313 – The Menu

This Had Oscar Buzz

Joe and Chris

Tv & Film

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2024

⏱️ 132 minutes

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Summary

Keeping things horror adjacent for your October viewing schedule, this week we are discussing 2022’s The Menu. Originally announced as a collaboration for director Alexander Payne with Emma Stone, The Menu centers on a psycho chef and his high end clientele, who all take part in a super exclusive dining experience from Hell. The film ultimately lost that twosome but inherited Succession‘s Mark Mylod and the in-demand Anya Taylor-Joy, with Ralph Fiennes staying on as the chef. The film was a minor hit with audiences and received critical praise for its ensemble, but distributor Searchlight didn’t get it into Oscar’s good graces.

This episode, we talk about the film’s flimsy “eat the rich” satire and Taylor-Joy’s sudden ascent to stardom. We also talk about Hong Chau’s perfect line readings, other recent successful films satirizing class, and Mylod’s work on Succession.

Topics also include Fiennes in villain mode, fan culture as represented by Nicholas Hoult, and our current Halloween viewing.

Follow Us on Twitter!@Had_Oscar_BuzzJoe: @joereidChris: @chrisvfeil

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0:00.0	Chris, the Vulture Movies Fantasy League, continues to roll on. We are into, well into Halloween season for the box office.
0:08.4	And if you took a flyer on a scary movie for box office points. I hope it was
0:16.0	smile too because that's working out pretty well for you over its opening weekend.
0:25.0	What was the dollar buy for Smile 2? Smile 2 dollar buy, excellent question.
0:28.0	I'm going to very quickly look this up.
0:30.0	Eight dollars, five dollars.
0:32.0	If there was anything less, that was a great vibe.
0:34.6	How much could a smile cost, Michael, a dollar?
0:37.3	Smile 2 was $5.
0:39.8	So yeah, $23 million.
0:42.3	It topped the box office, so you'll get those bonus points.
0:45.3	It will almost certainly be at the very least a $50 million movie, so you'll get those bonus points.
0:52.3	And it opened pretty similar to what the first smile
0:56.1	opened to.
0:56.8	And that movie ended up clearing $105 million domestic.
1:00.8	And this movie, I feel like,
1:01.7	has gotten even better reviews. I feel like most of what I'm seeing out there on Letterboxed is I liked this movie a lot better than I liked the first smile.
1:10.0	So I'm encouraged. I'm now very much encouraged to go see this movie and be
1:15.1	creeped out by big wide grins again. Other than that the news at the box office is sort of in in miniature I think we live in time with 4.3 million
1:30.3	A Nora is kind of the big winner small scale wise even though you're not going to see any points for it yet
1:36.2	Anora of course the number one most drafted movie so there's a lot of eyeballs on how this is going to be performing financially and on only how many screens four screens six screens I believe but still the second largest
1:51.7	theater average post-Covid after our beloved asteroid city.
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