Midsommar (new movie from director of Hereditary)

Mizu_Ger · 04-11-2019 2:06pm

I watched this over the weekend and as some have mentioned this was more comedy than horror. There is a scene where Jack Reynor is offered a drink

while they are all watching the girls dance

and I burst out laughing at it. Very funny in parts!

I wasn't crazy about Hereditary, but I liked this a lot.

Homelander · 24-11-2019 11:16am

Amazing film, absolutely deeply disturbing and demented but so relentlessly engaging and darkly comical, you can't help but laugh at the sheer absurdity of a lot of it, but it's an unsettled sort of laughter. I thought Hereditary was very good, but this is genuinely a masterpiece in my opinion, the run-time just sailed by. Cannot wait for what Ari Aster comes up with next.

02-12-2019 11:06pm

Didn't care for Hereditary but did like this - a crazy ride with superb imagery and music.

Didn't seem to have a long runtime either.

For sure one of the better films of the year in my book.

El Duda · 04-12-2019 9:16am

Still top of my 2019 list.

Skerries · 26-12-2019 6:56pm

love the tombola of death

is_that_so · 30-12-2019 11:39am

Gotta say this is one of my poorest recent film experiences and I really disliked this. A fan of Pugh and Reynor but I found this utterly soporific and kept thinking how The Wicker Man was hugely superior. I read that it was originally being considered as a slasher movie and maybe that was the better approach. I came to it off the great reviews but all I could see was the predictability of the plot of weird cult doing weird things.

megadodge · 01-01-2020 8:06pm

Just came across this thread now and I'm surprised (to say the least) at the predominantly very positive reviews.

I remember coming out of the cinema shaking my head and repeating over and over "what a stupid, stupid film".

And that's basically it - it's the sheer stupidity (not to mention predictability) of the film that made this the worst viewing I've had in a cinema for many years. And I'm a regular cinema-goer.

McDermotX · 01-01-2020 9:44pm

Thought it was very disappointing myself, and I say that as someone who went for pretty much 90% of Hereditary.
While I'm all for personal taste etc, I do struggle to rationalise how some have arrived at placing Midsommar high on their best films of the year lists, but hey-ho.
Predictable, boring, poorly acted, and crucially for the time spent trying to convey atmosphere, it never even approaches instilling any sense of dread in proceedings, so by the end of the ridiculously drawn out runtime, you're just glad it's over.......never to be looked at again.

Complete misfire from Aster for me, so needs to step up on his next project or Hereditary increasingly looks like a fluke.

El Duda · 02-01-2020 10:02am

I thought it was so much better than Hereditary

Fysh · 02-01-2020 12:17pm

I can sort of see why the "predictability" bit might be an issue for some - for me, it did a good job of letting the audience know what's happening so that

the obliviousness of the group is made clear, allowing the audience to better follow how Pugh's character arc plays out (while still making clear how Reynor's boyfriend character gaslights her)

.

I can't see how any of the roles were poorly acted, though - Pugh's performance of someone struggling with grief was fantastic IMO, and the rest of the group were very convincing depictions of various types of arsehole.

03-01-2020 1:19am

El Duda wrote: »

I thought it was so much better than Hereditary

it was indeed.

the whole point of this movie imo is to be sort of semi-hypnotised by the imagery, cinematography and the music and go along for the ride.

if that doesn't happen then you'd probably end up thinking that it's sh1t.

careless sherpa · 03-01-2020 1:24am

glasso wrote: »

it was indeed.

the whole point of this movie imo is to be sort of semi-hypnotised by the imagery, cinematography and the music and go along for the ride.

if that doesn't happen then you'd probably end up thinking that it's sh1t.

I watched it on an oculus go and it was a bizarre experience. Bit of a sensory overload

El Duda · 03-01-2020 1:24pm

glasso wrote: »

it was indeed.

the whole point of this movie imo is to be sort of semi-hypnotised by the imagery, cinematography and the music and go along for the ride.

if that doesn't happen then you'd probably end up thinking that it's sh1t.

Exactly. It's also the best example I’ve seen of conveying that weird feeling you get when taking psychedelics to a wide audience. I've only done mushrooms once in my life, it was up there with the worst few hours I've ever experienced.

