Comments on: Where in the World is Morgan Spurlock’s Brain? http://pjmedia.com/blog/where-in-the-world-is-morgan-spurlocks-brain/ Wed, 15 Feb 2012 23:04:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: william http://pjmedia.com/blog/where-in-the-world-is-morgan-spurlocks-brain/#comment-31576 william Sun, 20 Apr 2008 21:43:21 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/where-in-the-world-is-morgan-spurlocks-brain/#comment-31576 I actually did see Supersize Me (on television). It was OK, but the premise was flawed. If he had exclusively eaten General Tso's chicken or pork chow fun there would have been the same dire health consequences that he suffered by eating exclusively at McDonalds. But some neighborhood Chinese restaurant would not be so easy to typecast as a corporate demon. I used to think that in the liberal hierarchy of bad ideas religion takes precedence over capitalism. But not so. A religion like Islam with its profound anti-capitalism bias (Sharia law does not allow interest) is offered a tolerance not given to Christianity. If that LDS community in Texas would convert to Islam their troubles would be over tomorrow. I actually did see Supersize Me (on television). It was OK, but the premise was flawed. If he had exclusively eaten General Tso’s chicken or pork chow fun there would have been the same dire health consequences that he suffered by eating exclusively at McDonalds. But some neighborhood Chinese restaurant would not be so easy to typecast as a corporate demon. I used to think that in the liberal hierarchy of bad ideas religion takes precedence over capitalism. But not so. A religion like Islam with its profound anti-capitalism bias (Sharia law does not allow interest) is offered a tolerance not given to Christianity. If that LDS community in Texas would convert to Islam their troubles would be over tomorrow.

]]> By: chris http://pjmedia.com/blog/where-in-the-world-is-morgan-spurlocks-brain/#comment-31554 chris Sun, 20 Apr 2008 18:48:26 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/where-in-the-world-is-morgan-spurlocks-brain/#comment-31554 Bad news: my teenager went to 9:40 showing in lefty Oakland (at least recognizes it is biased) Good news: only 6 people at 9:30 showing on a Saturday night Prediction: straight to DVD - no buzz, no legs, no audience for roll out to non socialist enclaves Bad news: my teenager went to 9:40 showing in lefty Oakland (at least recognizes it is biased)
Good news: only 6 people at 9:30 showing on a Saturday night
Prediction: straight to DVD – no buzz, no legs, no audience for roll out to non socialist enclaves

]]> By: Misanthropicus http://pjmedia.com/blog/where-in-the-world-is-morgan-spurlocks-brain/#comment-31544 Misanthropicus Sun, 20 Apr 2008 17:38:44 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/where-in-the-world-is-morgan-spurlocks-brain/#comment-31544 [...]The film closes with outtakes from personalities Spurlock encountered. Some simply gaze into the camera. One of the most anti-American Saudis slowly allows a smile to cross his face. He's tentative at first, like it hurts him. He looks pained and then it's like he's aware of how silly he looks and he gives us a real smile. In that smile, we can see our common lot. Like when you've had an argument with someone, and you just want it to end and there's a moment when you see you're wrong or you don't even care who's right anymore and a smile crosses your face. His smile was like that. Spurlock is just one man (with a hard working band of producers) who took on trekking to these difficult places in the world, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Israel/Palestine, Egypt, and Morocco. He stops short of Pakistan. Recalling Wall Street Journal reporter Danny Pearl's fate there (Pearl, a hard news reporter was on the trail of al Qaeda; his wife was also pregnant at the time) it was probably not an un-wise move, given that Spurlock was a novice in these matters. The film shows how regular people can ferret out simple truths, when our leaders fail to make the effort. [...]" Don't panic, this was the end of a tragicomic review(?) in HuffPost by one Logan Nakyanz Pollard (turns out that she's a Air America producer, so...). I won't see this crap - a friend of me (liberal) did a stop to see it and walked out rapidly, per his report in the theater were only a gang of yakking kinds and a few somber, MoveOn.Org-like types. The movie is trying to be a Borat showing his soft, human side, complemented by the known liberal Bush obsessions. A humorless & contrived stinker. Who's financing this type of crap? Cuban? Soros strikes again? Anyway, it took Spurlock 6 years to move from Supersize This to this thing - hope it'll take much more 'till he'll have another project on the screen. [...]The film closes with outtakes from personalities Spurlock encountered. Some simply gaze into the camera. One of the most anti-American Saudis slowly allows a smile to cross his face. He’s tentative at first, like it hurts him. He looks pained and then it’s like he’s aware of how silly he looks and he gives us a real smile. In that smile, we can see our common lot. Like when you’ve had an argument with someone, and you just want it to end and there’s a moment when you see you’re wrong or you don’t even care who’s right anymore and a smile crosses your face. His smile was like that.
Spurlock is just one man (with a hard working band of producers) who took on trekking to these difficult places in the world, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Israel/Palestine, Egypt, and Morocco. He stops short of Pakistan. Recalling Wall Street Journal reporter Danny Pearl’s fate there (Pearl, a hard news reporter was on the trail of al Qaeda; his wife was also pregnant at the time) it was probably not an un-wise move, given that Spurlock was a novice in these matters. The film shows how regular people can ferret out simple truths, when our leaders fail to make the effort. [...]”
Don’t panic, this was the end of a tragicomic review(?) in HuffPost by one Logan Nakyanz Pollard (turns out that she’s a Air America producer, so…).
I won’t see this crap – a friend of me (liberal) did a stop to see it and walked out rapidly, per his report in the theater were only a gang of yakking kinds and a few somber, MoveOn.Org-like types. The movie is trying to be a Borat showing his soft, human side, complemented by the known liberal Bush obsessions. A humorless & contrived stinker. Who’s financing this type of crap? Cuban? Soros strikes again? Anyway, it took Spurlock 6 years to move from Supersize This to this thing – hope it’ll take much more ’till he’ll have another project on the screen.

