Jayne ,'Out Of Gas'
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they're doing The Dark Knight Returns.
No, they're not. They may quote a line or two from it.
But more importantly, it's a Zach Snyder-directed sequel to Man of Steel in which Batman and Superman are going to fight Avengefully in the hopes of setting up an even less-inspired Justice League movie. I cannot imagine how Affleck could have the slightest effect on the quality of this project.
beloved movies for back-to-school?
...Heathers?
Back to school movies: Up the Down Staircase, although the book is better.
Does it have to be good? Because The Affairs of Dobie Gillis is pretty silly, but it starts at the beginning of his freshman year. Maybe Harold Lloyd's The Freshman would be better, because Harold Lloyd.
And Good News is entertaining, plus you get to look at the young Peter Lawford.
And nobody has mentioned Grease?
they're doing The Dark Knight Returns.
No, they're not. They may quote a line or two from it.
Well, I know they're not doing it, but they're taking inspiration from it, and Affleck is playing old Batman.
How about Matilda? Or any of the Harry Potters? None of them are primarily about school as such, but the schools are definitely key to the stories, and they all have incredibly memorable teachers who are great characters themselves but also so beautifully archetypal of particular kinds of teachers -- especially Miss Honey in Matilda and Professor Lupin in Prisoner of Azkaban, and the everyday cruelty and petty monstrosity of teachers and principals like The Trunchbull and Dolores Umbridge are pretty painfully true.
I'm good. I mean, talk amongst yourselves for sure! But I just need to dash off 500 words, and I've got a decent list.
Thanks for all of the suggestions. I had completely forgotten things like The Paper Chase.
Amy: "you all can stop with the list now!"
I go off in a huff! "I will take my list of education related movies elsewhere!"
(Flounce!)
No, no, not like that!
;-)
That might be exactly what shrift said. Verbatim.
Followed by me going rigid with horror and rage while my brain shouted, "I have coveted a Batman/Superman movie for so very long, it's been a treasured dream and you've ALREADY RUINED IT I HATE YOU I HATE YOU YOU'RE NOT MY REAL DAD I'm preemptively erasing this from my personal canon nope nope nope never happened."
In other news, this review of Mortal Instruments: City of Bones is pretty great: [link]
I should probably not be quite so gleeful that the movie is getting terrible reviews, but I am.