Supersize Me

Thinking about seeing it....

    I've been working hard on some long lengthy diatribe and decided that I needed to take a break.  I once again feel drawn to talk about fast food and another one of my favorite hobbies, filmmaking/movies.  I try to keep on top of what happens at Sundance and other film festivals.  For the most part I find most of the films that come from there to be BORING.  Most of the time just a little bit to Artsy for my taste.  Not that there's anything wrong with that.  I'm always looking for the break thru indie that has mainstream potential. A gem, a gold nugget, a film that I can say "I saw that at the art house, before it was big."  For example, "Le Fem Nikita (the original), Sex, Lies, and Video Tape, El Mariachi, Like Water for Chocolate, Clerks, Reservoir Dogs, and The Blair Witch Project (although most of us saw it because of the hype)   Those are pretty much indie films that broke thru the art house scene and with the exception of Blair Witch the directors went on to create bigger and better films.  I saw Clerks 3 times before it became the shit, and before everybody including my brother started imitating Jay and Silent Bob.  Big fuckin deal right?  What do I want?  a Cookie?  No calm the fuck down ahole.  I just like to be the person who walks around and says "I saw that before you."  You see, any Ass Clown can go to the opening night of the latest block buster hit.  The Hollywood media machine has bombarded your ass with teasers and trailers for weeks if not months. Hyping the opening as the greatest event since you were born.  And like a bunch of lemmings you fall for it.  Spoon fed, hook line and sinker.  But when I mention art house films to those same wankers, they get all weird and say things like "I don't go to art films"  "Nothing good has ever come from an art house" 

    This one guy I work with, who I will just call Chris has never stepped foot into an art house that I'm aware of.  He saw Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back and thought it was funny, but when I asked him about what he thought of Kevin Smith, he looked at me like a deer caught in the headlights and said WHO?  Then he told me the other day he saw.. "The Passion of the Christ" wholly shit!!  Then want to explain to me, that the film had subtitles.  If Mel Gibson was nobody, the film for sure would have been playing in an Art House somewhere.  But Chris doesn't get it.  He does see Art Films.  He sat for two hours reading subtitles.  Nothing new for me, a long time Le Fem Nikita Fan.  Chris would have never saw it if it was at a art house.  He had to be spoon feed by the media that like it or not, "The Passion of the Christ" is a must see film grossing over a hundred million dollars in the opening weekend.  He's a film poser.  We all know one of these people, they see a billion films and say things like "It's a great film" "Or that film sucks" but when asked specifically why, they don't know what to say.  It's just a general feeling they have that the movie was good or that it sucked.  More than likely it's  the same person that says so and so's place has the best Chinese food in the world.  (Even better than anything in China? I think to myself. ) So they cut out veins and tendits from the chicken, doesn't make it the best.  I know a few Chinese people who love the taste of a good tendit. So I guess, if you're Chinese (Born in China) and like the taste of a good tendit, you don't know good Chinese food, because evidently the best Chinese food is over here in America.  But I digress.   I hate posers, of both of film and Chinese food.

    Now, I've been following this new doc. coming out of Sundance called "Supersize Me" and like most new indies theres no trailer online for it yet.  But it looks to be funny.  And of course a slam on that Sacred Cow Corporation McDonalds.  Do I have anything agaist McDonalds?  Sure, why not.  I used to be a heavy user by their standards.  But I really don't like them because of one incident.  McDonalds is an Irish name.  So in Ireland there was a small family store named McDonalds.  Been around for 10 or so generations.  Well, when this fast food joint hit it big, the corporation came in and said change your family name of your store.  If you don't FUCK YOU, see you in court with a legal battle that you can never afford or win.  So this family store had to be renamed.