What is the worst movie or video you were forced to watch in school?

[pstokely]

For it was "The Buttercream Gang" and other movies made by the same company. A white kid from a small town goes to Chicago, then comes back to the small town as some wannabe gangster and starts terrorizing the small town (cops are never seen). Shame MST3K never did anything by Feature Films for Families.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOWW-r0AWr8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rK_Y1lwozhw

[seemunkee]

1. Some anti-smoking movie

Showing a surgery of a cancerous lung being removed. One kid threw up in class while watching it.
We were spared the driver ed snuff movies like Signal 30. My brother had to watch them when he took drivers ed two years earlier.

[terrya]

2. Those movies we had to watch in high school drivers ed

Ugh.

[bikebloke]

21. Our class missed those

The drivers ed teacher was also our gym teacher. He was big, fat and rolie-polie. So when we had to run around the track, if he passed anyone they'd have to run another lap. Even the druggies didn't have to worry. With drivers ed, everyone else in the school saw the gory film, but he was so disorganized it passed us by. Eventually, he moved from gym to drivers ed permanently. maybe that explains some of the bad drivers.

He reminds me in hindsight of the Woody Allen quote, "Those who can't do - teach. Those who can't teach - teach gym."

[Kutjara]

39. The Ohio DMV ones?

Those were grim. And driver's ed was right after lunch. They should have given prizes to the few of us who (barely) managed to keep our food down.

[gemdem]

42. Like "Blood on the Windshield" n/t

[Strawman]

3. "Your Testicles and You"

Dr. Zillman and those poor souls suffering from ESS at the Atlanta Genital Institute scared me into celibacy.

[JoDog]

6. Success!

Then the film did it's job.

The worst one I saw was the female side of that coin. In about the 4th grade, all the girls were herded into the library and showed a film about "becoming a woman" that was narrated by a girl who starred in "Annie" on Broadway. I wish I was making that up. The film was about 15 years old at the time, and showed on an old-fashioned reel-to-reel projector, complete with all the skips, jumps and scratches.

[Mad_Dem_X]

24. LOL!

Classic!

[TheMightyFavog]

4. The standard poorly acted blood and gore Drivers ed video...

The one we watched was particularly bad, MST3K-Worthy IMHO.

[Little Wing]

5. The Glass Menagerie

utter utter utter shit.

[Orrex]

41. The Malkovitch version?

Saw that one in college and liked it quite a bit.

Or did you mean a different one?

[ruiner4u]

7. reparing an intestine of a dog.. from start to finish...

that was the day I decided I didn't have what it took for pre-vet

[philosophie_en_rose]

8. The Miracle of Life

A horrifying video showed in middle schools.

[sakabatou]

27. Yes

[SoyCat]

9. Fast Times at Ridgemont High--I'm not kidding either. It was for sociology in 10th grade!

[Orrex]

15. Edited?

Otherwise, one presumes that Phoebe Cates and Jennifer Jason Leigh would have an interesting sociological effect on at least the male segment of the class.

[SoyCat]

18. No editing whatsoever!

[KurtNYC]

34. I would sooo want to have a pizza delivered during that film. nt

[war on errorism]

10. Red Asphalt: Blood on the Highway

safe/sober driving thing. classic.

[youthere]

12. I remember that!

I don't know if that's what it was called, but we watched some gory car crash movie in Driver's ed.Sick.

[crispini]

35. Yes!! that exact film!

ewwwwwwww!

[Patiod]

11. Passed out during Anti-Drug movie in 6th grade

Was on a narcotic cough medicine, and something else with codeine, and I just fainted in the middle of the movie.

So my mom made me O.D., basically.....

[begin_within]

13. "Boys Beware" - watch it free here:

http://www.archive.org/details/boys_beware

or

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4enfUyGWSY

[Orrex]

14. Johnny Tremain

Read all about it here Perhaps not the worst of all possible films, but in quantity it became unbearable.

I swear, we saw that film twice a year for ten years, and each time it was presented as if it were a magnificent treat for us. The only cool part was when dear Johnny fell and put his hand into a puddle of molten silver. Probably the last time an actor in a US film was required to stick his fist in a puddle of mercury.

[sniffa]

16. meat and you: partners in freedom

[noonwitch]

23. That sounds almost obscene!

Was it like the movie they show the kids on "The Simpsons"? With "Bovine University"?

