It's like 60 minutes on acid.

He proved that cramming his face with 5000 calories worth of food every day (unless you're actually one of the few people who burn that many calories a day) is a bad thing. Like we didn't already know that.

I don't hate it, but it's a bit over-exaggerated. He gets his point across, but in the most extreme way possible.

I still can't believe not one person has ever come down on him for the part where he's like "There is a NAPPY HAIR in my food"

Secretly racist douche, married to a veganchefdouche.

Hello

>>1696664

But what exactly is his point?

I like the part where he eats a supersized meal and vomits.

>>1696670
that's not racist, that's correctly identifying the offending item

made me want to eat at mcdonalds

I felt interested when I watched it, but on reflection I realized I didn't learn anything I didn't already know. McDonalds is bad for you? No fucking shit! It's not supposed to be eaten all day everyday? No fucking shit! Schools sell junk food and brand name items? No fucking shit! There's no money in campaigning against unhealthy food? No fucking shit!

Etc.

I had to watch this on five different fucking occasions in high school. It pissed me off how many teachers thought it was the best fucking thing ever.

A film class, a cooking class, a culinary science class, a lit class, and a health class.

By the fourth and fifth time I didn't even need to watch, I just asked to go to the library instead. And yes, I still had to take tests and such on them. And yes, I passed them.

Feels bad man. I practically know the damn "movie" by heart.

It's targeted at kids. This is the equivalent of watching a sex-ed video when you're Duke Nukem.

>>1696703
>It pissed me off how many teachers thought it was the best fucking thing ever.

Then they go into the school cafeteria every day at lunch and eat food that is basically the same as McDonald's.

>>1696716
Particularly amusing. The documentary compares school cafeteria food to McDonalds in one segment.

This documentary is good at telling you shit you already know and making it seem like you learned something new.

>>1696710
Do want.

downloading it now

Some lady did a reverse doc where she went to Mickeyd's every day but only ate sensible portions. She actually lost weight because she said she got sick of the crap they serve.

>>1696754
The experiment has been repeated multiple times by various people, according to Wikipedia, many of whom have lost weight and stayed medically healthy.

Spurlock goes to the absolute extreme - he supersizes EVERY meal, gets the largest portions he can, and actually changes his habits so he doesn't burn as many calories as he normally did anyway, let alone actually work out or anything.

>>1696653
>Does anyone else here really, really hate this movie as much as I do?

I don't think it's possible for anyone to hate his girlfriend more than I do.

>>1696760

Well, yeah; it's not as if he didn't enter the project without a certain agenda.

I hated the ending with his girlfriend. "We have to get the bad out and put the good in!"

Goddamn, bitch, it's just unhealthy, it's not fucking toxic.

I like the message it sends, but I HATE the part when he throws up >.<

>>1696772
Most documentary makers on any kind of social issue have an agenda from the start. Most are more subtle about it. This was almost Michael Moore-tier blatantly one-sided.

Morgan Spurlock campaigned for laws regulating the fast food industry because he knows better than you do what's good for you.

Or, he's just a tremendous faggot who hates people for making their own choices when they disagree with him.

>>1696774
What message? That eating fast food 24/7 is bad for you? That the fast food industry is bad for serving food that isn't healthy? Or, heaven forbid, for -advertising- with the billions of dollars they make off of their willing customers?

He rants for like half an hour on why the fast food industry is evil for advertising.

I hate Spurlock not for the movie, but for using it to campaign for laws and regulations on the fast food industry.

In fact, I hate anyone that campaigns for legislation on the premise that they know what's good for me better than I do.

The only invaluably interesting thing that was said is about linking the "joy" and "happiness" of children to this fucking shitfood via the playground things, which is absolutely real and disgusting.

>>1696790

>>1696773
>>1696773
I just thought something so bad right now. It had to do with you and your comment. Im not even going to tell how bad it was because you would probably cry and commit suicide.

But i just wanted you to know that.

>>1696801
I wouldn't say that someone who IS fat needs to stop eating fast food unless they don't like being fat (at which point I'd recommend skipping fast food based on their preferences, not against their preferences.)

For what it's worth, I'm not fat. Or big boned.

>>1696792
It's brilliant, I just wish I thought of it first. But it's not like I get filled with a warm and fuzzy feeling every time I see the golden arches or something - in fact, I loved McDonalds as a kid but now I prefer Subway and Wendy's.

I think they overstate the childhood-memories effect, and I don't fault them for having the conspicuous playgrounds - it's effective and gets them sales. McDonalds' stockholders don't buy stock to insist on some arbitrary moral reasoning, they buy stock with the expectation that the company will do everything it can legally do to make more money.

Oddly enough, the new South Park episode that premiered just yesterday touched on fast food regulation, in a negative light.

>>1696818

There's a movie called Fathead that addresses the flaws of Supersize me. Check it out.

>>1696825

I hate it because there's no more supersize at my McDonalds because of it. Thank you, asshole.

>>1696818
considering the projected costs of healthcare and the rise of obesity in the next 50 years, it's pretty self-evident that someone does need to tell you to stop eating shit

if i could trust you dumb asses to actually take care of yourselves and make rational choices then i wouldn't advocate for big government. but hey, the ruling class has existed for a reason.

if you can't understand that the profit motive can pass on externalities to consumers then you're a fucking moron.

also, people ITT don't understand what rhetoric is.

