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Not very good - feels way too much like propaganda.
3/10
18.4.2007 -
fingerwitch@ - age: 13-17
It's not as good as the book but its still has plenty to offer. Don't expect another super size me here this is much more of a look at the industry and not the consumer.
7/10
5.12.2006 -
kenshin3686@ - age: 18-25
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Initially I thought this flick would be interesting in that the story was NOT going to be portrayed as a documentary. This would have been a predictable way to go considering the preceeding book. This unique idea didn't transpire to give the film any edge at all. I also expected reality depicted through obtuse characters making profit driven decisions and using morally transparent rhetoric. I expected illumination. Humor. Jaw dropping factoids dropped throughout. None of this was delivered. I was fidgeting in my seat about half way through and it just didn't get any better. The majority of the plotline was slow with stereotypical portrayls of predictable archetypes. They saved the big hit for the end of the show, and although the impact of those final images was powerful, the rest of the film suffered the loss of that brazen kind of truth that caught my attention in the book. Someone else said it and I agree; invest in the book instead.
3/10
26.11.2006 -
crypticwave@ - age: 26-35
Save whatever you'd spend on tickets and buy the book instead! A real documentary would have made much more sense - instead, you're presented with multiple unresolved plot lines, none the least bit compelling or empowering. It made me feel briefly ill, and it made me feel powerless, nothing more. This could have been done MUCH better!
5/10
20.11.2006 -
kiwibouldingue@ - age: 18-25
An excellent depiction of how people can create a system that ultimately overwhelms them. The scene of the kids at the feedlots serves as an allegory on far things have come.
7/10
19.11.2006 -
codogno@ - age: 36-49
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This film gets an 'A' for being unique and original; I have not seen a movie like this one before. It does authentically capture a sense of the wryness and mundaneness of life in America (ubiquitous fast foods, hotels, super hi-ways, super-farms... ) It also captures people trying to find a way out. There are three groups of these in the movie - the executives, the migrants and the cashiers. The story revolves around these three. In brief the executives (Greg Kinnear) try to find out what is going on with the food they are making and selling. It is obvious they have little control and idea of what that entails - aside from the 40 cents per pound. This is the most chilling part of the story, particularly the conversations with Bruce Willis and Kris Kristofferson. The migrants (imported Mexicain workers)process the cattle and the cashiers sell us the burgers. If you are expecting a coalescing of these three groups featured in movies like Crash and Pulp Fiction - well there isn't any - and I feel the movie is stronger for avoiding this convergence gimmick. However the film is meandering with a lot of conversations - most work, but some just seem like a lot of babbling. What is the point of this uncle talking with his niece - the cashier? We already know she doesn't want to work the cash for the rest of her life - it's overkill to have a 10 minute conversation between uncle, niece and her brain-dead mother to tell us this.
8/10
19.11.2006 -
mikebrunet@ - age: 50+
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I read the book a couple of years ago, and the movie does not do justice to the book at all. It has some points, but everybody should read the book before or after the movie to learn more of what fast food chains are all about. The actors are famous and good, but I found the movie a bit superficial. They should've done a documentary instead.
7/10
18.11.2006 -
eresc79@ - age: 26-35
I was really disappointed in the movie, especially compared to the book. It gives a fraction of the information that the book gives, which was the whole appeal of it in the first place. The story line and characters were very lame and so unnecessary. Should have kept the documentary style of the book.
4/10
18.11.2006 -
jrickhaus@ - age: 18-25
I thought the movie was great. It is refreshing to see a mainstream movie cover issues that never get mentioned in regular media or that corporations like to hide from us. It was a real eye opener. Didn't Paul McCartney say once that if slaughterhouse had windows we would all be vegetarian? I highly recommend reading the book too.
8/10
18.11.2006 -
animalairwaves@ - age: 18-25
Not as good as the book, the Best they could do with out actually doing a real documentry.
9/10
17.11.2006 -
lealea@ - age: 18-25
I saw the screening last night. The book is good the movie is not. The movie is very dumbed down and at the same time doesnt make any sense.
4/10
17.11.2006 -
merkwetherspoon@ - age: 26-35
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