Back in Action... Movies, News, Whatever


Here's a quick overview:

-Back from Oklahoma

-Had an interview at Large American Health Food Store. I think I'll probably take it, even though it's a little less money. I'm pretty dissatisfied with my job right now, and at least this would be something really different.

-Lost four pounds in less than two weeks after finally giving up dairy (again) and eggs. I won't say I'm vegan because I eat honey (I wouldn't have a problem killing a bee).

-Caught up on all our tv programs and watched the new Sopranos and Entourage.

-Went for a two mile bike ride and my ass really hurts. I guess I need some of those padded butt pants like my Uncle Dave has.

-Watched Fast Food Nation. (The real point of my post)



Did you see this? Wow, what a waste of time. My time would have been better utilsed watching the Bad News Bears. Linklater, you're a hack. I will no longer give the man the benefit of the doubt. I love Dazed and Confused, we all do. I even really like SubUrbia (mostly just because it's well cast), but I cannot be party to his aimless, rambling nonsense.

FFN is divided into three separate story lines:

1) Greg Kinnear (who I like a lot) is the VP of Marketing for a large hamburger restaurant chain. He goes to a town in Colorado to investigate the meat packing operation.

2) The little girl from Growing Pains is a high school girl who works at the chain. She has to make a hard moral choice whether or not she wants to work there *tear*.

3) Fez from That 70's Show is an illegal who works at the meat packing plant. His story line is basically: being an immigrant is hard.

You would expect that in almost two hours (116 minutes) Linklater could somehow tie these three story lines together. Nope. Kinnear and the high school girl have a 30 second scene together and that's it. Kinnear isn't even in the last thirty minutes of the movie. Oh, also, the whole thing is very heavy handed and all of the facts about how shitty the fast food industry is come from the mouths of over-actors in public service announcement exposition.

BUT AVRIL LAVIGNE is in it. WHOO HOO! While we were in OK, we watched the horrid Click! and the even more horrid Little Big Man. Both of those movies were as entertaining as Fast Food Nation... possibly more so. [HEY, THAT BABY HAS A GIANT PENIS!]

I choose not to recommend it.
- posted by Mason @ 9:09 AM