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

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

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.

Ugh.

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."

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.

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

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.

Classic!

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

utter utter utter shit.

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

Or did you mean a different one?

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

A horrifying video showed in middle schools.

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.

safe/sober driving thing. classic.

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

ewwwwwwww!

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.....

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

or

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

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.

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

: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"

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.

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." :)

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.

: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

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

Rapping Walt Whitman . . .

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

Absolutely horrifying. :scared:

Redstone

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.

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

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

Those were gross.

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.

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.

...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.

Oh, yuck. :puke:

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

Featuring gratuitous shots of dead fetuses.

:puke:

Yeah, I went to Catholic school.

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.

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.

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

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.

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


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

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!

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

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.

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.