I agree with every word…except Blazing Saddles. It had great moments, sure. But overall it was pretty meh.
Saw that a few years ago it creeped the hell out of me. As did the impersonation scene (I think that was that movie). I’d seen it years before when I was younger, but I don’t even think I finished it this last time. The “heroes” were just too skeevy.
Tzigone wrote: “The “heroes” were just too skeevy.” I almost think that was the point. College guys are virtually all assholes. It’s the age bracket. Oh yeah, plenty of guys that age not in college can be assholes too, but they’re not in an environment where assholery is reinforced and an almost necessary component for acceptance, which guys that age crave. For all the talk of individuality, they want to belong. (For the record, most of us do outgrow it by maybe age 35 or so. And if any young ladies are reading this and thinking that they’ll just latch on to that rare guy who isn’t an asshole at 20, good luck. They just go through the asshole phase later in life, like maybe at forty.)
So, “shut up and have sex with assholes - even the the guys that seem good will turn out creepy later” - don’t think so. And it’s not just assholery - it’s seriously creepy and criminal.
Edit: Can’t believe I actually got a “boys will be boys” and “everyone does it” response to peeping toms and sexual assault.
Same here, pretty much (except I somehow haven’t gotten around to Young Frankenstein.)
Animal House is one of the very few movies I enjoy rewatching. I first saw it probably around 1992 or 1993, when I was in my mid-late teens. I last rewatched it about two or three years ago. It’s almost every bit as funny to me now.
Animal House is hilarious. I rewatched it a couple years ago.
Old films are time capsules of life and cultural values.
You have to accept that you’re seeing a completely different life from your own.
Its true that takes stupid sexism farther in to the abuse category. Then again, wasn’t there a web cam scene in American Pie? Do we ever learn.
At any rate, we’ve mentioned before, Revenge of the Nerds has already been critiqued by Robot Chicken. Immediately after their crimes are known, they all get sent to jail. Which they dread, except for LeVar. Apparently, Robot Chicken still believes the cliche that gay men look forward to prison. That joke has aged faster than others.
Listen, I’m not going to go off on an anti-PC rant here. But if you second guess every joke, and counter-joke, and sanitize every response. Then there’s no comedy left.
Rules of the funny:
1). You can do anything to the pompus. As noted by Homer Simpson, “Kill wealthy dowager”.
2). Do unto others, as they have done unto you. Then split. Note to SDMB members: If you’re robbed at gunpoint, and disarm your assailant, Scott Adams believes its ironically funny to kill and rob your assailant. IRL: You go to jail.
3). Although it seems like a great way to earn money, and fight terrorism at the same time, do not acquire plutonium for the Libyans and then steal it to power your car. If you’re not arrested, that’s cause the CIA intends to kill you and wipe your existence from all databases.
Not justifying any of the behavior, just trying to explain/contextualize. Nobody I know ever committed assault by deception/matching costumes. But as far as peeping tomhood goes, I think that pretty much every guy in the all boys dorm who lived on the side facing the all girls dorm owned a pair of binoculars. (And before anybody says anything, I lived on the side facing the ravine.)
How soon we forget: That role fit John Belushi like East of Eden or Rebel fit James Dean. He never got the chance to make the big Belushi movie. Animal House was as close as it got. People have been appreciative ever since, and maybe that’s why the movie is thought of as funnier than many of it’s jokes.
But movies about anarchy are inherently funny.
Also: anyone play 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon and not love AH?
I thought it was good, juvenile humor. It was good then, and good now. But if you don’t like it, you don’t like it. However, you do have to admit it had some very sensuous moments. Or were those moments sensual?
Now, who’s up for a FOOD FIGHT!!!
I’ve never seen it.
Glad you enjoyed it. I guess I’m not that subtle. I just thought it was stupid and juvenile. Although, to be frank, I think that about 90% of comedy films. So maybe it’s just me.
I still think Some Like It Hot is funny. Also, What About Bob? is still funny.
Actually most states after the end of Prohibition and until the early 1970s had legal drinking ages of 21. A few such as Louisiana and New York had it at 18. Many states in the early 1970s, with the lowering of the voting age to 18, also lowered drinking age to 18. It went back to 21 in the early 1980s with campaigns against drunk driving and the fact young drivers had a disproportionately high share of alcohol related accidents. “
Animal House was set in 1962 IIRC
I liked “Animal House” when it came out and while its been a couple years since I’ve seen it, it was still funny. Aklthough I seriously quote Dean Wormer a lot and let’s face it: getting a young teenage girl drunk and having sex with her ain’t funny.
But we’ve said this before on other threads: Humor can age badly and succeeding generations don’t know why the predecessors laughed at someting
I saw Animal House when it first came out at the now-defunct Winchester Drive In Theaters in Campbell. Never laughed so hard in my life…but the 'shrooms may have been a contributing factor. 
I have the “Double Secret Probation” DVD in my collection and I still pull it out from time to time.
A bit of Animal House-related trivia: Tim Matheson (Otter) was the voice of Jonny Quest.
Regardless of how it’s aged, I think there was a lot of funny in Animal House:
“Double secret probation” (I still use the phrase all the time)
“Germans?”
“Forget it, he’s rolling.”
“Wait until Otis sees us! He loves us!”
“My kid can’t see - is it all right if he stands in front of you?”
“No.”
And although it’s the lesser of the two movies, the same goes for Revenge of the Nerds.
My favorite moment is when John Goodman is giving his football players a rollicking pep talk while they are slowly suffering from a chemical poured on their underwear. They eventually run for the showers at the triumphal climax of his speech, at which point he mumbles, “Shit, we forgot to practice.”
They can’t do that to our pledges! Only we can do that to our pledges!
Just tell me, mister. What fraternity would pledge a…man like you?
“I used to touch Fawne like this.”
“I know. She told me.”
The look on Tim Matheson’s face is priceless.
To quote another of my favorite movies:
“What is your major malfunction, numbnuts?” 
Sit down, this will take a while.
On a side note, I loved the Twisted Sister videos with Mark Metcalfe where he basically reprises his Niedermeyer character and is the subject of all sorts of cartoonish violence. In the video for I Wanna Rock, he even gets squirted with a seltzer bottle by the late Stephen Furst.