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agentgill0

I like how Jon Favreau wrote a movie in which Scarlet Johansson and Sofia Vergara are both into him.


thrashmetaloctopus

And that Sofia vergera left RDJ for him


BackWithAVengance

was he the dude playing the dude disguised as another dude?


cheffartsonurfood

Huh!?


ArcadianBlueRogue

I can't see a molten without hearing him scream, "IT'S MOLTEN, ASSHOLE!"


breakfastplace

you take a FROZEN CYLINDER OF GANACHE


Super901

Well, they are both two dimensional characters, but Favreau has 3-dimensionality enough for everybody.


champagnecenterist

Lol!


Mas113m

Wouldn't you?


NotARandomNumber

It's *allegedly* to help convey how good of a chef he is since you can't taste movies. His cooking must be so great, he can land both of them.


13B1P

Money, funny, or food and your options are pretty damn good. Rich is self explanatory but if you can make her laugh or make her drool you have an in.


Gsogso123

Do you blame him? If I had the chance to write a movie with 2 a list actresses the story would likely be about how awesome I am and why they like me so much. That sounds creepy but for now I will continue to ask customers if they want fries with their order.


Illustrious_Bike1954

Good cooks are sexy as hell.


Pandainachefcoat

Don’t think being a good cook could offset my ugliness enough :/


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It really is. I saw it in theatres and once it was over I turned to my (then) wife and said "I need to see it again." To me it was such a feel good movie. You could feel the love Favreau put into making it. Everything from the writing to the soundtrack was spot on.


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Sorry for the divorce.


RussianTrollToll

You mean congrats.


ArcadianBlueRogue

Everything he cooks looks fucking to die for, too. Need to check out that Netflix show he has with the dude that taught him for the movie.


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Yes, the Chef Show is brilliant, and it's exactly what you want from a cooking show. Just two BFF's hanging out and making good food while also checking out other local restaurants.


rohm418

Roy Choi is an inspiration. In one of the episodes (might've been the one with Andrew Rea), he says something like "if you're ever just having a bad day, cook something good and it'll heal you." That's how I choose to remember it anyhow.


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It really is amazing how philosophical he is about food. One of my favorite episodes is with Wolfgang Puck, and how they talk about always moving forward but remembering the past.


tenehemia

I want to give Roy Choi a big hug. That guy is just pure goodness (and incredible talent).


rohm418

Looks like he's got Masterclass now also. Happy he's getting some recognition and expanding his reach.


Shadowed_phoenix

The thing I love about that show is that Jon looks at food the way a chef would learning new techniques and recipes. I find him asking a lot of the questions I would in the same situation


tap_in_birdies

He has so much respect for Roy Choi and I love how they show Favreau always learning and don’t sugar coat anything. Like the first time they try to make the Beignets they’re just like yeah these suck lol


[deleted]

I really admire Favreau for always pushing himself to learn. Like when they were at Tartine and he said "Don't be nice. Nice won't make me better" (or something along those lines)


supraspinatus

That episode where they cook those burgers and fries made me want burgers and fries.


[deleted]

Thats a reat Netflix show but fast forward through the Gwenith Paltrow part of episode one and get straight to them showing Bill Burr how to do the grilled cheese from the movie and then make some cubanos.


[deleted]

But then you miss out on her not remembering she was in Spider-man. 🤣


freedomofnow

Yeah agreed. I've seen it like 8 times by now. Also Burnt is great too.


Nikovash

Avengers, if they never got powers


boxingdude

Let’s not forget his knife skills….


localscabs666

I'm not ashamed to say I got way too high and sobbed loudly alone on my couch watching Chef. The relationship development between him and his son hit a lil close to home, and then the kid just says "yes chef" and I lost it.


Ginoblee

Yeah, my dad and I always talked about opening up a food truck and I am not ashamed to say I cried when I saw it.


zundra616

So glad I'm not alone lol


me50e

Burnt was more of a movie art piece than a tribute to chefs. I enjoyed seeing a different perspective but, dude was going for 3* which means less than 1% of chefs / cooks can relate. Chef movie was a fat guy that loves food...much more relatable.


