Frat Daze/Tha Brotherhood by Big Walt

Rain Man · #1 03-22-2003, 06:48 PM

OK, I finally rented the movie that has supposedly pissed off a lot of Greeks:

"Tha Brotherhood", originally marketed as "Frat Daze", produced, written, and directed by Walter "Big Walt" Anderson.

To say the least, it was DEFINATELY low budget, as if someone had shot it with a plain camcorder. I don't think it even had a script, as it seemed that everything was ad-libbed. And of course, the emphasis was on hazing in BGLOs.

Basically, it was about a pledge who falls asleep in Professor Big Walt's chemistry class. He gets called out in it and explains that he lost a lot of sleep b/c he is pledging. Well, Big Walt tells him a flashback story of his pledging experience back in 1992, when he pledged the Beta Phi Phi Fraternity.

Well, the rest of the movie was pretty predictable; the pledges get beat on hard, and one of the pledges dies. After the story, the student listening to the story realizes he is late for a frat "set" and runs out of the classroom to the BPP house, only to get struck by a black and white cane for his tardiness. A poem is read, and the credits roll to some over-dramatized music.

As an added bonus, the DVD contained another real(?) pledge documentary of four brothers pledging Phi Psi Phi Fraternity at a Texas university, with interviews by other BGLO males.

This movie fell kinda flat, quite frankly.

View @ your own risk.

carolyne · #2 03-23-2003, 12:01 AM

Is this movie by the same guy who wrote all of the unathorized histories of the Divine 9?

Honeykiss1974 · #3 03-23-2003, 12:12 AM

OMGoondess, is movie is availibe on DVD?

LB1914 · #4 03-23-2003, 06:19 PM

I tripped out when I actually saw this movie in the New Releases section at Blockbuster. Big Walt has repackage it as "Tha Brotherhood" and the DVD cover has what appear to be actual NPHC fraternity members on it. I saw the movie when it was marketed as "Frat Daze" and it was just as bad(if not worse)as Rain Man's description. I was more pissed off at the fact that I wasted a couple of hours out of my life than with anything that was depicted in the movie. What was supposed to be shocking and hard-hitting actually came across as more comical than anything.

RedefinedDiva · #5 03-23-2003, 09:55 PM

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Originally posted by carolyne
Is this movie by the same guy who wrote all of the unathorized histories of the Divine 9?

The very one.

I almost want to rent it just to see how bad it is!

However, I don't want to make that fool's pockets fat off of some bullisht.

Professor · #6 03-24-2003, 06:04 PM

You for the info. Somehow, I'm on a list and continue to be encouraged to get the book/movie. I knew something was not right.

LB1914 · #7 03-24-2003, 08:01 PM

Professor,

What has been happening is that someone is going through guestbooks or other listings that have e-mail addresses of Greeks on them and has been spamming people about the movie. I used to get those messages all the time at an old e-mail account of mine.