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A Boring Dystopia
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Morgan Spurlock seriously manipulated the experiment to get the results he wanted, like completely stopping his regular exercise regimen while drinking massive amounts of alcohol. A cursory look at the numbers shows that he couldn't possibly have gained 25 pounds on the diet he claimed he ate. I despise McDonald's and they deserve all the negative attention, but Spurlock was a grifter and charlatan.
Ah, I was more referring to how the documentary was very critical of marketing to children, and how people campaigned against that in the years surrounding that.
I didn't know about his alcoholism, thanks for bringing that to my attention. That said, eating waaay too much fast food and not exercising was pretty much the whole point - he wanted to show how bad that lifestyle was. IMO the only problem there is that he failed to disclose that he was also heavily drinking.