What's the last movie you've seen?

Parkour Civilization. I didn't expect it to be so cool, seriously! I'm not very good at jumping in games, especially when I can fall and die (fall and repeat is not that bad), and I was actually nervous during some scenes. Definitely going to watch the second one too.
 
I watched Beavis and Butt-Head Do America with my parents. I vaguely remember watching it as a kid but didn't get the plot or jokes at the time. I thought it was really funny. XD
 
I am curious how The Shawshank Redemption is taught in school? I know I'm getting older, but I just remember it being on repeat on TV... for great reason though, its an amazing movie.

But what were your teachers asking of you from this movie for school? I am genuinely interested!

This is one that I still have a hard time believing was written by Stephen King.
It's been years since the class where I watched it, so I honestly couldn't tell you, I just remember there being a whole worksheet involved that we had to answer questions for. 😅
 
Spirited Away, this is my first introduction to Studio Ghibli and an amazing one. Will definetely watch other Ghibli works too later this winter!
 
I watched Men in Black and also the 2nd one. I only watched the sequel once, but watching it now the plot is really all over the place. It's like they didn't know what to do and then just rewrote entire parts. The 1st was great. The 2nd was pretty bad. There was even a villain and although I didn't care for them at all, they just wrote them out halfway through without an explanation. It was just so bad. I don't even remember noticing that during my first watch.

The first movie aged so much better and was an enjoyable watch.
 
I am curious how The Shawshank Redemption is taught in school? I know I'm getting older, but I just remember it being on repeat on TV... for great reason though, its an amazing movie.

But what were your teachers asking of you from this movie for school? I am genuinely interested!

This is one that I still have a hard time believing was written by Stephen King.
We haven't started "officially" studying shawshank, my teacher wants to wait until next year to start course work on it because it is an 18s movie and the age range in the class is 15-18 so not wholly ideal (that, or she recently said she might be going to change the comparative texts we'll be doing to the barbie movie and accompanying novels, but she'll see), but she recommended watching it just to have the film seen before we dissect it piece by agonising piece.

As for what we'll need to do with the film itself, we'll have to study it alongside the drama sive and the novel small things like these. Basically we have to learn quotes and scenes, and link them together in essays and such in the leaving cert exam. And if I remember correctly, we also are studying othello, and those books and shawshank will be related to it as well
 
We haven't started "officially" studying shawshank, my teacher wants to wait until next year to start course work on it because it is an 18s movie and the age range in the class is 15-18 so not wholly ideal (that, or she recently said she might be going to change the comparative texts we'll be doing to the barbie movie and accompanying novels, but she'll see), but she recommended watching it just to have the film seen before we dissect it piece by agonising piece.

As for what we'll need to do with the film itself, we'll have to study it alongside the drama sive and the novel small things like these. Basically we have to learn quotes and scenes, and link them together in essays and such in the leaving cert exam. And if I remember correctly, we also are studying othello, and those books and shawshank will be related to it as well

I like it when teachers get creative like that! I have no idea if it is out of laziness, or creativity to keep students interested, but its great!

I had a history professor in college who showed us the movie Dances with Wolves over the course of two classes. Before we started he went on and on about how great the movie was... and then he paused it every few minutes to point out how historically inaccurate it was and taught us the truth. It was so entertaining while also learning!
 
I've been busy this month, and as such, never got around to posting the final four days of my Halloween horror movie marathon last month. It's been weeks now and it doesn't seem worth it, but since I posted all the other days throughout the month, it would feel weird not to properly conclude it. So, I'll just edit them into my previous post.

Anywho...

Back on Saturday night I watched director Satoshi Kon's 2001 movie Millenium Actress for the first time. Though I've seen a few of Kon's works, I'd never gotten around to this one. Loved it.

Tonight I revisited director Eli Roth's 2023 movie Thanksgiving and director John Hughes' 1987 movie Planes, Trains & Automobiles.
 
Regretting You. I didn’t read the book but the movie was okay and the cast was solid. I just didn’t like how the mom was constantly upset with Clara and never tried to communicate normally.
 
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