Don’t give Hollywood your money.
They use your money to fund their anti-American activities.
I’ve seen it. The performances are excellent, Keaton is superb, the McDonald brothers are not shown as the gullible rubes that some accounts paint them as, and Ray Kroch is shown as a ruthless jerk who screws his wife and the McDonald brothers over in the end. Which, according to many accounts, isn’t far from the truth. Result? A movie I’m glad I saw but “Fences” was much better.
I saw Patriots day, that was really really good. I was sort of dreading that it would be a pro-immigrant movie, but it wasn’t that at all. They really stuck to the facts and focused on the devastation that radical Islamic terrorism that liberals support brings to this country. I can’t see how anyone with an ounce of humanity can watch that movie and still disagree with what Trump is doing, but then again liberals have no humanity.
BOYCOTT HOLLYWOOD
Keaton is a Sanders guy and is using the movie as a talking point against corporate America. I would steer clear
FWIW, it has three member reviews on Netflix: 4/5, 5/5 and 4/5.
It’s in my queue, along with Patriot’s Day.
Iloved it. Superb acting. Keaton portrays Kroc as a businessman who had flaws but an incredible drive to succeed. He didn’t honor his word with the McDonald brothers. He became spiteful to them after they would not help him with renegotiating the franchise percentage. They wouldn’t do it out of some spite themselves.
Excellent movie.
Want to see it. Was disappointed in “Patriot’s Day.” Up to the bombing scene, great, but it bogs down a little & stupid “love conquers all” ending just silly given that guns solved the problem. I gave it a B-
I recommend it. I was expecting Hollywood anti-capitalist propaganda, but even though Kroc is portrayed as a bit of a scoundrel it seemed like a fair portrait of him. I found him to be a sympathetic character although my wife disagreed.
There’s no doubt that left to their own devices the McDonald brothers would have just had one successful restaurant and that would have been the end of it.
I saw pretty much the same movie in my Marketing Class in 1975. It was about how he sold Milkshake Machines and was curious as to why these two brothers ordered so many.
If you want to know the story of Ray Kroc & the McDonalds, see The Founder. Michael Keaton gives an award winning performance of a ruthless & driven guy.