Super Size Me (2004)

One of the worst movies I've ever seen

i know i wasted 90 mins of my life.

Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.

Most of us probably have fond memories (whether recent or from childhood) of McDonald's and the fast food business as a whole. In "Super Size Me", Morgan Spurlock takes a look "behind the counter", so to speak, in order to show us what that business really looks like.The premise of Spurlock's little experiment is quite simple: He will eat nothing but McDonald's food for an entire month (three meals a day), and has to super-size the meal if asked. His health is extensively tested at the beginning of his quest, and is also tested at certain points throughout the experiment to see how the McFood is treating him.There really are two ways to look at this documentary:First, there's Spurlock's experiment itself, which needs to be taken with more than a few grains of salt. Though he makes it seem as if the "McDonald's Diet" is killing him, there are many other factors not considered. He pukes up one burger on the very first day (a little suspicious), his exercise and lifestyle habits are never explained (two weeks into the experiment he actually LOSES a pound over the course of a week), and he runs into one gentleman who eats the equivalent of three Big Macs a day yet still looks fit as a fiddle. Thus, there are many inconsistencies to the basic Spurlock experiment premise.However, what really made this movie stick out for me was the parts that shed light onto the business-doings of the fast food industry itself. Though obviously each consumer is ultimately responsible for what he/she puts in his/her mouth, Spurlock makes a compelling case that "Corporate Fast Food" is truly integrated into so many facets of our daily life. They spend billions on advertising, ensconce themselves in the schools, and market themselves as family-friendly as possible. All the while, they are putting out a product that (no matter what your stance on fast food may be) is probably not helping us become any healthier.About the only thing I wish I would have seen from this doc is Spurlock putting a bit more of the onus on actual consumers, as without their dollars the fast food business world would crumble. Other than that, however, I believe that (experiment aside) Spurlock does a noble job of exposing potentially clueless consumers to the "other side of the counter", so to speak. Sometimes, people need a wake-up call to change their ways, and this definitely qualifies as that.

https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4088 I would suggest you guys with the righteous delight of having consumed this fast-food movie to use your own brain when making a decision on the validity of something to believe in.Hopefully this is not the most scientific and convincing bit of media you rely on.Things have to be logical and facts-based. And not just designed to get money from. I am not a fast-food fan at all. Not at all. However one needs to careful and make sure that the statements are proved and that it works both ways.

Supersize Me is essentially a movie about a man who eats way too much every day for a month and gets fat. I would like to point out that eating 3k+ calories of ANYTHING every meal will make you fat. Morgan Spurlock offers no control group and his arbitrary method of accepting the offer to "Supersize" whenever asked has no clear purpose other than to prove McDonalds doesn't really ask that often. I would suggest to anyone who has watched this to also watch "Fathead." It offers insight into Spurlock's methodology for the film as well as poking some major flaws in his so called logic. To summarize, this movie does a great job of creating hate towards one of many players in the fast food industry, but it fails to properly educate and provide any useful facts.

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...