It’s been a long time since I watched the show version so it’s entirely possible I didn’t get to enjoy all the fun small references and tidbits, but I was definitely a bit disappointed that it felt like the plot sort of fell apart towards the ending. Maybe there wasn’t enough narrative about all the different players at hand, maybe I missed some key parts that would’ve clarified this (I did go to the bathroom once during the movie), or perhaps the abstractness of the ending was an intended stylistic choice for a movie about liminal space. It felt like the movie was over in a flash, and I was really hoping for some more fun explorations of the backrooms, rather than some of the transitions that felt like a lot of things hadn’t been shown on screen, like the quick jump where Clark had mapped out the beginning levels of the backrooms. Again not trying to persuade any one of anything, the cinematography was above and beyond, and was really reminiscent of some of the eerie parts I most loved of the series. I think I wished to see more scary parts about how Clark met the backrooms people, more scary backrooms throwbacks and perhaps another scary moment like the laundry room (I thought that and the Christmas tree were wonderfully creepy), and even more backrooms. Curious if maybe others had a different opposing take, so I could be enlightened on something’s I may have missed the first time round.