AB:

No one on this thread has tried to claim that eating McDonalds everyday is good for you. No one is trying to claim that the film was filled with lies. It was the basic conceit of the movie. Evil McDonalds making the poor victamized rubes into fat cows.And even worse they are capitalists! The poor rubes need the enlightened inteligensia to save them from the powerfull company. Fast food, when eaten in moderation, is harmless. If you eat it every day then you will grow fat and have health problems.Duh.Booze, ice cream, pastries,smoking,fried foods,, basically any high fat, high calorie food product that is eaten in excess and combined with lack of excersise will produce a fat person. I f McDonalds was eliminated from the earth someone else would fill in the void. Americans eat too much and don’t excersise enough. That is a problem of the individual. As good as their marketing is nobody has been forced to go to McDonalds. Since they have begun to post the calorie statistics in each location has their buisness gone down. No. The theme of the movie is that mankind are helpless victims of an evil corporation. That they have no will of their own and that someone(the government) must stop the abuse of these victims. Johnny Depp smokes non stop everyday. Is he a helpless victim? Even though he is a man of the left does he need the filmaker to point out to him that he is a hapless victim of a French corporation Or has he made a choice on how to live his life and what he enjoys. If he had done a film on the poor eating habits of Americans then I would have no problem. If he made a film on the unhealthy reliance on fast food in America that would be fine too. But the silly evil corporation vs. poor stupid victims is a leftist cliche.