King Corn

Starring: Earl L. Butz, Ian Cheney, Curt Ellis

Product Description

Engrossing and eye-opening, KING CORN is a fun and crusading journey into the digestive tract of our fast food nation where one ultra-industrial, pesticide-laden, heavily-subsidized commodity... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: DVD
• Language: English
• UPC: 767685115046
• Release Date: August 2008
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Publisher: Cinedigm - Uni Dist Corp
• Director: Aaron Woolf
• Starring: Earl L. Butz, Ian Cheney, Curt Ellis
• Runtime: 1 hour, 30 minutes
• Number of Disks: 1
• Other Video Info: NTSC; Multiple Formats; Color
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.5" x 5.4"

Customer Reviews

A sticky preposition

Basic presentation is the purchase of an acre of land in Greene, Iowa, for the production of corn, and to watch where the corn goes. We see how corn has been genetically altered for better or worse. There are two sides to genetics, and we only see one. Our presenters spit their Cornell thing, you taste like chalk. But I can go down to the local store and pioneer of corn peel back the leaves, remove some of the silk, and munch away. I use it many times just as a meal. We learn how to make corn syrup in the kitchen sink. We find this corn syrup in the soda we drink. However, the argument that they bring up against corn syrup can easily be turned into an argument against sugar. Speaking of sugar, with a little bit of research, you can find versions of Coca-Cola and Dr. Pepper made with real sugar. And it will easily pass the blind taste test. Coca-Cola, knowing that people could tell the difference, pulled the real thing off the market in 1984, replacing it with New Coke, and when all the sugar drinks were taken off the market, replaced them with corn syrup with the misnomer of Classic Coke. If you switch to Izze Esque, you just get 50 calories of fruit juice. There is a small reference to ethanol, which is being used as an excuse to raise the price of corn in food. We all know that we can get cheaper sugar from other countries, make cheaper ethanol, and lower the price of corn to make cheaper foods. There are some vulgar scenes of reaching into cow stomachs that you may want to fast-forward through. However, in the process, they make you understand that too much corn is not that good for cows, and cows full of corn are not good for people. And again, they forget to tell you that with a little research, you can find grass-fed meat. You might also find Buffalo more to your liking than cows. This film does not tell us anything we do not already know. But it can be overwhelming to see it all in one film. The presentation written by Aaron Woolf, Ian Cheney, Curt Ellis, and Jeffery K. Miller seems to lose focus now and then; it is part documentary, part mockumentary, and part “Who Do You Think You Are?” This film is still worth watching, but every once in a while, you wonder if they know for whom they are making it. What I find fascinating about this presentation is that years ago, we used to say we were eating oil, as that is what the fertilizer is made of that we use to make corn, and we lose some of the energy on the way. I always wonder if films like this ever change things or if they are ever viewed by the people who created this monstrosity? It is like watching the bad guy and not realizing they are talking about you. For people interested in the media, the pictures are crisp, and the background music does not drown out the speakers. There are the standard Bonus Materials, such as carrying their corn to the Chicago Board of Trade. Subsidies are explained in Washington. And so on. Since this 2007 documentary, we have become snots and lost a lot of the world market for corn. And Coca-Cola will change its evil ways somewhat.