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       The Founder (2016)
       By: Chiprocks1 Date: October 15, 2017, 1:11 pm
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       [center]The Founder (2016)
       4 Stars out of 5
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       I have a personal connection to the Kroc Family in that they
       have been part of it because of their ownership of the Padres
       for 3/4 of my life. I thought I knew everything there was to
       know about Ray Kroc. Not even close. Turns out most of what I
       knew was just bullet points. Watching The Founder, I kept saying
       to myself that he was his era's version of Mark Zuckerberg in
       that he got the idea from another and more or less hijacks it,
       calling it his own (where the "Founder" name comes from) and
       making billions in the process. It's a bit more nuanced here and
       isn't as cut and dried as that. Ray may have the more important
       ingredient of 'persistence', but he is far from being a genius.
       He just happens to be a lucky SOB that happened to come across
       other people that knew their sh*t and told him what to do for
       him to capitalize on it. You have to marvel at how lucky he was.
       But you also have to feel bad for the McDonald's Brothers in
       their shortsightedness. I think it's noble they wanted to be
       good, hard working, honest guys and do it the "right" way. But
       the fact is, they blew it because they couldn't see all the
       angles that would lead to their ouster. And how would they be
       able to see those angles when even Ray didn't know what to do
       until pointed in the right direction by others. Michael Keaton
       is fantastic in the lead role and John Lee Hancock is his usual
       awesome self in the director's chair. Highly recommend this as a
       Rent. 4 Stars out of 5.
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