It’s amazing how a shirt, tie, and neat haircut can get people to immediately treat you with respect and cooperate. The automatic weapon helps a bit too of course.
I think there's a saying that goes "The most dangerous person in the world is the man who has nothing left to lose". This movie was a brilliant portrait of a man who felt he had nothing left to lose.
@Mark Contreras Once Michael Douglas ' character got out of his car and started his "journey " through L.A., his sanity was already lost. But, You're right. When all else is gone, all we have left to hold onto is our soul.
@@vissitorsteveWho cares. What you're missing is to make customer happy you make exceptions. Rules & policies are adaptable, should not be set in stone & in the end brings repeat business. And that means money. One breakfast exception in the big scheme is nothing at all! Get it?
LITERALLY! It'd be understandable if they had shut down the process to make breakfast at that time and they were out of ones to give, *but the breakfast was right fucking there.* What were they going to do, let it go bad?
@Jimmy savile No, those boxes were under a heat lamp, which is meant to keep food warm. I think it was meant to show the breakfast was ready and they were going to just throw it out after 11:30. Because that's how food service often goes. Source: I've worked it.
The manager was one of those "by the book" stiffs who can't make reasonable compromises. Yes, they had technically stopped serving breakfast a few minutes earlier, but they still had items from the breakfast menu ready to go: the customer was going to pay for them - otherwise it would just go to trash. Best managers at fast food joints are people who can make reasonable compromises and this manager wasn't one of those people.
@Just Me Ugh that's terrible. Sorry to hear. I remember we had this older guy come in all the time and would always be annoyed that we messed up his order. Its like dude don't come here if you think it's thats bad! There's plenty other places! Lol
@@10Matic me too. As many times as I have seen this movie, I noticed he was sitting with her when he went back. I just noticed yesterday he got up from the same table. 😂😂😂
@@cthulhustar997 agree......%100, but I gotta get out sometime. stayin home n never leavin is no fun......gotta get out, go to a restaurant and/ or grocery store every now n then.
Underrated? How's this movie underrated? The reviews are very positive, It won the Edgar awards and was nominated for two others. Maybe it's a bit of a hidden gem nowdays, but it's certainly not underrated.
@@IDONTGETTHEPOINT By underrated he probably means underappreciated. You say it yourself, it's a hidden gem but the average joe doesn't know or care about this film sadly.
Pop culture always moves on to the next big hit, but everyone with a brain cell is still enjoying this movie as much as they did in 93. Check out the "the critical drinker" review on youtube: m.ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-5mXg-NZWFr8.html
One time Burger King refused to make me a Croissanwich ten minutes before breakfast was supposed to be over. I've always regretted not going back with an uzi to have it my way.
Everything about this scene is hilarious - look at the goofy 'hamburger' hats they make the staff wear, look at Sheila's expressions - she's so bored and this little diversion has made her day!
When I was a teenager, I applied for a job at a fast food place. It was only going to be for a month over the summer, but part of the job was wearing one of those goofy hats. I took one look at it, asked: 'Do I *HAVE* to wear this thing while on duty or is it optional?' and when told it was not optional, i just walked out and looked for a different summer job, lol. Ain't no way I was gonna be caught wearing one of those things, even if everyone else was doing it too. I was a dumb fucking teenager who didn't really need that job, so I could easily afford to say no and walk off, though.
The young lady working behind the counter, Sheila, also played the woman who George Constanza introduced himself to in the coffee shop in the episode where he decided to "do the opposite". "My name is George, I'm unemployed & I live with my parents"..."My name is Victoria, hello".
@@charliewatts6895 That's where the performance becomes genius. His vision is distorted he's stroking the gun, and fires it by accident. It almost sounds like he's never been in whammy burger before. This is a repressed soul who'd reach the brink of no return and is freaking out on the highway because he's going to kill his wife and child, having never come close to such a violent action before. Once he randomly finds weaponry he gets increasingly 'confident' with his rampage against society, but his overall aim to commit murder never wavered. Such a good film
Yup, and I love that as he's pacing the restaurant we see all the people staring at him in shock and horror. He starts to rethink his position, and he's like "oh shit, I just pulled a gun because I couldn't get fucking fast food breakfast... ok actually let me get some lunch instead, sorry everybody." lol
@@patriceaqa288 I'm not sure the character consciously allowed himself to know the endgame that he was inexorably working himself towards. He absolutely would have killed them, of course, I don't dispute that for a moment. But I think he only allowed himself to believe that he was going to show up for the daughters birthday and berate his wife (ex-wife? has become fuzzy with time). In that arguing he would have worked up to full steam and killed them both, then turned whatever weapon he had on himself. But I don't think he was *consciously* planning murder.
