I finally got around to watching Morgan Spurlock’s movie ‘Supersize me’. I have to say it was a really educational and entertaining film.
Ordinarily I watch documentary films with a somewhat cynical eye, but this didn’t feel at all like it was pushing some hidden agenda. I won’t even watch a Michael Moore films because I think that guy misrepresents things to such a degree that pretty much anything he says can’t be trusted. Ironically he’s put himself in the same position as the man he seems to hate so much [Bush].
The UK DVD of Supersize me had some cool extras too (gotta love DVD extras). One that made me laugh out loud was ‘The smoking fry‘ where he puts a selection of McDonalds food in jars to see how it breaks down over time. The results are interesting and a little concerning too.
I know just about everyone has seen this movie a long time back, but if you haven’t then seriously, I recommend you do. It’s funny and like I say, it has an interesting message too.
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Supersize me
The smoking fry (Updated)
Wrote the following comment on Nov 21, 2005 at 6:47 pm
I couldn’t get the smoking fry to load. I wonder why Americans didn’t get to see that. I’m beginning to feel overprotected. First “they” didn’t tell us about the white phosphorus and now this.:(Not making light of that by the way. It’s just frustrating to be kept in the dark all of the time.
Wrote the following comment on Nov 22, 2005 at 1:36 am
I updated the link to the Smoking fries movie so it should work now.
Wrote the following comment on Nov 22, 2005 at 4:09 am
That’s really nasty.
Wrote the following comment on Nov 22, 2005 at 5:20 am
We had the smoking fry extra on the DVD we rented when we saw that movie. Very interesting, indeed. I enjoyed the movie when I saw it.
Wrote the following comment on Nov 22, 2005 at 1:38 pm
omg i can’t believe the fries. i’m never eating them again.
Wrote the following comment on Nov 22, 2005 at 6:37 pm
my friends and i went to mcdonald’s just before watching ‘supersize me’ as a joke. five minutes after the film ended, we all went to mcdonald’s again because seeing it on tv for two hours made us want it even more. how fat and american am i?
Wrote the following comment on Nov 22, 2005 at 6:52 pm
oh and the fries vid still doesn’t work for me :(
Wrote the following comment on Nov 27, 2005 at 1:47 pm
Take McDonald’s fries and dip them in a vanilla shake…hoo boy, so good.
Wrote the following comment on Nov 28, 2005 at 4:28 pm
Patti, that’s gross! :-)
Wrote the following comment on Dec 2, 2005 at 3:45 pm
how can you say that about michael moore if you don’t even watch his movies?and the “smoking fry” extra was on the dvd here in the states… it was gross but not very surprising.