I saw "Super Size Me" last night! Ask me anything!

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

[Kadie]

1. Did you stop at McDonalds on the way home?

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

3. Nah, we'd eaten dinner before. But I WAS surprised to learn that

McD's had ended their "Supersize options" during the past year (no doubt in response to the movie, even though they officially deny this.)

High points- Clever use of music and graphics. Spurlock is clearly heavily influenced by Michael Moore (who kind of created a whole genre of documentary).

A little cost analysis showing how much it costs to produce the typical fast food meal would have been useful, to help enlighten as to why we are stuck with only this type of greasy/deadly fast food as opposed to other alternatives (I assume it's way cheaper, either in terms of material or manpower or both).

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

9. Another high point was the paintings of a guy named Ron English

featured prominently in the movie, impressionistic Van Gogh looking things with evil Ronald McDonalds and Walmarts dominating the subject matter.

[commander bunnypants]

2. how was it?

I kinda want to see it also

DDQM

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

4. It was good. It's really a film about obesity in America, with Spurlock's

stunt as the running narrative thread to hold it together. Much like Bowling for Columbine was about the Large Topic of violence in America.

I think Spurlock made the "experiment" more extreme than was really "fair", but more likely to show results, the way conditions are often set in scientific experiments.

There's no way Michael Moore would have let him self get put off from interviewing the brass at McD's as easily as Spurlock did, though.

[robertpaulsen]

5. Any gross-out scenes? n/t

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

6. Yes, but not too bad.

Scene of Spurlock, the director/subject, barfing after a particularly insane greaseout.

Also, depending on your gross out threshold, there's a scene depicting one of the interview subjects having gastric bypass surgery, via video laparoscopy. I see this sort of thing everyday at work so it's no biggie to me, and way less gross than what you'd see most nights on "Trauma: Life in the E.R." on TLC.

[trotsky]

7. How much total weight did he gain?

n/t

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

8. It was about 25 lbs. over a month (185 to 210 if I recall).

[Paragon]

10. What did you eat from the concession stand?

;-)

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

11. Actually the theater in Dallas (Magnolia) where it was showing has

a bar where you can get booze and bring it to the theater, so I had a Smirnoff Ice, and copped some of my wife's buttered popcorn.

Very cool place.