The Menu Reaction | Let Them Eat Bread | Review & Breakdown
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- čas přidán 29. 01. 2023
- Author Anna Alexander relives her time in culinary school while watching The Menu.
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Great video, loved the reaction. Elsa was amazing, wasn't she? From the quite menacing of "you'll eat less than you desire..." to the absolutely condescending "These are tortillas. Tortillas deliciosas", she's easily elevated among the top performers of the movie.
I was channeling her energy all day yesterday. 🤣
"You'll eat less than you desire, and more than you deserve" is ABSOLUTELY ICE COLD!
I'm 26 now and have worked as a server since I was 14 spending 8 years with the same business. Elsa TRULY spoke to me as a character because she is not only what I strive to be but also an archetype of the other servers I used to encounter, usually the older ones by no fault of their own just being victims of this system. This movie impacted me in ways a movie hasn't since like idk the rocky horror picture show.
Agreed. Half my school career was occupied with culinary training, and as hard as it sounds I saw a lot of myself in the sous chefs “mess”. Though I’ve choose to leave the culinary field.
Due to his behavior, it's fitting that Tyler didn't die at the end with the others. They were all part of the planned 'honorable' death. Probably if he had brought his original guest (who certainly made the right move to break up with him), as both were part of the original plan, they both would have died with the group.
Right?? He didn't even make it to dessert.
The fact that he kept taking pictures and STOLE BREAD right after the women's only course probably didn't help.
Whatever Ms. Westervall did to earn an invite for Chef's final menu, ditching Tyler was a lifesaving move.
"You're not fit enough to be part of this experience"
Something a lot of people don't necessarily point out, but that I think you would appreciate, is that Dominique Crenn is the food consultant in this movie! She was the first woman in the United States to earn 3 Michelin stars, and is known for some really interesting dishes that play with form and presentation. You can suuuuper see her influence in how the dishes are plated/conceived, and it definitely lends to the whole foodie feel. Everything in this movie is probably very legitimately delicious (I mean y'know, aside from s'mores made of people).
Apparently, from what I've read, none of it was actual food but rather model food... except for that cheeseburger... and apparently everyone was so jealous of Anya Taylor-Joy getting to enjoy that cheeseburger that John Leguizamo bought everyone burgers afterwards.
All the staff agreed with the chef because the staff's represent the people's blind admiration for a crazy cult leader.. And it's quite fit in since in restaurants as a cook you also shouldn't argue with the head chef and say "Yes chef"..
I was waiting for Chef to call Tyler an idiot sandwich 😂
I think he did when he whispered in his ear. He just used fancier words. 😅
@@AnnaAlexanderAuthor fancier words🤣🤣🤣
“They’re gonna make him eat off the floor!”
He’s gonna get one last USDA prime serving of lead and then be on the floor. 😂
Apparently there's a deleted scene where they waterboard the food critic with broken emulsion
That would've been insane!
I am retired now but I worked in the service industry my whole life. I was team Hawthorne from the get go! I loved this film and the acting was fantastic. I like your channel. New sub here. I look forward to seeing your channel grow!
"eyes are a little bigger than my stomach" lol.......i wonder if that line was added on purpose
One of the people from Chef's Table was an assistant director on this.
Danielle Creen. I saw her episode!
John Leguizamo based the Movie Star character on Steven Seagal...however after seeing Leguizamo in "The Hollow Point", maybe art imitated life.
eating a cheeseburger right now; It was delicious
I hope it's the best cheeseburger ever!
@@AnnaAlexanderAuthor nope, just from Wendy's. I prefer my own but living in a motel till I get a wheelchair accessible place to move to. not easy to find here with everything being full up
Make sure the meat isn't too old.
There is a fan theory that the meat in the cheeseburger is a day too old.
@@JeshuaSquirrel Yeah, and that was disproved by the director in an interview. The "day too old" meat comment was Elsa smart-mouthing the finance bro.
I saw this movie in the theater (before it closed down) and snuck in a Chipotlé steak-burrito.
I also studied pastry, and got burned out of the industry quick. I loved this movie in a twisted way. I loved Elsa, she was so deliciously creepy and her outfit is cute. Anyway great reaction to a great movie and satire of maker industries being corrupted by both the consumers and the creatives involved.
I;m not a foodie at all...so when foodies get their "cumuppance" I love it.
3:21 for some reason this facial expression and head movement reminded me so much of Kathy Najimy in Hocus Pocus haha
Did you just call her a Peggy Hill!?
LOL hello first-time visitor you caught me with your Margo quote. Busted me up because I saw the scene playthrough in my head when you said it. That alone earned you a new subscriber right there 😆
'...Well WHY is the carpet all wet, TODD?'
'I don't KNOW, Margo!'
I love Christmas 🎄 😆
Omg a fellow foodie watching this is what I needed😂🙌🏾
Ive been watching quite a few people react to this movie, and you are one of the few who actually knew how to pronounce Ralph(Rafe) Fiennes name
Elsa was awesome and super menacing.
idk i think there can be some solidarity amongst fine dining and fast food with the attitudes you deal with...having had food and drinks thrown at me I was cheering along with the chefs
Great reaction. I'll take a dog and a tire sized pretzel please. And for dipping, a slightly split emulsion of mustard sauce.
