There is a good reason Hollywood continually makes Animal House wannabes and avoids producing films that actually focus on academia. Kids prefer their college movies to be about the fun stuff. And so a movie like Old School grossed $75 million while another Luke Wilson comedy called Tenure currently lacks a distributor. The latter film may also be hilarious, as a satire of the tenure process, but if it doesn’t concentrate more on beer bongs and naked co-eds, it won’t attract as big an audience. And according to some scholars, it may not even resonate with them, because it couldn’t possibly be what the process is really like. Film blogger and associate professor Chuck Tryon was quoted about the film last year as saying, “my ongoing pursuit of tenure typically involves me sitting in front of my laptop until 1 a.m., I don’t know how interesting that would be to watch.”
And evident by the scathing reviews from Sundance of John Krasinski’s Brief Interviews With Hideous Men, it appears another film about academia has failed to make a strong case for the subject matter. Too bad for the late David Foster Wallace, whose stories were adapted for the film, that Gus Van Sant wasn’t at the helm. A decade ago, in an interview with Van Sant, Wallace pretty much gushed that Good Will Hunting is the most accurate film about academia ever made. Do we agree with him? Let’s just say there’s not a whole lot of competition for such an honor. But in our attempt to recognize the ten best films about academia, Good Will Hunting doesn’t quite make the top spot. …Read more
I never went to a normal college, never lived in a proper dorm or experienced fraternity hazing or even rush week from an inside viewpoint. I went to an urban art school and then a commuter school. And though I grew up in a college town and later worked on the campus of another college I didn’t attend, I feel like I don’t have the proper perspective with which to judge most college movies and college kid characters as being true to life. This probably explains why I enjoy so many bad movies set in colleges and/or involving college students. I bet I could even check out a double feature of The House Bunnyand College and have a good time at the movies.
Of course, I do have some semblance of good taste, and I also recognize that none of the following movies are anywhere near the quality of my favorite college movies (including Harold Lloyd’s The Freshman, the Marx Brothers’ Horse Feathersand the Frat Pack’s Old School), or even the beloved Animal House, which I regrettably find to be highly overrated (no, that doesn’t mean I dislike it or think it’s bad or unfunny). The ten movies on today’s list are merely guilty pleasures that I can’t stop appreciating no matter how hard I try or how old I get.
Is it just me, or does Andy Dick’s mug shot from the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department look like a head shot from a Joker audition? Suddenly his part in Old School as Barry the Oral Sex Instructor is a lot less funny.
For anyone who doesn’t know Andy Dick was arrested this morning at 1:13 am for exposing a 17-year-old girl’s breasts outside of a Buffalo Wild Wings (yes, Buffalo Wild Wings) in Murrieta, CA. Police were investigating a call about “an intoxicated male” urinating outside the restaurant. It was then, a police statement says, that Dick approached the girl and pulled down her tank top and bra.
But really? Is anybody shocked? It’s like the fake gasps that Pee Wee Herman masturbated at a theater. I’d be more surprised if a year went by without some Andy Dick genital story (no pun intended). The actor has reportedly exposed himself to audiences twice, was arrested for cocaine and marijuana possession in 1999, and in Feb., 2007 was forced from the set of the “Jimmy Kimmel Live” for continuing to rub Ivanka Trump after she asked him to stop.
Dick has already been released from the detention center upon posting the $5,000 bail. Ah, to work in the LAPD.
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Is it just me, or does Andy Dick’s mug shot from the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department look like a head shot from a Joker audition? Suddenly his part in 
