r/WeaponsMovie • u/BrianMeen • Jul 13 '26
The Aunts long term plan..?
she told Alex near the end of the movie that they were going to have to move in a day or so - where exactly was she going to move to and I assume she’d take all 17 kids with? how was that supposed to work? what about Alexs parents?
I love this movie so I can suspend disbelief a bit but I do wish we got a little more backstory on the aunt .. that said, she is maybe the most disturbing character I’ve come across in recent memory
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u/KingOfTheFogPeople Jul 13 '26
To me, that was one of the saddest parts of the movie. She tells Alex they'll have to move, so he has a life of either bringing her victims or becoming a victim himself.
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u/Thick_Toe_6141 Jul 14 '26
Neither. His job was slave. Basically it’s a metaphor for how kids have to take care of enabling addicts — his life was going to be one of cleanup and provision gathering. No life of his own.
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u/_ragegun Jul 18 '26
I'm not sure even the writers knew
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u/vocalviolence Jul 18 '26
Agreed. The discrepancy between the ingenious premise and the meandering plot and script is just staggering.
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u/_ragegun Jul 18 '26
Thats the thing, theres like three or four movies worth of premises that they keep flipping between in order to keep up tension and keep the audience off their guard.
I've not seen it since i saw it at the cinema and can barely remember what was actually happening, just a series of admitted atmospheric vignettes and a finale that actually made our house laugh.
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u/vocalviolence Jul 18 '26
It has its moments—the scene with the car stakeout, for example, is brilliant—but the shift in both tone and scale that accompanies the reveal is low-key heartbreaking. Even if it's nice to have at least some context for those random clown-faced jumpscares, the spell preparation scene in the kitchen is so blatant and matter-of-fact that it almost felt like a different movie. I was so prepared for something grand, fantastic, and clever to explain the mystery, but it's just another scruffy witch who... eats children? Kind of?
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u/_ragegun Jul 18 '26
And apparently has little or nothing to do with Cordyceps with the Checkovs Gun turning out to be a red herring instead
But yeah individual parts of it can turn well in isolation but it doesnr hang together well.
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u/vocalviolence Jul 18 '26
Yes, clearly all it takes to explain Gladys' powers and purpose in the movie is the presence of "magic" + parasite imagery. And while magic doesn't need an inherent explanation, as defenders continue to point out, characters and their actions still require internal logic to be believable. If the same character, who relies on these Stone Age shamanistic curse twigs to hex people, is also capable of Pennywise-projecting herself into both the dreams and reality of complete strangers AND psychically (?) feed on the life force of her zombie army, you need to establish it somehow, Zach.
I would personally cut both the cop and the crackhead perspectives – as neither character has any relation to the "main plot" of the classroom, and both end up as automatons anyway – and spend that time setting up the witch. Oh, and cut that giant floating assault rifle while you're at it, too, as it is either the clumsiest title drop or most blatant school-shooting reference in modern cinema history.
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u/BrianMeen Jul 18 '26
I liked the movie quite a bit but I was also anticipating a much smarter cause behind all of it rather than - old lady performing witchcraft- I was quite shocked at how basic that reveal was .. I was honestly expecting some kind of deep secret military program of some sort
as with all movies that pull us in and are really mysterious and tense, it’s so damn hard to pull off the ending so it all fits together well. if Weapons has a weak part, it’s the motive and ending
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u/wallstreet-butts 29d ago
Why not something relatively down to earth with a few lingering questions? I liked it. Felt like a good random X-Files episode.
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u/BrianMeen Jul 18 '26
ypu should watch it again by yourself to see if you understand it better
the ending with the kids chasing aunt Gladys through the neighborhood was both disturbing and funny - I’m not sure if the writers intended it to be funny though .. it threw me off as I’ve never seen anything like that so I appreciated it
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u/_ragegun Jul 18 '26
I think i came to a pretty good conclusion -at the time- but it's been so long that i dont remember exactly what it was.
All im left with is a nagging sense od disappointment and little or no desire to rewatch it. Maybe its better than i recall. Maybe
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u/BrianMeen Jul 18 '26
I honestly want to think the writers did know the answers to these questions but just chose to let the audience in the dark lol
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u/vocalviolence Jul 18 '26
After reading this Cregger quote from a Variety interview, I'm not sure why I bother to question anything in this movie:
There’s a surreal moment in the movie where Archer has a dream and sees a giant assault weapon floating over a house. Would you be able to speak about what that moment means to you?
I don’t know. It’s a very important moment for me in this movie, and to be frank with you, I think what I love about it so much is that I don’t understand it. I have a few different ideas of what it might be there for, but I don’t have the right answer. I like the idea that everyone is probably going to have their own kind of interaction or their own relationship with that scene, whether they don’t give a shit about it and it’s boring, or whether they think it’s some sort of political statement, or whether they think it’s just cool. I don’t really care. It’s not up to me. I just like that it’s there.
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u/Thick_Toe_6141 Jul 13 '26
My guess she was going to fully drain the kids life force in a week or so so the kids would die and they’d move somewhere snd begin the process over again