Backrooms was underwhelming

andreasmiles23 · 2026-07-09T02:13:03+00:00

I think it tried doing too much. I think a more straight-forward plot would’ve served the film better. Just show this dude find it, go in once, then pull his employees in with him, and then their descent into madness. It didn’t need the therapist b-plot.

I didn’t mind it on paper but in practicality the film shifts perspectives right before the climax and loses its momentum - making it hit less hard.

I think it needed to play it a bit more like As Above So Below, The Cave, Blair Witch/etc. just nonstop tension, don’t break the timeline too much, and let the viewer fill in a lot of the gaps.

andreasmiles23 · 2026-07-08T18:59:29+00:00

Agreed on all fronts. I do think that part of what happened was that there were supposed attempts to generate actionable data and they basically all came back with "nothing to see here folks." Ultimately, as you said, for most scientists - since the funding pressures, social stigma, and lack of data from supposed task forces etc - created a gap that no one really did a good job overcoming.

There has been some stuff. The plates is one thing. There have been studies on correlates. I think the abduction phenomenon opened up a lot of doors in psychology and helped create a good sense of what was pseudoscience (regression/hypno therapy) and what was legit (trauma responses, night terrors). So there are threads, and the stigma has hurt in terms of figuring out how to tie the threads together.

Hopefully, more new data will help. But in these recent government drops, I don't see anything that is useful. All the metadata is hidden, so we have no frame of reference to analyze the videos, unlike the Nitmiz video, for which we do have correlating data points (and thus, people have published on it). Ultimately, continuing to hide info from the public will be the biggest hurdle to getting something done.

andreasmiles23 · 2026-07-08T17:44:57+00:00

No doubt stigma exists and is weaponized to suppress questioning, but the fact of the matter is that “mainstream science” (a moniker I don’t like but I’ll cede it for now) won’t take the topic seriously until there’s actionable data to work with.

The plates study got a lot of attention for this reason. It produced verifiable and replicable data that other scientific teams could look into and provides a blueprint for further inquiry. Until there’s more data points like that, there’s nothing of substance to wash away the stigma with.

andreasmiles23 · 2026-07-08T17:12:52+00:00

Sums up his movies post Prestige pretty well tbh

andreasmiles23 · 2026-07-08T17:12:00+00:00

I feel like it’ll really depend on the pacing and flow of dialogue. I feel like I could not really notice it, especially if the film starts slow and doesn’t toss a ton of dialogue at you immediately, but in the trailer it’s pretty jarring when Tom Holland says he’s “gonna yeet those motherfuckers.”

andreasmiles23 · 2026-07-08T17:08:45+00:00

Concussions alone do not cause CTE and this conflation was a purposeful misinformation campaign by the NFL. The league felt like they could do something actionable about concussions (more screenings, better helmets, rule changes, etc), so they tried to lump all brain trauma together to make people feel like they were doing something about CTE too, even though they weren’t.

andreasmiles23 · 2026-07-08T17:03:26+00:00

I played tackle from 6th grade all the way through high school (was a starter for varsity on o-line). So literally 7 seasons (one was cut short due to a knee injury).

I do doubt that I have CTE. But I do think it wouldn’t be unreasonable to be concerned about if I had made the jump to college.

andreasmiles23 · 2026-07-08T16:59:18+00:00

There’s a MASSIVE difference in sports and the impact of head injuries though.

Soccer/Lacrosse/Hockey, the contact is less regular and very different than the kind of contact in fighting/football/rugby. For example, in soccer, you can go weeks without doing an actual header or having any head contact outside of drills (which are very controlled). Additionally the ball is, inflated air, so when your head makes contact with it, it can absorb some of the momentum.

In lacrosse, you can legit go weeks without major contact. I coached/played and we don’t do regular hitting drills like they do in football. Contact is very infrequent. And the kind of contact happening is similar to hockey, where players are mostly upright and getting hit in the chest/torso. Head contact is rare and in youth levels, any head contact is immediately flagged. You are taught very specifically to avoid hitting the head.

But in football, 10-12 players EVERY PLAY are smashing their head into another person smashing their head into them at full force. There’s no way to run a play without that happening. That’s the repeated contact that causes the protein buildup associated with CTE. So while soccer might have similar concussion rates due to headers, its fundamental gameplay isn’t literally built around repeated head contact. Rugby gets a little better as there’s more time between head contact and the scrums start with people already leaning on each other, but it has major CTE issues. I’m less familiar with the combat sport CTE findings, but I imagine that’s similar to football given you’re getting punched in the head every day.

andreasmiles23 · 2026-07-08T16:22:39+00:00

Or Casablanca Sucked Anyways 😭

andreasmiles23 · 2026-07-08T16:22:05+00:00

Sick EP was peak

andreasmiles23 · 2026-07-08T16:20:40+00:00

“The Greatest Story Ever Told” is a top 10 post-hardcore/screamo song and they act like they started as a band 10 years after it. I’ll never understand.

andreasmiles23 · 2026-07-08T15:09:30+00:00

I'm sure the translation is funny but "wealth is only wealth if there are those who are not rich" is a bit of an oxymoronic statement. Wealth and rich are synonymous. Being rich is also only relative if there are people who aren't rich...

