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Advantages: Fascinating, educational, eye-opener, thought-provoking, makes you think about what you eat Disadvantages: None, I just wish I'd seen it sooner.
...same director, Franny Armstrong. McLibel is about David Morris and Helen Steel who, as part of London Greenpeace, distributed leaflets (though never wrote them) about McDonalds entitled 'What's Wrong With McDonalds?' in 1986, and were later taken to court by McDonalds for libel. The trial lasted for two and a half years, and remains the longest ever trial in English legal history. The leaflet referred to a range of issues, including claims of animal ... ...to see two documentaries this year, I should absolutely make the first 'McLibel', and the second 'The Age of Stupid' - which is also an incredibly important film to watch, and goes on general release on March 20th!) More information about the McLibel case can be found here: http://www.mcspotlight.org ...
razielle 19.03.2009 ·Read full review
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Review of McLibel (DVD)
Advantages: well balanced, extremely inciteful, visionary opinions Disadvantages: before watching some may think it's a pointless globalisation rant
...documentary with Michael Moore on the credits
We know about Shell and Tesco and Greenpeace
We know we hate everything because Starbucks is everywhere
We know companies are greedy and ruin Africa
BUT
You are the very people that NEED to watch this for the following reasons:
1) It is produced with the chairmen of these global companies's giving their viewpoint
2) It is produced with activists, politicians, and charities giving their viewpoint
... ...exist in a seam under the soil.
1) Without this deposit there will be no production
2) With the production 5,000 jobs are kept in UK
3) With this production the goods will go to creating long range missiles and mobile off road troop transit vehicles capable of aiding the UN peace process in the remote areas of Niger, Mali and Sudan
3) With this production the village and its 1,000 people are ruined
4) Civil war in the area means there is no ...
Advantages: Rockumentry! Disadvantages: The Peter Pan of rock!
...and head of the 'best rock school in Philadelphia' (and the East Coast, according to the maestro), has modelled himself on Jack Blacks manic creation or vice versa, such is the similarity of these two headbanger's. Both, while wanting to teach the kids to find their "inner rock star" when schools out, bring other human qualities to the table, something Mr Barford my old music teacher never did. I was lumbered with the Triangle in primary school to ... ...essential ingredient of being a rock star. You can't help but not secretly admire this guy as he does get the best out of them, but not too shy to say if they have it or not to their face, Gordon Ramsey style! The kids... The Collins twins-two identical five-year-old blonde bombshell surfer boys with floppy fringes-don't seem to have much talent but just enjoy shouting a lot into the microphone, encouraged by their mum who also wanted to be a lead ...
Advantages: makes you think, can be motivating Disadvantages: none
...faced bunch of Royal Marine Commando recruits all the way through 32 weeks of basic training. With complete access to every part of the training process he follows the good times and the bad of each of the recruits and something that I felt made the documentary that little more exciting was that he also took part in the training himself, Chris Terrill was 55 years old. The Program was originally aired in 2007 for ITV; at the beginning you see the ... ...of becoming a Royal Marine Commando and receiving the coveted Green Beret so that they can become elite soldiers that look a million miles away from the guys that they were 32 weeks earlier. After the 32 weeks training Chris follows a few of the successful soldiers when they are posted to Afghanistan for a tour of duty, as well as a new officer who takes up his post in Afghanistan for his first tour with a mainly rookie company of men. I managed ...
Advantages: Cheap prices Disadvantages: Cheap labour
With the slave trade debate raging last year during the 200 commerations its always important to note that not only is that particular trade is still alive and well in the third world but its as good as here in its modern form in companies like Wal-Mart. Well meaning and angry people may well protest alongside some vegetarians banging a drum in London about what happened 200 years ago but most of the labeled clothing we are wearing will have been ... ...the products piled high in the huge shopping arenas of Wal-Mart and the like are the products of cheap and exploited labor somewhere around the world and when the documentary explores those sweat shops in South East Asia our arguments of reparation begin to fragment. In one segment you see young Chinese girls living in cramped dorms in a grubby factory, the gates locked at night, weekly rent and utilities deducted from their meager pay packets, whether ...
