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Fast Food Nation (2006)
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10 Small Roles for Big Stars
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"We’re less than a week away from the release of Tropic Thunder, and as the reviews and puff pieces make their way onto the web, there’s one thing clearly uniting the media’s coverage: talk of Tom Cruise’s appearance in a small role as a Hollywood studio boss. Everyone seems to agree that he steals the show and that his performance — or the joke surrounding it — is one of the comedy’s major highlights, if not the actual best part. Of course, we can expect a good cameo from Cruise every now and then. He showed up for a bit part in Young Guns and played himself as playing “Austin Powers” in Austin Powers in Goldmember. But from what it sounds like, his role in Tropic Thunder is featured for longer than might qualify as a cameo. Some are regardless referring to the performance as an “extended cameo”, and in theory it certainly fits in with the huge crop of so-called “ironic cameos” that have become popular in movies and TV in the last ten years. Still, despite my not having yet seen th ... "
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Disjointed and disappointing
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"I have to admit that I think Richard Linklater’s work runs hot and cold for me. I loved his early works like Dazed and Confused (1993) and Before Sunrise (1995). I love some of his more experimental work like A Scanner Darkly (2006). But some of his movies just fall completely flat. Sadly, Fast Food Nation is in this last category. I think part of it is that the subject is just too big for a dramatic movie like this. He just didn’t find a way to get a plot in his polemic against the fast food industry. Also some poor casting choices like Greg Kinnear hamper the movie. It almost seems that Linklater agrees, since his character disappears in the second half of the movie. I wanted to like it. The subject of the movie is right up my alley. Unfortunately, the plodding pace and painful exposition just made me keep checking my watch. . "
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Cheeseburger For The Soul ?
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"Fast Food Nation was the best movie i ever taste it,i really love this movie,i got that on dvd,i gonna write a story of upcoming dark,black and satire comedy-drama film called:Suffocating Fumes,it's Punch-Drunk Love meets The Door On The Floor meets American Beauty meets Broken Flowers meets About Schmidt meets The Weather Man meets Winter Passing meets Little Children meets What's Eating Gilbert Grape meets Black and White meets Happiness meets Crash meets Smart People,about an art school teacher,his stay-at-home psychologist wife,an orphaned bookworm,three roommates,a former child star,a shy loner,two wayward siblings,an troubled anchorwoman,an suicidial janitor,husband-and-wife waiters and other misfits are dealing with their dead-end lives in los angeles.The movie with all-star casts. "
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Do you want lies with that?
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"I found this to be a clever, witty, affecting film. I love the mixture of the genres it portrays. Somehow blending comedy, drama and documentary together without having one as it's true stand-alone genre description. I have seen a lot of people who were disgusted by this film, but in a positive way. It is a film that is fairly discouraging in it's portrayal of the fast food industry so if you eat a lot of the stuff it isn't something I'd advise watching, as one of our customers will be more than pleased to tell you I am sure (he liked McDonalds and didn't like what the film said). I don't tend to eat much fast food cause I'm veggie, but if I did eat a lot of it, this film would seriously out me off. The ending scenes are what seem to get most people but I won't ruin it for any of you. As much as I liked it, there was one thing that I didn't like in this film and that was the amount of 'names' involved in it. I'm not saying tha ... "
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Fast Food Nation: Another Incon ...
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"Richard Linklater's Fast Food Nation is something rare in an industry that frequently features loud, one sided political issues: it is a message movie that is balanced and not preachy. Even when Linklater’s and co-screenwriter Eric Schlosser's enlightening message concerning the titular business is being most clearly delivered, the source of information is always a credible character. Kris Kristofferson’s old rancher's opinions are trustworthy because he has worked on his land for many years and has seen what life was like before urban sprawl and corporate greed. The age appropriate revolutionary mindsets of the college students make their words relevant, though they are the film's most ambitious and idealistic. Even the 30-40somethings played by Ethan Hawke and Patricia Arquette present valid arguments as the audience can appreciate the thoughts of people who worked for a change in their younger days and who have let their replacements inherit their eff ... "
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very misguided
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"A real missed opportunity. This film attempts to bite off way more than it can chew cinematically, apparently trying to weave together different narrative lines a la 'Babel' (concerning border crossing, worker exploitation, corporate hypocrisy, mother/daughter angst, eco-activism etc), but just ending up with a bunch of half-cooked stories. It was billed as a black comedy, or exposé, but doesn't do either and has been edited and scripted very poorly. Showing the workings of a slaughterhouse does not amount to a critique of corporate America, or health issues, etc..! What you expect to be a strong plot about an burger exec investigating his own burger production -- "there's shit in the meat" -- just gets abandoned mid way. This should have been the hamburger 'Thank you for Smoking'. But it is not – the recognition of the title from the bestselling book seems to have been used to sell an rather artificial tasteless patty of a movie. "
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"This person below me is exactly right about his movie so listen to what she says. "
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Not what I expected
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"I really expected to like Fast Food Nation, and to get all worked up about the issues presented. I loved Super Size Me, and can go on and on (with a bit of encouragement) about the many negative effects of our fast food culture. But this film puzzled me while I was watching it, and left me with no take away. The puzzling aspects mostly came from a lack of fluidity and connectiveness in the movie. I kept expecting everything to come together in a more meaningful and natural way, but the various narratives and characters felt disjointed to the end. It seemed so contrived. There were also some characters and plot developments that didn't seem to serve a purpose at all (even though I had faith and kept expecting it all to make sense). Meaningless developments were belabored, while moments that could have been developed into something significant were skimmed over.Which brings me to the lack of take-away messages. Sure, meat processing plants are disgusting. Sure, thinking about wha ... "
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"In case you do not know at this point: fast food is bad for you! After many years of submitting to the manipulative clown better known as Ronald McDonald, the entertainment industry has decided to take a look beneath the bun in the greasy world of fast food. With obese children running amuck and Jared Fogel taking over the airwaves, it is no wonder the public has taken a sudden interest in food. After all, it is what we eat! It was only yesterday when Morgan Spurlock regurgitated a burger in Super Size Me and forever changed the way some of us looked at the Double Quarter Pounder with Cheese. However, another man, Eric Schlosser, produced another fast food expose that had the world talking. Fast Food Nation, published in 2001, is Schlosser's best-selling, non-fiction novel that reveals the dark side of the beloved fast food industry. Everything from the mistreatment of workers, to the creation of artificial flavors, to the manipulative marketing towards children is uncovered in al ... "
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