Morgan Spurlock, documentary filmmaker behind 'Super Size Me,' dies at 53
Morgan Spurlock, documentary filmmaker behind 'Super Size Me,' dies at 53
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Morgan Spurlock, documentary filmmaker behind 'Super Size Me,' dies at 53
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died Thursday in New York from complications of cancer.
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Do celeb deaths still come in 3s?
- Doge dog Kabosu
- Morgan Spurlock
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The doge dog died? Such sad.
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Yeah. Much loss. :(
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Bassist from Train apparently fell in the shower and died recently if that counts.
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Dabney Coleman died too
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- Donald Trump (please…)
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Caleb Carr.
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Alan Arkin
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Depending on how you define the time frame and and a celebrity I would say they come in the dozens if not hundreds.
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the rare self me tooer
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Holy shit
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That's the last time I eat McDs
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Also the alcohol:
he had "consistently been drinking since the age of 13.
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turns out that he felt shitty not because of the food but because he was alcohol detoxing at the same time of his mcd experiment.
I will agree fast food isn't good for you, but at the same time it's also not going to do what spurlock portrayed. just take a look at the workers who have been at a place for more than a few years.
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who hasen’t. wait a sec
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I guess while I'm on my righteous health craze, I'll skip the booze.
All that just to have your legacy be sensationalism. Sometimes I'm glad I'm an introvert.
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[ X ] Doubt
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It's really not a hard thing to cut out... Especially with how much I've heard they cost these days, for the exact same shitty product.
I used to go once in a while to get their shitty cheap breakfast burritos (thinking about it makes my mouth water), 2 for 2 Dollars.
Last time I went I was out almost 5 dollars for the exact same shitty tiny breakfast burritos.
I can get a giant hand made breakfast burrito for less than twice that. Or a carton of beaten eggs, Mexican cheese tortillas and sausage for the same price
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I haven't eaten that garbage in over two decades - is it really that hard to believe someone could stop eating McD's?
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He's a good lesson in why you can't take a documentary as 100% truth, no matter how good it is or how much the message confirms your biases.
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Because years later the guy in the documentary could die from cancer?
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Because he was a massive alcoholic and was experiencing the effects of detox and passing it off as what he was doing for the documentary
They said "he is" not "here is"
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Yeah, Ken Burns baseball totally needs to be questioned...
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His documentaries, especially his TV show, were a bit on the questionable side, but I'm sorry he died so young.
Wonder if McDonald's gave him cancer?
Most likely it was alcohol. It's known to cause some types of cancer.
His insinuation that McDonald's caused liver damage in his documentary was pretty questionable especially when it came out that he'd failed to mention his severe alcoholism.
I will never forgive this guy for at the very least being a major contributing factor in having the supersize fries taken off the menu :(
I’d say he single handedly killed the supersize option at McDonald’s. Though I don’t think this was the point of his documentary, I still think it’s a massive accomplishment by a single person.
His TV show had the absolute worst argument in favor of raising minimum wage that I have ever seen, which really pissed me off because he could have made a legitimate argument. But no, he challenged he and his girlfriend to live on the equivalent of minimum wage at the time for 30 days. His girlfriend insisted they continue their organic vegan lifestyle, so they blew through their food budget, and then one of them got a not especially serious cold and they went to the ER over it.
If you're going to live like you're on minimum wage, show how hard it is just to survive on that. Don't do that first world middle class problems bullshit.