Greek-related movies

RedRover · #1 10-24-2006, 12:00 AM

A couple of thing that I want to add...

About movies and hazing, the incident that is at the climax of FRATERNITY ROW is based on a real incident that happened at UCLA or USC in 1959. CSI
used a variation for one of its episodes set at fictious Western Las Vegas University.

On a lighter, add TOO MANY GIRLS to the list of movies. The 1939 musical introduced Lucille Ball to Desi Arnaz. If you can image Lucy as a sorority pledge. Unfortunately, she looks her age, 26 or 27 in 1938/39.

tld221 · #2 10-24-2006, 10:31 PM

no one's gonna throw in the ABC Family original drama "The Initiation of Sarah?"

cause clearly i watched it.
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ETA: ok clearly GC is all over it. never mind.

nauadpi · #3 10-27-2006, 04:21 PM

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Originally Posted by tld221

no one's gonna throw in the ABC Family original drama "The Initiation of Sarah?"

cause clearly i watched it.
[/sarcasm]

ETA: ok clearly GC is all over it. never mind.

Ironically this is actually a remake

tld221 · #4 11-12-2006, 10:23 AM

dont know if this is posted, but to avoid this thread from being restarted in months by some GC newbie who cant use the search function:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...and_sororities

Drolefille · #5 11-13-2006, 03:33 PM

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Originally Posted by tld221

dont know if this is posted, but to avoid this thread from being restarted in months by some GC newbie who cant use the search function:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...and_sororities

Ha, you think this will stop them?

SoCalGirl · #6 11-21-2006, 05:08 AM

Van Wilder's getting a sequel! I love Van Wilder but I think I'll wait for Taj to come to DVD before I see it. It looks pretty much the same but set in England.

Link to the trailer:
http://www.mtv.com/overdrive/?id=1541415&name=movies

AGDem · #7 10-25-2006, 01:28 AM

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Originally Posted by RedRover

On a lighter, add TOO MANY GIRLS to the list of movies. The 1939 musical introduced Lucille Ball to Desi Arnaz. If you can image Lucy as a sorority pledge. Unfortunately, she looks her age, 26 or 27 in 1938/39.

I own Too Many Girls, it's interesting to see the vast changes in sorority life since then. This is back in the day when women went to college to find husbands rather than to get an education. But, I have to be an old movie snob here (I seriously watch too many for my own good), the movie was made in 1940 and Lucy was 29 (Desi was 23). However, this was before the days of I Love Lucy and Lucy didn't have her crazy redhead reputation yet, she was still a B-list Hollywood glamour girl. I wouldn't exactly say "she looks her age," though, there was a lot of gray area back then in movies about ages, a lot of teenagers looked older, older people looked younger, etc.

Adpigal · #8 10-25-2006, 10:47 PM

Has anyone mentioned Going Greek? I personally love PCU. Also the new one Accepted, that was cute. Van Wilder also has Greek life.

Adpigal · #9 10-25-2006, 11:18 PM

I forgot about Pumpkin!

Rain Man · #10 10-27-2006, 03:04 PM

I don't think anyone here have mentioned "Stomp The Yard", scheduled for release in January 2007.

Other Greek movies are "[In The Name Of] Tha Brotherhood" and "Tha Sistahood" and its sequel "Tha Sistahood 2", directed by Big Walt Anderson.

mccoyred · #11 10-27-2006, 04:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Rain Man

Other Greek movies are "[In The Name Of] Tha Brotherhood" and "Tha Sistahood" and its sequel "Tha Sistahood 2", directed by Big Walt Anderson.

Straight to DVD doesn't count

Rain Man · #12 11-21-2006, 03:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Adpigal

Has anyone mentioned Going Greek?

I rented Going Greek last week. Though mainstream Greek life is relatively foreign to me, the scenes and events looked very plausible and I figured there was a degree of accuracy of what mainstream Greeks do.

Oh, and I found it to be funny and the characters to be very believable.

PhrozenGod01 · #13 01-08-2007, 03:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Rain Man

I rented Going Greek last week. Though mainstream Greek life is relatively foreign to me, the scenes and events looked very plausible and I figured there was a degree of accuracy of what mainstream Greeks do.

Oh, and I found it to be funny and the characters to be very believable.

I just saw Going Greek last night. It wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be, but it was nowhere near as amazing as Animal House. Better than the cover description suggested at least. It's up there with PCU as far as greek movies go on my list.