Last Movie You Saw, Name & Review Movie • Page 252

Fight Club
Have not watched in about 15 years. Dumb as hell but a lot of fun. I can’t believe I watched this so many times as a middle-high schooler. What did I used to get out of it aside from it looking cool? Was I ready to blow up credit buildings as a 13 year old?

Psycho Killer Music Video
Work sucks

I know

 

I rewatched fight club 2 years ago because of the doughboys and it’s fun to watch but ultimately dumb

 

That historically weird period between the end of the Cold War and before the War on Terror really tried to make you feel bad for the protagonists in movies like Fight Club or American Beauty because of their ennui and lack of fulfillment while people go hungry.

 

My wife had never seen it. She liked it enough and said she is going to make “I’m tyler durden now” a new bit.

 

Good movie that periodically swings between overloved and overhated. But overall it’s pretty great.

 

I had a class in high school that read that, Trainspotting, Requiem for a Dream and Harry Potter. Called “Censorship”. HP was first and it got progressively darker. It is funny to think what a HS teacher tried to get 17 year olds to pull from that book

 

Trainspotting is not an easy read at all

 

Neither is Requiem, it was a challenging class

 

I picked Irvine Welsh for a project for my senior year English class and had to read 3 of his books and it was tough.

 

My school was objectively harder than the school I teach at now. It’s a challenge to get any student to read any book on their own. I literally read The Body to my sophomores, and I think the junior and senior teachers may read aloud as well.

 

I usually read the first few pages and have them read a page or so each at random. I tried assigning pages to read on their own and no one did it. A lot of them can't.

 

Most can’t, so the option is read for them and force them to analyze deeper themes in class, or we all fake pretending to read at home and I ask questions that one kid can answer

 

The Act of Seeing with One’s Own Eyes
Breathtaking. Not in a funny way. Engaging and horrifying enough that I forgot to breathe.

 

We read all of Beowulf together and somehow one student thought that he was an actual wolf.

 

I only read one book during high school and that was because I accidentally told mum I had not read the hobbit after I had written my report on it. She was mortified and forced me to read it.

 

Some teachers put on the audio book but at that point you might as well do nothing.

 

Still disturbed by this one years later.

 

I read like 2 pages and was like bitch this isn't English

 

so tough