[sniffa]

29. ...

:rofl:

that's the name of the movie in that episode. (so yes, i was just kidding)

"is my friend crazy?"

"no, just ignorant. you see, your crazy friend has never heard of the food chain. animaLs eat animaLs aLL the time. and if that cow had the chance, he'd you in a heartbeat jimmy"

[noonwitch]

17. The Red Balloon

Because I moved half-way through kindergarten, I had to watch the damn thing twice.

I know that a lot of people actually like this movie (yeah, I hate "It's a Wonderful Life", also), but I never understood the point. Was it that a true friend is like the balloon and follows you everywhere you go? Was the balloon God? (that's my sister's interpretation). When the balloon "died", the kid went over a hill or something and found a whole bunch of balloons, so my sister said it was like the death and resurrection of Jesus.

I will never have a red balloon, because I am afraid it will start to stalk me.

Kindergarten is too young to expose children to existential french crap.

[Zavulon]

28. I'm glad I'm not the only one.

This is my answer, too. Not only was I forced to watch that, but it was something like three times in my first three years of schooling, and it was constantly shown in my nearest public library.

BTW, I laughed out loud when I red your "I will never have a red balloon, because I am afraid it will start to stalk me." :)

[deucemagnet]

19. "Meet John Doe"

It was for a film study course in college. I saw a lot of great old films that I wouldn't normally watch, but this wasn't one of them. I've had an aversion to Frank Capra ever since.

[NewWaveChick1981]

20. Mr. Bungle...

:rofl: The Pee-Wee Herman Show (HBO, not CBS) spoofed it, and I nearly died laughing when I saw that. Worst movie ever, but a hell of a lot of fun to spoof! :P

[Mad_Dem_X]

26. OMG, I remember that

(Pee Wee's version, that is). Too funny.

[Ekirh]

22. I've said it once and I'll say it again ..

Rapping Walt Whitman . . .

[ThatsMyBarack]

25. Anything teachers made us pay attention to or take notes from!

That's how I knew it was gonna be :boring: !

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

30. "Signal 30" -- a really gory driver's ed movie from the early '60s.

Absolutely horrifying. :scared:

[Redstone]

36. Oh yes, that was a pure gross-out. But it didn't stop us from driving too fast, did it?

Redstone

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

40. I closed my eyes during the most of the grossest parts,

so I suppose it never had the desired effect on me. Though I still remember a few scenes that I didn't turn away from quickly enough (ick), it's true that when i finally did get my license, like most teenagers i drove too fast. Still do, sometimes.

[emmadoggy]

31. "Mechanized Death". Yep, you guessed it - gory Driver's Ed movie.

I'm sure there were others, but that's the one that really stands out. Hard to forget.

[JVS]

32. OMG that movie is teh SuXX0rZ!

I've only watched a few minutes but it is BAD!

[LibDemAlways]

33. Health class movies about venereal disease.

Those were gross.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

46. i remember one about two kids in the back seat of a car

They do it and feel guilty as hell....then the guy walks around like he's contagious with V.D., like he could sneeze on someone and they'd get it-little dots all over his body, while he's walking in a crowd---public measles? in a crowd.

How you could get VD from somebody when you are both virgins, I'll never know.

Anything like the Biography drivel hosted by Mike Wallace before he was ancient, and anything by Coronet Films. Gagg.

Saw one about how they harvest poppies, and a junkie flippin out over withdrawal, and how to tie up your arm and shoot up.....

Oh yes, Death on the Highway. Gag.



In law school, in Torts class, we saw the video of Rudy T. being sucker punched by Kermit Washington...and closeups of his face afterwards with a busted lip, etc. If he hadn't been such a big tough guy it would have killed him.

One student ran out in the hall and was sick to his stomach. I followed him out to see what was wrong with him.

Another guy put his head down on the desk and had a seizure. Our teacher was working for the firm that represented Rudy Tomjanovich, in the personal injury suit against Washington's team. Used to be called Kronzer & Abraham at that time.

We learned all about "Respondeat superior" from that case.

