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Morgan Spurlock's Long-Awaited Super Size Me Sequel Is Here
Food and Wine ^ | September 8th 2017 | Christopher Rosen

Posted on 09/10/2017 3:20:39 PM PDT by Ennis85

Thirteen years after Morgan Spurlock’s hit documentary Super Size Me put the fast-food industry on blast and the filmmaker on the map as one of the modern era’s best-known documentarians, Spurlock is back with a sequel.

Super Size Me 2: Holy Chicken! will have its world premiere on Friday at the Toronto International Film Festival (screening details for those in Toronto for the fest can be found here).

Whereas in the original film, the Oscar-nominated Spurlock attempted to eat only McDonald’s food products for a 30-day period, Super Size Me 2 finds the filmmaker opening up his own fast-food establishment, a chicken franchise.

“If you look at the first film, Super Size Me is a great look at the food industry told from a consumer perspective,” Spurlock explained in a recent interview with Metro News. “What we wanted Super Size Me 2 to represent was to have an industry perspective — how does the industry view consumers? How does it view us almost as commodities? How does it view their role in what they do?”

Spurlock’s film, which is produced by the director himself along with Jessica Calder, Keith Calder, Jeremy Chilnick, Matthew Galkin, and Spencer Silna, also includes a theme song by pop trio AJR called “Burn the House Down.”

“I’ve loved AJR from the first minute I heard them,” Spurlock told Billboard. “After seeing them live, I knew there wasn’t anyone more musically suited to represent the spirit, the fun and the revelations of Super Size Me 2: Holy Chicken! I got all that and more with ‘Burn the House Down.'”In addition to Super Size Me 2, the busy Spurlock is also making Cultureshock, which premieres on A&E in 2018, in partnership with Entertainment Weekly and Spurlock’s Warrior Poets production studio.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: chicken; documentary; fastfood; foodsupply; morgan; nutrition; spurlock; supersizeme
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1 posted on 09/10/2017 3:20:39 PM PDT by Ennis85
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To: Ennis85

“If you look at the first film, Super Size Me is a great look at the food industry told from a consumer perspective,”

No consumer thinks they can only eat fast food for 30 days you celebrated freak.


2 posted on 09/10/2017 3:22:25 PM PDT by Vision (Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid - Reagan)
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To: Ennis85

The Super Size Me documentary was basically a fraud. You can eat somewhat healthy at McDonalds if you have more salads and Egg McMuffins and less shakes and fries. This
joker tried living on the most unhealthiest items on the menu only.


3 posted on 09/10/2017 3:24:09 PM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: Ennis85

So basically he made a documentary to attack chic-fil-a and calls himself clever.

Someone should make a documentary about documentary films from the consumer perspective and how con artists like Spurlock, Moore and even al Gore use bigotry and orejudice to line their own pockets.

They can call it Dupe Me!


4 posted on 09/10/2017 3:34:51 PM PDT by Skywise
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To: SamAdams76

Yep, if you look closely at what he eats (I don’t believe he has released his food logs), he eats way more than just a meal. There are numerous other items around him he is eating. Claimed 5,000 calories a day, but Big Mac meal is less than 1500. So he overstuffed himself.


5 posted on 09/10/2017 3:42:28 PM PDT by Chipper (You can't kill an Obamazombie by destroying the brain...they didn't have one to begin with.)
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To: Ennis85

Was the world even waiting for Super-Size Me 2?
He’s been involved in many projects since then, but few have really developed into anything long term.
Spurlock probably sees himself as a ‘Poor Man’s Michael Moore’.
I recall seeing that poster for “Super Size Me”, the original. Instantly, after seeing Spurlock’s goofy expression, I could tell it was going to be done for laughs.


6 posted on 09/10/2017 3:48:03 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: SamAdams76

The way he ate and exercised for the Super-Size Me film was as follows:

Order largest combination item on menu, get it upsized, consume entire order, LIMIT walking/physical activity to UNDER 5000 steps per day.

Even without the large meals he would have gained weight. I’ve often done 5000 steps before breakfast (according to my pedometer, anyway...).


7 posted on 09/10/2017 3:54:27 PM PDT by Don W (When blacks riot, neighbourhoods and cities burn. When whites riot, nations and continents burn.)
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To: Chipper; SamAdams76
Yep, if you look closely at what he eats (I don’t believe he has released his food logs), he eats way more than just a meal. There are numerous other items around him he is eating. Claimed 5,000 calories a day, but Big Mac meal is less than 1500. So he overstuffed himself.

