Midsommar (Ari Aster, July 3, 2019) Movie • Page 65

I watched this yesterday - I haven’t watched a ‘horror’ (is this even horror? I’m not sure) film since I was a teenager. At least 15 years. All I can say is that this was absolutely gorgeously shot. It wasn’t scary but it was horrific and jarring. I just loved the cinematography and that it wasn’t over the top with the gore for the sake of it but everything felt calculated.

Excellent movie and a brilliant performance from Pugh as always.

 

It's such a beautiful movie. The bright and serene setting makes it so much more unsettling.

 

I need to rewatch this. Been years.

 

Brightest horror movie ever.

 

Finally got around to watching the Directors Cut and the extra scenes give a lot more context to Christian being a piece of shit. Liked it even more than the theatrical version

 

Yeah the Director's cut is the definitive version and it isn't even close imo

 

Yeah you haven’t seen the movie unless you’ve seen the directors cut

 

Just realized I can stream that version on Fubo! Nice.

 

Damn I guess I haven't seen the movie then. Gonna be hard to do with a 4 month old lol

 

I wish the extended versions of this and Doctor Sleep werent only on bluray, would love to watch them again and again

 

I've only seen the extended version, probably won't ever watch the theatrical

 

Apple has the extended. If you buy the regular movie it’s under extras

 

i don't really feel like it added that much other than one crucial scene in the beginning

 

I dunno, when I read that the theatrical version didn't have the scene at the lake with the tree, that felt like a pretty egregious removal

 

It's just so many little scenes adding to characterizing but not so much to plot

 

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Just gonna go ahead and put it out there that I am not "cool" or "trendy" and idk what people like when it comes to clothes, but those look horrible to me lol

 

Been collecting RF products for over three years now.

Picked up a shirt, sweater, shorts, and hat. I had to set that alarm for midnight lmao

 

Yeah I don’t like RF designs at all

 

me neither. ugly.

 

Well, I finally worked up the nerve to watch this. And it basically confirms how I feel about Ari Aster. His films are so effective and disturb me on a fundamental level that I never want to watch anything else he makes. I mean that as a compliment. This one fucked me up even more than Hereditary.

 

My girlfriend and I have been working up the nerve to watch and have almost put it on a couple times the past week, but this comment just put me back at square one and I don't think I want to anymore haha. Hereditary ruined our day and we're not sure we want that again.

 

I know his movies disturb me because every main actor in his films (especially Toni Collette, Alex Wolff, and Florence Pugh) has a gnawing association with them when I see them elsewhere. You just can't unhear an actor screaming/crying like that. Like, I loved Florence in Little Women, but I also couldn't help thinking, "Oh, good. She's doing okay."

I know it's the anguished crying that upsets me most cause I have similar associations with Riley Keough after seeing It Comes At Night, which is a different director and way less disturbing overall. But Ari Aster weaves that realistic anguish and trauma into his stories so effectively and so much more often than anyone I've seen, on top of every other element of his stories being so disturbing. It's both awful and incredible.

 

Kind of love that this has ironically(?) been memeified as part of the Good For Her trope

 

lol my girlfriend said she wanted to watch it because of Florence Pugh. I told her the director's previous film was so disturbing that I don't want to watch this one, but she was still interested so I gave in. I made sure to give her a little 'I told you so...' when it was over. Honestly, we've both been very off today.