Supersize Me
 

Has anyone here seen the documentary? I really will never look at fast food the same. I enjoyed it very much

My brother saw it lastnight and said it was pretty good. I'm yet to see it though.

Its good. It makes you think about the nastyness of fast tood in general plus the fattening up of americans. Its kind of disgusting though, the idea of eating nothing but mcdonalds for thirty days.

eating it one day is disgusting enough as it is.

i saw it about ten days ago.

since then i haven't consumed anything even remotely bad. i've cut out all fast food, all soft drinks, all snacking and increased my daily exercise.

fascinating doco.

if you liked the movie, read FAST FOOD NATION...you'll really never eat McDs again. I mean where else can you find out that what you're tasting and smelling are really chemicals made in a plant in New Jersey, seriously the author opened a jar and it smelled like french fries...weird....

Still haven't seen it but want to. Even though I don't eat the stuff I'd like to see what one becomes on a daily diet of that shit.

Why arn't they showing it in Canada?

I thought this documentary was really well done, but like when i read <i> Fast Food Nation</i> I wasn't particularly grossed out by any of the dirty facts about what exactly is in fast food. None of that surprised me. I'm more shocked and disgusted by the corporations complete disregard for humanity, the way fast food companies treat their workers and their customers is appalling and i have no desire to support such behavior with my money.

I really want to see this.

It's showing here in Calgary. Haven't seen it yet but I will soon hopefully.

He was having heart palpitations and close to liver failure by day 21. Holy crap.

I think one of the most interesting things i learned was that the salad dressing is worse for you than a big mac...

It's playing in Toronto, too

It's playing in Hamilton, ON at the Westdale Theatre.

Great flick.

im going to have to see that. im interested, thanks for sharing

I really want to see this movie. I don't eat MacDonalds but it still fascinates me how people will eat such bad food on a daily basis. I think everyone, especially the overweight who visit fast food restaurants should be required to see this movie.

i'm not sure that we need to single out just the overweight here -- if you're eating fast food on a daily basis it's not going to be good for your health, reguardless of the physical manifestations.

Wasn't it revealed that the guy in this movie was eating something like 5000 calories a day? That much of ANY food would be harmful. Wow.. eating over double what a normal adult should will make you unhealthy. What an astounding revelation.

I guess next year's blockbuster movie will demonstrate how jamming a red hot poker in your eye is bad for you, along with commentary about those big evil poker corporations who are trying to kill us all.

Man, New Brunswick got screwed over, I want to see this film!

Ladies and Gentlemen, it's Mayor McCheese!

Fast food is fucking bad for you, even if you only eat your recommended daily intake of calories worth.

Duh. Did I say it wasn't bad for you? Yet again, EVERYBODY KNOWS THIS. If you're too stupid to know that eating grease-soaked Big Macs and fries all day every day isn't good for you, you don't deserve to be healthy.

I just don't get what's supposed to be so great about this movie for stating the extremely blatantly obvious.

Blatantly obvious TO YOU. I don't think it is all that much of a coincidence that McDonald's has recently announced it will no longer be offering the Super-Sized option. They have also started offering their Healthy Choice options - veggie burgers, whole wheat buns, salads, Grilled Cheese and apple slices for kids...

The point of the film is to underscore the point that Fast Food is bad for you.

in addition to underscoring just how bad fast food is for you (i think most people know it's not healthy but are unaware of just how bad it really is) the film also talks a lot about how fast food is aimed at children (through advertising and through school cafeteria lunches). when kids are indocternated at a young age to fast food it becomes increasingly more difficult for them to lear healthy eating habits as adults.

Yet, the point is that the guy ate one meal at McD's for each common American Meal time. There are people out there who eat fast food once and twice a day. this man ate it for all three meals and took the suggestion of "supersizing" when asked, only.

So, he simply ate what McD's called a "Meal." Tho, their meals were, hm.. let's see, 5000/3, well that would be 1666 2/3 calories. One damned unhealthy "Meal" at that. It is called a logical extreme. With help from the outcry that this documentary caused, we now have McD's putting "healthy" alternatives in their everyday menu.

Just like cigarette and alcohol advertisers utilizing strategies to acquire early users, and getting beat with the Govt. stick for it, fast food joints focus their advertising on children. This and the fact that their foods are physically, not chemically, addictive is also included in this film.

Please, don't over simplify things you do not understand.

(just wait, i am going to be called a "Libbie" or something for being in depth about and liking this documentary)

Sorry, BenChuy, but your information isn't accurate. McD's "meals" wouldn't put him NEAR the 5,000 calorie mark, so he "snacked" with desserts and such during the day, something he admits to in the Glassman article on this page:

http://www.techcentralstation.com/supersizecon.html

Additionally, would you have as much respect for the "documentary" if you knew this:

It's no accident that Spurlock's production company is called "The Con." A prankster and scamster from way back, he briefly ran a program on MTV called "I Bet You Will," where he paid people to do disgusting things.

He gave a woman $100 to eat a Madagascar hissing cockroach. A man got $25 for eating a clam out of a stranger's armpit. Another woman shaved her head, combined the clippings with butter to form a gigantic hair ball and then ate it -- for $250.

