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Movie Reviews of Super Size Me
Movie Review: Fast food is bad for you?
Summary: 5 Stars
Is this REALLY common knowledge???
Obesity stats of the country would prove otherwise.
What is your reason for eating this stuff?
Don't have time to cook?
Don't have the money to buy good food?
No time to eat anything else?
Sorry, but I think you all just can't control temptation.
You're weak.
You followed temptation to eat fast food a few times, now you're hooked on the stuff.
Yes, the myth of fast food company's 'poisoning' their food is true... to an extent.
Remember the part of this movie where the actor said he got to the point where he was depressed until he ate McD's again?
Do you think that's an accident? An unintended effect of fast food that just happens to fatten the wallets of all that serve it?
Ha, I think not. It's totally intended. Something like that can't be a coincidence.
Quick lunch for all that care.
Buy cereal and milk.
Keep the cereal wherever you are working or near by, it won't go bad.
As for milk, most businesses have refrigerators nowadays, if not, all gas stations have it.
There are enough spill proof containers around for all that care to look.
Not enough protein??? Stores sell cheap protein powder and cups that allow you to mix it via shaking or even self contained mixers/stirrers.
No veggies or fruit??? Does fast food have veggies/fruit (yes, but it's very negligible)?
You can find veggies & fruit as easy as you can find fast food.
Plus, mini carrots are sold in every store, there's dried fruit w/o added sugar available and there's 100% fruit juices available.
Your arguments are gone, you have no excuses.
You can't picture yourself eating cereal every day for lunch?
Most fast food is the same thing everyday, you've got your burger, your chicken sandwich, fish sandwich... most people buy fries EVERY time they get fast food.
Most people drink the same pop type each order... if you all can eat & drink this stuff day after day, why couldn't you eat cereal every day?
Again, argument gone.
It's way cheaper to do it this way. At most you'd be buying cereal & milk weekly, protein powder possibly monthly and veggies/fruit weekly at most.
It's just as easy to eat well as it is to eat bad.
Don't want cereal?
Buy wheat bread, lunch meat of your choice, mustard or whatever... even mayonnaise & cheese useage on a homeade sandwich would be one third the fat of a fast food meal (a very small fast food meal).
Don't have a fridge nearby?
There's very good 'cooling packs' out there that work well beyond the 4 hrs most people require before daily lunch time comes around unless you're a construction worker stationed outside (but your job is constantly active so you guys or girls working construction probably burn off most of the fast food you eat if that's what you eat... you're exempt.).
If you want to eat fast food, it's fine but DO NOT USE THE overused excuse "I don't have time to eat healthy."
Movie Review: Don't Eat the FRIES !!! ...
Summary: 5 Stars
... MAN!... In 1991, my friend and bandmate, Pip Biancamano, during a group conversation that was taking place in my health food store at the time, said with a wise smile: "Better to swing with the King than to frown with the Clown!" ... Wiser words have not been spoken in relation to frequenting the fast-food establishments that criss-cross our once healthy landscape. INDEED! ... McDonald's may have made some mighty decent burgers at one time (and some people think they still do!), but whatever you do, DON'T EAT THE FRIES !!! ... Buy, or rent, this DVD and make sure you watch the Special Features section when the movie ends. Watch the one about the experiment that Morgan did with the food put into the glass jars. Notice how the FRIES never go bad! These FRIES are the envy of ancient Egyptian embalmers! Whatever is in those fries, it's not breaking down in a normal, biodegradable manner. I'm serious. It will give you the chills. Notice how the guy with the long hair who has been eating the big macs every day since they first came to town - for DECADES! - never eats the FRIES! What is in those fries? Whatever it is, I wonder if it passes the U.S. Government's DELANEY CLAUSE standards for carcinogenic additives in processed food? ... I, myself, have been eating health foods since I was 15 years old, since 1971. I used to manage a health-food store in Massachusetts for almost four years, and after that I owned my own natural food store (AEOLIA: Whole Foods), in Lowell, Massachusetts for over 7 years. I've seen a lot of sickness and disease in my life, as well as a lot of very healthy human beings. I know this: stress, lack of exercise, lack of sleep, and eating junk-food will put you six feet under (all things being equal) sooner