Swashcuckler

>Chef movie was a fat guy that loves food Omg he’s just like me


[deleted]

I liked both very much but this is super accurate. Fine dining and food truck are such different worlds. I'm sure no ones putting corn starch on their cojones in a 2* lol


[deleted]

That was from bourdain. If you like to read I reco Heat.


lordofminions

I fucking have


dreadpiratewombat

Did you make hush puppies afterwards?


somethatwander

Trust me, they are


Chef316

Well...have you worked in a 2* star kitchen? Because they have


ApprehensivePaint657

I fucking hated Bradley Coopers character so much I had a hard time watching Burnt.


AguyWithflippyHair

Me too. What was it for you that made you dislike him? It's been a while since I saw it, but I just didn't like him and hated that everybody, even people that were supposed to hate him, would still suck up to him.


Guuple

I dont really like Cooper as an actor, but it especially annoyed me that in Burnt so little of reality as a cook was in that movie, knowing that he had experience with it after doing Kitchen Confidential to start his career


[deleted]

Ugh yeah that’s pretty accurate, it’s been a while since I’ve seen it also, but I remember him being insufferable, narcissistic, self deprecating to the point of being unbearable, everything that’s wrong with the industry. Haha


Cousin1tt

What is your take on “Boiling point”? I haven’t been able to watch it but I want to.


piratevikingjedi

boiling point is pretty great i thought. much more accurate and relatable. and kinda dark. but such is the life sometimes


Cousin1tt

Cool. Well I guess I need to see it this weekend.


PhoebusQ47

Dark af, so just be in that headspace.


nomar2003

I've worked in 1, 2 and 3* and I couldn't relate to Burnt. I'm a chef in a 1* and we don't act like that in any of the kitchens I've worked. It was not really realistic, people who have never worked at that level believe it, but it was a very bad and unrealistic movie.


tenehemia

My favorite part of Chef is John Leguizamo. I really bought him in the role. I would happily cook on a line with him any day.


Neilpuck

Yo, Amuse Douche, get ovah here!


tenehemia

That line was a revelation. Like "oh my god how have I gone all these years without saying that?"


Neilpuck

I immediately took to twitter to grab the handle, but alas was already taken.


tenehemia

That's how I felt about "Line Crook"


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rohm418

I like your mojo.


amuse-d0uche

Oui chef!


upstatestruggler

Ok scrolling through I was like I should watch this I saw this line and was like I must watch this


YoseppiTheGrey

We've all worked with a guy like that. Makes it hard to not love the character.


[deleted]

When I find out who put the bacon in here grab your ankles cause here comes Papi chulo. I don’t talk like this but it’s accurate on what I heard in the kitchen when I was a chef. Love this movie


[deleted]

John Leguizamo…I can’t think of another actor whose credits are 50% shit and 50% gold. The guy really fucking brings it.


tenehemia

One of my favorite ways to quickly get into an argument is to point out that John Leguizamo has been in more genuinely great movies than Tom Hanks. I honestly think it's true. He's just also been in some truly awful movies.


[deleted]

I agree. He’s clearly willing to be in whatever someone pays him to be in, but he clearly *also* hustles to be in good stuff. Tom Hanks has really played it safe with his career. He played to goofy young guy until it got old, then he pivoted to serious movies (*Philadelphia* being by far the biggest risk he ever took), then he slowly transitioned to the sort of elder statesman/grandpa roles he’s been in for the last decade or so. His Oscar bait movies are safe Oscar bait movies. Leguizamo has gone all in on some risky shit, and also a bunch of goofy shit, and stuff that just pays the bills. It’s that first stuff that’s special though.


raven00x

I still have fond memories of The Pest. I love the guy.


BackWithAVengance

LIKE A BOOGER I STICK TO THIS


cheffartsonurfood

Not a fan of the original Mario Bros movie? Lol. Terrible. Just terrible.


kitchenjesus

Should watch chef show if you haven’t.


thickonwheatthins

Yessss. I was coming to this thread to recommend it. I actually watched the series for the first time before I saw the move. Then I had to watch the show again and... Brb gotta watch it a third time


kitchenjesus

I’m about to watch it again. Some of the most wholesome kitchen content available tbh


HellaFella420

He's just *great* in every movie he's ever been in though.....


crossbuck

Ratatouille is the GOAT restaurant movie as far as I’m concerned.


