Posted on 05/24/2024 7:25:59 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Morgan Spurlock, the documentary filmmaker best known for “Super Size Me,” has died. He was 53.
He died Thursday night from complications of cancer, the Post can confirm.
“It was a sad day, as we said goodbye to my brother Morgan,” his brother Craig Spurlock to the outlet. “Morgan gave so much through his art, ideas and generosity. Today the world has lost a true creative genius and a special man. I am so proud to have worked together with him.”
Born in 1970 in Parkersburg, West Virginia, Spurlock graduated from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts in 1993.
He got his start in the entertainment industry as a playwright, winning awards for his 1999 play “The Phoenix” at the New York Fringe Festival.
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But also, this is not the same McDonald’s as it was when Ray Kroc was in charge.
Obesity kills millions. Ever notice you never see any really old fat people? Ever.
I lost 70 pounds 5 years ago, and have kept it off. Weigh 180 - my high school weight. Never thought that could happen.
But I did that eating lots of bacon and eggs, pizza, meat loaf, biscuits & gravy and yes, Mcdonalds. Come to think of it, that’s how I got fat, too. I just eat a hell of a lot less.
“There’s no such thing as Junk Food, just a Junk Diet” has more than a little truth to it.
AND YOU CAN’T SMOKE - Die sat 86 (My father-in-law )
I recall him and how famous he was for a couple of years.
The sequel was less popular.
I also recall thinking that photograph was so very effective as ad Ad tool, that I didn’t even need to see the film.
It had everything right there, a normal weight athletic looking American, seen with mouth double crammed full of french fries.
The amusing ‘faux shock’ expression on his face told me this was going to be more parody vs documenatary, albeit a PC one.
It was similar to those Anti-Smoking TV commericals from the 1990’s showing untended ash trays filled past overflowing with the normal amount of cigarette stubs. All the stubs looking extra dirty, extra greasy, twisted and unappealing.
The main problem is that he used it as an excuse to over eat, and also stopped exercising. And then declared the changes in his health were on McDonalds. Some chick did a “counter” to it, she also ate McD every meal, but kept her calorie count healthy, kept up her exercise routine, and lost weight.
If you go to any restaurant and say “yes” to every “add on” you’re gonna gain weight. That’s just the math of excess. It’s not the restaurant.
The documentary “Fat Head” debunks Spurlocks massive bag of lies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evcNPfZlrZs
The movie was overblown sensationalism. The doctor they used looked like he was always hung over, and then mysteriously disappeared part way through the film.
I think the main point was the demonstrate how out of whack serving sizes have gotten. But from how you described it, it does look like what he did was way out of line.
No the main point was to make money. Sure the serving sizes can be large, IF you say yes all the time, and also IF you’re not getting any exercise. It’s like when Atkins became popular and suddenly everybody decided carbs were “unhealthy”, I remember a coworker of mine being shocked at how many carbs were in trail mix, “shouldn’t trail mix be healthy?” And I had to explain there’s nothing unhealthy about carbs if you’re on a hiking trail and going to be walking for the next hours. Carbs are energy, if you’re going to use them they’re fine. There’s nothing really wrong with having a quarter pounder and supersized fries if you’re going back to your construction job where you burn 500 calories an hour.
He junk scienced it.
I think the better approach would have been to compare the calories from the standard McDonalds order from the 1960s versus today.
Nobody ever said you are supposed to eat nothing but Mickey D’s.
Spurlock was a raging alcoholic who lied about how much McDonald’s food he ate when making Super Size Me. McDonald’s isn’t healthy, but Super Size Me might as well been a work of fiction.
Rest In Peace, Morgan.
At all.
Exactly.
Supersize Me was propaganda. He ate more than he wanted. More than he could without feeling nauseous. He did it every day, three times a day. He also stopped walking up stairs and he stopped riding his bike or walking distances more than a block. He gained a lot of weight. Big deal! Every single restaurant in NYC would have had the same affect on him.
He did that because if he ate two meals at McDonald’s and ate only when he was hungry, or if he did his normal amount of exercise, he would not have a movie. He would not have money or fame either. McDonald’s is not perfect food. But its not terrible either. I eat a sausage McMuffin with egg. I throw out the top muffin half. I have it with a coffee. Nothing wrong with that. McDonald’s used to have salad. Nobody bought the salad.
And if you want to blame one person for any extra bad food at McDonald’s. Blame Warren Buffet. That friendly old man who is as evil as they get; he funds wokism. His firms caused the 2008 crash. And he sat for decades on the board of McDonald’s making sure that McDonald’s only sold Coke. That supersized Coke had no nutritional value and most of the sugar. Morgan could have had a milk or a coffee or a water. All were available. But he had a liter of Coke.
McDonald’s used to use beef tallow on their fries. We now know that beef tallow is pretty good for you. The seed oil that Bloomberg and others forced on McDonald’s is truely a health hazard. Blame our government and our health industry and the vegans of the country who made McDonald’s fries less healthy by insisting on seed oil over beef fat. Who knows. Morgan’s cancer could have come from his own movie that forced all restaurants to switch to cancer causing seed oils over tried and true natural beef fat.
Morgan did not make us healthier. He made us less healthy with his Supersize Me Movie.
Big Macs. It’s the secret sauce loaded with toxins and poisons.
Yes. He lied. And mislead people. He did a documentary on his 30 Days program on FX channel about prolife pregnancy help centers. The idea was to take a pro-choice person and introduce them to pro life people and have them live in a pregnancy help center for 30 days. A fish out of water scenario. His crew came to my house because at the time I was the president of the California chapter of Democrats for Life. So we were supposed to be another perspective on prolife. We met the “star “ of the show and explained why pro life makes sense on so many levels in addition to “God said so”. (The pregnancy center she stayed at was evangelical Christian. ) The star was a planned parenthood volunteer who was getting her Ph.D. in women’s studies. We had a professor from Pepperdine with us. He and the “Star” agreed to meet and talk further to discuss pro- life. We did a great job I think, in explaining calmly and rationally why the Democratic Party had once been and could again be a place where life was protected at all ages and stages. (this was about 2006?)
When the show came out, we were not in it. All our efforts ended up on the cutting room floor because they did not advance the narrative that prolife people were crazy right wing Christians who are anti-women.
So, oh well. I will say a prayer for the guy’s soul and for the consolation of his family. (pray for your enemies, and do good to those who hurt you.)
Everyone talks about Supersize me, but “where in the World is Osama Bin Laden” hasn’t been brought up yet.
This animated segment from the movie(and a badly animated one at that about how the US has supported dictators over the years. It first talks about the US installing the Shah of Iran, which they didn’t and omits some very relevent details about that period such as Mossadegh trying to topple the constitutional head of state (the Shah) and usurped powers (including Commander in Chief), dissolved parliament & shut down the press.
It also make the false claim that the US armed Saddam Hussein again Iran, painting him as America’s guy in the middle East when in fact he was a soviet backed dictator. And so on.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxQ_BOC6hwU
Shots of fries & burgers.
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