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 never heard of Schrinder's list until I already finished high school. I skimmed over the premise and I did not wanna watch it. So depressing, I wanna spare myself from crying and losing hope in the future. Sounds too sad to watch, even just a trailer broke me. Still haven't watched it, because its too nihilistic even for a nihilist like me.
It actually has a hopeful ending, fyi, despite being about such difficult subject material. It's not all gloom, though, it is a very well-made movie, overall. Liam Neeson is fantastic in it too.
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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.
One of my teachers would always play Mr Bean videos the day after a big test. I thoroughly enjoyed the videos and probably wouldn't have taken the time to watch them myself (maybe as an adult but not as a teen).
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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 saw Hans Brinker and the Silver Skates so. many. times. and no, I never would've picked it for myself.
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One of my teachers would always play Mr Bean videos the day after a big test. I thoroughly enjoyed the videos and probably wouldn't have taken the time to watch them myself (maybe as an adult but not as a teen).
Mr Bean is wholesome, playing the test scene before a test would be 🤌
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Pretty sure we watched The Outsiders in school. Good movie. Great book.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Oh yea now that you mentioned it, I think I watched that in school too.
Didn't like the book, movie was... um... I rather watch a star wars sequel movie than that
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There was a scene in Braveheart we had to skip when we watched it in middle school. I'm sure many convinced their families to rent Braveheart from Blockbuster for "homework" later. At this point, I don't even remember what the scene was. Maybe there was a penis? Probably it was just butts or boobs. The corpses and violence were of little concern.
There was that one time we watched a particular version of Romeo and Juliet and the teacher was delightfully inept at skipping scenes. That girl was barely older than most of us.
If I remember right, the Romeo and Juliet version, both main characters were underage. That version is banned in many places.
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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
