yeah, the only way to beat "the menu" is to not bother with pretentious bullshit tasting menus in the first place. even if all you're missing out on is a normal tasting menu and not a homicidal rampage, you're still not missing anything worthwhile. who the hell wants to spend 4½ hours "eating" foam and sauce smeared on a charred mahogany plank or whatever the hell?
@@mason96575 I would pay that for a vacation because it's a hell of a lot more than just a meal. No matter how fancy it is, it¨s still just a meal. Could I afford to spend $1,250 on something. Sure, but why would I?
I believe at the end of the day, Slowik just wanted someone to enjoy and just appreciate his work. Without fangirling over it, without dissecting and criticizing every little aspect. He was begging up until the end for some one to just say, “thank you, I really liked it.” And that’s why Margot got to leave.
@@Scp-2317-K the Soup Nazi was a Seinfeld character, he made amazing soup but had very high standards for customer behavior that led to him being compared to a Nazi . . . except for Kramer, the standard zany sitcom character that one would assume he would dislike the most, because Kramer recognized the man's passion for his cooking and his desire for people to respect that passion and dedication to his craft. I wasn't comparing him to an actual Nazi.
I liked how the majority of the movie it seemed like Tyler was the biggest idiot of the group and the only one who didn't seem to catch the hints, until it got revealed that he was the only one that actually understood what was going on. He wasn't naive, he just really loved it.
The saddest moment, is when Erin/Margot looks back and the lady whose husband she slept with sees her hesitate and encourages her to leave them there. The was a bit of selflessness that isn't acknowledged.
@@dietotaku From what I gathered from this video, I think the implications were that she had to pretend to be his daughter while they were....yeah. I could be wrong tho but it would explain why that was a defining moment in her hatred of her job..
That cheeseburger scene is like one of the most well written scenes in a long time. Not much dialog, just a cheeseburger and a man reliving his youth for the last time. It's perfect. Like the Cheeseburger
Honestly I think you are very accurate with that statement. A good cheese burger, for me personally is better than something I can get from a rich place. It also holds a lot of memories for the head chef since that is where had the best time cooking.
Actually there’s a theory roaming around that the burger was made with beef that wasn’t aged enough and killed her. There’s a scene that the customers walked through a smoke house full of aging meat and one asked what would happen if it was aged a day longer or shorter and she simply replied that they would die🤪 if I wanted to survive I wouldn’t have touched the burger. Nothing from that man is safe💀
@@masterace9543 i personally would love a sequel where she is still alive though called Margo’s Menu😎 she takes what she’s learned from that whole experience and decides to kill all the men that hire her… maybe she even cooks them and opens her own restaurant😈
The restaurant has been open for a long time and there’s never been any issues. This was the first time the chef decided to do bad stuff. There’s no way they could have expected this before hand since everyone knows that it’s a really nice restaurant. Some of the guests have even been multiple times.
Or the real chef was murdered too. Note the scene with the sponsor angel getting drowned. And the sadist in the movie was, let's say, a loser who had his life stopped at burgers, so he gathered around him similarly offended by life and took over the place.
@@lockaltube Or -- hear me out -- watch the movie. Your comment makes absolutely no sense in the context of the film, because Slowik is a well-known chef and several of the characters have met him multiple times over the years and know how he looks. This video is just half-assed and several key details are left out, like the fact that Lillian personally played a big role in Slowik's cooking career or that Jeremy doesn't get shot, he shoots himself. Slowik's entire thing is that he's grown resentful of being perfect at his job. He hates the pretentiousness of "fine dining" and wishes he could go back to being "a loser who had his life stopped at burgers", as you so eloquently described service workers. The food industry is a vicious hellscape that can drive people mad, the movie makes it abundantly clear that this is its message. There is no "fake chef conspiracy", there is no deeper meaning. Oppressive jobs suck.
I liked how Margot didn't give up and accept her fate. She was the only guest who kept fighting back both mentally, emotionally, and physically till the end.
I think when she ordered a cheeseburger it was initially to buy some time, vaguely hoping Slowik's history would help her somehow. By doing so, she interrupted the menu from being served, and when the chef played along, she knew she had seized control of his scenario where it mattered. She had created a kayfabe for both of them, and if she played her part well, he wouldn't - couldn't - force her to play by his scenario. Because her newly created story should finish with the customer departing while carrying the takeout bag to finish eating the cheeseburger elsewhere.
Also, she's the only one who is from "lower class" a.k.a being the escort just like the chef himself who started out as a diner chef who cooked cheeseburger. And she's the only one who didn't enjoy any of his food or even pretend to like it because how much uncomfortable she is, even The Chef asked her personally why didn't she enjoy anything. She may chose a terrible decision for being the escort but she has a good heart. I also don't think when she confronted the chef of how terrible his food is and asked for a cheeseburger, she didn't mean to insult him but she wanted to test if he still cares.
@@margarethmichelina5146 also she noticed in his photos that the cheeseburger pic was literally the only one where he was smiling and enjoying what he did.
Man this is so off the course of what happened... She said she didn't like the food. Her specifically asking for a cheeseburger was to remind him of the roots and the real reason he originally cook. In the beginning he said "Don't eat." She wasn't eating, she was enjoying the food he served. He also was appreciative that she ate the food and rather than trying to be pompous in her description just sat there going "mmmm". His whole thing was no one remembered his food, just that he made good food by a society standard not from a tasting standard.
@@BerserkCD I think you've actually got it backwards. He's playing the role of an avant-garde chef, in that speech at the beginning; him telling the guests "don't eat" is about not really being there for the food, but for the experience, which for a $1250 restaurant is the only reason you'd be there. You wouldn't pay that much just to eat, and in fact if you ask around in the fine dining community you'll find a lot of actual highest-end restaurants aren't all that filling. As she says, she's still hungry despite all the pompous courses; she, alone among the guests, still feels the need to eat. She does still taste, and savor, but she eats as well. For that she pays an appropriate price, $9.95, and has an appropriate dish, a cheeseburger and fries. He spares her because she eats, something much more genuine than a tasting menu usually allows for. Something he hasn't been able to do for another person in many years, and something that made him fall in love with cooking in the first place, before the critics killed it for him. A world-class chef can hardly ever serve the hungry, no matter how hard they try; critics and fine diners will book out their restaurant weeks and months in advance, and people who come to a restaurant to eat aren't dealing with a three-month wait list. In a deleted scene, he actually laments this fact, and many actual chefs with Michelin stars have done so as well. This is also why he brings up bread earlier; bread is bland and filling, the two things you absolutely do not want on a tasting menu. But for commoners, it's a lifeline, and many generations have lived off of it. You cannot savor bread, but you absolutely eat it. And of course, a burger isn't complete without a sesame-seed bun. edit: I think this is also why the theories about him poisoning her burger are off-base. You can make an argument that poisoned food is high-concept somehow, an artistic statement conveyed through food. But you don't poison food that's made to be eaten (unless you just straight-up want to kill them on a totally non-artistic level, which isn't what he's doing at all), and the burger was made for that, not as part of the tasting menu. Which is also why she paid separately for it.
@TooFewSecrets you make a lot of points about her being hungry and the glee he got from serving her filling food instead of the "experience" that as you said is more show than food. I agree with you, good point!
I love the dynamic between the Head Chef and "Margot." They played off each other well, and she actually got to the heart of his insanity. Not working against it, but with it. And she got the best meal of her life from it. Cheeseburgers are the best.
I love that his "solutions" almost always rely on just flat out knowing what's going to happen. Yes, obviously if you have magic knowledge of everything that occurs, you'd be fine.
No it doesn't. He points out clues I'm every scenario that something bad is going to happen that the characters just ignore. Most of the advice is be more observant before its too late, then if that doesn't work you need to assess the situation and see if it's better to team up at THAT moment or act alone.
@@poisonpotato1 Yes, the reason why chef chose to release her was because of her timing. He refused her before but because she appealed to his early days, he let her go for his own past. It is also interesting to note that at the end it is probably understanble as they were completely overpowered by the staff. Meaning there was enough staff to simultiously take down all customers. My best bet would be to leave early or try to hold a choke point with a kitchen knife, trying to burn the building down in a secluded place might be a good choice too. After the girls cheeseburger, i would at least try to ask for something home made for a final dinner because at least i would taste something before death because the same trick wouldn't work twice.
The points before they're basically trapped boiled down, as he said, to just realising the situation is dangerous. The main character is an escort. That wouldn't be enough reason for her to just leave. She'll be placing herself in dangerous situations all the time. @@poisonpotato1
How to survive most of these videos: Be the most paranoid person in the world and note every single detail of your surroundings 24/7 like your life depends on it even if you don't yet know it does and just in case, have an encyclopedic knowledge of science, every living and dead language known to humanity, firearms, geography, and have an olympic-trained level of throwing precision and the balance of a gymnast. It's simple, really. Dunno why nobody else does that.
@@poisonpotato1 he breaks down advice that most people wouldnt know unless they googled it that moment, like he did. It’s like telling someone they could have dodged that frisbee but only you saw it coming.
i can’t believe all she needed to do was to order a cheeseburger and ask for a to-go box to survive edit: ik it has a deeper meaning i’ve watch the film way before this video was uploaded. i just find it funny lmao
I guess when you're always trying to make a super elevated meal every time you cook to the point that it drives you insane, making something as simple as that can be an absolute blessing. Edit: I JUST got to the point where he mentions he started as burger chef. In that case, going back to your simple roots is DEFINITELY a blessing at times.
Margot playing along to the Head Chefs performance and leaving as part of the play was probably one of the smartest moves I ever saw in a movie. It was clear that the Head Chef was obsessed with this performance and would even be greatfull if someone played along/add to the dinner. I think the graditute that she played into his performance is probably as much of a reason for him to let her go as to not break charakter and interupting the dinner even more.
Like any art, food can become an obsession, particularly an obsession with perfection, the perfect painting, the perfect sculpture, the perfect novel, the perfect martial art, sometimes people forget that art is for the most part subjective, and sometimes we don't want the sophistication of caviar, we just want a simple, yet tasty cheeseburger
A lesson that head chef should have remembered. Yes, I respect good dining experiences, even some good dishes! It's the simplest recipes, comfort foods, that a person really desires sometimes. For example, mac and cheese. ( I preferred the real stuff versus the boxed stuff, but that's splitting hairs. It's still mac and cheese.) Kudos for Margot, though. She thought of the perfect way to put a stop to his pretentiousness.
Fun fact: The characters in a horror movie don’t know they’re in a horror movie. That might seem obvious, but it’s apparently something you can’t comprehend
Favorite movie of 2022. My lady had to use the restroom and was gone for like 4 minutes, and when she got back I was just shaking my head because she missed so much I didn't know where to begin. There is literally something constantly going on that's adding to the whole story. In the car on the way home, I was trying to tell her what she missed, and she totally thought I was bullshitting her.
