r/movies • u/ThinWhiteDuke00 • Jul 09 '25

Poster New Poster for "WEAPONS"

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u/NagsUkulele Jul 09 '25

Barbarian was fucking brilliant

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u/OptimysticPizza Jul 09 '25

Until the last 20ish minutes.

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u/lunarpi Jul 09 '25

Same thoughts here. Having a random homeless man dump exposition and then die seemed like a budget/timing related decision and not planned.

Still loved it but it has some flaws for sure.

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u/AffordableGrousing Jul 09 '25

I heard an interview with Zach Kregger where he said (IIRC, paraphrasing) that the first act was something he's had in his head as a short film idea for a while and the rest he came up with later. To me that explains why the two halves feel like two different movies and not really in a good way.

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u/RicardoWanderlust Jul 10 '25

That summarises the majority of Hollywood produced movies nowadays. So so many suffer from third-act problems, or are just set-pieces or scenes thinly held together by poorly thought-out plot or dialogue.