May 30
all that money for sets but they couldn't afford to hire a single sensitivity reader??
#emiltalk#watched Backrooms#not a single person the whole time asked the creative team. Hey why is the character who acts like this The Only Black One#maybe I missed it but I don't think even any of the incidentals were black. like#he literally scalps someone. like come the fuck on#and one of the Noble White Women who were aggrieved by him heroically beats him to death with a rock. ok!#like even if it's not their intention could they not see how this feels Pointed.#this was immediately after he gets called a whiner with a victim complex also#and on top of all that the movie is just ass. all of that and you couldn't even make the rest of the movie a little good#it's just insane like he's literally set up as a more or less normal guy and then all of a sudden 2/3 of the way in#he's a crazy violent cannibal who Again Literally Scalps the representation of his ex wife (another white woman)#so that he can put the Scalp onto the other white woman to verbally abuse her#and again I understand that not all characters have to be good people but again how did nobody in production note#that this is the Only black character. like At All#no one thought hmmmm maybe having the character that ~goes savage~ and tortures or kills the rest of the (white) cast#be the literal only black person in the movie Extras And All.#I get that it's supposed to be like the metaphor and all that but like holy shit it's just so tasteless for like the whole third act#(until he dies) (and then the new main character [white woman] kills him Again)#and then fuckin offbrand scp foundation shows up out of nowhere for the last however way too long of the flick#because Again: This Movie Blows#literally did not surprise me At All to find out this was made by a 21 year old#it's just so shallow like it wants to say smth but there's just nothing behind it. no substance whatsoever#and we got out of the theater and were all talking about the movie#and I mentioned how nothing ever really feels built up to and the pacing is just kinda weird#and one of my friends was like Yea I think it should've been longer#like HUH?????????#IT WAS TWO HOURS AND IT LIMPED THROUGH HALF!!!! HAVE MERCY!!!!!!#you want them to ADD time?????? they couldn't use the time they already had!!!!! they didn't know how!!!!!!!!#it just sucks because they had some fun ideas visuals wise#but this thing did not need to be a full movie. especially not This movie. I'm out of tags gn