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"cricket" > wrote in message
nk.net...
>i will again come back with the segment on public schools. if
>that movie is
> good for nothing else it shows that kids eat crap in school.
> why? maybe they
> like crap, maybe the schools didn't teach them, maybe their
> parents didn't
> teach them (more then likely) maybe their parents did teach
> them but there
> is nothing better to eat or to even try (most likely) that
> segment irked me
> so much i wanted to beat the crap out of a lunch lady.

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Ahhh, the typical vegan compassion again rears its ugly head.
You guys are just too transparent, killer.



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> oups.com...
>>
>> I saw "Super Size Me." The filmmaker (can't remember his
>> name) is a
>> very appealing guy, and is great on camera. Somebody that a
>> lot of
>> people could imagine being their friend. And his filmmaking
>> style is
>> easygoing and something that might change minds, not the
>> shrill, angry
>> feeling you get from a lot of agitprop. Not entirely unlike
>> Michael
>> Moore in the early days, when he was making good films like
>> "Roger and
>> Me" instead of ill humored stuff like he makes now. (Yes, I
>> know there
>> were a lot of problems with "Roger & Me" but it's still
>> leagues ahead
>> of what he does now.)
>>
>> The problem with "Super Size Me" is that it's ultimately
>> unconvincing
>> self promotion. Yes, I realize the filmmaker has some point
>> to make
>> about how food is marketed, but at the end of the day the
>> subject of
>> the movie is the filmmaker himself, who is doing this as a way
>> to make
>> a name for himself. So, he basically does a stunt, in which he
>> deliberately tries to eat so much that he literally vomits
>> every day
>> for a month, while eating McDonald's food. Critics can easily
>> dismiss
>> what he did by staying that eating that much of anything, even
>> if it
>> was a fat free vegetable diet, would make a person ill - and
>> they'd be
>> right. So why does he do it? Because he wants to make himself
>> famous,
>> and I guess in that respect the film is successful. But it's
>> ostensible
>> reason for being is not convincing at all.
>>

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