It would probably be a bit easier to believe it if Putin hadn’t been transparently drooling over Ukraine for more than a decade.

I saw someone describe this movie as a “parable”, and I think that summarizes the tone pretty well. It’s not really a movie that’s trying to feel completely realistic, so it has the characters go to exaggerated places while acting out grounded conflicts.

They really said they didn’t understand why an animal would camouflage itself.

I appreciate how now that it’s clear that a lot of the noises they make are “recordings”, if you go back to the first video you can tell that some of the sounds seem like a really distorted “oh god” repeated.

I always took it as something meant to look unnatural. Like it’s a flawed imitation of life in the same way the Backrooms itself is a flawed imitation of our world.

Saturday night with the boys.

Like everybody says, the HDR does make a difference. As far as the quality goes, it’s one of those sorts of things where it may not feel like a massive upgrade at first for some movies, but when you look back at Blu-ray you realize how many little things are improved. I feel like the best pitch I could give is the fact that, for most movies, you’re getting them just about as good as they’re capable of looking (unless it’s just a bad transfer of course).