Could have done without the profanity and nudity
Added 3/16/2010
I watched the majority of Fast Food Nation, but eventually, I had had enough and stopped all together. I had hoped that the R rating would simply have been for the blood and gore shown in the slaughtering footage, which I'm not sure if it even had as I was not willing to continue the movie after the constant f-bombs were only to be topped out graphically by the very unexpected nudity and sex scenes that were totally irrelevant to the ideas that could have been portrayed so tastefully. Really, how did that even add to the message?? I had sincerely hoped that this was going to be something I could watch with the kids, like Super Size Me, Food Inc, or The Future of Food, but oh my gosh.....not. And that's too bad, because the points looked like they were going to come together. I would have especially liked to see where the coverage was going on the immigrant workers. This is something I had no idea was going on, and people need to know in order to make informed and compassionate choices concerning immigration and unsanitary and inhumane meat practices, not only in voting "with their forks," but also in voting at the poles and making calls to their congressional representatives.
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should hae been a documentary DONT BUY THIS DVD!!!!
Added 2/24/2010
very poor story they should have stuck to the book ..funny but but very poor movie should have been a documentary DONT BUY THIS DVD buy the book fastfood nation and the dvd "food Inc" now thats good stuff !!!!!!!!!!!! infact im going to return this dvd its so bad
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A very eye-opening movie
Added 2/9/2010
Recently I sat down to watch the movie Fast Food Nation. If you haven't yet seen this movie or read the book, I strongly recommend you do! The movie really shed some light on the fast food industry, showing how McDonald's and other companies attempt to persuade an ever-fattening American public into thinking their burgers--here is the disgusting part, are largely made of chemicals and fecal matter--have some sort of nutritional value.
It also talks about our corrupt agriculture industry and even takes us inside of a slaughterhouse--where the working conditions are horrid, and workers are often treated worse then the cows they butcher.
This is not meant to be a fun movie but more it opens your eyes as to what is happening to the food we are eating and hopefully it will cause you to at least make some changes to your eating habits. We all know our waistlines, heart and arteries suffer when we buy a super-sized meal--but this movie will reveal things that will absolutely astonish you!
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Great book and a very solid movie.
Added 1/10/2010
Plenty of food for thought for thoughtless junk food maniacs. If only this would be shown or at least offered in every school.
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Perhaps at the time this film came out it made news, but it is now merely a moralistic bore. Many writers have made hay of the
Added 1/6/2010
Perhaps at the time this film came out it made news, but it is now merely a moralistic bore. Many writers have made hay of the beef industry and its hand maiden, fast food in recent years, so if you're paying attention, nothing in this film is really news.
Beyond that, it is a bleak picture of humanity, which isn't unfair, just incomplete. The story is slow, uncompelling, and boring. I nearly turned it off at a couple different points and regretted that I hadn't. The end was a nice little touch, but not worth the wait.
The characters themselves for the most part were very unengaging, cardboard-like, and simply uninteresting. The fact that this movie was based on a non-fiction book should ward off any potential viewer. I didn't heed the warning, and thus, I wish I had those two hours back. I would have been much better off reading a book about food than watching this movie.
Don't make my mistake--there are much better movies about food out there, this one is terrible.
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Could have done without the profanity and nudity
Added 3/16/2010
I watched the majority of Fast Food Nation, but eventually, I had had enough and stopped all together. I had hoped that the R rating would simply have been for the blood and gore shown in the slaughtering footage, which I'm not sure if it even had as I was not willing to continue the movie after the constant f-bombs were only to be topped out graphically by the very unexpected nudity and sex scenes that were totally irrelevant to the ideas that could have been portrayed so tastefully. Really, how did that even add to the message?? I had sincerely hoped that this was going to be something I could watch with the kids, like Super Size Me, Food Inc, or The Future of Food, but oh my gosh.....not. And that's too bad, because the points looked like they were going to come together. I would have especially liked to see where the coverage was going on the immigrant workers. This is something I had no idea was going on, and people need to know in order to make informed and compassionate choices concerning immigration and unsanitary and inhumane meat practices, not only in voting "with their forks," but also in voting at the poles and making calls to their congressional representatives.
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should hae been a documentary DONT BUY THIS DVD!!!!
Added 2/24/2010
very poor story they should have stuck to the book ..funny but but very poor movie should have been a documentary DONT BUY THIS DVD buy the book fastfood nation and the dvd "food Inc" now thats good stuff !!!!!!!!!!!! infact im going to return this dvd its so bad
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A very eye-opening movie
Added 2/9/2010
Recently I sat down to watch the movie Fast Food Nation. If you haven't yet seen this movie or read the book, I strongly recommend you do! The movie really shed some light on the fast food industry, showing how McDonald's and other companies attempt to persuade an ever-fattening American public into thinking their burgers--here is the disgusting part, are largely made of chemicals and fecal matter--have some sort of nutritional value.
It also talks about our corrupt agriculture industry and even takes us inside of a slaughterhouse--where the working conditions are horrid, and workers are often treated worse then the cows they butcher.
This is not meant to be a fun movie but more it opens your eyes as to what is happening to the food we are eating and hopefully it will cause you to at least make some changes to your eating habits. We all know our waistlines, heart and arteries suffer when we buy a super-sized meal--but this movie will reveal things that will absolutely astonish you!
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