I sort of can't remember. It was probably more like 6 minutes, during us hearing why some of the people were there, but simultaneously the investor was being lowered down to the sea. I seriously can't even remember it all because there's so much happening. We will watch it again. Anyone remember the old "runpee" app? I bet the only time would be "during trailers" and "closing credits." No no it was when the woman stabbed Chef and then they were all supposed to run away to the woods right after we heard why Leguizamo was there (I think?) She comes back and is like "why are these people all hiding in the woods and in that barn?" I'm just like... Anyway yeah we gotta rewatch it. It was awesome.
I think this is the first time that any character has survived a situation by asking for a Cheeseburger to-go. What a way to beat a Chef Cult amiright?
What's crazy is.. with me 13+ years of being a chef/line cook along the amount of burgers I've cooked in my life at least 15,000 I would've probably lost my shit and killed her for that order 🤣
I think everyone was in on it, except Erin. You can tell this is the case as when Erin leaves she looks back at the other guest and they just watch her leave, rather than following what she did to be let go or running for the exit. They also all say "We love you too Chef" right before he burns down the restaurant. I think the only thing that made the Chef "crazy" was that after so much success everyone around him became like Tyler, in that everything he would do they would find a masterpiece, and as such he was pushed to be continually innovative in his gourmet art. It doesn't show it in the video, but when Erin finds the radio, there are multiple photos of Chef, starting with the one shown in his burger flipping days, in which he has a big smile. As the photos continue through time showing his continued success, his smile fades away into the scowl he has for the majority of the movie, he's become miserable and doesn't enjoy cooking as he did before when it was just about making a good meal. The final course is just the Chef committing suicide but as everyone is so obsessed with his art they burn with him thinking it another masterpiece. Catherine was the one who said everyone should die at the end showing just how off/obsessed the people around Chef are with everything he does being art. This also explains why Erin being there bugged Chef so much in that he said the menu was made for a specific clientele (those who were obsessed with him). As she was not obsessed with him, he didn't want her to die. When Erin demands the cheeseburger, it shows that she was there for the reason he originally got into cooking; a good meal (the burger flipping picture of Chef). He makes Erin the burger and she leaves.
but it doesn't explain why the old man tried to leave early and one of the 3 guys tried to escape by attempting to break a window, and all the men ran when given the chance to escape. I think they just accepted their fate as none of them ever had to work hard for anything and either stole or had things done for them to get ahead in life.
@@rbz1Remember though the entire scenario was, at least in my theory, scripted. You don't think fans as unhinged as this would act in manners to add to the scenario?
@@Gorillaphoenix77 Maybe and it's possible, but it really seemed like the tech guys, the old man and the food critic lady (who was trying to talk the female cook into helping them escape) didn't really want to die there. Tyler is the only one that seemed truly unfazed by it all. But also, the others did seem to resign themselves to their fate a little too easy....but maybe by being convinced they deserved it by the end. Your theory is still plausible.
Gotta say this movie is one of those horror/thriller movies that are worth watching over summarizing, but I’ll be damned if that team of chefs isn’t insane for following him to death
i 100% agree that this movie is very difficult to fit into the format that "how to beat" is trying to shove it into. the chef even shames them near the ending asking why they havent tried harder to actually live and escape.
As a professional chef I can assure you lots of chefs are very cult like and even run like military 🫠 my chef friend and I felt some PTSD after watching this one💀
Cults happen a lot. Look at Charles Manson, Jim Jones, etc. Hell, religion is the biggest cult going and there are a great number of people who have done deplorable things in the name of their god. Of all the things in this film, the cult-like representation of the restaurant staff is the most believable.
I mean the true answer to surviving the Menu is the second you see the living quarters you try to get out because that makes it clear you're dealing with a cult.
Starting a forest fire using a Bic lighter is a lot harder than you think. You need the right conditions, and the trees on that island looked pretty green. Plus it's night and the air is probably cold and damp from the sea. You might succeed in lighting a couple driftwood twigs on fire, but it's not going to be large enough to do anything other than alert the chefs to your position.
The person forgot to mention that when he saw the movie it was his only day off and it made him upset he wasted his one day off on something so schlocky and half heartedly made
@@nikkyonthemoon7719 still feel kinda shitty to punish the actor for having one bad film that so happened to ve showing on his day off, like that's some petty shit...but then again the film makes it clear his a psycho
@@maverickdarkrath4780 I can understand both sides when it comes to the actor yes he was just doing a job when he made that movie but that's what upset the chef the most is that the actor doesn't have to do much to gain popularity infact the only reason why the actor wanted to go to his restaurant was to use it to gain popularity again with a new show
Because people want to leave their mark and make an impact in some way. And what is more impactful than meals you ate right before you die? You know how many last meal request videos there are? The fact there is one is too much in my opinion but whatever. It would be a hit and ensure his survival in the memory of that Chef's insane actions.
At first I thought that ending was completely WTF, but it actually does make sense if you think about it (though maybe not too hard). She listened to what he told her, and critically took in what she saw, and in the end, she appealed to his past, back to the time when he enjoyed cooking as a real passion (a change in the opinion of their profession they both shared). And she did so with such a sincerity (even if she likely was cynical about it) that it still managed to appeal to and move him, such that he fulfilled her request, she may well have genuinely complimented it, and was allowed to leave, before the chef ended things, having actively demonstrated that she was not the type of person he was leveling his deranged anger at.
Ahh, I think I get what you're saying. She an escort satisfy her customers, but they never satisfy or care to satisfy her back. He a chef also satisfies the customers appetite and they never satisfy him in return. Their professions are mirrored by their service. She is satisfied by the burger, which is probably the first time she has felt that in a long time and he is in turn rewarded with her satisfaction of the burger?
I love these channels because it's like watching a kid explain to you how they would totally beat the bad guy from their favorite movie. You totally wouldn't do that but your enthusiasm is lovely!
Thank you for summing up what I was trying to figure out. You are right. All the channels who do this know how the movie ends and have time to puzzle what would work, but when people are in the moment, they don't have the time, the calm head space or foreknowledge to do any of that.
@@adorkypenguiin Because these "how to beat" videos offer no actual insight besides "I watched the movie so I know what is going to happen", they don't really try to wonder how to actually beat the scenarios as someone that had no prior knowledge about what is happening like 100% of the characters in the movies they are making videos of.
@@teresaellis7062 he usually tells the audience to look for stuff based on the setting that has a higher chance of working other than making the characters mistakes.
@@SammEateri feel like a cool spin on this idea would be to watch a movie for the first time and while you’re going through it, brainstorm possible ways to beat it, and see what ideas would get you the farthest
If i remember correctly, there's a deleted scene where the female guest that was the food critic was telling the story of how the Chef dissapeared, only to be found later working in a korean taco truck. It shouldn't have been deleted, becasue it makes an important point: he TRIED to get away form the pretentious snobs, but "was not allowed to" Mind you, the characterater of the Chef is still a study in peer pressure...or rather, the social pressure exerted by those he at one time WANTED to consider his peers..in short, he was weak, he caved, and it ultimately drove him insane.
@@OneFingerYT Yeah I just got the impression he was absolutely DONE with the pretentious bs. Pity the character didn't just say fluff off when investors were trying to pull him back in.
It's always weird when you watch a movie where you know for a fact you would never be a victim be it in this case not paying for the experience because poor, or because you'd accidentally do what she did. All that food is too fancy, just give me a burger or a pizza.
@@Crazypixiness thats so dumb tho. idk maybe its just me but i wouldnt have have taken that standing. i mean clearly if one of the intended guests could skip their meal, then perhaps so could i if i were invited
@@Crazypixiness it was plot armor, no need to overthink it; also the chef shaming them for not trying more is delusional; no guy there was that in shape that he could've fought 3 chefs with knives and 2,3 bodyguards twice his size
@@Raaa8080 he was saying that if they all tried to fight back they would've had a chance Its not just plot armour, he let her go because she made him enjoy cooking again
Step 1: Start slinging plates into the kitchen shattering from a distance to create chaos, hopefully some getting into the cook’s eyes Step 2: Rush kitchen taking out cooks if possible and taking pans, knives and other items along the way Step 3: Prioritize taking Head Chef out Step 4: Ruin kitchen and all ingredients so if fails they cannot perform finale Step 5: Set everything ablaze to cause chaos and signal help from others Step 6: Stay together always
He forgot to mention that Margot recognizes the rich husband because she was his escort, and she was the girl on the tortilla. Also “The Mess” was supposed to represent body parts of the chef that shot himself.
I watched this movie on Hulu right before watching this video. I’ve watched countless horror movies in my life and Doug’s death, in my opinion, is one of the most disturbing deaths I have ever seen in a horror movie. Yeah, it isn’t bloody or gorey, but it doesn’t have to be. The dreadful silence after he is fully underwater is haunting and drowning in total darkness seems like one of the most horrific ways to die. It would also feel completely hopeless since you can’t move due to being tied up. My fear of the deep ocean added some personal fear.
@@MoonFall8030 I beg to differ because pineapple on pizza is delicious and I will never apologize for saying that. Second, there used to be a great Italian restaurant where I live that served an amazing Hawaiian pizza and they used freshly cubed pineapple every time. It always had a juicy taste and that candied crackle from cooking in a stone oven.
This was a really great movie. I think my favorite quote from the movie was Elsa talking to the 3 finance bros complaining about the breadless meal and she said something along the lines of “you will eat less than you want, but more than you deserve.” Absolutely chilling line and one of my favorite lines from any movie I’ve watched so far
This always bothered me. The truth is that at a deep level they all wanted to go through with it. I would have fought and rallied the other men to form a phalanx. Arm yourself with chairs and refuse to play along. In real life that's how it would really have played out, it would have been a fight.
You underestime the willingness of people to just accept fate. Jews being killed was accepted by a country where Jews weren't completely hated. People revolted, threw a fit but under the heel of police and military with a escape in accepting the new reality. You can probably make people kill themselves with 1:3 or 1:2 ratio. You can probably make them scared to stand out by setting examples or getting them to play the role of wardens. Add some quirky people with questionable morality and you got a obidient group of people who can and will kill eachother for your approval. The limits are that you need the power of life and death by limiting options of death by pain and giving life by forgiveness.(This is a common trait of megolomaniacs and the trait makes them semi-stable dictators because of their confidence and ther cruelty, they sometimes fail because of failing to undermine important people and lossing their aura of confidence.)
It sounds like a great idea by the end, when the kitchen staff have been working practically non-stop for hours and their numbers have dwindled. But remember, these are rich people who never fight their own battles against chefs (skilled in knifes/close combat weaponry) who are stronger and have less to lose. A guest would be disheartened by a stab wound. A chef/cook would be apathetic. The psychological aspect of it is that fighting their way out was eliminated as an option from the start, given their numbers and strength. By the time that it is a viable option, all the guests have either forgotten it, or are stuck in the mindset that it won't work.
