What are some Movies that School (including summer school or after school programs) showed you that you probably would've never watched otherwise? Did you enjoy them?
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I think you mean Threads. Stupendous movie
Indeed, thank you.
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Just comparing and contrastic different school experiences. (Please state your approximate location)
For me (Went to school in USA):
- Frozen
- Shrek
- Tangled
- The Pianist (it was a history class)
- All the President's Men (jounalism class in highschool)
- The Wizard of Oz? (I think)
- Idk the name, it was some "day of the dead" animated Spanish/Mexican kids movie about some "land of the remembered" and "land of the forgotten. (Just googled it aparantly its called "The Book of Life") (Shown in like every Spanish class ever)
- There was some movie about I think it was a hispanic singer, I think it was Selena. (Shown in a Spanish class)
- The Maze Runner
- The Giver (watched after the class was supposed to read the book The Giver, I kinda just skimmed it tho)
- Memento (only watched part of it because I was depressed and I missed a session of class)
- Dispicable Me
- The Incredibles
- Monster Inc
- Toy Story
- Some animated fish story (Finding Nemo I think?)
- The Rat Chef In Hat Story
That about all I can remember.
I never liked watching them, being forced to watch a movie against your will immediately ruins whatever it is.
The Red Balloon.
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Just comparing and contrastic different school experiences. (Please state your approximate location)
For me (Went to school in USA):
- Frozen
- Shrek
- Tangled
- The Pianist (it was a history class)
- All the President's Men (jounalism class in highschool)
- The Wizard of Oz? (I think)
- Idk the name, it was some "day of the dead" animated Spanish/Mexican kids movie about some "land of the remembered" and "land of the forgotten. (Just googled it aparantly its called "The Book of Life") (Shown in like every Spanish class ever)
- There was some movie about I think it was a hispanic singer, I think it was Selena. (Shown in a Spanish class)
- The Maze Runner
- The Giver (watched after the class was supposed to read the book The Giver, I kinda just skimmed it tho)
- Memento (only watched part of it because I was depressed and I missed a session of class)
- Dispicable Me
- The Incredibles
- Monster Inc
- Toy Story
- Some animated fish story (Finding Nemo I think?)
- The Rat Chef In Hat Story
That about all I can remember.
I never liked watching them, being forced to watch a movie against your will immediately ruins whatever it is.
wrote last edited by [email protected]I went to school in Germany. Over the years we watched as a class
- Mr. Bean (English lesson)
- Schlaflos in Seattle / Sleepless in Seatte (as wished by the girls in class - English lesson)
- Und täglich grüßt das Murmeltier / Groundhog Day (English lesson)
- Das Phantom der Oper / The Phantom Of The Opera (Music lesson)
- 1984 (Politics lesson)
- Animal Farm (Politics lesson)
- Es war einmal das Leben / Once Upon a Time... Life / Original title: Il était une fois... la vie (Biology lesson)
- Apollo 13 (during the bus ride on a class trip)
- A Christmas Carol (at the last day of school before winter/ Christmas holidays)
Sometimes, I think it was in 6th grade, we had lesson in a room that was permanently equipped with a TV and VCR (as opposed to these portable TV carts a teacher had to roll into the room). When we behaved well (and we did!), we were allowed to watch MTV for the last remaining 10 - 15 minutes before lesson was dismissed.
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Just comparing and contrastic different school experiences. (Please state your approximate location)
For me (Went to school in USA):
- Frozen
- Shrek
- Tangled
- The Pianist (it was a history class)
- All the President's Men (jounalism class in highschool)
- The Wizard of Oz? (I think)
- Idk the name, it was some "day of the dead" animated Spanish/Mexican kids movie about some "land of the remembered" and "land of the forgotten. (Just googled it aparantly its called "The Book of Life") (Shown in like every Spanish class ever)
- There was some movie about I think it was a hispanic singer, I think it was Selena. (Shown in a Spanish class)
- The Maze Runner
- The Giver (watched after the class was supposed to read the book The Giver, I kinda just skimmed it tho)
- Memento (only watched part of it because I was depressed and I missed a session of class)
- Dispicable Me
- The Incredibles
- Monster Inc
- Toy Story
- Some animated fish story (Finding Nemo I think?)