Sorry for the unappetizing detail, but it tells who this Morgan Spurlock really is. He presents himself as a socially concerned artist, but, in fact, he is up to his old tricks (among the scenes in "Super Size Me" are a rectal exam and a vivid vomiting sequence). This time, however, the person who cashes in isn't the hairball eater; it's Spurlock himself.

Corporate America is not any more evil than an "entertainer" who pays people to eat live cockroaches.

Yet, It nowhere says that he snacked(googled, searched the pages like crazy, . He ate the meal deals, intending to eat everything once while not repeating as much as possible.

He stopped exercising. Why? Because that is the way of many of the people around here who eat like that (I live in AR, where the obesity rate is, as of 2 years ago, 10% higher than the national average).

Now, I admit, the guy is not a career documentarian, he is a comedian by trade. This still does not diminish the reality of societal problems that he, or any comedian brings up.

To answer the question that was coming from IMDB:
"Why was he intentionally choosing the most unhealthy habits for eating, and portraying them as normal?" Because in many families, this is. I have seen TOO many with my own eyes and have seen what they buy at restaurants and the store. Because, tho it may not be yours, it is far too many people's reality.

by the way, the article "Super Size Thanks" is truly great fun.

great movie...real eye-opener, especially the school food parts. Iwould also suggest reading Food Fight from Kelly Brownell [one of the experts in the movie] a lot more detail on stuff that ws in the movie...I hope they make it required vieweing in school nutrition classes!!! {If they still have them in the bidget that is!]

I wasnt really interested in this, but after they comments and reviews will check this out. As mcd is usually once a week meal for us. Gulp.

I watched Super Size Me tonight and found it to be very entertaining. It's sad to see how many obese people we have living in the US. Parents and schools should do more to promote healthy living habbits to children.

Soso Whaley has done her own version of a McDiet (following the commercial success of Super Size Me). In it, she hopes to promote personal responsibility, common sense knowledge of moderation and balance of diet and certain things you eat with a degree of exercise is enough to be healthy.

http://www.cei.org/pages/debunk/debunk_the_junk.cfm

Super Size Me was probably largely interpreted as to not eat fast food again, and you'll be healthy, or on your way; however the excessive consumption of 5000 calories of McDonalds (let alone any kind of food) is going to be quite bad for you. Ultimately i hope all these documentaries will help to spark more of an interest in taking personal responsibility for food choices, instead of scaremongering everyone into fad diets or drastic solutions for drastic problems.

:D

URL of that website. The about section includes the following interesting paragraph:

"Tech Central Station is supported by sponsoring corporations that share our faith in technology and free markets. Smart application of technology - combined with pro free market, science-based public policy - has the ability to help us solve many of the world's problems, and so we are grateful to AT&T, Avue Technologies, The Coca-Cola Company, ExxonMobil, General Motors Corporation, Intel, McDonalds, Merck, Microsoft, Nasdaq, PhRMA, and Qualcomm for their support."

So they're not the most impartial opinion around.

Sounds like you need a road trip to Halifax, my friend! It's playing at the Oxford theatre.

They're playing this at the Film Festival here next month, gonna buy my tickets today!

this was an excellent movie, while it didnt stop me completely from eating fast food, i certainly cut it down a lot, but being out of school and away from it helps im sure.
id recommend it to everyone, oh and he mentions that what he did was extreme and not happening, BUT said that people eat mcds everyday which is true and really the most disgusting part of the whole movie

i went to see itwith friends and 2 of then had eatten Burger King about 30 min before the movie. They said there were 3 times whrn they almost Threw up. a

I'll chime in here. It's no surprise that fast food is fattening. However, that's why you're not supposed to eat it everyday! Once in awhile is fine but everyday CAN kill you. But that's also with almost anything that you eat an abundance of. If you ate butt loads of pasta everyday...if you had 5 lbs of steak everyday...etc. It's all about balance. So this movie proves nothing. It's just common sense.

i haven't eaten at mcdons for 3 years. fast food sucks.

morgan spurlock used to host an MTV show called I Bet You Will. i saw him in Cancun filming for spring break 2001. they'd pay people to do dumb stunts, although i wasn't able to make any money.

ok, sorry for repeating stuff there but i didn't read the second page. to compensate, here are a few stories.

so they got this kid who had been drinking all day and paid him a few hundred bucks to get a permanent tattoo on his leg which read "Size Doesn't Matter" and an arrow pointing up. they didn't show him the tattoo until it was finished.

they also had a habanero shots contest. the winner was in the bathroom for quite a while afterwards...i think he put down 12 shots w/o puking on camera. $20 gained.

it was funny to watch though.

I haven't seen the movie, but I really want to. One of the few documentaries I actually care about seeing.

Just watched it a few days ago. Obviously, fast food is terrible for you, but gaining what, 17% of your body weight, having chest pains, and near liver failure from fast food is nuts. Especially since he was in perfect health a mere month before.

It certainly opened my eyes in some respects...