[Danger Mouse]

37. There were many that I had the pleasure of seeing in my school daze...

The absolute bottom of the barrel was 'A Separate Peace'...full of bizarre and awkward homoerotic undertones (and overtones), it interprets the book in ways I never imagined possible...
We watched some real winners in health class...among them an anti-steroids video where you get to see roid rage in all its glory...the guy gets crazed and animalistic, and it features the classic line 'It's roid rage, man! Roid rage! You're out of control!'
Even better was a video about a girl who had developed AIDS. I can't remember the movie's title. The movie itself wasn't bad, it was generally positive, and the girl is hopeful at the end of the movie. True story and all. So the health teacher ruins it for us by saying, 'the girl died six months after the movie was made'
Buzz kill.

Also from health, a video about mental illness. In one scene, a mental patient who was homeless and had negelected medication is casually explaining to the interviewer how he uses his own feces to mark his territory (after being asked what 'those brown streaks' were)...

We watched a lot of movies in health. Most of them were either disturbing (that's feces. it's shit. that's how i mark my territory) or unintentionally hilarious (roid rage, man! you're out of control!)
meh.

[Danger Mouse]

38. Actually, I forgot the most disturbing video I ever saw anywhere...

...and that was in a social psychology class I took while in college.
We watched the video of the Milgram experiment.
It was very, very hard to watch. I've never forgotten it. Pure nightmare fuel.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

51. Oh, yuck.

Oh, yuck. :puke:

Just that Peter Gabriel song ("We Do What We're Told {Milgram 37)}," or whatever it is), makes me nauseous.

[deadparrot]

43. The one of an abortion being performed.

Featuring gratuitous shots of dead fetuses.

:puke:

Yeah, I went to Catholic school.

[badgerpup]

44. Something about third world country diseases...

Don't remember the title, but the one guy with elephantiasis turning his foot and there was this huge wound and some thing wiggling in it...:puke:
That gave me nightmares for a week.

First time I woke up screaming, I told my mom I'd seen a film about 'horrible diseases' and she asked right off the bat "Were they venereal diseases?"
:wtf:
I hadn't even seen the 'Becoming a Woman" film yet...had NO CLUE what she was on about.

[emmadoggy]

45. Want to add one more...

Actually, these weren't "bad" as in gory, stupid, boring, or just a waste of time - but they were just really hard to watch because of what they were about.

In World History when we were learning about WWII, we watched a series of films that were called, IIRC, "The World at War". The ones that dealt with the concentration camps and holocaust were just painful, heartwrenching and gutwrenching to watch. Those images are etched in my mind.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

47. "Great Expectations" was pretty bad

We had to read the book by Dickens. The only redeeming feature was John Mills as Pip, when he was young and handsome.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

48. then there was the movie about sulfur

This was in upper elementary school. I remember the narrator saying "Sulfur is so useful, that if it didn't exist, we would have to invent it!!!".

My thought as a 4th grader was, "It's an element! They can't invent one of those!".

Idiots.

Nobody proofed that script, obviously.

[Broken_Hero]

49. I remember the ButterCream Gang...

"Its not a threat, its a promise!"....


bleh. For me though, it had to be The Quest for Fire.....

[FunkyLeprechaun]

50. The very first wood shop class,

in seventh grade, we had to watch a video on what would happen if you didn't wear eye protection.

There were bulging eye injuries, very very fake but would make the kids scream.

I watched Buttercream Gang in Health class in eighth grade. I thought it was quite corny then too!

[ScreamingMeemie]

52. "My Mom's Having a Baby"

It was an ABC afterschool special where the one kid's mother was going to have a baby so the whole neighborhood "gang" met up with the doctor so he could explain sex and childbirth to them. Stupid. Smiling sperm and eggs.

http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/movie.html?v_id=319803

[LibDemAlways]

53. When I was in 5th grade the girls were treated to

a film made by the Walt Disney company sponsored by Kotex. It was all full of animated flowers and butterflies and made the whole "becoming a woman" thing look like a piece of cake. Two years later when the cramps hit, my first thought was "Disney never mentioned this part." Guess that was my introduction to the world of media lies and distortions.

[Orsino]

54. The House that Dripped Blood

http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0065854/

I can't believe they did this, but they called a Friday afternoon assembly for the entire student body, and showed us this elegant piece of crap. The assistant principal was a fan of horror movies.

[Critters2]

55. "It's Wonderful Being a Girl" Have a look....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3__DUte2hI