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FilmPG-132016
The Founder
Directed by John Lee Hancock
The true story of how Ray Kroc, a salesman from Illinois, met Mac and Dick McDonald, who were running a burger operation in 1950s Southern California. Kroc was impressed by the brothers’ speedy system of making the food and saw franchise potential. He maneuvered himself into a position to be able to pull the company from the brothers and create a billion-dollar empire. From TMDB
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The Founder is a 2016 drama history film, directed by John Lee Hancock, starring Michael Keaton, Nick Offerman and John Carroll Lynch.
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60 of 63 · most liked firstfilm still #40 The Founder. #severance
neutral · AI labelView post →super movie — with yet another outstanding MICHAEL KEATON performance. THE FOUNDER (2016)
positive · AI labelView post →Such a good Movie. THE FOUNDER (2016) MICHAEL KEATON is outstanding, as usual.
positive · AI labelView post →If you want to see a GOOD movie about the creation of an iconic American company, I strongly recommend The Founder. youtu.be/AX2uz2XYkbo?...
positive · AI labelView post →Previously sold adoptable Gonna be straight up, this started as me playing with girth and hair framing around the head shapes. Thing came together between the uniform in Good Burger and my hatred to capitalism spawned from the movie The Founder. Never did pick whether he was a dino or a capybara.
neutral · AI labelView post →In the movie the Founder, Ray Kroc shook the McDonald brothers hand over the lack of royalties written in the contract and said that will be taken care of later. They were never paid and it cost them millions of dollars. How did that spoken word work out?
neutral · AI labelView post →You could make a fantastic The Founder style movie about Bob Kane. Just show him "coming up with the idea" with Bill Finger and then there's zero creativity from him ever again as he spends his years living like Tony Stark and while knifing Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster.
neutral · AI labelView post →It is'nt easy for our QueerCommunity nowadays.. Not long ago I learned, that Fetters-founder Jim Stewart, his legacy site has been taken Offline, due to UK-legislation... Image from the Brazil(1985) Movie, the bondage-Suit has been devised by the Founder of Fetters-UK, Jim Stewart(†2012)
neutral · AI labelView post →Watch The Founder and imagine Ray Kroc is Alive Beetlejuice. Makes the movie 100x better.
neutral · AI labelView post →spouse put on The Founder, which is a really good movie that inevitably ends the same way, each and every time: we talk about what an asshole Ray Kroc was...and then we get McDonald's.
positive · AI labelView post →Posting a random movie from my library. DAY 14 : The Founder The story about the rise of Ray Kroc and the McDonald's empire. With Michael Keaton, Nick Offerman & John Carrol Lynch 4⭐️ #filmsky #physicalmedia
positive · AI labelView post →In general I’d like to stifle the idea that every corporation has a compelling founding myth worthy of a movie. There are exceptions of course, but they usually involve some form of theft (Social Network, The Founder) or real life people so ridiculous that they border on parody (WeWorked)
neutral · AI labelView post →If you’ve seen Mad Men, Moneyball, Wolf Of Wall Street, The Founder, Knights Of Guinevere you know companies are built around selling a relationship. Unless they have a Walt Disney/Steve Jobs fixation, they bury film reels under the studio with cement/throw famous movie props in the trash. Guarded.
neutral · AI labelView post →Also, The Founder is a great movie. Seen it three times now.
positive · AI labelView post →This is wild. Reminds me of when Pixar realized that Cars merchandise was more profitable than the Cars movies, or that scene from the movie The Founder when BJ Novak's character notes that McDonald's isn't a burger business, but a real estate business.
neutral · AI labelView post →#JulyMovieChallenge Day 31 - CEO in a movie The Founder (2016) #filmsky #moviesky ...the story of Ray Croc, who used ambition, persistence & ruthlessness to turn two brothers' innovative fast food eatery, McDonald's, into the biggest restaurant business in the world...
