EMMETT Of The Unblinking Eye
TOP 10 FRATERNITY MOVIES OF ALL TIME!!!
January 13, 2006
Future SCOTUS member Sam Alito completed his Senate testimony this week. What with crying wives, inane questions and inquiries into long-dead alumni groups, it occurred to me: What chance would anyone have of surviving such scrutiny if someone went back to examine their activities in college? How many colossally stupid things would they uncover? Speaking personally, it would be a whooooollllleee lot. One of the many reasons that I use this nom de guerre. So to give you some idea of what it would be like, here are the Top 10 Fraternity Movies of All Time!.
| 10. | School Daze (1988): Not
a bad Spike Lee movie, but a little odd. A black
fraternity musical? |
| 9. | National Lampoon's Van Wilder (2002): Ryan
Reynolds in one of his early efforts. Okay, maybe
it's not that good, but it is a fraternity movie. |
| 8 | Road Trip (2000): Ditto.
But the scene in the frat house puts it slightly
ahead. |
| 7 | The Pride of the Yankees (1942): What's
this doing here?? Well, if you recall, Lou Gherig
worked his way through Columbia by waiting tables in
a frat house (sort of like a certain radio hose with
his favorite sorority, the Tri Delts). |
| 6 | The Graduate (1967): Maybe
not a concentration on frat houses, but Dustin Hoffman
does have to make a visit to one at the end of the movie
to see where Ms. Robinson is getting married. |
| 5 | The Skulls (2000): Pretty
much like it sounds. Young man joins elitist secret
fraternity at Harvard to get into law school, only to
discover skullduggery (get it?). |
| 4 | Old School (2003): Just
the thing if you want to see Will Farrell naked. |
| 3 | Breaking Away (1979): One
of my all-time favorites. Townie cutters vs. fraternity
boys in a tag team bicycle race for honor and glory.
Fine, fine film. |
| 2 | Revenge of the Nerds (1984): If
Hugh Hewitt was to join a fraternity, it would be Lambda
Lambda Lambda -- if he could pass the coolness test. |
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National Lampoon's Animal House (1978): The granddaddy of them all. Also contains one of the great lines of all time ["Flounder, you can't spend your whole life worrying about your mistakes! You f****d up - you trusted us! Hey, make the best of it!"] And Bluto becomes a Senator -- how appropriate. |
One blackball short of admission:
| = | A Chump at Oxford (1940) |
| = | Fandango (1985) |
| = | Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle (2004): |
| = | How I Got into College (1989) |
| = | PCU (1994) |
| = | The Sure Thing (1985) |
| = | With Honors (1994) |