Barry's Quick Movie Reviews

[Barry Poppins]

Title says it all, really. This thread is gonna be a quick compendium of movie reviews. These won't be extremely detailed reviews, but rather a set of brief thoughts compounded with a rating score between 1-10. Maybe you'll agree with the ratings, maybe you won't, but this is all in good fun, so enjoy.

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Reviews A-Z:

Night of the Living Dead (1968) - 10/10
The Naked Gun (2025) - 7.5/10
Weapons (2025) - 8.5/10

 

[Barry Poppins]

Weapons (2025) - This Zach Cregger film was an extremely enjoyable mystery horror affair, with Josh Brolin as an incredibly sympathetic and irrational father searching for his lost son. Other notable roles were Julia Garner as a suspect schoolteacher, Austin Abrams as a homeless drug addict, and Cary Christopher as the lone child in Garner's class to not disappear. Weapons plays on expectations, refuses to fully explain the details of why things are the way they are, and additionally utilizes techniques borrowed from Citizen Kane, Rashomon, and Pulp Fiction to tell a story of differing perspectives. 8.5/10

 

[Barry Poppins]

The Naked Gun (2025) - A wonderful and punny return of the Naked Gun franchise, this movie serves as a psuedo-sequel to the original trilogy, starring Liam Neeson as Frank Drebin Jr., and Pamela Anderson as Beth Davenport. There's gags galore, plenty of hilarious puns, great wordplay, and it all is keeping in the spirit of the Leslie Nielson era. Expect some great cameos from Busta Rhymes, Dave Batista, Cody Rhodes, Weird Al Yankovic, and even Priscilla Presley reprising her role as Jane Spencer. Perhaps my favorite sequence in the entire movie is a complete non-sequitur involving a snowy cabin and a snowman. If you liked the original movies, you'll get a kick out of this one. 7.5/10

 

[Barry Poppins]

Night of the Living Dead (1968) - George A. Romero's debut film evokes a sense of dread and tension from the first moments to the very last. Dialogue-heavy, these characters are at each other's throats, with disagreements, struggle for leadership, and ending in gunfire. The ghouls on the outside continue to creep closer and closer, and the social commentary of Ben (Duane Jones) being the sole black character harkens all to remember the era this film was made in. The ending leaves a gut-punch to the viewer, who had been hopeful all would end well for our cast of characters. Night kicked the door wide open for all future horror films and birthed and defined a brand new genre. 10/10

 

[Chris]

I really like that one paired with the original Dawn of the Dead especially too bc they're so different but still obviously relatable and share continuity too. I think they're my prototypes for the two good zombie film tropes

 

[Barry Poppins]

I love Day too because of how miserable it is, with a climax where everyone gets their comeuppance

 

[Chris]

I love Day too because of how miserable it is, with a climax where everyone gets their comeuppance

I also love the remake too (sue me) but specifically bc I thought they not only made it different enough but really did a good job too updating it to a more modern culture of the early 2000s being in the mall. And the remake is actually quite fun and happy at fleeting times where the original has like 30 secs of that when they first get to the mall lmao

 

[Barry Poppins]

Dawn remake is fine, not a huge Zack Snyder fan; the Day remake is fucking horrible tho lmao. A character turns into a zombie and doesn't eat people because they were a vegetarian in life.

 

[Chris]

Dawn remake is fine, not a huge Zack Snyder fan; the Day remake is fucking horrible tho lmao. A character turns into a zombie and doesn't eat people because they were a vegetarian in life.

Yeah I only rate the dawn remake lol I think it's one of the better horror remakes out there

 

[Barry Poppins]

Dawn of the Dead (1978) - George A. Romero's magnum opus and sequel to Night of the Living Dead brings the zombie genre to the forefront of pop culture. Ken Foree, Gaylen Ross, Scott Reiniger, and David Emge star as four bewildered people escaping from Philadelphia via helicopter, only to become enticed by the sights and sounds of a shopping mall infested with the undead. Through their shenanigans they take over the mall, one zombie at a time. Romero brings back colorful and tasteful social commentary, that bites especially hard in a post-COVID world of police brutality, scientific denialism, and the media's handling of crises, topped with an overt commentary on consumerism in the American 1970s. Tom Savini's makeup and special effects brings it all to a pulpy and action-packed spectacle that pulls no punches and no stone unturned. 10/10