The Menu (Mark Mylod, Nov. 18, 2022) Movie • Page 4

I saw this last night and it was fucking awesome. I loved it so much, add as someone who both loves food but is simultaneously kind of skeptical of the tasting menu world it couldn’t have been more up my alley. I felt equal parts laughed at and in on the joke haha, Tyler announcing he has the snow machine nearly took me out.

and in an absolutely sublime act of coincidence I had a fucking marshmallow vodka espresso martini that came with a s’more at the bar we went to before waking into the theater

 

Amazing. I would have walked out of the theater with mad indigestion.

 

This is how I felt listening to Mahler's 5th on the drive in to see Decision to Leave.

 

Very good emoji

 

This was great! Ralph Fiennes looked like he was having the time of his life

 

Coming to realize how this is like a modern Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, makes it even better. What a fun little movie.

 

This was a blast. Hoult is so good at playing assholes. He's such a pathetic simp in this lol.

 

Yeah he plays a perfect little worm in this. I saw this with my mom and she gasped when he slapped Margot’s hand

 

just saw this, it was excellent. me and my friend were in an otherwise empty theatre losing our shit

 

This was solid. It does lose steam once things the 4th course/suicide comes around and all the guests become aware of what's happening. But even after that are still some strong little moments sprinkled throughout.

This would make a fun triple feature with Pig and season one of The Bear.

 

January 3rd on HBO Max! Can't wait to watch this again

 

Hoult in this was the second best worm performance of the year (after Kyle Soller in Andor). unsettling how good he is in these roles lol

 

Yeah it’s kinda like when someone is TOO good playing a racist? Same vibe with Hoult in this. HOW ARE YOU SO GOOD AT BEING A PIECE OF SHIT???

 

I loved this so much. Favorite moments:

the extra egg course for the last male found when they had the chance to run, and Tyler's bullshit. The description of that had me losing it.

Also really liked the ending even though it's apparently not been that well received. I thought it all worked really well.

 

My wife and I immediately afterwards said we both liked it way more than Pig. I thought Pig didn't quite lean into the absurd enough where as this felt tonally all in on the satire whereas Pig was a bit too serious for it's own good leading to some clashing moments and scenes. (in my opinion).

 

I prefer Pig, but I agree this is tonally more consistent. Pig has the one chef fight club scene which felt like it belonged in a different movie.

 

personally I can’t really see it ending any other way unless you went full on “happy” ending and I think thematically this worked a lot better


but also really I just fucking love s’mores

 

For folks (like me) that missed it in theaters!

 

I don't know what the complaints were aimed at maybe that it was uncharacteristic to let her go?
Here's where I got that there were complaints (Rotten tomatoes)
The Menu's got a great cast and plenty of fun moments, although the ending might strike some as a little tough to swallow.

maybe the complaint was that it was too dark? Like you said, that's the ending it was going towards the whole time and again, with the text saying 'staff/guests/restaurants' it got another good laugh out of me

 

I didn't know there were complaints about the ending. I don't get why either. Think about Ready Or Not and Midsommar... the final girl lives because she's the only decent person, all the horrible people die.

 

Do I have a heart of darkness that I actually found the ending moving and even a bit uplifting? It reminded me of what Midsommar might have looked like if there was hope/closure. The protagonist gets out with her sanity intact and the others (even though they die) all find humanity in their last moments... like that moment Anya hesitates before leaving and the one woman gestures for her to get out.
I really loved it. I expected a typical "screw the rich" ending which would have been warranted but it felt like much more than that.

 

I didn’t think I’d hate a character more this year than AJ Gilbride in Barbarian but Nicholas Hoult’s
Tyler was the worst from the very first scene…

Loved this.

 

On HBO Max now!

 

This was so much fun. “You will eat less than you desire and more than you deserve” is such a great line

 

The final course scene reminded me of Midsommar’s almost too much with the music, costumes covering everything but the face, and, obviously, the burning people alive thing, some of whom “deserved it” and others that volunteered.