than drinking and drugging ever will. What I call "The 6 White Devils" (WHITE: sugar, salt, flour, pasta, rice, and fatty dairy products) will put you six feet under sooner than later. Add artificial additives, colorings, flavorings, preservatives, hormones, antibiotics, insecticides, pesticides, fungicides, herbicides, irradiation, and genetically engineered foods to that, and you've got an evil stew of chemicals just waiting to join with the free-radicals in your body, and all of the environmental toxins outside of your body, to do some mighty destruction that good old grandad and pure tobacco alone could never do. ... This is what Morgan is getting at in this great movie of his. He's a brave man, and a true sociologist who did real, living, sociological, qualitative field-research using himself as a guinea pig. You really gotta give him credit for that! Oh, and the interview he does with the author of Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser, is outstanding. My hat is off to both of these brave gentleman who are walking in the noble footsteps of Frances Moore Lappe, Dr. Paavo Airola, and John Robbins - among countless others. ... EAT NATURAL!... EAT LOCAL!... EAT IN-SEASON!... EAT ORGANIC!... EAT AS FRESH AS POSSIBLE!... EAT AS LITTLE-COOKED AS POSSIBLE!... EAT WHOLE FOODS!... YOWZA! - The Aeolian KidMovie Review: Got me craving a "4 x 4"
Summary: 5 Stars
A "4 x 4" is a quadruple cheeseburger (4 meat patties, 4 slices of cheese) sold off-menu by a burger chain well known in the SoCal area, a semi-surreptitious transaction reminiscent of the whispered come-on, "Hey, mister, want to buy some dirty pictures?", of a long-ago, less liberated era. I'm salivating just thinking about it - with fries, of course.
SUPER SIZE ME is an absorbing and informative documentary ostensibly targeting McDonald's as the purveyors of nutritionally nasty food that's undermining the foundations of global health. Writer/director Morgan Spurlock volunteered himself to eat nothing but McDonald's fast food for thirty consecutive days while having his physical health and blood chemistries monitored by medical and dietary professionals. Morgan had several self-imposed "rules". He had to eat all three daily meals at the chain, consume every item on the Golden Arches menu at least once, and agree to "supersize" his order if asked by the sales clerk. Morgan sampled outlets across the U.S., including California, Texas, Ohio, and New York.
By Day Thirty, Spurlock had gained 27 pounds while driving his liver enzymes, cholesterol, and triglycerides levels up into the heart palpitations range. But, over and above documenting this personal self-abuse, Spurlock mainly examines the effects of fast food on the nation's young - the insidious insinuation of the stuff into school lunch programs, and the wickedly pervasive advertising by the evil fast food giants designed to hook children for life before the inevitable triple bypass. The documentary visually reinforces the message with shot after shot of grossly overweight citizens both behind and in front of the McDonald's cash registers.
For all its slick presentation, one is left with the unanswerable question, "OK, so now what?" Do governments - local, state, and federal - pass laws prohibiting the sale of the classic cheeseburger/fries/Coke meal? And what about pizza, my own personal favorite that I'd eat three times a day - with a fried chicken chaser - if I could get away with it? Haven't we already tried that approach with alcohol, drugs, prostitution, and porn? And those crusades went well!
While I personally love greasy fast food, and fantasize doing a side-by-side taste comparison of the locally available cheeseburgers all in the space of a day, I prudently don't indulge more often than once every two weeks. Perhaps it comes down to an informed personal responsibility, self-respect, and a wife that makes me eat my veg, rather than the need for a Nutrition Gestapo, which is perhaps an extrapolation to be favored by bleeding hearts after viewing this admittedly Oscar-worthy film.
SUPER SIZE ME will either make you weep for America's future, or bring a smile to your face as you contemplate the futile idiocy of certain causes. Either way, it's provocative entertainment.
Movie Review: "Super Size" Eats At You
Summary: 5 Stars
"Super Size Me" is an eyeopener of a film that is more disturbing than any horror film released this year.
What's scarier than Freddy or Jason?
How about 2 young girls who are so morbidly overweight, they sue McDonalds for making them that way. The lawsuit was thrown out due to the fact that there was no concrete evidence that stated or showed the progressive weight gain the girls recieved from eating at McDonalds. This inspired filmmaker Morgan Spurlock to make "Super Size Me".
