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Super Size Me 
Actors : John Banzhaf, Bridget Bennett (II), Ron English (III), Don Gorske, Mary Gorske
Studio : Sony Pictures
by Sony Pictures
Brand : Sony
Release Date : 2004-09-28
Publisher : Sony Pictures
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Number of Items : 1
EAN : 0043396085435
UPC : 043396085435
Avg. Customer Rating: (based on 439 reviews)
List Price : $9.95
Our Price : $4.38
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Americancivilwar.com |
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Filmmaker Morgan Spurlock, rejected five times by the USC film school, won the best director award at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival for this alarmingly personal investigation into the health hazards wreaked by our fast food nation. Under extensive medical supervision, Spurlock subjects himself to a steady diet of McDonald's cuisine for 30 days just to see what happens. In less than a week, his ordinarily fit body and equilibrium undergo dark and ugly changes: Spurlock grows fat, his cholesterol rockets north, his organs take a beating, and he becomes subject to headaches, mood swings, symptoms of addiction, and lessened sexual energy. The gimmick is too obvious to sustain a feature documentary; Spurlock actually spends most of the film probing insidious ways that fast food companies worm their way into school lunchrooms and the hearts of young children who spend hours in McDonald's playrooms. French fries never looked more nauseating. --Tom Keogh |
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Documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock makes himself a test subject in this documentary about the commercial food industry. After eating a diet of McDonald's fast food three times a day for a month straight Spurlock proves the physical and mental effects of consuming fast food. Spurlock also provides a look at the food culture in America through it's schools corporations and politics. "Super Size Me" is a movie that sheds a new light on what has become one of our nation's biggest health problems: obesity.System Requirements:Running Time: 100 Min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DOCUMENTARIES/MISC. Rating: PG-13 UPC: 043396085435 Manufacturer No: 08543 |
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Do you want to lose weight? Watch this documentary. |
Yes. We all know that McDonald's is bad for us. And yes, this is a little bit like telling smokers that they are killing themselves. We know. That's not really what I like about this movie, even though it does take great pains to dissect the marketing campaigns and food production aspects of McDonald's.
What makes this movie important is the fact that it made me paranoid enough about the food I eat (and I keep kosher so I don't eat at McDonald's anyhow) to lose 20 pounds. I don't mean that I turned anorexic. I mean that I actually counted calories, refrained from greasy food, drank more water and ate fruits and vegetables. Spurlock purposefully ate garbage for a month and gained 24 pounds. I used to do it without thinking about it and then figured that my clothes were shrinking in the wash. It didn't happen in 30 days. It happened over the course of a year but all the things that happened to him happened to me. Chest pains. Lost sex drive. High blood pressure.
Right now I'm still overweight but I'm much healthier than I've been in a long time and I owe it to this movie. |
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Everyone should watch |
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Every parent, teenager, teacher, doctor, etc. should see this one. Yes, we have all heard it before, but not documented to this extent. It is one man's experiment but quite eye-opening. I wish the little bit of bad language and couple of "gross" scenes had been left out, but I have heard there is a family friendly version coming that could also be shown in schools. |
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Only slightly entertaining, and worthless as a documentary |
Before I saw this "documentary", I wondered "what's the point?" I have been hearing about how bad fast food is for you since I was in grade school (the 1980's), and people have been complaining about McDonalds advertising to children for as long as I can remember. Super Size Me is about 90 minutes of "fast food is bad for you" and "food companies are evil and they sell stuff to children". So to make a long story short, there is mostly nothing new here, other than the creator's "Jackass"-style stunt of eating nothing but McDonalds for 30 days. As a documentary, "Super Size Me" is completely worthless.
