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Post by turkeysandwich on Aug 18, 2014 22:57:15 GMT -5
I went to a Private Christian School so I probably can't discuss most of the crazy stuff we had to watch.
I do remember our choir teacher when we were in 3rd grade showing us Amadeus. Now as an adult that is an amazing movie, but terribly boring for an 8 year old to sit through.
In high school I remember our chemistry teacher would show us these laserdiscs about science that had Alan Alda hosting, but our teacher didn't know how to work the laserdisc player and he showed the laserdisc sides out of order, so we saw the second half first and the first half second.
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Post by Tony Schiavontay on Aug 19, 2014 0:05:36 GMT -5
The driver's ed video I had to watch hosted by J-Roc from Trailer Park Boys and had Careless Whisper by George Michael was a classic.
Any workplace safety video is a goldmine for lousy acting and idiotic scenarios.
In elementary school, without fail, anytime they showed us a video, we were always given the choice between whatever tape was in that week... or the space episode of Magic School Bus (the tape the school actually owned)
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Post by Hurbster on Aug 19, 2014 4:24:21 GMT -5
Roman Polansksi's version of Macbeth was certainly an eye opener for a 14 year old Hurbie.
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Post by Ryushinku on Aug 19, 2014 4:42:17 GMT -5
Roman Polansksi's version of Macbeth was certainly an eye opener for a 14 year old Hurbie. Exact same thing happened at my school! Don't think we were even quite 14. Nothing like people getting bloodily axed in the back or an arrow right through the neck to cheer up a young class.
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Post by crash1984 on Aug 21, 2014 22:51:30 GMT -5
When I was in elementary school just as sure as the sky is blue, there would always be two videos we would have to watch every year once we got to first grade. The first one was called Home Alone. No this was not the 1990 film with Macaulay Culkin, but instead a presentation about being home alone. Most teachers would call it Alone at Home just so students would not get the two mixed up but on occasion one would slip up and call it Home Alone. One time a teacher done that and someone was excited about seeing Home Alone. Someone else told them that it was some crummy video about being home alone.
The other one would be played near the end of the year and would be about water safety
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Post by Ash Kingston on Aug 22, 2014 1:13:20 GMT -5
Hmm... while I'd normally all be about nominating bad and boring movies we had to watch during English or Social Studies, I think there's currently a tie between watching White Girls during my second year of Spanish, or... the "educational" videos we had to watch during German classes. I can still hear "ICH. BIN. ROLI!" in my head... Roli being some sort of weird 3D animation robot.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 22, 2014 8:32:31 GMT -5
Driver's Ed class horror videos. Funny, because I watched those as part of our introduction to the "permanent party" base of the military (first base you live at following graduation from Basic Training). We're all young adults being told to take this seriously, but when even the teacher thought it was silly, you kinda just take it with a grain of salt. (If I presently recall, I think it had '70s Spiderman in it.) Hmm... while I'd normally all be about nominating bad and boring movies we had to watch during English or Social Studies, I think there's currently a tie between watching White Girls during my second year of Spanish, or... the "educational" videos we had to watch during German classes. I can still hear "ICH. BIN. ROLI!" in my head... Roli being some sort of weird 3D animation robot. We watched the Deutsche version of "Das Boot" in German class. I now have a fear of being in a small space submerged by water. Other things I remember being an '80s kid in school: - "ABC Afterschool Specials" (used to be a staple of the network every other Wednesday at 3pm). Teen pregnancy, STDs/AIDS, abortion, teen drinking, it ran the gamut. -One episode of 21 Jump Street (the Fox series, not the movie) and it was probably about teen suicide. - "Romeo & Juliet" (BOOBIES!) and other English class movie adaptations of books we've read. - "Psycho" was analyzed in Speech II class for it variety of subliminal camera shots and messages. -I remember watching "Grease" with the entire 4th grade after Iowa testing (now replaced by ISTEPs) was wrapping up. "You're The One That I Want" had the whole class singing along. -Random laser discs about Earth science. Yes, frickin' laser discs on rocks. Nobody ever knows how a laser player worked then.
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Post by BlackoutCreature on Aug 22, 2014 8:59:34 GMT -5
I'm kinda skirting a line here with the whole no politics/no religion rule with this entry, but I went to a Catholic High School which was the biggest mistake of my life besides believing my ex-girlfriend actually cared whether I lived or died. One day we watched a video about teen pregnancy where the moral of the story was that if you were slutty enough to destroy your families good name by getting pregnant while a teenager, you need to immediately marry the guy who got you pregnant. If he can't/won't marry you, then you need to put the baby up for adoption as soon as it's born. No other options, nothing else to consider. It was quite possibly the most insulting thing I think could've ever been shown by a school to it's students.
