Movies to watch in Economics?

[stewen12]

What are some good movies you guys could reccomend me to watch in Economics, that my teacher would allow. A movie that was reccomended was The Kingdom. ANybody else have any examples

[ALBballer]

Are you in college or HS?

[emsteez forreal]

What are some good movies you guys could reccomend me to watch in Economics, that my teacher would allow. A movie that was reccomended was The Kingdom. ANybody else have any examples

we never watched movies . just john stossel videos . :rockon:

[Dasher]

http://www.impawards.com/1987/posters/wall_street.jpg

[rufuspaul]

Wall Street

[High Potential]

Jerry MacGuire

[stewen12]

Are you in college or HS?
Highschool

[ALBballer]

Highschool

I will have to paraphrase JoeyZaza when he said to Geewiz "I'm glad my tax dollars are being spent wisely."

[LJJ]

A Clockwork Orange. It's really good.

[boozehound]

the corporation
the merchants of cool
wal mart. the high cost of low prices.

let me know if you want more.

[intrinsic]

'Tucker' was the only film i recall from my hs economics.

http://www.teachwithmovies.org/guides/tucker.jpg

[boozehound]

I think ALB baller and I agree for the first time ever. what a friggin waste of the education system and tax dollars. no way y'all should be watching tucker and freaking J. Macguire in class. both good movies, but what a waste.

[RidonKs]

The Real Dirt on Farmer John is a decent one that I watched in Soc last year.



side note: Shouldn't it be "Roger and I." Did the fat guy f*ck up his own movie title?
Michael Moore is a big fat stupid white man.

[intrinsic]

I think ALB baller and I agree for the first time ever. what a friggin waste of the education system and tax dollars. no way y'all should be watching tucker and freaking J. Macguire in class. both good movies, but what a waste.

What would you expect out of a HS economics course? Select a handful of stocks, track them for a couple of months, and define some key terms. Then you move on to a course on "government"

[johndeeregreen]

wal mart. the high cost of low prices.
Interesting film. With that said, if you don't like capitalism, don't live here.

[RidonKs]

Interesting film. With that said, if you don't like capitalism, don't live here.
Heh, no less than three of my profs last year showed that film during class.

Aren't something like 4-5 of the 10 richest Americans Wal-Mart heirs? I'm pretty they were a few years ago anyways. Worth something like $18 billion each, and ranked 4-7 or something along those lines.

[boozehound]

The Real Dirt on Farmer John is a decent one that I watched in Soc last year.



Michael Moore is a big fat stupid white man.
that is a great movie. very interesting seeing the interactions between him and his agribusiness economy of scale type neighbors.

Gotta say Ive been watching his awful truth series lately (only lasted a season or so) and, while I do find him annoying, alot of his points were right on 10 years ago and he has helped a number of people fight corporate stupidity (like one guy whos HMO wouldnt cover a pancreas transplant even though the doctors said he would die without it - WTF is health coverage for?). I did dislike his 911 movie. Not necessarily cause it was bad, but because I felt like many of the factual points he brought up were offset or marginalized by his attempt to bring in a lot of bull that was either irrelevant or not proven.

Roger and me is a good movie. FLint is still ****ed.

[boozehound]

Interesting film. With that said, if you don't like capitalism, don't live here.
where? Earth? oh.. ok. Pointing out the negatives of our eonomic system (which is pretty freaking far from Smith-type capitalism) is not only our right but also our duty. The externalized costs of how we do business today will be paid for generations to come. besides, not everything needs to be a market commodity. Most industrialized nations have realized that healthcare and education are too important culturally and socially to be treated as an economic commodity. Now, if corporations actually had to pay the actual externalized costs of local pollution (esp. in regards to resource extraction and processing), etc, instead of some paltry EPA fine (if that), they would be forced to operate differently. Somethings are more important than a profit margin. But since corporations only act locally but have no local accountability (esp. in 3rd world countries) there is a huge disconnect.

[RidonKs]

Yeah, it's a really good documentary. Our entire class was completely drawn into it. We actually watched it in Intro to Anthro, that's your specialty isn't it?

Moore... is interesting. I really do need to read Big Fat Stupid White Man, or at least rent one of the dozens of movies that tears apart all of Moore's arguments. I mean, the guy is guilty of embellishment to the extreme - even to the point of flat-out making up facts. At least, that's what I've heard, and I'd like to check into it a little more to see what all the hubbub is about. I do know that he isn't even actually from Flint, he's from a middle class area called Davison that's nearby, and is more home to management than to the working class of the car factories. Doesn't really take away too much from the actual message of R&M which should still ring loud and clear, but the fact that Moore portrays it as his "old stomping grounds" makes you wonder just what else he's being disingenuous about. It's kind of disheartening actually.

I wasn't exactly high on Fahrenheit either. Seemed to be a bit too sappy, using sob stories to sell the movie, which it didn't really need. Columbine was good though, and I never managed to see Sicko, although I've meant to. You guys and your damn backwards privatized system - get with the times!

[johndeeregreen]

where? Earth? oh.. ok. Pointing out the negatives of our eonomic system (which is pretty freaking far from Smith-type capitalism) is not only our right but also our duty
Nobody's saying you can't criticize. But it's a business. If people can get things cheaper, they can and will. Does it suck that small business get wiped away? Of course. But that's pretty much the right of any company that can do it. If they can pay lower and give lower prices, why the eff not? It's all about the benji's.

[boozehound]

Yeah, it's a really good documentary. Our entire class was completely drawn into it. We actually watched it in Intro to Anthro, that's your specialty isn't it?

Yeah, but I am an archaeologist in my research focus (actually study past human subsistence systems). The only one of those movies I show in any class i teach is the merchants of cool one (actually a frontline episode).

Havent seen sicko yet either. It is a little disappointing, cause he makes some valid arguments that can be buried or discounted by his overstatements.

[Dasher]

This site is a big help to anyone looking to grab a little knowledge in documentary form:
http://freedocumentaries.org/

[ALBballer]

From an entertainment aspect, Micheal Moore is good. He does a great job mixing in comedy with seriousness and he does a great job holding your attention. But I don't like how his films are biased and I don't like how he uses deceiving stats to further his points.

I remember reading his book "Dude, Where's My Country?" a few years ago and I found it to be Utopian liberal bs.

But maybe I'll pik up another one of his books just for kicks.

[qwerty]

Wall Street


Def. watch this movie. We watched it last year and it was a really good movie plus you learned a few things.

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[Bimbo Coles]

A Clockwork Orange. It's really good.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgbXlEnwh1Y

[Duderonomy]

The wolf of wall street seems to be the film always used by every fake Instagram money adviser. They must've skipped over the last 20 mins where he was a fraud and got sentenced to prison. :facepalm