You will find that most problems in life can be solved with wolves, explosives or fire. Trapped on Island - Fire. Wall in the way - Explosives. Congress/Parliament making stupid laws - Wolves.
@@legalza0843 technically he just tried to run, but not one of them except margot ever attempted to fight back as they were all so privleged and never worked hard for anything.
The Menue tells you exactly how to beat it. That's kind of the point of the movie. She made him enjoy cooking again by asking him to make the thing she saw he mad in a picture of him smiling from him true living space...the simplicity of it is kind of poetic, instead of infuriating like many movies with painfully simple plot twists.
*barges in without an invitation* *scores a kill* *exposes the head chef's backstory* *orders cheeseburger to-go* *refuses to elaborate further* *leaves through the fire exit*
You have to notice something about the breadless plate. You see everyone else eating it than the main character not eating it. As the breadless plate represents that it is not for the common man everyone eats it. But for her she never did, so she never was suppose to be part of there at all.
Stealing this from someone else but bread also represents forgiveness and companionship, thus the chef is offering them none of those things. Similarly... that burger HAD bread.
14:47 Those onion halves are clearly "laced" with ash and not fried/burnt/steamed or whatever If you'd fry them, they'd clearly be caramellized with slight brownish parts or transparent glassy at MINIMUM You NEVER get such ashy roasting while the rest of the onion looking this raw ...Then again, this onion could be just garnish _Which makes the chef 200% a sociopath by not frying them and locking all flavour inside of it_
I love the way Anya Taylor Joy is building a successful career out of playing tough, resilient, and intelligent characters. Split, The New Mutants, The Witch, and now The Menu, all within just the young age of 26! Can't wait to see what amazing performances she has in store for us as she gains more experience and matures even more as an actress!
Ah yes, what I always do when I'm around a group of people who don't seem to care what's going on. Immediately suspect the chef of the restaurant they're going to and run a background check to see if he just happens to fit the bill for a homicidal maniac...or a kid with a rough past.
Well, here's the best guideline to follow if you ever are in a dinner date: Arrive at 7. AM. Case the restaurant, run background checks on the staff. Can the cook be trusted? If not, you gotta kill him. Dispose of the body, replace him with your own guy no later than 4:30.
I know. If I was an escort, I would regularly question everyone, completely ignore my client, call 911 because I am so friendly with the police, kill the chef with oil because I am stealthy in that dress and those heels, steal the boat keys, run away in those heels, and then drive away in a boat. This guy would probably think its a bad idea to get in a boat because he doesn't have a boating license.
@@oiram4940 ironically I'm pretty sure Scout would have asked for the burger close to the start. Not for any strategic reason, just that seems like what scout would do.
Damn, this video is pinnacle "we need content. Anything. Doesn't matter what type of video, we just need to feed the algorithm to keep the money rolling in."
I didn’t laugh 😅I thought it was creepy like the dinners I guess some people laughed some people didn’t want it because of how sinister they were following the chef
My thought here? I think there’s one member of each group who is actually in Slowik’s cult. Also, he did give Margot an out. A way to escape on her own. He saw she wasn’t who he had come to hate. That going to get the barrel was to leave her unsupervised and free to find a way to escape. She returned instead having tried to rescue everyone. It failed.
I just watched this movie over the weekend. What a unique film. I had a positive experience at a Michelin chef's private estate last year, so this film had a unique connection to me.
The barrel is the fuel they blow up the restaurant with. It can be seen when they light all of the stoves on the middle of the kitchen island that they all surround and face
People are missing the point it's not order the cheese burger and get to escape NO , 'margot' was never supposed to be there because she never had a part in the "ruin of his art", and was only let go due the chef not having anything against her, and her being able to remind him about the time when he was happy with cooking
Having been in the culinary world, I can fully assure you that this set up of going to the island with people who care naught about the food but their own image is 100% legit, and frankly you'd want to murder them too.
"I would research him and find out he was a small time burger cook" - oh, so your solution is to just know what's going to happen at the start of the movie. awesome!
The household cleaner poisoning idea wouldnt work. Instead, you just mix Bleach and Ammonia, or Bleach and Motor Oil or Gasoline. In particular, Chlorine Bleach and Ammonia will produce Chlorine Gas, Hydrazine, Nitrogen Trichloride, and some other nasty gases. The gases released from mixing the two range from being deadly at concentrations above 30 part per million, to extremely toxic and unstable rocket fuel, to very unstable high explosive gases. You'd either create an explosion, or a deadly cloud of gas. So, you bar as many doors shut as possible, and chuck the two chemicals in on the floor, one on top of the other. The gases released will be heavier than air, so the cooking vents wont be able to remove it from the room. I'd guess that a few gallons of each would be enough to to fill the kitchen and dining area to fatal levels if the staff wasnt able to find a way out.
A great social commentary on the culinary world, especially the high class one. We see so many aspiring young chefs who got their dream job only to be turned into machines who need to be perfect in every way. Any spark or love for cooking would be gone in a few days. No soul or heart is poured into those meals, just expensive ingredients and most of the time, cheap gold leaves. That's why so many people rather than seek the extravagants and the artistic just go back to their roots. They desire the feeling of being back home again, enjoying a comforting, familiar meal. The Head Chef cooking a cheeseburger again had reignited a spark that had been snuffed out years ago. He finally felt something while cooking again. Not the drive to utter perfection but a humbling experience taking him back to his beginnings. Sadly, it was not enough for him to quit making the final dish. A fancy dinner always have to end with a bang so they say. This one can be no different. I bet that was a good fucking cheeseburger though. $10 for that is a steal !!!
Such a surprising movie, really funny as well. I'm really happy someone finally made a film about the stupidity of fine dining because let's be real we've all thought it. I watched it a few nights ago and ironically, for a film about supposedly delicious food the only time I felt hungry was when they brought out the cheeseburger.
Yeah and that’s my problem. Fine dining isn’t stupid, it’s just that the food is an element to it. The service, the wine, the creativity of the dishes are all parts of the experience. Yes, some of it is overpriced, but digging at the entire industry, and disregarding the amount of love and passion that goes into it by depicting it as soul sucking? It’s not only inaccurate but lazy.
@@toniodejimi3905 I think youre getting a bit too agitated here lol. Reality TV Shows still have any right to exist and entertain, still Squid Game is a thing.
@@toniodejimi3905 it kinda is. I mean don't get me wrong some of these dishes are delicious but the whole thing is so pretentious. From the extremely small portions to the ridiculous prices to people trying to give the food some kind of philosophical meaning. And let's not talk about the kind of people that are usually into fine dining. Either snobs that will overanalyze what's in the end of the day just a meal or people looking for a way to burn money to remind everyone they're rich
@@toniodejimi3905 come on, dude, i'm hungry and you're gonna put a tablespoon of seafoam next to a smear of some unpronounceable sauce and call that a meal? i don't even drink and you can be creative while still serving legitimate quantities of food to people. the entire point of the movie is that when your "passion" has gone so far that someone spends 4½ hours on 10 dishes and is still starving, you've lost the point of cooking food. get over yourself and just make me a goddamn cheeseburger.
How to beat the menu: Dont book a trip to a small island in the middle of nowhere to eat an expensive 10 course meal created by a man who never leaves said island
When I first watched this movie, I always found that the fancy food isn't appetizing and when he cooked the cheeseburger, there's finally meal that is appetized.
@@dazedandconfused5711 the chicken had scissors in it and has a disturbing backstory so that ruins my appetite. The cake wasn’t bad though but what really made the burger look tasty was the shots of him cooking it and the juices oozing out.
The way to beat The Menu is to not be a food snob. It is to not care about not being able to get into Dorsia. It is also to not be invited. That worked for Erin/Margot.
Yeah but with THIS chef, he didn't even care about the food made that night. He had lost his passion, his love for cooking. It wasn't until the end when Margo orders a burger that he felt happy again, because it reminded him of his first job a simple burger flipper but it gave him joy.
@@GoodwillWright well that chef seemed to value his passion more over money in fact I wouldn't be surprised if the money never even mattered to him but just wanting to give people good experiences was what it was until they shit all over it and all went into hatred
the moment the chef says that he wanted to create the absolute perfect dining experience, just tell him "your food sucks. i want to enjoy the memories associated with food, not the actual flavors themselves. make me a cheeseburger like mom used to make, let me go home and eat it, and maybe you'll be a legend in my mind".
I love the part where the chef pointed out that most of them didn't even try to fight back. Margot/Erin is the only one to truly fight back because she truly feels she deserves to be free. The were weighed down by their sins, from the fake 'angel' investor literally being drowned, to Tyler not even trying to fight back, his death not even WORTH being immortalized with the others. I loved this movie, tons of little details but not bashing you over the head with the symbolism or any overly gross out scenes. Just the right amount of humor too, really surprisingly good movie.
That's exactly why for me the movie sucked and was just unwatchable. Not a single person in the movie behaved like a normal person with an IQ even above 80 and I have to come up with my own 'fan theory' that they were drugged by one of the first courses or the dish on the boat that saps their energy or intelligence or something to explain why they barely even tried to escape or fight back. Are the cult members also olympic level swimmers? Did the boat not have a row boat? Being so close to the main land, was there REALLY no phone signal? There's no evidence the staff even had firearms - only the kitchen staff had knives, so as long as distance could be gained, a fit young man running/swimming for their lives could more than likely get off the island. Also the way the 'cult' worked, the restaurant would never be permitted to operate under federal law with the way staff are treated. There would definitely be investigations long before this event ever took place, not unlike how Jonestown had numerous visits by US investigators and even politicians. The guests would already be well aware it operates like a cult because the restaurant would be famous for it, the same way we hear of top restaurants written up for underpaid staff wages and other legal infractions. So just. no. Apart from the funny dish introductions spoofing the highly acclaimed Chef's Table, the movie takes itself far too seriously to be a comedy.
@@wefinishthisnow3883 wtf are you talking about. People definitely behave just this way they were portrayed in the movie. There was a small army of chefs and security people who supported an authority figure that was giving them orders under threat of death. 10/10 people will behave exactly as these people did.
Lol yeah the actor and his assistant are totally weighed down by their sins of one making a single bad movie and the other wanting to quit her job. Also, some of them literally fought back and tried to escape lmao did you even watch the fucking movie???
Loved this movie. Watched it with my mom while having a fancy fish dinner she made as a treat. This man went "it wasn't cod you donkey, it was halibut" and I choked on my halibut
Literally just watched this yesterday and immediately thought “I need a How to Beat video on this” - not that it’s very difficult considering she just had to order a burger to go
One thing I never understood is why the kitchen staff was so compliant. I get that Chef wanted to die but why the others? Was the whole kitchen staff suicidal?
@@elitebeltNot really, one of the most well known mass suicides was a cult that killed so many people. Those who follow a cult leader will gladly take their own life at the leader’s request and persuasion. There are so many examples of this in all of history with cults.
