Super Size Me

I watched the movie/documentary Super-Size Me last night, and, may I say, don't really know if I get the hype.

I mean, it was alright, and he definitely opens your eyes to just how bad fast food can be for you. The only problem is, he shows you how bad fast food is if you eat it three times a day for 30 days. That's 90 times a month - probably more, his rule was that he could only eat McDonald's, so any snacks were McSnacks. Who didn't know that? Honestly, did we need this movie?

Plus, writer/director Morgan Spurlock really seems to think he's onto something here. Well, no, not really. At the end of the movie, he even implied (almost outright said) that his film was the reason that McDonald's introduced it's salads. Well, no, not really. In case he hadn't noticed, he wasn't the only person who was trying to eat healthy at the time.

Another particularly annoying part of the movie was Spurlock's vegan girlfriend. Now, I don't necessarily dislike vegans, I dislike the fact that they seem to dislike us. Which was exactly what this girl was like. She wasn't so much upset that Morgan was ingesting all this food, but rather, the fact that he was eating meat, eggs, etc. Oh yeah, that's kind. You're getting fat, and I'm not as concerned about that as about the fact that you're eating meat. Nice.

Basically, it's not a bad movie - even if everyone in it is pretty pompous - but come on, isn't it kinda common sense?