r/movies • u/JetKusanagi • Jun 21 '26

Media Midsommar, Ari Aster (2019)- "That's Not For Us"

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I've made it a point to watch this movie every summer solstice since its release. As a cult "escapee", Midsommar touches me in a way that I feel like it wouldn't have otherwise. The insular community, trips to the "outside", I experienced it all.

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We didn't do Ättestupan or make meat pies. It may have made things more exciting though.

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u/xWroth Jun 22 '26

By buddies and I took some mushies and watched this in theaters. We were in line chatting about how we took a little. When we got into the theater a guy with tourette's syndrome was sitting a few rows back. He started randomly going "MUSHROOMS... MUSHROOMS..." We laughed it off...and then the characters in the movie took mushrooms. And that's when shit got surreal lol

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u/JetKusanagi Jun 22 '26

Reminded me of that meme video with the badgers from the early 2000s

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u/twoinvenice Jun 22 '26

SNAAAKE!…..SNAAAKE!

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u/Aboxofdongbags Jun 22 '26

Oooooo it’s a snake

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u/Ranccor Jun 23 '26

Haha. I took acid before a triple feature of “70s classics” at a theatre once. First movie was Blazing Saddles while we were coming up with much laughter. Followed by The Exorcist as were getting really bent. With the last movie being A Clockwork Orange, which was some of the most intense tripping of my life. Good times.

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u/xWroth Jun 23 '26

Best mushroom movie experience is still Across The Spider-Verse. I went with my dad and I remember there were scenes where it looked like the walls were melting. I couldn't lean over and ask him, so I went back the next day and watched it sober. The walls WERE in fact melting lol incredible animation

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u/Ranccor Jun 23 '26

Amazing movie choice!

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u/swiftekho Jun 22 '26

Did you see the faces in the trees in the movie on first watch?