Fat - What No One Is Telling You

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Very Fat-Friendly.......2007-07-17

Many media discussions of obesity conclude by saying we fat people are stupid if we don't devote all our energy toward losing weight. This documentary was sympathetic to fat people. It said research on how to lose weight and keep it off is scarce. It says there are numerous causes for obesity and there won't be a one-size-fits-all explanation, no pun intended. It even included a woman who seemed to be a part of the fat acceptance movement. She asks, "Why am I fat and healthy, but my thin sister has had three forms of cancer?" This work doesn't beat up on people in the slightest. It does mention early death, fertility problems, and blindness due to diabetes: it's not that the sad stuff doesn't come up.

A conspicuous fact of this film is that it focuses upon VERY FAT people. Interviewees looked more like Big Pun than Jim Belushi. They were 350 pounds plus, rather than just in the high 100s or low 200s. Have you ever seen a plus-size model and thought, "Gee, they're not that fat!"? This work features "real" fat people who are big, big, big. I appreciate that they didn't whitewash a group to whom I belong.

The fat interviewees are diverse in terms of age, gender, and ethnicity. It includes an Arab Muslim family that have accents and bravado like many New York City residents. The last segment includes Latinas speaking in Spanish with English subtitles supplied. Though the work includes men and women, you can tell that women are more of their target audience. The chubby wife of a fat man says, "Fat women face more stigmatization than fat men." I'm a fat man and I agree.

The work focuses on the fat subjects, rather than on narration and experts. In fact, I think it only included maybe three researchers. Too often, women are only given the chance to narrate documentaries covering famous women. Here, Meredith Vieira narrates on a somewhat gender-neutral topic. I'm glad she was invited to participate (though she's thin, by the way).

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Heads Up! --- The New 'Gar-de-Loo'---
This is why people laugh at us!

Chemtrails: The Video
Starring: Chemtrails-Story No One Is Telling
Manufacturer: UFO TV
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ASIN: B0007US8A2
Release Date: 2005-03-08

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The questions no one is asking! The Story no one is telling!

Have you or those in your family suffered from colds on a more frequent basis compared with past years? Are you having trouble breathing, are your allergies acting up, or perhaps you're one of the tens of thousands of people who make up the 600% increase in asthma sufferers over the last few years? There is an unusual phenomenon occurring in the skies above America, and around the world, that is being ignored by the mainstream media.

People across the country are noticing planes crossing back and forth in the sky, leaving in their wake a trail of vapor that does not evaporate. These are not your normal commercial airlines following a preordained path from city to city. There mysterious, unmarked planes leave smoke-like trails behind them that spread until, by the afternoon, they have blossomed and grown until the skies have become overcast. Officials from the Air Traffic Control, the EPA, and the Air Force will not respond to questions regarding this phenomenon.

This film takes you into the possible reasons and adverse reactions to what is seemingly a massive, top-secret, world wide program of chemical spraying. After you have seen the evidence and heard the testimony of the experts, you will have to ask yourself, and your elected representatives, what is really going on in the not so friendly skies.

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Heads Up! --- The New 'Gar-de-Loo'---.......2007-05-03

This video was an excellent commentary about aeroplane exhaust and the by-product chemicals being emitted.Where the documentary lost me was when it was claimed that there is some sort of a CIA conspiracy to test and kill innocent citizens.However,there may be truth in the claims presented.I think the chemtrail problem has much more to do with indifferent corporate greed rather than a secret governmental test-project epidemic.The sound and picture quality are average,but not substandard by any means.Ethanol may be a solution or simply will help relieve a growing problem,falling from the friendly skies above.Excellent and informative documentary that makes people think twice about the air and rain quality around us.

This is why people laugh at us!.......2007-03-02

I do not write reviews, but. This thing is so unprofessional that I just had to add a comment or two. First thing is the sound quality is very poor.The camera operator can't be an adult, I've seen videos by children that were of a higher quality. You're backlighting your main guest, in your living room? I could go on, but what's the point. Things like this are what causes "normal" people to laugh at serious fringe area science subjects, and when trying to explain something like chemtrails you just can't say "get the video"! Sorry, maybe the next one will be better.

