"Midsommar" Movie From "Hereditary" Director (Discussion Thread)

[in the NICK of time]

I loved it, and I spit on all the complaints about the length and pacing. The screen actually froze somewhere 20 minutes before the end and the lights came on and it was like something perforated the room and all of the built-up suspense exploded out of it, the entire audience was livid as fukk! Some people were even saying that they might as well go home now that the theater fukked it up. I can't remember any other horror movie in recent years capable of achieving such strong atmosphere in the theater.

One thing though, Aster does have a tendency to throw too much exposition in his finale, almost like he wants to up the ante but doesn't quite get how to do it so instead he just shows things longer and more explicitly.

I still feel the movie is absolutely brilliant regardless, Aster's eye for photography is breathtaking, like Hereditary before it I can't think of many better looking horror movies.

Agreed...

I think Aster and Peele right now are on perpendicular paths towards horror that is amazing for the genre. They have two completely different mind sets but at the same time give fans of the genre on both sides something to be truly excited about. It’s an exciting time to be a suspense/horror/slow burn fan and finally hopefully be over the style that killed the genre in the first place...

 

[Silver Surfer]

Movie was weak....had potential and a bad follow up to a classic

 

[Jx2]

Movie was weak....had potential and a bad follow up to a classic

We know you've said this already idiot. Still looking for the attention though

 

[Silver Surfer]

We know you've said this already idiot. Still looking for the attention though

..funny you know my posts when I cant recall any post you have ever made.....you a fan?

 

[mbewane]

Spoiler

why she was smiling at the end? Does that mean she was completely converted? Is it because she finally found a community that will grieve with her or another family now that hers is gone? I also think it's really messed up how that dude befriended these people for like a year or so just to bring them to his home community to be sacrificed. That's some fukked up shyt.

Speaking of the final message, I don't know how the trauma that Sidney Pugh's character goes through in the beginning with her sister has anything to do with the rest of the movie once they arrive at the camp. It seemed like a plot device to lead the viewer to the water of her grief.

The gut punch though... Audition aside, this is probably the most brutal and disturbing film I've ever experienced and it really only deals with one insanely gory scene. The rest is the slow descent into the rationalization of a religion no longer fit for modern day scrutiny that in our eyes encompass abominable convictions and morale.

Spoiler: Dani and Palle

There's a special relationship between these both, Palle knows of Dani's grief so he nows she's particularly prone to being indocrtinated in the cult, because she too has lost her family. Palle has also lost his, "in a fire", but we don't know if that actually was an accident or...if his parents were burned too in the ritual. Either way, he was brought up by the community. That's why he says before they leave that he's thrilled that she's coming. And why he's so close to her afterwards. Also, since it's a closed community, they need as much women as they can to maximise chances of having kids. Before Dani decides to go on the trip, he's only bringing back 4 men, while the more women the more chances of the community moving forward. Notice that the most important person in the cult is a woman (forgot her name) and that they have a Queen of May, not a King. So yeah he's thrilled she comes, and at the end she's fully converted imo

We need people like this though to write movies though. It's unique, strange, and original.

Didn't watch the movie. I just saw hereditary and I wanted to see the opinions on Midsommar.

When I hear shyt like "his mind is just . . . different" and "how can someone who writes like this not have a serious problem"
that screams to me one less reboot and one less marvel film but more originality because his mind can wonder into places most people can't reach.

Spoiler: ONLY READ IF YOU'VE WATCHED THE MOVIE

Hope you've seen the movie, otherwise skip!!! Anyway, what you say in the bolded is interesting because when the elders talk about the one with a difformity who is writing the sacred books, they say something similar, that his (or is hers don't remember lol) mind can wonder into places most can't (it's said differently, but that's the idea) because of his condition. In some ways this might be linked to why Dani is ultimately "chosen", or ends up strangely being the one most involved in the cult of the american group. Because her grief ("difformity") makes her see, even unconsciously, things others don't. Ironically, she's the most accepting of the group : she's not there to study it, nor question it, nor understand it, all we see is pure emotion from her, and she ends up the Queen of May. And the rest of the group is dead.

[/SPOILER]

Loved the movie, as I loved Heriditary. Had no idea before seeing this one it was the same director lol.

Underated is the fact of setting a whole horror movie in absolute broad daylight, in this idyllic setting, flowers and everything, that's great. And the absolute contrary of Heriditary where damn near the whole movie is dark.

 

[Jx2]

Looks like the digital release is September 17th.

Can't wait to give this a second viewing as I went into the theater about as inebriated as the group in the movie ...

And I had to piss twice so there's plenty of things I missed along the way.

 

[BlackXCL]

Looks like the digital release is September 17th.

Can't wait to give this a second viewing as I went into the theater about as inebriated as the group in the movie ...

And I had to piss twice so there's plenty of things I missed along the way.

Will this include the unrated version with the deleted scenes?

Looking back, this is the best horror film of the year and one of the best in years. It was right up there with Hereditary.

 

[DaRealness]

 

[CreepyMcCreeperson]

 

[Deltron]

Why the Director's Cut of 'Midsommar' is Creepier Than the Original

When Ari Aster’s Midsommar first hit theaters in early July, it terrified audiences with its creepy rituals and an extremely disturbing finale. Now, Ari Aster’s terrifying folk fairytale has been given extended chapters.

Two months after Midsommar‘s official theatrical debut, Aster introduced a 171-minute director’s cut at Film at Lincoln Center’s annual Scary Movies festival. Aster introduced the director’s cut of Midsommar as “the more complete version of this film.” A cut that will allow viewers to stay in the grisly universe the film creates for a little longer. “If a movie is good, I want to stay in it,” said Aster prior to the screening.

While the additional 24 minutes do not completely transform Midsommar, they definitely add a darker, more sinister edge to the story. With an intense pagan drowning ceremony and more grotesque violence, the director’s cut of Ari Aster’s Midsommar is even more of a psychedelic nightmare than the original.

amc playing the extended cut on Aug 30th

 

[ℒℴѵℯJay ELECTUA]

oh shyt..i will definitely peep the director edit,

 

[ℒℴѵℯJay ELECTUA]

word..that shyt was disturbing..proper wailing type crying.

 

[Deltron]

article has spoilers on what some of the extended scenes are

 

[Sonic Boom of the South]

Waiting for this on rental

All my kodi shyt stopped and I hate redoing and trying to find the new wave

 

[hex]

I'm just gonna wait for the director's cut. I've waited this long.

Fred.