I wonder if, after this thing goes off with a pop & a fizzle at Sundance, The Weinstein's will still bother running it nationwide.

Does this count as another 'net-hype-flop?

Did he find it? Watch as Morgan rolls up his sleeves and gets "really dusty"! Watch as his wife watches him! Listen to his doctor hyperbolize!

One thing's certain: if his t-shirt rides up, Morgan's asscrack will certainly be itchy from all that chaff!

Sundance '09!

Check it out. http://tinyurl.com/33ejz4 It's right after the 6 minute mark.

anyone else think something's fishy?

do you all REMEMBER that the doctors were baffled in the way that his body was reacting, that they were SURPRISED not just that he gained wait, but had significant liver damage, etc.?

and a HUGE part of the film was his condemnation of the food programs in our public schools, and how woefully unhealthy they are, with pizza and hamburgers and fried crap. THAT WAS IMPORTANT!!

you're all just going for the cheap jab, calling him a hack. that movie was important, and it actually did some good in the world. "oh, mcdonalds makes you fat, derr derrr" shut. the. fuck. up.

if this movie is a big fat disappointment, then so be it, and let him have it. but don't give us all a revisionist history of Supersize Me, because you are too dumb to remember what actually happened in it. or too simple-minded to read between the lines and think about issues more deeply than punchlines and whatever garbage you're being fed.

And no, Mr. Spurlock, no-one outside of your immediate family and friends wants to see your birth video.

Why would you show this?

Enter Islam where the one basic principle is: 'those who aren't muslims are like cattle. feel free to butcher them. Then beat your women into comas.'

And to jump ahead of all the responses about how the jihadists are misinterpreting the khoran, i'm sorry but no - its the mainstream, peaceful 'progressive muslims' who are misinterpreting their doctrines. Anyone with even a passing, momentary familiarity with it, who has an equally slim familiarity with admitting to truth, would be forced to admit that yes, the khoran is essentially the world's first military handbook.

While theyre not subjecting that belief on others, i think its still incumbent upon us to condemn religons and societies with such a disregard for humanity.

Sure, the administration is staffed full of ethical supermen who would never do anything wrong, but maybe a future administration wouldn't be so super-scrupulous. And that's the point. That's why historically we've made such a big deal of being a nation of "laws not men"--we are attempting to design a system whereby the government is only incentivized to do the right thing. When the executive decides to cut corners on oversight, sure, they might be mildly more effective in catching bad guys, but it opens up the door for all sorts of bad behavior on the part of our own government.

secondly, if you're not talking about the movie, in this case a total failure of a doc which austin-liberal-harry hoped would continue to embarass the current administration, then you, me and the rest are all gonna get yelled at by mori. SO MORI HERE'S MY POST ON THE MOVIE: bin laden is iran. the mullahs got him leaving tora bora and have held on to him ever since.

thirdly with that outta the way history is not any muslim's side. I HAVE READ NUMEROUS BOOKS ON THE SUBJECT DARFUR...to start I've got a BS in Poli Sci with a focus on international relations. next up add in my undergrad thesis was on the israeli/arab conflict. while doing research on the topic I was introduced to bernard lewis, considered the pre-eminent scholar on islam. AND GUESS WHAT?!? THE GUY'S A JEW!

here's the deal darfur...history is never on the side of anyone trying to prove the old or new testament is as bloody as the koran. the old testament is about the hebrews fighting DEFENSIVE wars, the new testament, as far as the version I've read, is about not fighting wars (not even going to address gnostic versions of jesus and the apostles forming a new-age hebrew delta force to take out the temple's high priests).

HOWEVER the koran is about fighting OFFENSIVE wars. for instance; slay the idolators and pagans (hindus, buddhists, etc), slay the people of the book who refuse to convert or pay the jiz'yah (tax on monotheists who live in muslim lands, to include jews, christians, zoroastrians, etc), slay the athiests, slay anyone who doesn't believe in allah and the last day, and most importantly SLAY ANYONE WHO DOESN'T BELIEVE MOHAMMED IS ALLAH'S FINAL AND TRUTH BEARING PROPHET.

does anyone see or find a pattern here? did you know that mohammed was raised around jews and christians and if you really read the history of islam you'll learn he really wanted to be a jew but the hebrews wanted nothing to do with him so they conspired with the arab hindus to kill him. as history shows us they failed. so he simply got angry, copied all the jewish holidays, stories, traditions and rules of living, gave them arab names, and tried to exterminate all jews in arabia and beyond. easy--no history reading required.

thus the precedent was set; all muslims believe muhammed to be the finest human ever and his example to be followed until death. as such all muslims must kill all jews, lest they convert or pay the tax. this is why israel and its muslim neighbors, remnants of palestine included, can NEVER EVER live side by side. jews don't WANT to kill muslims, muslims WANT to kill jews.

lastly, isn't darfur on the rocks and needs to be saved because muslims are killing christians there as they have four the last 1400 years? and these muslims are armed and financed by the saudis? OH YEAH! THAT'S IT!

unless DarfurOnTheRocks you have a different side of the story...

on a related note, I have a demo at 230 and must get ready for it. I'll be back later if you or anyone else care to keep talking about this topic, or as long as mori lets us.

Yeesh. Look at the population profiles of the "muslim" nations. They're almost entirely populated by people born after--and often *way* after--the second world war.

There's plenty to talk about regarding the islam, the west, and the middle east without resorting to this sort of silly armchair/history channel level of analysis.

And you are also right that Japanese and Italian people don't blow shit up in Israel. Probably because the Japanese and Italians are by and large wealthy people who live thousands/hundreds of miles from Israel, and aren't in the midst of an asymetrical armed conflict over territory with the afore-mentioned polity. My point is (and was) that none of this has anything to do with nazis.

Anyway, your more recent statement that "the Arab world . . . were all for the extermination of the Jews" is a little far-fetched. I mean, there were only a tiny number of Jewish people living in Arab regions in the first half of the 20th century. I really doubt that the millions of dirt-poor Arabs living there cared about them at all. As opposed to, say, the British, who were a colonial power present in the middle east at the time.

Do I care?

The Muslims you see on the news screaming for the blood of Jews, etc = the American religious zealots who chant passionate pleas to Dubbya Bush to please, please, please make the US a "Christian nation" and bomb abortion clinics.

This is exactly what leads to persistent conflict around the globe.