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I have been on record saying that if you watch Midsommer's first 15 minutes and last 10 minutes, you have a masterpiece of film. Because that all tells a fine story of having your feelings invalidated.

But I'm with charon here when I say this script, for the most part, isn't good. It felt like a meandering mess where you could trim out at least another half an hour of this movie and miss nothing. And I say this with my first viewing knowing exactly what's going on as I'm watching it. It was obvious the cult was seducing her. I have a difficult time believing anyone didn't come out with that feeling then. And you don't need foreshadowing when you're watching the movie and you just know what's going to happen throughout it. I felt like it was a very predictable movie, which isn't bad usually, but it is when every step of it is boring.

I liked the soundtrack too, and I like the overarching story, but I think the execution was severely mishandled, which is why I find the idea of people actually loving the movie as much as you guys do shocking. Like, I'm not trying to knock you both, but I just can't wrap my head around it because I thought it was a massive letdown and just... bumbled. And I say this being very excited for it and thinking Hereditary is one of the best horror films of all time. I had no idea where anything in Hereditary was going, even with all the foreshadowing. I literally predicted most of what was happening in Midsommar scenes before it happened.

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