinny

I mean. I love that they even attempted another reboot a few years ago and just nobody paid any attention to.

Dion

It. Yeah, I love that even one of them was a 3D1, which was like, you know, your franchise is in trouble when you’ve gone through an era of 3D coming and going again. Like jaws, jaws through the return jaws, three Jaws 3D. Like what the ****?

Speaker 6

Hmm.

Dion

Anyway.

Quinny

Trying to remember what that ******* ohh yeah. Resident Evil. Welcome to Raccoon City, you know? Yeah, the one that nobody paid any attention to at. All. But it mean.

Dion

Yeah, you know, look had no Miller in.

Quinny

It.

Dion

It’s.

Quinny

Oh well, look, I’m. I’m keen to see what he does next. Absolutely. And if he can make Resident Evil work? Cause like to me, I think that’s that’s not actually it shouldn’t be that hard. Like resident evil’s.

Jill

Yeah, it’s really not. It’s such a straightforward premise.

Quinny

Yeah, if you do a good solid zombie film and you use the characters that are in the in the games, it’s not that hard. I would ******* love to see this guy have a go at Silent Hill.

Jill

Yeah, that could have been.

Quinny

Like.

Jill

Silent Hill would have been better than Resident Evil. For this guy.

Quinny

Yeah, I think he’s his. Disturbing.

Jill

Because this guy is like, so good at, like, suburban. Dystopia.

Quinny

Yeah.

Jill

So I think like silent. Hill would be perfect for.

Quinny

Him absolutely.

Dion

Is am I the only one who didn’t mind the Silent Hill film that came out with rider? Mitchell, like I thought it was alright.

Quinny

No, I quite liked it. If the.

Dion

Freaky and the and the Borg Queen as the evil witch woman.

Speaker 6

Yeah.

Quinny

That was another one where I was like, OK, it it started really well, did some really good creepy stuff and then ended poorly. But yeah, I quite like that.

Speaker

Sure.

Dion

I mean, I’ve I I’m I I think with in return in in the idea of Zach Gregor. I’m kind of like just let him cook. Don’t give him a franchise. Don’t let him don’t make him do other **** just like no let him do his stories he’s doing quite well at the moment.

Jill

Yeah.

Dion

Of just. That’s true. Going barbarian? Yeah, that’s a good one. Weapons pretty good. You know what’s the next one? And I don’t pitch quinnie. Go for him and say, like, can you make a the same horror film, but everything you shot during the? Hi.

Quinny

I would love to see somebody ever go. On. It I haven’t watched Midsummer so.

Dion

Really.

Quinny

Yeah.

Dion

It answers the question who would you like? Would you prefer a bear or a man?

Speaker 8

Yes.

Dion

In the wheel.

Quinny

I don’t know because I always looked at that and I thought it looked a little bit, Wicker Manish, but now I’m completely confused as. To what that may actually be that.

Dion

Yes, but it’s a woman, so it’s a Wicker woman.

Quinny

Ohh.

Dion

Sorry, there are no. Ease.

Quinny

Good, because they weren’t me in the ******* original.

Dion

Film No, but there was in the Nick Cage one.

Quinny

Don’t don’t say it.

Speaker 7

Not. Why would you mention? ******* ohh. You broke my legs.

Dion

It’s very bad, it’s. Yeah, Speaking of Speaking of bad, what are we doing next week?

Quinny

Oh, oh, well, well.

Speaker

Oh.

Jill

Hopefully it’s not a bad show, yeah.

Dion

Two shows having a bit of. It’s the last two shows of the month TV roundups. Where’s my whip crack? Damn. Where’s my luck? Gotta get my whip crack again.

Speaker

Yeah.

Jill

Yeah, lot of movements recently.

Speaker

Papa.

Jill

Two very different wood cracks.

Quinny

It’s. It’s the Chandler of. Being whip cracked. Oh, there it.

Dion

Is there we go. Yay. Yes, we’re having a TV round up next week. Hey.

Speaker 6

And.

Quinny

Also, I do want to mention very briefly that whilst we’ve been talking about the whip crack, the TV roundup of next week, we got to see the naked gun, the new naked gun film didn’t and. I went and watched that last week.

Speaker 8

Now.

Jill

Was it?

Quinny

I really had fun.

Jill

Ohh good. OK.

Dion

Yeah, I I feel like I should write a review because that will give it something and we don’t know if we could squeeze it in. The next. Time but it’s. OK, the first three naked guns that you go back and watch with Leslie Nielsen, a great comedy films spoiled by some jokes of the time.

Jill

Yes.

Speaker 8

Yes.

Speaker

Yeah.

