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List Price: $14.94 Our Price: $6.99 You Save: $7.95 Features • Color • DVD-Video • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 2003 DVD Release : 28 September, 2004 |
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Super Size Me description 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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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | After a while it was just making me hungry for "McDonald's" |
| I think that the guy who made this movie was trying to be like Micheal Moore in that he was trying to bring down "McDonald's" in a very sensationalist and dramatic way. I think that a 20 minute expose on the health value and marketing strategies of "McDonald's" would be sufficient to bring forward the points he was trying to make, but a full-length movie on the subject was too much for me. After a while it was just making me hungry for "McDonald's".
By the way, I love "McDonald's". I understand that it is a big capitolist money-making machine that markets junk food to children. However, they do have healthy foods on the menu such as chicken salad. They also raise money for children with cancer. Every month or so I just have to fill my craving for a Big Mac, a Fish Filet or an Egg McMuffin. My belief in healthy eating has to with moderation. of course, as the movie makes clear, eating "McDonald's" every day is bad for your health. But I don't think there's anything wrong with taking the family out to "McDonald's" every other month or so, especially if your on a road trip. This is not the kind of movie that you'll want to buy and watch over and over again. I would rent it and stop at "McDonald's" on your way back to returning it. |
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