Just seeing Will Poulter on his bad trip took me right back. I think that's the whole point of the film tbh. That hypnotic, mesmerising vibe is very mushroomy through most of the film.

Disclaimer: Kids, do not take mushrooms/psychedelic drugs.

Stewball · 03-01-2020 8:37pm

El Duda wrote: »

Exactly. It's also the best example I’ve seen of conveying that weird feeling you get when taking psychedelics to a wide audience. I've only done mushrooms once in my life, it was up there with the worst few hours I've ever experienced.

Just seeing Will Poulter on his bad trip took me right back. I think that's the whole point of the film tbh. That hypnotic, mesmerising vibe is very mushroomy through most of the film.

Disclaimer: Kids, do not take mushrooms/psychedelic drugs.

I watched this last night. Enjoy it.
Florence Pugh is an excellent actor - also quite aesthetically pleasing.

Regards taking mushrooms - I had a different experience to yourself.
I had a great time taking them.

buried · 05-01-2020 9:10pm

Massively disappointing this was.

Aster just basically invents his own extremely negative take on native Pagan European solstice worship culture through the guise of a fictional demented Swede death cult that is witnessed by a bunch of obnoxious, selfish, smartarse american students, two of whom are on a break up.

It's nicely shot but it is desperately dull, its trying to be deep but there is no weight behind the story or the subject matter whatsoever and it really shows. Its just a lame break up movie. That's it. It is no way comparable to the brilliant 'Hereditary' because that's what this film is. A break up movie. And everything can be seen coming 80 miles down the Swedish mountains.

Was massively disappointed with this as I loved Hereditary. Hopefully next one will be better but after this, I found it so bad, I was shocked. Was like two different creators were at the wheel. Bizarre.

cdgalwegian · 08-06-2020 6:16pm

buried wrote: »

Aster just basically invents his own extremely negative take on native Pagan European solstice worship culture through the guise of a fictional demented Swede death cult that is witnessed by a bunch of obnoxious, selfish, smartarse american students, two of whom are on a break up.

A break up movie. And everything can be seen coming 80 miles down the Swedish mountains.

glasso wrote: »

the whole point of this movie imo is to be sort of semi-hypnotised by the imagery, cinematography and the music and go along for the ride.

These two points sum it up for me. I watched it mainly to see if Florence Pugh is as good as I've heard. She is fantastic. But at 2 hrs 50 mins this was far too long. As a (mainly) psychological horror I get the need to stretch out the foreshadowing with its various symbolisms, and then see it play out, but smarter choices could have made this more accessible (though I think one of the concerns here is to be true to the dynamics of the story, rather than playing to a wide audience). In fairness, I stayed 'til the inevitable ending, which is good testament to the all-round acting and direction, but it'd be too niche for me to recommend it to many people.

buried · 09-06-2020 7:06pm

cdgalwegian wrote: »

These two points sum it up for me. I watched it mainly to see if Florence Pugh is as good as I've heard. She is fantastic. But at 2 hrs 50 mins this was far too long. As a (mainly) psychological horror I get the need to stretch out the foreshadowing with its various symbolisms, and then see it play out, but smarter choices could have made this more accessible (though I think one of the concerns here is to be true to the dynamics of the story, rather than playing to a wide audience). In fairness, I stayed 'til the inevitable ending, which is good testament to the all-round acting and direction, but it'd be too niche for me to recommend it to many people.

I was going to try to watch this again to just see if there was any change in the dynamic on how I may have viewed it the first time. I bought this feicing yoke and its just sitting on the collection shelf, but, its like making time to do some sort of job like cleaning the gutters that you have put on the long finger.

I loved 'Hereditary' so I feel i must give it another chance but I just cant bear to go through it again due to the dullness.

run_Forrest_run · 24-07-2021 9:15pm

I just watched this again now that's available on Netflix and I enjoyed it even more. There were things I missed or didn't pay as much attention to the first time.

smillingsam · 25-07-2021 10:42am

It was an interesting movie, it was hard to know what way it was going to end up, which keeps you guessing until the end.

JP Liz V1 · 17-10-2023 1:15am

Film 4 showing on Wednesday night

Midsommar (new movie from director of Hereditary)

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