- The Rat Chef In Hat Story
That about all I can remember.
I never liked watching them, being forced to watch a movie against your will immediately ruins whatever it is.
A college class introduced me to "The Birth of a Nation" aka
The Clansman: A Historical Romance of the Ku Klux KlanDid you enjoy it?
Fuck no. It is a deeply messed up racist pile of shit.
It certainly opened my eyes to it's place in history.
Since the film itself is best left to the trash heap of forgotten awfulness, here's two points from Wikipedia that feel worth remembering:
- "the most reprehensibly racist film in Hollywood history"
- was the first motion picture to be screened inside the White House (for President Woodrow Wilson)
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Just comparing and contrastic different school experiences. (Please state your approximate location)
For me (Went to school in USA):
- Frozen
- Shrek
- Tangled
- The Pianist (it was a history class)
- All the President's Men (jounalism class in highschool)
- The Wizard of Oz? (I think)
- Idk the name, it was some "day of the dead" animated Spanish/Mexican kids movie about some "land of the remembered" and "land of the forgotten. (Just googled it aparantly its called "The Book of Life") (Shown in like every Spanish class ever)
- There was some movie about I think it was a hispanic singer, I think it was Selena. (Shown in a Spanish class)
- The Maze Runner
- The Giver (watched after the class was supposed to read the book The Giver, I kinda just skimmed it tho)
- Memento (only watched part of it because I was depressed and I missed a session of class)
- Dispicable Me
- The Incredibles
- Monster Inc
- Toy Story
- Some animated fish story (Finding Nemo I think?)
- The Rat Chef In Hat Story
That about all I can remember.
I never liked watching them, being forced to watch a movie against your will immediately ruins whatever it is.
I never saw a single movie in school.
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Just comparing and contrastic different school experiences. (Please state your approximate location)
For me (Went to school in USA):
- Frozen
- Shrek
- Tangled
- The Pianist (it was a history class)
- All the President's Men (jounalism class in highschool)
- The Wizard of Oz? (I think)
- Idk the name, it was some "day of the dead" animated Spanish/Mexican kids movie about some "land of the remembered" and "land of the forgotten. (Just googled it aparantly its called "The Book of Life") (Shown in like every Spanish class ever)
- There was some movie about I think it was a hispanic singer, I think it was Selena. (Shown in a Spanish class)
- The Maze Runner
- The Giver (watched after the class was supposed to read the book The Giver, I kinda just skimmed it tho)
- Memento (only watched part of it because I was depressed and I missed a session of class)
- Dispicable Me
- The Incredibles
- Monster Inc
- Toy Story
- Some animated fish story (Finding Nemo I think?)
- The Rat Chef In Hat Story
That about all I can remember.
I never liked watching them, being forced to watch a movie against your will immediately ruins whatever it is.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Several in French class. Jean de Florette and its sequel are the ones I remember the most.
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I never saw a single movie in school.
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Damn, where?
France. Don't know if it's typical or not.
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I took a history of film class in college and highly recommend it.
We went through classics from Citizen Kane to Do The Right Thing, and the discussion beforehand of the symbolism and camera techniques really helped me understand WHY they were good. I don't think I would have enjoyed most of them otherwise.
Did similar in university. Loved the class. My favorites from that class and I didn’t even know they existed beforehand were Nueve Reinas (Nine Queens), there are so many reasons why that movie is a masterpiece, and Cinema Paradiso, which was a hugely impactful movie for me.
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Just comparing and contrastic different school experiences. (Please state your approximate location)
For me (Went to school in USA):
- Frozen
- Shrek
- Tangled
- The Pianist (it was a history class)
- All the President's Men (jounalism class in highschool)
- The Wizard of Oz? (I think)
- Idk the name, it was some "day of the dead" animated Spanish/Mexican kids movie about some "land of the remembered" and "land of the forgotten. (Just googled it aparantly its called "The Book of Life") (Shown in like every Spanish class ever)
- There was some movie about I think it was a hispanic singer, I think it was Selena. (Shown in a Spanish class)
- The Maze Runner
- The Giver (watched after the class was supposed to read the book The Giver, I kinda just skimmed it tho)
- Memento (only watched part of it because I was depressed and I missed a session of class)
- Dispicable Me
- The Incredibles
- Monster Inc
- Toy Story
- Some animated fish story (Finding Nemo I think?)
