The Menu has been added to HBO.

Trailer

LINK

Just finished. That was excellent.

Side note, Anya Taylor Joy is odd looking yet beautiful at the same time.

That was a fun movie

quote:

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Student loans? – Chef
No. -Felicity
I’m sorry, you’re dying. – Chef

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Laughable movie. Ralph Fiennes was great as usual but the whole premise was shite from the start. Took itself too serious.

Watched it last night and is in my top 5 of the year. Movie does a great job of mocking elites (regardless of political views) without being overly preachy and has a lot of fun with the premise. Fiennes is fantastic. Very good satire

how does this compare (if at all) to the Favreau and Bradley Cooper chef movies?

Reminded me of my mom….

Kudos to the writers who created a sick, twisted, and original story by using foodie culture and the 5 star chefs behind the dishes as the theme.

It wasn’t groundbreaking in any sense but just original enough to think back to a time when it was popular for Moms to declare that movies and music were being created by these “Hollywood sickos who worship the Devil” oblivious to the social commentary that went deeper than just the shocking deaths on screen.

I did appreciate that they didn’t look to turn Anya Taylor Joy into superheroine by keeping her role more practical than if she took out the entire restaurant by herself.

I probably won’t remember this film in a year. As someone else said, it’s not really worth a second watch. But at least I didn’t feel like it was a movie I force-fed myself to watch because there was nothing from the unwatchable “Jeremy’s Mess” on the tv menu that we’re used to.

Clicked on this thread thinking it was about the HBO improving their format

i enjoyed it. fairly "meta" i guess i'd say.



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for what the trailers were, i expected a bit more of an exciting finale with more violent deaths, albeit, the one displayed was mostly satisfying. i don't like on-screen violence, but it seemed more in tune to what the trailers made it out to be.

there was something to be said about acknowledging your shortcomings and moral misgivings and accepting your fate. i could appreciate that. the quote above best encapsulates it:

Chef Slowik: Where did you go to school?
Felicity: Brown.
Chef Slowik: Student loans?
Felicity: No.
Chef Slowik: Sorry, you're dying.











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