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The heat has damaged the few remaining brain cells I had so no introduction for this week's Thursday Movie Picks. It's not like there's much to say other than it's about school. Anyway, here are my three picks for the week. I know, I know, I'm probably picking wrong films but they all are set in high school. Anyway, stay hydrated!
21 Jump Street (2012)
I haven't seen this one in years but it was so funny. I really need to rewatch it.
Love, Simon (2018) - Review
It's a bit clichéd rom-com but it has so much heart and delivers a very beautiful message.
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015) - Review
It's such a beautiful film about friendship. One of my favourite of that year.
I feel for you with the heat. We just went through a blistering couple of weeks and now have a series of storms passing through-a tornado touched down a few towns away last Friday so everything was rocking and rolling....but it has taken the extreme heat with it.
ReplyDelete21 Jump Street was funnier than I expected. I was a casual viewer of the Johnny Depp series when it was on and it was much more serious so when I saw this was a comedy I thought there would be no way it wouldn't be a disaster but was pleasantly surprised.
Love, Simon was fine but the build up I'd heard led me to expect more than it delivered. I won't watch it again.
I've heard of the last but haven't caught up with it yet.
I headed to boarding school for my picks this week.
Mädchen in Uniform (1931)-Still reeling from the death of her mother teenage Manuela (Hertha Thiele) is sent to a German boarding school run by the autocratic Fräulein von Nordeck (Emilia Unda). Grieving and angry Manuela at first keeps to herself but is slowly drawn out of her shell by sympathetic young teacher Elizabeth von Bernburg (Dorothea Wieck). But when Manuela's fondness for her teacher turns into a romantic attachment, it becomes a school-wide scandal. The film caused an uproar upon its release due to its compassionate view towards lesbianism.
The Happiest Days of Your Life (1950)-During World War II St. Swithins all-girls school is evacuated from London to avoid the Blitz. Due to a clerical error the female students and staff are relocated to the Nutborne Boys School. When the headmaster, Wetherby Pond (Alastair Sim) finds out he hits the ceiling but when he realizes there is nothing to be done about it he and St. Swithins headmistress Muriel Whitchurch (Margaret Rutherford) agree to keep their mixed-sex campus a secret to avoid disturbing the parents. However they find it hard to deceive visiting inspectors and hilarity ensues.
A Little Princess (1939)-When the wealthy Captain Crewe (Ian Hunter) is called to serve in the Boer War he places his young daughter Sara (Shirley Temple) in the exclusive Miss Minchin's School for Girls. Everything is rosy for a time but when word arrives that the captain has been killed in action and his property seized Sara, reduced to penury, is forced to become a servant at the school living in a tiny attic room. Belittled and tormented by several of the girls especially the cruel Lavinia (Marcia Mae Jones) Sara believes her father to be alive and haunts the hospitals looking for him.
I never watched the series but I enjoyed the Jump Street films way more than anticipated.
DeleteCool choices. I'd have to have School of Rock, Breakfast Club and Ferris Bueller.
ReplyDeleteI haven't seen School of Rock and wasn't a huge fan of Ferris Bueller but I loved The Breakfast Club and considered picking it.
DeleteGreat list! I really need to watch Love Simon sometime!
ReplyDeleteI hope you'll enjoy it.
DeleteI can't find fault with any of those picks. I love 21 Jump Street as the scene of Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill getting high still makes me laugh to this day. I remember that scene in the theater as it was nearly packed yet everyone laughed their fucking asses off.
ReplyDeleteI saw the movie only once but I still remember that scene to perfection and the only thought of it makes me burst out laughing.
DeleteI loved Love, Simon. My sister keeps trying to get me to watch Me and Earl and the Dying Girl but I don't want to cry right now. lol
ReplyDeleteBut it is soooooo good!
DeleteI love all the high school movies, so with me you knock an open door. :)
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