Tyler_mon.

I feel like a tool saying this, but that movie felt very zoomquest until it suddenly became very free download.

They even play recordings from the voyager disc in the movie...!

I like it. I thought it was cool. A lot of cool imagery. And I really like how Clark parallels the backrooms itself in a lot a ways. Especially with his store being a strange "off" copy of someone else's store. Even in the movie the characters question why he themed his store around pirates as well as the ottoman empire.

(not an official version of the logo but it still illustrates the weird double sword clark is holding)

I know this is sort of an unpopular opinion but I think the still lifes were kind of lame.

I'm not saying I would have preferred the gmod troll face monsters instead. But logically it feels there's a jump between this place being able to recreate places and objects, and it being able to create people. Even if it is essentially just "remembering places" vs "remembering people".

If the backrooms can remember living things, where are all the fucked up animals? Would this movie have been better with a fucked up farm animals in it? Probably not!

But yeah, leave it to me to look at a scary monster and go: "Well it feels like there's a logical leap going on here".

Plus I'm getting kind of tired of the "imperfect clone" trope in horror stuff. I just didn't really jive with it here. Ironic, I know.

My first thought when seeing "bad clark" was to go: "hey that's kind of like pyramid head" and "hey look he just got consumed by his ego". So maybe I'm just bad at watching movies.

ALSO, one thing I thought was really cool. Is that there was a lot of hype around the director (kane pixels) being inspired by the portal series. And when I heard that, I didn't think there would be a literal Rattmann mural in the movie. I totally get it though. The imagery in those Rattmann dens really influences me too.

"Even his crazed ramblings are a rip-off"

I think it's interesting how the murals in the backrooms also reference Rattmann's constant moon imagery in the second game.

Rattmann's connection to the moon means something in portal 2. So I wonder if the moon imagery means anything here too? There is a lot of sun imagery....

I know the youtube series explored how A-sync views the backrooms as "the next frontier". Which is similar to how people look at space travel and more-so the moon back in the 60s. "It's a way to further expand." But that's a dangerous mindset. Especially if there's already people where you're looking to expand.