The Founder
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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54 of 54 · most liked firstfilm still #40 The Founder. #severance
unlabelledView 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?...
unlabelledView 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.
unlabelledView 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?
unlabelledView 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.
unlabelledView 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)
unlabelledView post →Watch The Founder and imagine Ray Kroc is Alive Beetlejuice. Makes the movie 100x better.
unlabelledView 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.
unlabelledView 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
unlabelledView 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)
unlabelledView post →Also, The Founder is a great movie. Seen it three times now.
unlabelledView 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.
unlabelledView 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...
unlabelledView post →The Founder, so-so movie, awesome tagline
unlabelledView post →This super movie — with another outstanding MICHAEL KEATON performance and deserving of more love — opened 9yrs ago today. THE FOUNDER (2016)
unlabelledView post →#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched Dunkirk The Founder Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country Charlie Wilson's War
unlabelledView 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?
unlabelledView 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.
unlabelledView 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.
unlabelledView 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.
unlabelledView 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.
unlabelledView 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
unlabelledView 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
unlabelledView post →The Founder is such an iconic film!
unlabelledView 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?
unlabelledView post →The Founder Not my favourite movie but I think it’s his best performance. youtu.be/l3TDg_mUsA0
unlabelledView post →10. The Founder (2016) 🎥 | 1️⃣ this is the most american movie ever made 9 / 10 (Originally posted Feb 18th, 2025)
unlabelledView 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
unlabelledView 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
unlabelledView 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
unlabelledView post →Yep, that's covered in the movie The Founder.
unlabelledView post →My ★★★★ review of The Founder on @letterboxd: boxd.it/gDhvn
unlabelledView post →Bland boomer movie crossover where Moneyball fights The Founder.
unlabelledView post →Is the movie The Founder worth watching?
unlabelledView post →The movie The Founder has the big flaw that it expects us to take McDonald's seriously. It's fucking McDonald's
unlabelledView post →last night i watched The Founder (2016) and drank every time the movie pissed me off
unlabelledView 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
unlabelledView 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
unlabelledView post →Saw him recently in The Founder, playing Ray Kroc. Teriffic film. Teriffic acting by Keaton.
unlabelledView 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
unlabelledView post →It's also a joke, if you've seen the movie The Founder 😉
unlabelledView 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
unlabelledView post →True. The Founder is a great movie. youtu.be/AX2uz2XYkbo?...
unlabelledView 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
unlabelledView post →"The Founder" was a way more interesting film than I expected it to be
unlabelledView 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
unlabelledView post →The (movie) The Founder 1080p (iTunes)(DE) €3.99 (Biography) (iMDB) 7.3 Cast: Michael Keaton, Nick Offerman, John Carroll Lynch, Linda Cardellini, B.J. Novak, Laura Dern
unlabelledView 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
unlabelledView post →Sorry for all The Founder posting but it’s a weirdly fascinating “fine to good” movie
unlabelledView 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.
unlabelledView post →@doktorzjivago @Karolina Det finns för övrigt en mycket sevärd film, #TheFounder (2016), om snabbmatskedjornas uppkomst, specifikt #McDonalds, hade även funkat med donken.
unlabelledView post →Overall : A brilliant telling of a bleak story that left a disappointing flavor in my soul. I remember the plaque in our McDonalds growing up about its founder, Ray Kroc, but this movie tells a much different story. Suddenly, I am questioning whether or not I should let my two-year-old eat McDonald's anymore! Michael Keaton's relentless portrayal of the opportunistic and duplicitous Ray Kroc is so spectacular that I questioned whether I even liked Keaton. Yet, he is one of my favorite actors!…
positive · AI labelView post →A decent film, although the story told is substantially stilted and made more tense than it actually was. We all know that the business world is not for boy scouts. As the film's protagonist himself assumes, you have to be prepared for the toughness of competitors and moves that are often disloyal. However, this is precisely why great businessmen are usually people worthy of our disdain: they associate coldness and calculation with intelligence and the cult of the ego, and not infrequently they…
negative · AI labelView post →Veni, vidi, vici! I anticipated another inspiring biopic about a man who built an empire. That's partially true, because this was inspired by the right kind of wrong thing. I mean it was not actually about the McDonalds' story, the McDonald brothers, but the fast food chain McDonald, how the franchise got rapidly spread across the globe and the person behind it. With the film having both good and bad side, it stayed mostly neutral. But due to the main character, you would see too much lean on…
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