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The Ending is the Best Part of this Film...
A new indie horror great has arrived
The unfortunate ending
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No Telling
Starring: Stephen Ramsey , David van Tieghem , Miriam Healy-Louie , and Ashley Arcemont
Director: Larry Fessenden
Manufacturer: World Artists
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ASIN: B00005NSXU
Release Date: 2002-03-19

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NO TELLING offers a compelling twist on the "don't mess with Mother Nature" theme familiar to fans of sci-fi and horror films. When Lillian Gaines moves to the country with her medical researcher husband Geoffrey for a quiet summer retreat, she never suspects that meeting activist Alex Vine will force her to confront her deepest fears about the man she married, and the bizarre experiments under way in his lab.

Maverick filmmaker Larry Fessenden¹s NO TELLING is a film of brutal honesty and conviction in its exploration of the personal toll taken by environmental and animal abuses. VARIETY writes that HABIT, NO TELLING and WENDIGO "comprise an accomplished, unofficial trilogy of urban paranoia, alienation and metaphysical dread."

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The Ending is the Best Part of this Film..........2006-01-09

Many will tear this movie's ending apart stating is that all? But I would say the ending is the best part of the film. As Fesseden stated and I'm paraphrasing here: real horror is found in things that most people find acceptable. Many people would not find the Doctor's activities kind, but neither would they find them evil. This is the major point of this film, the ending is not a bang, although it is interesting but most people will probably wanted something really evil to have happened. But you see what he was doing was evil, he was tampering with nature in the most amoral way.
This movie dosen't end with a bang it ends with a question; where do your morals lie?
If this movie had ended with a bang it would have taken away from a great plot. Great Indy film.

A new indie horror great has arrived.......2001-10-11

Larry Fessenden's NO TELLING is for fans of classic horror films, lovers of independent cinema and opponents of cruelty to animals -- 3 groups that don't often find themselves jostling for position in front of the same DVD shelf. Fessenden is best known for HABIT, a modern vampire story he wrote, directed and starred in; in NO TELLING he reinvents another classic horror genre, but it would spoil the tale's unfolding to say which one. Like HABIT, NO TELLING is convincingly rooted in a real present-day setting and situation: a married couple who have moved into an old farmhouse so that the husband can work on getting a research grant that will make them rich and help the human race. Cracks in the marriage appear when the wife meets a good-looking ecologist who raises troubling questions about her husband's devotion to science. Then step-by-step, what starts as an exceptionally well-done study of a modern couple shifts imperceptibly onto mythical territory which the horror movie aficianado will find him/herself revisiting with fresh eyes: NO TELLING makes its familiar tale totally, scarily believable and leaves us with a questions to take back with us into the real world. Every generation is marked by the talents of an indie horror filmmaker who reinvents the form, and Larry Fessenden is that filmmaker for the new millenium. An unusual making-of documentary shows the wise-cracking writer-director-editor and his collaborators at work, while talking to the camera about the implications of the highly original film they are making. NO TELLING and "The Making of NO TELLING" are the best introduction I know to a new filmmaker we will be hearing about a lot in the years to come. Those with weak stomachs have nothing to fear -- 90 percent of the horror is inside the characters, which makes it that much more creepily effective.

The unfortunate ending.......2001-09-27

Habit, Fessenden's masterpiece, is the film he should be remembered for--not this one. The premise of this film is fine--a latter-day Dr. Frankenstein is obsessed with "tinkering with Mother Nature", as the previous review indicates. The characterizations are, in fact, quite solid. The development of the film is also strong, playing up the conflict between the "mad" scientist and his wife, and this conflict definitely provides momentum to the film.

But the ending is so cheesy and ridiculous that, at least for me, it ruined the film. I won't give it away; suffice to say that Fessenden could, I am sure, have easily created a much stronger ending that would have dovetailed with the obvious husband-wife conflict infinitely more effectively and simultaneously provided the strong jolt required in dark films like this one. Habit, by contrast, does have a powerful closer as well as very strong characterizations and story development. No Telling is a film you really don't want to tell your friends about.

Stick with Habit; you can't go wrong.

NEAR MASTERPIECE.......2001-09-12

The first film in Larry Fessenden's unofficial "monster movie" trilogy (followed by "Habit" and the soon to be released "Wendigo"), "No Telling" may be the best kept secret of the contemporary American cinema. Though sometimes its themes are a little too overtly spoken through dialogue (it is after all a diatribe against animal experimentation and a cheesy horror flick at the same time) this is a boldly stylized, thoughtful exception to the typical Hollywood excesses of the 1990's. Had a chance to preview the DVD, which comes with a not-to-be missed "Making of.." made by Fessenden, with his customary wit and mock self deprecation, in itself worth the price of the disc.

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