Ambitious…. But messy.
There is some good stuff here but also some things that just didn’t work. At times the action looked phenomenal, at other times I couldn’t follow what was happening with the shakey cam and the way some of it was cut. I liked the story and exploring the past. The training break between 2nd and 3rd act was the weakest part of the movie. Also felt little unsatisfying with the way it wraps. I think Dev showed some good traits though and will definitely check out whatever he does next. Shout out to Shantel Copley, he’s great as always!
It's a beautiful movie. But I simply don't understand the story leading up to the end. I just don't know nothing seemed to really lead to the next plot point, creating sudden plot out of no where. But what I did understand, it was lovely. It was romantic, and it was fantastical. It had all the emotional elements that a Ghibli film tends to have. You feel this movie more than you understand, and I'm sure other viewers felt much more than I did.
Ok so the acting was alright, but basically I just spent almost 2 hours of my day watching an annoying couple argue over a thank you speech and all of this in a b&w filter. I mean...
"I'll take this coal and ram it up their.. anus!"
On one level, it knows what it is, being an alternative vulgar holiday gore-fest, and I appreciate it deludes itself with satire and self-referentials. But the plot it tries balls deep to squeeze between the action is just a concrete slog after the 60-minute mark, and neither do the various subplots get much spotlight beyond thin plot reasoning.
Literally, the only reason I caught this in the theater was for David Harbour's combat skills, and I'm glad I witnessed them with a crowd of "oh shit!!" reactions.
I also really enjoyed the nordic angle of Santa's origins, and I really wished it was delved into more as it could've had a huge stake in the route of the story instead of just being a generic action movie tribute.
Slow and miserable in the time honoured tradition of British films (im british).
Outstanding performance from the little girl. But why is this getting such good reviews?
I can walk down the street and see these ppl and events any given day. Nothing cinematic here.
Will have forgotten everything that happened in this movie by tomorrow. Because nothing happens.
Don’t know what critics and audiences are seeing i this.
Dear British filmmakers, please show more vision and ambition.
Visually impressive. Nothing else is though.
Tries hard to be deeper than it is.
Be warned Midsommar is not a horror movie, it's an art film covered in a thin veneer of gore. It is not scary, it's not frightening, just long with a few gross-out gore scenes sprinkled in.
The movie spends most of its run time showing you scenes of people eating, drinking or singing. These are really pretty scenes mind you, the cinematography is on point, but they are also excruciatingly long. The movie could easily be trimmed by 30 minutes without affecting the barebones plot at all.
The horror element is supposed to be the cult rituals but most of them were so absurd that I and the rest of the (few) people in the theater laughed instead. There was especially one scene with a bunch of nude older women that was downright hilarious, although I very much doubt that was the intent.
If singing Swedish people frightens you then this is a must watch, otherwise don't bother.
Not a fan of this. What saves some of it are the fresh ideas it brings to the table, it’s good at playing with your expectations. At the same time you can also really tell that this isn’t the most experienced filmmaker. The camerawork, lighting and music are mostly bland and only pop sporadically during key moments. The horror is ok, it makes the mistake of showing some of the supposed scary stuff in broad daylight, and it occasionally resorts to cheap techniques (hectic editing; annoying, unearned jump scares). Its logic gets very thin in places, and while the acting is passable, it can get kinda bad at times (the dialogue certainly doesn’t help either). You can excuse some of that for the fact that it’s aiming for shlock, but I think this gets kinda lame next to a movie like Malignant.
4.5/10
I thought it was ok, then it just got dumb as all the other scary movies do. Don't expect anything new or too scary. Police in the movie are depicted as dumb as any person can be ......lots of dumb people in this movie. Lots of nudity, I warned you....
What starts out as a standard horror film soon turns into a plain dumb, unbearable and often incomprehensible hot mess that tries too hard to shock and forgets to entertain. Genuinely surprised seeing its average rating on Letterboxd as this garbage should have never been made and is undeserving of such high ratings. Yikes.
This movie is a mess. It's a pretty mess, but still a mess. Far too many plotlines are completely dropped for an unrealistic one, and it never really explores or explains the virtual world it presents. There are tons of ideas, but they are all hindered by poor execution. Character motives don't make a lot of sense, the world seems empty despite there being over five billion people registered into the app, the laws of the app are broken and the writers don't seem to understand how apps work, and it all just kind of falls apart once you think about it too much.
I'd go into specifics but it isn't worth it. Even as someone who usually doesn't notice plotholes, this one is legitimately full of them, and to go over them all would take tons of time and effort this movie doesn't deserve.
It's just mediocre thanks to some awesome visuals, some creative ideas, and a nice enough soundtrack.
It’s hard to rate, because there are a lot of entertaining scenes in it, but the movie at its core doesn’t really work.
I can’t shed this feeling that Edgar Wright had a visual cue in his head of a girl experiencing visions of the 1960’s first, and tried to build a movie around that second.
The characters, drama, camerawork, music selection and social commentary are all very good, but the whole set up is kinda nonsense once you know the answers to the mystery.
I kept waiting for the twist that’d explain why our protagonist has these accurate visions of things that happened 50 years earlier , but it’s never answered, despite it being the crux of the whole film.
Also, showing CGI ghosts in a horror movie using well lit close ups is never the best idea, it kinda killed a lot of the horror and suspense.
