complete with dumbed down exposition and an obsession with every minute detail having to have "lore."

I didn't think the Backrooms Movie was that exposition heavy. It did a good job at Showing rather than Telling.

While there was lore shit throughout, i had only seen the original short film, and knew nothing of the lore before going into the movie. So while there was stuff I could point to and be like "oh that's for the lore heads" most of it didn't phase me, because it also ended up being a satisfying set up for a later Chekhov's Gun payoff later in the film.

For example, the caveman standee. When it first showed up, I guessed it was probably some lore thing that I didn't get. But that didn't matter, because its purpose and origin was shown to me at the end of the film, by being utilized in the final chase sequence.

All the fact that the lore references still worked for me, despite me not knowing the lore, is a compliment to the film, tbh

Yeah, the video game influence on movies is driving me crazy. The stupid deal was 'if you want a good story, watch a movie instead of a game' and then the shitty game stories are starting to invade the movies and people are saying they're good, actually.

Although I'd be curious if anyone else here thinks there's a difference or not between ARG stuff and video game stories. Video game stuff feels more like comic book characters with lore and mechanics tacked onto the narrative whereas the ARG stuff is more like pastiche/collage-based since it's by/for younger people who haven't had time to develop their own style yet, lore-first with characters and dialogue only begrudgingly added, and focused on lots of disjointed, edgy visuals or poetry in some form.

right? wake me up when the base is shaping and influencing the superstructure again

lore

Five Nights at Freddie's and it's consequences

an obsession with every minute detail having to have "lore."

It sucks, but this probably came mainly either from certain types of genre fiction or movies like Star Wars

And The Blair Witch Project before that.

I hate to inform you that Paranormal Activity came out almost 20 years ago.

I'm anything but a backrooms fan but I particularly enjoyed this movie. I think it's best appreciated coming from the perspective that the backrooms is one of those ownerless shared fiction universes that almost never get adaptions with any sort of budget behind it for obvious reasons, much less when they have very niche or novel premises like 'noclipping out of reality to end up in procgen horror hallways'

I was keen to watch it because it made me fantasize that we might get some decent money behind an SCP project one day, they feel like very similar universes in how they have evolved.

I think the difference there is concept of the “boomer mindset” is built around the economic conditions of the mid-late 20th century and the outlook it fostered. Whereas the “millennials vs zoomer vs alpha” distinctions mostly boil down to “their dumb brainrot, our iconic memes.”

To me that reads like my three year old declaring that I like to "eat poop" while I have to make sure he doesn't wipe his poopy butt on the diaper changing station. On reflection our current big topic is insults and hurting others with words in general so I think I just automatically go into a parental "lets name our emotions" mode and don't take it seriously at all. Which is not helpful to you I realise, sorry.

isn't really about anything

Bewildering to see this become the go-to comment to lob at a movie that beats the audience over the head so much. I encourage you to rewatch it & notice how completely checked-out everyone in the suburbs is to the point where they don't notice a witch trap house, the homeless guy, how the situation is minimized by the (pleasant & well-meaning) principal, etc

My read was that Weapons was a very pained allegory for how alcoholic parents can end up traumatizing their kids. There's a lot of alcohol imagery and a bunch of instances of children being forced into caring for adults.

Very unfair to Weapons which I felt had a really clear point

This whole character smacks of latina.

Those aren't comparable categories at all. It's fine to not like horror but it's a very broad genre.

Im watching it because netease is giving you free skins if you watch spider man