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 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.
My high school computer science teacher would always put on Wargames for his class at the end of every semester. Took three of his classes and ended up seeing it three times.
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.
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.
Reefer Madness was highly entertaining. This was in the eighties.
Webs, I think it was called. Truly terrifying example of dropping a nuclear bomb.
I think you mean Threads. Stupendous movie
Indeed, thank you.
It’s called Threads.
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.
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.
- 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.
Ah, we got the Robert Redford version. I had to google the dicaprio version because I didn’t even know it existed!
Gattaca
Selma
In the mid 90s I don’t think I would have ever watched Lorenzo’s Oil on my own. It’s a drama about parents trying to find a cure for their kid’s disease. A disease so rare there is no one researching it. Oh and it’s directed by George Miller, director of the Mad Max movies.
Also the 60s adaptation of Flowers for Algernon “Charly” was wild to see as a kid. It’s very much a 60s film. Still the only adaptation I’ve seen. Only ever saw it the once. But I recall the teacher standing next to the TV with a sheet of paper to cover the screen for a couple scenes … I’m now incredibly curious what was in those scenes.
Pretty sure we watched The Outsiders in school. Good movie. Great book.
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
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 🤌
I saw Hans Brinker and the Silver Skates so. many. times. and no, I never would’ve picked it for myself.
- 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 was more, but I can’t remember any others.
