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Post by Pavan on Mar 5, 2019 17:40:00 GMT
Very curious. Bright colors, dream like texture and white bars.
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Post by Joaquim on Mar 5, 2019 19:27:21 GMT
Getting some serious Wicker Man (original) vibes from this.
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Mar 5, 2019 23:04:29 GMT
I can already tell this is going to be really divisive, probably moreso than Hereditary (with audiences at least) because it looks like it's going to lean HARD on atmospheric horror/tension (just saying, if the original Wicker Man was made and released now it would be laughed out of the theater for being too dull and weird), but this looks absolutely captivating. Seeing Hereditary in theaters was a treat because of how much it fucked with my head. For all its flaws, it was the kind of film that you could feel in your gut. It was horror of the most visceral kind, which is the best kind of horror. That's what I'm hoping for Midsommar and Aster certainly has the chops and thankfully isn't afraid to go off the deep end (because these kinds of movies need to go off the deep end). Expecting the bestworst.
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Post by Ryan_MYeah on Mar 6, 2019 0:05:07 GMT
I dig the shit out of this. And Hereditary was the best horror movie of the decade, so high hopes.
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Post by AKenjiB on Mar 6, 2019 2:41:43 GMT
Hell yeah! The white letterbox bars and bright colors give it such a distinct look, especially for a horror film. And I loved Florence Pugh in The Little Drummer Girl so it’s safe to say that this is going to be one of my most anticipated films of 2019. Hope Hereditary wasn’t a fluke because Ari Aster seems very passionate about his craft.
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Post by Miles Morales on Mar 6, 2019 3:08:22 GMT
Looks very intriguing.
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Post by pacinoyes on Mar 6, 2019 13:01:55 GMT
I know I have a rep as a hater but I love horror - and the two big horror trailers of this year so far - suffer from a look back on the previous debut films and what we perceive is on the director's minds. Now maybe that's a fake out and I would like that - but Us seems like an extended riff on keeping up with the Jones' and about as subtle on that idea as Get Out was with The Stepford Wives and this seems a riff on Aster's beloved (mine too) Wicker Man and Summersisle which his whole previous film referenced the ending especially at least Consider this - what looks scarier this trailer or Todd Haynes' penetrating, up to the minute "Safe" which takes every idea shown here, and removes the quaint past from it thereby making it (to me) utterly terrifying and nothing like The Wicker Man or anything else, and to some people isn't even a horror movie. I'll see it, but I have to say as far as these followup films go from the trio of young, celebrated American horror directors I'm going to hold on to hoping that the guy who made the best of them, Robert Eggers, delivers with his The Lighthouse.
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Post by HELENA MARIA on Mar 24, 2019 19:02:51 GMT
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Post by theycallmemrfish on Mar 24, 2019 19:06:09 GMT
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Post by pacinoyes on Mar 24, 2019 19:23:02 GMT
Now that actually illuminates the trailer more - on one hand I do wince when he says not "a straight horror movie" - that to me means, "it's not scary/I failed" and when he talks about his lead actress being "snubbed" I want to to kick him in the face (it isn't a participation contest pal, not everybody gets a gold star)......but you could actually link the way he's describing the plot with what you see in a way too (a "breakup" movie, color me intrigued). As much as I griped about the way Hereditary was written I did give it a thumbs up and here he seems in touch with what his film shows and what he's trying to show.
It's a big sophomore slump or sophomore home run year in horror : Where Peele seems boringly stuck on his social messages - wasn't scary in Get Out, haven't seen Us but just decoding the trailer was boring to me and Robert Eggers had the best first film of the trio of new horror to me (because he put a feminist social message distinctly behind the horror elements) ......Aster is the youngest of the bunch so who knows but I'm a little more intrigued from that article and look forward to seeing the subsequent trailers too.
