What was the last movie you've seen?

[J T]

I watched Into the Wild a second time. It is such a beautiful movie about leaving society to live truthfully in nature. Eddie Vedder provides the perfect soundtrack.

[MrPopo]

I watched Into the Wild a second time. It is such a beautiful movie about leaving society to live truthfully in nature. Eddie Vedder provides the perfect soundtrack.

Isn't that the movie where the guy gets romantic notions about nature and decides to try and be a survivalist completely unprepared and dies ignobly in the wilderness when someone more competent would have gotten out safely?

[Luke]

But they do have choice. They can choose to go to magnet schools, they can choose which classes they take, they can choose which extra-curricular activities to participate in.

Not necessarily.

And from the words of my middle school principle (and I had a 4.0 gpa for three years straight) "GA is not for niggers or yankees". So fuck off a bit. Not entirely, as I like you, but do fuck off as I had zero choice of my own curriculum. And had I not moved to the south, I would have been placed highly in the school of math and science in Ohio.

[Jmustang1968]

But they do have choice. They can choose to go to magnet schools, they can choose which classes they take, they can choose which extra-curricular activities to participate in.

Not necessarily.

And from the words of my middle school principle (and I had a 4.0 gpa for three years straight) "GA is not for niggers or yankees". So fuck off a bit. Not entirely, as I like you, but do fuck off as I had zero choice of my own curriculum. And had I not moved to the south, I would have been placed highly in the school of math and science in Ohio.

Me or Forlorn?

[Exhuminator]

I watched Into the Wild a second time. It is such a beautiful movie about leaving society to live truthfully in nature. Eddie Vedder provides the perfect soundtrack.

Isn't that the movie where the guy gets romantic notions about nature and decides to try and be a survivalist completely unprepared and dies ignobly in the wilderness when someone more competent would have gotten out safely?

Yes you have the gist of it, and it's a true story. He starved to death. His last written words were "Beautiful blueberries." Shitty way to die. But I'm sure the movie captures his noble intent and makes it seem like an existentially enlightening sacrifice or whatever.

[MrPopo]

I watched Into the Wild a second time. It is such a beautiful movie about leaving society to live truthfully in nature. Eddie Vedder provides the perfect soundtrack.

Isn't that the movie where the guy gets romantic notions about nature and decides to try and be a survivalist completely unprepared and dies ignobly in the wilderness when someone more competent would have gotten out safely?

Yes you have the gist of it, and it's a true story. He starved to death. His last written words were "Beautiful blueberries." Shitty way to die. But I'm sure the movie captures his noble intent and makes it seem like an existentially enlightening sacrifice or whatever.

But it's not a sacrifice. It's some idiot who gets himself killed through being stupid. I'm not running down his wanting to live simply, but if you're going to abandon the trappings of society you better do some real research how to do so first.

[Exhuminator]

But it's not a sacrifice. It's some idiot who gets himself killed through being stupid.

I'd be surprised if the movie was actually that blunt about it though.

[MrPopo]

You're probably right about that.

[mjmjr25]

I wanted to enjoy it but it in the literal sense of the expression - it put me to sleep.

[Exhuminator]

I saw a movie about a young guy who made some bad decisions when he went out into nature, and nearly died because of it, that actually ended up being a pretty good film:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/127_Hours

I was surprised how entertaining that movie managed to continuously be, despite the seemingly sparse subject matter.