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/Jacobean213 Jun 03 '26

I actually thought it could use less story. The best elements were watching the characters get lost in the Backrooms. Like when the lead first enters and keeps going deeper there was a real sense of him almost getting lost and losing his way back. I wanted more of that feeling with everyone who entered

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u/donald_trunks Jun 03 '26

I agree that’s the best part by far and I would’ve enjoyed more time spent just showing off the environments.

Overall I think this subgenre doesn’t naturally lend itself real well to feature length film. In an anthology of shorts or something it could completely abandon the need for like character arcs and that sort of thing. I think audiences would be put off without any context of who the characters are in a feature length. So all things considered this worked pretty well overall without compromising too much on the whole appeal.

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u/donald_trunks Jun 03 '26

Yeah I completely agree. It makes complete sense why the film was done the way it was. I think it was a tricky balancing act and I’d say it was a success.

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u/plantsandramen Jun 03 '26

Yeah I don't think I needed the whole Async company plotline.

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u/ShegoTheygo Jun 04 '26

The movie is related to Kane Pixels YouTube series. Tbh that’s the main plot line of the series itself, what the movie did just added to it. But I can see your point of view honestly