]]> By: narciso http://pjmedia.com/blog/where-in-the-world-is-morgan-spurlocks-brain/#comment-31464 narciso Sun, 20 Apr 2008 02:40:09 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/where-in-the-world-is-morgan-spurlocks-brain/#comment-31464 The problem, among many, is that Spurlock didn't spend enough time in the actual places were Bin Laden is likely to be; The Federated Territories of Pakistan, the adjoining Afghan border areas; maybe even Western Iran. Now the jihadies who stream into Iraq, Afghanistan, et al; do seem to come from Morocco, Libya, Algeria & Saudi Arabia; with operational figures coming from those three countries. The stench of 9/11 denial/rationalization is strong enough to make one gag. The problem, among many, is that Spurlock didn’t spend enough time in the actual places were Bin Laden is likely to be; The Federated
Territories of Pakistan, the adjoining Afghan
border areas; maybe even Western Iran. Now the
jihadies who stream into Iraq, Afghanistan, et al; do seem to come from Morocco, Libya, Algeria & Saudi Arabia; with operational figures coming from those three countries. The
stench of 9/11 denial/rationalization is strong enough to make one gag.

]]> By: tanstaafl http://pjmedia.com/blog/where-in-the-world-is-morgan-spurlocks-brain/#comment-31380 tanstaafl Sat, 19 Apr 2008 15:30:52 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/where-in-the-world-is-morgan-spurlocks-brain/#comment-31380 <i>...that the 9/11 bombers were educated upper-middle class men —</i> Well, the leaders were. The followers weren't. The followers might not even have known that their own deaths was part of the plan. Filmmakers traveling around the world, interviewing selective and selected individuals and making tongue in cheek movies might not understand that their own demise is part of the plan as well. …that the 9/11 bombers were educated upper-middle class men —

Well, the leaders were.

The followers weren’t.

The followers might not even have known that their own deaths was part of the plan. Filmmakers traveling around the world, interviewing selective and selected individuals and making tongue in cheek movies might not understand that their own demise is part of the plan as well.

]]> By: Dave http://pjmedia.com/blog/where-in-the-world-is-morgan-spurlocks-brain/#comment-31297 Dave Fri, 18 Apr 2008 22:39:07 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/where-in-the-world-is-morgan-spurlocks-brain/#comment-31297 The naivite of the left is astounding sometimes. This movie only proves the point, and in trying to be "funny" while reducing the problem of Islamic terrorism to a big joke of a movie, Spurlock has done what many on the left accuse conservatives of doing...reducing a complex problem to it's most basic and, in the process, absurd conclusions. Of course, in this movie, the complex "problem" is America and it's policies...NOT jihadists who would gladly murder many hundreds more of his fellow innocent New Yorkers if given half a chance! The naivite of the left is astounding sometimes.

This movie only proves the point, and in trying to be “funny” while reducing the problem of Islamic terrorism to a big joke of a movie, Spurlock has done what many on the left accuse conservatives of doing…reducing a complex problem to it’s most basic and, in the process, absurd conclusions.

Of course, in this movie, the complex “problem” is America and it’s policies…NOT jihadists who would gladly murder many hundreds more of his fellow innocent New Yorkers if given half a chance!

]]> By: Saltherring http://pjmedia.com/blog/where-in-the-world-is-morgan-spurlocks-brain/#comment-31162 Saltherring Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:02:29 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/where-in-the-world-is-morgan-spurlocks-brain/#comment-31162 We already have a congressional majority dominated by moveon.org types. Could the presidency be next? If so, it will be perhaps the first time I fear my own government more than any foreign entity. We already have a congressional majority dominated by moveon.org types. Could the presidency be next? If so, it will be perhaps the first time I fear my own government more than any foreign entity.

]]> By: Review: “Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden?” | KyleSmithOnline.com http://pjmedia.com/blog/where-in-the-world-is-morgan-spurlocks-brain/#comment-31158 Review: “Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden?” | KyleSmithOnline.com Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:54:42 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/where-in-the-world-is-morgan-spurlocks-brain/#comment-31158 [...] Morgan Spurlock’s new comedy-documentary “Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden?” opens with a joke about the World Trade Center attacks. Yep, that’s about the level of taste we’re discussing here. My review is up. [...] [...] Morgan Spurlock’s new comedy-documentary “Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden?” opens with a joke about the World Trade Center attacks. Yep, that’s about the level of taste we’re discussing here. My review is up. [...]

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