As I recall, in the movie he did provide a segment in which he interviewed a guy who ate nothing but McDonald's menu items and maintained a HEALTHY weight and had no other health issues. This man practiced moderation and suffered no harm.

8 posted on 09/10/2017 3:56:13 PM PDT by thecodont
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To: Ennis85

Back in the mid-eighties I was doing refrigeration repair, and I ate 2 McDonald’s hamburgers for lunch—$0.50 each, and I lost 50 pounds in a short time! From size 40 back to size 34! Not these days, though...back to 44’s again. Whine!


9 posted on 09/10/2017 4:11:43 PM PDT by W. (What's crackin', bitch? Har!)
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To: Vision
Too true.

They always like to mention things like, the Blooming Onion at Outback restaurant too.


Outback Steakhouse's Bloomin Onion, has more than 800 calories, 58 grams of fat and 22 grams
of saturated fat, plus 1,520 milligrams of sodium. These numbers don't include the dipping sauce,
which is also loaded with fat, calories, and sodium.

Of course there's no mention that if you go out with three other people, as friends often do, you split the dang thing four ways. It's not an every day treat.

Grow up Lefties.

Food police, bah humbug, to the X.

10 posted on 09/10/2017 4:19:30 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (7.5 mos M/R joining dems to block Cons. agenda? No problem. Trump deal w/Dems, big problem! Ah NO!)
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To: Ennis85

Great movie, The Founder

Story about McDonalds, seen it 3 times.


11 posted on 09/10/2017 4:24:09 PM PDT by TheNext (Obamacare is KILLING GRANDMA!)
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To: Chipper

I don’t go to McDonalds often but when I do, it’s usually an Egg McMuffin and a cup of black coffee - 300 calories. The documentary maker was basically a jerk. I mean, in general, McDonalds is not the healthiest place to eat everyday - everybody knows that. But you could go into a Whole Foods and gain a bunch of weight too if all you choose is the fattiest items and “super-size” them.


12 posted on 09/10/2017 4:30:08 PM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: TheNext
If you can find this book (no longer in print), it's an excellent read. I believe "The Founder" movie was based on it.

Ray Kroc was a genius. But he had a lot of help.


13 posted on 09/10/2017 4:32:23 PM PDT by SamAdams76
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Not basically. It was. If you watch the documentary “Fat Head” he rips Super Size Me to shreds. Spurlock to this day refuses to turn over a log of precisely what he ate. This is anti-science and clear indication of fraud. In Fat Head he determines that Spurlock was eating more than what he declared in the documentary based on calorie intake. Spurlock is a snake-oil salesman.


14 posted on 09/10/2017 4:37:01 PM PDT by DeltaZulu
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To: W.

When I was 17 I’d eat 2 Quarter Pounders with cheese, fries and a large Coke for dinner at work. I then got 2 candy bars and another Coke outta the vending machines.

Never a problem to stay at 175. Ah, to be 17 again.


15 posted on 09/10/2017 4:38:36 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Ennis85

Call me old fashioned, but if you don’t like to eat at a particular Restaurant, you just don’t go there.

Why is this even an issue?


16 posted on 09/10/2017 4:40:29 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (The way Liberals carry on about Deportation, you would think "Mexico" was Spanish for "Auschwitz".)
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To: SaveFerris

Yeah, you work it off, you’re not going to have a problem with your weight. Eat sensible and stay active!


17 posted on 09/10/2017 4:50:04 PM PDT by W. (What's crackin', bitch? Har!)
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To: Ennis85

The counter documentary Fat Head debunked Spurlocks first sham video.


18 posted on 09/10/2017 5:05:02 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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"The counter documentary Fat Head debunked Spurlocks first sham video."

I saw both Spurlock's "documentary", then Fat Head.

Super Size Me seemed credible, but when I saw Fat Head, I realized just what a dishonest dick he was.

And interestingly I have no idea what the Fat Head's documentarian's politics or agenda was.

I could smell Spurlock's a mile away.

Fat Head, whoever he is, demolished Spurlock.

Ironically, Spurlock stayed skinny during the doccumentary, while Fat Head was chubby, but lost weight.

19 posted on 09/10/2017 5:24:31 PM PDT by boop (I'd wish you luck, but you wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it!)
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To: Ennis85

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat_Head


20 posted on 09/10/2017 5:39:37 PM PDT by jdege
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