Supersize Me

[El Blanco]

I just finished watching it. I did enjoy it. A few things about it:

1) Not too ground breaking. Fast food is bad for you. I pretty much knew he was getting sick eating just McCraphole 3 times a day for a month straight

2) Morgan Spurlock is a lot more personable than you-know-who. He comes off as a regular guy, something that other guy never does in my opinion. He actually put his own ass on the line. And he lived in a tiny little apartment. I actually identify with him. No moral posturing, no stupid gimmicks, no ambush journalism with clever editing.

3) I actually was suprised at how many McDonald's are in Manhattan. When he made the film, 83 sites on a 22 square mile island. Just damn.

4) Here's the big one. At the end of the movie, he says that the only way to fix the obesity and health problems in this country is to make the idnividual descisions. He didn't make us out to be victims of some big evil corporation. He reminds us that the fast food companies are bussinesses and they are out to make a dollar. We don't have give them ours.

But, you might ask, why put this in the poli/rel/phil section and not in the movie section? Good question.

1) This is pretty much the only section that doesn't make me completly hate humanity

2) I actually want to talk about the weight problem in this country and I figured this would be a good start.

Anybody else seen the movie and have an opinion or something they want to say about how fat we are friggin getting?