neutral · AI labelView post →The Founder, so-so movie, awesome tagline
neutral · AI labelView post →This super movie — with another outstanding MICHAEL KEATON performance and deserving of more love — opened 9yrs ago today. THE FOUNDER (2016)
positive · AI labelView post →#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched Dunkirk The Founder Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country Charlie Wilson's War
neutral · AI labelView post →If this were a movie like The Founder that delves into the bullshit that happened behind the scenes and ultimately led to their bankruptcy, SURE! Yes! That might be interesting! This…is just…what comes *after* late stage capitalism?
neutral · AI labelView post →The Founder is a terrible movie because it doesn't feature Ray Kroc shouting "I AM A BAD PERSON" at the film and it leaves all of it as innuendo, people might walk away thinking that all of the transparently awful things he did were actually totally all right.
negative · AI labelView post →Watched The Founder. Michael Keaton is great as Kroc. You are on his side at the beginning and then... Whew...what a shit bird. Such a better food nostalgia movie than that Seinfeld pos. This wasn't funny... But then neither was Unfrosted.
positive · AI labelView post →We built the film and television industry in Southern California. And as the Founder and Co-Chair of the Creative Rights Caucus, I will continue to fight to keep its productions, jobs, and its future here in the United States.
neutral · AI labelView post →I can’t cope with this. I remember watching that film about The Founder of MackintoshDonalds (Braveheart, I think it’s called) Srsly, not sure I can manage this information.
neutral · AI labelView post →Not an adaptation per se but I’m a sucker for business movies like “The Founder.” Would love to see a movie in the vein of “Pirates of Silicon Valley” about the home computer wars in the 1980s, featuring Jack Tramiel, Commodore, Atari, and the the insane mismanagement at both of the latter companies
neutral · AI labelView post →Business films I love. What can be added to the list? Margin Call The Big Short Air Wall Street Boiler Room Moneyball The Founder Wolf of Wall Street #movies #film #business
neutral · AI labelView post →The Founder is such an iconic film!
positive · AI labelView post →Someone said it's Michael Keaton's birthday so I watched The Founder finally and I didn't expect how much of a corporate horror movie it was where not only does the bad guy win but he gets everything he wants with seemingly no repercussions. Like, did anyone see that movie and feel good at the end?
neutral · AI labelView post →The Founder Not my favourite movie but I think it’s his best performance. youtu.be/l3TDg_mUsA0
neutral · AI labelView post →To adapt a quote from the movie The Founder: "You don't seem to understand what business you're in. You're not in the Seafood business, you're in the real estate business. You don't build an empire off of limited earnings from seafood boils. You build it off the land where that seafood is boiled."
neutral · AI labelView post →10. The Founder (2016) 🎥 | 1️⃣ this is the most american movie ever made 9 / 10 (Originally posted Feb 18th, 2025)
positive · AI labelView post →Fun Fact: The Founders of Laika studios (they made Coraline) is the Founder of Nike, Phil Knight and his son Travis Knight whose a director (Masters of Universe and Bumblebee to name a few. *They produced Wildwood which is one the last stop motion animation movies that took 15 years to make.*
neutral · AI labelView post →The Founder is honestly the perfect example. Competent directing and editing that looks good, really good performances and even with that it’s the most 3.5/5 movie ever made
neutral · AI labelView post →I was harsh, the show is just overrated. Plus have Doug Walker in it, so yeah, it's trash for me. I reject to see anything more about it. Plus, this is a scene from the movie The Founder, a movie about how they ruin the good stuff by making it cheaper and without Substance. So Even the meme is shit
negative · AI labelView post →#OnThisDay, May 15, 1940, Richard and Maurice McDonald opened the first McDonald's restaurant in San Bernardino, California (depicted in The Founder, 2016) #Film #Movies #Cinemastodon #TheFounder #McDonalds
neutral · AI labelView post →Darn fine actor in a darn good movie. Weirdly, I’m always hungry after watching The Founder but I don’t like McDonald’s.
positive · AI labelView post →New Physical Media via Amazon & Mercari! A mix of classics like Sunset Boulevard, new movie like Tuner, blind buy of a Criterion Collection film I’ve never heard of and Michael Keaton’s The Founder. #filmsky #physicalmedia
neutral · AI labelView post →Yep, that's covered in the movie The Founder.
