30 Days - Season 1
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Actor: Morgan SpurlockBrand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Dubbed); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 270 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-07-11
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
DVD Reviews of 30 Days - Season 1
DVD Review: 30 days
Summary: 5 Stars
Gave this as a Christmas present. Recipient was very happy. Received expediently and in great shape.DVD Review: 30 Days to Change how you Think
Summary: 5 Stars
Morgan Spurlock has done it again with this First Season (and Season Two) of 30 DAYS. These shows put the real in "realality" TV. It opens the eyes of people who are set in their own beliefs and then is able to open their minds to a new way of thinking. Spurlock should be the one that everyone ought to be watching . . . It can make you a better person by opening up your eyes while learning about other people's lives through "walking in their shows" method. A MUST SEE! For Everyone. DVD Review: Using The Medium
Summary: 5 Stars
Television -- The Box That Dares Not Speak Its Name -- has such incredible power. It could be educational, bringing understanding and familiarity to people who otherwise would mistrust and disrespect each other from lack of contact. It could even out some of the disparities in our education system. It could teach critical thinking by exposing the fallacies of blind acceptance of unproven allegations.
Instead, it does... not.
Except when Morgan Spurlock's on the screen. His "Super Size Me" was a landmark documentary, exposing a corporate giant's avoidance of the truth about its products. And his series "30 Days" extends this same clear-eyed and intelligent investigation to a different subject each episode. Subtitled "Try Someone Else's Life On For Size," this is exactly what he does, and the results are some of the best TV ever broadcast.
This first season includes the following episodes:
* Minimum Wage - shows how the working poor fall through the cracks and in some ways are worse off than the unemployed
* Anti-Aging - how the pseudo-medical supplement industry preys on vanity with no regard for the health risks involved
* Muslims and America - what it's like to be a Muslim in post-9/11 America
* Straight Man in a Gay World - preconceptions dissolve (on both sides!) when worlds collide
* Off The Grid - how to live a totally green existence, and what this would mean to our accustomed standard of living
* Binge Drinking Mom - a 46-year old mom tries to keep up with her daughter's partying, and predictably fails miserably
Only the last one was not full of surprises and hugely eye-opening. I am anxiously awaiting the release of Season Two.
DVD Review: Eye-Opening
Summary: 4 Stars
Before purchasing this DVD set, I had never seen the show. However, I liked Super Size Me so I figured this would be more of the same. I believe that this show is a great alternative to 'regular' reality TV, because you are absolutely guaranteed to learn something that you didn't know before. The episodes are great and let people approach a subject with an open mind to form their own opinion of what's going on.DVD Review: Eye opening
Summary: 5 Stars
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.
Description of 30 Days - Season 1
From Morgan Spurlock the Academy Award nominated writer director and star of the hit film Supersize Me 30 Days is the intelligent and innovative FX Original Series that dares to ask the question "Do we really know what it's like to see the world through our neighbors' eyes?" Explore some of America's most pressing social issues by following the lives of ordinary people who agree to live well-outside their comfort zones for thirty days. 30 Days Season 2 will premiere in July 2006 on FX!Episode Description:Disk 1: "Minimum Wage""Anti-Aging""Muslims and America"Disk 2: "Straight Man in a Gay World""Off The Grid""Binge Drinking Mom"System Requirements:Bonus Features: Disk 1: "Minimum Wage" commentary "Anti-Aging" commentary "Muslims and America" commentary "Minimum Wage" Diary Cam TRT 15:00 "Anti-Aging" Diary Cam TRT 15:00 "Muslims and America" Diary Cam TRT 15:00 Disk 2: "Straight Man in a Gay World" commentary "Straight Man in a Gay World" Diary Cam TRT 15:00 "Off The Grid" Diary Cam TRT 15:00 "Binge Drinking Mom" Diary Cam TRT 15:00 Running Time: 354 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre:?TELEVISION/SERIES & SEQUELS Rating:?NR UPC:?024543244332 Manufacturer No:?2234433A 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 fianc? 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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