I didn't like it. I know that this film is well loved by alot of people but I just didn't find it funny at all. It didn't make me laugh once. Apart from that I also found it pretty boring. I'm a little confused as to why this film is so popular.
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WOW! Just WOW!!!
So previous generations and original movies that inspired so many movies since (some good, but most just copycat trash) should just be dismissed to the graveyard? People in the 70s were not stupid and high (well, some were...but that description also applies to some people of every decade).
I'll be honest...I'd rather be known as someone who grew up in the 70s when movies at least tried to be original than to grow up in a time of just blatant, unnecessary remakes and ripoffs and very little originality...all the while totally disrespecting any people who are older than yourself by publicly wishing they were dead. You're a very sad example of today's youth, and I'm glad I know you don't represent your generation as a whole.
Please do not attack me for my opinions...we're all entitled to them.
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Or you need to quit being such a hipster or pretentious moron. I just saw it today and fully understand why it's so appreciated I can even watch the Futurama parody with new love, as I now finally seen the movie. It's not my favourite comedy, but it's high up there.
sharePeople in the 70s were very stupid and very high. They also don't know how to take off their nostalgia glasses. The world is going to be a much better place once everyone from that generation and before dies.Mr. Selig. I hope you do some kinda of independant contracting thing cause right now people from that generation and older are the ones that would otherwise be your boss and who actually rule the world right now.
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Exactly why the world is in the toilet. Once you all die off, we can clean up all your friggen mistakes and misinterpretations of simple ideals.If only it was so easy. I take it you don't study history much.
what a pork sword you are! go choke to death.
shareBah. I've seen Mr. Selig around these forums before. He's a troll.
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I saw it in a movie theatre the day it came out. We had to go back the next day and see it again because there was so much laughing you missed half the jokes.
shareWatched it when it first came out and just watched it again - still a really really good film. So much comedy today today is based aroud gross-out/cruelty/embarrassment but this film is just gloriously over the top, totally absurd and great fun.
Just out of curiosity, and without intending to imply any criticism, do you find any comedies older than 10 year amusing ?
Now this is a comedy you can laugh with. I'm 25, love this film and have done since i was 16 when i first discovered it. Many movies nowadays they class as comedies can't even hold a candle to something like this gem of a comedy.
shareI just watched Animal House again about a week ago - it still holds up, and it's still laugh-out-loud funny (two examples):
1) Otter at charter hearing: "The question is not whether we broke a few rules, or...took a few liberties with our female party guests. We did" (winks directly at Dean Wormer).
2) Dean Wormer: "But Carmine, I don't think it's right that you should extort money from the college!"
Mayor: (paraphrase) "you're using my streets, my police, my Oldsmobiles....so if you mention extortion again...I'll have your legs broken."
The first is an obviously hilarious moment (anyone who doesn't think the look on Dean Wormer's face when Otter winks is funny is just wrong).
The second is a less obvious one, but just as brilliantly written (if it needs to be explained why it's funny that a (stereotypically) Italian mayor denies extortion, then threatens to have the dean's legs broken in his very next breath, then we're just never going to see eye to eye on this film.
Gross-out comedy or not, this film is a work of genius, on the part of many. Within the ghetto of the gross out comedy, it hasn't been topped since.
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Only your life."
Okay, I'm neither American nor was I in college in the 70's.. I'm over 30, but not THAT old..
So I saw it on several sites as the BEST comedy of old times and gave it a shot.
It was really not funny, the acting was bad, the jokes were bad, it was naive and simple in a bad way. Maybe I'm not getting some references because I lack the cultural background but I don't have this sort of problems with the most of modern american movies or series, comedy or drama.
All in all it was not a good movie at all and I switch off after 40 minutes, something I really dont do often.
I've just seen this for the first time as well and I thought it was great.
shareI just watched it today for the first time as well and I completely agree with you.
shareIt's funny. But considering that it was the first raucous college comedy made and that every raucous college comedy thereafter had stolen from it or upped the ante since then, I can understand why modern audiences are less than enamored by it.
"De gustibus non disputandum est"
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"... it was the first raucous college comedy made ..." Horse Feathers (1932) was a comedic movie set in a college, so logically, it must not have been raucous.
shareAin't you a stickler. Do you really find the Marx Brothers movie in the same genre as Animal House?
share"Horse Feathers" is far too cerebral to be raucous.
"De gustibus non disputandum est"
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I just watched it for the first time and found it pretty childish and stupid. And predictable.
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Animal House was not made to be sophisticated, it was simply ridiculous humor. There were scenes and characters which I found funny. Animal House is not one of the greatest films, but it is entertaining.
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Um. I think you had to be there (in the 70's, that is), to get the benefit of it.
I haven't seen it for years, but I think it would still work for me, as a piece of nostalgia.
And a reminder that Tim Matheson was a hotty, not a middle-aged (like me) Vice-President as seen in The West Wing.