in college, it is when we are old enough to do the “wild things” and young enough to enjoy them.
Here’s my top 10.
10. Legally Blond
The plot:
Elle Woods open the movie with her boyfriend ditching her instead of proposing to her. Instead of breaking down crying, she decided
to do what others never thought she was capable of doing, she went to Harvard just to be able to make her boyfriend realize what he had lost.
The college reality it reminds us:
There is always this one girl in campus we always misjudge. She may be the pink-wearing perpetually vain
sorority leader or the ugly duckling we often mistake for a wall. But she’s the one who turns out to be bigger than what she appear to be, more special than everyone
else. And she’s the person we are bound to look back in in the future and say, “Who would have thought?”
9. Wonder Boys
The plot:
Grady Tripp is a professor/writer living in Pittsburgh who is struggling with writer’s block. Whilst doing this, he also manages to
get the chancellor pregnant. In the meantime, he and a college student, James Leer are trying to find a rare jacket once owned by Marilyn Monroe, and a college girl,
Hannah Green boarding with Grady has a bit of a crush on him.
The college reality it reminds us:
Rober Ebert says it best, “Wonder Boys” is the most accurate movie about campus life that I can remember. It
is accurate, not because it captures intellectual debate or campus politics, but because it knows two things: (1) Students come and go, but the faculty actually lives
there, and (2) many faculty members stay stuck in graduate-student mode for decades.”
8. With Honors
The plot:
Monty is a student, and when his computer crashes, he’s left with only a single paper copy of his thesis. Frightened of losing it, he
immediately rushes out to photocopy it, only to stumble and drop it down a grate. Searching the basement of the building, he discovers that it has been found by Simon,
a squatter. Simon makes a deal with Monty: for every day’s accomodation and food that Monty gives him, he will give a page of the thesis in return.
The college reality it reminds us:
A politically correct, vastly sentimental and ultimately insincere saga of the friendship between a kind
homeless man, played by Joe Pesci, and a guilt-ridden Harvard student. We all had it, right? Insincere rock solid relationships?
7. Slackers
The plot:
Dave, Sam and Jeff are about to graduate from Holden University with Honors in lying, cheating and scheming. The three roommates have
proudly scammed their way through the last four years of college and now, during the final exams, these big-men-on-campus are about to be busted by the most unlikely
dude in school.
The college reality it reminds us:
Full of great inside jokes and is bursting with awkwardness which is what college is partly spent on – awkwardness.
6. National Lampoon’s Animal House
The plot:
Faber College has one frat house so disreputable it will take anyone. It has a second one full of white, anglo-saxon, rich young men
who are so sanctimonious no one can stand them except Dean Wormer. The dean enlists the help of the second frat to get the boys of Delta House off campus. This film
gives high-jinks and fooling around a bad name. P The dean’s plan comes into play just before the homecoming parade to end all parades for all time.
The college reality it reminds us:
The sheer level of manic energy is enought so assault us with the memory of the craziness of college life.
5. The Skulls
The plot:
Luke McNamara, a college senior from a working class background joins a secret elitist college fraternity organization called “The
Skulls”, in hope of gaining acceptance into Harvard Law School. At first seduced by the club’s trapping of power and wealth, a series of disturbing incidents, such as
his best friends suicide, leads Luke to investigate the true nature of the organization and the truth behind his friends supposed suicide. He starts realizing that his
future and possibly his life is in danger.
The college reality it reminds us:
The movie may have sucked but there is no denying that many of the people in College wished they got the call
and be a member of the elite.
4. The Social Network
The plot:
On a fall night in 2003, Harvard undergrad and computer programming genius Mark Zuckerberg sits down at his computer and heatedly
begins working on a new idea. In a fury of blogging and programming, what begins in his dorm room soon becomes a global social network and a revolution in
communication. A mere six years and 500 million friends later, Mark Zuckerberg is the youngest billionaire in history… but for this entrepreneur, success leads to
both personal and legal complications.
The college reality it reminds us:
Because we all wish we were half as brilliant as Mark. His character is actually a fixture in every college.
3. Dead Man on Campus
The plot:
Two college roommates go out and party, resulting in bad grades. They learn of the “if your roommate dies, you get an A” clause, and decide to find someone who is “on the verge” so to speak to move in with them.
The college reality it reminds us:
Because everyone knows the legend. Anyone who has gone to college knows the myth: if your roommate commits suicide, you get a perfect 4.0 for the semester.
2. Urban Legend
The plot:
After a bravura opening sequence featuring Natasha Gregson Wagner getting slaughtered by the killer with an ax hiding in the backseat of her car, Urban Legend tells the story of a group of pretty college students at a remote New England university. The focus of the story is Natalie, a beautiful, academically-gifted student at the fictional Pendleton University. Natalie and her friends are all involved in the Folklore class being taught by Professor Wexler. Wexler regales his class with urban legends, which include Pendleton’s own urban legend about a Psych professor who murdered six students at Stanley Hall 25 years ago. Natalie is the first one to suspect there’s a killer on campus, especially after she has ties to all of the victims. First, it’s her high school friend, a guy she’s in the woods with at night, her roommate… No one, including her friends, Wexler, Dean Adams and security guard.
The college reality it reminds us:
If you hang around dudes whose idea of fun is to try every urban legend out there and get nothing but repeated disaster as a result every time, this movie will seem great.
1. The Rules of Attraction
The plot:
Camden College. Sean Bateman is the younger brother of depraved Wall Street broker Patrick Bateman. He’s also a drug dealer who owes a lot of money to “fellow” dealer Rupert Guest, as well as a well-known womanizer, for he sleeps with nearly half of the female population on campus. Lauren Hynde is, technically, a virgin. She’s saving herself for her shallow boyfriend, Victor Johnson, who’s left the States to backpack across Europe. Her slutty roommate, Lara, has the hots for Victor as well. Paul Denton, who used to date Lauren, is openly bisexual and attracted to Mitchell Allen, who’s dating Candice to prove to Paul that he’s not gay. Sean loves Lauren. Paul loves Sean. And Lauren may love Sean.
The college reality it reminds us:
Because in every college, there’s a James Van Der Beek. The guy you can’t take seriously.
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