The only predetermined gloom in Midsommar was from the audience, who could all tell about 30 minutes in that the movie was a flaccid turd.

This movie will live or die on the basis of its internal logic and believably, and as you point out, the trailer is already VERY suspect.

I mean, that’s a straight-up boner.  They took a photo of him sprouting wood.

It’s past the start time and that shit ain’t playing.

Yes, except it would have been meaningless because the movie is ABOUT the Tate murders.

Let me guess: you had little to no idea who she was before you saw it?  Because if she’s not in the film, the climax is meaningless.

Yeah, except that Basterds, Django and Once Upon a Time are all fucking fantastic, his best movies.

Exaggerated memory.

Counterpoint: the movie is awesome, potentially his best.

Makes sense to me. If your company wants to contribute to the white nationalist regime currently running our country, I don’t want to contribute to you.

It was at an event for her, and she put him up to it, as they were dating at the time.

Wrong. I saw the film at one of the first showings on opening day, and when I left the theater to the white-hot sunlight of downtown Phoenix, I was certain I had just seen one of the shittiest movies of all time. Indeed, I remember very distinctly thinking about 15 minutes in, “this is pure shit.”

We were at Disneyland last year and Livingston was staying at our hotel.  My wife saw him in the hot tub and she ran back to our chairs, “It’s that guy from the dumb movie about office workers!”

Damn, Miley’s a fucking baller.  She’s like, meh, Hemsworth brother, I think I’ll just openly make out with someone else and post it online. I mean, that’s HARDCORE.

Well, and there’s no ending, and I have a hard time trying to think of one that could work without radically changing the story.

Well, you know, the book makes everything crystal clear. You watch the movie, don’t really follow, then you read the book and watch the movie again and it makes perfect, easy sense.

Well, they could obviously make it so you could turn the light on only when you needed it. Indeed, for a place that’s so freakishly militant about showing up late, looking at your phone, and other things that would interrupt the audiences’ enjoyment, it’s entirely absurd that every seat has a light showing on it the…

Wow Jesse, you’ve truly put me in my place.  Wonderful job, I hope you fee proud for cleverly pointing out the error of my ways.

Yeah, no thanks.

No, but in the same way it would be odd if Charlie Brown suddenly showed up with a beard, or Calvin from Calvin & Hobbes was driving a car, so too is it odd that a movie about a character who has always been SEVEN suddenly has boobs.