New movie-making fun of greeks??

[SoCalGirl]

Originally Posted by SWTXBelle

I hate the use of Zeta and Phi Mu - but I have to admit that it looks better than the usual dreck. At least the Zetas have a sense of "individuality". That said, it's not on my list of must-sees.

Originally Posted by texas*princess

Maybe I saw another trailer, but I don't see a reference to Phi Mu?

And I have to say, unless the group is using the nickname "Zeta" and their house letters are in a blue, does that really mean they are trying to rip off the entire sorority?

If they had everything in common then I'd probably think differently.

I believe the "bunny" reference is in regards to her being a Playboy bunny... unless that happens to be the mascot of Zeta Alpha Zeta.

When Anna Faris walks up to the house it's in bad shape. The sign at one point said ZETA but the E was missing so it only said Z TA. Then the Z falls on her head.

Damn it! It looks cute. I'll rent it since it'll likely be in stores by Christmas.

[SWTXBelle]

TX Princess, I don't think anyone has gotten really worked up about the movie. We've said we wished they had used different letters, but that's about it. Did I miss the "OMG it's so awful" post? I even went so far as to say that it looks better than the average "let's use every stereotype in the book" greek movie, which is insulting more for a lack of creativity than anything else.
Yes, there are only so many combos of letters, but there are plenty that don't reference any NPC sorority at all. "Revenge of the Nerds" managed to avoid any problems. You really think they didn't have any choice but to have Zetas and Phi Mu? The missing e leading to "ZTA" - they HAD to do that? They couldn't have the rivals be Mu Iota Phi? C'mon - someone is having some fun.
This doesn't look like a movie I would want to see no matter what letters they used, but I'm not about to put up a barricade and demand a boycott.

[katybelle04]

Originally Posted by SoCalGirl

When Anna Faris walks up to the house it's in bad shape. The sign at one point said ZETA but the E was missing so it only said Z TA. Then the Z falls on her head.

this is the part that i didn't like about it. as a zeta i don't like to see my letters on something like this... i realize that its only a movie and all that, but I don't like the way they put my organizations letters into it like that... they could have found another way to be funny, or use different letters or something. Not cool imo.

[ztagirlthetaeta]

Originally Posted by katybelle04

this is the part that i didn't like about it. as a zeta i don't like to see my letters on something like this... i realize that its only a movie and all that, but I don't like the way they put my organizations letters into it like that... they could have found another way to be funny, or use different letters or something. Not cool imo.

I'm a Zeta and I completely agree with this statement. I was watching Greek on ABC when I first saw the commercial and I had to rewind and fast forward the thing like ten times to see it for real. It would of been cool if they had like ZAZ on the house like they do in Greek with ZBZ, but the fact that our letters were perfectly noticable (color and everything, I mean even the girls shirt was steel grey and turquoise) kind of sucks. I think it looks like a cute movie, but I don't want to see my letters associated with something like playboy or the "social misfits" of the campus.

[tld221]

Originally Posted by texas*princess

That's really interesting that they would refer to themselves as the "Phi Mus" if Phi was the first letter, there was a letter in between, and then Mu.

Most 3-letter orgs typically go by the first two letters (e.g. Lambda Chi = Lambda Chi Alpha; Delta Sig = Delta Sigma Phi; etc). I know not all GLOs do that (like Pi Phi for instance), I just find it odd that they would do that and Phi Mu is actually a real organization.

interestingly, we're the only org in D9 that gets a nickname with all 3 of our letters. Well, us and the AKAs but i think that is a little more fluid and natural than saying "SGRs". I notice only guys throw single-letter nicknames at us (Ks and Rhos) and it sounds a little ridiculous.