Because in your mind a movie’s merits can’t be adjudged from the screenplay?  If things are stupid on the page, fair lad, they’ll be stupid on the screen.

Hahah.  Yes, you should definitely see Hereditary.  It starts slow, but the ending is absolutely fantastic, of a piece with the Witch for how it operates.  And it’s not tooo gory, less than what I understand Midsommar contains.

Right on, fair points all, especially with regard to the crucifixes. You’re right: they’re everywhere in the South where I grew up.

“If your personal friend invited you to his family reunion and you were warmly welcomed by EVERYONE when you got there (included in stuff, not made to feel unwelcome) and there WERE actually a two other outside guests... what about that feels unnatural or suspicious, exactly? 

A quick reminder that Wet Hot American Summer is vastly, VASTLY superior to Midsommar in every way. That fake commercial is better than Midsommar.

Not the script I read, it’s timed almost exactly, 144 pages.

Exstacy??  I think you mean EUPHORIA.

Except his extreme douchebaggery.

It would be one thing if Ansari was particularly talented or funny, but he’s not. So I’m fine with him fucking off and maybe another, less lame, more funny comedian can take his place in the limelight.

The woman can’t pronounce “surfboard.”  Who thought she would be a good line reader?

“Aren’t progressive in the right way” = regressive?

Deeeeeeam, a D+!? Coming in hard on this one, Dowd.

Yes, we want the veggie burger, but the problem is that, even if they get one, they’ll still be cooking it on the same griddle where they’re cooking the meat, which defeats the purpose for many of us.

Here in the states, Carl’s Jr. added the Beyond Burger to their menu, and as a full vegetarian for the last 25+ years, I can tell you without compunction that’s the best goddamn thing I’ve eaten in 25 years, haha. It’s like it woke up my carnivore lizard brain or something, it’s EXACTLY what I remember a good fast…

You’re very clever with analogies.  Try reading a shooting script sometime, nimrod, you’ll find it matches what’s onscreen.

Yes, I too hate it when people point out misogynistic story lines.

“I wasn’t arguing with you.”

Again, the point is that it deprives our heroes of agency. You write “if Tony Stark couldn’t figure out time travel until a piece of paper flew in his window with the missing part of the equation on it, that would be stupid,” but that’s exactly what happened here. The Avengers couldn’t beat Thanos until a rat flew in…

You didn’t answer my question: would you have been equally satisfied with ANYTHING that got Scott out of the quantum realm?

Sure. You can’t begin to support your argument, and you’re complaining that I’m using “too many words,” but I’M the one who went to Trump U?