Gung Ho (1986)

Michael Keaton is so macho and goofy.

You'd think that with the title "Gung Ho" I'd have had a clue that this piece of turkey pot pie was a MACHO FEST, which I'm allergic to.

Honestly, I couldn't take more than ten minutes of this thing but if I had to take a guess, "Gung Ho" is Michael Keaton whose Gung Ho attitude is what it takes to save the jobs of American auto workers.

In 1986 this type of fairy tale from Ron Howard may have kept the party going, but today, there's nothing funny about ownership's gutting of American labor for overseas slave labor.

Imagine going into a studio today and pitching the same idea about how an American manager fights to keep a manufacturing company from going overseas.  It would be considered heresy.

The response from CORPOWOOD would tow the party line, "We can't put this out.  Outsourcing is good for the global economy."

I have a saying that sums up the entirety of modern economic thought. "Layoffs Create Jobs."

This is in effect the load we bought in the 90's when they were selling "Globalization" as future economic prosperity.  How's that worked out?  Awful for everyone but the five to ten percent of the world's population who've increased their wealth at the cost of... humanity.  Light conversation...

Now that I think about it.  This movie is great.  Even though it sucked.