I’m pretty sure I was in first grade, but for sure no older than third grade, when our sub put on The Blob (1988 version). That sure left a mark on me and I was pretty freaked out showering for at least months afterward.
Awesome. I like the 2000ish version. In elementary school a very cool spelling teacher let us watch one of the Pumpkinhead movies for Halloween. So hilarious and great. I’m honestly surprised some little bitch kid didn’t get their parents to start shit.
Bill! Bill! Bill! Bill! Bill! Bill Nye the science Guy!
In class it was always
- Shrek
- Shrek 2
- Remember the Titans
- Jurassic Park
- Any Rando Jim Carrey Movie
Although in grade 9 law class we got to watch Heat, Dirty Harry and My Cousin Vinny, that teacher was cool
You got to see real movies? All we ever got was, like, PBS Nova episodes or A&E documentaries. No worksheets; but I got to learn about Ray fuckin’ Kroc years before they made a movie about him.
Oh yeah we had those too. I totally forgot about A&E, those tapes were around for sure. And a lot of stuff from the National Film Board, I think the schools in Canada got that stuff for free or something.
Butting into your conversation to leave a wee link for any film lovers scrolling by. The NFB’s a public producer and distributor, and the catalogue’s free for everyone.
You need a license to use it in class or have a public showing, but you’re right - many schools have that already set up. Buying DVDs for the classroom will cost you, though.
Ok that thing? Probably reading rainbow or nova
Does anyone remember Channel 1? They made contracts with schools to play the propaganda every day and they put a shitty TV on an arm in every room. I don’t know who paid Channel 1. This would be late 90s.
I sure do. In exchange for those free TVs we had to watch 30 seconds of awkward middle schoolers doing a news report followed by 6 teen spirit perfume commercials in a row every homeroom period.
I used to be good friends with one of the guys who did the anti smoking ads. Do you remember “Why do they put all this crap in dip?” That guy. I met him at a huge college party, outside, smoking a cigarette. I was like holy shit you’re a fucking hypocrite, how does that feel? And we were friends for years after.
Are you charlie from always sunny in Philadelphia lol
Sometimes
It’s the 6th grade. The girls are taken to the gym for a presentation about menstruation. Us boys are put in a room with this cart to watch Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.
Or some shit about shop class.
BILL NYE
First grade, they piled all the classes together, because it’s 1993 and we only have one laserdisc player, and we need to watch a video on pollution. Main topics were acid rain and smog and that shit has been with me for 30 years, I will never forget it.
Ferngully
https://g.co/kgs/uNhJedM Toxic Love
Oh shit hexxus waddup
For critically-panned movies that are arguably good, I recommend a scroll through this thread: [Meme] Which movie was this for you?
It’s interesting to see what everyone’s opinions are. I’ve already downloaded a few of the suggestions out of curiosity.
Watching the teacher get irritated.
Oh man, a friend and I were the AV crew for a while in high school in the late 90s. Basically we’d deliver these TV & VCR wheeled stands to the teachers needing them in the morning. If there wasn’t any need, we got to hang out in the equipment room instead of home room.
We got to use the elevators and even wield “the key ring” from time to time.
Wishbone! Ghostwriter And bill nye the science guy.
With what happened in the US … they wheel in the big ol’ CRT to the front of the class where I’m sitting, the strap breaks and the 150 lb 36" behemoth lands on top of me.
We had Monty python’s life of Brian. The teacher forgot he already played it for our class once. Nobody mentioned that to him.
The teacher didn’t forget
MTV!