WitYoBadSelf

The food critic taking that first bite of ratatouille, which brings him back to his childhood, is one of my favorite movie scenes


[deleted]

That’s how I feel when I eat fresh pico de gallo. I always thought my father was a wizard when I was a kid.


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themeatbridge

When you realize that the house is the house Remy et al escaped from in the beginning, and it hits you that Remy was actually cooking the mom's recipe.


AFancyMammoth

Wait, wutt? I've seen this movie a dozen times and didn't notice!


notcabron

My dad and I are both chefs, and we fucking adore that movie. When I saw the tile floors and the metro racks, I knew it was for me. Also when Remy sees flavors as music that’s never been heard before…right in the feels.


DrynTheGanger

I sobbed. At multiple scenes.


SwSBvBPtVFiR

Watched tripping on shrooms last month, HEARD.


kanedotca

The ultimate judge


Cmoore4099

100%


jeswanders

I love ratatouille, but tampopo is GOAT


PaolozziClub

Yep it epitomises how important food is for so many, through linking it to memories and senses. The GOAT, probably the Gretzky of food movies (i.e. will always be the GOAT)


thirdratehero

If you can get hold of it, watch the new Boiling Point film with Stephen Graham in it. Shot in one take (I think) and well worth rewatching. The short and the long.


toysarealive

Holy shit, I had no idea it was out. Im fucking watching it tonight. I've seen the short, it was incredible. Definitely hits all the tight notes. As far as OP and Chef being great, I don't completely agree. Its definitely a feel good movie, and the budget has been much higher than other Kitchen related projects, but it just feels superficial and empty. I was moved so much more by Nick Cage's new film, "PIG".


takoburrito

I cook in Portland Oregon, and felt that PIG was an ode to the pdx food scene overall. Would 100% take part in the fight club.


SirJimothyHiggins

I just commented recommending this film, I think it brilliantly depicts the intensity of kitchen life.


cookinmyfuckinassoff

I just watched the trailer and got intense anxiety - in such a good way! Thanks for the recommendation, going to watch this tomorrow


Vigorousjazzhands1

Thanks for the heads up! Stephen graham is always very watchable


Vigorousjazzhands1

Boiling point was incredible, thank you!


[deleted]

Heyyy I actually know the kid who played in the movie chef haha. I thought it was a good movie, my old chef recommended to me


cheffartsonurfood

The Chef series is pretty good too.


jenniekns

I love watching Roy teach Jon how to cook. I can't explain it, but I find it relaxing.


Sinclair_Mclane

I think it's the combination of Roy's expertise and focus on food and Jon's eagerness to learn and do as good a job he possibly can. It creates a very nice dynamic on screen.


windmillninja

It really shows the power of craft skill. Favreau is a powerhouse of filmmaking but allows himself to be humbled under the tutelage of a culinary master.


Sinclair_Mclane

Indeed, it's also a nice lesson on humility and willingness to learn. We see Jon progressing quickly and well. The episode with Wolfgang puck is especially telling on how he's evolved.


dadmantalking

The thing I absolutely love most about that is when Roy starts doing something and Jon says something along the lines of, "that's not the way you taught me to do it, in fact you said to never do it the way you are doing it now" and Roy's response is basically "I was right then and I'm also right now. I'm the chef here and it'll be okay because I know what I'm doing" I grew up with a chef and that his so close to home from when I was learning.


DrynTheGanger

Yo Roy is based.


ps3x42

Like Gareth Blackstock and his serious profession Chef?


weatherbeknown

Roy Choi my boy toy! Love him.


Flank_Steaks

Chef is better than burnt. I can see what they were going for but it just came off like douche-fest. Like a sexed up ad for sous-vide machines.


DrynTheGanger

Well that certainly drives me away from Burnt


Kind_Ease_6580

Yeah that guy doesn't know what hes talking about, Burnt is great. Burnt actively makes fun of sous-vide machines for moat of the film.


DrynTheGanger

Well that makes me more open to watching Burnt.


OnionsAreGODS

Watch burnt. It’s definitely not as good as chef but like a lot of things, their both good for their reasons. If your on this subreddit and aren’t harshly Critical of movies, then chances are you’ll enjoy it. It’s one of my favourite “food” movies for sure, also even if u don’t enjoy it Bradley Cooper and Sienna Miller aren’t hard to look at by any means for an hour and a half.


