I like Black Panther, but I didn't like this movie.

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

This movie is set in the 1950s. so I am not sure about the detail I am questioning here. When I was born in 1963, it was common practice to circumcise infant boys. However I remember that my Dad, who was born in 1928, was not circumcised; so my question remains: when did it become common practice?If most guys were uncircumcised at the time this film takes place, sharing the shower would have been a dead giveaway to the Gentiles in the school regarding their new classmate's religion.I don't know the answer but it strikes me as something that should have been addressed.

We all have secrets, most often the concealing of a minor infraction. However, what if the secret concerns someone's identity or ethnicity among his or her peers? If the secret was revealed, would his opportunities be jeopardized? This is the plight David Green (Brendan Fraser in a fine performance) must face in "School Ties". In the 1950's, a prestigious college prep school, St. Matthews (modeled probably on Exeter Academy in New England) has been losing football games year after year, and the alumni is at their wits' ends. The alumni concoct an interesting strategy: put together a football scholarship and use it to compel an outstanding athlete to enroll in their school and improve their team.They find a crack-jack quarterback from Scranton, Pennsylvania, David Green, and compel him to attend their school for his senior year of high school. However, there's one catch: Green is Jewish, and St. Matthews is a private Anglican school where students are required to attend Christian services. Green decides to conceal his Jewish heritage and "play" along by attending services and hiding a Star of David necklace. He makes friends, and as the new quarterback, the football team becomes a success.However, Green's appearance at the school causes disruption in the tried-and-true storytelling device of "a stranger comes to town". He has knocked Charlie Dillon (Matt Damon in an outstanding supporting performance) out of the quarterback spot, and the latter will now play running back and blocker. Green becomes the star player. In one interesting scene, Dillon makes the crucial difference in a score but Green receives most of the credit. However, things continue to get worse for Dillon. His "girlfriend" Sally Wheeler (Amy Locane) begins to fall for Green at a school dance.Dillon has only one trump card to play against Green to undermine the latter's meteoric rise to the heights of school super-stardom, potentially the turning point of the story. A thoroughly compelling film from beginning to fade out. The cast is excellent with many young actors who will become name talent in their own right: Fraser, Damon, Ben Affleck, and Chris O'Donnell. And the story asks the question: will ethnic prejudice or individual character win the day?

Changing demographics at a school produce problems not necessarily solved by prescribed tutoring for the newcomer plus sensitivity training for those long established in the milieu. During the American civil rights era when busing, parental input into curriculum and family social services on campus seemed the prescription for success they did little to accomplish the goal. In some cases families dependent on legal residency and food stamps, housing subsidies and child support on the student remaining on register insisted the student cannot be take off register even if primarily truant then totally disruptive when occasionally on campus. During the American civil rights era parental control often meant removing evidences of the continent of Europe from the curriculum hence students categorically refused to study European history and the plays of Shakespeare even when curriculum requirements. The movie features a brilliant cast of rising stars from Matt Damon and Ben Affleck to Chris O'Donnel and Brendan Fraser who bring to life a New England boarding prep academy for boys whose football team needs an outsider quarterback on scholarship to win a pennant. Enter son of a working class boy from out of New England who of course is unfamiliar with the religious beliefs of the people in his new community and their ways of life in his new community and how boys used to be waited on by servants at home think of boy classmates who have to work as servants on campus to pay their tuition. The storyboard in itself is not too extraordinary for a generic fish out of water melodrama yet its depiction of this vital American phenomenon as it happened fifty years ago in American civil right and today in amnesty victims of besieged zones of other continents is brilliant, insightful and thought provoking.

I was at (3) elite Prep Schools at the same time: 1958 -1965 beginning in 7th grade. There were Jewish kids at the schools and a few black kids. I don't buy all the discrimination whatsoever - there wasn't any.Funny, at one school I went to we recruited an ethnic Catholic kid and we were a Protestant School. That kid eventually played in the NFL. No problems at all.Another school I went to was the best football team in the state and the stars were mostly Jewish and no one thought anything of it.So, be careful when you watch what B.S. lines Hollywood wants to feed you. They mostly voted for Obama who has shown himself as a total racist 100% of the time after promising "healing". What a liar.