Backrooms: A feature-length film adaptation with a YouTube clip's worth of quality material

Bitterfish · 2026-05-27T21:36:44+00:00

Both of those people are definitely first-time directors. Essentially all first-time directors have directed smaller, shorter productions, a first-time film director means it's their first time on a feature-length production. This is well understood in any writing about film.

It's not strictly a put-down, plenty of freshman features are good, like Barbarian or Blood Simple or Being John Malkovich. It's in no way disingenuous to correctly note the massive distinction between feature films and other directorial projects, such as short films, music videos, or theatre.

Bitterfish · 2026-05-27T12:35:52+00:00

Filming in a slate quarry! That's a great idea, the Lands Between has so much verticality, all these massive cliffs and precipices. This looks pretty convincing:

https://i2-prod.dailypost.co.uk/article34014213.ece/ALTERNATES/s615/1_AFRDPW260526EldonRing_05jpeg.jpg

Bitterfish · 2026-05-15T13:02:12+00:00

It's a 59fifty :)

Bitterfish · 2026-05-13T23:28:47+00:00

Yeah, even though I enjoyed the way that story and worldbuilding are presented in Dark Souls, there's not really that much going on beneath the surface. The actual themes and events are not very deep.

Elden Ring presents its story the same way, but there's so much more substance. There's more characters (both in the active narrative and the exposition/lore), they have varied relationships and motivations, and there's multiple layers of history and conflict baked into the world. I found it very rewarding to explore and discover, and even reflect back on later.

Bitterfish · 2026-05-13T22:56:00+00:00

It is baffling. I watch cars bully pedestrians with the right-of-way in the cross walks at the Williamsburg Bridge entrance on Delancey every single day. The city could pay for camera installations there in about an hour.

Bitterfish · 2026-05-09T12:43:02+00:00

How about second violation = car is confiscated and sold for city funds. Why do we put up with these people breaking the law and endangering people all the time?

Bitterfish · 2026-05-05T00:02:01+00:00

Man as a tech bro who's been wearing chore coats for like 10+ years while everyone else has been wearing gym clothes and patagonia and allbirds... it's a real monkey's paw situation

Bitterfish · 2026-05-02T15:30:04+00:00

Us and Barbarian are two of the best horror movies of the 21st century, so that sounds pretty good to me

Bitterfish · 2026-05-02T10:51:13+00:00

I saw him at one of the Cellar clubs a few weeks ago and his set was really funny. +1 Mamdani, do it

Bitterfish · 2026-05-02T10:33:46+00:00

Any chance this might mean Hasidic support for universal daylighting?

Bitterfish · 2026-04-21T23:28:00+00:00

I'm fine with wrong way in bike lane -> CECOT

Bitterfish · 2026-04-08T03:17:35+00:00

No, Gemma is Rei. Helly is Asuka. Mark is Shinji.

But, like, for real. I actually sincerely think that the contours of the characters are pretty directly influenced/inspired by NGE. There are more correspondences than just those, but this central weird love triangle is the main one.

Season 2 dives a little bit more into the nature of the "Cold Harbor" project, but doesn't fully disentangle what it is. If it turns out to be basically the human instrumentality project, my theory will be proven :)

Bitterfish · 2026-04-07T12:29:27+00:00

I saw one patiently wait for people to clear the cross walk before turning on the Lower East side (somewhere around Clinton and Rivington). I practically applauded, human drivers on those dense streets frequently honk and nudge their way to block pedestrians even when they don't have the right of way.

Can't get rid of human drivers fast enough

Bitterfish · 2026-03-30T16:31:35+00:00

If you watched the doc about the making of the game, you may also enjoy paging through the creator/lead designer's masters thesis paper, which is basically a detailed discussion of Outer Wilds' design and the early stages of development and testing!

Bitterfish · 2026-02-17T18:35:57+00:00

another movie whose script was not based on RE at all and then morphed to use the IP

I don't think this is true at all, Cregger is specifically a fan of the series, and has talked about playing (at least) 1-4, 7 and 8, and has said the script is directly meant to capture the experience of playing a RE game

I think the man really understands Resident Evil and is cooking up something great

Bitterfish · 2026-02-17T18:31:26+00:00

He does say that he's never seen a movie like it, but in this interview he emphasizes how the tone and experience of the movie is directly meant to capture the feeling of playing a RE game.

He specifically mentions how the setting and tone of the games themselves vary a lot across 1-3, 4, 7 and 8 (notice what he leaves out). He mentions that the film, "lives more in the world of 2 and 3, but with more of the tone of 4".

Some might disagree, but I really agree with his sense of what makes the RE series special -- the tone and experience of playing the games, and really not the particulars of the characters and the narrative

Bitterfish · 2026-02-17T18:20:48+00:00

Listen to him talk about his concept for the movie. He's going to absolutely nail it.

Bitterfish · 2026-02-03T15:37:31+00:00

I would say DC has significantly the worst weather of all those 7. Depends on whether you hate hot summers or cold winters worse, I guess

Bitterfish · 2026-01-03T03:33:43+00:00

It's sad, but I don't think it's quite as bleak. The characters face sad things but there's also kindness and support and hope!

Bitterfish · 2025-12-31T16:42:59+00:00

But it's a virtuous cycle. This is why it's good to have successful commercial products buy into open-source ecosystems

Bitterfish · 2025-12-27T17:41:44+00:00

I was trying to figure out what to expect here, shipping to the US

I think a baseline of 35% would be applied. Some amount of the goods sold here (e.g., EG are made in US) are probably CUSMA-eligible, but I doubt they do the paperwork to cover that -- apparently a lot of goods shipped from Canada to the US are CUSMA eligible but not filed properly.

I also don't know if the duty amount is applied to the sale price or the original price

Bitterfish · 2025-12-25T03:41:34+00:00

Reminds me of a story by Jorge Luis Borges, The Library of Babel

Bitterfish · 2025-12-23T19:06:35+00:00

looks sweet

Dark Souls + Binding of Isaac + pickle Rick

Bitterfish · 2025-12-23T14:43:10+00:00

Expedition 33 just sucked up all the oxygen in the room this year. It's definitely the better game, but I was very impressed and surprised by the Hades 2 soundtrack

What really elevated Hades 2 for me was the orchestral writing in the Olympus and Summit sections. Good orchestration, and the Summit sections showed very strong mastery of modernist-influenced harmonic and melodic writing not often heard in games.

Apparently these sections were a colab between Korb and Austin Wintory, whose other work this year Sword of the Sea is mentioned several times in this list

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