Dion

Yeah, you know where you’re like. Eh. And then this one. I think they got the idea of the whole thing. And they just kind of went through the stuff and what I think I want. I liked about it was it was short. It was nice and tight. It was just dumb.

Quinny

Yeah.

Dion

Yeah, you’re just having a bit of. It’s just a ******* bit of a laugh it’s having.

Quinny

A gag and and it has that thing that the naked gun films always did really well, which is. We’re just gonna, like, constantly fire jokes at you. Yeah. You know, there’s there’s gonna be a sight gag or a sound gag or something, constantly. And even if they don’t work, it’s OK because the next ones here, you know.

Jill

Yeah, exactly like the batting average is high. You’re just gonna like fire jokes continuously for what was the runtime 90 minutes or something like.

Quinny

Exactly. What?

Jill

If 75% of them hit, it was a. Successful movie. Exactly.

Speaker 6

Yeah.

Dion

And and what I liked most about it was it carried on the naked gun tradition of having an unexpected female lead in the film. Be ******* hilarious.

Jill

How is pammy?

Dion

Hmm, that’s what I was like. Great. Tammy was great. Like, definitely the picking up the title from Priscilla Presley, which is like, ohh, Priscilla Presley. Ohh, she’s ohh ****. She’s very, very funny. And in this one. And very, very funny.

Jill

Yeah. Ohh great.

Dion

I think Lee did a really good job too, by refusing to even remotely break character. In the sense of, just like Leslie Nielsen was like, you need, he is the straight character that no matter what ridiculous or stupid thing he says or does or is doing in the film, never change. Always ice faced. Yeah, absolutely. Carrying on like this is the most. Important thing so that. Worked good.

Quinny

Yeah, like the the the actual plot. Who gives a ****? It’s unimportant. There’s some guys. They’re doing some stuff. It’s.

Jill

Just a vehicle for comedy.

Quinny

All about the. Yeah, it’s the. It’s the vehicle for the sight gags and the. The the situational humor and yeah.

Speaker 6

I was. It was a pleasant surprise.

Dion

Like it’s it’s a much needed much needed bit of levity. Levity and brevity. There we go. Yeah, it’s like ah.

Speaker 6

Hmm.

Dion

Solid. Inoffensive. Comedy.

Jill

Well, I’ll look. Forward to trying to catch that at.

Speaker 6

Some point.

Quinny

Yeah, it was nice being in a cinema with a whole bunch of people who were all laughing.

Speaker

Ohh good.

Quinny

You know, like that felt nice.

Jill

Yeah.

Dion

My favorite part was in the line beforehand. Waiting to go in and A is what I would consider a young student from after walking past going oh, I love those naked gun films and I was like really, because you haven’t watched them in a while. Have you? Because not they’re not all that great, man.

Jill

Let them live in live in the.

Quinny

Memory.

Dion

Yeah, I think you think you’ve watched them in recent memory, but you haven’t watched them because they. Some. Definitely aged jokes in there.

Jill

And if you haven’t, you still find them funny then.

Quinny

Yeah, may want to have a think about.

Dion

Yes.

Jill

We have problems.

Dion

Love thing? Yeah. Oh, there’s that red pill over there. You should be having, yeah.

Quinny

There are. I did like that. There are a couple of moments where it’s like we’re gonna reference some of the older stuff. You know? It’s like, ohh, we’re we’re referencing Leslie Nielsen and we’re referencing all of the other characters in there and then it gets to OJ Simpson and they’re.

Speaker 6

Like. Nope, Nope.

Dion

Oh, that was in the trailer. It was literally in the trailer. So it’s not a spoiler. It’s like, yeah, we’re not going to. Yeah, but next week, sorry. Was saying earlier we’re doing. Chief of war?

Jill

And twisted metal, yeah.

Speaker 6

Twisted Metal Season 2 gotta do some catching up.

Dion

Chief of War has been an interesting one.

Quinny

Yeah. OK.

Dion

Yeah, it’s not C. There you go there, there’s. My quick review.

Quinny

That, that’s. That’s the main question I have is it see?

Dion

Of Chief of War it is not C.

Jill

Good, good.

Dion

Yeah, OK, I’m. I’m respecting what they’re doing in that. In Chief of war. Cool, right. And I know that it’s led by Jason Momoa and Tim. But I’m finding more interesting things in the surrounding characters.

Jill

Excellent.

Speaker 6

Hmm.

Dion

And I haven’t even started twisted Metal season 2 yet.

Jill

OK, well I finally have a weekend to myself, so I’m looking forward to doing some TV watching this weekend.

Quinny

Nice, nice.

Jill

Yeah, already burnt through the 1st 4 episodes of Wednesday because they’re. Giving us two half seasons.

Quinny

Ohh yes, did you enjoy it? I haven’t had a chance to check.

