Super Size Me (2004)

Weeeeelllllll, now that he's confessed that he was an alcoholic, pretty much all his credibility has gone out the window due to him probably being on alcohol during the whole McD's experiment....

"Fast food makes you fat and is unhealthy" that is basically all there is to this movie it's just stating information that anyone watching it should already know, it's not a huge secret. Honestly it ticks me off that this film is so anti fast food companies, if you honestly believe that McDonald's is causing problems for your health ( which if you go everyday it definitely is) just stop going it's not that hard, go to your local grocery store and pick up bread and some lunch meat and some mayo, (very cheap) make yourself some sandwiches.Stop blaming McDonald's for your poor choices

I remember how angry I was at McDonald's at their daily attempt to make our country unhealthy. I knew from the very start that what they call food wasn't really healthy at all. Clearly Mr. Spurlock shows the viewers that poor nutrition leads to inevitable heart problems and general decaying of our bodies. Sure it's also personal responsibility, but at some point we have to blame the fast food outlets that open them up every few blocks for pure profit. This film really brought out the truth about what crap they sell. Clearly during the filming and subsequent publicity, McDonald's started selling more healthy choices like salads; but I think it was too little and too late. Being cheap and readily available doesn't make something good for Americans. Lets' face it America; cigarettes are sold everywhere, millions of people smoke them (almost everyone in Europe smokes them), but That doesn't mean that cigarettes are healthy. For crying out loud, in 1st grade (50 years ago) our elementary school brought in two lungs from cadavers. One was healthy and the other was black and smaller. So just because cigarettes and fast food are sold everywhere, it doesn't mean that it's healthy. We need more education in the schools, we need to teach children how to grow foods in gardens and participate in the same in our neighborhoods. Also, check out this article as well: www.eatdrinkpolitics.com And type in McDonalds in the search box. Not only does McDonald's sell garbage food, but they don't support their own charity with their own clown's name on it. They make the public continue to support it. I know you thought that every time you order a big mac that McDonald's was giving money to support families with children dying of cancer, but they're not. What a great marketing tool. Sure McDonald's gives the Ronald McDonald House the land and building as a gift, but they should continue to financially support them forever. And by the way, I would assume that most of the McDonald's that have been in business over 30 years now owned the adult children of the original owners. That means that these adult children have inherited the businesses; no real estate or equipment debt. Everything's all paid for and highly profitable. I know of many of these adult children here in the Denver area that have in fact inherited "multiple" locations and are simply filthy rich from selling garbage food to families and hurting our country's health. And the $963 million dollars in advertising they spend on every year is sickening. McDonald's: take responsibility for your own charity with your name on it. Stop asking the public to do your job. You and your franchisees should be ashamed of yourselves.

Interesting, illuminating documentary on the fast-food industry.Observing the obesity epidemic in the USA, a documentary film-maker, Morgan Spurlock, eats only MacDonalds meals, three times a day, for 30 days. His aim is to document the changes to his body. He enlists a host of medical experts to keep track of what is happening to himself. Between this he weaves a story of the fast-food industry, and MacDonalds in particular, the food we eat and human behaviour with regard to food.Quite eye-opening and the results are quite profound. If you do eat regularly at MacDonalds, this might change your mind...Also good in that it doesn't pull any punches or try to politically correctly tiptoe around issues. Fat people are called just that and shown up for their own behaviour.On the negative side it is a touch manipulative and, at times, unobjective. A minor compliant though, especially when you compare this with the bullsh*t Michael Moore parades as "documentaries". Moore's films have zero objectivity, contain almost as little facts and are entirely based on manipulation and his own opinions.The other slightly jarring thing is the thought that MacDonalds is entirely to blame for people being fat, and are hence suable for it. Surely fat people only have themselves to blame? Oh wait, it's the 21st century and you're now never responsible for your own actions...