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Rob and Don review the horror film Midsommar, directed by the filmmaker behind Hereditary. Don found the 2-hour-20-minute film to move at a snail's pace with a boring first hour, excessive graphic violence, pointless nudity, and disturbing content including references to incest and cannibalism. He gave it a strong negative recommendation, stating he would never watch it again and cannot recommend it to anyone.
About this episode
Key takeaways
- The film takes an hour to reach its main plot points, similar to the director's previous work Herediary
- Don criticized gratuitous nudity and graphic violence presented under the guise of artistic storytelling
- The film features bizarre and disturbing imagery that Don compared unfavorably to exploitation cinema
- Don considers this one of the worst films of the year and expects it to receive a turkey award
Q&A
What is Midsommar about?
A couple travels to Sweden to visit a rural hometown's fabled mid-summer festival, which begins as an idyllic retreat but quickly devolves into an increasingly violent and bizarre competition.
How did Don rate the film?
He would never watch it again and cannot recommend it to anyone for any reason, predicting it will receive one of his worst-of-year turkey awards.
What were Don's main criticisms?
The slow pacing with a boring first hour, excessive graphic violence, pointless nudity, and disturbing content presented as artsy rather than having genuine purpose.
Read Transcript
Greetings Empire members and or members or members or things of gathering of people or not there in acting if you're hearing the sound of my voice it means you are very valued because at least once in your life you've checked out the clubhouse podcast live every Sunday night seven Eastern four Pacific on the vocal now one network
the okay a l now make sure you bookmark the website download the app was in all the great shows on the vocal now network of which we are one because it's time for another harm share number 469 you believe we've done that many of these things approaching a milestone welcome my name is Rob on the executive producer
of the clubhouse podcast and when I saw this invite I said no no no and you'll find out why here in just a minute join me because the guy that's with me is the most important person because he's the one that saw this film he is the official fact checker of sooner or gator productions and a guy
that's got a little bit more of a constitution than I do you may know him as iqbunu but his mom and even don't for him I call him don't for it hey brother then we do the Beatles thing earlier constitution that's revolution okay I was off I quit oh dear and that will air after this episode so
you got that going for you whenever we do one of these it is to review something and this is no exception re aster is a guy that don's got opinions about and his latest movie is called mid-summer for we start this whole thing yes sir we got to thank Brad and everybody at funds PR for the invite
hey we love our vendors they let us see movies before they come out so we can talk to you guys about them and you can make the best possible decision on your entertainment dollar so I am just going to read the mdib okay so that way we could just move this thing right along a couple travels to
Sweden to visit a rural hometown's fabled mid-summer festival what it begins as an idyllic retreat quickly devolves into an increasingly violent and bizarre competition uh-huh all i'm willing to say yeah so you mentioned something interesting in your written review currently located at www dot the clubhousepodcast.com that's our website this director you you kind of got some issues
with uh because this is a guy that directed another movie that you saw right around the same time last year a little bit earlier a couple months earlier yeah that you did not like and you were kind of in the minority of called hereditary uh-huh so you mentioned in your written review currently located at www dot the
clubhousepodcast.com again that's our website that you you did your best uh-huh to kind of put that bias to the side yeah this is two hours and 20 minutes long i was gonna do that but i'll do that later all right what i saw was a horror movie at two hours and 20 minutes and i said so god
bless you sir for taking one for the team on this because there was no way i was going that dog was not gonna hunt it's that simple i'm just checking some because heredity that was two hours and seven yeah that was two hours and seven minutes so this was about the same length a little bit longer oh
man yeah all right so let me do my little thing okay you know sometimes you put a little lead into a story to make a point i i tried to yeah let me do my little thing on this i was a lot of times tried to know just a tad about a film before we go in sometimes
no nothing about it okay fair enough okay and so i saw the little mdib thing and saw that you know there's a lot of PR for it there's a lot of talk and i'm in the theater and we're not press theater eight at the angelica which we love okay no theater eight yep and it's only pressed into
plus one that's it and we're sitting in in the front row me in the fantastic faith in the front row front row no well on that on the rail on the rail okay i was like wow you were close but now i like this if there yeah yeah put the feet out and stuff like that don't got
anybody in front of you yeah yeah exactly okay nice and so i'm talking to other press people there's a coming in and then all of a sudden somebody says something like oh yeah this guy who did hereditary and then don went oh boy so you didn't realize that going into this because you did not like that that's
good oh dear you did not like that film any way shape or form no i did not it made it it got a turkey last year um and i was just like i if it if we're going to see a turn smalic i'll still go if we go because we do it for the kids we do it
for the empire but i can be prepared i can be prepared that's what i wasn't like try to it's like an improv to match in a wwe i'm like oh dear oh dear oh no and so the next two hours and 20 minutes of your life was this so here's my thing to hereditary where it's the same
kind of genre correct it is just like in red Terry it moves at a snail's pace the first hour was boring in both films just like in both films they could have cut out a half hour of the first hour and still made the point the point of she has a tragic chick accident where her family passes
um turn to boyfriends her kind on the rocks but then he says let's take her to Sweden with this trip she's going to he's going to take what this friends does he was taking a guy's trip yeah two were doing it for a thesis you know for this you know cultural event which is fine she ends up
going along when i told you so far took 30 minutes 30 minutes easy easy i got headphones on here i'm trying to yell no you go to the side to the sides easier okay then you're up here you're still talking to the mic it's okay it's picking up your throat so the action doesn't start for at least
an hour it's just like in both films it took an hour to get to the big point then when it keeps going remember on hereditary review where i made the point of why did it have a bunch of buck naked people standing all around outside like we made the point about the pure buck nakedness uh-huh uh-huh it's
