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Post by Liiisa on Jan 30, 2024 18:46:46 GMT -5
So in my quest to Actually Watch Movies I got a DVD from the library of that film from last year "The Menu," since I think something darkly humorous about high-end cuisine will be very amusing.
Have any of you seen it? Requesting spoilers because my only concern is if the "surprisingly violent" bit has a cannibal angle. The two things I really don't like in films are vomiting and cannibals. Oh, and soft rock soundtracks, but I don't think I have to be concerned about that here.
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Post by kneazle on Jan 30, 2024 19:29:22 GMT -5
I'm trying to remember if there was cannibalism in it.
It's definitely dark and twisted but from memory I don't think there was cannibalism but I can't be 100% sure.
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Post by Liiisa on Jan 30, 2024 19:36:04 GMT -5
Thank you! I would think you'd remember that, unless you watch a lot of restaurant cannibalism movies.
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Post by kneazle on Jan 30, 2024 20:01:55 GMT -5
It's more it's a weird movie where lots happens - it's the kind of movie where cannibalism wouldn't be out overly surprising.
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Post by scrubb on Jan 30, 2024 20:08:14 GMT -5
I don't think you have to consider Phlebas.
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Post by Liiisa on Jan 30, 2024 20:45:17 GMT -5
I don't think you have to consider Phlebas. LMFAO I forgot yet again that we've had that conversation Ok that gives me the answer - thank you! |
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Post by tzarine on Jan 31, 2024 22:04:33 GMT -5
no cannibalism, liisa
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Post by tzarine on Feb 1, 2024 14:32:39 GMT -5
did not like it
pretentious wannabe stuff
faux artsy
characters poorly drawn - tech bros, wealthy, food snobs
not suprisingly violent @ all
alluded cannibalism in the helen mirren, The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Love
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Post by Liiisa on Feb 1, 2024 17:21:50 GMT -5
And that's why I never saw "The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover." As I recall there was poop, too.
I remember you trashed The Menu last year, but I've spent a lot of time in three-star restaurant land and I can't resist the idea of a violent satire. If I like it we can have a "The Menu" critic fight (lol)
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Post by Liiisa on Feb 3, 2024 18:23:11 GMT -5
OK so I saw it, and I really enjoyed it.
Not subtle at all, but hey it was billed as a comedy, and I thought it was pretty hilarious. I've been to a lot of Michelin-star Restaurants as Religious Experience types of places like that, so yeah of course the movie was waist-deep in pretentiousness but it wouldn't have been as satisfyingly accurate if it hadn't been. The recurring bit with the restaurant reviewer about the broken emulsion made me lol.
It was weird cooking dinner right after watching that.
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Post by tzarine on Feb 14, 2024 8:28:25 GMT -5
liisa
2 wannabe faux chic joints closed
$200 + pairing farm to table restos
coarse & serpentine
love "Restaurants as Religious Experience"
have been to michelin starred joints as well in ny & overseas
much prefer the starred offbeat places, like timhowan, the once hole in the wall dimsum place
film big city by ray
a young woman gets a job to help her fam, upsetting some members of her fam
fascinating look @ india of the 60s
gorgeously shot
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