What was your favorite movies you watched in school

MilesMorales1

We used to watch a lot of movies in school, the teachers didn't seem to be that bothered and were happy to leave us to it. Our french teacher used to put movies on all the time and smoke out of the window. Best ones we watched were

The 70s version of Charlie and the chocolate factory
Monty Python and the holy grail
Sleepless in Seattle
The Terminal
Schindlers List
Mean Girls
Saving Private Ryan

Oh and that Mel Gibson WW1 thing, the name escapes me. And a lot of only fools and horses.

Birneybau

Reservoir Dogs, honest.

Barry Badrinath

Mac and Me

That was the only film I saw in school.

rednik

Kelly's Heroes.

Pac1Man

The Field (G'wan the Bull!)
Silas Marner
The Exorcist

The Wind that Shakes the Barley

5star02707

Of mice and men

razorblunt

Toy Story on a VHS bootleg that some lad brought back from Turkey.

2 weeks before the Leaving Cert then they showed us Shrek for some reason, probably to take our minds off the exams. They had to listen to 'man I love parfait' for the next two weeks after in.

The Backwards Man

In my day, the only entertainment we had at school was watching the turf burn in the open fire.

s8n

Debbie does Dallas when we were in 4th class

syklops

Under Siege. The teacher fast forwarded through Miss July coming out of the cake topless.

No, I'm not joking.

The Sidewards Man

The Texas Vibrator Massacre, Love for the First Time and The Private Afternoons of Pamela Mann to name a few.

Olishi4

It was like they only had one fcukin movie. When we had a free class, theyd get "Cool Runnings" out and stick it on.

I know the first 30 something minutes of that film like the back of my hand but haven't a clue what happens after that

HensVassal

Movies in school ??

Eh, never.

Only time we ever had anything on the TV or projector was:

1. Science teacher was very good. We basically had the inter cert wrapped up in the bag months ahead of schedule so he would once a week have us watch a David Attenbourough documentary.

2. We watched Othello because that was the play for the Leaving Cert.

3. Some crappy low-budget public awareness productions in Civics/Religion class with some kind of message about drinking or teenage pregnancy.


Can't believe the teachers just let you kill an hour and a half watching a mainstream Hollywood movie

LionelNashe

MilesMorales1 wrote: »

We used to watch a lot of movies in school, the teachers didn't seem to be that bothered and were happy to leave us to it. Our french teacher used to put movies on all the time and smoke out of the window. Best ones we watched were

The 70s version of Charlie and the chocolate factory
Monty Python and the holy grail
Sleepless in Seattle
The Terminal
Schindlers List
Mean Girls
Saving Private Ryan

Oh and that Mel Gibson WW1 thing, the name escapes me. And a lot of only fools and horses.

WW1 thing = Gallipoli, great film.

In French class, we only watched Jean de Florette & Manon des Sources, which were really good. I still remember the scene with the woman showering under the waterfall. We had the same teacher for English, and he brought Mr Bean episodes, when they were new, along with Hamlet (because it was on our Leaving Cert).

MilesMorales1

LionelNashe wrote: »

WW1 thing = Gallipoli, great film.

In French class, we only watched Jean de Florette & Manon des Sources, which were really good. I still remember the scene with the woman showering under the waterfall. We had the same teacher for English, and he brought Mr Bean episodes, when they were new, along with Hamlet (because it was on our Leaving Cert).

Ah yes, quite right/

Ruu

Only got to see Schlinders List (teacher had to cough loudly over sex scene ) and Darby O' Gill and the Little People (thankfully no nudity on this one).

The_Valeyard

The Sidewards Man wrote: »

The Texas Vibrator Massacre.

*eyebrow raised*

hairyslug

Olishi4 wrote: »

It was like they only had one fcukin movie. When we had a free class, theyd get "Cool Runnings" out and stick it on.

I know the first 30 something minutes of that film like the back of my hand but haven't a clue what happens after that

They all get stuck up in Andes and start eating eachother

LionelNashe

In the first 4 years of my primary school, all students (junior infants up to second class inclusive) would go to the hall for a film on the afternoon of the first Friday of every month. This was 1979 to 1983, so Spiderman, Christopher Reeve as Superman, that kind of stuff. We had a plonker of a headmaster in the second half of primary school, who only allowed a film one time, and the film he chose was "All creatures great and small". For 8 to 11 year olds. No offence to any teachers on here, but some of your colleagues are just plonkers.

beach_walker

The Backwards Man wrote: »

In my day, the only entertainment we had at school was watching the turf burn in the open fire.

La-de-da with yer fancy heating.

We were doing a bit on the planets and solar system for a week so to round it off we got to watch Independence Day and Flight of the Navigator in one day. Teacher playing a blinder there!

IvyTheTerrible

Sister Act, The Sound of Music, La Haine

thegreatgonzo

LionelNashe wrote: »

and the film he chose was "All creatures great and small". For 8 to 11 year olds. No offence to any teachers on here, but some of your colleagues are just plonkers.

I loved All creatures great and small when I was in primary school

Robsweezie

The human centipede

CloudCumulus

Michael Collins in history
When A Man Loves A Woman was supposed to teach us about alcohol abuse.
Cinema Paradiso
Strictly Ballroom, good fun to watch now that it's not for exam purposes
Circle of Friends

lertsnim

We were brought to the cinema a few times. Dead Man Walking was probably the most interesting of the ones they brought us to.

