Midsommar - Sweden Yes!

[Midlife Sperglord]

I thought it was a great psychedelic horror movie. Very fucking trippy shit, and I loved it. Drugs, sex and gore - it was lovely.

 

[Gordon Cole]

The director's cut is coming to theaters this weekend.

 

[Ruin]

The director's cut is coming to theaters this weekend.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=CCrkiJFJGMA

What's new exactly?

 

[Gordon Cole]

What's new exactly?

“A more nuanced picture of Harga, more rituals and more nuance for the relationship between Dani (Florence Pugh) and Christian (Jack Reynor), and more by way of the thesis competition between Josh (William Jackson Harper) and Christian.”

And also the stuff they cut out so they wouldn't get an NC-17.

 

[Next Task]

I'm curious about the new footage, but not nearly curious enough to rewatch a film that was already too long to begin with. I heard that it's also going to go further into just how much Dani's perspective has been fucked up and fucked with to lead to that ending.

I liked Hereditary more, but Midsommar was very interesting. I didn't quite enjoy it, though - but it was an experience, and visceral, and at times stunning to look at, and all the elements were very well done. Like Hereditary, I'm sure it's going to stay with me, because it certainly has its memorable moments. The beginning, as well, I thought was very well done. There's a specific tone Ari Aster seems very good at, and it's a sort of normalised dread where the horror just feels like a natural outcome of the tone he's already set.

Also like with Hereditary, it was interesting afterwards to read about the research and detail that informed a lot of his choices, including the rituals. He seems to like taking long-ago stories and inflicting them on characters in the modern day.

 

[whatintheheck]

I got around to watching the director's cut recently and really loved what the extended and additional scenes added to the film.

Spoiler: Extended scenes

It was made more overtly apparent that the Americans were led there by Pelle to be sacrifices, and that it wasn't just their constant fuckups that got them killed. But more importantly, the relationship between Dani and Christian is fleshed out a bit better and so her choice at the end really seemed completely justified and her catharsis was well-deserved.

This movie takes the top spot for my favorite of the year, at least of the ones I've seen. I really love A24 films and am also interested to see where director Ari Aster goes from here.

 

[deeman]

I prefer this.

 

[RumblyTumbly]

It was definitely the weirdest movie I've seen this year and the most uncomfortable I've been watching a film all year...I loved it!

Its trippy, weird, and off putting, but if you're into that kind of stuff, you'll enjoy it.

I haven't seen the director's cut, but I'll have to check that out at some point.

 

[Freddy Freaker]

This was honestly the best (unironic) horror movie that I saw this decade. Directors cut sounds alright, but I already thought the theatrical release was fine.

 

[whatintheheck]

The movie has some nice subtleties that makes a re-watch very rewarding. For example:

 

[Muttnik]

I love that both this film and Hereditary exist as companion-pieces to each other. They're both extremely similar and extremely different at the same time and you can watch them back to back and get a lot of satisfaction on both ends.