The documentary about a 30-day McDonald's diet made $22 million, earned an Oscar nomination and put Spurlock on the map. He later retreated from Hollywood after admitting to sexual misconduct.
    • AEsheron@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      5 months ago

      More like a life of alcoholism seems like. Did he lie to his doc in the doc about his alcohol consumption after they told him his liver was in bad shape?

  • ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Damn, I liked his documentaries. Regardless of whether you agree or disagree with the premise behind Super Size Me, he was excellent at his craft. And he seemed like a good guy.

      • CluckN@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        5 months ago

        Spurlock’s film follows a 30-day period from February 1 to March 2, 2003, during which he claimed to only consume McDonald’s food, although he later disclosed he was also drinking heavily.

        That could skew the results.

        • Iheartcheese@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          5 months ago

          Exactly. I prefer documentaries from people who don’t go out of their way to lie to make a point. He’s right on par with that Disney documentary that threw a bunch of lemmings off a cliff

          • Fat Tony@discuss.onlineEnglish
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            5 months ago

            He’s right on par with that Disney documentary that threw a bunch of lemmings off a cliff

            They did what now?

            • Iheartcheese@lemmy.worldEnglish
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              5 months ago

              The whole ‘lemmings running off a cliff’ thing is total bullshit. It came from a Disney documentary and they chucked/chased them off the cliff.

        • Deestan@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          5 months ago

          A doctor commented on how alarming it was that he suffered liver damage from the project - it was on a level they only saw in people drining heavily.

        • Passerby6497@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          5 months ago

          He also talks about how he was vegan early in the documentary, not long before the iconic ‘getting a burger for the first time and throwing up in the parking lot’ scene.

          I always attributed that to the obvious “his vegan body can’t handle eating all that meat at once” explanation, but him being an alcoholic would also explain that

    • Monument@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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      5 months ago

      Oh, man. I remember coming into awareness of his movie a bit late, and while I think I watched it, I don’t think I paid attention to it. But catching bits and pieces of Super-Size Me prompted me to watch both Food, Inc, and Fast Food Nation within about a two-week span of each other, and since I saw those videos (early 2009), I’ve not eaten a burger from a fast food place, since.

      Heck, my wife decided not to eat beef a few years ago, and it was really easy to just write it off, since I’d already been removing dubious meat sources from my life. (Or trying to, anyway.)

      Not singularly life changing for me, but definitely added some weight behind decisions.

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
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    5 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    Morgan Spurlock, the muckraking documentary filmmaker who chronicled a 30-day period when he ate only McDonald’s food in the Oscar-nominated “Super Size Me,” a project that helped raise awareness about the dangers of poor nutrition, died Thursday in New York from complications of cancer.

    “It was a sad day, as we said goodbye to my brother Morgan,” Spurlock’s brother Craig said in a statement.

    "Morgan gave so much through his art, ideas and generosity.

    Today the world has lost a true creative genius and a special man.

    I am so proud to have worked together with him."

    This is a breaking news story.

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