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earthbound14 · Joined: 23 Jan 2007 Location: seoul

I need some movies and TV shows for my upper level university students....any ideas?

So far I'm thinkin of using a Jim Carrey flick, perhaps The Mask. I figure it would be pretty easy for students to follow and understand. I really want to show an episode of Dexter.....but I don't think that woud go over too well with da boss.

Leslie Cheswyck · Joined: 31 May 2003 Location: University of Western Chile

Those old twilight zone episodes seem to work.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightmare_at_20%2C000_Feet

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Serve_Man_%28The_Twilight_Zone%29

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Enough_at_Last

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitch-Hiker_%28The_Twilight_Zone%29

Bibbitybop · Joined: 22 Feb 2006 Location: Seoul

Who the hell would want to sit through The Mask?

At least show something challenging or something that provokes thought across cultures. It can be funny, and it can even be Jim Carrey, but The Mask??

It depends on the assignment. What do they need to get or do after it?

earthbound14 · Joined: 23 Jan 2007 Location: seoul

Bibbitybop · Joined: 22 Feb 2006 Location: Seoul

The Mask and Notting Hill. Really?

Either this is an excellent trolling attempt, your students are idiots or I just lost some respect for Korean uni students as a whole.

My recommendations (under the implied limitations from admins):

Slap stick better than The Mask: Naked Gun movies, Will Ferrel sport movies

Romantic Comedies better than Notting Hill: Meet the Parents (that's rated PG13, right?)

Movies that make them think outside of "Koreanism": Dead Poet's Society, Office Space (but rated R)

Kiwi32 · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Location: Gyeongsan, South Korea

Hi,
our non credit courses teaching intermediate level students used 'How I met your mother' series 1 and 2 but we ended up buying the DVD as the subtitles were more helpful for expressions etc.
Also I have shown 'Music and Lyrics' which was a romantic comedy and was well received as was 'Knight's Tale' (adventure) some time ago.
Cheers

D.D. · Joined: 29 May 2008

All of the movie Baraka is on youtube. It provokes thought and shows them something outside their culture. Also a good message about not being a human consumer robot. Watch-movies.net has lots of movies for free and some are good quality.

VirginIslander · Joined: 24 May 2006 Location: Busan

Movies with Koreans, or references to Korea, will go over well.

1. Disturbia
2. Training Day -Denzel Washingtown actually speaks Korean in the film
3. Crash
4. Lady in the Water
5. Knocked up
6. Harold and Kumar go to White Castle
7. Malibu's Most Wanted (girlfriend loved it)

But with the exception of number four, they are all pretty graphic, sexual

I would also play movies about university life

1. Higher Education
2. Good Will Hunting
3. Road Trip (My girlfriend really loved it)
4. Eurp Trip

Again, all with drug, sex references and violent.

Personally, I would prefer to teach an abridged book and a movie and then have them write compare/contract essays: White Fang, Of Mice and Men, Apollo 13, The Birds, The Last of The Mohicans, Jaws, Tow Sawyer, Huck Finn, etc....