00:00 There should be McDonald's everywhere. Franchise the damn thing. Mr. Krug. Franchise. Franchise.
00:06 Franchise. So the founder from 2016 then. So for those of you who haven't seen this,
00:11 this is the story of how McDonald's came to be what it is today. Starting out from a little
00:16 restaurant, started by two brothers, becoming one of the biggest companies in the world
00:21 that stars Michael Keaton, amongst others. We had a guest on from America called Kevin
00:25 Goatee who suggested it because he thinks it's underrated and underseen. Yeah, so Kevin's
00:30 consensus was he just generally thought that this film was underappreciated, that no one
00:35 really paid attention to it when it came to awards time. So at the time of recording,
00:39 over on IMDb, it gets a 7.2 out of 10. And then over on Rotten Tomatoes, the critics
00:45 give it 80%. And then the audience give it 82%, which are quite good scores. But this
00:51 is quite a terrific film. I had seen this one before, so I was really excited when he
00:55 chose it. This is a story I feel that is just so brilliantly told. So a lot of the film
01:01 is essentially just guys in suits having conversations about businesses, about franchises, about
01:07 that sort of thing. So how do you make that interesting and how do you get your audience
01:11 to engage? And the filmmakers just absolutely nail it from things like cinematic techniques
01:16 to the excellent script writing, and of course, some fantastic performances in there. I'm
01:20 a big fan of Michael Keaton anyway, and he is phenomenal in this. He just absolutely
01:25 nails the character of Ray Kroc, and he goes from being our hero to a little bit of a villain.
01:30 But all the while, you're still kind of rooting for him, even though sometimes his intentions
01:34 aren't pure. And he does seem to be this sort of capitalist, crazed, money hungry type of
01:38 guy. But you're so enthralled by him. Business is war. It's dog eat dog, rat eat rat. I want
01:44 to take the future. I want to win. I just think it's a really well structured and well
01:50 executed piece of storytelling. I like biopics. I like true to life stories. I like learning
01:55 about real events. And this is a really good exploration in this film of the ability of
02:01 money and ambition to have the power to sort of corrupt. And I think it's really clever
02:07 in the way it does it. Was there anything you didn't like about it?
02:11 The main offender in this for me was that there were quite a few conveniences. Now,
02:15 I know that this just comes with the territory when you're retelling something that did actually
02:19 happen because there's so much information that you need to get in there and you want
02:23 to make sure that you're getting all that across to the audience. But there were some
02:26 moments that just did not feel authentic at all and didn't feel like real conversation,
02:30 but that just had to happen to move the story along and to get us from, you know, from A
02:34 to B to C to D and so on and so forth. And I feel like those moments really stood out
02:38 because the script was so sophisticated and so brilliant in so many other ways. So when
02:43 you had these moments, they were just quite obvious. And it did just throw me out the
02:47 film a little bit. And I thought, oh, well, no one would ever really speak like that.
02:50 But that was really it, to be honest. And overall, I did think it was a very positive
02:54 viewing experience.
02:55 In the glorious name of McDonald's, I had to have it.
02:59 You don't have it.
03:01 You sure about that?
03:02 [WHOOSH]
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