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Post by legendkiller1985 on Aug 22, 2014 13:10:20 GMT -5
I rememebr watching the Voyage of the Mimi in 5th grade science. I also remember watching Cartoon All Stars to the Rescue during DARE. A lot of the campy and cheesy videos mostly occured in elementary school.
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Post by Cela on Aug 22, 2014 13:16:50 GMT -5
Today in class: Horribly diseased penises and why sex is evil!
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Post by tigermaskxxxvii on Aug 22, 2014 14:35:07 GMT -5
I absolutely loved watching these horrible educational movies. So much so that I wish they had a version of Netflix dedicated solely to these. Some of my faves:
The Glug- About a 12 or 13 year old alcoholic. Saw this in 6th grade health class. Which is kind of appropriate seeing as we were the same age as the film's protagonist.
Benny on The Roids- High school football player takes steroids to gain a competitive edge. Much to the dismay of his parents, girlfriend, and teammate/best friend. Lots of great scenes in which he freaks out on people during fits of roid rage. Was shown this during health class in my freshman year of high school.
The Last Prom- Young high school girl full of promise goes to prom with the big man on campus. He's about to drive them somewhere else after prom (I forget if it's home or to an after party) but it looks like he's had a little bit too much to drink and against her initial reluctance to get in the car with him, she does and she dies in a car accident. Saw this one in driver's ed while a sophmore in high school (but driver's ed wasn't taught in my high school. Did anyone have driver's ed classes in their high school? I see shit like that in movies like Encino Man, but I always figure that be because Encino is a wealthy enough suburb to have a high school equipped with a driver's ed teacher, a car with dual controls like a passenger side brake pedal, supplemental instructional material, etc).
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Post by crash1984 on Aug 23, 2014 8:19:30 GMT -5
When I was in 8th grade one of our exploratory classes was French. This was not for any high school credit or anything like that which kind of made it pointless IMO. When we were talking about telling time in French the teacher played this video called Time The Movie. It would start by giving a time in French and then telling what this guy was doing at that time. The times were in French but every other thing in the video was in English. There was one scene where it gave the time and then said It is time to go to school. It showed the guy heading toward a school bus but instead of getting on the bus he gets in a convertable with someone and they drive to school with loud rap song going Butt Butt Booty.
Once he gets to school we are treated to him going to each of his classes. It involves him walking in a door with the class name on it (more on this in a moment). Followed by some stock footage of something related to that class. For instance with Physical Education it showed some hard football tackles. Now I mentioned that it would show him walking in the door, there were two things about this, first was that each time it would have the Leave it to Beaver theme playing. Second was that every time it was the same door just the sign on the door (which was a yellow piece of paper with the class name) would be changed to reflect the class. In all honesty it was one of those things that were so bad they were good. In fact Butt Butt Booty kind of became a class joke.
BTW surprised it took four pages for someone to mention Cartoon All Stars to the Rescue.
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Post by ERON on Aug 23, 2014 12:28:31 GMT -5
My elementary school was pretty poor. Most of the movies we watched were shown on actual reel-to-reel film projectors. Sometimes we didn't even get that; we'd watch a slideshow of still images from a movie like Wizard of Oz or Secret of NIMH synched to an audiotape.
On the rare occasion that we would get to see an actual videotape, it was either a depressing movie that scarred me for life (Where the Red Fern Grows, The Red Shoes) or a corny "Say No to Drugs" or "Don't Talk to Strangers" video. One in particular that I remember watching more than once was a video with Mr. T in a series of vignettes about bullying, peer pressure, etc.
In middle and high school, it seemed like standard operating procedure for absent teachers to leave Stand and Deliver for the substitute to show. I've seen that movie more times than I can count on two hands.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 23, 2014 15:20:08 GMT -5
Little Buddha, with Keanu Reeves as Siddharta. Politics/religion rule as it is, nobody can tell me that casting choice was any good.
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Post by Tony Schiavontay on Aug 23, 2014 15:32:49 GMT -5
Little Buddha, with Keanu Reeves as Siddharta. Politics/religion rule as it is, nobody can tell me that casting choice was any good. I just remember at one point him saying, "What's that sound?" in the worst fake Indian accent I've ever heard. That's literally my only memory of this whole movie.
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Post by General Adam on Aug 23, 2014 21:44:53 GMT -5
Lord of the Flies. Three. f***ing. Times!
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