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Post by stephen on Mar 24, 2019 20:49:07 GMT
Now that actually illuminates the trailer more - on one hand I do wince when he says not "a straight horror movie" - that to me means, "it's not scary/I failed" I mean, I wouldn't say Hereditary is a straight horror film. It's a meditation on grief that dovetails into horror, but when I think of it first and foremost, I think of it as a harrowing drama more than a scare-a-thon. So the idea that Aster says that this isn't straight horror is promising, as it opens up the opportunity for the core horror to branch out into different, potentially more provoking avenues. I'd argue that if one removed the Paimon stuff entirely from Hereditary, moved it out of its summer slot and had A24 actually give a fuck in 2018, Collette should by rights have gotten in. She reaped the second-most critical plaudits of the category behind the eventual Oscar winner, she is an extremely well-respected actress with a prior nomination (in a horror film, no less!), and it's an incredibly showy role. But A24 didn't back any of their horses this year despite this, Eighth Grade and First Reformed getting heaps of praise -- something really weird about that, I think. And I don't blame him for thinking that Collette was snubbed, looking at the critical momentum.
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Post by pacinoyes on Mar 24, 2019 21:11:33 GMT
Now that actually illuminates the trailer more - on one hand I do wince when he says not "a straight horror movie" - that to me means, "it's not scary/I failed" I mean, I wouldn't say Hereditary is a straight horror film. It's a meditation on grief that dovetails into horror, but when I think of it first and foremost, I think of it as a harrowing drama more than a scare-a-thon. So the idea that Aster says that this isn't straight horror is promising, as it opens up the opportunity for the core horror to branch out into different, potentially more provoking avenues. I'd argue that if one removed the Paimon stuff entirely from Hereditary, moved it out of its summer slot and had A24 actually give a fuck in 2018, Collette should by rights have gotten in. She reaped the second-most critical plaudits of the category behind the eventual Oscar winner, she is an extremely well-respected actress with a prior nomination (in a horror film, no less!), and it's an incredibly showy role. But A24 didn't back any of their horses this year despite this, Eighth Grade and First Reformed getting heaps of praise -- something really weird about that, I think. And I don't blame him for thinking that Collette was snubbed, looking at the critical momentum. Oh I think it's perfectly fine for you to argue for Collette stephen but when the artist shoots his mouth off like that go all in then - go all the way with it - say "Melissa McCarthy got her spot and she should have been left out" or something like that, because when you don't you sound like a wackjob..........He sounds like a wackjob, stick up for your actress all the way, burn bridges, attack A24 then - oh right, can't do that either, or just say she was great and did what you want her to do and don't bring up the Oscars at all. He sounds entitled by using "snubbed"........not a good look for an artist to have. Agree Hereditary is not a straight horror movie but the teaser here seemed much more so this time and his comments re-contextualized it for me a bit.
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Post by stephen on Mar 24, 2019 21:35:35 GMT
Oh I think it's perfectly fine for you to argue for Collette stephen but when the artist shoots his mouth off like that go all in then - go all the way with it - say "Melissa McCarthy got her spot and she should have been left out" or something like that, because when you don't you sound like a wackjob..........He sounds like a wackjob, stick up for your actress all the way, burn bridges, attack A24 then - oh right, can't do that either, or just say she was great and did what you want her to do and don't bring up the Oscars at all. He sounds entitled by using "snubbed"........not a good look for an artist to have. Agree Hereditary is not a straight horror movie but the teaser here seemed much more so this time and his comments re-contextualized it for me a bit. I mean, it's much more palatable than someone talking about how they themselves were snubbed. Aster praising Collette's performance and saying that she was snubbed is (to me) no different than a co-star saying it. Yeah, it might be something of an extension of his own ego, as he directed her, but I think he comes by it honestly here. And let's not disparage McCarthy; she didn't steal that fifth spot. She was pretty secure the whole season.
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Mar 24, 2019 21:40:13 GMT
It's a big sophomore slump or sophomore home run year in horror : Where Peele seems boringly stuck on his social messages - wasn't scary in Get Out, haven't seen Us but just decoding the trailer was boring to me and Robert Eggers had the best first film of the trio of new horror to me (because he put a feminist social message distinctly behind the horror elements) ......Aster is the youngest of the bunch so who knows but I'm a little more intrigued from that article and look forward to seeing the subsequent trailers too. Yes yes 100% yes I watched Us with my brother just yesterday and neither of us found it to be scary at all (although he did end up enjoying more than me) and I used the same example of The Witch (a film that we both enjoy but which I love it on a whole other level) as a film which laced commentary into the film's backdrop to be discovered later by those who were already hooked by what the film was doing aesthetically instead of simply using the language of the horror genre to project it front and center. I don't think you'd enjoy Us at all honestly, because Peele sacrifices so much in service of his blatant symbolizing, the scares along with the believability, and from your post I imagine you'd feel that way too. Another example of a film that does something similar to what The Witch does on the opposite end of the mainstream spectrum was Don't Breathe because of the distinctly gendered nature of the villain's motivations. I'm not sure we've seen enough of the "real" Álvarez to know whether that subtext was intentional or just a unique twist to liven up his film and take it to new levels of fucked-up, but it was piercingly effective on both accounts just the same, even brilliant because of how it subverts and profanes the blind man's motivations so totally. Don't Breathe was a lot better than people give it credit for.
