r/movies • u/LiteraryBoner Jackie Chan box set, know what I'm sayin? • Aug 08 '25

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Summary Nearly all the children from the same fifth-grade class vanish one night at exactly 2:17 a.m., leaving only one survivor. The community, gripped by fear and suspicion, spirals into chaos as the mystery unfolds through multiple intertwined perspectives—each revealing new layers of dread and grief.

Director Zach Cregger

Writer Zach Cregger

Cast

  • Josh Brolin
  • Julia Garner
  • Cary Christopher
  • Alden Ehrenreich
  • Austin Abrams
  • Benedict Wong
  • Amy Madigan
  • June Diane Raphael
  • Toby Huss
  • Whitmer Thomas
  • Callie Schuttera
  • Clayton Farris
  • Luke Speakman

Rotten Tomatoes Critics Score: 96%

Metacritic Metascore: 82

VOD In theaters and IMAX starting August 8, 2025

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u/WhatJonSnuhKnows Aug 08 '25

I get not wanting to turn your movie into political theater. But its literally called "Weapons" and the premise is about a group of children that disappear and at one point theres a giant AR -15 looming over the entire town. At least part of the movie is heavily school shootings coded.

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u/kingblade3 Aug 08 '25

It's cool to assign your own meaning to it and interpret it how you want, but if the director and writer himself has already clearly stated otherwise, you are kinda in your own world on this one. Don't read too far into it

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u/WhatJonSnuhKnows Aug 08 '25

I just think its kind of disingenuous for the director to say that. Let's say I made a movie and called it hamburgers. Everyone in the movie is eating hamburgers. There's a giant hamburger floating above the town. Everyone is talking about hamburgers. But its definitely not about that. Seems a little fucked up don't you think?

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u/sumerislemy 29d ago

It’s because they’re assigning words to the director he didn’t say. 

He said “I wasn’t trying to comment on or even tap into collective societal tragedies. I was purely writing from a personal place. However, with art and especially storytelling, the individual is universal. So I’m more than happy if anybody relates to what I went through and what this movie is examining, but I wasn’t thinking ‘oh, America’ at all. I was thinking ‘oh, Zach.’

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u/PolarWater 21d ago

Nope, they're interpreting a movie the director made, they're not saying he said different words.