Crappy movies you watched in school

[Prison Mike]

In elementary school during 1st and 2nd grade, every Friday afternoon was reserved for Reading Rainbow. In 7th grade, we watched The Outsiders after we finished reading the book. Also in 7th grade, we watched The Lion King and Mel Gibson's Hamlet before reading the actual play.

 

[MadVillainy]

I liked the OUtsiders, the book was good too

 

[Bug-Eyed Earl]

The opposite of the OP- we got to watch Demolition Man in English Class because we had just read Brave New World.

 

[Eric Brooks]

I liked the OUtsiders, the book was good too

Outsiders is classic

 

[darkseid26]

saw Lilo and Stich in elementary thousands of times.

 

[cerealkiller182]

Rebecca, a Best Picture winner, was boring as hell and I had to watch that

 

[MadVillainy]

Amalie, some crappy French movie about some weird girl. It was so stupid can't believe it won Oscars

 

[Evil Twin]

There are some awfully fine pictures being dropped in this thread. The obvious inference I'm drawing is that they were too adult, in the right ways, to be properly appreciated at the time. i.e. they weren't the typical Hollywood blockbuster that rules the summer months based on repeat viewings by teenagers.

 

[Rishi]

Amelie

noone in my class liked it.

 

[MadVillainy]

There are some awfully fine pictures being dropped in this thread. The obvious inference I'm drawing is that they were too adult, in the right ways, to be properly appreciated at the time. i.e. they weren't the typical Hollywood blockbuster that rules the summer months based on repeat viewings by teenagers.

:facepalm
I actually hate it when ppl use somebody's age and make it seem like all teens are ignorant just because they dont like a certain film.

I'm only 17 and I love Shawshank, Double Indemnity, The Big Heat, Kiss Me Deadly, Metropolis, M.

Just because we dont follow what you think a good film are means that their unappreciated.

You sound like one of those film *****es from IMDB

 

[spideyboy_1111]

Amelie

noone in my class liked it.

damn... thats actually an amazing film... , that actually might be something that appeals to more with age though.

 

[Max J Power]

I remember watching a movie called "The Cat From Outer Space" in fourth grade and thinking it was really bad. And I watched some Olsen twins movie in second grade that I'm sure was awful.

 

[harken51]

the dead poet's society.

what are you talking about that movie is amazing!!!

 

[TheDreamMaster]

I saw Free Willy 2 in 6th grade at least 7 times...and enver saw the end. Everytime the teacher would put it on, she'd start it over.

Pay it Forward makes the list, Stand and Deliver as Well. Romeo and Juliet from the '60s as well as the Dicaprio version a few years later. The Scarlet Letter, a version that was like a play or soemthing, was really terrible as well.

On the plus side, we did watch Spider-man, the first two Jurassic Park films, and when the football team went to state, those of us who didn't give a **** about the team went to school like any normal day. But since most teachers were gone, we split into groups and went to different class rooms with the few teachers we had. I brought movies with me and a portable DVD player. We hooked it up to the Tv and ended up watching Night of the Living Dead, followed by the parody Night of the Living Bread. Ah, good times.

 

[Rishi]

damn... thats actually an amazing film... , that actually might be something that appeals to more with age though.

eh, to be fair we didn't finish it, so who knows what could've happened.

 

[Nivek]

We seen Charlie & the Chocolate factory like 4 times a year in Elementary School. It was one of the last movie movies the school had on reels, so it got alot of airplay.

 

[Ace of Knaves]

I think everyone has seen Romeo + Juliet at school right? I like that film though, Mercutio is a bad ass

Also watched some really, really crappy made for tv film about WWI. That was abysmal.

 

[AxlsAppetite]

I remember watching a lot of crappy movies in literature class. But there's this one teacher that I can pretty much convince her to let us watch alot of movies she normally wouldn't let us. Just last week we saw X-Men Origins(Of course it was bootleg), we've also seen TDK.

I think everyone has seen Romeo + Juliet at school right? I like that film though, Mercutio is a bad ass

Also watched some really, really crappy made for tv film about WWI. That was abysmal.

I still think the DiCaprio version is racist. One black guy throughout the whole movie and he dies first.

 

[Ace of Knaves]

Yea but that black guy is da ****ing man!!!! Mercutio is the don, no doubt.

 

[Evil Twin]

:facepalm
I actually hate it when ppl use somebody's age and make it seem like all teens are ignorant just because they dont like a certain film.

I'm only 17 and I love Shawshank, Double Indemnity, The Big Heat, Kiss Me Deadly, Metropolis, M.

Just because we dont follow what you think a good film are means that their unappreciated.

Listen, I have a facepalm to this entire thread.

There are a ton of acclaimed films in this thread. If someone thinks that Amelie is only a movie about some weird French chick, then I'm going to assume that they really weren't paying attention. At all.

And that's understandable. I was in school. Not everything I appreciate now, I'd appreciate then. Plenty of days I would have more on my mind than engaging with a subtitled film where things don't go boom. In less than perfect theatrical conditions. A lot of these movies weren't targetted to teenagers in the first place, so it's little wonder that they'd go unappreciated by teenagers. No reason to think that Transformers would go over big in a retirement home in the opposite direction.

But, this thread is telling me more about the people in it than the movies they call "crappy".

 

[Eric Brooks]

damn, some of ya'll got to see some cool **** in school

not around here though, sucked

ah well, those days are long gone and I can now watch whatever I want wherever I want so it's cool

 

[goh78]

Wow...who would have thought ten some odd years later...

 

[spideyboy_1111]

Wow...who would have thought ten some odd years later...

Newsies rocks!

 

[spideyboy_1111]

eh, to be fair we didn't finish it, so who knows what could've happened.

well to be fair, most highschool students just simply arn't into nor have the attention span for a foreign or independent film. Hell i know I didn't even start enjoying some till college.

 

[Watson]

Amalie, some crappy French movie about some weird girl. It was so stupid can't believe it won Oscars

My big classroom complaint was that in a Sci-Fi lit/film class I took we got to watch Serenity. I love Serenity, but the prof decided that the scene of Summer kicking ass at the end was "not essential" and fast forwarded through it .

In grade school I also had a teacher who would only allow us to watch the Princess Bride if we were having a "fun" day. It almost put me off the movie for life.