The whole situation is comically absurd. It seems to cover issues people deal with in any creative or artistic profession. It is not a horror movie, but is it a comedy because of how ridiculous the situation is. The actor seems like had a backstory and ruin similar to the Chef's. I could picture Actor George smiling in a picture of him in his college theater class, like Chef in his Burger picture.
I experience this film as an indictment of egotistical reviewers and hyper fans of any art. For example, some movie reviewers on the internet seem to have lost the ability to just enjoy a movie. Not every film needs to be Citizen Kane. Another example, you have the ultra nitpicking in the Star Trek and Star Wars fandom. These people suck the joy out of those properties for me.
Same for gamers...just scroll down the comments about HBO's The Last Of Us on CZcams...gamers can be vicious!
Seems like everyone who reacted to this always laughs at Elsa's tortilla line. And we can all agree that Tyler is the absolute worst character than the chef.
Honestly, I'm so glad this movie didn't go with cannibalism for the premise. It would have been so easy to go that route, but it's so overused in horror, that not doing that was the right move. Especially given the art in food angle they go with.
Not a soylent green story. Horror, definitely.
ug... disturburger!
*OMG GUESS WHAT JUST BLEW MY MIND!!! You know how they say in movies, nothing is done for no reason because they won't waste the time and money to shoot a scene or dialog for no reason. With that being said....a film critic pointed out something that Blew my mind!!*
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*All throughout the movie Chef messed with each guest, letting them think that they'd be able to escape ..but he always planned to off them. (Ie. The men given a chance to run, the fisherman acting like the hero coastguard etc.) But they were all false escapes, Chef had no intention of letting anyone live and he was just messing with them by making them think that they can escape and be saved.*
Now when it comes to Margot, the whole time she was there Chef was trying to figure out if she truly deserved to be offed with them that evening. Remember, chef had months and years to research the other guests and workers to know how and why each of them would be offed that day, but not Margot.
And although he was trying to figure out if she should be offed he did inform her, when she asked to live, that EVERYONE is going to be offed that evening. And while chef knew he had to off her, he wanted to give her one last test to see who she really was and she failed it anyway.
The test was when Chef told Margot that Elsa "forgot" something and he sent Margot to go get it. When Margot went into the house Elsa told Margot "I would never forget anything, he never told me to bring it." Which again proves that it was all part of his plan to setup Margot with a false sense of trust to see what she would do. We know that Chef sent Margot there on purpose ....and that purpose was to see if she would get the thing and come back to him or try to call out to the coastguard. Margot failed the test in his eyes because she wound up calling what she believes was the coastguard instead of being loyal to him. And after that whole false coastguard incident remember what Chef told Margot.. he said to her ".you are not a giver you are a taker and you will be offed tonight like the rest of them." AND HE MEANT THAT!
*Everyone is assuming that he let her live because she called him out on his stuff...but oh no no....he just let her LEAVE BUT NOTTT LIVE!!
*REWIND to the beginning of my comment and the beginning of the movie! REMEMBER what we know about movies.. nothing done or said in a movie is for no reason.. and this movie MADE IT A POINT to say that the meat from their cows is prepared in way to make it extra tasty. But if someone consumes that meat, even a day over it's expiration then it will slowly off the consumer. The movie even went into detail to tell us why and how it offs the consumer.*
*With that being said, it is believed that chef letting Margot leave was his last false escape as it is believed that he made that burger with the tainted/expired beef!!*
I heard that theory, but there are other things that made me doubt it. I took that smokehouse scene to be a precursor that the guests are putting their life in the chef's hands.
There are so many other things that make me belive me age gets away.
But it is in an interesting theory. 🤔
That burger is not made with smoked meat though. You can tell it's fresh beef. Have you ever seen smoked meat? It's dry and flaky, not in any way moist, like that burger. Plus you can't really fry a smoked meat, you get sad little cremated bits instead of a juicy burger.
Yeah, the problem with that theory is... the burger wasn't made with the smoked meat. It's an interesting theory, but just kinda knowing some things about how meat works, it falls apart pretty quickly.
I hated this movie. Just underwhelming stupidity from beginning to end.
My cooking skills mostly revolve around the microwave. Everything i buy is almost always fully cooked and all i have to do is heat it up. Im real good at that.
johnnyjohn73 - 100%
While I appreciate a good microwave meal, I love making good food. Never to this movies extent, but I make a damn good artichoke cheesy chicken. Lol.
Maybe that's why you didn't like it. Plus it's a satire film
Fair enough, that's basically like watching a parody movie without having seen the original film it's satirising. If you haven't spent a lot of time seeing foodie content you're not going to get much enjoyment out of it being mocked.
That's not to say that your opinion isn't valid, just that I don't think you're the target audience for this one.
@@michaelkenner3289 And that's totally fine to acknowledge "Hey, this film wasn't made for me."
You react from the point of view ofbthe customers. Typical.