re: Weapons Discussion (Spoilers) Streams on HBO Max 10/23

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Who said it wasn’t enjoyable? You have your opinion, great for you. Some get tired of hearing about each new horror film being the best/greatest/scariest one yet.

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I would look inward to the reason why other people being excited about a movie they saw makes the movie less good for you. Literally shadow boxing against yourself. People are going to be hyperbolic when they see a movie they like, that’s the beauty of seeing something exciting and new.

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it’s the over the top comments. And those do influence people when their expectations are high entering the theater. If you can’t understand that, then it’s probably best to move along.

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I’ll take an over the top comment that talks about what they loved about the film 100 times out of 100 over the same beaten over conversation about “hype” being the reaction to every new movie that comes out. The hype has nothing to do with the film that you are watching. Focus on that part, you aren’t shackled to the weight of other people’s opinions.


These posts usually spend zero effort in actually discussing what they liked/didn’t like about the movie, and rather focus the entire thing about how “well I would’ve liked it more if I had lower expectations” or just broadly throwing out “overrated” which is just wholly uninteresting and again not relating at all to the actual movie but rather how you perceived the reception to it

I had never seen Barbarian, so I just watched it on Netflix. I enjoyed it too for the most part, but the timeline doesn't add up. Would've made slightly more sense if Frank's escapades began in the early 60s and not the 80s.

I enjoyed it. Was a fun movie.
The junkie and Aunt were my favorites.

They could do a prequel with the Aunt doing her witchy weapon stuff in like the 1920s or something.

LOVED IT!!!


Crazy , UNIQUE!!!


PERFECT MASTERPIECE!

I thought it was a solid flick, but I'm in the camp that it's wildly overrated.

I want to organize 17 little kids this Halloween to just go running through a neighborhood in that crazy running stance.

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I still don’t know why Brolin saw the gun in the sky during his fever dream.


I’m pretty sure that was to symbolize that the kids where turned into weapons at 2:17am.

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Was weird to me too. At that point though, they hadn't been turned into weapons. If he had said they had been turned into puppets or possesed or something, that would make more sense. I understand the point Cregger is making here with the gun violence in schools, but it really was out of place the way he did it. The principal went crazy and attacked so you could say that about him, but to that point the kids hadn't been "weaponized".

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As far as Gladys, pretty sure she fed off of others' health. She thought she could feed off of Alex's parents, but when that didn't work she decided to use the children instead.

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Yep. Fairly common Witch trope that they feed off of people for unnaturally long life. Be blood or some way of siphoning life force. Also, fairly common that children usually work best for this, thus all the stories of them abducting children, luring them into the woods, etc.

I'm thinking that her tree had something to do with her life. The way she had the sticks of the people she controlled on in the soil of it, my guess was that was the ritual or whatever that she was feeding on as their souls or whatever fed into the tree. She didn't need them to be in the soil to control them, as seen with others, so that probably was how she was siphoning their vitality.

I saw some people who said it might be ptsd from brolins characters war experience. But it’s probably just up to the viewer.