Talk:Super Size Me
[edit] What the film is about...
..is more than Spurlock and his month-long McD. binge; if you watch the thing, about half of the movie is taken up by an analysis of various food-related issues: school lunches, talking to people about diet, talking heads talking about the political economy of food, etc. The Spurlock story is all anyone takes from the film, and I find that frustrating, 'cause most of what he says in the rest of it is worth thinking about...TheoryOfPractice 06:02, 12 November 2009 (UTC)
- Strange, you may be right, but I've watched it a half-dozen times. If all I took from it was the Spurlock story, maybe he's a shit story-teller? And, yes, the "rest" is good, I just stuck up a stub from a CP: page link. Please feel free to emblazon with your words, indeed! ħuman
06:11, 12 November 2009 (UTC)
- really, that is what is so worrying. super size me is a wonderful movie that has done a lot of good and talks about a lot more than mcdonald's... yet very few are actually going to see it that way.
- to most people, ssm is nothing more than an attack on either mcd's specifically or on fast food in general, and has been responsible for the bandwagon of "mcd's is satan" as much as it's been responsible for mcd's cleaning up their act. it could easily be said that the various counters to ssm don't miss the point of the movie at all, because "the point" is something completely different (yet painfully more shallow and "obvious") than anyone behind ssm would have guessed.
- this is more or less the same principle behind the whole "living language" thing. 75.177.119.25 (talk) 12:18, 21 August 2014 (UTC)
[edit] Rewrote
I rewrote a majority of this because I did not like it. It is better now.--
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11:01, 30 July 2012 (UTC)
I'd just like to press an anecdote of mine that he's an utter fucking puss. During my lunch break at work, I walk to McDonalds (which is about ten minutes away from my work) and I usually order a double Big Mac meal, supersized, provided I have the cash on hand. And it just fills me. It's no more different in my opinion in portion size or construction from a Double Quarter Pounder. If he pukes from that, he has no constitution. lol — Unsigned, by: 173.212.75.111 / talk / contribs
- So the fuck what? --Seth Peck (talk) 17:11, 28 December 2012 (UTC)
- He puked because McDonald's meals are high in fat and grease. Since he was a vegetarian before the movie, he probably consumed very little to no animal fat or grease. When I eat bacon I feel pretty sick too for similar reasons. It isn't because he's a puss anymore then you getting dysentery in Mexico means you're a puss.--Just relax, and stay funny (talk) 18:00, 28 December 2012 (UTC)