Movies to watch on busrides
 

A little prelude to this.

We wanted to get Goldmember for the trip down, but no one brought it. The reason we wanted it was because the team leader kept quoting it, with things like "I love gold", or "the robot's toight, toight like a tiger". So someone went out and bought Goldmember and it was sitting in the toolbox the whole trip, right on top. A kid from team 69 came up and said "so, I have just one question, is Goldmember a standard issue item in your tool box?" Greatest question.


So yeah, my top 3


1) Eraserhead
2) Monty Python
3) Anything by Kubrick to mess with the frosh's heads

Dumb and Dumber
Caddyshack
Billy Madison

And, of course ...

The Matrix
(team tradition) ;)

- Katie

We'd watch The Matrix except half of our team are philosophy lovers and would argue about it all three days of competition, not fun.

Does watching it on a laptop in a minivan count? We always bring a power inverter and DVD laptop and watch DVDs. We don't have any "favorites," but we've watched a lot of movies.

We watched....
Monty Python and the Holy Grail

and
Princess Mononke

on the way down

and we watched

Cool Runnings
(a good movie to watch before a FIRST competition).
and
Orange County
(a movie that wasn't as dumb as I first thought it would be).
on the way back.

Team Hammond must have watched 'Remember the Titans' about four thousand times last season.

... and I cried every time. :(

I was going to say that Cool Runnings is a must. Even if you don't watch it, it has to be present. It's like, the patron saint of long bus rides.

Sandlot's up there too.

ALADIN!! <- is that how you spell it. LOLS. :D

I think our kids will riot before they watch a Disney animated movie on the bus...

nah. we didn't have no RIOT. LOLS. ;) we complained....A LITTLE. not too much. we then ended up watching it....

MONSTER INC.
BOO IS SO CUTE!

Have you guys watched Red Green yet?

Watched "Canadian Bacon" with John Candy on the way to NYC last year!! lol One of our team members thought we were going to the Canadian Regional, we had to subdue him when he found out we weren't going to Canada!! lol

We don't take a bus. We have parent drivers. =|

We're so poor.

Disney movies are cool. This coming from a 17-year-old guy. Hmm.

My suggestions:
Speed (hehe)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (interesting movie :) but the book is still better)
Any kind of stupid humor movie is good.

I was trying to think of more geeky/cultist movies...I don't quite think Clockwork Orange would be allowed on a bus for a school-related event :)

My team took a bus to Florida last year. Pennsylvania to Florida. Ouch. :D

Yeeah no kidding, incredible movie, but i'm sure some kids would start crying and then there'd be tears, and therapists and there's no need of that at a robotics event.

I've never listened to "Singing In The Rain" in the same way again.