He seemed like the biggest idiot of the group for most of the time, until it got revealed that he was the only one that actually understood what was going on. He wasn't naive, he just really loved it.
@@watzwatz4154 dude his humiliation scene was painful somehow. But also him realizing he wasn't going to be part of the final course. Damn. I don't know what was whispered to him but it was probably something like that.
11:30 the fact that tyler is the only one who DOESN'T react to either the suicide or the man's finger being cut off and just continues eating was another huge red flag for margo. even at that point i was thinking "what the fuck is wrong with this guy?" 19:00 yeahhhhh he wasn't stabbed in the _thigh..._
@@mariahjackson2386 she prefaces it with a story about him repeatedly trying to have sex with her and calls it "man's folly" where the women are exempt and she stabs him in the *thigh?* What does any of her story even have to do with his father?
@@dietotaku "I should've stabbed him in the throat then" she *should've* stabbed him in the throat but didn't and made the same mistake as him, later Margot stabs Elsa in the throat
@@dietotaku it's mentioned in the script that he is bleeding from the stab wound in his thigh, and that it grows from that point on in the film. You can check it if you want
it was definitely in the thigh (if you watched the movie it shows him pull them out) with scissors...the same with the ensuing chicken thigh meat meal had scissors stabbed into them.
In all honesty, no one would have seen this happening or prevent it. They have private islands with special events all the time that people pay a lot of money to attend. Phones rarely work on islands unless you got an emergency phone that connects to satellites and not towers, though radio do work but no guarantee and depends on the distance. If you try swimming, take off anything shiny or you will attract predator fish that will attack you. Woman was just lucky she was not a target. The chef had full control of the whole island so unless he wanted you to escape, you wasn't by normal means. Everyone their is prepared to die, so it's best not to fight unless it's one vs one because one can literally sacrifice themself to jump into your weapon and hold you down while the other gets you.
In the meal, "The mess" he didn't explain that the guy who was shot shot himself. Margo should have ran over and grabbed the gun because although all the chefs have knives she'll have a gun and be better at taking control of the situation.
@@Raaa8080 There's still no harm in trying. She's less likely to be killed because the chef is a perfectionist and wants to kill everyone at the *end* of the meals so at most she just might be punished but not killed and even How To Beat stated that killing the head chef might create a power shift where the costumers will be able to fight back; As a head of a cult works as the head of a snake sometimes. You cut off the head the rest of the snake falls apart. Taking the gun is a low risk high reward option and it would be pointless to not even consider grabbing it.
@@Tom-om6cu if you are ever in that kind of situation and you've led a comfortable non violent life till then, i say you are more likely to NOT believe insane plans when you hear them, you are more likely to wait for a future occasion to escape and you are less likely to risk so much by going up against 3 guys or going of on a 2% chance you live; if you lived in comfort, it gets you some time to actual start to believe the plan
2:55 Kind of a stretch... So anytime you get a rare opportunity to have a luxurious free meal you should view it as a red flag? Like when I hit it off with a celebrity on a cruise ship and she brought me to a VIP lounge and we drank 1500 dollar wine and caviar I should have interpreted that as a start of a death game or a trap? Sorry, but I just had a good time.
dude, here’s one I would recommend. The Stuff, a movie where an alien substance becomes a food and ends up making everyone that eats it someone that falls in love with it. PLEASE DO IT, it’s an amazing film.
i would agree. this movie kinda defies the how to beat format. while "the stuff" would 100% be a great fit for the how to beat format. roanoke gaming covered "the stuff" i would highly recommend a watch. he summarizes the movie then explains how it even did what it did in a science portion afterwards ^_^
Have a DAMN good day!
oh wow i just caught this one
true!
cool
hi early you too,
No one remenberd to say:
Have a DAMN good meal!
His analysis is literally just "me personally, I would've simply known what was gonna happen"
True while I enjoy these type of videos, most of the advice here relies on a huge amount of hindsight bias.
"They should have just watched the movie smh 🤦♀"
Literally what I've been thinking? Most of the points boil down to 'I simply would have known something bad was gonna happen'
yeah, the only way to beat "the menu" is to not bother with pretentious bullshit tasting menus in the first place. even if all you're missing out on is a normal tasting menu and not a homicidal rampage, you're still not missing anything worthwhile. who the hell wants to spend 4½ hours "eating" foam and sauce smeared on a charred mahogany plank or whatever the hell?
That's literally most of his videos. It's quite annoying. All of his "How to Beat" rely on the fact you understand the twist at the end.
I feel like pretty much all of us would survive this from not being able to even afford going to a place like this.
It was just $1,250
@@mason96575 "just" 😐
@@mason96575 JUST?! TF YOU MEAN "JUST"? >:(
I mean, $1,250 is a lot, sure - but it's not impossible to spend that much on a vacation! It's not $100k - it's just 2/3 of a rent payment! Lol
@@mason96575 I would pay that for a vacation because it's a hell of a lot more than just a meal. No matter how fancy it is, it¨s still just a meal. Could I afford to spend $1,250 on something. Sure, but why would I?
I believe at the end of the day, Slowik just wanted someone to enjoy and just appreciate his work. Without fangirling over it, without dissecting and criticizing every little aspect. He was begging up until the end for some one to just say, “thank you, I really liked it.” And that’s why Margot got to leave.
At the end of the day, he was a psychopath
@@cherryred6082 thats so real
So he's basically the Soup Nazi.
@@nicholasfarrell5981 how would that make him a nazi? Genuinely, I would like to hear your reasoning
@@Scp-2317-K the Soup Nazi was a Seinfeld character, he made amazing soup but had very high standards for customer behavior that led to him being compared to a Nazi . . . except for Kramer, the standard zany sitcom character that one would assume he would dislike the most, because Kramer recognized the man's passion for his cooking and his desire for people to respect that passion and dedication to his craft. I wasn't comparing him to an actual Nazi.
I liked how the majority of the movie it seemed like Tyler was the biggest idiot of the group and the only one who didn't seem to catch the hints, until it got revealed that he was the only one that actually understood what was going on. He wasn't naive, he just really loved it.
Sorry watzwatz. I think the comment above is a bot
I feel that Tyler didn’t “love” it so much as it was his obsession which was a foil to the chef’s obsession that was pointed out by Margot.
I didn't think he was Naive, just psychotic. Even more so after the reveal.
Obsessed
@@UnveiledAngel I agree he is actually crazier than chef he knew he was going to die but was OK with dying just taste someone food thats obsession
The saddest moment, is when Erin/Margot looks back and the lady whose husband she slept with sees her hesitate and encourages her to leave them there. The was a bit of selflessness that isn't acknowledged.
1 getting out better than none helps people’s conscience too a lot of people have regrets and something like that will provide a consultation
erin never actually slept with the old man, though. he paid her to pretend to be his daughter.
@@dietotaku From what I gathered from this video, I think the implications were that she had to pretend to be his daughter while they were....yeah. I could be wrong tho but it would explain why that was a defining moment in her hatred of her job..
@@maybii-yes there weren't any implications, Margot stated directly that what you said did in fact happen.
@@jimshotfirst4887 When are non-virgins allowed to live in a horror film? That's breaking "the rules". /s
That cheeseburger scene is like one of the most well written scenes in a long time. Not much dialog, just a cheeseburger and a man reliving his youth for the last time. It's perfect. Like the Cheeseburger
The investor being slowly lowered into the water like a teabag while the guests are served tea is poetic.
oh shit i didn't think of that
The wings because silent investors are called "angel investors"
no
@@bwestacado9643 they literally called it fallen angel
You would've been tyler if you were in this movie
I think "order the cheeseburger" is both the smartest, and most delicious, decision to deescalate any situation.
Honestly I think you are very accurate with that statement. A good cheese burger, for me personally is better than something I can get from a rich place. It also holds a lot of memories for the head chef since that is where had the best time cooking.
Actually there’s a theory roaming around that the burger was made with beef that wasn’t aged enough and killed her. There’s a scene that the customers walked through a smoke house full of aging meat and one asked what would happen if it was aged a day longer or shorter and she simply replied that they would die🤪 if I wanted to survive I wouldn’t have touched the burger. Nothing from that man is safe💀
@@birdie_. oh shit, I totally forget about that, whelp probably kept it open ended for these kinda discussion lol
@@masterace9543 i personally would love a sequel where she is still alive though called Margo’s Menu😎 she takes what she’s learned from that whole experience and decides to kill all the men that hire her… maybe she even cooks them and opens her own restaurant😈
@@birdie_. "To Serve Man" is a cookbook.
The restaurant has been open for a long time and there’s never been any issues. This was the first time the chef decided to do bad stuff. There’s no way they could have expected this before hand since everyone knows that it’s a really nice restaurant. Some of the guests have even been multiple times.
Or the real chef was murdered too. Note the scene with the sponsor angel getting drowned. And the sadist in the movie was, let's say, a loser who had his life stopped at burgers, so he gathered around him similarly offended by life and took over the place.
@@lockaltube Or -- hear me out -- watch the movie. Your comment makes absolutely no sense in the context of the film, because Slowik is a well-known chef and several of the characters have met him multiple times over the years and know how he looks. This video is just half-assed and several key details are left out, like the fact that Lillian personally played a big role in Slowik's cooking career or that Jeremy doesn't get shot, he shoots himself.
Slowik's entire thing is that he's grown resentful of being perfect at his job. He hates the pretentiousness of "fine dining" and wishes he could go back to being "a loser who had his life stopped at burgers", as you so eloquently described service workers. The food industry is a vicious hellscape that can drive people mad, the movie makes it abundantly clear that this is its message. There is no "fake chef conspiracy", there is no deeper meaning. Oppressive jobs suck.
@@lockaltube you missed everything
I liked how Margot didn't give up and accept her fate. She was the only guest who kept fighting back both mentally, emotionally, and physically till the end.
And ironically was liked by the chef for it lol she was a badass
@@clintmccormick3337 bruuuuhhhhh
yes because she wasn’t born into nepotism, she comes from a normal background and had to work to survive. this film has a big “eat the rich” theme
And spiritually
The others knew they were deserving of their fate, she was the only one not invited. It's really basic
I think when she ordered a cheeseburger it was initially to buy some time, vaguely hoping Slowik's history would help her somehow. By doing so, she interrupted the menu from being served, and when the chef played along, she knew she had seized control of his scenario where it mattered. She had created a kayfabe for both of them, and if she played her part well, he wouldn't - couldn't - force her to play by his scenario. Because her newly created story should finish with the customer departing while carrying the takeout bag to finish eating the cheeseburger elsewhere.
Also, she's the only one who is from "lower class" a.k.a being the escort just like the chef himself who started out as a diner chef who cooked cheeseburger. And she's the only one who didn't enjoy any of his food or even pretend to like it because how much uncomfortable she is, even The Chef asked her personally why didn't she enjoy anything. She may chose a terrible decision for being the escort but she has a good heart. I also don't think when she confronted the chef of how terrible his food is and asked for a cheeseburger, she didn't mean to insult him but she wanted to test if he still cares.
