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Whistle Stopper - 30 Days - Season 1
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List Price: $19.98
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Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Starring: Morgan Spurlock
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
EAN: 0024543244332
Format: Color
Label: 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2006-07-11
Running Time: 270
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: 2005-06-15
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Summary: Eye opening
Comment: This is a great set of things we though we knew but this put it all in prospective. I'll will get the rest of the seasons.
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Summary: Best Reality Series on Television
Comment: This is Morgan Spurlock at his finest. 30 Days is compelling, thought-provoking, informative, and entertaining all at once. It is easily the best reality show currently on television and possibly the best show on television right now. The fact that it has been passed over for one Emmy award after another is nothing less than a travesty, especially when you consider the shows that actually win (30 Rock? Boston Legal?!)
I do not give five-star reviews often, but I am emphatic in my opinion that this show deserves it. Every episode tackles its subject matter intelligently and honestly, with Spurlock himself participating in one of his social experiments every season. After Super Size Me, he took a chance on a reality show, a genre that had long worn out its value and welcome, and the results vastly exceed expectations (it certainly helps that it is on FX, a network with some courage).
Supplanting a person from his or her lifestyle to one beyond his or her comfort zone for 30 days may seem gimmicky, but it's actually a perfect strategy. It gives the individual enough exposure to effect a real change in his or her perspectives if he or she ever will, and it's worked every time so far, which is telling of us and our society. Spurlock isn't content to merely shine light on the drama provoked by the scenario - he's after larger issues, and he uncovers his findings with tenacious precision, always commenting on the larger picture with astuteness, whether dealing with religious dichotomies, the sufficiency of minimum wage, binge drinking, or any other number of issues that affect us all.
30 Days is a show that deserves to be seen. Each episode shows the progress we can make if we just open ourselves up to other people's lives and ideas. It comments on the very nature of our identities as human beings, flawed but capable of gradual change. It's an important show that everyone can benefit from viewing.
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Summary: Top Rate Work From A West Virginia Mountaineer
Comment: I enjoyed every episode of this show and can't wait for more. My favorite from this season was where Morgan and his girlfriend live on minimum wage for 30 days. What a powerful and thought provoking show. Also thought the 30 days of living as a Muslim and also in a gay community were also very good. Heck all the episodes were good. Interesting concept and thought provoking and entertaining commentary.
Keep up the great work Morgan and keep new episodes coming.
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Summary: Reality TV with a BRAIN
Comment: With "reality" TV congesting the digital stream with a thick mucus of banality and the mental equivalent of flatulence, it is refreshing to see a show with a mind AND a heart. Spurlock is talented, his approach is playful and incisive, and his editing team is superb. These shows, like his movie Super Size Me shake up our perceptions, making us look again at things we may have taken for granted or views we may have rejected right out of the box. Definitely worth possessing for repeated viewing!
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Summary: 30 days of supersizing...
Comment: Morgan Spurlock is a very good film maker. This TV series was short-lived but an excellent example of documentary film making. The show was very entertaining and informative. I highly recommend this show to anyone interested in Morgan Spurlock, Supersize Me, and social issues. Many hot issues are addresses, like: Islam's role on the US after 9/11, gay marriage, is minimum wage a livable wage, living an environmentally friendly life, etc. Must see.
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Editorial Reviews:
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A reality show that's entertaining and smart? Sounds about as oxymoronic as it gets, but Morgan Spurlock has pulled it off with 30 Days. With this series (offered here on two discs containing six episodes and a variety of bonus material), Spurlock, who got a 2005 Best Documentary Oscar nomination for Super Size Me, his record of a harrowing month spent on a strict McDonald's-only diet, has effectively taken his act to the not-so-small screen. The premise: put "normal" middle-class Americans (in this case, all of them white) into situations where they are way out of their comfort zones, archetypal fish out of water who must spend 30 days experiencing how the other half lives. Thus we have tales involving a Christian from West Virginia who lives with a Muslim American couple in Dearborn, Michigan; a straight dude from rural Michigan who moves in with a homosexual roommate in San Francisco's Castro District, "the gayest place on Earth;" and a mother in Phoenix who, concerned about her daughter's excessive drinking at college, goes on her own heavy alcohol binge. Spurlock himself is the subject of an episode in which he and his fiancé try to subsist on the minimum wage, while the only one that doesn't fit the mold concerns an out-of-shape 34-year-old man trying to find the fountain of youth by embarking on a strict regimen of exercise, diet, and major doses of steroids and Human Growth Hormone pills. The stories don't all have happy endings: the Phoenix woman's drinking has no affect whatsoever on her daughter, and the steroid guy drops out when his sperm count almost immediately drops to zero. But the discomfort felt by the others seems genuine, as do the lessons in tolerance and cultural understanding they eventually learn, even given the artificial confines of reality TV. What's more, Spurlock provides some real information along the way, telling us how many drinks it takes to be over the legal limit in Arizona (five shots ought to do it) or how many passages in the Bible are interpreted as proscribing homosexuality (six), detailing the negative side effects of "anti-aging" medicines (too many to list here), and offering insight into such Muslim customs as prayer and fasting (the Christian dresses in Muslim garb and even learns a little Arabic). Extra features include commentary (by Spurlock and others) on four of the episodes, as well as "Diary Cams" (outtakes, basically) for all six. --Sam Graham
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