I kinda liked that I thought that I was ahead of the film at one point, only to find out that it was a big misdirect to make you think you were ahead.
5.5/10
It was at the point after Eloise enters the first dream sequence, and Sandie descends the mirror lined stairs and dances that I thought "This is so good, I don't even care what happens next!"
Turns out, I did care. It's such a shame to see a movie that could be so brilliant suffer from such a poor and incoherent narrative.
This movie was just getting mediocre reviews (it had only been out for a day) when I decided to see it. I think I know why and I’m going to disagree with them. This film is about Norse legend and mythology, no less and no more. It is a bleak tale about a bleak period where honour was defined by vengeance and brutality was its bi-product. Our culture is not use to straight up Homer-esk tales of heroes and gods. Our culture likes its mythical heroes to be served with humour and wisecracks. This treatment is in dark contrast to that. It is, however, beautifully crafted. The locations are stunning in their natural beauty. The cinematography is intentional and captivating. The action sequences and the CGI are painstakingly real and truly brutal. The performances are faithful to the culture they inhabit. As is my custom, I did a quick exit poll of others leaving the theatre with me. The three people I spoke to each gave it a 9 out of 10. Nothing mediocre about those ratings. I agree and give this film a 9 (beautifully crafted) out of 10. [Heroic Mythology]
Like eating adult cereal when you're a teen and sad there isn't a prize in the box.
First time ever watching this… obviously heard of ‘Norman Bates’ and seen the iconic shower scene, but never actually watched the movie. I was always put off by the black and white, but I’m so glad I’ve finally watched this masterpiece! Solid right the way through, with a memorable ending. I can now begin to understand the hype around Alfred Hitchcock’s “psycho”.
First half was kinda boring and the movie was pretty predictable. Saying that, Norman Bates was a great character and everytime he was on screen it was fun to watch.
On the surface this film is about a group of people who have been labelled “villains”, working together to save the world. But really, this film is about one man and one man alone, he isn’t strong, but yet he defies all odds and sacrifices his life to save his friends. His only power is his bravery, he is the driver of the van and the main character of this film, Milton.
"Rashomon(羅生門)" is a quite famous gate which existed in ancient Kyoto. It is said the gate was located near current Kyoto station. This film describes egotism of ordinary people. One day, there was a murder and a samurai was killed. Some people including two suspects and two witnesses were brought to the police, and they tried to explain what happened. However, three of them told totally different stories each other. Afterwards, the two witnesses went to Rashomon on the way to home in order to wait until heavy rain stopped, and started discussing this weird experience. They criticise egotism of people and they think there is nobody who we can trust nowadays. The director is "Akira Kurosawa" and this film was one of first Japanese films which won important prize in famous film festivals such as Venice or in American Academy Awards.
The Deer Hunter is an iconic ‘70s film that has not aged well. The story follows a group of friends as they go off to the Vietnam War and how it affects them. Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, and John Savage form a powerful cast, but their performances feel a bit forced. The storytelling is particularly weak and unfocused; spending far too much time establishing characters and far too little time developing them. Yet, The Deer Hunter has its moments and tries (though somewhat inadequately) to say something important about the effects of war.
...what a mess. It was like "The Hunt", yet somehow more absurd.
A science fiction classic and a cinematic masterpiece. Or so they say.
I have no problem admitting I didn't understand it the first two times I saw it. I was in my teenage years then. I just watched it again but this time I read some interpretations, explanations and quotes from Kubrick. While I still think it is a masterpiece in technical terms considering the time it was filmed I now feel the plot is not so great at all. The movie suddenly became very mediocre to me.
I like the ideas behind the movie but I think it's blown out of proportion. Just my point of view, I know a lot of people think different.
Despite it being visually and conceptually stunning, the film turned out to be extremely slow and actionless for my taste.
Many people think that the aforementioned positive qualities outweight the negative, but personally, I think that narrative must prevail over visuals,soundtracks, effects or symbolisms.
I like Tarrantino Movies. No really, i am serious. But this. Well. I don't know. It should be old-fashioned, but instead it was a long boring movie with a very long boring last act.
In the end i can say: Wow, what a bad movie. And i don't mean completly bad. Just in Terms of dialogues, scene length and movie stucture. So in Terms of a Tarrantino Movie REALLY bad.
I'd say, that this review ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1821549/reviews-5 ) is pretty accurate.
Nice bits and all, but the movie is too long and there isn't really any character development.
By the end, I found myself feeling akin to Woody's character through much of the movie - walking and driving and walking some more, but not actually getting anywhere.
The game is one of the most disappointing movies I have ever seen. It was very good for the first 110 minutes, and in the last 10 minutes it completely throws away whatever credibility it had for the entire movie. Suffice to say the ending completely ruined the film.
Spoilers ahead
They honestly expect you to believe that this guy is totally cool with being manipulated and deceived into believing he had murdered his brother. They expect you to believe that this guy would just be cool with believing they ruined his life and left him for dead. Fincher thinks the audience will just understand that this guy, who attempted suicide 5 minutes before, would just have a drink and move on. It somehow made sense to fincher that the guy would somehow jump off a building in the exact place the tarp was to hit it right on the x spot. Michael Douglas just accepts that these people forced him to murder and attempt suicide, and then just walk it off. "No no it's a prank bro, seriously bro it's a prank man it's a prank!" Most insulting ending I've ever seen.
