timothy-durey
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....
eodea-08412
Mc Donald's takes a punch from the documentary supersize me. Directed by Morgan Spurlok and staring Morgan Spurlok, it documents the Mc Donald's involvement in the obesity epidemic raging through America.Filmed over the course of 30 days and chronicling Morgan's Mcdiet in which he must eat from McDonald's 3 times a day breakfast, lunch, and dinner. The point of this is to see what changes, if any, occur physically. Mc Donald's claims that their food can be a part of a balanced, healthy diet and that they don't tell you to eat from their chains but supersize me zones in on the very effective child manipulation of which McDonalds is spearheading .I would give this film a 9/10; it proved an enjoyable insight to the workings of the super-chain McDonalds.
Harrison wallace
To be honest, I heard about this film a while back and dismissed it because one the title is ridiculous and two as a kid I felt unstoppable. However, watching the first five minutes in my English class it inspired me to watch it. In the beginning, I felt like he was a arrogant guy trying to defend McDonalds, but as the film progressed he was defending both sides until the end where he looked so uncomfortable he could not tell which side he supported. The best parts of the film I thought were the interviews with strangers and school employees, the three doctors' analysis, and the constant reminder that our children and our selves can seriously be affected or are already affected by this. The parts that I did not like was the reality show theme to it. I felt it was over dramatically placed. Having more people do the diet, I feel that would resonate more. I personally felt there was an overall tone of mockery or something to that extent that really pulled away from the pathos of the story as well as the logos. However, there were to many facts that could not be missed due to the fact of the sheer credibility of some of them. In terms of ethos, I felt biased due to the first impression that I did not trust him, but by the end I at least listened to his other sources. The onslaught of video work, text, and audio work don on this documentary was outstanding. Even though I felt it was a bad film and would not watch it again really shows that the facts in it really make you think about what you eat. It is a good enough film to watch once. More than that maybe not.
Joshua Cimarric-Penczek
Supersize Me is a documentary about the effects of highly fattening fast food three times a day over a period of a month. Guess what? It makes you fat. Unfortunately, Morgan Spurlock was not aware of this, as he had to test the effects of such an experiment and discover for himself what truly happened. Guess what? He gets fat.The underlies of his experiment say that he must eat three meals a day, all of it McDonald's, he can only eat at McDonald's and nothing else (even water), and he must have all items on the menu at least once. All of these ideas and methods are preposterous. At one point, Spurlock says he's eating an average of 5,000 - 6,000 calories a day. Eating that many calories of anything, even kale and spinach, isn't good for you without exercise. A later study suggested that as much as 85% of his sugar intake came from milkshakes and soda, both of which aren't something people consume multiple times a day. When's the last time you've met someone who ate three milkshakes a day? This, on top of an intentional lack of exercise, will no doubt result in becoming fat.The documentary is admittedly well made, especially with the shoe-string budget it has, and I do admire the research done into the non-Morgan elements, such as an investigation involving school cafeteria food and an obese child who believes eating Subway everyday will make her leaner because Jared told her so. These elements should've been the focus of the film, not Morgan being an idiot and potentially killing himself. On top of that, Morgan Spurlock is an obnoxious self-righteous douchebag, as more evident in his later work, and the film would be much better with a less irritating narrator presenting the story. The overall lesson is: don't be stupid, or else you might gain a bunch of weight.
