At my school, I run an after school club where we watch a b-movie every week. A good chunk of the movies, as you would assume, contain alot of gore and sex, but I never have gotten in any trouble for this because the teachers and principle have never heard of movies like BAD TASTE or THE EVIL DEAD and when I showed JACK FROST they just assumed it was the family friendly Mike Keaton movie. They let me show these things and never give it a second thought; until last week. I made the fool decission to show the most well known b-movie of all time: THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW. It p**sed off the wrong people and now I have detention next week. It was a pretty sweet racket until then.
ANYHOO, the point im trying to get at here is, have YOU ever gotten in trouble for your "vulgar and immoral" taste in movies?
Back in High School,in 1977,somhow I got elected class president. I didn't run. All the farm boys and pot heads thought it would be funny to elect the "crazy midget". At Thanksgiving,they always showed a movie in the auditorium...it was my job to pick one out of a catalog and order it. They voted on ROBIN HOOD with Errol Flynn...I orderd PSYCHO...they started the movie...let it run untill the middle of the shower scence...and stopped it. I actually was the first kid in Lawton High School history to resign my presidency...one the spot.
Haha RCM that's a great story.
Shame about the trouble KYGOTC, that sounds like it was a great racket: what was their reason for dissallowing it? I only ask because we watched some messed up stuff at high school and got away clean [both on the violence and sex side of things]
Anyways, if we're going on about terrible high school movie moments, there are two that stand out in my mind.
The first is during a sports class [in this case it was baseball] where we had two straight periods of it, but since it was raining we were told we were watching a movie instead. Right before we started, the teacher had to go out of the class to discipline one of the students, and as a prank one of the guys switched tapes to a porno he happened to have in his bag. We got about 2 minutes into a hardcore scene between two women and one very average looking man before the teacher realised what was going on and the s**te hit the fan. But it was very funny nonetheless.
The other moment was our year 9 media teacher. He was basically an awesome teacher, who knew kendo and used it on a student once who was trying to beat someone with a baseball bat [the student was from another school and a gang of his friends came along to help him beat up some kid during lunch time] The teacher grabbed the bat easily off him, and since it was a great bat, the school kept it [bonus!]
But back to the story, and enough about me gushing... Two of the movies he screened for us were: Pulp Fiction and Ninja Scroll. Both rated way above what we should have been shown, but both awesome all the same.
He didn't get to keep working there, and only stayed for a year...
While we still had the b-film society at the college, nobody really paid attention to what we did as a group. However, to be on the safe side, we had all newcomers sign a release form stating that, if they were offended by anything they saw, they would politely leave and that would be the end of it. Later on, due to the fact that we were no longer able to use the room we were in, we gave up on the college altogether and held it at the house of a friend. We also briefly considered holding meetings at the local library (some libraries have rooms that can be reserved on a regular basis for meetings and all, a girl I know on myspace holds Anime club meetings at a library near her) but we never got around to it.
I remember as a second or third grader that we were given a surprise--we were told we could pick whatever movie we wanted to see.
I chose my favorite movie--Back To The Future--the teacher then attacked me verbally for wanting to pick such a violent movie.
She ended up going with another kid's choice--Jaws-yes,That Jaws-the shark--the rated R shark movie, with gallons of blood and extreme gore.
All in all I got in more trouble with the school than the teacher. I guess I should have known though--after all this was the same teacher who punished me-literally punished me--for not celebrating Christmas.
Her punishment was to make me sit out in the hall while all the other kids were in the room watching Mickey's Christmas Carol--I wasn't even allowed to read a book during this time. But the school felt she had done nothing wrong so she got of free......
