Super Size Me
starring: John Banzhaf, Bridget Bennett (II), Ron English (III), Don Gorske, Mary Gorske
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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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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
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
Amazon.com:
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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- wanna go on a diet?
this movie is a great example of what the US is coming to.my favorite part of watching the movie is that i get nauseous if i pass a mcdonald's within a month of watching it...a great natural diet choice.
Rating: - Recommended along with the Fast Food Nation
It is funny and outrageous at the same time. Everyone knows that fast food is not good for health, but I never thought that the film-maker would actually go ahead and perform that kind of experiment on his body. Now you know what happens when you eat too much fast food. Even if nobody will actually replicate that kind of experiment for his eating style, you know that in the long run it will poison your entire body system. So wake up, eat healthy food, exercise, get plenty of rest, sleep well, learn ... Read More
Rating: - A small step toward balance
I was quite surprised to read attacks on Spurlock's integrity in some of the reviews here. Super Size Me is a straight-shooting look at a cynical industry, focusing primarily on McDonalds, It sheds light on a profound problem, only beginning to get at all that's behind the appeal of unhealthy fast food. As protagonist, Spurlock is sincere and likable. He plays it straight, no edge, arrogance or irony - it would have been easy to slip into a smugness that he avoids. And the fact that his doctors actually ... Read More
Rating: 
- A Complete Fraud
Spurlock makes a case by distorting the truth to where it is an outright lie.When his caloric intake was added up by an outside nutritionist they found that there was no way that he could have been taking in 9000 calories with the designed meal without inbetween snacking.He makes other false statements such as there is no milk in McDonald's milkshakes, and that aspartame is unsafe even though it was approved by the FDA as completely safe in 1999.
He generates propaganda much in the same ... Read More
Rating: - This is a keen critique of a society growing fat over it's own shortcomings, and a must see.
All the people giving it bad reviews just could go past the curtain of the guy living of MacDonald's. If you can go beyond that, you will see the sad state (of health) of a society (the whole western world by now) that has thrived on following mega corporations that could care less if you die of a heart attack as long as they can rip that $3.75 of your pocket.
It was staggering for me to learn that MacDonald's acknowledges that they are selling products that are detrimental to health, and the ... Read More
- wanna go on a diet?this movie is a great example of what the US is coming to.my favorite part of watching the movie is that i get nauseous if i pass a mcdonald's within a month of watching it...a great natural diet choice.
- Recommended along with the Fast Food NationIt is funny and outrageous at the same time. Everyone knows that fast food is not good for health, but I never thought that the film-maker would actually go ahead and perform that kind of experiment on his body. Now you know what happens when you eat too much fast food. Even if nobody will actually replicate that kind of experiment for his eating style, you know that in the long run it will poison your entire body system. So wake up, eat healthy food, exercise, get plenty of rest, sleep well, learn ... Read More
- A small step toward balanceI was quite surprised to read attacks on Spurlock's integrity in some of the reviews here. Super Size Me is a straight-shooting look at a cynical industry, focusing primarily on McDonalds, It sheds light on a profound problem, only beginning to get at all that's behind the appeal of unhealthy fast food. As protagonist, Spurlock is sincere and likable. He plays it straight, no edge, arrogance or irony - it would have been easy to slip into a smugness that he avoids. And the fact that his doctors actually ... Read More
- A Complete FraudSpurlock makes a case by distorting the truth to where it is an outright lie.When his caloric intake was added up by an outside nutritionist they found that there was no way that he could have been taking in 9000 calories with the designed meal without inbetween snacking.He makes other false statements such as there is no milk in McDonald's milkshakes, and that aspartame is unsafe even though it was approved by the FDA as completely safe in 1999.
He generates propaganda much in the same ... Read More
- This is a keen critique of a society growing fat over it's own shortcomings, and a must see.All the people giving it bad reviews just could go past the curtain of the guy living of MacDonald's. If you can go beyond that, you will see the sad state (of health) of a society (the whole western world by now) that has thrived on following mega corporations that could care less if you die of a heart attack as long as they can rip that $3.75 of your pocket.
It was staggering for me to learn that MacDonald's acknowledges that they are selling products that are detrimental to health, and the ... Read More