@@margarethmichelina5146 also she noticed in his photos that the cheeseburger pic was literally the only one where he was smiling and enjoying what he did.
Man this is so off the course of what happened... She said she didn't like the food. Her specifically asking for a cheeseburger was to remind him of the roots and the real reason he originally cook. In the beginning he said "Don't eat." She wasn't eating, she was enjoying the food he served. He also was appreciative that she ate the food and rather than trying to be pompous in her description just sat there going "mmmm". His whole thing was no one remembered his food, just that he made good food by a society standard not from a tasting standard.
@@BerserkCD I think you've actually got it backwards. He's playing the role of an avant-garde chef, in that speech at the beginning; him telling the guests "don't eat" is about not really being there for the food, but for the experience, which for a $1250 restaurant is the only reason you'd be there. You wouldn't pay that much just to eat, and in fact if you ask around in the fine dining community you'll find a lot of actual highest-end restaurants aren't all that filling. As she says, she's still hungry despite all the pompous courses; she, alone among the guests, still feels the need to eat. She does still taste, and savor, but she eats as well. For that she pays an appropriate price, $9.95, and has an appropriate dish, a cheeseburger and fries.
He spares her because she eats, something much more genuine than a tasting menu usually allows for. Something he hasn't been able to do for another person in many years, and something that made him fall in love with cooking in the first place, before the critics killed it for him. A world-class chef can hardly ever serve the hungry, no matter how hard they try; critics and fine diners will book out their restaurant weeks and months in advance, and people who come to a restaurant to eat aren't dealing with a three-month wait list. In a deleted scene, he actually laments this fact, and many actual chefs with Michelin stars have done so as well.
This is also why he brings up bread earlier; bread is bland and filling, the two things you absolutely do not want on a tasting menu. But for commoners, it's a lifeline, and many generations have lived off of it. You cannot savor bread, but you absolutely eat it. And of course, a burger isn't complete without a sesame-seed bun.
edit: I think this is also why the theories about him poisoning her burger are off-base. You can make an argument that poisoned food is high-concept somehow, an artistic statement conveyed through food. But you don't poison food that's made to be eaten (unless you just straight-up want to kill them on a totally non-artistic level, which isn't what he's doing at all), and the burger was made for that, not as part of the tasting menu. Which is also why she paid separately for it.
@TooFewSecrets you make a lot of points about her being hungry and the glee he got from serving her filling food instead of the "experience" that as you said is more show than food. I agree with you, good point!
The real lucky one is the girl who broke up with Tyler 🤣
Sooooooo true!!!😂😂😂
I love the dynamic between the Head Chef and "Margot." They played off each other well, and she actually got to the heart of his insanity. Not working against it, but with it. And she got the best meal of her life from it. Cheeseburgers are the best.
Its an overrated experience
@@Human_traain you’d be the first to die buddy
@@wy2336 maybe if i went there with my friends yes
God bless America
@@AndresHernandez-zw3ug land that I love
Damn, Hell's Kitchen's gone off the deep end since I've last watched.
The last time I watched Hell’s Kitchen, Gordon Ramsay was calling a chef an “Idiot Sandwich”
Gordon Ramsay got tired of our shit.
@@taotaoliu2229 "WHAT ARE YOU?"
"An idiot sandwich!"
"NOT YET"
XD Dammit, I saw the thumbnail and thought "Gordon Ramsay snapped?!"
@@taotaoliu2229 there's a part where Slowik calls one of the patrons a donkey 🤣 very gordon ramsay of him
I love that his "solutions" almost always rely on just flat out knowing what's going to happen. Yes, obviously if you have magic knowledge of everything that occurs, you'd be fine.
No it doesn't. He points out clues I'm every scenario that something bad is going to happen that the characters just ignore. Most of the advice is be more observant before its too late, then if that doesn't work you need to assess the situation and see if it's better to team up at THAT moment or act alone.
@@poisonpotato1 Yes, the reason why chef chose to release her was because of her timing. He refused her before but because she appealed to his early days, he let her go for his own past.
It is also interesting to note that at the end it is probably understanble as they were completely overpowered by the staff.
Meaning there was enough staff to simultiously take down all customers.
My best bet would be to leave early or try to hold a choke point with a kitchen knife, trying to burn the building down in a secluded place might be a good choice too.
After the girls cheeseburger, i would at least try to ask for something home made for a final dinner because at least i would taste something before death because the same trick wouldn't work twice.
The points before they're basically trapped boiled down, as he said, to just realising the situation is dangerous. The main character is an escort. That wouldn't be enough reason for her to just leave. She'll be placing herself in dangerous situations all the time. @@poisonpotato1
How to survive most of these videos: Be the most paranoid person in the world and note every single detail of your surroundings 24/7 like your life depends on it even if you don't yet know it does and just in case, have an encyclopedic knowledge of science, every living and dead language known to humanity, firearms, geography, and have an olympic-trained level of throwing precision and the balance of a gymnast.
It's simple, really. Dunno why nobody else does that.
@@poisonpotato1 he breaks down advice that most people wouldnt know unless they googled it that moment, like he did. It’s like telling someone they could have dodged that frisbee but only you saw it coming.
The ending is like a reverse Ratatouille: instead of a food critic re-discovering his love for eating, a chef re-discovers his love for cooking
I love the part where the food critic kills himself in ratatouille!
@@Bubbledazwood yeah but it's the opposite so the food critic revitalizes himself instead of killing himself
i can’t believe all she needed to do was to order a cheeseburger and ask for a to-go box to survive
edit: ik it has a deeper meaning i’ve watch the film way before this video was uploaded. i just find it funny lmao
I think it's just because she brought back the love he had for cooking. I literally cried watching him cook it cause he looked so happy.
@@creampopz fr mans was so happy makin that burger. sucks he still went out with a bang tho
@@GT_Mr.C I KNOWW! I really thought with his passion reignited he would continue on but still, bittersweet glad he didn't die hating cooking
I guess when you're always trying to make a super elevated meal every time you cook to the point that it drives you insane, making something as simple as that can be an absolute blessing.
Edit: I JUST got to the point where he mentions he started as burger chef. In that case, going back to your simple roots is DEFINITELY a blessing at times.
@@InkAndPoet yup thats why i cried 😭
Margot playing along to the Head Chefs performance and leaving as part of the play was probably one of the smartest moves I ever saw in a movie. It was clear that the Head Chef was obsessed with this performance and would even be greatfull if someone played along/add to the dinner. I think the graditute that she played into his performance is probably as much of a reason for him to let her go as to not break charakter and interupting the dinner even more.
i kinda like this movie, wierdly artistic! i love your explaination
Like any art, food can become an obsession, particularly an obsession with perfection, the perfect painting, the perfect sculpture, the perfect novel, the perfect martial art, sometimes people forget that art is for the most part subjective, and sometimes we don't want the sophistication of caviar, we just want a simple, yet tasty cheeseburger
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A lesson that head chef should have remembered. Yes, I respect good dining experiences, even some good dishes! It's the simplest recipes, comfort foods, that a person really desires sometimes.
For example, mac and cheese. ( I preferred the real stuff versus the boxed stuff, but that's splitting hairs. It's still mac and cheese.)
Kudos for Margot, though. She thought of the perfect way to put a stop to his pretentiousness.
@@seancarroll9849 Definitely
And not to be murdered of course
As my father will say "never sacrifice good for perfection." To me 'perfect' is its own form of unobtainable obsession.
The developers literally said "let's make a horror/thriller movie about Gordon Ramsay." Now we just need one about Guy Fieri.
Oh dear, he will drag us to Flavor Town.
This time you ain't riding shotgun. You're running from it
Lol true
You know, if you got the right people to make it, that could potentially work.
Flavortown Battle Royale, yes please
Fun fact: The characters in a horror movie don’t know they’re in a horror movie. That might seem obvious, but it’s apparently something you can’t comprehend
To be fair there is time with horror movies do go against the troupe that would usually kill them
Favorite movie of 2022. My lady had to use the restroom and was gone for like 4 minutes, and when she got back I was just shaking my head because she missed so much I didn't know where to begin. There is literally something constantly going on that's adding to the whole story. In the car on the way home, I was trying to tell her what she missed, and she totally thought I was bullshitting her.
Ok but what part did she miss???
You have to watch this how to beat again with her lol.
Same thing happened to me. I had to pee and realized I missed so much😂
I sort of can't remember. It was probably more like 6 minutes, during us hearing why some of the people were there, but simultaneously the investor was being lowered down to the sea. I seriously can't even remember it all because there's so much happening. We will watch it again. Anyone remember the old "runpee" app? I bet the only time would be "during trailers" and "closing credits."
No no it was when the woman stabbed Chef and then they were all supposed to run away to the woods right after we heard why Leguizamo was there (I think?) She comes back and is like "why are these people all hiding in the woods and in that barn?" I'm just like...
Anyway yeah we gotta rewatch it. It was awesome.
dam thats sad
I think this is the first time that any character has survived a situation by asking for a Cheeseburger to-go. What a way to beat a Chef Cult amiright?
As someone who absolutely adores cheeseburgers, it’s also the best way.
What's crazy is.. with me 13+ years of being a chef/line cook along the amount of burgers I've cooked in my life at least 15,000 I would've probably lost my shit and killed her for that order 🤣
@@goroakechi6126 oh definitely. Cheeseburgers rule
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Ratatouille. The ending was done by Ratatouille first.
I think everyone was in on it, except Erin.
You can tell this is the case as when Erin leaves she looks back at the other guest and they just watch her leave, rather than following what she did to be let go or running for the exit. They also all say "We love you too Chef" right before he burns down the restaurant.
I think the only thing that made the Chef "crazy" was that after so much success everyone around him became like Tyler, in that everything he would do they would find a masterpiece, and as such he was pushed to be continually innovative in his gourmet art.
It doesn't show it in the video, but when Erin finds the radio, there are multiple photos of Chef, starting with the one shown in his burger flipping days, in which he has a big smile. As the photos continue through time showing his continued success, his smile fades away into the scowl he has for the majority of the movie, he's become miserable and doesn't enjoy cooking as he did before when it was just about making a good meal.
The final course is just the Chef committing suicide but as everyone is so obsessed with his art they burn with him thinking it another masterpiece. Catherine was the one who said everyone should die at the end showing just how off/obsessed the people around Chef are with everything he does being art.
This also explains why Erin being there bugged Chef so much in that he said the menu was made for a specific clientele (those who were obsessed with him). As she was not obsessed with him, he didn't want her to die. When Erin demands the cheeseburger, it shows that she was there for the reason he originally got into cooking; a good meal (the burger flipping picture of Chef). He makes Erin the burger and she leaves.