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Post by bob-coppola on Mar 24, 2019 22:31:29 GMT
I thought Us was, out of the bunch of new hipster horror, the most conventionally scary. Actually, second after Hereditary. Us manages to make the home invasion thriller the elemental aspect of it for the whole two first acts: it has the atmosphere, the jump-scares and the slasher. I think Peele did it better than in Get Out, that I personally read more as a black comedy then as a horror movie.
Hereditary is the scarier of all, it doesn't put the grief theme over the horror nor the other way around. Those two elements are inherently tied together every scene, and Aster goes to more manic, extreme, gory places than Peele and Eggers even try to.
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Apr 25, 2019 5:25:24 GMT
Release bumped up to July 2nd. Apparently that's a high-earning slot for horror so I guess this means A24 has a lot of faith in its box office prospects. Very cool!
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Post by Lubezki on May 8, 2019 14:21:45 GMT
New poster might be getting another trailer soon
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Post by pacinoyes on May 14, 2019 14:07:46 GMT
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on May 14, 2019 21:07:15 GMT
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Post by speeders on May 14, 2019 22:46:25 GMT
Another great trailer and a great poster -- unfortunately the script was so godawful, I have extremely little faith in this.
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Post by AKenjiB on May 15, 2019 6:48:44 GMT
Holy fucking shit, that trailer made my heart race. I remember feeling emotionally exhausted after seeing Hereditary and now I wonder if the same thing is gonna happen with this movie.
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Post by LaraQ on May 15, 2019 16:26:13 GMT
Another great trailer and a great poster -- unfortunately the script was so godawful, I have extremely little faith in this. Same.Loved Hereditary,really disliked the script for this.
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Post by Billy_Costigan on Jun 19, 2019 3:45:37 GMT
This is getting raves on twitter.
#MIDSOMMAR. wow. i don’t know that i’ve ever felt so gutted and seen by a movie. i felt sick, i felt joy - i felt so much. above all else: i’ve never seen such a wicked, accurate depiction of intoxicating mania. i adored it and i hate it. florence pugh is god level.
#Midsommar: I loved every second of this nearly 3 hour movie. Holy SHIT. Yeah, it’s disturbing. But it’s also surprisingly hilarious. An absolutely crowd pleaser. Long live @ariaster.
Ari Aster’s #Midsommar is one of the most gorgeous, completely dreadful experiences. Florence Pugh is a quiet riot.
MIDSOMMAR is a mind-fuck of the highest order, channeling (yet again) a young woman’s journey through grief. Deliberately paced but never boring (those 140 minutes FLY by). Pugh is excellent. There is some imagery that I want plastered on my wall. Don’t miss this one, folks.
MIDSOMMAR: Like with HEREDITARY, Ari Aster uses overwhelming grief as a gateway into a slowly escalating tunnel of nightmares. Not a visceral scare-fest, but something so much more unpleasant, darkly funny and yes, totally fucked.
#MIDSOMMAR is truly something special and it will also fuck up your entire life. The “Break-Up” movie of the decade.
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Jun 21, 2019 21:24:50 GMT
I wasn't getting humor vibes from any of the marketing so I was intrigued when David Ehrlich called it "hilarious" in his review. With this new promo (IMO the best yet) it looks like A24 is definitely playing into that angle and confirming the feedback it's been getting. I can't wait to enjoy this thing.
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Post by Pavan on Jun 26, 2019 6:48:18 GMT
Settled for an R rating. Went almost close NC-17
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