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.
Angel: Miss me? Lilah: Only in the sense of…no.
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JZ - Aug 23, 2013 7:10:28 am PDT #25273 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Amy - Aug 23, 2013 7:12:33 am PDT #25274 of 30000
Because books.
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.
le nubian - Aug 23, 2013 7:36:05 am PDT #25275 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
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!)
Amy - Aug 23, 2013 7:41:05 am PDT #25276 of 30000
Because books.
No, no, not like that!
;-)
shrift - Aug 23, 2013 9:23:46 am PDT #25277 of 30000
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
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."
shrift - Aug 23, 2013 9:24:43 am PDT #25278 of 30000
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
In other news, this review of Mortal Instruments: City of Bones is pretty great: [link]
Dana - Aug 23, 2013 9:27:06 am PDT #25279 of 30000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I should probably not be quite so gleeful that the movie is getting terrible reviews, but I am.
shrift - Aug 23, 2013 9:30:05 am PDT #25280 of 30000
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Let us be gleefully petty together.
Jessica - Aug 23, 2013 9:33:03 am PDT #25281 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Ok that was hilarious.Team Elderly Woman Who Walked Out Of This Movie!
§ ita § - Aug 23, 2013 9:47:32 am PDT #25282 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I cannot imagine how Affleck could have the slightest effect on the quality of this project.
Seriously! I have been in "uh, I think it's gonna suck" mode for a long time now. The idea of Affleck in the role is entertaining! But I've already seen a good actor be a crap Batman in a crap Batman movie. This is nothing earthshattering or anything. He's nigh tangential, except for how funny the geek rage is right now. That's a price above rubies.