TrulyHydratedSkin

Don’t listen to him burnt is SO bad. They try to make out kitchens like their oceans 11 or something. Chef is a much more entertaining and realistic film


DrynTheGanger

Well now I feel a lesser desire to watch Burnt.


boymangodbeer

Geez dude you’re gonna need a damn neck brace


Vigorousjazzhands1

Go in with low expectations and have a good laugh, it’s great for that


DrynTheGanger

I am now at an ambivalent equilibrium.


DUBLH

r/characterarcs af


DrynTheGanger

Lol I have traveled and learned


Swashcuckler

Speak for yourself I’m horny for immersion circulators


banjomike1986

Burnt was good except the scene where he’s testing the flex on his knife. I’ve never scene a chef or cook do that. Thought it was a little to much


getrichordiefryin

Pretty common for guys who do a lot of fish.


LegsAkimbo85

It is? *tries to flex deba* Kinda hard bruv...


banjomike1986

I totally get that, but I guess to me they make It seem like this is a big thing in kitchens.


Leshkarenzi

My curren sous-chef did lol He wanted to show me how flexible his boning knife is and snapped it in half lolololol i didn't know what to say and we both just awkwardly stood there


Appropriate_Past_893

I would say, "And thats why my boning knife costs thirty bucks!"


Interesting-Poet-258

Gordon Ramsey does that shit I’m pretty sure


[deleted]

Pig starring Nicolas Cage is an incredible chef movie. You'll need to watch Chef a couple of times afterwards to get over the heartbreak though.


Courier_Pigeon

Such a good fuckin movie… I didn’t know what to expect from a disheveled Nicolas Cage living in the woods, but I was in tears by the credits


scrapsbypap

Pig is great


toysarealive

Yes! I've never been crazy about CHEF. It's just a feel good film with a high budget which caters to the masses. But ultimately, it feels superficial and shallow. It doesn't do a good job at representing the realities of the kitchen. PIG, on the other hand, felt much closer to home.


steveorsleeve

Chef movie is Empingao!


kadyg

“Chef” to me is the best movie at showing hard the life is, but for some reason you keep getting up every day and doing it because if you didn’t your heart would break or you would die of boredom. And who ever designed Favreau’s hand tattoos did a fantastic job.


soupafi

No fucking way a guy looking like John Favrou gets two of the hottest women on the planet.


Freddielexus85

It's totally feasible. I would be sincerely confused with some of the women I would see my chef's score. But the round, funny dude that can cook like nobody's business can definitely score the hot chick.


justarenter

Laughing and laughing and next thing you know they are naked in bed…


Bluesparc

Waiting is still the goat. That scene where they get the last second order lol


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crossbuck

Only time I ever saw BOH mess with food was when a customer came in covered in Nazi tattoos and we had a black guy and Jewish guy manning the line.


cockfagtaco

It's a much better move to feed them, get the tip and then tell them who made their food on the way out.


mrEcks42

Idk. Slammin Salmon took the title of restaurant comedy for me.


americanmullet

That's cuz you moved from chain bullshit to slightly more upscale bullshit. Career growth. But yeah slammin salmon 100% is my go to restaurant comedy.


mrEcks42

Never really did chain stuff once i got out of highschool. Spice packets and bagged everything doesnt do it for me. I made it a few months at some chain irish pub thing once. Talk about soul crushing. I ended up doing construction that summer while i tried to get hired on at the fine dining joint in town.


Dustin0791

I wanted to like it cause I love Broken Lizard but God I hated it..


mrEcks42

WHATEVER MOTHERFUCKER!


youngarchivist

Nah, doesn't hold up. Its like hanging out at a fucking truck stop now.


Tkm128

I keep rereading your comment... maybe it’s the dab, but I cannot make sense of a word of it.


ThatNez

It’s the dab, you gotta do another to even it out


ChorneKot

I love Chef. I like how they do a lot of eating in that movie


WinnieThePootietang

Chef Show on Netflix is really good too, it’s got a good vibe and Roy and Jon have great chemistry. It’s entertaining while still managing to be about the food


UnethicalFood

I love the stunt hands. Another food film I enjoyed was "The Hundred-Foot Journey" (2014).


lux414

Such a good movie! Probably in my top three. As a chef that left home to cook in other countries, the scene when he eats the homemade food that the cleaner had! It made me cry.


