Straw Hat Luffy
Veteran
With Midsommar dropping this week, mother fukkers wouldn't shut up about this movie so I had to peep.
I watched it with my mother. The funny thing about that is she put me onto horror films when I was like 3 years old. All them years I spent as a child sleeping with a nightlight and dealing with nightmares because she forced me to watch shyt like Halloween and Child's Play. Now fast forward to today.
My Mom:
Why are we watching this devil ass movie?!?!?!Me:
The irony of her not being able to handle a horror film had me dead. I mean she's always preferred the slasher sub-genre but I don't know if it's because she's older and she has a softer side than what she used to have, but boy she was on edge lmao.
As for me, I loved the film. In a earlier post of mine I stated I feel like 60-70 of horror films are trash. I still stand by that statement. But when a horror film/story is good it's
Like
It had everything that I feel most horror films lack nowadays. Most horror films relies to much on scenes with jump scare tactics and go straight to instant gratification moments. Ari Aster gave the movie a slow burn that payed off in the end. 
Not everything has to have a slow burn but I feel like movies in general today lack that. It feels like movies are directed for a theater experience rather than a story experience.
I'm not saying the movie is perfect but I thought some of the reviews I read was unfair. One person had the opinion of "why can't horror films have a joyful moment anymore?"
I'm like
the daughter got her head cut off in the first thirty minutes of the film. nikkas wanted a feel good moment? It makes sense that the family was falling apart and that there was so much tension between the mother and son. Like of course the son basically gonna be fukked up with anxiety the rest of his life. Mother fukkers wanted a feel good come together moment?
Then people were trying to complain about how the first half brought realism and the second half went off the rails.
I'm like
We see the dead grandmother like 2 or 3 times within the first 30 mintues as well. What's so real about that that makes the second half of the movie seem so left field? This goes back to my complaining about jump scare tactics because throughout the years people have been programmed to experience horror films in only one way, especially if the people aren't horror junkies but only go to the box office ones. Like she was out there in broad daylight in the backyard sitting around a fire when she died before the movie even started.
excluding this movie, I do feel like them movies where some paranormal being is trying to take over a body is getting outplayed.Either way, I enjoyed this film. Ari Aster has a weird mind that is truly needed, especially in the horror world. Dude is only 31 so imagine what else he's going to eventually cook up in the next decade or two.
I don't have any money to go see Midsommar but I look forward to watching it one day.