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but it doesn't explain why the old man tried to leave early and one of the 3 guys tried to escape by attempting to break a window, and all the men ran when given the chance to escape. I think they just accepted their fate as none of them ever had to work hard for anything and either stole or had things done for them to get ahead in life.
@@rbz1Remember though the entire scenario was, at least in my theory, scripted. You don't think fans as unhinged as this would act in manners to add to the scenario?
@@Gorillaphoenix77 Maybe and it's possible, but it really seemed like the tech guys, the old man and the food critic lady (who was trying to talk the female cook into helping them escape) didn't really want to die there. Tyler is the only one that seemed truly unfazed by it all.
But also, the others did seem to resign themselves to their fate a little too easy....but maybe by being convinced they deserved it by the end.
Your theory is still plausible.
@@rbz1 I see.
Gotta say this movie is one of those horror/thriller movies that are worth watching over summarizing, but I’ll be damned if that team of chefs isn’t insane for following him to death
i 100% agree that this movie is very difficult to fit into the format that "how to beat" is trying to shove it into. the chef even shames them near the ending asking why they havent tried harder to actually live and escape.
As a professional chef I can assure you lots of chefs are very cult like and even run like military 🫠 my chef friend and I felt some PTSD after watching this one💀
It's not complicated at all. People like to complicate things for nothing and make something more out of something that is not.
Cults happen a lot. Look at Charles Manson, Jim Jones, etc. Hell, religion is the biggest cult going and there are a great number of people who have done deplorable things in the name of their god.
Of all the things in this film, the cult-like representation of the restaurant staff is the most believable.
I mean the true answer to surviving the Menu is the second you see the living quarters you try to get out because that makes it clear you're dealing with a cult.
Imagine being served dinner by Lord Vodemort and not being suspicious.
Lord Voldemort WITH A NOSE!!!!!!!
“The boy who lived, come to dine!”
I was thinking being served dinner by hades.. and in a way he also delivers them all to the underworld
@@sentientmustache8360 auuuvaadaaa kedaaavvruhhhh
@@sentientmustache8360 "VANILLA BANANA"
Starting a forest fire using a Bic lighter is a lot harder than you think. You need the right conditions, and the trees on that island looked pretty green. Plus it's night and the air is probably cold and damp from the sea. You might succeed in lighting a couple driftwood twigs on fire, but it's not going to be large enough to do anything other than alert the chefs to your position.
plus you only have a 45 second headstart
That burger looked tastier than their entire meal
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I felt bad for the actor. Laughed so loud when Chef explained he was there because he watched his bad movie.
The person forgot to mention that when he saw the movie it was his only day off and it made him upset he wasted his one day off on something so schlocky and half heartedly made
@@nikkyonthemoon7719 still feel kinda shitty to punish the actor for having one bad film that so happened to ve showing on his day off, like that's some petty shit...but then again the film makes it clear his a psycho
@@maverickdarkrath4780 I can understand both sides when it comes to the actor yes he was just doing a job when he made that movie but that's what upset the chef the most is that the actor doesn't have to do much to gain popularity infact the only reason why the actor wanted to go to his restaurant was to use it to gain popularity again with a new show
I don't think it's just because of that. Probably because he fit in with rest of them and their uncaring, selfish attitudes
@@sibilansnel Yeah I think he mentioned him throwing away his talents and passion and only doing it for the money
What I don’t understand is why Tyler even bothered taking photos of the food if he knew they were all going to die anyway
His wanted his instagram girlie moment
Because people want to leave their mark and make an impact in some way. And what is more impactful than meals you ate right before you die?
You know how many last meal request videos there are? The fact there is one is too much in my opinion but whatever. It would be a hit and ensure his survival in the memory of that Chef's insane actions.
At first I thought that ending was completely WTF, but it actually does make sense if you think about it (though maybe not too hard). She listened to what he told her, and critically took in what she saw, and in the end, she appealed to his past, back to the time when he enjoyed cooking as a real passion (a change in the opinion of their profession they both shared). And she did so with such a sincerity (even if she likely was cynical about it) that it still managed to appeal to and move him, such that he fulfilled her request, she may well have genuinely complimented it, and was allowed to leave, before the chef ended things, having actively demonstrated that she was not the type of person he was leveling his deranged anger at.
thanks for that, it all makes sense now.
also, note that she actually complimented the meal without overanalyzing it or criticizing it unlike everyone else in the resteraunt.
and asking to take the remainder with her to enjoy it later as opposed to discarding it.
I'd simply have order a ratatouille
Ahh, I think I get what you're saying. She an escort satisfy her customers, but they never satisfy or care to satisfy her back. He a chef also satisfies the customers appetite and they never satisfy him in return. Their professions are mirrored by their service. She is satisfied by the burger, which is probably the first time she has felt that in a long time and he is in turn rewarded with her satisfaction of the burger?
I love these channels because it's like watching a kid explain to you how they would totally beat the bad guy from their favorite movie. You totally wouldn't do that but your enthusiasm is lovely!
Thank you for summing up what I was trying to figure out. You are right. All the channels who do this know how the movie ends and have time to puzzle what would work, but when people are in the moment, they don't have the time, the calm head space or foreknowledge to do any of that.
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@@adorkypenguiin Because these "how to beat" videos offer no actual insight besides "I watched the movie so I know what is going to happen", they don't really try to wonder how to actually beat the scenarios as someone that had no prior knowledge about what is happening like 100% of the characters in the movies they are making videos of.
@@teresaellis7062 he usually tells the audience to look for stuff based on the setting that has a higher chance of working other than making the characters mistakes.
@@SammEateri feel like a cool spin on this idea would be to watch a movie for the first time and while you’re going through it, brainstorm possible ways to beat it, and see what ideas would get you the farthest
"I'd like it to go, please" was such a great line.
If i remember correctly, there's a deleted scene where the female guest that was the food critic was telling the story of how the Chef dissapeared, only to be found later working in a korean taco truck. It shouldn't have been deleted, becasue it makes an important point: he TRIED to get away form the pretentious snobs, but "was not allowed to" Mind you, the characterater of the Chef is still a study in peer pressure...or rather, the social pressure exerted by those he at one time WANTED to consider his peers..in short, he was weak, he caved, and it ultimately drove him insane.
This happened to me. I was weak and now I have been driven insane
@@josephinecrystal7252 Enjoy your S'mores.
@@josephinecrystal7252 can I have a cheeseburger
I didn't get the impression that he was insane.
@@OneFingerYT Yeah I just got the impression he was absolutely DONE with the pretentious bs.
Pity the character didn't just say fluff off when investors were trying to pull him back in.
It's always weird when you watch a movie where you know for a fact you would never be a victim be it in this case not paying for the experience because poor, or because you'd accidentally do what she did. All that food is too fancy, just give me a burger or a pizza.
i feel like i wouldve been too scared to ask unless someone else did. but also, they ALL watched her ask to take the food back and none of them did...
@@AlphaPizzadog She was the only one who didn't belong. The actor's assistant asked to live but was denied because she had no student loans.
@@Crazypixiness thats so dumb tho. idk maybe its just me but i wouldnt have have taken that standing. i mean clearly if one of the intended guests could skip their meal, then perhaps so could i if i were invited
@@Crazypixiness it was plot armor, no need to overthink it; also the chef shaming them for not trying more is delusional; no guy there was that in shape that he could've fought 3 chefs with knives and 2,3 bodyguards twice his size
@@Raaa8080 he was saying that if they all tried to fight back they would've had a chance
Its not just plot armour, he let her go because she made him enjoy cooking again
Step 1: Start slinging plates into the kitchen shattering from a distance to create chaos, hopefully some getting into the cook’s eyes
Step 2: Rush kitchen taking out cooks if possible and taking pans, knives and other items along the way
Step 3: Prioritize taking Head Chef out
Step 4: Ruin kitchen and all ingredients so if fails they cannot perform finale
Step 5: Set everything ablaze to cause chaos and signal help from others
Step 6: Stay together always
damnn not a bad plan
Exactly! The way they just sat there at the end ticked me off
Gotta first locate and destroy the head chef’s 7 soul containers before you can try to kill him.
Before that, turn on the power and get the Wonder Weapon by getting the 3 parts.
Dont forget to find the Elder wand and break it while youre at it
This is reminding me of Toriko. You need to eat the soul containers as a full course meal to kill him.
Determination ahh
He forgot to mention that Margot recognizes the rich husband because she was his escort, and she was the girl on the tortilla. Also “The Mess” was supposed to represent body parts of the chef that shot himself.
No shit Sherlock 💀
And the guests were scared to eat The Mess after The Sous Chef killed himself because they thought they're eating him
@@margarethmichelina5146the meal was being cooked before the event, and was served immediately after. It clearly wasn't part of him.
he did mention it
@@ARatherDapperTapir’they thought’
I watched this movie on Hulu right before watching this video. I’ve watched countless horror movies in my life and Doug’s death, in my opinion, is one of the most disturbing deaths I have ever seen in a horror movie. Yeah, it isn’t bloody or gorey, but it doesn’t have to be. The dreadful silence after he is fully underwater is haunting and drowning in total darkness seems like one of the most horrific ways to die. It would also feel completely hopeless since you can’t move due to being tied up.
My fear of the deep ocean added some personal fear.
No chef is more dangerous than an Italian grandma who was just told their grandchild isn’t hungry
No chef is dangerous than an italian chef that puts PINEAPPLE on 🍕 pizza
And none more fearsome than an Italian grandma who was just told her grandchild is full from eating pineapples on pizza.
@@MoonFall8030 wouldn't happen
@@MoonFall8030 I beg to differ because pineapple on pizza is delicious and I will never apologize for saying that. Second, there used to be a great Italian restaurant where I live that served an amazing Hawaiian pizza and they used freshly cubed pineapple every time. It always had a juicy taste and that candied crackle from cooking in a stone oven.
@@w8m4n but what if an italian chef is secretly doing that?
Damn, she literally pulled a "You can't kidnap me without my consent" at the end 💀
Yo....that’s actually the biggest power play ever, he respected her so much for being so brutally honest that he let her go
Invites Gordon Ramsay:
"Disgusting! My left side is already overcooked while my right side is *fucking raw!* Now turn me around you amateur!"
This was a really great movie. I think my favorite quote from the movie was Elsa talking to the 3 finance bros complaining about the breadless meal and she said something along the lines of “you will eat less than you want, but more than you deserve.” Absolutely chilling line and one of my favorite lines from any movie I’ve watched so far
Just replace “want” with “desire” and “but” with “and” in that quote and you’ve got it.
This always bothered me. The truth is that at a deep level they all wanted to go through with it. I would have fought and rallied the other men to form a phalanx. Arm yourself with chairs and refuse to play along. In real life that's how it would really have played out, it would have been a fight.
I think the first half of your comment is very true, the second half less so.
You underestime the willingness of people to just accept fate.