The only redeeming quality that this movie has is the low-brow comedy of watching Morgan Spurlock stuff himself until he vomits and bend over backwards to eat nothing but food that is bad for him. (Spurlock's loony vegan girlfriend provides some unintentional comedy, but I refuse to get him credit for that). His stunt has absolutely no educational value, since he never even bothers to drink a diet Coke instead of a regular Coke. He proves that if you purposely set out to gain a lot of weight and destroy your body, you can gain a lot of weight and destroy your body. Does anyone watching this movie really think that anyone out there eats three square meals a day of fast food? Even the fattest people?
Interlaced with short diaries of his horrible 30-day diet are short clips of exploring the American obesity epidemic. They are mostly anecdotal and extremely low on facts. During these clips, he slobbers all over a Left Wing law professor who advises trial lawyers, demonizes Sodexho, and demonizes all American food companies. Has this guy not been to a grocery store in 20 years? The shelves are loaded with diet drinks, low-fat cheese, low-fat hot dogs, low-fat milk, low-fat TV dinners, low-fat chips, low-fat ice cream, low-fat beef -- you name it. Clearly, there is more at work in this epidemic than fattening food, but there is almost no attention given to other factors in this video. He briefly mentions that kids aren't getting enough exercise nowadays, but only spends a few minutes on the topic.
Morgan Spurlock never comes right out and says it, but the message of this movie is "Fast food companies and food manufacturers commit murder and they get away with it because they spend tons of money on advertising and lobbyists". In that way, this film is its own form of political junk food. |
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McDiet equals McStroke |
McDonald's, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Taco Bell, Wendy's Burger King, Dairy Queen what do all of these restaurants have in common besides workers being paid minimum wage and offering artery clogging food in large quantities at cheap prices: they have overtaken the food market and supposedly are to blame for making America the fattest country in the world.
Filmmaker Morgan Spurlock, after reading about two obese girls suing McDonald's for making them fat, decides to go on a "diet" a McDiet in which he eats McDonald's three times a day and sets up such restrictions as not allowing himself to eat or drink anything not available at McDonalds and only supersizing his meals when the server asks him if he wants to. Before beginning on his expedition, Spurlock has a massive vegetarian meal prepared by his vegan chef girlfriend which will be his lowest calorie meal for the next thirty days. Spurlock, whom rarely ate fast food before the making of the film, laughs at the ridiculous proportions served by McDonald's and the amount of sugar he consumes just in his milkshakes and soft drinks. The first couple of days he is okay, but he begins to get sick soon thereafter and once vomits on camera after eating a supersized meal. As the thirty days pass on by, the viewer gets to see how the food is destroying Spurlock such as in one case it is mentioned that he is destroying his liver like an alcoholic, but with food instead of beer, wine, and liquor. The weight he gains and the damage to his mood the food creates are real eye-openers.
Super Size Me has been criticized by a number of individuals who have stated that Spurlock's diet in the film is unrealistic and that no normal person would consist just on McDonald's for such a long time. However, Spurlock is attempting to consume enough McDonald's food for an eight year equivalent and he even reduces his daily exercise to get in line with the average American some of who do eat junk every day and who with their automobiles and general laziness walk little each day. Spurlock might be going to extremes, but he is showing how a number of Americans are destroying themselves through junk.
One issue that I wish Spurlock addressed is that of who consumes fast food the most. There are of course soccer moms and the like who treat their kids to McDonald's after practice and individuals who just need to grab a quick bite to eat. However, at least in my experience having lived in a small southern town, a good number of people who eat fast food, and especially the dollar meals, are from poor families who honestly cannot afford better foods when they eat out, and sometimes eating out is a must when one has limited time to prepare foods. If one looks at a number of people who eat fast food and compare with their economic level one can see a correlation between obesity and economic status.
A fun, albeit horrifying film, Super Size Me has done a good job trying to make Americans think before consuming fat-laden junk. |
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the barbecue fire is calling me! |
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This film was shot to illustrate how dangerous over eating burgers etc might be but after watching it, it just made me wanna eat a big juicy burger even more:) i ordered double whopper menu and enjoyed the guilty pleasure of calories...long live burger king!!! |
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