What Films Have You Seen Recently?

[troggi]

Originally Posted by fuzzymctiger

After studying Whale Rider at school, I'll never be able to watch it again without being in an almost constant fit of laughter, same with To Kill A Mockingbird.

Sad what repeated studying of scenes and lines does, when you all you can think about is mockeries of them.

Oh, Eng. Lit. thou bastard child of Eng. Lang. and oft' mistaken for the "better" part! We have a beautiful expressive, living and evolving language and we subject our children to "dead" forms of it in the mistaken beliefs that it will make them "like" the book or "gain an understanding of the book/play/film. I truly believe that more people would be literate by choosing to read and not being forced to read.

Criticism is a specialised skill that should be taught to people who wish to become critics and most 12-16 year olds don't wish to become critics! Teach 'em instead to understand letters from banks, UK government departments and courts. Teach 'em the difference between omg lol and more formal ways of writing and when it is appropriate to use each. More importantly let them find the beauty of the written word in their own time and without the need to dissect ev'ry syllable!

[Prince_Vajda]

Originally Posted by troggi

Oh, Eng. Lit. thou bastard child of Eng. Lang. and oft' mistaken for the "better" part! We have a beautiful expressive, living and evolving language and we subject our children to "dead" forms of it in the mistaken beliefs that it will make them "like" the book or "gain an understanding of the book/play/film. I truly believe that more people would be literate by choosing to read and not being forced to read.

Criticism is a specialised skill that should be taught to people who wish to become critics and most 12-16 year olds don't wish to become critics! Teach 'em instead to understand letters from banks, UK government departments and courts. Teach 'em the difference between omg lol and more formal ways of writing and when it is appropriate to use each. More importantly let them find the beauty of the written word in their own time and without the need to dissect ev'ry syllable!

Very true.

It was a hard fight, but I still love Shakespeare's Macbeth despite being forced to dissect the play line by line for more than three months at school.

[sawyer6]

Originally Posted by bizarre_eye@Cult Labs

BFI list of the 50 films you should see by the age of 14 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

There are still a few on there that I haven't seen myself.

Too late for you now!

[Prince_Vajda]

Originally Posted by bizarre_eye@Cult Labs

Not that I'm trying to influence your children's viewing or anything Rik, but I recently came across this list made by the BFI, which lists 50 films to see before the age of 14:

BFI list of the 50 films you should see by the age of 14 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

There are still a few on there that I haven't seen myself.

Originally Posted by sawyer6

Too late for you now!

The ones I've watched:

From the Top Ten:
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)

The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
Au revoir les enfants (1987)
King Kong (1933)
Monsieur Hulot's Holiday (1953)
Play Time (1967)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Some Like It Hot (1959)

[sawyer6]

Originally Posted by Prince_Vajda

The ones I've watched:

From the Top Ten:
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)

The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
Au revoir les enfants (1987)
King Kong (1933)
Monsieur Hulot's Holiday (1953)
Play Time (1967)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Some Like It Hot (1959)

By the age of 14,right ?

[Prince_Vajda]

Originally Posted by sawyer6

By the age of 14,right ?

Nope, the list is up to date.

[fuzzymctiger]

Originally Posted by Prince_Vajda

The ones I've watched:

From the Top Ten:
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)

The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
Au revoir les enfants (1987)
King Kong (1933)
Monsieur Hulot's Holiday (1953)
Play Time (1967)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Some Like It Hot (1959)

May as well list what I've seen everyone's doing it, sadly I'm two years off but To Kill A Mockingbird and Beauty and The Beast are the only ones I saw after.

ET
Spirited Away
Toy Story
Wizard Of Oz
Beauty and The Beast (91) (Saw this for the first time only a couple of days ago, adored it)
Billy Elliot
Edward Sissorhands
Finding Nemo
My Neighbour Totoro
Rabbit Proof Fence
Raiders Of The Lost Ark
Romeo+Juliet
The Secret Garden
Star Wars (none of this part IV rubbish, it's the original)
To Kill A Mockingbird
Whale Rider.


Good to see I was brought up well. Will make it my goal to see all those I haven't before I turn 18, same with the imdb top 250, and last I checked I was about 115 through that.

[bizarre_eye@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by sawyer6

Too late for you now!

Well, I still act 12 sometimes, so I see it like I still have a couple of years to go to complete it!

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

I haven't seen:

Show Me Love
Where Is the Friend's Home?

Kirikou and the Sorceress
My Life As a Dog
Play Time
The Secret Garden
Whistle Down the Wind
The White Balloon

[bizarre_eye@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by fuzzymctiger

Good to see I was brought up well. Will make it my goal to see all those I haven't before I turn 18, same with the imdb top 250, and last I checked I was about 115 through that.

Some of the IMDb Top 250 is awful - a lot of newer 'flavour of the month' films tend to creep into that, unfortunately. Still, there are some great films in there too.

I'm going to attempt to complete the BFI films to see before you're 14 list and the Sight & Sound Critics' Top 250 lists over the coming years.