Crappy movies you watched in school

[Bunker]

All Quiet on the Western Front was the last movie I watched in school, which was two years ago.

 

[Sparky9292]

Saw Das Boot in German class with english subtitles. Saw the english dubbed version on AMC the other day and cringed.

• To Kill a Mockingbird (yes a bit slow for teens today)
• Hound of the Baskervilles (book was scary as hell, 1939 movie was cheesy)
• Romeo and Juliet (can't find which one on imdb, but it had a topless scene during a parade at the start of the movie. As a 14 year old boy back then, very cool!)
• 1939 Wuthering Heights (Force to read the book and watch this boooring movie for my Honors Humanities class my senior year)
• A Room With a View (yes again in Humanties class, got a major crush on Helena Bonham Carter, but movie was sooo dull)

But worst school movie of all time? I think I can top EVERYONE's movie...

A Thief In The Night (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070795/) - I was forced to watch this in a fundamentalist christian school. Scared the living sheit out of me and I prayed that Jesus wouldn't spit me out of his mouth as lukewarm (if you read the bible you will know that phrase). Looking back, it was the WORST acting and the stupid special FX on the planet.

I don't go to church anymore and feel better about it, but my mom gave me a long talk about how all my relatives that don't believe in Jesus are going to experience the horrors of A Thief in the Night if I didn't convert them. How f$%cked up is that?

 

[Wheels]

We had to read The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe. We then watched the film, starring Vincent Price. He was literally the only entertaining thing about that boring film.

 

[Alexia Dark]

In senior vocal ensemble, we began watching the less-than stellar film adaptation of A Chorus Line... I'm glad we didn't get to "Dance Ten, Looks Three" (a song by a girl who got cosmetic surgery and then brags about how much work she gets because of it). That would've been awkward, even as a senior in highschool.

 

[titan101]

i've seen a lot of crappy movies in school, but i don't remember what most of them were called . i remember that one of them was " eragon ".

 

[Doctor Jones]

Saw Das Boot in German class with english subtitles. Saw the english dubbed version on AMC the other day and cringed.

• To Kill a Mockingbird (yes a bit slow for teens today)
• Hound of the Baskervilles (book was scary as hell, 1939 movie was cheesy)
• Romeo and Juliet (can't find which one on imdb, but it had a topless scene during a parade at the start of the movie. As a 14 year old boy back then, very cool!)
• 1939 Wuthering Heights (Force to read the book and watch this boooring movie for my Honors Humanities class my senior year)
• A Room With a View (yes again in Humanties class, got a major crush on Helena Bonham Carter, but movie was sooo dull)

But worst school movie of all time? I think I can top EVERYONE's movie...

A Thief In The Night (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070795/) - I was forced to watch this in a fundamentalist christian school. Scared the living sheit out of me and I prayed that Jesus wouldn't spit me out of his mouth as lukewarm (if you read the bible you will know that phrase). Looking back, it was the WORST acting and the stupid special FX on the planet.

I don't go to church anymore and feel better about it, but my mom gave me a long talk about how all my relatives that don't believe in Jesus are going to experience the horrors of A Thief in the Night if I didn't convert them. How f$%cked up is that?

:facepalm The film was as good as the book, if not even better for me.

All Quiet was excellent. It could of been alot better but considering what they had I thought they did a good job.

I do agree the Romeo and Juliet movie was bad. Romeo looked like Zac Efron.

 

[what_19]

for some GOD awful reason we had to watch "grease"

**** that movie and **** john travolta...he can suck it sideways

 

[Octoberist]

How is To Kill a Mockingbird crappy?

Too slow for teens? People have been saying that for the past 30 years; people grow up and tastes change.

 

[CrimsonMist]

uh, let's see. I watched alot of movies in school.

In the 6th grade, my english class watched "To Kill A Mocking Bird". I loved it. But shortly after watching it, like 4 days, Gregory Peck died. So i blamed my teacher for jinxing it.

Kenneth Brannagh's "Hamlet"(which i LOVED. My English class senior year of high school was way out of control though, and being illiterate dolts, i couldn't hear any of the film. I had to beg my english teacher to let me take the VHS tape home to watch it. It was the full 4 hour version. Floored me. Beautiful film, beautiful score.)

Polanski's "Macbeth" which was a fun watch, junior year of high school. "A Midsummer Night's Dream", sophmore year, the one with Christian Bale. That was a good movie. All the Shakespeare films I watched were great, though i didn't pay attention to, nor did i care for the 60's "Romeo & Juliet"...that one never interested me.

in my Intro to Theater class 2 semesters ago we watched the Leo DeCaprio "Romeo & Juliet" and my eyes bled.

Over the course of 3 years, i watched "Life is Beautiful" in my Italian class in high school about 5 times and "Cinema Paradiso" about 3 times. Good movies. We also watched Roberto Benigni's "Pinocchio" and "Johnny Stecchino", which I didn't like.

in my Films & Literature class last semester, we watched:
-Rashomon, which i didn't like. I'd seen it several times before this, and i never got into this one. I like Kurasawa, but "Rashomon" never sank in.

