2006 dramaRating: 10/20 (Jen: 7/20)
Plot: Greg Kinnear is a marketing guy for a fictional fast food chain. He's actually responsible for ideas leading to the invention of their best seller--The Big One. I should sue for copyright infringement actually since that's what I call what I got in my pants. Greg Kinnear finds out that there is cattle defecate in The Big One and travels to processing plant to check things out. Then he abruptly disappears from the movie and several subplots struggle to the surface and try to become main plots. Mexicans have sexual intercourse in a truck. Some cows die. Finally, a hero emerges, and nobody eats another cheeseburger from a fast food chain ever again.
Shocking stuff here. Fast food is apparently not very good for you or for anybody else. That's an important message that I'm sure everybody will listen to. Watching this was like being slapped repeatedly with cow parts. And that's not just because of one particularly brutal scene in the plant's "kill floor" either (a scene during which Jen had to avert her eyes). No, it was more heavy-handedness that was bludgeoning. This movie was really messy; we actually felt like we were watching a series of deleted scenes instead of an actual movie. The lack of central story or main characters (ensemble cast here) made this seem more like bad propaganda documentary making.
Jen and I lovin' it:
o u vegetarian pansies pretending to stick it to the hippies w/ yr biggie sippy cups!
ReplyDeleteok after i made that comment i felt bad, cos i will never watch this movie and yr review pretty much encapsulates why. super size me was well done. fast food nation, the book, well done. but a friggin' fictionalized movie? man...
ReplyDeletei guess i just got mad at you cos next to the sodas i know there's no beef, or processed chicken, or mcribs...maybe a filet o' fish...
i love you cuties. (jesus shane i hope jen is reading this or else i'm really gaying it up)(oh yeah ...and its the beer talking)
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just watched Fast Food Nation, it's an impactful flick to say the least... earlier today i passed up a sausage mcmuffin because of it.
ReplyDeleteVegetarian pansies! Them's fightin' words!
ReplyDeleteBy the way, Jen hasn't read this. Not sure if she'll ever read this. That can only mean one thing.
Patrick: Good to see it had an impact on you. Are you swearing off McProducts for good though or is it just while the imagery from this McMovie is fresh on your McMind? And I wonder about how many other people would watch this, be horrified, and then just shrug everything off.
Was the Sausage McMuffin going to be free? I don't know how anybody can pass up free sausage no matter what road it's traveled to get to you.
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