For many reasons, including bias, vulgarity and disrespect for persons, this is unacceptable material for classrooms and relays no positive messaging about nutrition. In it, the producer and star Morgan Spurlock goes on a day eating binge during which he eats nothing but McDonald's food, concentrating on high-fat, high-calorie items from the menu. He also intentionally limits his exercise, something not under control of any fast food restaurant.
Much to his surprise - but not to the surprise of anyone who knows anything about health and nutrition - Mr. Spurlock gains weight and feels lousy throughout the entire time. Of course, he blames fast food for his woes instead of taking responsibility for his food choices.
Personal responsibility, portion sizes, and exercise are never discussed in the film. It's all about blaming someone else. Here are several reasons why this movie should not be considered a documentary, or an educational film:. Despite the Centers for Disease Control recently admitting that the , obesity-related deaths figure is grossly overstated, there is no sign that Morgan Spurlock has corrected, or is planning to correct those statistics in the movie.
Spurlock shows bias. He demonstrates his personal vendetta against fast food, and McDonald's in particular, by using strong language. He models disdain and disrespect for the severely obese by repeatedly filming their buttocks. Despite admitting that McDonald's classifies "super heavy eaters" as those who eat at McDonald's "three, four, five times a week and up," Mr.
Spurlock goes out of his way to eat at McDonald's 21 times a week, something most people could not afford to do, or would even enjoy doing. And that ghetto public school might not actually be so bad: According to administrators from Woodside High School , which the film claims only sends a third of its students to college and only graduates 62 percent of them, the film excluded students who go to out-of-state colleges in their statistics, and their graduation rate is more like 92 percent.
Shit, being left behind is starting to sound awesome. Now please get out of our school. In Religulous , Bill Maher sets out to make you question what you think you know about God, telling you everything church leaders don't want you to know.
He interrogates everyone from truck stop parishioners to pious scientists to visitors of a holy amusement park , poking holes in their beliefs by pointing out things like how the original sin isn't mentioned in the Bible or how the Christ mythology is eerily similar to other ancient religions -- at one point, a Tumblr-ready slideshow informs us of the many similarities between Jesus and the Egyptian god Horus. Man, that's some incriminating evidence right there.
How come the entire Catholic church hasn't collapsed under the weight of this one documentary? All this "Jesus was copied from earlier religions" stuff has been going around the Internet for a while, and it will make you look awesome if you post it on a Halo message board, but none of it is true. The Egyptian links have been debunked by actual Egyptologists. Let's start with the "virgin births" part: You've gotta make some pretty big logical jumps to claim that any of those earlier gods were born from virgins, having come from a mother seven times over Krishna , some freaky necrophilia Horus , and a fucking rock Mithras.
Then there's the resurrection thing. Contrary to Maher's claims, Mithras was never resurrected , and the older versions of the guy's story don't have any of the Jesus similarities -- those came about in the first or second century A. Horus, like Mithras, was also never resurrected, didn't have 12 apostles, and didn't raise Asar from the dead which doesn't translate to "Lazarus" even a little bit. There isn't even any record of a figure call Anup the Baptizer; the closest we come is Anubis, the god of embalming , which astute readers will note is a leeeeeetle different from baptism.
Oh, by the way, original sin is totally in the Bible , and you'd be hard-pressed to find a scholar who disagrees with the overwhelming evidence that a person not necessarily a divine being matching Jesus' description existed during his purported lifetime. So where did Maher get all this crap? Probably from the viral "documentary" Zeitgeist which doesn't cite any sources or, and this is a serious possibility, the fucking Da Vinci Code which is about as historically accurate as the movie Splash.
None of this means the Christian Bible is right or that it represents the one true religion. But if you think something is bullshit, the answer is not more bullshit. Searching for Sugar Man is the tale of two South African music fans going on a quest to find a mysterious American singer called Rodriguez , who had become huge in their country but whose whereabouts were unknown. The story is that this musical genius had released two little-heard albums in the early '70s and then vanished rumors swirled that he had long ago committed suicide onstage.