- The Rat Chef In Hat Story
That about all I can remember.
I never liked watching them, being forced to watch a movie against your will immediately ruins whatever it is.
A lot. Some of them were genuinely great. Some were way less so.
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To Kill a Mockingbird: Earns every bit of reputation it has. Should be shown twice.
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Teacher's Pet: They showed this as a reward. I despised it. Seriously, it sticks in my head
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The outsiders: "Okay, I guess." I remember feeling it was a decent bit of storytelling, but I was too detached from the themes and era to care. Honestly, it was probably too old for kids to identify with.
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When the Levees Broke: In retrospect, one of Lee's weaker works. Nonetheless, it made a hell of an impact on us. We'd mostly seen helicopter's-eye views of New Orleans. Getting down in with the people was a whole different view.
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Tuesdays with Morrie: Apparently it's popular, but we all hated it. Felt it was sentimental slop.
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Brighton Beach Memoirs: Honestly don't remember much. We mostly cared that, at the end, they actually showed the nude photo the lead character received. As kids, that was mind-blowing.
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Just comparing and contrastic different school experiences. (Please state your approximate location)
For me (Went to school in USA):
- Frozen
- Shrek
- Tangled
- The Pianist (it was a history class)
- All the President's Men (jounalism class in highschool)
- The Wizard of Oz? (I think)
- Idk the name, it was some "day of the dead" animated Spanish/Mexican kids movie about some "land of the remembered" and "land of the forgotten. (Just googled it aparantly its called "The Book of Life") (Shown in like every Spanish class ever)
- There was some movie about I think it was a hispanic singer, I think it was Selena. (Shown in a Spanish class)
- The Maze Runner
- The Giver (watched after the class was supposed to read the book The Giver, I kinda just skimmed it tho)
- Memento (only watched part of it because I was depressed and I missed a session of class)
- Dispicable Me
- The Incredibles
- Monster Inc
- Toy Story
- Some animated fish story (Finding Nemo I think?)
- The Rat Chef In Hat Story
That about all I can remember.
I never liked watching them, being forced to watch a movie against your will immediately ruins whatever it is.
wrote last edited by [email protected]I saw Blazing Saddles in a linguistic anthropology class in undergrad. That was pretty great.
I also had an upper level Japanese class where the entire semester was based around watching and discussing Ikiru, which became an immediate favorite movie despite it being so much work to learn to watch it in Japanese.
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Just comparing and contrastic different school experiences. (Please state your approximate location)
For me (Went to school in USA):
- Frozen
- Shrek
- Tangled
- The Pianist (it was a history class)
- All the President's Men (jounalism class in highschool)
- The Wizard of Oz? (I think)
- Idk the name, it was some "day of the dead" animated Spanish/Mexican kids movie about some "land of the remembered" and "land of the forgotten. (Just googled it aparantly its called "The Book of Life") (Shown in like every Spanish class ever)
- There was some movie about I think it was a hispanic singer, I think it was Selena. (Shown in a Spanish class)
- The Maze Runner
- The Giver (watched after the class was supposed to read the book The Giver, I kinda just skimmed it tho)
- Memento (only watched part of it because I was depressed and I missed a session of class)
- Dispicable Me
- The Incredibles
- Monster Inc
- Toy Story
- Some animated fish story (Finding Nemo I think?)
- The Rat Chef In Hat Story
That about all I can remember.
I never liked watching them, being forced to watch a movie against your will immediately ruins whatever it is.
I went to a Christian school in Australia. We watched:
- The Mask
- Rabbit-Proof Fence
- One Night the Moon
- Cool Runnings
I don't remember any others but there's probably more.
