Midsommar (2019)
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Heh.Disney+'s solo2001 wrote: ↑August 6th, 2019, 12:16 pmwell, you can often guage a film's quality by how few pages it has
i mean, i saw it opening day in chicago. it's great, it's just not nearly as high as hereditary for me.
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Seeing it tonight with a packed audience. Wonder how we're all gonna handle it.
I much preferred this over Hereditary.
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From the moment Toni Collette...
...the movie lost the grip on what its trying to be. That ending left me scratching my head and saying whatever after a strong directorial showcase that came before it. A lot of the movie is waiting for something to happen with no real payoff.
Mark Kermode mentioned it in his review.
I remember liking the movie still.
Midsommar is a fully realized vision, start to finish. Not a single shot wasted. It does weird a la Luca's Suspiria, but perhaps even better. And Florence Pugh is all sorts of amazing.
Mark Kermode mentioned it in his review.
I remember liking the movie still.
Midsommar is a fully realized vision, start to finish. Not a single shot wasted. It does weird a la Luca's Suspiria, but perhaps even better. And Florence Pugh is all sorts of amazing.
I'm just pissed off at myself for seeing Spider-Man first in fear of spoilers (granted, it was the more talked about movie online) and postponing seeing this a week because they stopped playing Midsommar after just one week in my hometown. Even in the arthouse theatre. Now I have to wait for digital.
I found this to be rather thematically muddled in places. It never felt like Aster was spear-heading his themes of grief in the same way he did with Hereditary. Maybe he didn't want it feel like he's retreading those same waters, but it resulted in a lot of hollow points that I felt didn't add up to anything resonant. Those problems lie manly within the first half. The second half is where it hits its stride, where I started to feel exactly what Aster was wanting to say, with a final shot that is so cathartic and beautiful. I wish the rest of the movie was on the same level as the final 30 minutes.