@@matthewteague623 I appreciate your insight. I don't think he had a direct 'plan' of how and when he was going to murder them but he knows he's not wanted there, and for a penniless unemployed man breaking the law through the restraining order is a serious crime which is treated with a prison sentence. So that he had a 'plan' directly is unknown. Nevertheless given where the character was at this point murder is clearly on his mind from the start of the film. He even says at the end 'from behind bars?' He will be behind bars after this harrassment and restraining order violation. He doesn't know 'how' he's going to do it until he finds guns
Well said. After being a cashier at Dollar General for the three years, I can tell you that the statement "the customer is always right is always right"
The less some parts make sense though. This come across to me as a classic murican/Karen move! Can't get what they want, ask to speak to manager, still doesn't work, pull out a gun.
@@greaves1178 I see your point. But to me it more shows the frustration of watching your country and values all turned to shit. Like I said, you have to be older to understand and see the transformation.
I think it flopped at the box office, but it's cult status has grew over the years and is probably considered a classic now. Also Michael Douglas'finest hour
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byron p ..................and it was MUCH better than the overrated Basic Instinct (in which I thought M.D. was TERRIBLY miscast). Glad this was the followup to it!
"I feel more comfortable not calling your Rick after all we've been through together." The way he delivers it seems like they're in a relationship together lmao.
and if you watch closely on a later scene when the police is interviewing everyone at the restaurant, you can see her in the background smoking a cigarette w style and looking really hot!! LOL!
@@brianaguilar8283 I feel like she was smitten with Michael Douglas' performance and had a great understanding of where she was and who she was working with at the time so she couldn't hide the smile: it fit her character perfectly anyways. Plus the whole scene is just ridiculously funny.
Him going through the roller coaster of manic depression and not going into full delusional episode is why this movie is so great.. such a great performance.
@Sharon Jensen Oddly, I got the "we're not serving lunch [or anything else] " response only the other day, at a popular local eatery: I was unarmed at the time, so I couldn't shoot the place up, as any normal Joe would have done.
The point of this is often missed. It's not the fact the breakfast has a cut off time, which is understandable because they have to switch machines. It's not the fact he asked, or even how he asked. It's the fact that they said no, even though it's already cooked and sitting there ready to eat in the chute and all they will do is throw it away. Yet they said no because its "policy". It's subtle, but watch Sheila pick it up.
I think you missed the point. If you make an exception for him, you have to make it for everyone. In reality, he isn't some warrior with a valid point, he is just an assh*le who resorted to violence because he didn't get his way. He is just another dick who thinks that the rules don't apply to him. It doesn't matter how nice you ask, you are still in the wrong. Granted, being rude is less likely to get you what you want, but even if you are super polite, you are still the one who didn't get up early enough to make the well-established cut-off time, and expects special treatment. Seriously, try working fast food sometime, and then you might see it from the employee's point of view, instead of relating to the (assh*le) customer. I've been on both sides enough to know where to draw the line, and he is WAY off the mark; sure, sometimes you get bad service/products, but more often, people have unreasonable expectations or want to take their crappy day out on someone who is required to put up with it. I've had people make the same points as he/you did, and here is what the real truth is: 1) there isn't just breakfast sitting around at change-over, because as the time approaches, you stop making extras of the popular items like you did earlier, because you know the change-over is coming (you start making the popular items for lunch menu), 2) yes, the picture is designed to look way more appetizing than the real thing, but that isn't even real food, it's stuff like oil, wax, shoe polish, etc.- if you ate that what was in the picture, it'd kill you. And you really expect to have picture-perfect food for so cheap, and so quickly? There is a common thing among contractors that applies here; that you can two out of three of the following, but not all three- you can have it cheap, you can have it fast, or you can have it well-made. You're going to have to sacrifice one. If you want a picture-perfect meal made quickly, there are more expensive restaurants that do that, but it's three times as expensive, or more. You can have a cheap, well-made burger, but it will likely take a while. Instead, you chose fast food, which is fast and cheap, but isn't going to be well-made... that was your choice. Were you expecting artisan food, prepared by a chef that trained at the best schools for years, made within 5 minutes, for less than 3 dollars? That's just unreasonable. You went to a place where you should expect cheap, and maybe even fast, but as they say "YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR!" All this to say: don't be a dick like this guy. Those are people too, who have to struggle and put up with WAY more than you do, and for less reward than you get- don't take your miserable life out on them, just because they are powerless to defend themselves (without losing what little they have- their job). Don't be a bully like this guy... even a "polite" bully. If you say "please give me all you money, sir, so that I can avoid having to do something rather unfortunate to you," it doesn't matter that you were polite- you are still robbing me of my lunch-money... you're still a bully using threats (violent or otherwise "I want to speak to your manager" means "I'm going to get you in trouble for not giving me what I want") to coerce people into bending to your will. You know, like an assh*le bully. Personally, I like that the manager actually stood up to him and backed up the employee. That is rare; most fast food managers are spineless cowards that always give in, and throw you under the bus while doing so. They tell you to do something, but if a customer complains about you doing what they told you, they apologize and give them what they want, saying you should have done so, even though they told you not to; they will wait until the customer leaves, call them a dick, and then yell at you for following instructions, because that made them have to get involved, and actually do what little they are paid to do.
