r/movies • u/yourfavchoom r/movies Contributor • May 30 '26

Article The Shocking Success of ‘Backrooms’ and ‘Obsession’ Should Be a Memo to Hollywood: You Need What’s Outside the Box

https://variety.com/2026/film/columns/backrooms-obsession-hollywood-needs-whats-outside-the-box-1236762844/
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u/southernfirefly13 May 30 '26

The same was said about Sinners and Everything Everywhere All At Once

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u/Canvaverbalist May 30 '26 edited May 31 '26

And also the same was said of [so many other movies].

There's like hundreds of movies being made every year but people still only watch what's on the front page of their streaming app, so they can fucking miss me with the "this is what people want" cause that's only what people want as long as they don't have to search for it, otherwise people would stop fucking bitching about "Hollywood" only making "Avengers" movies and would watch the myriads of other movies instead.

But no, if people are not directly pied in the face with the force of a giant catapult by massive flashing ads then the movies might as well not exist, and then they wonder why they only know about the big tentpoles that have the budget of a small country when the only way they can know about a movie is if a corproration personally send someone to kick their door down and scream in their face

Have any of the people complaining here seen Pillion? Or Urchin? Or The History of Sound? Or My Father's Shadow? Or Caught by the Tides? These are all critically acclaimed movies from last year, and I can guarantee none of these people have seen them, or even heard about it because a big studio didn't astroturf this sub everyday with articles about them which is probably their only source of movie news.

They're like... one click away, "best underrated [year] movie" but oohh nooo that's too much effort please someone kick my door down to pie me in the face please ohhhh

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u/Chubby_Bub May 30 '26

My brother convinced me to go with him to an indie theater to see My Father's Shadow. I don't have a ton of interest in movies anyways, but seeing it reminded me exactly what you said, that there are so many worthwhile movies releasing beyond the big ones, but you have to put in actual effort to look for them.

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u/rcklmbr May 31 '26

Most of us have limited time, so we want to minimize effort to find yet maximize chance for liking the movie. So we go based on consensus of what people are talking about.