'Super Size Me' Documentary Director Morgan Spurlock Dead at 53

[mcguyver]

'Super Size Me' Director Morgan Spurlock Dead at 53

The 2004 doc, which ultimately scored an Oscar nom, took ...

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Morgan Spurlock has died due to complications from cancer.
Per a report from the Associated Press, Spurlock, whose 2004 documentary Super Size Me was nominated for an Oscar, died on Thursday. He was 53.
"It was a sad day, as we said goodbye to my brother Morgan," Craig Spurlock said in a statement shared Friday. "Morgan gave so much through his art, ideas, and generosity. The world has lost a true creative genius and a special man. I am so proud to have worked together with him."
Super Size Me, written and directed by Spurlock, followed the filmmaker on a 30-day journey of eating McDonald’s for every meal. The film was inescapable in the mid-2000s, with its impact helping inform a more critical view of the fast food industry at large. While Ross Kauffman and Zana Briski’s Born Into Brothels ultimately won Best Documentary Feature at the 2005 Academy Awards, Spurlock’s film took home a Writers Guild of America award that same year.

 

[easy_b]

RIP

 

[kes1111]

 

[Ryokurin]

He was an alcoholic. That's why his liver was so messed up, and his other symptoms were typical of someone who's going through withdrawal cold turkey. That's why no one has been able to replicate what the movie showed him going through.

 

[Lexx Diamond]

RIP

 

[34real]

That's crazy and RIP to him cause he revealed something we knew but to watch it happen is another thing.

 

[DMXtreem]

RIP!!!

 

[AwwSchitt]

RIP

That documentary was bullsh*t. If you eat nothing but junk food you're gonna gain weight and have high cholesterol. No sh*t.

 

[Da Backshot Champ]

Bet he wants us to believe it came from eating Mc Donald's for a month, when donny dickhead each 3 meals from their everyday.

That movie poster aint a good look. No telling what else he was stuffing in his mouth when people weren't around. He may even had throat cancer, to throw us off his devilish deeds.

 

[jasonblacc]

He was an alcoholic. That's why his liver was so messed up, and his other symptoms were typical of someone who's going through withdrawal cold turkey. That's why no one has been able to replicate what the movie showed him going through.

More details

Link or something

 

[Ryokurin]

More details

Link or something

The Complicated Legacy of Morgan Spurlock’s ‘Super Size Me’

Morgan Spurlock’s Oscar-nominated documentary about McDonald’s food sparked a wave of change. But it didn’t last long.

www.thedailybeast.com

Any decent article on his death should bring it up, but it was originally in a WSJ post from 2017. He's been drinking since he was 13. He came clean on it because he was about to get metoo'd so he got ahead of the story.

 

[xxxbishopxxx]

More details

Link or something

The Complicated Legacy of Morgan Spurlock’s ‘Super Size Me’

Morgan Spurlock’s Oscar-nominated documentary about McDonald’s food sparked a wave of change. But it didn’t last long.

www.thedailybeast.com

Any decent article on his death should bring it up, but it was originally in a WSJ post from 2017. He's been drinking since he was 13. He came clean on it because he was about to get metoo'd so he got ahead of the story.

Morgan Spurlock, Oscar-nominated 'Super Size Me' director, dies at 53

Morgan Spurlock, the Oscar-nominated director of 'Super Size Me,' has died at 53.

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The filmmaker also revealed his struggles with alcohol, saying he drank "consistently" since the age of 13, adding, "I haven’t been sober for more than a week in 30 years." Spurlock stepped down from his production company in 2017, and YouTube Red later canceled the release of Super Size Me 2, which was scheduled to premiere in 2018.

 

[JustChillin]

Morgan Spurlock, Oscar-nominated 'Super Size Me' director, dies at 53

Morgan Spurlock, the Oscar-nominated director of 'Super Size Me,' has died at 53.

ew.com

The filmmaker also revealed his struggles with alcohol, saying he drank "consistently" since the age of 13, adding, "I haven’t been sober for more than a week in 30 years." Spurlock stepped down from his production company in 2017, and YouTube Red later canceled the release of Super Size Me 2, which was scheduled to premiere in 2018.