@@IronKnee963 Except that all comes from my real world experience, as well as basic economics. The fact that you think reality is delusional either makes you stupid, crazy, or just a liar. I'm guessing stupid.
As a retail worker, I think I have the most sympathy for this staff over the rest of the side characters in this film. It can definitely be a pain in the ass to reinforce the rules you were told to enforce but the customer simply won't have it. Now of course in this situation the breakfast meals are already available and the request can easily be managed, but I definitely know that there are some customers out there that like to push the boundaries (especially with closing hours).
@@SooHooSamaSito As someone who works in the industry. If there are premade meals ready then it would have been a non issue. Walk in, get it, walk out. Problem is restaurants that have breakfast menus that stop after a specific time is because of workload, cleaning, etc. Usually means a whole cooking area needs to be prepared again. And anyone whos been in a restaurant during lunch rush knows people are already running around in the back just to keep up and cant afford the labor to do prep work for one person.
@@SooHooSamaSito Even if everyone had PHDs, there would still be a need for workers you deem beneath you. You entitled prick. Meanwhile, mentally challenged sexual predators like Trump are millionaires, because they inherited money.
I like how everyone's reaction to the gun, and the gunfire itself, clearly scares him. He can't quite believe the situation he's in, but he's letting his inner rage drive and won't back down. He's too fed up.
“And you mam how’s the food?” *woman violently pukes* “I think we have a critic. I don’t think she likes the special sauce Rick.” Holy $hit that was unexpectedly hilarious wowwww
It's about time Americans launched their second revolution.....luckily they've got their guns to do it....unlike other democracies where people have had their guns stripped off them. Americans better remember that their enemies are not fellow Americans but rather the 1% who run the SWAMP.....they're also found on Wall Street....so in this case the Wall is the enemy.
No matter how many times I watch this movie I always go to this scene. In my opinion it's the best scene out of the whole entire movie due to the audiences feeling it's rawness, passion, and energy. Michael Douglass acting was phenomenal and spectacular in this scene as he portrayed those traits. 😍😎💯👍😩
"why am i calling you by your first names.. i worked for my boss for 7 years and called him MR" that encapsulates capitalist hierarchy of bosses and serfs perfectly.
I worked at McDonald's for 14 years. "We stopped serving breakfast at 10:30am" was a daily issue for some customers. However, we were always prepared and kept breakfast available until 11.
I can’t tell if he’s genuinely expressing sincerity after accidentally firing half a mag into the ceiling or that’s the unstable emotions and insanity talking calmly, man this film is great
The best detail there is that before it goes off, he's exhibiting zero trigger discipline, then immediately switches to keeping his fingers fanned out and away from the trigger.
"The customer is always right", is the reason why Mr. Krabs insists on the best and most loyal service, and he never refuses. If Mr. Krabs was here, I'm sure that he would tell someone to give D-Fens his breakfast RIGHT NOW.
After having a shitty morning and wanting nothing but a damn egg McMuffin, I showed up to McD’s around 10:37 am just in time for the breakfast menu to close. As an adult I finally understand this scene
@@MrRwk314 bullshit it's ur damn take take generation to blame. Step up and take fucking responseability for once. But you wont because ur a fucking human
It's funny how they refused to serve him breakfast, but when he pulls out the gun, suddenly she reaches over and gets a food box from the shelf that had breakfast in it.
Hardee's keeps breakfast sandwiches until like 12ish so no one really busted my balls about breakfast since you had a chance to get leftovers when breakfast was over
Yeah how dare they not serve breakfast... a machine pistol in their faces was too kind... should've brought the bazooka and nuked the entire town for his injustice! -_-
Yup, once he pulled out the gun, she reached right for a breakfast, already prepared and ready to sell. It's the petty sort of bullshit low wage workers often pull to make the world pay for their frustration.
Wow things have changed... I was on a road trip and had to stop at a McDonalds. Some guy complained about something and the cashier lost her mind. Then a burger flipper got involved and 1by 1 the entire shift walked out. The manager? was yelling "You are ruining your future!! I will have to say you were fired when someone ask about it!" Nobody even slowed down.
Rick, have you ever heard the expression "The customer is always right?" "Well, here I am" I love this scene. I think we have all felt like this at some point . .