Spurlock (he doesn't sound like the president for the hairclub for men, but, more of a spokesperson) takes a one month diet on McDonald's fast food (3 meals a day)and turns it into a gutbusting, eyepopping journey into how hazardous fast-food has become and how dangerous it could be in future generations.
The film covers everything from the content in certain menu items to the addiction that has swept the nation, that has made obesity 1 of the leading killers in America.
The most disgusting item is not in the film itself, but, in the bonus features on the disc.
Spurlock had an experiment in which he took 7 jars and filled each with a different item from McDonald's, reserving the last two jars to a different restaurant that caters to making its own homemade fries using fresh potatoes & producing there own burger patties, getting the meat from a local butcher in the area (in other words, they use fresh meat as opposed to Mickey D's horsemeat).
Over a 5 week experiment to see which item would bio-degrade the quickest, the fresh restaurant items degraded the quickest in the first 2 to 3weeks, with the McDonald's items very, very slowly degrading over the 5 week period. The only item that refused to degrade, even in the slightest, was shockingly enough the large fries that were from McDonald's.
After a 5 week period of sitting in a jar, the large fries looked as if they were purchased an hour ago with no signs degradation at all. It made me think of what these fries do to the human digestive system. Ewww, gross.
My suggestion is to avoid all fast food joints (none of them are good). the only place I can recommend, & I'm not plugging the franchise in any way, is Subway. But, again it all boils down to what the consumer eats (a footlong, fully loaded steak & cheese sandwich with triple mayonaise is just as bad as eating a Big Mac, maybe even worse. I used to work for Subway & I had a customer who used to order this every single day).
Basically, its up to each and everyone of us to take care of ourselves and have the self-esteem and confidence to watch what we consume and stay healthy.
This is a great film that should be required viewing for everyone.
Movie Review: The Frightening Realities of What Too Many Americans Eat
Summary: 5 Stars
The 2004 documentary "Super Size Me" is an accurate and frightening look at what so many Americans regularly eat: fast food. Filled with high carbohydrates and high fat, it's really no wonder why such a large percentage of the American population, including children, is overweight. The film's director and creator, Morgan Spurlock, decided to document an experiment upon himself: under doctor's supervision, Mr. Spurlock ate nothing but the products of the fast food giant McDonald's for one full month (30 days). He did not supplement his pure McDonald's diet with anything else, including exercise. At the end of 30 days, he had gained over 20 pounds and blood tests demonstrated that he had done a considerable amount of damage to various internal organs in his body. He even experienced heart problems. Interlaced with Mr. Spurlock's dangerous experiment, he documented what this nation's children typically eat in public schools: soda pop, French fries, candy and other assorted high-carbohydrate/high-fat foods. Further, due to the pressure on public schools to increase students' test scores, many public schools have forgone mandatory physical education. The result: overweight children addicted to high doses of sugar and fat.
Though Mr. Spurlock endangered his own health and life to carry out his bizarre McDonald's-only diet for 30 days, the documentary no doubt succeeded in forcing McDonald's to make at least one major change at its various fast food outlets: no more "super size" portions. Further, many public schools across the nation have begun to remove soda pop machines from schools in an effort to encourage children to drink milk, water and other far more healthier drinks. Yesterday, in what was probably a public relations ploy, the American Beverage Association announced that it was voluntarily asking its members (that include all major soft drink manufacturers) to remove soda pop machines from elementary schools. This is no doubt in reaction to the now 12 states that have enacted laws banning soda pop sales to students during school hours.
I highly thank Mr. Spurlock for demonstrating in his documentary "Super Size Me" the very real dangers of eating nothing but high-carbohydrate and high-fat foods. Hopefully many more people will become more conscience of what they and their children eat. Obesity is not healthy, and as the documentary "Super Size Me" clearly shows, it's downright dangerous. Hence, I rate Mr. Spurlock's documentary "Super Size Me" with a resounding 5 out of 5 stars and highly recommend it to everyone. It's no wonder that Mr. Spurlock won the prestigious Director's Award from the Sundance Film Festival in 2004. The film also received an Oscar nomination for Best Documentary from the 2005 Academy Awards.