Ehirerapp Waste of time

AniInterview Sorry, this movie sucks

Dirtylogy It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

Philippa All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Robert Jackson Forks Over Knives is a documentary film that advocates for a low- fat, whole-food, plant-based diet, arguing that eating plant-based foods and avoiding animal-based foods, can prevent or reverse serious health problems. There are many benefits to choosing this diet over a "western diet", a diet high in fat, sugar, processed foods, and meat. The healthy plant-based diet is high in vitamins and minerals and it won't raise your bad cholesterol. Unlike the fatty "western diet", this diet prevents the buildup of fat in arteries, which can cause cardiovascular disease. Despite it advocating healthier eating, Forks Over Knives is not without fault. The film argues against the consumption of animal-based foods, specifically targeting meat and dairy, even going as far as to suggest that animal-based foods have little to no nutritional benefit and should never be eaten. While eating too much meat is unhealthy, lean meat and fish in moderation can be part of a healthy diet. The film also states that drinking too much milk is bad, but like meat, it can be part of a healthy diet when consumed in moderation.Still, the film has other redeeming moments, such as its valid points about the effect the consumption of animal products has on the world. For example, it states that world hunger would end if all the grain fed to animals was redistributed to people who need it. In my opinion, this argument is better because it is about humanity as a whole, which is more important than one person's diet. Arguments like these are much more likely to convert me to veganism than questionable claims about the supposed lack of nutritional value in all animal products.Overall, Forks Over Knives, has something great to say, but it is seriously hampered by its strong, biased anti-meat and anti- dairy stance. This position is repeatedly enforced throughout the film, which could encourage some viewers to become vegan or even look down on those who eat animal-based products. Although there are great things about low-fat, whole-food, plant-based diets, this movie is not the best way to learn about them.

TrueFanMissy Spoiler alert: Two medical doctors on opposite ends of the country come to the same conclusion about how we eat. But seriously, if you don't already know this information, you're probably a goner. Outstanding information about eating to live. And told in a very practical and easy to understand way. Really important documentary. I hope every kid in the country watches it. It would make a BIG difference in the health of our nation. I love it and I'll watch it again, and I'll make my husband watch it and when my kids are old enough, I'll cram it down their throats once a year until they move out.

Peter Kowalski Unless you are completely blind and deaf to the news of the world, you should already know that the world is turning obese at alarming rates and fast food is bad for you. You should also know about the dangers of consuming processed sugar and saturated fats. Those well-known facts are the only valid point the movie makes - unfortunately, it's a point made solely to develop its own bias propaganda. I would say vegan propaganda, but even the filmmakers smartly avoid using the term - you won't hear it even once; instead, it's all about "plant based diet".The movie starts off with the director, the main protagonist and the voice behind it all, Lee Fulkerson going all super-size-me on you getting his blood checked. You may already suspect that the results won't be pretty, but if you dared to have a naive hope, he's fast to straighten you out, informing us that he's just consumed two red bulls on his way over (surely not something that would alter the results). Which are devastating, of course, so Fulkerson decides to go on a veg, sorry, all plant diet, warmly advocated by his two MD friends, coincidentally a married couple. Over the course of the movie, we will meet several other protagonists of all ages and backgrounds (also ethnic) with their own share of various health issues, who will, all thanks to nothing other than all-plant diet, not only feel much better at the end of the test period, but will have all of their problems gone (including cancer - apparently you can beat breast cancer eating fruits, veggies and whole grain now). As the movie goes on, the filmmakers are feeling less and less shameful about sending you on a one-way guilt trip pulling out statistics from left and right, misinterpreting the data they are using to support their theories, and making blunt medical errors as well as absolutely ridiculous conclusions (the one I particularly enjoyed was the one trying to prove a relation between second world war and a number of cancer-related deaths in Norway; all because the very first thing Hitler did when invading the country was taking all the cows away, hence the drop in death rate - and hence the immediate rise of deaths by cancer the minute the war ended). If you're not feeling particularly guilty over eating meet and killing little baby goats by the two thirds of the movie, the filmmakers kindly remind you that, well, to actually support the food used to feed the food we eat, one must cut out an Amazonian forest. Yes, you are correct, you filthy meat-eater - you are directly responsible for the death of rain forests. And as we go along and the setting changes from rain forest in Amazonia to China to Canada to Texas, where the strong and mighty firefighter delivers a highly suspicious story how they are all so competitive and one time they decided to get a blood work to see which one has the highest cholesterol level - and because one guy was practically dead from all the grease inside, they all started to eat vegetables. If your little-boy's mind, you know, the one who always wanted to be a firefighter so you ate so much meat to grow big and strong is still not very convinced firefighters can grow big and strong on veggies alone, picture a firefighter going up a pole singing how real men only eat veggies. Or just play the movie, because the exact scene is shown. The ridiculousness does not stop for a second, as you hear some of the most idiotic sentences ever uttered - "poor people are poor" or "even some Chinese agree with Americans". All is well packaged, though - for example, when FDA representative is defending eating meat, an image of meat being grilled is shown (which, as we also know, is not the healthiest way of preparing meat, and no words of grilling meat are being spoken). In fact, all images of meat in various forms are paired with a dramatic, unpleasant music, whereas all images of vegetarians, veggies alone and fruits are always paired with soft guitar, or piano. That alone, in addition to the oversimplifying statistics and other data, is enough to give the movie a 1 star rating. But the movie does more damage than that - it doesn't stop for a second to trickle the most important side of the issues it is presenting. It mentions the poor are poor - but does not add they choose junk food not because they don't know health risks involved, but it's because they do not have the money to acquire healthy food, which is more expensive. And then one of the heroines of the movie says - "I've had no education". That, in my opinion, is the real beginning to ending world's health problems, not simply telling people to switch from burgers to spinach. Education. Information. Not brainwashing.

axanghelescu Warning this might have spoilers !! If anyone knows me they would say that I'm the biggest health advocate, so I really had high hopes for this movie. And while I don't hold any degrees in nutrition, I do have graduate studies and critical thinking in general, and I do know how to write/read scientific research on a topic. That being said, I thought this movie LACKED ESSENTIAL DETAILS ABOUT THE RESEARCH RESULTS shown. It's unfortunate but the way they presented the research was very biased (to prove their theory "animal produce bad, plant produce good") which is just wrong. I have a hard time believing a person that does research in this field at Cornel University would choose to ignore the whole research and present only parts of it for the sake of making this movie, so I am really baffled as to what these people actually think and how they could make such a one sided story. After I saw the movie I thought it was great but I couldn't help thinking how come the striking "scientific" discoveries and correlations between cancer tumors and plant/animal protein intake were not taken seriously by the medical community. Well I answered my questions just by doing a tiny bit of research. There are many blogs objectively discussing the misinformation in this movie (and there sure is a lot). So just google some critique, it is all there including "The curious case of Campbell's rats", or dig up the original research papers if you find the critique non objective. So that was a major disappointment, I can expect people to misinterpret and broadcast bad research but not "scholars" who have dedicated lives to it. The movie has the right intention, YES the western diet is killing you, YES people are uneducated when it comes to knowing what to eat, YES people don't know that food can be your medicine, YES your diet can save you from taking a fist of pills and having surgeries. But NO, there is no scientific proof that animal products cause cancer or reduce your life span while plant-based food reverses the cancer and guarantees longevity !!!! No such thing folks. There are so many many complex factors in determining what is cancer(and how different all types of cancer are), how it evolves and so on. Half of this movie is presenting some very biased and taken out of context evidence. That is unacceptable, and that's why I can't give it more than 3 stars. If you want to watch a documentary about food, watch FOOD INC.