-"The Last Picture Show", this was good. I'd never seen it up to this point, but i thought it was pretty good.

-"The Innocents", based on "Turn of The Screw", i saw it once before this and i loved it. So this was fun. It genuinely scared the **** out of some people in my class, too.

-"The Hours". ****ing awful. The book was bad, the movie was bad. I HATE IT!

In my Film As A Medium class last semester, we watched
-"Citizen Kane", which i still don't like. I acknowledge and respect all it did for the medium, but i don't like the story and the acting is weak. "Touch of Evil" is better in every way.

-"Amelie"...didn't like it. At all. About 20 minutes too long, and a really unsatisfying ending. It looked nice, and i only laughed at the part about how her mother died, and the part where she, as a child, kept pulling that one guy's TV cable out during the soccer game.

-"Double Indemnity". As a fan of Raymond Chandler, i actually thought this wasn't as good as it was hyped to be. I enjoyed it, and i own it, but it wasn't amazing.

-"Sunset Boulevard", directed by Billy Wilder, who also did "Double Indemnity", i thought this was MUCH better, and is now one of my favorite movies of all time.

-"Reservoir Dogs"-Tarantino. 'Nuff Said. There were these 2 older ladies in my class for some reason, and they HATED it. Their reactions were hilarious.

-"Network"...i love this movie.

-"Blazing Saddles". This was the last film we watched in class. It was either this or Casablanca, both being my professor's 2 favorite all time movies. He picked this. Good choice. My dad watches "Casablanca" all the time, so i see enough of it.

 

[CrimsonMist]

edit: double post

 

[harken51]

Ok...i know this thread is dedicated to crappy movies watched in school...but this one was awsome...it was called Alien Planet a fictional documentary, if your into that type of stuff i suggest you check it out its one hell of a movie...and just to make this legit a crappy movie watched in school would be the MIRACLE OF LIFE gaaaaaah...some scary crap there

 

[Doctor Jones]

To Kill A Mockingbird was excellent.

You watched Resevoir Dogs in school?! Awesome! I'd love to see people's reaction in the torture scene.

 

[Jordacar]

Ernest Goes to Camp
We watched that in a couple of classes. I still don't know why, it wasn't a recent movie at the time.

 

[redhawk23]

Radio with Cuba Gooding junior going the full ******

13 days in which everyone does a better JFK impression than the guy actually playing JFK

 

[redhawk23]

Ok...i know this thread is dedicated to crappy movies watched in school...but this one was awsome...it was called Alien Planet a fictional documentary, if your into that type of stuff i suggest you check it out its one hell of a movie...and just to make this legit a crappy movie watched in school would be the MIRACLE OF LIFE gaaaaaah...some scary crap there

Alien Planet was figgen awesome, i always liked that the ship and the probe that they actually sent down to the planet were called the Von Braun and the Da Vinci, i always thought that we should name our ships one of those, maybe they will with the orion program, but i digress.

 

[El Payaso]

I only saw "Amadeus," "Star Trek the movie" and some movie about cells duplicating. And all of them were great!

 

[Deaths Head II]

I usually like most of the films my teachers picked. There is one major exception though. In Spanish class, we watched an incredibly cheesy teen love story called The Princess and The Barrio Boy. It felt like an episode of Full House with hispanic characters. It also had Edward James Olmos, which broke my heart because I learned to love him after watching Stand and Deliver in the exact same class.

 

[VenomVsSpidey]

twilight...high school musical....raise your voice..1999(?) Romeo & Juliet

hated all of them.

 

[Jordacar]

I just remembered something rather bizzare. In 7th grade, on several occasions we would read the transcript of a movie before watching it. We did this with 12 Angry Men, and some Fred Savage tv movie where he befriends a homeless guy on xmas. But we also did it with Oliver Twist. I don't think we read the original book, just the film transcript (it was the version with Tim Curry IIRC). Even stranger, we read the transcript for the film version of Lord of the Flies, but never watched the movie or even read the book (not till high school).

 

[8wid]

Stand and Deliver inside of every math class!
Dr. Strangelove
Hotel Rhawanda
Ghandi
Thirteen Days

 

[xwolverine2]

whats the name of that boring book-to-film.... about some adventurous kid traveling on a boat in a river with some slave or something?
^
thats as much as i got before falling asleep...

also the great gatsby...ugh

 

[Jordacar]

^Huck Finn?

 

[Octoberist]

either people didn't read the name of the thread, or they should explain their list a bit, because when people put down Dr. Strangelove or whatever, it's crazy.

 

[Octoberist]

either people didn't read the name of the thread, or they should explain their list a bit, because when people put down Dr. Strangelove or whatever, it's crazy.

 

[Dark Victory]

We watched Finding Forrester about a month ago in English. Bleh.