DMurill23

I've been waiting to see Barbarian for awhile because the trailer for this film has been one of the best I've seen in a long time because it scares you while also not telling you what's going to happen in the movie. The film relies a lot on tension and does so in such an expert manner with absolutely no cheap jump scares in sight. Another positive point is how straight to the point the movie is. It starts off quickly and there is little to no fluff in the film which I prefer. This film also does something relatively new in the horror film genre by dividing the film up to involve different characters perspectives which I actually loved. I recommend you get the front row seats like me and my gf did because I think it's worth it for that first big scare. You're able to feel extremely uneasy with the sadistic theme music and the up-close experience which I love when I know I'm walking into a scary movie. Lastly, the film was written and directed by Zach Creggers who did work mostly as an actor in some small projects which really makes me curious as to how many original great scripts are not being made out there because of someone's credentials. I really recommend you go see this film in its first week!

The only reason I saw this movie was because I recently got out of the Marine Corps and all of my friends were sharing the trailer on Facebook as a joke.

Starting off, the acting is extremely stale and at times comes off as a student film (especially during the opening bar scene). The movie also milks the whole Marine topic a crazy amount of times. Making movies about the Marine Corps can be done in non-cringy ways (like Jarhead) but it seems like the writers just talked with a couple young Marines about how they interact with each other and amplified the cringe tenfold. This movie follows almost every Marine Corps trope such as civilians rolling their eyes when a group of military men enter a building, how Marines hate to be called soldiers, and how they display frat house behavior in public. The worst of all is how they constantly shove the fact that their serving on peoples faces. They literally say, "I'm serving my country, what are you doing?". All of this comes off as really cringy mainly because of the young romance theme to it.

Another point in the movie that I strongly disliked was how the main actress, Sofia Carson mainly sang covers of already made popular songs. It came off as lazy to me because I think she only sings one or two originals songs out of the five she sings in the movie.

The saving grace for this movie is that it is actually pretty accurate when it came to the military standard. All the uniforms used were accurate and everyone had haircuts, except for the leading man which I guess I understand. Many people tend to not notice the minor discrepancies when it comes to military uniforms in movies but it does take service members/veterans out of the movie when it happens. This movie was also fun to watch with my GF because it was just entertaining to watch a movie that has that cringe factor.