Morgan Spurlock dead at 53...
Cancer.
https://nypost.com/2024/05/24/entertainment/morgan-spurlock-dead-super-size-me-filmmaker-dies-at-53/
53 is pretty young. I can't exactly look at Super Size Me now knowing its completely fake. He was drinking the whole time through his "experiment". I liked his documentary "Mansome".
shareIt was fake?
shareSpurlock didn't mention to his doctors he was an alcoholic.
https://www.looper.com/1586984/super-size-me-controversy-explained/
I remember how disappointed I was with that documentary. It was hyped so much in press. And then it was just boring.
"Super Size Me" also showed the American filmmaker suffering from depression during the 30-day experiment; such a mental health impact was not reported in Nyström's experiment, nor were serious spikes in cholesterol levels.
That "depression " thing bothered me back them. Person can not "get depression" for eating McDonals for a month. It sounded fake and made up. share
Wouldn't they be able to tell?
His liver apparently was "normal" before he started his diet. Did he stop drinking a couple of weeks before, then binge drink while on the diet?
It was BS even before that particular revelation.
shareTrue, there are no adverse health effects from eating only McDonald's your whole life, it was an absolute farce by the Big Healthy food companies to besmirch the good name of Fast Food restraints across America. Now they are trying to blame his weight gain and depression on alcohol, like that hasn't been proven bogus a thousand times over.
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Straw man much?
shareMake any arguments much? Or do you just respond with comments like "straw man" or "non sequitur" whenever challenged?
shareAnother Straw Man to go with the rest.
Point to where I ever said "non sequitur". When you can't, you'll realize you're one of those who can't remember who he's attempting to argue with this time.
Point to where I said "there are no adverse health effects from eating only McDonald's your whole life" or "it was an absolute farce by the Big Healthy food companies to besmirch the good name of Fast Food" or your most bizarre comment on alcoholism and depression. When you can't, you'll realize you haven't really challenged me at all.
Without knowing what I mean by bs, tell me what your argument actually is, besides presumptuous nonsense, where you think you couldn't possibly be wrong in your mind reading ability -- when in reality it has nothing to do with what I meant at all? You need your Straw man or you're mute. Unless you wanna ask me,"What do you mean by bs?"
I was referring to the general douchebag technique these days of spitting out the terms non sequitur, straw man, logical fallacy, as an argument, you seem to prefer the straw man term not the non sequitur.
You are implying the entire film was bullshit and had no merit to begin with. I think eating McDonalds for a month did cause some of his health problems, he should have done a sequel to redeem himself where he drank heavily for a month while eating healthy and then ate McDonalds while not drinking for a month. That would make everyone happy, especially him.
Oh, so using a logical fallacy, like a Straw man, is fine -- but someone daring to point out that you did is using a "douchebag technique"? Calling out your bullshit is bullshit? That's fucking brilliant. Those with sense would say that the douchebag technique is you using a Straw man in the first place. You only need those when you don't have a real argument, or that you're so precious about the subject that any negative comment triggered you into a spiral of sarcasm, exaggeration, and speculation that even ascribes to me an opinion I must hold about alcohol and depression (wtf?).
And no, I don't think the entire doc is bs, and that's what makes docs so insidious. Enough elements of reality are mixed with bs to make many believe everything they're seeing and hearing is the truth. But you don't need someone to lie to you with their every word to call them a liar, do you? And if they do it intentionally to manipulate you into thinking and feeling a certain way, perhaps also lying by omission, what would you call that? Straight shooter or bullshitter?