TitianGerm

Only film I say in school was 'Muzzy Mòr' once a week

riffmongous

Witness, Romeo and Juliet (****e), Goodbye Lenin and my favourite Of Mice and Men, 'he got his hand caught in a machine' even became a running joke in our class

The King of Moo

Delicatessen, our French teacher showed it to us on the last day of Leaving Cert.

I'm pretty sure we also watched La Haine.

Beanntraigheach

"Henry V", the Kenneth Brannagh version.

I enjoyed it so much I actually bought it on VHS

Yamanoto

A teacher who subsequently left the priesthood to marry stuck on 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' for us on VHS one afternoon.

It's the mark of a decent flick when you can keep 30 fuppin' eejits completely enthralled over a 2 hour period.

LenaClaire

Favorites - Au revoir les enfants, Last of the Mohicans, The Mission

Most frequently seen - Donald Duck in Mathmagic Land

Xaracatz

Only one I remember is Harvey, about the guy with an invisible rabbit. We watched it in parts and I was out sick one of the days so I never fully got the hang of it. Stupid invisible rabbit.

Super-Rush

Into the west.

Galwayguy35

Only ever remember them showing The Field when we were in LC.

Good film though, twas a pity Harris didn't get the Oscar.

Badly Drunk Boy

The only non-school related film I remember was the first Batman film, but there were a good few others. For exams, we saw the 1965 version of Othello (with Laurence Olivier doing his version of a Ballymurphy...Moor :pac: ), all blacked-up and sounding ridiculous.

Any time the video was wheeled into the class and the telly was turned on with the blue screen, the more 'hilarious' lads, without fail, would shout out "Blue movie!". Because the screen was blue, see? I bet nobody else in other schools ever thought of that.

MilesMorales1 wrote: »

The 70s version of Charlie and the chocolate factory

Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory is on ITV3 at the moment.

Olishi4 wrote: »

I know the first 30 something minutes of that film like the back of my hand but haven't a clue what happens after that

I remember seeing the first 30/40 minutes of loads of films, but not the rest.

It's like watching a film with my brother who has to press 'pause' if anybody gets up to leave the room from a drink, or even if somebody makes a comment. A 90 minute film could take 4 hours to watch so I usually just leave before the end.

French_Girl

Life Is Beautiful (La vita e bella).

It was the first time ever I saw that movie and it had quite an impact.

Cathy.C

Movies in school?? We didn't even have electricity in our school. The lights were powered by the tears of children.

We were brought to see Cry Freedom in the cinema though.

It was to celebrate the ending of the Dunnes Stores apartheid strike.

thegreatgonzo

Xaracatz wrote: »

Only one I remember is Harvey, about the guy with an invisible rabbit. We watched it in parts and I was out sick one of the days so I never fully got the hang of it. Stupid invisible rabbit.

That's one of my favourites!

MilesMorales1

Cathy.C wrote: »

Movies in school?? We didn't even have electricity in our school. The lights were powered by the tears of children.

We were brought to see Cry Freedom in the cinema though.

It was to celebrate the ending of the Dunnes Stores apartheid strike.

Christian brothers?

mansize

Philadelphia

Not to teach us about Rights, but to warn us of the evils of sexual promiscuity and the gay plague

There was another that was about a woman to caught HIV (through a transfusion- real victim) and how her husband wouldn't have sex with her with a condom- cos they are not reliable!

And some weirdo who came to the school and showed us a movie about Dinosaurs and humans lived together.

When we were in 6th year we got to show movies - I got Baz Lurman's Romeo & Juliet. And the one about Robin Williams as a grown up child or something.

FTA69

Some yoke about American football players in school learning not to be racist, honestly can't remember the name. We watched it in religion, we also watched Cry Freedom about Steve Biko which was cracking in fairness.

dresden8

The One Armed Swordsman and Ulzana's raid.

3rd class at the latest.

Jaws in first year.

Different times.

DMcL1971

Only ever saw two films in school, The Car and Where Eagles Dare.

heathledgerlove

Independence Day in primary school. Terrified me, aliens

Stand by Me in Secondary, Terrified me, leeches! Great film though, we all got to discuss it / get lectured about it in RE later.

maudgonner

I can only remember watching one film in school - Hamlet, the Mel Gibson version, for the Leaving Cert.

But our history teacher showed us pretty much the full series of The World at War, which was epic.

And I've got a genetics video from Biology burned into my brain because it was so tedious. It used the Moonlight Sonata as the soundtrack, on what seemed like an endless loop. Not the cheeriest piece of music in the world. I still feel like punching someone when I hear it.

smash

When I was in school someone sneaked a porno in to the video room and labelled it under a religious title. I have no idea if anyone got to see it.

MRnotlob606

The birds, Psycho, To kill a mocking bird, Stand by me.

One of my teachers loved films a lot and would stick them on in a free class, I think he really loved films a lot. He was real film aficionado. But earned a lot of respect because of it.

maudgonner

smash wrote: »

When I was in school someone sneaked a porno in to the video room and labelled it under a religious title. I have no idea if anyone got to see it.

The Passion of St Tibulus?

Or The Ecstasy of St Teresa?

mrsdewinter

maudgonner wrote: »

The Passion of St Tibulus?

Or The Ecstasy of St Teresa?

I think any Home & Away fan, ca 1991, knows that the correct title is the 'The Plight of Ethiopia'.

My favourite school movie was 'Cry Freedom'. Great movie, tbf.

cherryghost

On the Waterfront.