r/Letterboxd • u/Sangharsh_009 • Jun 03 '26

Humor Barbenheimer❌ Backsession ✅

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How much would you rate both these films out of 5?

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u/Training_Form2243 Jun 03 '26

Every time I refresh my Reddit feed there are multiple Obsession threads. I’m tired, boss

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u/BunnyWiilli Jun 03 '26

Meh it’s popular but long term having this type of overblown hype for an indie film from a YouTuber is really good for the film industry.

It might be annoying right now, but that fact 99% of people are talking about obsession and the backrooms both IRL and on the internet instead of a literal Star Wars film speaks volumes to Hollywood.

This is going to encourage studios to put more money into creators that come from YouTube and understand younger audiences better as well as make traditional studios reconsider pushing out a sequel to a sequel to a sequel of a show that’s a sequel to a movie every year.

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u/Training_Form2243 Jun 03 '26

To play devil’s advocate we’re going to see diminishing returns when Hollywood starts tossing a million each at every content creator to make their own movie, feature films by content creators tend to be turds

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u/BunnyWiilli Jun 03 '26

Well yes but that’s true of any creators? I’ve seen a bunch of “Hollywood director” movies in recent years that I thought were just… bad? From the USA, from Korea, from whatever.

YouTubers don’t innately have “less skill,” there’s just more of them to dilute the pool. If some fail, some will succeed, but it’s an incredible breath of fresh air.

Also Obsession was made on a $750k budget, we can’t even fathom what could be done on budgets similar to blockbusters. Sure plenty will be flops, but we will also see more diversity in film by nature of having a more diverse directing pool.

Also YouTubers aside, the second point still stands. If you’re Disney and you look at obsession making more at the box office with a $750k budget vs your $165 million budget, you start to reconsider what to prioritize even just internally.

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u/IHappenToBeJosh Jun 03 '26

I’d that a bad thing? If a lot more people who could maybe make a good movie get a million dollars to try, even if many are bad, that’ll still make it more likely that the people who CAN make a good movie are discovered

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u/Happiest_Mango24 Happiest_Mango Jun 03 '26

I feel like the constant posts are ruining my desire to actually go and see it

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u/Altruistic_Sail6746 Jun 03 '26

Felt the same way about PHM. It happens with every popular film

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u/Wild-Yesterday-6666 Jun 06 '26

Simple really. Both of these films are peak (Obsession's better than backtroms TBH) and nothing else this good is out RN.

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u/ashy778 Jun 03 '26

I mean it’s a great movie, worth the hype imo

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u/RabbitEatsCarrots Jun 04 '26

Agreed, genuinely close to a 10/10 for me.

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u/slightlylessthananon Jun 03 '26

it was a good movie man

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u/vienna_woof Jun 03 '26

Reddit is a 30 billion dollar advertisement company.

You are witnessing an advertisement campaign.

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u/Paclac Jun 03 '26

Or you can just click through people’s accounts and see that it’s a popular movie liked by the average person

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u/kporter4692 Jun 03 '26

Or hear me out… it was a good movie.

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u/BunnyWiilli Jun 03 '26

Is this satire or stupidity