Josh Brolin Says ‘Weapons’ Is the Antithesis of ‘Boring’ Streaming Content That’s ‘All The Same S–‘: Audiences Are ‘Looking For Great Filmmakers’

https://variety.com/2025/film/news/josh-brolin-weapons-boring-streaming-content-zach-cregger-1236486193/

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  1. >“You’re looking for great filmmakers, and you’re hoping that there’s another new good filmmaker out there,” Brolin said. “Right now, with so much content, you’re just watching things on whatever streaming service you’re on, and you’re just going, ‘Fuck, why is this so boring, man? Why?’ And just go to the next thing. It’s all the same shit. And then somebody not only takes the horror genre, but then fucks with it and then does something on the edge of absurdity, and it’s sort of humorous, so it’s keeping you off-[balance] enough for him to have an emotional impact.”

  2. Is Weapons really that different? From the trailers, it just seemed like a generic horror/thriller flick.

    Or is this is just brown nosing, self-fellating bs as usual?

  4. I really hope that this year with Sinners and now Weapons can change the trajectory in which Hollywood is heading right now in terms of cinema losing the “battle for viewers” with streaming. Maybe there is a chance to make Hollywood cool again, not generic or weird but cool for the broad audience. Maybe it will be a bit smaller audience than pre-covid, maybe it will be older audience just like before 1977 and Star Wars premiere, but it will be relevant. profitable and cool.

  5. Its always nice to see someone succeed as a film maker after their huge pcp addiction.

  7. *Weapons* was so great! I’ve been telling everyone to watch it since last night

  8. Weapons is a great film, but he’s talking bollocks

  9. Don’t see Weapons, every time it gets interesting it switches to a new character POV and gets boring again. The ending isn’t good enough to justify how boring the overall movie is. Was funny at least, as a comedy I give it 7/10. Go see naked gun instead.

  10. Ohhh… ‘Weapons’ is a movie.

    I thought he was talking about guns and stuff

  11. It was worse than plenty of streaming content. The writing was paper thin

  12. This is the exact thought I had yesterday. I had watched the first showing of Weapons at 2:17 on Thursday and it was hands down one of the best movies I had ever seen. Fun, surprising, and very well acted, with just the right amount of horror, mystery, and action. Now my mom constantly watches streaming TV and it’s ALL THE SAME. It’s got the same music, same pacing, same canned acting, same emotionless formula. It’s all one big indistinguishable pattern blending into itself. I cant stand it but obviously most people, like my mom, don’t really care.

  13. Are they? People keep saying stuff like that and then Deadpool and Wolverine goes out and makes a billion. Or Lilo and Stitch. Or Minecraft.

    Time and time again, you see discourse on wanting fresh new takes and movie concepts, but then retreads and IP movies outpace everything.

  14. I will say this movie had some good highlights to it, but the pacing is agonizingly slow, and felt like it could have cut 45 minutes of dead time.

  16. He’s exactly right. The industry needs more auteurs and less remakes and reboots. More directors like Tarantino and PT Anderson and less comic book movies, for the love of god. 

  17. Most people aren’t looking for great filmmakers, which is a shame. They are watching stuff because a certain actor is in it or if there’s hype on social media. There’s always been this strange disconnect with the general public and writers/directors, even the big names. Their expectations of a movie and its quality are based on who’s in it, not who wrote it or directed it. Did you like a certain movie? Chances are you’ll like the director’s past and future work more than that certain actor’s who was in it. Of course there’s exceptions where actors steal the show, elevate mediocre material, and situations where the actors are true collaborators, but most of the time it’s the director’s vision and ideas that people enjoyed about a film whether they realize it or not.

  19. Yeah, weapons was enjoyable and a good movie, but could have been a great movie, except the screenplay was all over. Comedy and light moments did not belong in that movie. Not everything has to be a horror comedy. Broke the tension half a dozen times. The storyline from different viewpoints became boring once they included the cop, the principal and the drug dude. Like that didn’t add shit to the story.

    Waiting for Last Rites.

  20. I don’t know why he’s taking shots at streamers. Things like Severance literally exist.

  21. The irony that I’m going to wait till it’s streaming to watch it….😮

  23. I laugh because I hated barbarian. so I was not looking forward to this movie. The trailer for this movie. already tells me that there’s a weird humanoid monster for no reason and I’m tired of it. Grotesque movie make up should not be the entire plot. It should add to it not be it.

  24. I agree with Josh. Zach Cregger’s an excellent director with a great eye — he really shoots the fuck out of a scene.

    But I personally found Weapons to be a bit of a disappointment. It’s collapses under the weight of its own ambition, and I found it all to be… very conventional in the end.

    The imagery, again, is great, but there was something really lacking for me in the story department.

  26. Weapons was an alright film! I think it had scary elements but the Naruto running and some other aspects of the film took me out of it. By the end I was kind of laughing at the overall final 30 minutes which I’m not sure was the intention. Barbarian is one of my favorite films so I may have hyped this up in my own mind to higher extent. It’s shot very well and I love the music/sound ambiance but no where near the scariest movie I’ve seen. Check it out though.

    Edit: the child actor killed it though. Very good

  27. He’s right. It’s a good movie.

    I went to see it last night. It was the first movie I saw in theatres in years.

  28. If everyone just started acting happier and with their mouth open every movie would be a blockbuster

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