{"id":76683,"date":"2025-08-12T07:53:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T07:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/76683\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T07:53:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T07:53:07","slug":"josh-brolin-says-weapons-was-answer-to-boring-content-on-streamers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/76683\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Brolin Says Weapons Was Answer to ‘Boring’ Content on Streamers"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tJosh Brolin<\/a> is tired of \u201call the same shit\u201d that\u2019s on streamers, so that\u2019s why he boarded Zach Cregger<\/a>\u2018s Weapons<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Oscar-nominated actor recently shared with Collider <\/a>how the horror mystery pic is the solution to all the boring content he said is currently offered on streaming services.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cYou\u2019re looking for great filmmakers, and you\u2019re hoping that there\u2019s another new good filmmaker out there,\u201d he said. \u201cRight now, with so much content, you\u2019re just watching things on whatever streaming service you\u2019re on, and you\u2019re just going, \u2018Fuck, why is this so boring, man? Why?\u2019 And just go to the next thing. It\u2019s all the same shit.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBrolin added of Weapons, \u201cAnd then somebody not only takes the horror genre, but then fucks with it and then does something on the edge of absurdity, and it\u2019s sort of humorous, so it\u2019s keeping you off-[balance] enough for him to have an emotional impact, ultimately.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe film, which also stars Julia Garner, follows a community in chaos after all but one child from the same class mysteriously vanishes on the same night at exactly the same time. The small town is then left questioning who or what is behind their disappearance. Weapons not only won over critics <\/a>and audiences but also came in more than $10 million ahead of expectations<\/a> for its opening weekend with $42.5 million.<\/p>\n

\n\tCregger previously told The Hollywood Reporter<\/a> that \u201cit seems like horror is one of the few outlets for real creativity right now on a big scale.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWithout horror, you go to the theater, and you get people in tights for $200 million, and there\u2019s not a lot of room for risk in those movies. And no shade, I\u2019m all for entertainment, entertaining. But, it\u2019s a shame that there\u2019s not a lot of room for anything else,\u201d the Barbarian director continued. \u201cI love horror, my creative tuning fork resonates strong with horror, so I\u2019m lucky in that regard. I dearly wish that we could have cool, edgy weird comedies back in the movie theaters. Or dramatic fare for adults in the theater. I feel like there\u2019s not a lot of movies for grown-ups anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Josh Brolin is tired of \u201call the same shit\u201d that\u2019s on streamers, so that\u2019s why he boarded Zach…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76684,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,88,12773,3439,34726],"class_list":["post-76683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-josh-brolin","tag-weapons","tag-zach-cregger"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}