Sounds about right.Quoting Scar (view post)
Sounds about right.Quoting Scar (view post)
Heh I seem to dig it, too.Quoting Pop Trash (view post)
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Irish most of your review makes me think of Siskel and Ebert when they would bash genre cinema. You're only one more review away from going on about how kids don't know what good cinema is and telling people to get off your lawn.
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Need to sleep on it.
A lot of similarities to Hereditary. The difference is Hereditary was interesting with the unexpected events with our characters. Midsommar literally has the third act painted on the wall. Predictable and therefor less satisfying.
The most interesting and jarring part of the movie (the pre-title sequence) was never recreated throughout the rest of the film.
The drive in and initial acid trip of Midsommar sticks out to me as A+ filmmaking, but you nail the third act as how predictable and unsatisfying it is. I still fully feel that the worst is yet to come for the main character, all said and done... But I would watch it again for that first half.
This is an odd situation for me, because on one side I agree with everything in Irish's post, but the other feels like this should be experienced at least once. So, three star mild yay for me.
Ratings on a 1-10 scale for your pleasure:
Top Gun: Maverick - 8
Top Gun - 7
McCabe & Mrs. Miller - 8
Crimes of the Future - 8
Videodrome - 9
Valley Girl - 8
Summer of '42 - 7
In the Line of Fire - 8
Passenger 57 - 7
Everything Everywhere All at Once - 6
I'm not buying that. I wasn't convinced she would even accept all of that, especially the way she had handled deaths in prior scenes. (family and random people)
Would be great, but she doesn't actually do any of that. She just receives affection for running around a pole and not tripping.Quoting Pop Trash (view post)
It's ambiguous by design. But the final shot should tip you off to what the film is about, really.Quoting Ezee E (view post)
Ratings on a 1-10 scale for your pleasure:
Top Gun: Maverick - 8
Top Gun - 7
McCabe & Mrs. Miller - 8
Crimes of the Future - 8
Videodrome - 9
Valley Girl - 8
Summer of '42 - 7
In the Line of Fire - 8
Passenger 57 - 7
Everything Everywhere All at Once - 6
What, you weren't impressed by Toni's endless parade of Jim Carrey-level facial contortions in that film?:Quoting Irish (view post)
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You said it perfectly.Quoting Scar (view post)
Watched it 2 days ago and I have nothing coherent to say about it.
Wow, so many opinions all over the place about this film. Here are mine - it's a huge step up from Hereditary and goes towards fixing many of the problems I had with that movie, I defend the flawed romantic relationship which I believe is the heart at the center of everything and I do agree it goes on for far too long, but at least it gives us something new in the Horror genre which I believe is one of the hardest things to do right now. I think the whole film follows a deliberately fatalistic tone which is why we rarely see the characters win any small victories against the murderers and I also believe that the fact that they remain on site after witnessing the two violent deaths is meant to be purposefully satiric of the tolerant cultural stance they take as intellectuals.
Still, the movie never becomes as great and brilliant as its first 15 minutes or so.
Yuuuuuuuuuuup. Not sure why people miss this. Seems pretty obvious to me.Quoting Grouchy (view post)
Ratings on a 1-10 scale for your pleasure:
Top Gun: Maverick - 8
Top Gun - 7
McCabe & Mrs. Miller - 8
Crimes of the Future - 8
Videodrome - 9
Valley Girl - 8
Summer of '42 - 7
In the Line of Fire - 8
Passenger 57 - 7
Everything Everywhere All at Once - 6
Watched this a second time. I still love the overall direction of this, and it feels weird calling it a horror movie, because outside of two or three jump scares, it's not really trying to be scary.
The end is still kind of weak in the sense that I'm not quite sure what the movie wants from the audience. Should we be cheering for Dani as the May Queen and wanting her boyfriend killed? He's certainly a terrible boyfriend, but those last days of his, he's drugged the entire time by the Swedish cult. I also feel she's about to see the worst of it after the movie is over, so can't quite understand her smile.
But in terms of dealing with grief, communication in relationships, and the overall situation that's going on in Sweden, I remain enthralled.
Last note, still really dumb for the boyfriend to decide randomly that he's going to have his thesis be about the Swedish culture mid-trip. Seems a little late to be planning that...
But there's so much that I like about this movie, that I'm willing to look past the mistakes.
This movie has grown on me something fierce. Watching the director’s cut right now. All the longer, it’s already smoothed some scenes out. Glad I was able to snag the director’s cut.
“What we are dealing with here is a perfect engine, er... an eating machine. It's really a miracle of evolution. All this machine does is swim and eat and make little sharks and that's all.”
Does the director's cut also have the face up in the trees during the May Queen ritual? That's the moment the movie really got under my skin.Quoting Scar (view post)
Yep, still there.
“What we are dealing with here is a perfect engine, er... an eating machine. It's really a miracle of evolution. All this machine does is swim and eat and make little sharks and that's all.”
Jesus, that's fuckin' creepy. I never noticed that, but I haven't seen it since the theatrical run.Quoting Idioteque Stalker (view post)
Ratings on a 1-10 scale for your pleasure:
Top Gun: Maverick - 8
Top Gun - 7
McCabe & Mrs. Miller - 8
Crimes of the Future - 8
Videodrome - 9
Valley Girl - 8
Summer of '42 - 7
In the Line of Fire - 8
Passenger 57 - 7
Everything Everywhere All at Once - 6
I didn't see it during my view either. But I googled it and yes, super spooky.
That combined with the breathing flower in her hair made me question if I was seeing things. Not a comfortable feeling. Great movie.
Also everything around her is being warped like heat from fire as part of the psychedelic nature of the drug, so that also adds to the creepyness.Quoting Idioteque Stalker (view post)
I don't know if it's only in the director's cut or what, but reddit seems to think the actors that were cast as Dani's (dead) sister and parents pop up sometimes in shots of the Harga. One shot in particular might be the sister on the peripheral of the frame in a small group shot of the women in the Harga. Not sure if this is true, but would suggest more hallucinations from Dani.
Ratings on a 1-10 scale for your pleasure:
Top Gun: Maverick - 8
Top Gun - 7
McCabe & Mrs. Miller - 8
Crimes of the Future - 8
Videodrome - 9
Valley Girl - 8
Summer of '42 - 7
In the Line of Fire - 8
Passenger 57 - 7
Everything Everywhere All at Once - 6
Fairly sure that the sister's presence is throughout the movie, but can't remember specifically besides an obvious one in a bathroom.Quoting Pop Trash (view post)
I want to see the DC now.
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And sees through the master plan
But everybody's gone
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Well, I guess this is growing up