Jill

Yeah, it’s good. It’s good. It’s just.

Quinny

Into it.

Jill

Decent TV.

Quinny

I don’t mind, just a bit of good. No, no, nothing.

Jill

Yeah, yeah. You don’t have to do a lot of heavy lifting.

Quinny

With the brain. Yeah, sometimes, yeah.

Dion

Times you don’t need to. Thanks. Thanks for running the chat. Thanks for joining in with. Hopefully we’ve convinced you to see weapons if you haven’t already seen weapons.

Speaker 6

Thank you.

Dion

I recommend.

Quinny

And but if you’re not into scary ****, then we’re probably not gonna. Twist your arm. Ohh, predicting as a resident alien also wrapped up last week, which is I’m glad that they got a chance.

Speaker 6

Uh-huh.

Quinny

To do an ending.

Speaker 6

Yeah.

Quinny

You know, that’s it’s it sucks that they got cancelled, but isn’t it nice that they got told they were getting? Cancelled with enough time.

Dion

Sure. And then there’s a new Outlander season. Great.

Jill

No, it’s a spin-off series. Yeah.

Quinny

Are you cool or something? Or?

Dion

Jill

Different. Yes. It’s about somebody. One of the characters parents or something.

Speaker 7

What time you can read?

Jill

I don’t know. I’ve never watched Outlander.

Quinny

No more Scottish sexual assault, basically.

Speaker 6

Jill

Yeah, it makes me wonder.

Dion

I’ve gotta go back and finish watching the Ice Cube war of the world. So alright, very busy for the evening, huh?

Speaker 7

Don’t do it.

Quinny

Why would you do that? Ohh, by the way, I finally got to watching Jurassic World.

Jill

Ohh.

Dion

How did you go?

Speaker

Funny.

Quinny

Jesus, God, that movie is dumb. With a capital door.

Speaker

Yeah.

Dion

How did you go with dope?

Quinny

Still, Thesaurus was big and stupid, but like the the the thing that really bugged me about that movie, like there’s a lot of **** **** in that film. Like on a many many levels, but the fact that they go to an island, they have what appears to be a.

Dion

Yes.

Quinny

An Aztec or Mayan temple carved into a Cliff that nobody spends more than less a second mentioning, and apparently they have the ability to go from the top of the Cliff down some stairs. All the way to the bottom in less than a second, like characters are teleporting from the top of a Cliff to a bottom. It’s like cool sweet.

Dion

Did you did you like the awkward 3?

Speaker

Quinny

Little ****** man in the couch chair, looking at the the two gigantosaurus getting it on also.

Dion

Little ****** man trying to join in and then going what are you?

Speaker 6

Doing.

Quinny

Yeah, I think that really got me about. That is the tails on them like I get that they’re trying to make this beautiful and everything but. Nothing that big is going to have a tail that long, and whippy and light and. I don’t know. It felt like I was watching.

Jill

The platypus, Diplodocus literally did.

Quinny

Like that? Like that long.

Jill

Yeah, you watch The Walking with dinosaurs show.

Quinny

I no, I haven’t also also.

Jill

They look like that too.

Dion

Don’t shy away from it if you’re gonna show 2 dinosaurs getting it on. Let’s season Dino, Dom.

Jill

Yeah, I wanna see Dino, Don. I’ve, I’ve.

Dion

I wanna see. I wanna see a penis. The size of a bus.

Jill

I wanna see a car to get ******. On. I just wanna see Scully Hanson, which is like.

Speaker 8

A condom from.

Quinny

Like the character at the end of. Ghostbusters covered in.

Jill

Like getting slimed, yeah, yeah.

Quinny

Then what?

Dion

They they knew that they couldn’t do that to Scarlett Johansson’s character at all.

Quinny

It’s this type of.

Jill

Yeah, they would have had to pay her a.

Speaker 8

Lot more.

Speaker

Yes.

Quinny

But yeah, like there, there are so many things I was like, I know what you’re doing here. You meant to make it look pretty. You meant to make these artistic. I kept on thinking. Am I in ******* Pandora is. This avatar what’s what’s?

Jill

Walking with dinosaurs, bro.

Quinny

Yeah, like I thought they were having sex with those weird long tails.

Dion

No PG film. It was very strange. We better go, though, so it’s been it’s been too long. No, no, it’s it’s, it’s fine. It’s fine. We’ll all get there. I’ve gotta order my Amazon packages.

Speaker 7

Sorry, I just.

Dion

Through Amazon prime.

Quinny

I feel like something has gotten into your head. I.

Dion

Totals. Don’t know what what could that possibly be? I’m not a susceptible to marketing at all.

Speaker 7

Thanks. Thanks, everybody. We’ll see you next week. Yeah. Bye.

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