They shouldn't have shown the monster, make everything allegorical, show different liminal spaces other than the backrooms i.e. more poolrooms, drop that Async bullshit; that's unnecessary and adds nothing to the movie. The therapist should have been the sane character anchoring Clark to the real world and never get involved with the Backrooms. Show how he slowly goes mad in there after a couple visits, losing his employees to monsters we don't see. Maybe even his wife goes nissing too. Clark loses his mind and ventures for the last time in there, then invisible monsters kill him.
Oops, forgot this is /tv/, the dumbest and brownest board and nobody wants to read more than two paragraphs.
>>221042392I don't get why Clark needed to bring anything to prove to her when he already had async duffel bag.
>>221042561what would that prove?theyre a company that existed before the backrooms were discovered
>>221042576The aysnc guy had his recordings on tapes. I doubt Mary would think Clark could fake that.
>>221042561iirc he didn't escape with the duffelbag, he left it where he found it. You could argue he could find it again but I don't know enough about Kane's backrooms as to whether or not they are static.Clark's degeneration is probably my biggest issue with the movie. It felt too severe. I can even accept him going nuts enough to use the memory-people as a foodsource but kidnapping his therapist only makes sense for the purpose of having the characters confront eachother in the last act of the movie. I have no idea why he would have Kat's head in the fridge outside of it being shock value.
>>221042753feel he was already on the edge with mental issues. finding infinite rooms with whatever the shit was just the last straw. don't remember if the movie said how long he had been there, but i think it had been a while.
Bump
>>221042753The movie didn't do a great job of depicting how long he was down there, on top of time being weird in the backrooms themselves. I think it must have been at least a week or two.Kidnapping her bothered me, until someone pointed out how much he mentally devoted himself to her teachings (the casette tape in car scene) and how much he wanted to prove he was right and she was wrong. Bringing her to the backrooms and smuggly showing her that he was right and she was wrong is something he would do. And its likely he knocked her out because the Still Life Clark may have attacked or chased her if she freaked out and ran from it (likely what happened to Kat).And Kat's head thing was probably to 1) establish she died, 2) establish shes been dead for more than a couple days and 3) shock value.
>>221044210I agree with most of that, I just don't think they sold him as being unstable enough before the backrooms discovery. Some anger issues, sure, but his relationship with his therapist was more confrontational than anything almost like a mandated thing. If they showed him listening to her tapes and fitted in one extra therapy session that solidified some sort of dependance on her I think it would have been enough to sell it as legitimate to me.Even then I think the head in the freezer is still over the top. They could have made it work (for me) if he framed it with something like "this is all that's left of her, I figured I'd eventually take it out of here so her parents could have some closure" because that would fit with the self image he has of being righteous. Just to keep it around for the sake of it (or eating it) is a level of psychosis I think doesn't gel.
I genuinely would like to see Parsons do a Big Chungus backrooms monster
>>221042392heh, it looks like theres a monster exploring her backrooms in the picrel, if you get me
>>221042392>They shouldn't have shown the monsterI don't mind that so much. At first it was scary. But it definitely wasn't done super well. Too many long shots in well-lit areas didn't leave any room for imagination>make everything allegoricalIt feels like everything was sort of allegorical, but they could've leaned into it harder than just, "these are things/people how you remember them," I agree>show different liminal spaces other than the backrooms i.e. more poolroomsYeah I think the atmospheric spooky shots wandering around towards the beginning-middle were the strongest parts>drop that Async bullshit; that's unnecessary and adds nothing to the movieI don't really have a strong opinion one way or the other, but I guess not having the whole outside world part explained could've left more to the imagination, like...>The therapist should have been the sane character anchoring Clark to the real world and never get involved with the BackroomsthatOverall it wasn't bad. The pacing was sorta not good but the atmosphere and first half or so were pretty solid
my main issue with the movie was the writing of the dialogue, pretty weak and not that gripping imo. Also the half-asian chick was kinda hot so I would have liked seeing a bit more of her running away from the monster.Anyway my expectations for the movie were low but I was positively surprised by it, considering it was the director's first movie he did a good job
What the fuck they made a movie about this meme that scares zoomers? The one where you "noclip" into an infinite unused office space from the 80s? Do zoomers even know how to bring down the console and enable noclip? Have they ever played quake?