Demon in a bottle.

I was lowkey mad at him because McD’s stop selling super size after his doc came out.

I was a chunkster. Lol

RIP to dude

 

[slewdem100]

RIP

 

[Bawse Nigguh]

Ronald like….

 

[Mr.Mojo]

Wow

r.i.p

 

[tallblacknyc]

I still never seen the second one

 

[keone]

Crazy

 

[dtownsfinest]

RIP

That documentary was bullsh*t. If you eat nothing but junk food you're gonna gain weight and have high cholesterol. No sh*t.

Yeah but nobody actually seen it done on film.

 

[AwwSchitt]

Yeah but nobody actually seen it done on film.

Are white people that stupid they needed to see on film to know it actually happens? CAC’s I tell ya.

 

[Helico-pterFunk]

The Complicated Legacy of Morgan Spurlock’s ‘Super Size Me’

Morgan Spurlock’s Oscar-nominated documentary about McDonald’s food sparked a wave of change. But it didn’t last long.

www.thedailybeast.com

 

[Hey Julian!]

Damn, that was unexpected. Iconic documentary.

 

[CoTtOnMoUf]

Forgive my ignorance. What
was the documentary about?

RIP.

53 is too young to be dying.

 

[tallblacknyc]

Are white people that stupid they needed to see on film to know it actually happens?

yesssss they are

 

[World B Free]

So he was complaining about McDonald's while he was an alcoholic? Yeah, Micky Dees is trash, but dayummmmmm.....if you're making a doc about your personal health then stop drinking: Ronald McDonald didn't make him drink.

 

[Helico-pterFunk]

Forgive my ignorance. What
was the documentary about?

Super Size Me - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Super Size Me 2: Holy Chicken! - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[godofwine]

Am I the only one who couldn't give a single fuck? Not even a half of a fuck? Or even a quarter of a fuck? You couldn't even super size those numbers

 

[CoTtOnMoUf]

Super Size Me - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Super Size Me 2: Holy Chicken! - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Ok. Me and the Mrs might check this out this weekend.

Thanks

 

[Helico-pterFunk]

Ok. Me and the Mrs might check this out this weekend.

Thanks

I checked it out with fam' on the big screen back in '04.


Saw the sequel a few years back as it was available on demand / free. It focused primarily on how chicken had taken over in the fast food realm.

 

[ThaBurgerPimp]

He came clean on it because he was about to get metoo'd so he got ahead of the story.

Him and this guy have something in common.
@playahaitian

 

[Amajorfucup]

RIP

That documentary was bullsh*t. If you eat nothing but junk food you're gonna gain weight and have high cholesterol. No sh*t.

So if it showed and told the truth then how was it bullshit exactly?

fyi- Doc also educated public on the fillers, pink slime and how overprocessed that trash is.

 

[AwwSchitt]

So if it showed and told the truth then how was it bullshit exactly?

fyi- Doc also educated public on the fillers, pink slime and how overprocessed that trash is.

i Was speaking specifically about him gaining weight from eating poorly.

The fillers and such was common knowledge. He didn’t exactly expose anything

 

[OutlawR.O.C.]

R.I.P.

 

[Amajorfucup]

The fillers and such was common knowledge. He didn’t exactly expose anything

Man stop. none of that shit was common knowledge..Theres a reason the doc caused so much shit and was labeled as an expose. The average person that eats (at the time) that shit knew nothing about those details. Wack Arnolds even changed their fucking menu behind the shit.

 

[AwwSchitt]

Man stop. none of that shit was common knowledge..Theres a reason the doc caused so much shit and was labeled as an expose. The average person that eats (at the time) that shit knew nothing about those details. Wack Arnolds even changed their fucking menu behind the shit.

it was bruh. I guess most didn’t know or didn’t care. But it’s all good. Have a good one.