Entertainment Forum General Chat Thread • Page 1072

I already posted this in the LOTR thread, but this is gonna be sick

 

Welp, guess I gotta go see Garfield now

 

wild that “chris pratt truly honors the legacy” isn’t the funniest sentence

 

I took my mom to see the moulin rouge musical today. It was great

 

Puss-pounding…

 

Because it's fucking terrible.

 

I'm not too hopeful the Garfield movie will be good, but Mark Dindal directed Cats Don't Dance and The Emperor's New Groove so he has my interest any time he wants to make something.

 

I had to stop showing the Beowulf movie in class because the insane left-turn the plot takes halfway through confused the kids too much.

 

I show just the battle with the dragon after, guaranteed every year, a week of telling them that the movie absolutely blows which is why we won't watch the whole thing. After we watch that scene, inevitably some students jokingly thank me for not making them watch the whole thing.

Do you know how bad a movie you have to be for high school kids to not want to burn two class periods watching you?

 

Unsurprisingly I have seen it twice

 

I accidentally torrented the Spanish version of the Super Mario Bros. movie and when we realized it the kids said they would still rather watch that instead of having me teach.

 

Good for them.

 

Bahahaha

 

The best movie a teacher in high school ever showed us was probably Spielberg's Amistad. The only teacher shown movie I have seen make multiple of my classmates cry.

Also in 10th grade a social studies teacher showed us the 2003 John Cusack legal thriller Runaway Jury, and that movie opens with a mass shooting scene where Dylan McDermott is brutally murdered, and I think that might have scarred me for life. Probably not the best thing to show high school students post-Columbine.

 

The movie that probably always moves my students the most is Saving Private Ryan. They talk during the scene in the church though, which is such a pivotal scene for understanding Miller.

I used Almost Heroes once for a unit on Lewis and Clark and the kids loved it although I doubt they learned anything.

 

He wouldn't show it in class, but my AP Literature teacher in high school would reference Repo Man so often that I eventually sought it out and was blown away. I couldn't understand why this man would make us read stuffy old stories and then have a cool taste in movies. As I got older I understood that he was a former punk who had submitted to wage labor like we all do.

Weirdly, my favorite teacher at the time was my AP Psychology teacher and she told us every day to go and watch the movie Crash because it was so impactful and would teach us so much. I really had to re-evaluate my respect for her for that one.

 

Clearly you weren't there when I was long term subbing an AP Environmental class and the day before christmas break when nothing ever gets done I showed them Inside Out. Half of my classes that day got Bing Bong'd

 

'28 Years Later' Gets June 2025 Release Date

 

My physics teacher showed us Dr Strangelove

 

Oh man science teachers are going to be showing Oppenheimer from now until the end of time aren't they? That is a very high school class movie.

 

Also a US Government/Civics teacher showed us 12 Angry Men during a unit about the US legal system.

 

I did that. We all do. That is why you see 12 Angry Men pop up on so many top films list from a lot of people who don't watch old movies.

 

Math teachers must have shown us the Donald Duck math movie ten times or more. The only other math movie we ever watched was Stand and Deliver.

We watched October Sky a lot. Sometimes science class, sometimes not.

My elementary school music teacher showed us Grease every year from first grade to fifth grade.

 

i think it’s really good at making kids realize black and white films can still be super engaging and not all of them have that stiff pre modern acting style. worked on me at 16 or whatever