Showed my students Dead Poets Society tonight. Not many came (ohhhh, there's gonna be a quiz on Friday), but of those who did, I got more than a few "OMG, this is my new favorite movie!"s, which was gratifying. (Thanks for the suggestion,
vallentine!) I was sort of surprised that so many of them hadn't seen it before; as I recall, we watched it at least three times in high school, and perhaps even once every year. I think we may have watched it in middle school as well. I must tell them about watching that movie with my fellow Pezzers and then going out and yawping into the night at Kenyon.
ETA: I just looked up the movie on Wikipedia, and...one of the boys grew up to play Dan Rydell on Sports Night! Ha! No wonder he looked so familiar! (Also...seriously, that was Ethan Hawke? I had no idea.)
ETA: I just looked up the movie on Wikipedia, and...one of the boys grew up to play Dan Rydell on Sports Night! Ha! No wonder he looked so familiar! (Also...seriously, that was Ethan Hawke? I had no idea.)
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Date: 2009-10-08 04:13 am (UTC)I have two problems with that movie. 1, NOT a happy ending, so I officially hate it and won't watch it unless I have to. 2, for the life of me, I can't tell 90% of the boys apart. *sigh*
My roomie's 7th graders just finished watching The Outsiders today. I always love that, just to see everyone back when they were Wee. Although it was sad this time since Patrick Swayze's gone. :(
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Date: 2009-10-08 07:25 pm (UTC)Noooo! ;)
I have two problems with that movie. 1, NOT a happy ending, so I officially hate it and won't watch it unless I have to. 2, for the life of me, I can't tell 90% of the boys apart. *sigh*
Aw. I like sad endings. I'm possibly a masochist.
But yeah, even on this time through it took until the last fifteen minutes or so before I could tell all the boys apart with complete confidence. I thought Charlie Dalton and Knox Overstreet were the same character for at least the first third of the movie.