The Menu (Mark Mylod, Nov. 18, 2022) Movie • Page 3

Idk if I like any of those things

 

Was just watching Easy A yesterday and thinking that I missed Emma Stone. Would’ve welcomed her in this with open arms but obviously Anya crushed it so w/e. Daniel Radcliffe playing himself feels tonally a little too silly for this though

 

i decidedly do not like any of those things lol.

 

I think Anya is a better actress and don’t see Emma Stone nailing that role.

 

emma is a much better actress generally but anya fits this role much better. also it's a little funny they went from emma stone to someone who was talked about looking so much like emma in probably her biggest role (queen's gambit)

 

I thought the casting was great in this. Wild movie. Spent so much of it with my head cocked sideways like a dog... in a good way.

 

Alexander Payne would have been terrible for this.

 

After just seeing Glass Onion, I definitely liked this more.

 

i've seen this compared to glass onion several places and I'm disappointed because I really hope that doesn't give away the ending of Glass Onion/has me making a huge assumption about what the twist is

 

The only big comparison is they both center around a bunch of rich assholes gathering together for some unknown reason. Besides that, they’re two different movies.

 

Fair enough!

 

okay cool, I've seen people specifically call out the endings making me think stuff but I guess I won't give a shit tomorrow when I see GO lmao

 

Well this was very freakin good

 

Are people shitting on Alexander Payne after one kinda blah movie? How fickle

 

Downsizing absolutely sucked. I like Payne, but I don’t see his style working well for this.

 

i like him as a director quite a bit but either way this film would have been made (either leaning more into the social commentary and criticism of capitalism or as the entertaining romp it ended up being), he'd be the wrong choice

 

Not seeing this until hopefully tomorrow but gonna leave this post here for the sake of ~discourse~

 

Just saw this today after seeing Glass Onion (and loving it) last night. I think I loved this more. Lots of spoiler tags:

I'm not sure what it was, but the disturbing parts of this disturbed me more than anything in a while. I was on the edge of my seat waiting for something awful before anything really happened, but that first suicide still escalated everything so suddenly and really shocked me. The genre-bending would make me forget it's basically a horror movie until the next bad thing happened and that was really effective.

Then there were moments that made me laugh harder than anything in Glass Onion. The funniest moment for me was when all the men are hiding and the last guy found is given his own dish and it cuts away to the dish as is customary.

The dynamic between Nicholas Hoult's character and Anya Taylor-Joy had the same energy as Midsommar with Dani and her boyfriend... Goodness, I haven't hated a character so much in a while.

The ending was strangely lovely and emotional and warm (pun intended). I did not expect that human turn at the end with the cheeseburger sequence. It made Anya's escape so much more satisfying and everyone else's death that much more tragic. I'm eating In-N-Out tonight.

This honestly surprised me more than anything this year.

 

Now that I've seen this I think the comparison to Glass Onion is pretty surface level. While we're on that subject, though, I do think this is "better," even though Glass Onion is more fun. Loved both.

 

idk, I expected this to be good, and it was. My biggest surprise this year is Smile. Shitty trailer, mostly-good movie.

 

the increasingly enormous broken emulsions made me lose my shit

 

Chef was such a petty bitch, and so extra, and I love that for him.

 

Oh, I definitely expected it to be good, the film itself just surprised me. Haven't seen Smile yet but it's on my list.

 

I seriously think comparing this and Glass Onion makes no sense. Two movies in completely different genres, trying to achieve completely different things, with wildly different tones. Both really good AND really funny.

 

They're both skewering absurdly rich people and feature said people trapped on an island and the movies are coming out at the same time. Totally different movies, but the setting and timing of both is just alike. Sort of like how some people still don't bring up No Country without bringing up There Will Be Blood (or vice versa)