“The Menu” Starring Ralph Nathaniel Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes
If I had to summarize this move in a sentence:
A member of the proletariate is provisionally accepted by the ruling class, but can’t assimilate because he sees them too clearly.
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I’m a big movie guy and I’ll bet my paycheck that I’ve seen more films than anybody here. So I saw this last weekend! Lots of fun. Suuuuper nihilistic and dark and I’m glad it just went for it.
Sounds like the typical Hollywood piece of shit to me.
I guess you can hate it based on this little bit of info, but it is a unique and thought provoking movie. I’d be interested in your take if you ever see it.
I don’t watch movies. I read the synopsis.
I take a dim view of people who trash the rich while striving mightily to join them. If you don’t like the rich, why are you making a Hollywood movie about it? Gonna give away all the profits?
Perhaps true. But I also liked how the movie eviscerated foodie culture and the faux art that goes into that nonsense.
There was that evisceration and my one sentence summary leaves it out entirely.
It’s okay! Brevity is your strong suit, and it is surely not mine, as can be evidenced in the few thousand reviews I write of movies where I blabber on for many paragraphs: https://letterboxd.com/v9733xa/film/the-menu-2022/
Fish. Barrel. Some assembly required.
I’d be more impressed by one that eviscerated movie culture and the faux art that goes into that nonsense.
Certainly not Hollywood product.
Especially not revenge fantasy bullshit like this.
BTW (spoiler alert): The movie ends with all but one person dead.
Tell me again who’s “soulless.”
“The word Souless is misspelled against Soulless, an adjective meaning “Being without a soul, or without greatness or nobleness of mind; mean; spiritless.”
https://www.spellmentor.com/s/so/soulless/souless-or-soulless
But you are the editor and food critic extraordinaire (lol) who has no admitted passions while shitting on everyone else’s.
What makes you tick, dick? (grammar?).
Yeah, I am trolling you but only because you won’t testify to your passion(s).
Yours are legitimate questions, but I’m under no obligation to answer them. I don’t do autobiography.
I last wrote about food in 1995, almost literally half a lifetime ago. I share Andrew’s distaste for the foodie crap.
If you want me to tell you why I think Hollywood product sucks I will. What I’m passionate about isn’t up for discussion.