well i don't know about you but i keep bringing it up at family gatherings and it usually leads to a lot of tearful conversations about my employment status
@OurMovieNews Man of Steel broke a lot of brains and now the concept of collateral damage and civilian casualties in superhero movies genuinely terrifies writers and fans so much and nobody wants there to be actual stakes.
I like how Backrooms can be seen as a metaphor for the slowly unfolding mental degradation you see with Alzheimer's and other illnesses, but that it is also eerily reminiscent of AI trying and failing to recreate things people fed it, perpetually trying to reassemble something that has lost all semblance of its origin.
They’re sorta the platonic ideal characters for Lucas. They’re weird little dudes who just do goofy slapstick and speak in gibberish. He probably wishes he’d come up with them himself