Seth Rogen vs. A Fraternity

[ZetaPhi708]

If you get the chance, look up the preview for the film '"NEIGHBORS" on YouTube.

Looks really funny but IMO, it once again reminds us of the legend of "ANIMAL HOUSE" and how that film hurt, in some cases, the image of GLOs; but most fraternities to this day still have that Bluto, Otter, or "Flounder" among their members.

"ANIMAL HOUSE" is now seen as a comic masterpiece with most critics and film fans alike and has also been entered on the National Film Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

Thoughts? opinions?

[33girl]

Greeks were in a downward spiral in the 1970s (just look at the closed chapters list for sororities, I bet a fraternities one would have even more). Animal House is what saved the Greek system. And let's remember - the Greeks who were mean, catty and abusively hazing their pledges were the bad guys in that movie. The Deltas who embraced a wide variety of brothers and showed real affection for each other were the good guys.

So any time anyone grouses about what a plague Animal House has been on the Greek system because it showed college students (gasp) having sex and drinking alcohol, all it tells me is they need to get their history straight.

Oh and Seth Rogan, you are a giant a-hole for ripping off the title of a John Belushi movie. You are on minute 14, you talentless wannabe - hope you have some money in your mattress.

[greekdee]

Animal House is what saved the Greek system.

My husband was a senior in high school when Animal House came out. He said that movie is what made him know that he HAD to be in a fraternity.

Now, many years later, he can quote it line-for-line.

[NinjaPoodle]

Originally Posted by 33girl

Oh and Seth Rogan, you are a giant a-hole for ripping off the title of a John Belushi movie. You are on minute 14, you talentless wannabe - hope you have some money in your mattress.

*giggle*

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by 33girl

Greeks were in a downward spiral in the 1970s (just look at the closed chapters list for sororities, I bet a fraternities one would have even more). Animal House is what saved the Greek system. And let's remember - the Greeks who were mean, catty and abusively hazing their pledges were the bad guys in that movie. The Deltas who embraced a wide variety of brothers and showed real affection for each other were the good guys.

So any time anyone grouses about what a plague Animal House has been on the Greek system because it showed college students (gasp) having sex and drinking alcohol, all it tells me is they need to get their history straight.

Oh and Seth Rogan, you are a giant a-hole for ripping off the title of a John Belushi movie. You are on minute 14, you talentless wannabe - hope you have some money in your mattress.

Preach!

[MaryPoppins]

Originally Posted by MysticCat

Preach!

Amen that!

[ZetaPhi708]

Originally Posted by 33girl

Greeks were in a downward spiral in the 1970s (just look at the closed chapters list for sororities, I bet a fraternities one would have even more). Animal House is what saved the Greek system. And let's remember - the Greeks who were mean, catty and abusively hazing their pledges were the bad guys in that movie. The Deltas who embraced a wide variety of brothers and showed real affection for each other were the good guys.

So any time anyone grouses about what a plague Animal House has been on the Greek system because it showed college students (gasp) having sex and drinking alcohol, all it tells me is they need to get their history straight.

Oh and Seth Rogan, you are a giant a-hole for ripping off the title of a John Belushi movie. You are on minute 14, you talentless wannabe - hope you have some money in your mattress.

Yes, I'm glad someone caught that. The Belushi/Ackroyd "NEIGHBORS" was a prefect role-reversal for both actors; oh the great things Mr. Belushi would have done, possibly a few Oscar nominations by now, if he had lived.

The same theme of embracing diversity is also evident in "REVENGE OF THE NERDS". A few years ago, there was a remake of REVENGE on the fast-track at Twentieth Century Fox but after Emory University in Atlanta turned them down for location filming, the project was shelved. ANIMAL HOUSE is one film, IMO, that can never be remade.

[Kevin]

I'd withhold judgment on the movie until I see it. Maybe the trailers aren't framing things accurately.

[33girl]

Originally Posted by ZetaPhi708

Yes, I'm glad someone caught that. The Belushi/Ackroyd "NEIGHBORS" was a prefect role-reversal for both actors; oh the great things Mr. Belushi would have done, possibly a few Oscar nominations by now, if he had lived.

Well, Aykroyd lived, and, ummm, well.

[UofM-TKE]

Last year as I walked back from the mail boxes at my apartment complex, the mailman in his little truck stopped me because he saw that I had letters on my sweatpants. He was a Sigma Tau Gamma from some little school in Pennsylvania, much like Faber College. We spoke for a while and he said that it was difficult for him to explain to people how it was to be in a house. He thought that if you had never been there then you just couldn't understand. He mentioned that people think that Animal House was absurd fiction, but he had read Chris Miller's book, which was the basis of the movie, as I had, and said that the movie was a toned down version of the book and the book was as it was.

I think that it is telling that in both the movie, as 33 girl has said, and the TV show Greeks, the uptight house were the antagonists to the welcoming house. People who were open to fraternity life, liked that. In the early 1970's fraternity life was declining but if you liked the movie, you may have checked out the houses when you get to college, if not, we liked it.

"Nobody Rages Anymore - The REAL Animal House!"
http://youtu.be/1KgP4SHUy6Q

[ZetaPhi708]

Originally Posted by 33girl

Well, Aykroyd lived, and, ummm, well.

Dan Aykroyd has received only 1 Oscar nomination, Best Supporting Actor for 1989's Driving Miss Daisy, one of only a few SNL alum to get a nomination in any category.

Eddie Murphy was nominated in the same category for Dreamgirls and Kristen Wiig was nominated for Original Screenplay for Bridesmaids. Bill Murray was also nominated for Lead Actor (IMO, should have won) for Lost in Translation.

[33girl]

That's for one performance. The rest of his career (including the "Blues Brothers" sequel and tour) has been spotty, to say the least.