Jews being killed was accepted by a country where Jews weren't completely hated. People revolted, threw a fit but under the heel of police and military with a escape in accepting the new reality.
You can probably make people kill themselves with 1:3 or 1:2 ratio. You can probably make them scared to stand out by setting examples or getting them to play the role of wardens. Add some quirky people with questionable morality and you got a obidient group of people who can and will kill eachother for your approval. The limits are that you need the power of life and death by limiting options of death by pain and giving life by forgiveness.(This is a common trait of megolomaniacs and the trait makes them semi-stable dictators because of their confidence and ther cruelty, they sometimes fail because of failing to undermine important people and lossing their aura of confidence.)
It sounds like a great idea by the end, when the kitchen staff have been working practically non-stop for hours and their numbers have dwindled. But remember, these are rich people who never fight their own battles against chefs (skilled in knifes/close combat weaponry) who are stronger and have less to lose. A guest would be disheartened by a stab wound. A chef/cook would be apathetic.
The psychological aspect of it is that fighting their way out was eliminated as an option from the start, given their numbers and strength. By the time that it is a viable option, all the guests have either forgotten it, or are stuck in the mindset that it won't work.
I love how so many of these scenarios can be solved with the strategic application of fire.
You will find that most problems in life can be solved with wolves, explosives or fire.
Trapped on Island - Fire.
Wall in the way - Explosives.
Congress/Parliament making stupid laws - Wolves.
the smartest move in this movie was the girlfriend breaking up with that food freak 💀
She was a hired escort
@@DocUnstopped no i mean the girlfriend from the very beginning of the movie who broke up with that dude, which is why he brought the hired escort
i'll bet she broke up with him because she caught wind of the plan for this menu.
@@dietotaku She was a hired escort
lmao girl really went 'can i uh... can I get a burger to go?' and she lived
I love how he says that the guests probably could have overpowered him and they barely even tried
I like it how the main bad guy even asked them why they didn't fight harder, and that they probably could have succeeded too.
@@originalcharacterplznostea2749 your name is incredibly ironic
@@originalcharacterplznostea2749
To be fair the old guy tried it and that didn’t work out so well
Right, cos taking on a chef and his private army fully skilled in the art of slicey dicey with BIG sharp knives is a good idea.😝
@@legalza0843 technically he just tried to run, but not one of them except margot ever attempted to fight back as they were all so privleged and never worked hard for anything.
The Menue tells you exactly how to beat it. That's kind of the point of the movie. She made him enjoy cooking again by asking him to make the thing she saw he mad in a picture of him smiling from him true living space...the simplicity of it is kind of poetic, instead of infuriating like many movies with painfully simple plot twists.
*Menu
Virgin horror movie clueless protagonist vs chad horror movie aware protagonist that learns and understands the threat in order to survive it
The amount of hindsight used to make these "How to beat"'s is hilarious
*barges in without an invitation*
*scores a kill*
*exposes the head chef's backstory*
*orders cheeseburger to-go*
*refuses to elaborate further*
*leaves through the fire exit*
and actually facking eats, what a badass
You have to notice something about the breadless plate. You see everyone else eating it than the main character not eating it. As the breadless plate represents that it is not for the common man everyone eats it. But for her she never did, so she never was suppose to be part of there at all.
Stealing this from someone else but bread also represents forgiveness and companionship, thus the chef is offering them none of those things.
Similarly... that burger HAD bread.
@@alexn5743 I assume you’re projecting silly religious significance to bread … No need for that. Bread has nothing to do with forgiveness 😂
@@GourSmith it's not just religion. Many cultures and symbols depict bread as such.
@@jamescraig3859 Companionship, yes-forgiveness, no.
@@GourSmith have you ever heard of the expression "to break bread?"
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Those onion halves are clearly "laced" with ash and not fried/burnt/steamed or whatever
If you'd fry them, they'd clearly be caramellized with slight brownish parts or transparent glassy at MINIMUM
You NEVER get such ashy roasting while the rest of the onion looking this raw
...Then again, this onion could be just garnish
_Which makes the chef 200% a sociopath by not frying them and locking all flavour inside of it_
I love the way Anya Taylor Joy is building a successful career out of playing tough, resilient, and intelligent characters. Split, The New Mutants, The Witch, and now The Menu, all within just the young age of 26! Can't wait to see what amazing performances she has in store for us as she gains more experience and matures even more as an actress!
You forgot The Northman, Super Mario Bros., and Last Night in Soho.
Let's not forget Emma.
and the queen's gambit!! loved her in it
Beth Harmon
She was fantastic in the Queens gambit..give it a watch. You will love it..
This was SUCH a good movie. It had everyone so confused at the start on why it was horror. It ramped up so fast and so well. Such a good ending too.
No, it's NOT. I nearly watched the entire movie and I was extremely traumatized.
@@kjsingh9071of what
this movie sucked
I thought it was a comedy more so than horror
the movie even gets better when you sympathize with the Chef.
Ah yes, what I always do when I'm around a group of people who don't seem to care what's going on. Immediately suspect the chef of the restaurant they're going to and run a background check to see if he just happens to fit the bill for a homicidal maniac...or a kid with a rough past.
Well, here's the best guideline to follow if you ever are in a dinner date: Arrive at 7. AM. Case the restaurant, run background checks on the staff. Can the cook be trusted? If not, you gotta kill him. Dispose of the body, replace him with your own guy no later than 4:30.
I know. If I was an escort, I would regularly question everyone, completely ignore my client, call 911 because I am so friendly with the police, kill the chef with oil because I am stealthy in that dress and those heels, steal the boat keys, run away in those heels, and then drive away in a boat.
This guy would probably think its a bad idea to get in a boat because he doesn't have a boating license.
@@M4x_P0w3r nice reference
@@oiram4940 ironically I'm pretty sure Scout would have asked for the burger close to the start.
Not for any strategic reason, just that seems like what scout would do.
@@alexn5743 That, or a bucket of chicken
This was a Midsommar-type of horror movie, including the people being burned at the end. I enjoyed the psychological angles.
Reminded me a lot of Midsommar as well
Midsommar has semi-traumatized me
on the contrary... in "The Menu" they were cooked perfectly.
@Mark Lewis I don't know how to cook a bear-human turducken situation so I wouldn't know if Midsommar was cooked properly.
@@alternativelyabled3757 LOL... Well, it's a little gamey, I'd imagine. But I'm guessing YT or the DW has a recipe for ya.
i love margots character, the fact she asked for a cheeseburger to go is so awesome
Gordon Ramsay being nice by inviting them to eat some delicious food and a private island
Is there any confirmation that the chef was inspired by Gordon Ramsey he has a similar background and says donkey
I think the chief is inspired by Gordon’s mentor Pierre white
Somewhere in a alternative universe:
Gordon: IT'S F***ING RAW,THROW HIM IN THE SMORE!
Damn, this video is pinnacle "we need content. Anything. Doesn't matter what type of video, we just need to feed the algorithm to keep the money rolling in."
I watched this recently. The chefs are so extreme and loyal that I ended up laughing most the movie.
Well, it is comedy.
They're behavior is borderline cultish. And for us outsiders from that "cult" it would seem that everything they do is hilarious.
It's basically a cult.
I didn’t laugh 😅I thought it was creepy like the dinners I guess some people laughed some people didn’t want it because of how sinister they were following the chef
Like a cult of robots lol.
My thought here? I think there’s one member of each group who is actually in Slowik’s cult.
Also, he did give Margot an out. A way to escape on her own. He saw she wasn’t who he had come to hate. That going to get the barrel was to leave her unsupervised and free to find a way to escape. She returned instead having tried to rescue everyone. It failed.
I just watched this movie over the weekend. What a unique film. I had a positive experience at a Michelin chef's private estate last year, so this film had a unique connection to me.
The barrel is the fuel they blow up the restaurant with. It can be seen when they light all of the stoves on the middle of the kitchen island that they all surround and face
Fuel burns but doesn't blow up.
@@renatoramos8834 gas cookers
@@renatoramos8834 it does in fictional films.
People are missing the point it's not order the cheese burger and get to escape NO , 'margot' was never supposed to be there because she never had a part in the "ruin of his art", and was only let go due the chef not having anything against her, and her being able to remind him about the time when he was happy with cooking
Having been in the culinary world, I can fully assure you that this set up of going to the island with people who care naught about the food but their own image is 100% legit, and frankly you'd want to murder them too.
fun fact: the soundtrack for this movie was done by the same guy who scored hereditary. one of the best and most underrated soundtrack musicians fr
I was just wondering that. This movie has the same eery cultish vibes as Hereditary and Midsommar 💁🏽
I literally thought this film's soundtrack sounded like hereditary, now I know why lol
"I would research him and find out he was a small time burger cook" - oh, so your solution is to just know what's going to happen at the start of the movie. awesome!
The household cleaner poisoning idea wouldnt work. Instead, you just mix Bleach and Ammonia, or Bleach and Motor Oil or Gasoline. In particular, Chlorine Bleach and Ammonia will produce Chlorine Gas, Hydrazine, Nitrogen Trichloride, and some other nasty gases. The gases released from mixing the two range from being deadly at concentrations above 30 part per million, to extremely toxic and unstable rocket fuel, to very unstable high explosive gases. You'd either create an explosion, or a deadly cloud of gas.
So, you bar as many doors shut as possible, and chuck the two chemicals in on the floor, one on top of the other. The gases released will be heavier than air, so the cooking vents wont be able to remove it from the room. I'd guess that a few gallons of each would be enough to to fill the kitchen and dining area to fatal levels if the staff wasnt able to find a way out.
A great social commentary on the culinary world, especially the high class one. We see so many aspiring young chefs who got their dream job only to be turned into machines who need to be perfect in every way. Any spark or love for cooking would be gone in a few days. No soul or heart is poured into those meals, just expensive ingredients and most of the time, cheap gold leaves. That's why so many people rather than seek the extravagants and the artistic just go back to their roots. They desire the feeling of being back home again, enjoying a comforting, familiar meal. The Head Chef cooking a cheeseburger again had reignited a spark that had been snuffed out years ago. He finally felt something while cooking again. Not the drive to utter perfection but a humbling experience taking him back to his beginnings. Sadly, it was not enough for him to quit making the final dish. A fancy dinner always have to end with a bang so they say. This one can be no different. I bet that was a good fucking cheeseburger though. $10 for that is a steal !!!
Such a surprising movie, really funny as well. I'm really happy someone finally made a film about the stupidity of fine dining because let's be real we've all thought it. I watched it a few nights ago and ironically, for a film about supposedly delicious food the only time I felt hungry was when they brought out the cheeseburger.
Not ironically at all. The poking fun of pretention is one of the main themes.
Yeah and that’s my problem. Fine dining isn’t stupid, it’s just that the food is an element to it. The service, the wine, the creativity of the dishes are all parts of the experience. Yes, some of it is overpriced, but digging at the entire industry, and disregarding the amount of love and passion that goes into it by depicting it as soul sucking? It’s not only inaccurate but lazy.