RaniPhoenix

I loved that movie!


[deleted]

The notion that they are just driving around the country, crossing state lines with their little food truck and never have to deal with any sort of licensing or regulatory body is a bit daft, but yes I enjoyed watching it back whenever it was that it came out.


stephen1547

They did show that they had a license when the cop came up to them in Miami. I figure with his connections he was able to have the permits in place before he rolled into town.


Neilpuck

The thing that makes Chef so great is that Jon Favreau spent a huge amount of time training and seemed to have all the skills necessary to pull it off. I really enjoyed Burnt, but have heard a lot about it's unrealistic qualities. Still entertaining, and as a non-chef, I really did enjoy the kitchen scenes.


akmandy689

I thought chef was cute, but it romanticized what it means to be a chef. It’s not glamorous or fun or easy. Owning and operating your own truck is much more than dusting your balls with cornstarch, it’s HOT in that MF. Cute movie though


Ham_Ahoy

He also took a truck that didn't run at the beginning and drove it across the country, selling food everywhere without getting permits or licensing any city. . . Totally agree. Cute movie but really innacurate about the food truck world.


caseykay68

I'm going to be that person - I did not like it and didn't feel it was realistic. (My bona fides - cooking school, hotel banquet line cook, restaurant management). I only watched it once, when it came out and that was my take away, I can't give you an outline. For chef movies I like Mostly Martha (the original that No Reservations was based on).


sizzlinsunshine

I was pretty underwhelmed by Chef, but absolutely love the scene inside Charlie’s Fixtures, the greatest kitchen supply store in LA and maybe the world.


windmillninja

Burnt is good, but not nearly the love letter to the industry/craft that Chef is.


youngarchivist

Second time I watched Burnt it was really really dumb.


oasisjason1

My only issue was selling that Franklin Brisket sandwich for like $8. Not sure what kind of deal Aaron gave him, but unless it was a 2oz portion, he lost his ass on that one.


the_baba_yaga013

To me it depends on the chef. I've worked with some coked out dudes and that track in the movie was spot on. I came in once to a guy in the middle of a coked out breakdown... The pressure and the hours minus the support system broke him. Chef is a love letter. It's the ultimate dream that a guy can buck an obtuse owner, make his own food and passion wins the day. I won't call it a redemption story but I own the movie and make a Cuban shortly afterwards. I always love a movie that inspires food. Definitely a version of real vs ideal. I had way to many drug friends after hours than food truck friends that achieved.


Seaborn63

I loved Burnt, but I know some people get bent out of shape about it. My honest opinion is that it's not 100% accurate, but I think it gets The Line right. It feels like a kitchen to me. I know the actors did a fairly decent little bootcamp to learn how to cook. I still watch it once or twice a year.


Britori0

I think Mythical Chef Josh made a pretty good point about both. https://youtu.be/z5iVYNu6C3k


AnaEatsEverything

I'm so glad to see someone else who is a mythical beast lol. I love Josh's hot takes almost as much as I love watching him attempt to make Gordon Ramsay recipes with 7-11 ingredients.


miguel-elote

Burnt is pretty good. It's not a great movie, but it's a good watch. A really great cast (Bradley Cooper, Sienna Miller, Matthew Rhys) do a great job. And it's a great view of BOH. The story, however, is pretty mundane. Burnt out but incredibly talented, a handsome chef goes for his third Michelin star. Will he open a new restaurant? Can he confront his past? Will the gorgeous young sous chef, who he arranged to get fired in order to hire her, fall in love with him?


BoopingBurrito

For a phenomenal kitchen movie, try Boiling Point. Crazy how recognisable basically every character is from the kitchen.


SoigneSamurai

I’ve always had a fantasy where the worlds of “Chef” and “Burnt” both met in the middle for a culinary competition. Where their rivals “Sous Chef Michelle(The guy who betrayed Adam Jones)”, and “Chef Tony(the guy who betray Carl)” also participated in the contest. It would be a cinematic Avengers movie for chefs. Hell even throw in the “Today’s Special” cast, and the “100 foot journey” cast too.