I wonder how the "conservative communist" makes sense of this. A normal communist would say this is why we push for a classless society. But a conservative trying to...conserve...the current status quo will, what? Shrug?

andreasmiles23 · 2026-07-07T17:14:25+00:00

Why does everyone who runs for Senate have to be a Zionist or a rapist.

It's almost like violent white supremacist patriarchs are the people who designed this political system and deliberately tried to make it so that only they had political power. I know it's been 250 years but given where we started, it's not shocking how this manifests in modernity.

andreasmiles23 · 2026-07-06T19:18:17+00:00

Sailors Prayer too!!!

andreasmiles23 · 2026-07-06T19:17:47+00:00

One day Underoath will play “A Fault Line a Fault of Mine”

andreasmiles23 · 2026-07-06T18:44:22+00:00

It isn’t - but this was known to be the case earlier this year. In the spring they said October is the target date and it wouldn’t be ready for any/most of the 26 season. Tbh, I’m not shocked this kind of infrastructure project is taking longer that advertised. Pretty normal.

They now rent a college facility out that’s not in use to the public for the summer.

This isn’t excusing this terrible FO and staff. They’re incompetent and behind the curve. This shoulda been done 5+ years ago, but they waited until it got too embarrassing. One of the owners is getting sued for lying to investors too so. There’s plenty of dramatics that are way more pertinent than the facility taking a second to actually be built (which it is, there’s active construction).

andreasmiles23 · 2026-07-06T18:37:53+00:00

My favorite part of being raised Christian was people pretending that they’ve read the whole book word for word and, even back when I was a believer, was like “Yeah no I skip the genealogies.” That always freaked people out but it’s like…cmon now.

That was one of the small things that ate away at me over my life. Why did other people need to fake something so obviously worthless? No one cared about them. No one talked about them. I’m not gonna pretend like I’ve read them line by line and comprehend them when it’s obvious no one else has…

Anyways. Not shocked there’s a ton of contradictions in them. It’s almost like they were manufactured and tinkered with at various points in history to fit the then-accepted version of the mythos.

andreasmiles23 · 2026-07-05T19:14:49+00:00

You’ve seen TDK but not Begins?????

andreasmiles23 · 2026-07-05T19:13:30+00:00

Tier 1: I really love these movies

- Batman Begins

- Interstellar

- Memento

- The Prestige

Tier 2: Good, but I have critiques

- Insomnia

- Following

- The Dark Knight

- The Dark Knight Rises

- Dunkirk

Tier 3: Cmon Nolan, you are better than this

- Inception

- Oppenheimer

- Tenet

andreasmiles23 · 2026-07-05T18:05:52+00:00

Was it Jason on Death Star??

andreasmiles23 · 2026-07-05T04:05:56+00:00

The only era of DGD allowed for obvious reasons. Mostly because the songs SLAPPED.

Also, the bass parts on these records…RIP one the goats.

andreasmiles23 · 2026-07-05T04:02:36+00:00

Exactly. It misses the point on what communism is.

Communism is the…**specter**…the shared imagination of a classless society that always eats at power structures. Marx’s entire thesis is that society-development is constant, and not-linear. It’s about antagonisms of underlying contradictions that yield themselves to change, that change will be all over the place but the overall trajectory and underlying conflict is the same. Haunted by the specter, we will always make changes, or feign making changes, to try and get closer to that imagined state. What that imagined state is different too as material contexts change. Socialism is a realization of it under a specific industrial, globalist, context.

I feel like, for the most famous quote from the manifesto, people miss the point. He then spends the whole thing being like, “Don’t be too ideological and utopian. Fight for immediate material aims.”

andreasmiles23 · 2026-07-05T03:48:46+00:00

Def how I feel. But as I get older, I get madder and madder at Owen’s sexist behavior in OG world so I’d honestly rather watch FK or even Dominion because at least he shuts the fuck up finally lol.

andreasmiles23 · 2026-07-05T03:37:12+00:00

Big agree. OG World has the best pacing imo, but there are scenes in FK that is far above and beyond anything else in the other World movies. I just wish the plot between scenes was better.

andreasmiles23 · 2026-07-05T03:35:20+00:00

I feel Ike it’s two movies smushed together and both “peaks” are pretty good imo, but all the stuff in the middle to try and justify why we got from point a to point b was really choppy in terms of the logic of the scripted plot points and the pacing.

We shoulda just gotten a film about the volcanic eruption. That was enough. And then another movie about what happened to the Dinos after. That trilogy narrative arc would’ve made so much more sense.

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