Good movies you were forced to watch in school?

[Ragebrain The Enraged]

The only movies I got to see in school (apart from on end of term days) were Romeo and Juliet (old and Di Caprio versions) and the opening 10 minutes of Saving Private Ryan & The Longest Day.

The old Romeo and Juliet was great though. It showed you Romeo's bare ass and the girls were all "" about it as they got to check out a dude's ass and then BAM! Titshot! Now what, bitches!

It's funny, because we watched it in school while some old lady was subbing and paying no attention, then I switched schools and ended up watching it again and apparently our English teacher had never seen it, and she looked up to see why half the class was going "ooooohhhh!" and she was shocked and she was several months pregnant at the time (and was already very large when not pregnant) so she wasn't able to get out of her desk quickly and was having a panic attack over all us 17 year olds seeing a dude's bare ass and the entire class erupted into a roar of laughter at this big fat lady trying to get out of a student desk, and wondering how she fit into it in the first place.

She quit teaching at our school after that year.

I saw that one too! Our teacher was cool with it though. Edit: Watched of Mice and Men too. The ending is just as sad as the book's.

[Rye]

Yes, that one. Had to watch it for one of my English classes. Nearly barfed.

Your taste is utterly alien to me

She has a phobia of birds, dummy! XD

[blackmage_nuke]

I could never appreciate a movie in highschool because of all the idiots in the class.

[Rad Bromance]

October Sky!

Oh man, I remember when I had to watch that in 9th grade. I loved it!

[Meat Puppet]

[Q=Miriel]Gattaca!

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Bam, this is what I was forced to watch too, except it was for... math wtf

And... The Great Dictator for drama class.

There were others but I had already seen them before I watched them in school so they do not count.

[Madame Adequate]

Yes, that one. Had to watch it for one of my English classes. Nearly barfed.

Your taste is utterly alien to me

She has a phobia of birds, dummy! XD

Oh well I would class that as an issue seperate from quality, but fair enough in that case xD Unless Hannah did mean quality in which case... her taste is utterly alien to me! But that's okay, we're talking about movies, not grandma incest

My media studies teacher was trying to finagle a way to show us Baise Moi, but from what I've heard of the critics, it's a good thing he failed.

[Levian]

I forgot to mention that Battle Royale was introduced to me through school. Violence was the major theme of our sociology class one year, and the teacher asked us to bring movies to class. One flew over the cuckoo's nest and a Clockwork orange were amongst the ones we saw. Battle Royale, however, was switched off by the teacher after the first collar exploded, in the classroom. Perhaps a bit too violent this one!

[Cyric]

Rudy.

Also, it wasn't at school, while I was too sick to even bother trying to change the channel:

In The Mix with Usher (gasp!) and Emmanuelle Chriqui ( She's Canadian!)

[VeloZer0]

I never got to watch any movies that were remotely interesting in school. Which is ok, because I don't really agree with the whole spending class time to watch movies bit.

Only fun thing I watched was the Simpsons 'Lord of the Flies' parody episode in English class. We had the hardest ass English teacher in the school, so when he told us we were watching a Lord of the Flies interpretation we all groaned and settled in for a snooze fest forgettable school movie. I was quite surprised.

[G13]

The old Romeo and Juliet was great though. It showed you Romeo's bare ass and the girls were all "" about it as they got to check out a dude's ass and then BAM! Titshot! Now what, bitches!

haha I had to watch those too. My teacher got a piece of paper ready to cover up the boobs and totally missed his cue. It was a good day.

Ferris Bueller's Day Off was way overplayed in my U.S. History class. So was Princess Bride. Good movies, I just can't watch them anymore because of it.

[BarelySeeAtAll]

Here:

One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
Of Mice And Men (yes, you read)
Macbeth (I think..I remember lots of blood, is that the right film?)
Memento
School of Rock (Yeeeeah...my music teacher was pretty crappy)

That might be it. Oh well I've still got another year left..who knows if we'll get some more in.

[Aydin]

When I was in 11th grade, I took a film study course and I saw possibly the best movie in the world, Mean Girls...

[Breine]

Oooooh, I've seen lots of great movies in school. The ones I can remember right now are:

Fried Green Tomatoes
My Left Foot
Cinema Paradiso
Christiane F.
All The President's Men
Fight Club
Gandhi
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Macbeth (Judi Dench and Ian McKellen version)
Pelle the Conqueror
The Elephant Man
And Now for Something Completely Different
American History X
The Wave (TV Movie)
The Lives of Others
Der Untergang (Downfall)


..there are several others, I'm sure.

[Mo-Nercy]

Romeo + Juliet (the Baz Lurhman version - I loved the fact that Romeo's father had a name a commonplace as Ted =]).
Several Hitchcock films including The Birds and Psycho.
Seabiscuit.

[Araciel]

The Handmaid's Tale

One phrase alone should make you want to see this movie -

ROBERT DUVALL SEX SCENE