Excellent. But People Seem To Be Missing The Point

Not really sure that reasoning applies to the wall street guys though. I could see that working for Leguiziamo and the older couple, and maybe arguably, the food critic.

Yes, clearly at the end, they were willing to die. You see them not only not trying anything (like ordering a cheeseburger to go), but also paying for their bills, saying thank you, and even "we love you chef".

It's a little jarring because seemingly nothing really significant transpired between when they thought they were being rescued and when they became willing to die. Margot leaving with the cheeseburger wasn't something the rest of them really engaged in, and while they may have lost hope after the Coast Guard guy turned out to be a cook, you'd think at least some of them would've attacked, panicked, or at least not thank and say they loved the chef.

But this is explained early on, that they wouldn't understand until they had been served all of the courses. So be it brain-washing or a meal experience convincing them that the world would be better off without them, or whatever, they became willing to die when the S'mores were being served.

That was the weakest part of the whole movie. You can see where they wanted to go but they didn’t know how to get there.

spot on

Willing to die is one thing but willing to sit there and burn alive — an incredibly horrific death — is another.

The fact that people just let someone kill them in movies or shows instead of fighting back has always pissed me off. Even in this one, they should have fought back and died by gunshot — a quicker death — than go up in flames.

I also don’t believe they’d sit there quietly while it happened. It’s humanly impossible. They’d all be running and screaming in unimaginable pain, including the staff.