@@toniodejimi3905 I think youre getting a bit too agitated here lol. Reality TV Shows still have any right to exist and entertain, still Squid Game is a thing.
@@toniodejimi3905 it kinda is. I mean don't get me wrong some of these dishes are delicious but the whole thing is so pretentious. From the extremely small portions to the ridiculous prices to people trying to give the food some kind of philosophical meaning. And let's not talk about the kind of people that are usually into fine dining. Either snobs that will overanalyze what's in the end of the day just a meal or people looking for a way to burn money to remind everyone they're rich
@@toniodejimi3905 come on, dude, i'm hungry and you're gonna put a tablespoon of seafoam next to a smear of some unpronounceable sauce and call that a meal? i don't even drink and you can be creative while still serving legitimate quantities of food to people. the entire point of the movie is that when your "passion" has gone so far that someone spends 4½ hours on 10 dishes and is still starving, you've lost the point of cooking food. get over yourself and just make me a goddamn cheeseburger.
How to beat the menu: Dont book a trip to a small island in the middle of nowhere to eat an expensive 10 course meal created by a man who never leaves said island
When I first watched this movie, I always found that the fancy food isn't appetizing and when he cooked the cheeseburger, there's finally meal that is appetized.
i mean the birthday cake looked pretty damn good, same with that chicken
@@dazedandconfused5711 the chicken had scissors in it and has a disturbing backstory so that ruins my appetite. The cake wasn’t bad though but what really made the burger look tasty was the shots of him cooking it and the juices oozing out.
@@BricklyDragon Burger was easily the most appetising thing, but that passard egg looked pretty damn good too.
@@BricklyDragon Oh yeah 100% that burger looked bussin
The way to beat The Menu is to not be a food snob. It is to not care about not being able to get into Dorsia. It is also to not be invited. That worked for Erin/Margot.
I wouldn’t care about Dorsia, even though people were dying to get in.
20:02 You are aware that living wood isn't very flammable right? That could take minutes to even start a fire under ideal conditions.
To be fair, most chefs would be insulted if you went to their restaurant and didn't eat what they made.
Yeah but with THIS chef, he didn't even care about the food made that night. He had lost his passion, his love for cooking. It wasn't until the end when Margo orders a burger that he felt happy again, because it reminded him of his first job a simple burger flipper but it gave him joy.
If they still paid I don't give a damn.
@@GoodwillWright well that chef seemed to value his passion more over money in fact I wouldn't be surprised if the money never even mattered to him but just wanting to give people good experiences was what it was until they shit all over it and all went into hatred
Yes I can confirm
the moment the chef says that he wanted to create the absolute perfect dining experience, just tell him "your food sucks. i want to enjoy the memories associated with food, not the actual flavors themselves. make me a cheeseburger like mom used to make, let me go home and eat it, and maybe you'll be a legend in my mind".
11:00 "The man gets shot" is a gross understatement 💀 that was the scene I saw in reels that made me check out this movie to see if that was real
I love the part where the chef pointed out that most of them didn't even try to fight back. Margot/Erin is the only one to truly fight back because she truly feels she deserves to be free. The were weighed down by their sins, from the fake 'angel' investor literally being drowned, to Tyler not even trying to fight back, his death not even WORTH being immortalized with the others. I loved this movie, tons of little details but not bashing you over the head with the symbolism or any overly gross out scenes. Just the right amount of humor too, really surprisingly good movie.
That's exactly why for me the movie sucked and was just unwatchable. Not a single person in the movie behaved like a normal person with an IQ even above 80 and I have to come up with my own 'fan theory' that they were drugged by one of the first courses or the dish on the boat that saps their energy or intelligence or something to explain why they barely even tried to escape or fight back. Are the cult members also olympic level swimmers? Did the boat not have a row boat? Being so close to the main land, was there REALLY no phone signal? There's no evidence the staff even had firearms - only the kitchen staff had knives, so as long as distance could be gained, a fit young man running/swimming for their lives could more than likely get off the island.
Also the way the 'cult' worked, the restaurant would never be permitted to operate under federal law with the way staff are treated. There would definitely be investigations long before this event ever took place, not unlike how Jonestown had numerous visits by US investigators and even politicians. The guests would already be well aware it operates like a cult because the restaurant would be famous for it, the same way we hear of top restaurants written up for underpaid staff wages and other legal infractions.
So just. no. Apart from the funny dish introductions spoofing the highly acclaimed Chef's Table, the movie takes itself far too seriously to be a comedy.
@@wefinishthisnow3883 wtf are you talking about. People definitely behave just this way they were portrayed in the movie. There was a small army of chefs and security people who supported an authority figure that was giving them orders under threat of death. 10/10 people will behave exactly as these people did.
@@wefinishthisnow3883you have no idea how pretentious people act.
@@Leonard_Wolf_2056 Thanks for your contribution of not addressing anything I wrote.
Lol yeah the actor and his assistant are totally weighed down by their sins of one making a single bad movie and the other wanting to quit her job.
Also, some of them literally fought back and tried to escape lmao did you even watch the fucking movie???
Step 1: Destroy all 7 horcruxes
I would’ve asked for my meal to go like she did the heck. She just gave us the way out!!!
Loved this movie. Watched it with my mom while having a fancy fish dinner she made as a treat. This man went "it wasn't cod you donkey, it was halibut" and I choked on my halibut
Literally just watched this yesterday and immediately thought “I need a How to Beat video on this” - not that it’s very difficult considering she just had to order a burger to go
As someone named Margaux, I'm just obsessed with any movie I get to hear my name 🤣
Your name is so pretty
When your working for Gordon Ramsey but forget the Lamb Sauce
One thing I never understood is why the kitchen staff was so compliant. I get that Chef wanted to die but why the others? Was the whole kitchen staff suicidal?
It was basically a cult. Same with Trump and his followers.
humans can be convinced to give up their lives even if they aren't suicidal, look up any cult.
it's a cult
@@meodrac Okay and how tf does that explain anything?? That's a boring as fuck cop out/non-explanation to a huge glaring plot hole.
@@elitebeltNot really, one of the most well known mass suicides was a cult that killed so many people. Those who follow a cult leader will gladly take their own life at the leader’s request and persuasion. There are so many examples of this in all of history with cults.
Girl who Tyler didn't invite: Damm I'm glad I cheated on you.
Tyler annoyed me so much, people were dying and he was still raving about how good the food was and analysing it like no one gaf 😭
To be fair, he knew that people were gonna die and he was crazy for the experience
He seemed like the biggest idiot of the group for most of the time, until it got revealed that he was the only one that actually understood what was going on. He wasn't naive, he just really loved it.
@@watzwatz4154 dude his humiliation scene was painful somehow. But also him realizing he wasn't going to be part of the final course. Damn. I don't know what was whispered to him but it was probably something like that.
@@beritheuck1067 yeah but man was it annoying to watch
11:30 the fact that tyler is the only one who DOESN'T react to either the suicide or the man's finger being cut off and just continues eating was another huge red flag for margo. even at that point i was thinking "what the fuck is wrong with this guy?"
19:00 yeahhhhh he wasn't stabbed in the _thigh..._
It was the thigh it's said in the script and it's supposed to mirror him stabbing his father
@@mariahjackson2386 she prefaces it with a story about him repeatedly trying to have sex with her and calls it "man's folly" where the women are exempt and she stabs him in the *thigh?* What does any of her story even have to do with his father?
@@dietotaku "I should've stabbed him in the throat then" she *should've* stabbed him in the throat but didn't and made the same mistake as him, later Margot stabs Elsa in the throat
@@dietotaku it's mentioned in the script that he is bleeding from the stab wound in his thigh, and that it grows from that point on in the film. You can check it if you want
it was definitely in the thigh (if you watched the movie it shows him pull them out) with scissors...the same with the ensuing chicken thigh meat meal had scissors stabbed into them.
2:18 shes about to make a queen of gambits move
I really like that ending for her. It makes sense. The guy gets to have his passionate murder meal, and she gets to leave.
Gordon Ramsay's been real quiet since this came out...
In all honesty, no one would have seen this happening or prevent it. They have private islands with special events all the time that people pay a lot of money to attend. Phones rarely work on islands unless you got an emergency phone that connects to satellites and not towers, though radio do work but no guarantee and depends on the distance. If you try swimming, take off anything shiny or you will attract predator fish that will attack you. Woman was just lucky she was not a target. The chef had full control of the whole island so unless he wanted you to escape, you wasn't by normal means. Everyone their is prepared to die, so it's best not to fight unless it's one vs one because one can literally sacrifice themself to jump into your weapon and hold you down while the other gets you.
In the meal, "The mess" he didn't explain that the guy who was shot shot himself. Margo should have ran over and grabbed the gun because although all the chefs have knives she'll have a gun and be better at taking control of the situation.
I don't think that would work, as it most likely only had one in the chamber.
@@DefinitelyNotShane even if fully loaded, the chefs and the staff were all fanatics, she could've killed max 2 when they charged her
@@DefinitelyNotShane You wont know if you don't try 🤷
@@Raaa8080 There's still no harm in trying. She's less likely to be killed because the chef is a perfectionist and wants to kill everyone at the *end* of the meals so at most she just might be punished but not killed and even How To Beat stated that killing the head chef might create a power shift where the costumers will be able to fight back; As a head of a cult works as the head of a snake sometimes. You cut off the head the rest of the snake falls apart. Taking the gun is a low risk high reward option and it would be pointless to not even consider grabbing it.
@@Tom-om6cu if you are ever in that kind of situation and you've led a comfortable non violent life till then, i say you are more likely to NOT believe insane plans when you hear them, you are more likely to wait for a future occasion to escape and you are less likely to risk so much by going up against 3 guys or going of on a 2% chance you live; if you lived in comfort, it gets you some time to actual start to believe the plan
The “that’s [] course down, [] to go” caught me off guard for a sec. Smart choice
2:55 Kind of a stretch... So anytime you get a rare opportunity to have a luxurious free meal you should view it as a red flag? Like when I hit it off with a celebrity on a cruise ship and she brought me to a VIP lounge and we drank 1500 dollar wine and caviar I should have interpreted that as a start of a death game or a trap? Sorry, but I just had a good time.
dude, here’s one I would recommend. The Stuff, a movie where an alien substance becomes a food and ends up making everyone that eats it someone that falls in love with it. PLEASE DO IT, it’s an amazing film.
i would agree. this movie kinda defies the how to beat format. while "the stuff" would 100% be a great fit for the how to beat format.
roanoke gaming covered "the stuff" i would highly recommend a watch. he summarizes the movie then explains how it even did what it did in a science portion afterwards ^_^
@@Everlucky_Clover Starting with the feet
YES
this is what happens when gordon ramsay misses a week of therapy