Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

So much average

Highly Overrated But Still Good

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

Every year I watch this movie 3-4 times to remind me of why I do what I do. It is relatable, unfortunately, and necessary for most teachers to watch. I cry every time but this movie is crucial to my educational career.

Luckily for this film the minimum score is 1. I am renowned by my friends, family and colleagues for the amount of films I have seen and the knowledge I have on them. Over the years the amount has become so large that i've long since given up on picking a "best film i've ever seen". However about a year ago I watched this film and my opinion on it has not changed and its rating on my list of films has remained exactly the same. It is by far the worst film I have ever seen. It is bad. It terrifyingly, apocalyptically bad. At least Plan 9 or The Room had a turn around point where they began to be so bad that they could be made fun of and you could laugh at them. This film lacks the turn around point. It just grabs as many "tear jerking moments" it can get its hands on, sticks them in a blender, leaves the lid off and lets the resulting travesty f*** up the decor of the entire room. It's been a year since I have seen this film and I am still struggling to get past this pitiful excuse for a film. Every time I think of it I feel like I am going to shout at someone and that I will soon be put in anger therapy as a result. In conclusion, I recommend that you never see this film so that you don't alter, or altogether ruin/obliterate any love for films that you may have. I know that I didn't mention what I hated about the film so much and that's just the thing. If someone handed me the only existing copy on a computer and to edit/delete what i thought was stupid in the film, I would probably just watch it and then attach a nuke to the computer just to make sure that this abomination and anything within a 10-mile-radius of it never sees the light of day again.

There are three types of movies that I am really growing weary of and they are (in descending order): The Cop Buddy Movie, The Slasher Movie (complete with iconic killer) and last but least The Inspirational Teacher Movie.This last genre irritates me most because at least the other two genres are made under the impression that it is nothing but entertainment. The Inspirational Teacher Movie appalls me because by it's very definition it has a noble agenda while at the same time telling and retelling the same story from countless other movies while disguising it's intentions with the message that it is 'based on a true story'. It's even worse when it contains a hard working performance by a good actress.'Dangerous Minds' comes with the 'true story' tag but looks, to me, like pure fantasy. Michelle Pfieffer plays LouAnne Johnson an ex-marine who gets a teaching job at The School From Hell, one of those inner-city prison schools where every student is a drug dealing malcontent. I mean no offense while making that statement but to my mind this is the kind of school that you really only find in the movies The standard first-day-of-class scene has her walking into a room full of troubled African-American and Hispanic students who huff at the idea of having a white woman teaching their class. But a one day and a few playful Karate kicks later she has curried their favor.She uses whatever methods are possible to get these kids to learn even going so far as to offer then meal prizes and candy bars to get them to read. Soon she is trying to get them to find a connection between Bob Dylan and Dylan Thomas. I never made the connection but the kids did and never really let the audience in on what it was that they had learned.The kids are the usual sort for this type of movie: troubled, gang-related and totally out of step with everything until they begin to learn about Bob Dylan *shrug*. The kids are so standard for The Inspirational Teacher Movie that I sort of started to count down to when one of the girls would end up pregnant.Is there anything to salvage from 'Dangerous Minds'? Yes. Pfieffer who is a wonderful actress in the right roles gives the movie more then it deserves but is forced to settle on dialogue that is of no help. I kept wishing that the kicks that she delivers to get the student's attention would have been in her dialogue.

One reviewer said "unless you lived the life," and others said what they thought, and yet it got a total of 6 among 72 voices.I'm giving it an 8 and I believe it reverberated as "true" and "truth" with one exception: teachers often love their students and give them candy, but the likelihood of a teacher overcoming the system is nil; hence the story portrays truth among students and teacher, but totally fails to address how a teacher who cares, and cares as much as this one did, overcame the bureaucracy and went on teaching.The performances were great across the board and a movie worth seeing more than once.