Not exactly in line with the topic, , but a funny story nonetheless: I was going to a Vocational School to nbe a machinist my 11th and 12th grades. There, I had a teacher named Mr. Neuner (Joe). GREAT machinist, , but could NOT control the class in any way. We'be be passing a bottle of shcnapps around in class, cussing, smoking weed, food fights, just being idiots ALL THE TIME. We would pin up centerfolds behind the projector screen, ,, you name it, we did it. Every class started with Joe spending 30 minutes getting us to shut up and sit down,, it was insane. . Anyways, one day he just stands there and calmly lets us go on like idiots for about 20 minutes, until we all got a bit suspicious, and calmed down on our own. Joe calmly asks "Anyone here want to see some pu**y?" We were all shocked silent. . He says "I thought you all might be gay, , I'll get a different movie" (the projector was always set up in this class). . We're all like "no, we want to see, , c'mon, , lets see the movie". . He says "OK, YOU, hit the F-ing lights, YOU hit the F-ing projector, everyone else, sit the F* down and shut the F* up, We're all going to see some pu**y", , We all cheered briefly and sat completely silent with wide eyes waiting for the film to start, ,and he was right, we say LOTS of pu**y, , it was the most graphically disturbing film on venerial disease you could ever imagine. . It was DISGUSTING, , on about a dead-alive or re-animator level. There were several guys that left and actually BARFED, it was completely incredible.. Whenever I think about that movie, I put in Bad Taste to make me forget about it. .
Quote from: respectmeordye3 on April 30, 2007, 01:15:59 PM
She ended up going with another kid's choice--Jaws-yes,That Jaws-the shark--the rated R shark movie, with gallons of blood and extreme gore.
Rated R shark movie?
To my knowledge, Jaws was PG.
Extreme gore?
Seems you and I have seen a different film.
Quote from: dean on April 30, 2007, 08:50:11 AM
Shame about the trouble KYGOTC, that sounds like it was a great racket: what was their reason for dissallowing it? I only ask because we watched some messed up stuff at high school and got away clean [both on the violence and sex side of things]
Well, i go to a catholic school. People are kinda narrow minded there.
QuoteRated R shark movie?
To my knowledge, Jaws was PG.
In the U.S.A.
QuoteExtreme gore?
Seems you and I have seen a different film.
I think he may be referring to Quint's demise or something
(http://www.moviedeaths.com/images/grabs/jaws-quint-5.jpg)(http://www.moviedeaths.com/images/grabs/jaws-quint-6.jpg)
Not gallons, no.
GALLONS equals Evil Dead 2. GALLONS equals Bad Taste, I'd assume? (haven't seen it yet)
Quote from: Zapranoth on April 30, 2007, 03:28:30 PM
GALLONS equals Bad Taste, I'd assume? (haven't seen it yet)
The real question with BAD TASTE is, "Gallons of what?" Vomit? blood? Puss? Take your pick.
QuoteTo my knowledge, Jaws was PG.
It was, but it had the unique disclaimer:
"May be too
intense for young children"
I believe that was beforew the "pg-13" standard was adopted, , it was definately pushing the PG boundaries. .
I rembember going to see GP movies...not PG...GP! Does anyone know exactly what that stood for...I really can't recall. :question:
I recall them showing the Beatles MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR once,as a Thanksgiving movie...in a lame attempt to be "hip",I guess...(this was about 1978)....kids just started walking out of the auditorium...next year they went back to the annual HUNCHBACK of NOTRE DAME(1939)....which at least,if not overly familiar,everyone always enjoyed. :smile:
Quote from: KYGOTC on April 30, 2007, 03:24:49 PM
Well, i go to a catholic school. People are kinda narrow minded there.
I co-designed a Media Analysis curriculum for Senior-level High School students outside Chicago. Students were required to have their guardians sign permission slips prior to enrollment, even though most were 18. The school board had very strange and arbitrary guidelines. For instance, we were not allowed to even
mention Reservoir Dogs. On the other hand, everything else was up for grabs. I showed the students several clips from
Pink Flamingos to demonstrate "comedy" (including one of my favorite scenes of all time: the pre-op transexual flasher). We also had a full viewing of
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer to demonstrate the film techniques taught in class. Everything else was pretty standard: movies like
Godfather,
Chinatown,
2001: A Space Odyssey. The course ran for about two years before being dissolved in favor of a more general Mass Media class.
As a student, though, I was almost expelled for showing the Pennsylvania State Treasurer R. Budd Dwyer's suicide from a copy of
Traces of Death. I was rebelling for having been put in a Physical Education Health class two years in a row. I told the teacher that my clip was
violent, and he warned the class ahead of time, never suspecting it was real footage. The students, anticipating harmless cinema violence, paid strict attention. Afterwards, several people left the room crying. One kid begged to have it played again. I was accused of "endangering the lives of the students" with material that "may [have been] appropriate for college level courses," but certainly not high school. I got off with a well-earned two week vacation.