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Just comparing and contrastic different school experiences. (Please state your approximate location)
For me (Went to school in USA):
- Frozen
- Shrek
- Tangled
- The Pianist (it was a history class)
- All the President's Men (jounalism class in highschool)
- The Wizard of Oz? (I think)
- Idk the name, it was some "day of the dead" animated Spanish/Mexican kids movie about some "land of the remembered" and "land of the forgotten. (Just googled it aparantly its called "The Book of Life") (Shown in like every Spanish class ever)
- There was some movie about I think it was a hispanic singer, I think it was Selena. (Shown in a Spanish class)
- The Maze Runner
- The Giver (watched after the class was supposed to read the book The Giver, I kinda just skimmed it tho)
- Memento (only watched part of it because I was depressed and I missed a session of class)
- Dispicable Me
- The Incredibles
- Monster Inc
- Toy Story
- Some animated fish story (Finding Nemo I think?)
- The Rat Chef In Hat Story
That about all I can remember.
I never liked watching them, being forced to watch a movie against your will immediately ruins whatever it is.
wrote last edited by [email protected]- Zephirelli's Romeo and Juliet (mentioned many times in thread, this is the very porn-y version from the 60s that really shouldn't be)
- Amadeus
- a teacher in high school lent me a copy of Last of the Dogmen, which, in retrospect, he should not have done
I'm sure there were more, but I can't remember any others.
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Just comparing and contrastic different school experiences. (Please state your approximate location)
For me (Went to school in USA):
- Frozen
- Shrek
- Tangled
- The Pianist (it was a history class)
- All the President's Men (jounalism class in highschool)
- The Wizard of Oz? (I think)
- Idk the name, it was some "day of the dead" animated Spanish/Mexican kids movie about some "land of the remembered" and "land of the forgotten. (Just googled it aparantly its called "The Book of Life") (Shown in like every Spanish class ever)
- There was some movie about I think it was a hispanic singer, I think it was Selena. (Shown in a Spanish class)
- The Maze Runner
- The Giver (watched after the class was supposed to read the book The Giver, I kinda just skimmed it tho)
- Memento (only watched part of it because I was depressed and I missed a session of class)
- Dispicable Me
- The Incredibles
- Monster Inc
- Toy Story
- Some animated fish story (Finding Nemo I think?)
- The Rat Chef In Hat Story
That about all I can remember.
I never liked watching them, being forced to watch a movie against your will immediately ruins whatever it is.
- For some reason we watched Beauty and the Beast in junior high
- In my grade 9 (or maybe 10, can't remember) Social Studies class we watched Not Without My Daughter
- At the end of the school year in grade 10 we had those few extra days with no curriculum, and we watched Se7en (no idea how this was allowed)
- In grade 10 we saw Romeo + Juliet (I think it had just come out on VHS and we'd just finished reading the play in English class)
- Cool Hand Luke sometime in grade 9 or 10, don't remember why
- Grade 11 we saw both The Great Gatsby and Othello in English class
I'm sure I'm missing some but these are the ones that stick out to me
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- For some reason we watched Beauty and the Beast in junior high
- In my grade 9 (or maybe 10, can't remember) Social Studies class we watched Not Without My Daughter
- At the end of the school year in grade 10 we had those few extra days with no curriculum, and we watched Se7en (no idea how this was allowed)
- In grade 10 we saw Romeo + Juliet (I think it had just come out on VHS and we'd just finished reading the play in English class)
- Cool Hand Luke sometime in grade 9 or 10, don't remember why
- Grade 11 we saw both The Great Gatsby and Othello in English class
I'm sure I'm missing some but these are the ones that stick out to me
The Great Gatsby
Lol they showed the movie that has Leonardo Dicaprio in it, the story was so fucking boring that my brain just deleted it, its not even worth taking up brain space.
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Schindler's List was shown in one of our history classes, I probably never would have watched it otherwise due to being black and white and me thinking I wouldn't like that.
I can't say that I enjoyed it, it's not a particularly "enjoyable" film. It was moving though, and talking in class about what humans are capable of was interesting.
I cannot specifically remember any of the others we watched, but I remember that I liked movie days because you tended not to get homework. They certainly weren't nearly as memorable though.
This one and the boy in the striped pyjamas for me. Would never have watched them otherwise, and to be truthful, I'm not sure I would watch them again. Great movies though.