neutral · AI labelView post →My ★★★★ review of The Founder on @letterboxd: boxd.it/gDhvn
positive · AI labelView post →Bland boomer movie crossover where Moneyball fights The Founder.
neutral · AI labelView post →Is the movie The Founder worth watching?
neutral · AI labelView post →The movie The Founder has the big flaw that it expects us to take McDonald's seriously. It's fucking McDonald's
negative · AI labelView post →last night i watched The Founder (2016) and drank every time the movie pissed me off
negative · AI labelView post →The Founder would be a really good basis for an AI movie meme riff I think.
neutral · AI labelView post →Ha — and yet they made a movie called “The Founder” based on this company that teaches one how to be a founder 😳 It’s a circular conspiracy Congratulations you’ve made it to level 2
neutral · AI labelView post →3: Rewatched “The Founder,” about the rise of MCDONALD’S. If I had a nickel for every recent based-on-real-life movie where a guy grew a business into a global behemoth but screwed his business partners along the way, I’d have two nickels, which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it’s happened twice
neutral · AI labelView post →Saw him recently in The Founder, playing Ray Kroc. Teriffic film. Teriffic acting by Keaton.
positive · AI labelView post →Happy 65th Birthday To David Heyman David Jonathan Heyman (Born 26 July 1961) Is A British Film Producer And The Founder Of Heyday Films. Heyman Secured The Rights To The Harry Potter Film Series In 1999 And Went On To Produce All Eight Installments Of The Franchise And The Three Installments Of
neutral · AI labelView post →It's also a joke, if you've seen the movie The Founder 😉
neutral · AI labelView post →And also one of the McDonald's brothers in "The Founder" (the other one was Todd Packer) and Chester Arthur in a Netflix documentary about James Garfield. But youre telling me, Metalbeard, from the Lego Movie (one of my favorites), is Nick fucking Offerman? Crazy
neutral · AI labelView post →True. The Founder is a great movie. youtu.be/AX2uz2XYkbo?...
positive · AI labelView post →#DailyStream: insidious fast-food deliciousness. In 2016’s #TheFounder, Michael Keaton gives an intense, superb performance as Ray Kroc, the guy who made McDonald’s a global force. Terrifyingly delicious. Newly returned to US @netflix; also @PrimeVideo @AppleTV US/UK
neutral · AI labelView post →I picture #orangecaligula has huddled himself Howard Hughes-like in WH's movie theater with a huge supply of Big Macs and Diet Cokes, watching 2016's The Founder on constant loop, bawling and giggling intermittantly, emptying his wastes in the used cups, lining them out in a neat line. #midterms
neutral · AI labelView post →Often means the lawyers believe the film could have been much worse on the subject. I.E.: Social Network, The Founder
neutral · AI labelView post →"The Founder" was a way more interesting film than I expected it to be
positive · AI labelView post →I did a podcast about the classic musical The King And I on "Have You Ever Seen". Yeah, the etc etc etc movie. That's it for June. My first show in July will be talking about both John Lee Hancock's The Founder & Martin Scorsese's Silence from 2016
neutral · AI labelView post →MOVIE QUOTE OF THE DAY: “If my competitor were drowning, I’d walk over and put a hose right in his mouth.” Michael Keaton in The Founder #TheFounder #JohnLeeHancock #RobertSiegel #MichaelKeaton #moviequotes #moviequoteoftheday
neutral · AI labelView post →Sorry for all The Founder posting but it’s a weirdly fascinating “fine to good” movie
neutral · AI labelView post →I mean, the 2016 movie The Founder, about the "founding" more of the McDonald's franchise and not the initial restaurant, pretty much spelled out in a pivotal scene. For a lotta restaurant and fast food chains, they sell food & dining services as priority, but the major company model is real estate.
neutral · AI labelView post →Nov 21: Entrepreneur #Bales2023FilmChallenge #FilmMastodon 📽️ 🎬 @bales1181 #TheFounder (2016) 🍔 🍟 Salesman Ray Kroc turns two brothers innovative fast food eatery, McDonald's, into the world's biggest restaurant business, with a combination of ambition, persistence and ruthlessness.
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