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"rick" > wrote in message
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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.


wtf mate? are you refering to my impulse to slaughter a lunch lady? i don't
know why vegitarianism and my lunch lady rampage have anything in common.

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> >> 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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