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I enjoyed The Menu a lot but the ending hot takes make my upset. "Spoilers"
- Thread starter Xandalan
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1) The burger wasnt poisoned
2) He really wanted to work at a burger joint, which is ELI5 in the movie...
2) He really wanted to work at a burger joint, which is ELI5 in the movie...
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Nah he knows all and had the aged meat at the ready. Noooo. If this really was a final twist. One of the food critics would realize it after. I'm so sick of nooo thus is the real ending of stories. leads to people just accepting youtube and not seeing why he would never poison her.
He empathized with her and realized she was more like him than the other people he had invited to kill. I do think it was a little too clean how she got away but I understood what it was going for.
I really feel bad for that actor dude who got killed just cause he didn't like the movie he was in lol
I really feel bad for that actor dude who got killed just cause he didn't like the movie he was in lol
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I'm saying lots of youtube ending explaining leads to he was so smart he really poisoned her despite it being no if you actually watched it and didn't just watch people that suggest something because they are so smart.... Almost like what the Menu is about.
op is sick of hot takes and the "ending explained" youtube content mill that simplify/obscure the themes of a film, usually just missing the point
OP is saying they're tired of people online adding twists or random nonsense theories on to a fairly easy to understand ending.
This is a theory posited by some, a mention earlier in the film about meat after a certain time being bacteria infected. Then you have to think, well, he said everyone would die…so he must've used that meat (or something more left field).
The film leaves it open enough for you to think that I suppose. I think that kind of undermines where the films story and characters went and of what the Chef was doing, never mind his constant you're not supposed to be here.
So naa, I reject the poison idea, i don't care for it.
I will say it's a reach of a read of the film, hardly supported on any meaningful level by the film, that I could even understand being angry at the film for ending that way when really…it didn't. That being said it's a fun theory on the film so I'll give you that.
The film leaves it open enough for you to think that I suppose. I think that kind of undermines where the films story and characters went and of what the Chef was doing, never mind his constant you're not supposed to be here.
So naa, I reject the poison idea, i don't care for it.
I will say it's a reach of a read of the film, hardly supported on any meaningful level by the film, that I could even understand being angry at the film for ending that way when really…it didn't. That being said it's a fun theory on the film so I'll give you that.
Is the ending supposed to be deeper than her finding a way to relate to him/his nostalgia of simpler times and thus he spares her life? Or is it implied somewhere he poisoned her? I guess that's what I'm finding difficult to understand.
Sorry, OP. Not trying to dunk, I just couldn't figure out which hot take you didn't like.
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Assuming English is not his first language (not saying this to insult). I had to reread the posts multiple times to understand them.
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Ok, I get it. Thanks, all.
I agree, OP. I mean, sometimes movies that leave the ending open for interpretation are freaking awesome and create lots of great conversation but I felt like this one was pretty cut and dry. It's definitely a stretch to go further.
Man, thinking that she had been poisoned would really suck, I hope nobody is listening to the clowns making those claims.
Would make a much weaker story for sure
Would make a much weaker story for sure
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It's clearly a scathing indictment of planking culture, but you do you.
I feel this way about Inception and how no one would shut up about whether the ending was a dream or not. Even Nolan said it doesn't really matter.
Don't overthink it.
Topic may be worded awkwardly, but OP has the spirit
plus I don't groove with the idea that any of the dishes were poisoned. By his own wacky logic I doubt he would actually make a inedible dish.
this is actually another good example of people overthinking endings, and the film makes a argument for itself to not overthink it. Cobb doesn't give a shit about what the top does, after all.
plus I don't groove with the idea that any of the dishes were poisoned. By his own wacky logic I doubt he would actually make a inedible dish.
this is actually another good example of people overthinking endings, and the film makes a argument for itself to not overthink it. Cobb doesn't give a shit about what the top does, after all.
Yeah, the whole "industry" around dissecting film is really terrible these days and it sadly doesn't look like it'll get better any time soon. Dan Olson had a good video about this and Annihilation.
"This is a consistent feature in modern film criticism which, taken on the whole, is in a distinct phase where the loudest voices in film discussion are incurious, proudly ignorant, and approach plot as a problem to be unpacked and solved."
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URo66iLNEZw
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"This is a consistent feature in modern film criticism which, taken on the whole, is in a distinct phase where the loudest voices in film discussion are incurious, proudly ignorant, and approach plot as a problem to be unpacked and solved."
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URo66iLNEZw
Annihilation and Decoding Metaphor
Clickbait Title: The Ending of Annihilation Actually Explained For RealThere was a lot of anxiety in the final stretch of this one, I got really worried that...
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It's the same concept as people who have headcanon, I suppose. They want it to be something so bad, they're willing to stubbornly twist their thoughts until it's true for them.
It's a discussion of hot takes about the ending of a movie. What did you expect?
see you woulda got eaten by skeletons for sure if this was a pirate movie
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Hey I got pinged twice from it, proving my point that posting dumb bullshit will get more engagement. (I wish it was intentional)
I worked in Foodservice for over 20 years, but I've been a horror fan for over 40 years at this point. I adored the movie, and thought the cheeseburger bit was honestly really beautiful.
His joy for cooking had been robbed from him by the industry and the bullshit of high level fine dining. For as mad as he and his staff were, the simple loving act of making a cheeseburger for someone really touched me.
I don't think chef would have adulterated the meat for the burger in any way. Yeeeeah, the team did purposefully break those emulsions earlier to taunt the critic, but I feel that's a different case. I feel like the cheeseburger had chef's whole heart and soul put into it to create the very best, most heartfelt and honest cheeseburger he possibly could.
I don't think chef would have adulterated the meat for the burger in any way. Yeeeeah, the team did purposefully break those emulsions earlier to taunt the critic, but I feel that's a different case. I feel like the cheeseburger had chef's whole heart and soul put into it to create the very best, most heartfelt and honest cheeseburger he possibly could.
This is an odd thought…you can't understand why someone would be interested in someone else's interpretation of a film? Like…really?
I don't want to cast aspersions but are you a few deep, my dude? The reason people can't follow what you are saying is that it is muddled as fuck.
There is nothing more to the film than what is shown, it is pretty on the nose, so if you are saying people looking into it too much are engaging in the kind of pretension the movie is parodying then ... yeah. Sure.