>>1696839

stop eating so many fries you fat ass. or buy 2 large fries if you're that desperate. this is called an economic disincentive to stop being a fat ass.

>>1696844
protip: The people that protest legislating what and how you can eat tend to be the people that also protest socialized medicine and other shit.

I think people should have the right to eat themselves straight to death if they want to and that companies should be allowed to cater to these people; but that doesn't mean I want to pay for their healthcare when they do.

>>1696831
Oh, I'm sorry, are you saying you actually had a point?
HAHAHAHAHA

>>1696848
>I feel entitled to tell others how to live!

>>1696853
2/10

>>1696844

Trouble is that people don't know what constitutes "shit."

If they start eating grilled steaks at home instead of burgers from McDonald's are they eating healthier?

>>1696844
profit motive passes on external costs to consumers. This sounds like a great reason to not artificially inflate their costs for no good fucking reason.

>>1696854

i don't think you know what entitlement means. also, see smoking laws.

>>1696844

You sound like a sad petty man

The worst part about this movie is the main person Morgan Spurlock wants to help is Morgan Spurlock. His whole gig is to pick out unimportant controversial side issues and poke people with them. Fuck him

Fast food Nation is world better.

>>1696864

What valid points does it make?

>>1696844
And people wonder why conspiracy fags get all up in arms over well-intentioned bills like healthcare and shit: Faggots who think they know better than everyone else use them to justify tighter and tigher restrictions on things that they have no right legislating.

In short, you wouldn't have to worry about he costs of healthcare for people that don't eat healthy if you didn't force yourself to pay for their healthcare to begin with.

I hate siding with conspiracy nuts. They're, well, nuts. But in the immortal words of Matt Stone, "I hate conservatives, but I really fucking hate liberals."

>>1696864

fast food nation deals with a completely different topic moron. learn2reading comprehension.

>>1696861
>semantical argument
>assuming I don't think public smoking bans are bullshit

Second hand smoke isn't even bad for you, if you believe any study that isn't funded by antismoking campaigns or tobacco companies. Problem is, those two are the only two that actually care about statistics, so you get horribly biased "studies" swinging both ways and it's difficult to find real science about it. As for firsthand smoke, what the hell, they're not my lungs.

>>1696870

you guys are living in a fantasy world if you don't think you already pay for people's healthcare. protip: no one is turned away from an emergency room.

the truth is, no post industrial nation is going to refuse to give treatment to sick people. the majority of society are moralfags, deal wit it nerd.

The movie confused me, I do nothing but sit on 4chan 24/7 and eat mcdonalds and i never gain weight

I guess i have a super metabolism :V

Government banned the health insurance industry from discriminating against people that didn't eat healthy or work out enough or whatnot. What right does the government have to do what it says is illegal?

>>1696880
No one is turned away, but hospitals are rather effective at getting money out of you once you're better.

>>1696875

taxes on cigarettes stupid. economic disincentive to stop people from getting inevitable lung cancer. even if you think it's up to individual choice, there needs to be a system set up to discourage making stupid choices.

>>1696883
Me too, actually, but I figure it won't last and I've been trying to jog around campus and cut the soda and fried chicken some before I randomly gain a hundred pounds.

>>1696710
0for some reason this made me laugh in a really, really nerdy way.

it was a laugh composed solely of snorts.

>>1696892

Taxing cigarettes is smart for the same reason decriminalizing and taxing pot is smart. It has nothing to do with its health effects.

>>1696892
Why does there need to be laws preventing people from making stupid choices? Because you know what's better for them? Why not educate them, then, instead of punishing them for making a choice they're supposedly allowed to make?

I support things like health warnings. I don't support public smoking bans, taxes, and whatnot.

And really, does ANYONE who smokes really not know it's bad for them? Have you ever met a smoker who was surprised to learn that it's bad for you? Or that it's addictive? They chose to anyway, despite a wide range of freely available products designed to help you quit smoking. Why punish them?

>>1696760
It's a film about obesity, not just McDonald's. You'll remember he quotes a variety of statistics to justify the amount of exercise he reduces himself to and the amount of food he uses. The idea is to scare people out of being lazy fatties.

>>1696889

except half of hospitals are uncompensated, resulting in the cost shifting to tax payers. surprise! you've been in a socialized health care system for years!

>>1696902
His statistics were cherrypicked, too. And either way, the driving force behind his argument is the physical effects of his experiment - without it, it's just a bunch of disconnected swipes at the fast food industry that doesn't really work all that well.

>>1696899
>And really, does ANYONE who smokes really not know it's bad for them?

I've found that most of them know it's bad for them, but few of them seem to realize how bad it is.

>>1696904
What should we do, then, turn away people unless they pay up front in cash, and only treat people who work out enough?

>>1696898
http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/14/2/86.abstract

>>1696908
That's their own damn fault. They must've dropped out of school or something, because schools hammer it down in every kid's head that smoking is akin to playing russian roulette six times in a row.

>>1696913
A good friend of mine started smoking to spite the incessant and annoying antismoking campaigns you sit through in school.

>>1696920

I'm willing to bet that he's going to regret it some day.

>>1696920

i wish i wouldn't have to pay for his inevitable lung cancer but it's unavoidable in our healthcare system. i wish there was a way to stop him from being a moron hmm...

>>1696920
Because all the cool kids do it. Duh. Quit being a square, man, it's just a cigarette.