31 day movie meme #8
Jul. 9th, 2016 03:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lonemagpieI just watched this movie last night, and loved it. More importantly for this post, it gave me the answer to the next 31 day movie meme question:
Day 08 - Movie that should be required high school viewing,
See, my thinking is that a movie which should be shown in schools ought to be educational or developmental in some way - ideally promoting the idea of critical thinking. So my go-to first answer would have ordinarily been Twelve Angry Men, but I already used that as a previous answer, and I don’t want to repeat.
I then thought, fuck it, I’ll just say Battle Royale or Animal House for a laugh. But that would be a dubious choice of reaction, wouldn’t it? Then I saw this last night, and yay!.
This week, at least, I’d nominate The Martian, for the simple reason that it shows the value of studying and learning, and that being a science geek is not a bar to being cool and badass, and may save your life. Also it reminds the audience of today that you can have proper science fiction that does not involve superheroes. So, yeah...
Day 08 - Movie that should be required high school viewing,
See, my thinking is that a movie which should be shown in schools ought to be educational or developmental in some way - ideally promoting the idea of critical thinking. So my go-to first answer would have ordinarily been Twelve Angry Men, but I already used that as a previous answer, and I don’t want to repeat.
I then thought, fuck it, I’ll just say Battle Royale or Animal House for a laugh. But that would be a dubious choice of reaction, wouldn’t it? Then I saw this last night, and yay!.
This week, at least, I’d nominate The Martian, for the simple reason that it shows the value of studying and learning, and that being a science geek is not a bar to being cool and badass, and may save your life. Also it reminds the audience of today that you can have proper science fiction that does not involve superheroes. So, yeah...