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This IS a good movie - 'Do you masticate?'

posted 20 years ago by NewbridgeNJ
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I AM a vegetarian and someone who tries to live a healthy life so, I have a special connection with both the positive philosophy and absurdity of the film. Hopkins is brilliant! Everyone does and excellent job. I think some of the people were turned off by some of the slapstick (which has a childish quality) or the sexuality of the movie (which is very much an adult quality). There are people like Kellogg around, GURUs of health that have thier cults.

Maybe it's me but I like odd movies and THE ROAD TO WELLVILLE is very odd.

I love this film!

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[–] Haifis 20 years ago

I agree. It shows the devastasting measures people will take to considered healthy by the state.

[–] jruvalcaba 20 years ago

I also thougth this was a great film! it was funny had a good plot and had boobies. what more you could want?

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[–] jdsears669 20 years ago

This movie is GREAT...I think the people that couldn't handle this movie are all flesh eaters.

[–] Sean_Katakuri 20 years ago

I really love this movie. The last time I saw it before today was when it first came out on video in 1995. It was on Encore today I missed the first hour. But yeah its Definitely be my next addition to my DVD collection.

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[–] borg_punk-1 20 years ago

Actually I am a hardcore Meat eater, and I belive it is terrible unhealthy to be vegan or vegetarien, there are certain things to need from meat. But lets not start a debate about that. The movie simply shows some of the myths that someone actually still believes in. The steak example. Look into a uncoked vegtable fished op from a piece of dirt, hehe

[–] femmefatale3000 20 years ago

What I found to be quite funny about this movies is how it pokes fun at peoples fears of their sexuality. All the things Dr. Kellog and his staff say about sex like an erection is a flagpole on your grave (I was rolling on the floor from that) was seriously believed by people back then. And they went to great measures to "cure" this problem. From circumsicing non-Jewsih boys, to putting carbolic acid on a girls genitals to keep her from touching herself (little did anyone know that carbolic acid is very poisonous!)The Movie made me look at our society todey and it view on sex and our sexuality. Even today we still have obsurd beliefs when it comes to sex. And it reminds me of this quote that was said in the movie "The only this that is bad about sex is when a woman doesn't get it when she wants it, and can't enjoy it when she does."

[–] borg_punk-1 19 years ago

So true.

MEAT AND PATATOES, MEAT AND PATATOES!

hehe, I wonder if someone in the future will make a movie about the atkins diet, haha!

Damn, I love meat!

[–] koolmojo 19 years ago

He hee its really funny movie and I agree dunno why it did well.

[–] ldthompson77 12 years ago

I am an omnivore by evolution and by choice! I eat vegetables not because I love animals, but because I hate plants. I love this movie. It's the back-to-back choice for "Silence of the Lambs" in our "Anthony Hopkins Film Weekend"s for our film club, LOL!! Hey, they're both about diet, right?

[–] willjohn 12 years ago

Kellogg was a very good surgeon who did not believe in unnecessary surgery. In spite of this he believed in circumcision (without anaesthetic) as a way to prevent masturbation, commonly believed at that time to be harmful.

He was very much a man of his time.

[–] bryonpav 19 years ago

"Actually I am a hardcore Meat eater, and I belive it is terrible unhealthy to be vegan or vegetarien, there are certain things to need from meat. But lets not start a debate about that. The movie simply shows some of the myths that someone actually still believes in. The steak example. Look into a uncoked vegtable fished op from a piece of dirt, hehe"

What?? I'm a vegan, see... and I haven't had a bite of meat or dairy in two years and I feel healthier now than I would have ever felt two years ago. It clearly has its benefits and to say that it doesn't is pure ignorance. Sure, different people react to it in different ways, some people get sick the first week... some people just can't do it. oh well, maybe it's not for them... but myself and many others find it quite healthy. I get the recommended amounts of iron, calcium and protein and you probably can't say the same. Unless your some sort of doctor, don't preach about what's "unhealthy".

[–] Mind_Zi 19 years ago

"I get the recommended amounts of iron, calcium and protein and you probably can't say the same."

I eat meat, and I get the recommended daily amount of murder in my diet.

The recommended amount is "a lot".

[–] jefffy 14 years ago

>I belive it is terrible unhealthy to be vegan or vegetarien,
If you truly believe that, than I'm sorry but I must say you are ignorant.
Time for an upgrade of your knowledge regarding nutrition.

> there are certain things to need from meat.
Ignorance again. There is NOTHING in meat you couldn't get from someplace else.
(Except for cholesterol. There is absolutely no cholesterol in plant sources.)
Quantities and absorption rates differ, but it's still out there.

>But lets not start a debate about that.
Yeah, right. You got to say what you wanted and that's the end of it, eh?
That's not how it works.

You can eat whatever you want and noone will bother you.
You have the right to believe in anything you want, as do I.
On the other hand your blanket statement gave me the right to
reply and refute.

[–] willjohn 12 years ago

That does not make sense. I eat meat every day and I thought the movie was great.

[–] akg96-1 19 years ago

If that's the mentality of those who did not like this movie, then lowered the actual rating of this movie, & I want to see it. I would have thought this movie was no so good, but if it pushes those kinds of buttons of those who couldn't see it any other way than the way they did, then it would seem that it would appeal to someone else, someone more like myself. Thanks....

[–] kitty-city 19 years ago

Nurse Graves, get this man fifteen gallons of yogurt!
Oh, I could never eat that much.
It's not going in that end.
Just a little scene description for all of our health nuts.

[–] SunshineBooks 18 years ago

Definitely an odd & fun film to watch.

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