OV487 - Weapons (2025) & War of the Worlds (2025) - Guest: Sam Watermeier

The Obsessive Viewer - Movie Review Podcast

This week, Sam Watermeier joins me to review the new Zach Cregger movie, Weapons in a feature review and then, in this week’s secondary review, I talk about the new “ScreenLife” movie, War of the Worlds. We also discuss recent movie and TV news, screenings around Indianapolis, Batman, Batman Returns, The Shield and more.

Timestamps

• Show Start - 00:28
• Introducing Sam - 02:16
• Screening in Indy - 10:32
• News Before the Reviews - 19:10

Feature Review

• Weapons (2025) - 34:42
• Spoiler - 58:05

Secondary Review

• Exit Sam - 1:34:11
• War of the Worlds (2025) Spoiler Review - 1:39:34

Potpourri

• Heartland Film Festival 2025 - 2:08:10
• Batman (1989)/Batman Returns (1992) - 2:08:45
• The Gotham Project on Patreon - 2:11:17
• The Shield Rewatch - 2:15:22

• Closing the Ep - 2:29:15
• Patreon Clip - 2:30:59

Related Links

• ‘The Running Man’ Dashes A Week Later, 18hz’s ‘Primate’ Busting Out In January 2026
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• Jeff Bezos Reportedly “Obsessed” With Casting Wife Lauren Sánchez In Major Role In Amazon MGM’s New ‘James Bond’: “This Isn’t Just Fantasy Casting”
• MaybrookMissing.com
• ‘Weapons’ – Warner Bros. Reportedly Considering an Aunt Gladys Prequel Movie

• Sam’s Letterboxd
• Sam’s Writing on Midwest Film Journal
• Sam's Review of Weapons
• Sam's Review of The Bad Guys 2
• Sam's Review of I Know What You Did Last Summer (2025)
• Sam's Appearance on Odd Trilogies Podcast ep 102: The Schwarzenegger-Reitman Comedies

• My 2025 Podcast and Writing Archive
• Patreon Special - Yojimbo (1961) at the Kan-Kan - Aug 27, 2025
• Patreon Special - High and Low (1963) at the Kan-Kan - Aug 24, 2025
• 199 - OV B-Roll - “Rewatching Prospective Top Tens” - Random Conversation, WTF Ending, Podcasts - Aug 14, 2025
• 198 - OV B-Roll - “Crack of the Bat Podcast” - 2025’s Brickyard 400, Watching Podcasts and the Evolution of the Format, and MattHurtAI - Aug 7, 2025
• 197 - OV B-Roll - “No A/C, Probably ADHD” - LinkedIn Lunatics, MLMs, and Working From Home - Jul 31, 2025
• Immediate Reaction - Together (2025) - Jul 23, 2025
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• OV488 - Highest 2 Lowest (2025) & Swiped (2025)