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Movies 52 - 1917: Sonic the Bad Boys of Prey

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Judith Light was pitch perfect for me as the oblivious, chatty, pretentious socialite. You could walk into whatever the current "it" restaurant in any major city is on any given night and immediately spot a dozen of her.
 
Avatar: The Way of Water crossed $1.7 billion worldwide this weekend, becoming the #7 movie all-time. By the end of the month, it will likely make it to #4 all-time where it will nestle in between Titanic and Star Wars: The Force Awakens. James Cameron will have three of the top four movies of all time.
 
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Avatar: The Way of Water crossed $1.7 billion worldwide this weekend, becoming the #7 movie all-time. By the end of the month, it will likely make it to #4 all-time where it will nestle in between Titanic and Star Wars: The Force Awakens. James Cameron will have three of the top four movies of all time.
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It's a good movie. I enjoyed it. I also found myself viscerally angry at the "villains" in the film.
 
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The Menu. Enjoyable bit of silliness, with Fiennes and Taylor-Joy excellent and Hoult his usual hilarious self.
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To add more of my thoughts. As someone who has sat through a few celeb chef multi-course tasting menus with the price tag of a car payment, only one of which was memorable enough that I'd be up for repeating it given the chance, I enjoyed the movie for the dark satire and criticism of haute cuisine and "foodie" culture that it was. Also, the low-key criticism of the whole chef apprenticeship system where young wannabes move thousands of miles away to train under a master for peanuts, and most of them end up burning out or just recreating inferior versions of the master's food.

Let's be honest - do you really think a guy like Bobby Flay still truly has a passion for cooking at this point, or is he just going through the motions to keep his empire afloat so that he can pay his many bills? I'm pretty sure I know that answer, as do all three of his ex-wives. I think back to the time, 10-15 years ago, when Bourdain finally sat down for dinner with Emeril after years of mocking him. Emeril basically admitted that once you've made a name for yourself and built a culinary empire, maintaining it is hard and leads you to do things you probably wouldn't otherwise do. Like fully selling out and putting your name on lines of cookware, spices, sauces, etc. Or starting a chain of mediocre airport restaurants with your name on them (Bobby's Burger Palace, Cat Cora's Taproom, etc).

My wife didn't like it as much, which is a bit surprising given that she's usually up for a good skewering of pretentious rich fooks who contribute little to nothing to society. But understandable given that she grew up in a household where food sometimes meant eating condiment sandwiches to survive.
 
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My wife didn't like it as much, which is a bit surprising given that she's usually up for a good skewering of pretentious rich fooks who contribute little to nothing to society. But understandable given that she grew up in a household where food sometimes meant eating condiment sandwiches to survive.
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Curious what she didn't like about it.

I loved that it was also a skewering of pretentious horror movies, where there is a Compelling Philosophical Idea behind the sociopath's murders, and you get sucked into the logic and then uh oh, or in reverse you get the splatter early and then the "but wait" navel gaze. Saw is the ur-case, but there are plenty of other examples: "Thanos did nothing wrong," Ozymandius in Watchmen, I suppose entire history of religious persecution In the Name of The Sacred Truth.
 
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Curious what she didn't like about it.
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She's not much of a horror film fan to begin with, even spoofy ones. She also thought the ending was bad, which is a common complaint I've read from critics.

In terms of the overall message and theme of the film, I can unequivocally say this. There's more passion and better flavor in some of the dishes I make myself in my home kitchen, or in the $6 bowl of chicken noodle soup made by the babushka who runs my local greasy spoon, than there is in some of the fancier joints I've paid big money for the privilege of dining at. The burnout of trying to climb the gastronomic ladder is often worse than climbing the corporate one. At least the latter usually only flogs you for 40-50 hours a week and offers health insurance.
 
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She's not much of a horror film fan to begin with, even spoofy ones. She also thought the ending was bad, which is a common complaint I've read from critics.
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The ending was terrible. It got progressively less interesting as it became more definite what was going on. I think if they had been able to leave more ambiguity it would have been better overall, but then again I hate resolutions. In real life nothing is ever resolved.
 
So, on topic of The Menu- Noma in cooenhagen, considered the top restaurant in the world, is closing end of 2024. They’ve been caught working people crazy hours and not paying interns in recent years, chef says it’s just not a sustainable model.

as someone who doesn’t pay $400 to eat sea foam, I don’t care.

all these top chefs are grueling to work for. all of them. My cousin worked under Ripert for over a decade and can be a real dick himself, i think.
 
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The ending was terrible. It got progressively less interesting as it became more definite what was going on. I think if they had been able to leave more ambiguity it would have been better overall, but then again I hate resolutions. In real life nothing is ever resolved.
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That's not true. Your life has a resolution you can count on.
 
Enemy of the State is on FX tonight. Still can't believe this 1998 film feels so fresh.


Lucky writing by Tony Scott, Jerry Bruckheimer, and David Marconi; or was it similar to Tom Clancy where a couple unofficial sources passed along useful information?
 
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