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Just comparing and contrastic different school experiences. (Please state your approximate location)
For me (Went to school in USA):
- Frozen
- Shrek
- Tangled
- The Pianist (it was a history class)
- All the President's Men (jounalism class in highschool)
- The Wizard of Oz? (I think)
- Idk the name, it was some "day of the dead" animated Spanish/Mexican kids movie about some "land of the remembered" and "land of the forgotten. (Just googled it aparantly its called "The Book of Life") (Shown in like every Spanish class ever)
- There was some movie about I think it was a hispanic singer, I think it was Selena. (Shown in a Spanish class)
- The Maze Runner
- The Giver (watched after the class was supposed to read the book The Giver, I kinda just skimmed it tho)
- Memento (only watched part of it because I was depressed and I missed a session of class)
- Dispicable Me
- The Incredibles
- Monster Inc
- Toy Story
- Some animated fish story (Finding Nemo I think?)
- The Rat Chef In Hat Story
That about all I can remember.
I never liked watching them, being forced to watch a movie against your will immediately ruins whatever it is.
My school made me watch Napoleon Dynamite. I already hated it before we were forced to watch it, partially because it was just not the type of comedy I enjoyed and I also did not appreciate the portrayal of the Mexican character (as a Mexican person myself). I think I read a book through most of it.
In grade 4 a teacher made us watch a ghost show (idk generic show about haunted castles in Scotland). I got scared and told my dad and she proceeded to tell the class that it was all my fault we couldn't watch TV anymore. For years after watching that movie, I would BOLT up the stairs in my house because I was scared of hearing the thumping of the dead body being dragged across the stairs (like in the show). Fuck you, Ms Sarginson.
Other movies I watched:
- Gladiator
- 300
- the boy in the striped pyjamas
- Schindler's list
- one flew over the cukoos nest (may or may not have instigated several sexual Danny Devito dreams throughout my life)
- to kill a mockingbird
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Just comparing and contrastic different school experiences. (Please state your approximate location)
For me (Went to school in USA):
- Frozen
- Shrek
- Tangled
- The Pianist (it was a history class)
- All the President's Men (jounalism class in highschool)
- The Wizard of Oz? (I think)
- Idk the name, it was some "day of the dead" animated Spanish/Mexican kids movie about some "land of the remembered" and "land of the forgotten. (Just googled it aparantly its called "The Book of Life") (Shown in like every Spanish class ever)
- There was some movie about I think it was a hispanic singer, I think it was Selena. (Shown in a Spanish class)
- The Maze Runner
- The Giver (watched after the class was supposed to read the book The Giver, I kinda just skimmed it tho)
- Memento (only watched part of it because I was depressed and I missed a session of class)
- Dispicable Me
- The Incredibles
- Monster Inc
- Toy Story
- Some animated fish story (Finding Nemo I think?)
- The Rat Chef In Hat Story
That about all I can remember.
I never liked watching them, being forced to watch a movie against your will immediately ruins whatever it is.
Soylent Green.
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Just comparing and contrastic different school experiences. (Please state your approximate location)
For me (Went to school in USA):
- Frozen
- Shrek
- Tangled
- The Pianist (it was a history class)
- All the President's Men (jounalism class in highschool)
- The Wizard of Oz? (I think)
- Idk the name, it was some "day of the dead" animated Spanish/Mexican kids movie about some "land of the remembered" and "land of the forgotten. (Just googled it aparantly its called "The Book of Life") (Shown in like every Spanish class ever)
- There was some movie about I think it was a hispanic singer, I think it was Selena. (Shown in a Spanish class)
- The Maze Runner
- The Giver (watched after the class was supposed to read the book The Giver, I kinda just skimmed it tho)
- Memento (only watched part of it because I was depressed and I missed a session of class)
- Dispicable Me
- The Incredibles
- Monster Inc
- Toy Story
- Some animated fish story (Finding Nemo I think?)
- The Rat Chef In Hat Story
That about all I can remember.
I never liked watching them, being forced to watch a movie against your will immediately ruins whatever it is.
Flowers for Algernon and FUCK NO I DID NOT LIKE IT AND WOULD NEVER HAVE CHOSEN YO WATCH IT IF NOT FORCED!!!!
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The Great Gatsby
Lol they showed the movie that has Leonardo Dicaprio in it, the story was so fucking boring that my brain just deleted it, its not even worth taking up brain space.
Ah, we got the Robert Redford version. I had to google the dicaprio version because I didn't even know it existed!