in this film again too we have to have that part the paint look the pointless buck nakedness of a bunch of buck naked people standing in order clear he he wrote both of these films I I can see that that's it's like oh there's the buck nakedness again that we don't need great um i think you're just
going to term buck nakedness okay so not only do you have these weird characters of the motman because he has a mop in front of his head the whole time you know what's the parry saturday no okay close enough maybe they took it after parry i don't know haha or then where they have the guy doing the
impersonation of clan of the cave bear or that in the Leonardo caprio where the revenant they're revenant where let's where some bear costume for the weirdness of it um this one had some brutal scenes and they made to point to make it as brutal as possible make sure you saw the brutality to an over so it was
too graphic is what you're saying and they they exploited the graphing they make the point we want to see you house if something happens to human body that's all i'm going to say there's a ways to show from a distance just to make the point or make a quick rinse versus let's just pan up and show it
no no no no no this thing reminding me of the disgustingness of the faces of death but the only difference is is that they try to make this artsy and which i put my review again at www dot the clubhouse podcast dot com that's still our website if they had some kind of event or festival that was
ran by the people and deliverance the only difference is that these people were dressed differently so i'm looking at the imdib trivia and one of them says it's described as the wizard of os for perverts oh i like that that's what it says and some of the critics when we're leaving we're saying you know what state straight
to netflix and i said don't unfold don't do not insult that looks like that i'm giving you that one yeah i'm giving you that one yeah you make me laugh i'm going to give you that yeah i said don't insult netflix like that and he goes i like that i'll put that in there you know so it's
like you know you don't go ahead use it so this was okay bad they're they're put this way the this is a mostly critic film okay at the screening mostly critics right mm-hmm during the big climax we're supposed to get all funky and scary they were laughing oh dear laughing there you go thank you thank you thank
you laughing i did something i've never done ever while screening a film because it got just so stupidly pathetic in disgusting where i literally took my hand put it on that rail and started banging my head against the rail while the critics were laughing oh dear yeah oh dear i just like no just just end this thing
oh dear and about the disgustingness there's i don't know if we want to say it but there's references to incest there's cannibalism in this strong sexual situations the buck nakedness like i talked about earlier and there were things where they're eating and making drinks of the remnants of if you had a bikini wax done yeah yeah no
no no no thank you and some other stuff i don't even want to try because we are family friendly show it was that disgusting there i will not even know i i can't even try to say you didn't no i can't i would love to but i won't because it's not disgusting and i don't even want to
do so i haven't had dinner yet i don't know yeah yeah it is that bad where it's like are you kidding me it's how disgusting can this thing be i and the thing is when they're having this situation where they're trying to do a consummation to have the next person start the thing of life for whatever okay
the there are people standing around watching it because the guys like high on a drink make it a psychedelic mushrooms and that bikini wax byproduct and they're all watching they'll go into the chanting going ooh ooh ooh ooh the motherly he comes up holds his hands and starts going oh starts singing him while they're doing that act
just what was a point what was the point of it what was the point i don't know how about you know yeah and i i was just this film i literally almost walked out on it wow i almost wanted the bread to say hey i'm sorry but it's this this is just a no go i i i
did all i could just stay into that thing i thought you made it longer than i would have i can take it that i would watch hereditary five times before i'd watch this thing again wow that's me do we need to get to the final analysis i mean we we need to because it's our tradition yes we
have to all right here's that's gonna work no thumbs up thumbs down no letter grades no uh nature trails nothing like that i'm only gonna ask them one question because we're not gonna get to the second question but if we did get to the second the question the first question is what do you see it again if
we got to the second question here's the rankings from best to the best to the worst to the best full price in a theater down to two uh twilight down to a matinee showing down to early morning on a weekend down to a second run at the dollar theater down to leaving the house to get the physical
media down to streaming down the cable they done yeah would you see midsummer again uh never and this is what i put in my you know kind of the what i put in my written review at www at the clubhouse dot podcast dot com that does remain our website in some weird form yeah i definitely will never
watch this film ever again in fact i promise this film will metal you'd either get the bronze the silver or the more likely the gold turkey in my worst films of the year and i in good consciousness cannot rectify that men this film in any way to any person for any reason how many times you ever heard
me sprites something like that about a film uh in the not many if something like that not even a hamper yeah this this will make my top 10 year of the worst of the year and we'll probably get one of the turkeys and i mean even the suspension of disbelief or it's like hey you know what our
friends missing well he's been gone for two days oh drink this drink sure i'll drink it hey nothing seems wrong you know it's just the i think he tried to push the envelope and did something like face as a death and just tried to call artsy and make it artsy oh dear yeah it was that disgusting i
will never watch this again i cannot recommend it as much as we love our vendors and with ill Brad it's not his fault but he wants our honesty i can no that's what we love about our we'll not i cannot recommend this film for any reason to any person unless you have some incredible mental instability i mean
our vendors want our honest opinions that's why we love our vendors so you know we're not going to blow smoke it's not what we do on this show you know i even told Brad when i left the screening i go i'm going to rip this thing and he gave me that you know he i want your honesty
you know right we'll leave it at that it's mid-summer again we got thick bread at ponds pr or such a fans hey we're such fans of those guys yeah we love our vendors and part of the reason we love our vendors is because they ask for our honest opinions on stuff so we're not gonna pull punches it's
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