Hi! i recently made a video about Legally Blonde and the new Elle series and why i think despite having 2 movies and 1 TV show that the franchise in my opinion has just never been able to replicate the quality success of the original movie. I hope you enjoy and comment what you think!
I tried to like Backrooms. I did research on it! Here are my thoughts.
"Social media defines liminal space much more differently than how I originally understood it. For those of you who don't know, the inception of Backrooms all began on a website called 4chan where someone asked for a picture of a room that felt nostalgic but creepy. In response, someone posted a picture of an old, abandoned basement/office space, the one that we see in the movie as well, with the dull yellow walls and carpeted floors. This led to a whole discussion on liminal space, which I feel more closely relates to the definition of the word "uncanny". It is about a space that feels uncomfortable, nostalgic but unsettling."
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The Shrek series is nothing short of a cultural benchmark for our generation, first premiering in 2001 as a satirical take on the fairytale genre that Disney had been perfecting for years. The last installment wrapped up 15 years ago in 2010. Now, DreamWorks has announced a fifth Shrek film, set to premiere next December. This immediately reminded me of Incredibles 2, where Brad Bird took nearly two decades to release a sequel—only for me to walk out of the theatre feeling deeply disappointed. The original Incredibles holds a special place in my heart; I genuinely consider it one of the greatest animated films of all time, and I had high expectations for its follow-up. Shrek is a close runner-up, and with the fifth installment looming in an era of endless cash-grab sequels, reboots, and spin-offs, I can’t help but feel a sense of dread.
During the first scene of this movie, my friend leaned over to me and said, “this looks like a movie.” She meant it as an insult. While she had a point, I think it's important to remember why Disclosure Day feels so much like that. It is, after all, a Spielberg picture. In a lot of ways, he is the benchmark for what we understand as a popcorn movie. He created (or at least perfected) a lot of the tropes that we associate so much with the biggest releases, to the point that a lot of them feel ripe for parody. If this were someone else's movie, I would agree that it looked derivative. But to dismiss Disclosure Day for feeling too much like a movie would be like saying that a Hitchcock movie felt too much like a thriller or that a Scorsese movie had too many gangsters.