Am I the only one who hated this movie?
Watching it was pure torture.
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Yes.
I graduated from college that year. Much reminded me of one of the high schools I went to.
Perhaps you don't know much about manners, respect and civility given todays Pop Culture and PC.
BTW: It's not money that needed to fix education, it's our letting Pop Culture and PC run amuck in our kids lives to the point where the "inmates are running the asylum".
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Watching it was pure torture.
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Yup, you're the only one. I can't see how anyone could hate this movie unless you really hate the genre (feel good/educational films) or you're prejudice with the subject matter.
The movie is excellent and the acting is brilliant at times. I've seen this movie at least 10+ times. It's always entertaining and touching.
Yep!
shareNYC BOE should be sold to the highest bidder & their union sold out just like they sell out their members.
shareWell, that's a really amazing way to solve the problem of public education-did any teenagers grab you, hold you down, force open your mouth and then pee into it?
Please keep your right-wing neocon *beep* opinions about education to yourself, okay? Better yet, don't vote anymore.
Probably. Your idea of reality is probably some half witted series with second rate "celebrities." To Sir With Love showed what England was really like in the 1960s.
shareI barely watch TV as it is (I'm mostly on the Internet) and when I do watch TV, it's scripted shows (Hawaii Five-O, Star Wars The Clone Wars, Young Justice, Star Trek.) Care to try again?
My reality is living NOW, not in the mythical past proscribed by the GOP and Faux Noise (or The National Review) which is obviously what yours is. If you can't deal, I suggest that you find a time machine to carry you back to the said idealized past that you love so much.
Those who do not know their history are doomed to repeat it. Step out of your Now bubble and realize that the world changes daily, all changes based upon whatever came before, and learn a little history. It will allow you to understand the present and the future.
shareYou are always entitled to your own opinion, of course, but it would be helpful if you explained WHY you hated it.
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Yes. You ARE the only one. Go back to your Barney movies.
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shareCouldn't stand it.Found both Thackeray and the real life Braithwaite arrogant and patronising. "Boys don't want to marry sluts" -speak for yourself,mate! And if he was going to call the girls Miss,he should have called the boys Mr. What would he have said if one of them had pointed that out?
shareLove this flick, just watched again tonite on TCM.
share"Couldn't stand it.Found both Thackeray and the real life Braithwaite arrogant and patronising."
It's kind of ironic that you say this, because I found that the premise of the movie itself, like most Poitier movies from the 60s, to be very patronizing. Bleeding heart liberalism.
The theme for a 60s' Sidney Poitier movie was a black man initially being rejected and "dissed" by whites and winds up winning them over in the end, because of the strength of his character. Moral of the story: Black folks can be decent people and racism is wrong.
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"Poitier is one of the VERY, VERY few black actors of that time to play intelligent roles."
I'll go you one better, Lorrie. Sidney was the ONLY black dramatic actor to star in Hollywood movies for a long time, and it was because he was a token.
Sidney's movies were made in the 60s and of course civil rights was the central issue in America at the time. As I said before, virtually all of the movies he starred in addressed racial and civil rights' issues, and "To Sir, with Love" was no exception. With all of the protests and riots occurring during that time period, he was just a way of whites saying at the time, "Hey, I'm not racist. I believe in equal rights for all. Sidney Poitier is one of my favorite actors and I love his movies." Ever noticed that Sidney stopped starring in mainstream movies at the end of the 1960s? During the 70s he only appeared in black films, and by the 80s he stopped appearing in movies altogether. It was said that he could no longer get the starring roles in Hollywood movies that he was accorded in the 60s, largely because of the social climate of time had changed.
He would have called them Master, rather than Mr, as they were not yet 18, I suppose.
shareUh, no. Boys/young men referred to by surname was part of the school tradition when I taught in England.
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