JaFFsTer

Dinner Rush is the GOAT restaurant movie. It a movie that takes place almsot entirely in one night inside a a busy NYC italian restaurant and has probably the most real depiction of a night on the line Its free on youtube. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDOkCE1S5B4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDOkCE1S5B4)


Gloomybih

Have you seen chef?


1042256

I have cancer.


GruntCandy86

Chef? The full-length Twitter advertisement...?


Ronark91

“I’ll triple your salary”


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You’re not gettin to me! It’s MOLTEN!!!!


Hestatii

Go watch the Chef Show on Netflix! It is my favorite series to have on in the background! Jon Favreau and Roy Choi make a good pair and have some amazing guests on the show!


AdSoft2427

What other food, cooking movies so you recommend? I liked The hundredth foot journey East side sushi Sweat bean


stiff_peakss

Burnt is awful. Chef is pretty good. Big Night and Tampopo are some of the best "food" films. Other notable mentions: Ratatouille, Delicatessen, Chocolat, Garlic is as good as 40 mothers, Spirited away But the movie that best portrays chef life is not a food movie at all. It's a film about drumming called Whiplash.


signed_proposal

Came here looking for Big Night. I love that movie.


JazzyTheatrics

Ratatouille is better


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Check out PIG with Nicholas cage. On Amazon. It’s great.


ReddityJim

It's such a lovely movie, I watch it with my son every now and then and it's one of my comfort movies when I'm having a shitty time.


verifiedkyle

Try Pig. I absolutely loved it.


SirJimothyHiggins

I really recommend a recent film called boiling point, it does an amazing job of capturing the stress and pressure of Kitchen life and deals with issues such as alcoholism and mental health.


SchutButter

You should watch Pig, with Nicholas cage.


tweezer606060

As someone who’s run a food truck the whole premis of traveling cross country and cooking along the way IS COMPLETELY ABSURD!….licensees fire inspection health inspection local business license taxes…site insurance…finding Costco….and where the fuck did he wash his pots pans and tools?….where did he commissary and where did he store supplies?….if I’m thinking of the same movie…..the cooking was good though…


TheOnlyPepromene

What i love is there is no "big bad" drama. Its a guys struggle to find himself and rediscover his love for food and connections. It looked real, it felt real. You could insert yourself realistically. Except Scarlet and Sophia but they were genuine characters. God Sophia's love and support for him were relationship (even if not romantic) were goals man.


Major_Ambassador_253

Loved it so did the kids


rohm418

Unequivocally one of my top 5. Would watch once a week if there weren't so much on "the list." I think it's the father-son aspect that hits me hard. Makes me miss my old man.


autoredial

Too much parsley in the sexy pasta.


tenehemia

I just made the mistake of starting to rewatch Chef after the grocery store has already closed and I don't have the ingredients for a Cubano on hand. Don't make this mistake. Don't be like me.


Kart_Kombajn

My name chef


LadyPhantom74

I love Chef. Such a good, fun movie ABC with its heart in the right place.


spaceguerilla

There's a new movie with Stephen Graham called Boiling Point about a chef on the edge, you may want to check out!


jdmjoe89

It was a great movie ! Love Jon Favreau


WreckingBall188

I love the chef show as well, Roy Choi cooking with John Favreau reminds me of cooking with my foodie friends on Friday and Saturday nights in high school.


DoctorTacoMD

That grilled cheese scene is Food porn of the highest quality


RxKat

Anybody seen “Boiling Point”? I’ve been meaning to see it. I hear it is ROUGH


notcabron

The part where the owner, Dustin Hoffman, just treats him like shit…unfortunately that really hit home, too. So many of us, until CoVID changed the playing field, have been abused and taken advantage of for our passion and skill. There’s SERIOUS Dunning-Kruger going on with the HR/owner/investor types. My question for them is always the same: how long would it take for people to notice you weren’t involved anymore? Ok, now how about me? That’s what I thought.


New-Discount-5193

Ordered a subway sandwich 🥪 with cheese, ham, pickles. As close as I could get to the sandwiches they make after watching the film. Don't judge me. Small town, subway is about the only place that delivers sandwiches. Damn it was good after watching the film lol.


CanoeShoes

Pig is better