fast food nation

[monkey]

makes baby jesus cry.

a) blood and dead cows, etc.

b) sad disgusting facts

c) avril lavigne pretending to "act"

good and bad.

[kleptomaniac]

avril lavigne? :confused:



that's, uh, interesting.

[jabumbo]

so its worth checking out then?

[The Notorious LOL]

Super Size Me was stupid as fuck.


I liked the book, so I may check this out...but even still at this point, its just more blantantly obvious stuff to anyone who isnt a complete retard.

[beastiegirrl101]

If it's anything like the book, I probably wont want to see it. I heard the only slaughterhouses they were allowed in were in Mexico....none in the US would let them in.

[The Notorious LOL]

I cant say I blame them. "Hey we are writing about how gross these places are lol can we come visit?"


Didnt Upton Sinclair write a book about the meat packing industry in the early ass 1900s anyway?

[abcdefz]

^

All I can think of is "The Octopus," but that was Frank Norris.

Hmmm.


Anyway.

I'm a Linklater fan, but this sounds like a minor misfire. For instance: I still haven't seen his version of The Bad News Bears.




The Jungle? Upton Sinclair -- The Jungle? That sounds right.

[DandyFop]

Yes it's The Jungle.

It weirds me that they made a real movie about this book. After I read it I thought a documentary version would be interesting (and Super Size Me comes NOWHERE close to being anything like that book btw), but I don't know about this. Meh whatever. I'd rather read the book again than see it.

[beastiegirrl101]

movies like this effect me visceraly...I know it goes on, but to see it makes me sick.

[DandyFop]

I liked the book, so I may check this out...but even still at this point, its just more blantantly obvious stuff to anyone who isnt a complete retard.

I don't really agree here, I think the book holds info about a LOT of stuff that most people don't know...like remember when one place went and recruited workers from Mexico saying hey we'll give you a place to live and a job, and then they dropped them off at the homeless shelter across the street?

[The Notorious LOL]

I don't really agree here, I think the book holds info about a LOT of stuff that most people don't know...like remember when one place went and recruited workers from Mexico saying hey we'll give you a place to live and a job, and then they dropped them off at the homeless shelter across the street?



you didnt know that? retard.

[DandyFop]

only because my dad fell for it and now here we are :(

[The Notorious LOL]

yeah homeless shelters only have 56k in my hood. I was like "cant you fuckers get at least DSL?"

[HEIRESS]

I STRANGELY ENJOYED THE BAD NEWS BEARS REMAKE!

I lent fast good nation to someone I know and I havent seen hide nor hair of it for the past 2 years :mad:

[Echewta]

Diet for a New America.

Thats the next level in books after Fast Food Nation.

[HEIRESS]

I remember you saying that but always forgot to check it out

crappers

[cosmo105]

my mom's all about that book right now, chew. you step off my momma.



yeah, i don't see how they made an actual theatrical release from that book. it's a damned good book, but a doc would have made much more sense.

[monkey]

it's not BAD, it just doesnt work all that well. i dont know how to explain it. :/

[abcdefz]

I just watched this a couple nights ago.

The movie tries to do an awful lot, and most of the characters suffer for it. But it did provide some information I was unaware of -- the idea of immigrants getting ground through the system almost as much as the cows was pretty vividly expressed, though a late-act plot development was so gratuitous that it had almost the opposite of the intended effect.

It's kind of like a poor man's fast food version of Traffic.

6/10.

[Dorothy Wood]

I burst into tears during the cow stuff at the end even though I knew it was coming.

other than that, the acting was mostly good, but the storyline was a little thin.

and why avril? why? it was so distracting. and the meth thing...the sister and the husband just kind of got over it? mrrgh.

[abcdefz]

I burst into tears during the cow stuff at the end even though I knew it was coming.



The funny thing to me was that I think that was supposed to be the intended effect, but I didn't react that way at all. I just thought it was interesting to see the process. I could see why a new worker might definitely shed tears seeing that stuff (or taking part in that stuff) for the first time, but the butchering just didn't seem shocking or surprising at all. I mean, surely people realize a cow becomes hamburger and leather belts somehow.

[Dorothy Wood]

it was the gunshot that did it. just a gut reaction to something being alive and then dead in a split second.

my dad's side of the family has a ranch like the one greg kinnear's character visited with kris kristofferson. except not with a big house and a housekeeper or anything. just cows that get to run around and stuff. Once I chose one of the cows as a pet and named him blackie and a couple of years later or something, we were eating dinner and my grandma said "remember blackie?" and I said, "yeah!" and she said, "well, you're eating him! HAHAHAHHAAHA!" :( grandma!

so yeah, I know how all that stuff goes, but it still makes me cry.

[Echewta]

"Sorry, we don't even want the FDA to come in to see how we process the meat that millions of Americans eat daily. Nothing to see here. Just believe we have YOUR best interest at heart. Mmmm, hearts..."

[abcdefz]

it was the gunshot that did it. just a gut reaction to something being alive and then dead in a split second.




Yeah; that part is kind of a jolt. I remembered thinking, "Well, there goes their PETA disclaimer." :D



Once I chose one of the cows as a pet and named him blackie and a couple of years later or something, we were eating dinner and my grandma said "remember blackie?" and I said, "yeah!" and she said, "well, you're eating him! HAHAHAHHAAHA!" :( grandma!





Ohhh.... yeah, that's kinda cold.


























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