He remained unknown until a sudden surge in popularity when his songs about poverty and urban decay made him an icon in apartheid-era South Africa.
So the guy was a star, but nobody knew where he was or even if he was still alive. Spoilers: The documentary discovers Rodriguez toiling in anonymity in his native Detroit, having no idea of his superstar status abroad.
Thanks to the documentary, Rodriguez became the ultimate artist-you-probably-haven't-heard for hipsters everywhere, and he was even invited to play at some festivals. Via Michael Robinson "Wait, he didn't kill himself? Fuck this, let's see if Nirvana is playing. The documentary tells us that Rodriguez is a guy who put out two extremely obscure albums in the '70s, had zero success, quit music, and became a regular Joe.
That makes for a great story -- the idea that the guy threw the albums out there and dropped off the map, unaware that his work had become huge on the other side of the globe years later.
Well, we don't know about you, but we haven't met any regular Joes who spent years touring Australia with bands like Men at Work and Midnight Oil. Yep, Rodriguez was a huge sensation in Australia in the late '70s and early '80s, with his singles shooting up the charts for over a year. One of the fans from the documentary is a record shop owner and a massive Rodriguez nut -- surely he'd heard of his live in Australia album?
Maybe he listened to it and figured the huge crowd cheering for the guy at the beginning was in some tiny Detroit cafe. Also, the name of the album is Rodriguez Alive , so maybe he should have taken it as a clue. It's true that Rodriguez's work didn't catch on the U. He enjoyed a sterling career lasting over a decade before his 15 minutes were up and he was forced back into the real world, making his story about as remarkable as any '80s hair metal band that is, if Blackie Lawless inexplicably became the poster boy for the Egyptian revolution, which -- can we make that happen?
That might explain why he seemed so underwhelmed when he met up with the filmmakers. This Oscar-nominated thrill ride captures the awe-inspiring movements of several different species of bird as they embark on the incredible journey to go fuck other birds or whatever. If it sounds boring, you haven't seen it -- it's full of heartbreaking scenes like this in which an injured bird is surrounded by crabs and, unable to fly away and escape, is eventually ganged up on and eaten.
Via Habibsalimin You have a little something on your arm there. Damn, that's one of the most disturbing things to happen to an innocent creature in a movie in recent years that wasn't made by Pixar. Yeah, that scene is fake. Everyone would get sued if the subjects afterwards didn't manage to get rid of their extra kilos. Late last year, after delivering a lecture on the ills of overeating, he casually asked if any of the students would be prepared to gorge themselves for the sake of science.
He was deluged with applications, but mostly from men he thinks that women are too wary of gaining weight. They all had to be in good health, but as he says: "Young med students usually are. At the end of the month, each student was they were given their results to keep. Before the study began, the subjects thought they were in for an easy time. In fact, they could hardly believe their luck: "You mean to tell me that if I were to go out tonight, and order beer and peanuts, you'd pay?
But eating 6, calories a day - roughly double what most of the volunteers ingested normally - is not as easy as it sounds. You can't do it simply by letting yourself go and having an extra scoop of ice cream. It takes effort.
One Big Mac with large fries and a large Coke still nets you just 1, calories, according to McDonald's Swedish website. Just as in Super Size Me, the idea was that all calories would come from fast food.
But breakfast at home was allowed, provided it was bacon-and-eggs based. And the fast food didn't have to come exclusively from McDonald's: hamburgers could be exchanged for pizzas, as long as most of the calories still came from saturated fats, those having the most effect on levels of cholesterol. Still, it wasn't unusual for students to be about to go to bed only to discover that they were some calories short of their daily target, and forced to face a large calorific milk shake rather than a mug of hot milk.
It turns out that hunger might be an underrated feeling.
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