"Going Greek" movie
 

Going Greek
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I was browsin' through The Movie Gallery the other day, grabbing movies left and right to take advantage of their 99cent new releases promotion and I came across the movie Going Greek... Well you should never judge a book by its cover, so despite the pictures and description, I decided to watch it and come up with a real conclusion of my own...

The description of the movie is: College freshman Jake finds himself pledging the wildest fraternity on campus as a bid to help his geeky cousin get in. Along the way, he finds himself in a romance with a girl who hates fraternities--and as the raunchy tests to get in get wilder and wilder, Jake actually finds himself enjoying the ride.

Wellll I just finished watching it and I had mixed feelings on the movie... First of all, 90% of Greek life which the movie shows are very graphic examples of extreme hazing.. This includes branding, kidnapping, scavenger hunts, getting the sh*t beat out of each other, among many others... :eek:

Attempting to look past this, this movie is about Jake, a star high school quarterback who in hopes of breaking a record, let down his friend and ended up also hurting himself, losing his scholarship to big college... He goes to another college where he finds himself rooming with his cousin. The cousin is a bit of a nerd and is all about joining this one fraternity on campus... Apparently he's a legacy..
Anyway, somehow Jake promises to go through rush with his cousin even though he doesnt want to, meets a girl who hates fraternities and ends up pledging because he is told that if he doesn't join, (he is needed for football) then his cousin doesn't get in... He sees this as an opportunity to make up for letting his old friend down and toughs it out through 'hell week' and other abusive events..

I must admit that this was quite a funny movie, despite the stereotypical approach it uses to show greek life... It also attempts to show togetherness and brotherhood as the pledges all stick together to help each other out...

Other than that I don't really know what else to say.. has anyone else seen this movie? What are your opinions? Many of you guys would be shocked, thats for sure...

-Matt

Great movie, I bought it and love it.

Well whether it's hilarious or not...if it supports the stereotypes, I don't think I care to watch it.

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I can tell there are three letters on that guy's shirt, but all you can really see are the chi and omega. :rolleyes:

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Not to worry. I've seen the movie, curious about that as well when I saw the cover (one of my best friends is a Chi-O), but the back clearly states that the fraternity is called Iota Chi Omega and the fraternity is commonly referred to as "I-Chi" in the movie.

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I was thinking the same thing too when i saw it. but if you look closely at the paddle he is holding, there is an Iota on it. Not that it makes a difference. :rolleyes:

The colors of Iota Chi Omega were definitely red and yellow as well...and many of the shots in the movie showed just the Chi and Omega. My boyfriend took great fun in pointing all of them out :rolleyes: Although I must say, the movie did crack me up!

Havent watch Greek Vacation the Movie off ebay yet!

Bought GOAT about KS at A Sothern College. Very disturbing, not well written!

Passed this on to a Brother. LXAAlum a fellow Mod and he was desturbed also!:(

OKAY, sugar is getting low or getting Drunk! Dinner seems to be in order!:cool:

Not saying it is a big deal.. I'm not suggesting we protest or anything... I just watched the movie and thought I'd share my opinions and see what others thought. :)

-Matt

why is the dude holding the wood like he's going to give someone some taps?

:confused:

Because that's the best way to promote the movie!

And besides, that's how you take paddle pictures.

you guys take paddle pictures? wow...ok.

Yes, with our lavender and yellow crescent moon paddles with pink flowers on them. :p

I thought Going Greek was an awesome movie. We sat around and laughed our asses off the entire length of the movie.

I don't think it "inspires" hazing or anything like that, and as far as perpetuating fraternal stereotypes...face it...they're going to be here no matter what we do or how well the Greeks behave. Soooo deal with it and move on. ;-)

Ah, it must be in the eye of the beholder!;)

How does this compare to the other Movies?????;)

My friend was disgusted by the movie, also this movie is NOT closed captioned or subtitled, but I could kind of understand the movie i mean its obvious LOL.....but it should have deaf accessibility that was not RIGHT!!! :mad:

A little hijack, but refering to your post...I don't know about VHS, but my DVD player will automatically play english subtitles on every movie. I dont know why it does that.

Dont be such a prune. :rolleyes:

don't be so rude :rolleyes:

The word you're looking for is actually prude

but I'll co-sign with kddani.

ROFL!!!

MY chapter told me not to tell about that!!!:p

Hey Prunes have feelings to ya know.have some respect..Really.

Damn you again!!?? I swear you have it out for me.

What ever happened to "sisterly" love?:rolleyes:

I don't know you. You don't know me. But I just wanted to give you a bit shut the hell up. I don't know if we have anything in common...if you're nice...or your life story or anything. I just want you to shutup. I get annoyed by even your name. I don't know Matt but I want to beat the crap out of Matt OK? I just wanted to tell you that.

-Rudey
--And I hate anyone that rolls their eyes by the way so when you respond with something boring, leave that out ok?

I don't like his name.

-Matt

Lol, news flash, you're not my sister.

Play like a grown up and don't call people names and we won't have any issues.

It was a DVD!!! It didnt have captioning OR subtitles!!

it was pretty low budget, extra features cost money

i'm sure they didn't exclude subtitles and captions to exclude those who don't speak english or have hearing problems.
-Matt

Going Greek Background
 

This film was filmed at UC Riverside (school scenes/football game) and USC (house scenes and party scenes) in September of 2000.

In the library scene, you may have noticed that has been in the movie Boys and Girls with Claire Forlani (the UC Berkeley Library scene)

All the people you see in the cafeteria scene, outside of the dorm scene etc, are actually students of UC Riverside...

If you don't believe me, here are some photos from my webpage that show we were there when they filmed the cafeteria scene and also the one where Jake walks into the large lecture hall (very steep btw) with the kegs attached to his legs. If that lecture hall looked rather familiar, it was the focus of the last scene in "Slackers"

http://www.geocities.com/sniff009/Mo...ed_at_UCR.html

As you all know the football game did not look very good because many people were away getting ready for Midterms and Thanksgiving break. During that scene, other than the guy that had a speaking part, they used brothers from Kappa Alpha Order.

My guys thought it was hilarious. We were actually pretty surprised that they chose UC Riverside. I wish it was shot better though. I found myself in one scene and my old roommate in another, which came out kinda weird.

Rumors had the movie budget at about 1 million dollars.

As a UC Riverside student, I found it ironic, because A. Our Greek Popluation is not very high :-( B. We do not have a Greek Row and C. We don't have a football team :-(

Myabe it's your actual DVD plyer. My DVD player always plays subtitles.

Hey not to be whatever, but if you are both Kappa Delta's...you might want to think about keeping your spats private because it kind of reflects poorly on your org. If one of you is not a KD...disregard my post :)

lol, nope, she's not a KD, hence why I said she's not my sister.

that movie was friggin hillarious. just bc it shows the stereo types and what not doesnt mean it is a bad movie. not everyone is that "typica frat boy/ sororawhore" so i dont see what the big deal with this movie is.

oh yea and speaking of "sororawhore" has anyone gotten that thing going around saying i am a sororiwhore and then goes on to say that i do this and i have that, like i only wear steve maddens and carry kate spade bags and i only sleep with fraternity guys and i bag on your house and things like that? my sorority found it funny, bc it is sooo not us.

Beats the hell out of me :confused: i didn't get it either

I saw it and loved it! Whenever I get around to buying a DVD player,lol, it'll most def be on my top list of dvd's to buy. :D

Yes. Why do you think fraternities are time after time associated with "the Animal House image"? Stereotypes gotta start somewhere.

However, I do agree the movie is hillarious.

Question: Is your sorority (Sigma Nu Phi?) a local?