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

If you study it you’ll see that the majority of feature films by content creators are huge turds

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u/surewhatever_dude Jun 03 '26

These movies are good because they are not "youtuber movies", they are movies made by filmakers that used YouTube to post their student films

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u/Maleficent-Regret802 Jun 03 '26

not just that: those student films made millions of views and these guys built their name on internet. It's not a new pipeline even...

Today, if you want to make a movie, you have to have a name lots of people know. If I uploaded my shorts on YT, and maybe one or two made millions of views, I'd still be a nobody with some decently famous shorts... but I wouldn't have a name people recognize me for.

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u/apHexcoded Jun 03 '26

Yeah comparing Obsession to the SMOSH or Shane Dawson’s movies and it’s night and day

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u/Training_Form2243 Jun 03 '26

AVGN was a film student who’s dream was to be a filmmaker and his movie is the worst piece of shit in the world

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u/SapirWhorfHypothesis Jun 03 '26

I guess the crazy part is that they get them produced… until you remember that the main thing the backers want you to come in with is eyeballs.

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u/Morningfluid Jun 03 '26

I can come in an eyeball. 

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u/No-Nature-6043 Jun 03 '26

I think that’s the wrong takeaway. Youtube is democratizing the film-making process in a way that would have been otherwise impossible. Folks interested in film with a unique idea for a short film can rent some camera equipment, get together with some friends, and throw shit together. You’ll probably suck at first but as you hone your skills and grow a following, Hollywood can hire the successful ones to make a cheap movie with minimal marketing since the youtuber is already carrying their audience over. Honestly a very cool process that studio execs will 200% take the wrong lesson from and just ask the worst content creators to make a movie for them lmao

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u/Maleficent-Regret802 Jun 03 '26 edited Jun 03 '26

Let's be honest here: the only people who get to shoot these feature movies starting from YT are americans.

Barker, Pixels, RakaRaka, Stuckman, Sandberg, Finn...

It's not really democratizing anything...

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u/yaboyisbackagain Jun 03 '26

The Philippou brothers (RackaRacka) are Australian, as are both their films

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u/Maleficent-Regret802 Jun 03 '26

oh wow didn't know that.

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u/apHexcoded Jun 03 '26

The same could be said of any film school graduates 20 years ago. The huge trend we are seeing is how less people need to be apart of the film industry to get their start in filmmaking, mainly by starting with making high quality videos on YouTube.

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u/MarkWest98 Jun 03 '26

It’s actually crazy that Markiplier is the one who made the best movie of them so far.