Saturday, 3 May 2014

"My advice to you is to start drinking heavily!" - John 'Bluto' Blutarsky

Movie no 1
Animal House
1978 - imdb (link) 


 At a 1962 College, Dean Vernon Wormer is determined to expel the entire Delta Tau Chi Fraternity, but those troublemakers have other plans for him.

 Harold Ramis - Writer

 Cast

John Vernon - Dean Vernon Wormer
John Belushi - John 'Bluto' Blutarsky
Bruce Mcgill - Daniel 'D-Day' Day
Tom Hulce - Larry 'Pinto' Kroger
Peter Riegert - Donald 'Boon' Schoenstein
Tim Matheson - Eric 'Otter' Stratton
James Widdoes - Robert 'Hoover' Hoover
Stephen Furst - Kent 'Flounder' Dorfman
Kevin Bacon - Chip Diller
Mary Louise Weller - Mandy Pepperidge
Martha Smith - Babs Jensen
Donald Sutherland - Dave Jennings

 Director - John Landis

 Writers - Harold Ramis, Douglas Kenney & Chris Miller

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23 comments:

  1. Unknown3 May 2014 at 19:30

    Haven't watched this in a very long time.

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  2. Kevin Taylor3 May 2014 at 19:34

    Another film to add to my already impressive 'Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon' game.

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    1. Unknown3 May 2014 at 19:53

      KB movies was on the Pointless final the other day. They didn't win the money.

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  3. Unknown3 May 2014 at 19:36

    Aside from Kevin Bacon there are a lot faces in this that look familiar, but very young.

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  4. Unknown3 May 2014 at 19:40

    Beautiful use of 'twerp'.

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  5. Unknown3 May 2014 at 19:50

    Well executed slapstick makes for some of the best comedy.

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    1. Kevin Taylor3 May 2014 at 19:54

      Am not usually a fan of slapstick but something about how casually it's done here really holds up.

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  6. Unknown3 May 2014 at 20:04

    This is one of only a handful of things that I've seen John Belushi in.

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  7. Unknown3 May 2014 at 20:06

    Ah, I love a fourth wall break.

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  8. Kevin Taylor3 May 2014 at 20:08

    Young Bruce McGill looks a lot like Donald Sutherland

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  9. Unknown3 May 2014 at 20:10

    John Vernon's got an awesome voice.

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  10. Kevin Taylor3 May 2014 at 20:15

    In hindsight we should have done this marathon in togas

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  11. Unknown3 May 2014 at 20:17

    The old smashed guitar gag that they ripped off in Star Trek Next Gen...

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  12. Unknown3 May 2014 at 20:25

    Not sure if this was the start of this genre, the genre that gave us 'Porkie's'. Can't think of an earlier example.

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  13. Unknown3 May 2014 at 20:58

    I must be getting old; took me ages to place Karen Allen.

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    1. Kevin Taylor3 May 2014 at 21:00

      Hard to believe that this was only 3 years before Raiders.

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    2. Unknown3 May 2014 at 21:01

      Haha, that explains it...I just thought she'd aged particularly well.

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  14. Unknown3 May 2014 at 21:05

    I think me next car needs to have a steam whistle.

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  15. Unknown3 May 2014 at 21:09

    Marvellous.

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  16. Kevin Taylor3 May 2014 at 21:12

    Was slightly worried about that one having not seen it for years and didn't think it would hold up anywhere near as well as it did. Was a really strange mixture of different types of comedy that you don't see often these days (certainly not without taking you out of the film). Enjoyed that a lot. May even now be my number one film starring a Belushi although I'll have to watch K9 again before committing to that position.

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  17. Unknown3 May 2014 at 21:12

    I think it's fairly clear that that did pave the way for the teen 'gross-out' genre. Which I suppose means that we owe it a lot, good and bad.

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