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Interestingly, judging by the thumbnail and start of the video, you wouldn't expect this to be an FL Studio beat tutorial.. but it is. Sick channel, I 100% recommend it.

I loved the movie. It was spectacular, amazing, walked out the theater w my friends feeling satisfied. I have been a fan of the Backrooms since Kane first posted that found footage video on yt.

Although, of course, I (completely random 15yo kid) have some nitpicks, and some of my bigger issues. At the end of the day, this is just me, I'm speaking for myself and hopefully I can speak for some other people.

First of all, I feel like the movie should've played around more with the thought of liminal spaces, and the rather enormous amount of continuing rooms driving you insane. Maybe what captures a liminal space well is what camera is used, because I think the Backrooms series on yt captures liminal spaces so incredibly well, but they're found footage, and old cameras immediately enhance the nostalgic vibe of liminal spaces. So I know Kane knows how to do liminal spaces, but it just didn't really strike me crazily in the movie like images on the internet and scenes in the series do.

Second of all, think of what the original 4chan post said; "..and approximately six hundred million square miles of randomly segmented empty rooms to be trapped in.." The words "empty rooms" are what struck me the most, because emptiness is terrifying, and fill me in if I misunderstood the movie but what I didn't like that much was immediately when Clark entered the Backrooms, it wasn't so empty, I mean it was filled with stuff. They did say in the movie that it's a place where everything is remembered, I still feel like it could've been more subtle.

Third of all, and this is my smallest issue yet, prob the first person to ever think this was even an issue, but the camera in the Backrooms was moving too much. The thought of you not being alone is way scarier when you think of how still the Backrooms are, there's no other humans there, and the camera following around Clark when he entered it still felt like somebody filmed him, like there was just another person there with him. Obv he wasn't alone, but I feel like if the camera was more still it would've fit better with how eerie the Backrooms is. I worded this very badly, I have the explanation in my head I jus can't put it into words that good

Fourth, I didn't like how much they showed of the entities. And I didn't like how cartoony pirate Clark looked, especially with the huge offset eye. The shocked expression pirate Clark had would've been perfect if he was more unsettling than goofy. I also think they shouldn't be so "not harmful", like the bearded man, the little weelchair guy or whatever and the woman when they all sat in the kitchen. The still life in the video "Backrooms Found Footage #3" is so so so cool I'd love to see more of that

And now, I think that I just enjoy the found footages more ngl, bc they hold alot more mystery, but of course I think 90% of people wouldn't wanna see a poorly recorded found footage film in the theaters lol. Great movie