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 thru the Utah Festival 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" 

       Now, I've been following this new doc. coming out of Sundance called "Supersize Me"  It looks to be funny.  And of course a slam on that Sacred Cow Corporation McDonalds.  Do I have anything against McDonalds?  Sure, why not.  I used to be a heavy user by their standards.  Then one day out of nowhere I became quite ill after eating a Big Mac Sandwich.  

  The documentary is basically about a guy who eats nothing but McDonalds for a whole month.  He gets ill, and starts to do some damage to his organs.  His doctors basically tell him that he has to stop eating McDonalds three times a day.  There's now a trailer on his site.  http://www.supersizeme.com/