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As a student, though, I was almost expelled for showing the Pennsylvania State Treasurer R. Budd Dwyer's suicide from a copy of Traces of Death. I was rebelling for having been put in a Physical Education Health class two years in a row. I told the teacher that my clip was violent, and he warned the class ahead of time, never suspecting it was real footage. The students, anticipating harmless cinema violence, paid strict attention. Afterwards, several people left the room crying. One kid begged to have it played again. I was accused of "endangering the lives of the students" with material that "may [have been] appropriate for college level courses," but certainly not high school. I got off with a well-earned two week vacation.
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LOL! I was showing the same scene from a tape called DEATH SCENES II to a freind of mine...and Tara Sue walked in the room,saw it ,ejected the tape...and tore it to pieces and SMASHED the box! THAT horrified me maybe more than the clip did her!
All I can say to this thread is "Wow."
My question is why were you all doing this stuff AT SCHOOL? I mean, you had to KNOW it would get someone's panties in a bunch. Seems to me that part of the purpose might have been to ruffle some feathers and push on authority a little bit. If that's the case, you cannot complain too much when authority pushes back.
When I was a kid, we watched pretty much whatever we wanted - at someone's house. Sometimes with the parent's approval, sometimes not. But hey, we used to get into R rated movies all the time, too. I guess it was different times....
That said, some of my teachers did show/play some pretty off-the-wall stuff. We learned to not yap about it outside of class an draw attention to it, and I don't recall the teacher's getting in trouble for it. I went to high school right smack dab in the middle of the Appalachian Bible Belt, and we had plenty of folks ready and willing to "put 'em in their place" - but the school was pretty good at edumecatin and 'munity 'lations.
Funny...at the time, I never thought I'd be defending that school's progressiveness....
Quote from: RCMerchant on May 12, 2007, 05:50:53 AM
I rembember going to see GP movies...not PG...GP! Does anyone know exactly what that stood for...I really can't recall. :question:
I recall them showing the Beatles MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR once,as a Thanksgiving movie...in a lame attempt to be "hip",I guess...(this was about 1978)....kids just started walking out of the auditorium...next year they went back to the annual HUNCHBACK of NOTRE DAME(1939)....which at least,if not overly familiar,everyone always enjoyed. :smile:
Yes, it stood for General Public. With a rating like that, you can understand why they quickly changed it to Parental Guidance. Hard to believe, I can actually remember a time when movies came out without a rating.
First JAWS:
There is nothing at all in Back to The Future to compare to the lifting of the severed, quivering rubber body part from the dissection pan, or have you all forgotten? The initial murder of the girl in the first scene, leaving only bits of her? The torso tipping over in the water?
Forget Quinn's murder -- Jaws had PLENTY of violent, gory parts so the story remains strange because, YES, JAWS was and IS gory and violent --
Ratings:
GP stood for "General Public". Once there was only GP and M -- X was not an actual rating for another year yet. Anyone know the first real X rated movie? And I don't mean the pornos that would rate themselves with make-believe XXX and XXXX ratings -- Give up? Midnight Cowboy, very tame by today's standards.
Anyway, I recall going to a M picture while very young, by myself: Coogan's Bluff. More eye-popping sex and nudity than you could shake a stick at, let alone the violence and language & drug use. Nobody batted an eye when I presented my ticket, sans parents. Fast forward a few years, and I'm lying my butt off at age 17, trying to get into R-rated Clockwork Orange, as in Virginia R meant 18 without parent.
Ratings, are, of course, a joke --
peter R/denny XXX
Also, I have a poster for "Zachariah" on my wall here -- came out in 1970, and shows the "GP" rating on it. Today, this film would probably get a PG-13 or maybe a R for the violence/homosexual overtones alone --
peter G/denny P
It's funny...I used to get into GP movies easily...many quit violent and bloody...I was 8! And here at the Strand,which was (and still is) a tiny hometown movie house,built in the '20's I believe, was happy to get business,so they would let anyone in,whethter it was an R or not! Dad figured,if it was a horror movie,it was ok! So he had no problem with me seeing DRACULA AD 1972, PSYCHIC KILLER,or FRANKENSTIEN's BLOODY TERROR,(which really p**sed me off,as Franky wasn't even in it!) BUT, I rember the ONLY time he went to a movie,was,oddly enough, the VAMPIRE LOVERS...which was rated X! I heard him talking to my Uncle Ron about it...he said it was boring.... :lookingup: