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<blockquote data-quote="Felon" data-source="post: 4014061" data-attributes="member: 8158"><p>Well, to be sure, fraternities don't just exist for immature males to party non-stop and endlessly try to hook up with girls that suffer from low self-esteem. They also provide a way for said immature males to do professional networking after graduation when they have to sober up and move on to the next phase of their pre-programmed existence: landing a job and trophy wife and rugrats and a house in the burbs and a couple of gas-guzzling SUV's. Frat boys wind up as VP's all the time. If anything, that fact bumps up resentment a notch or two.</p><p></p><p>I've got a manager in my workplace whose office is located near mine. His primary daily activity is calling up his brothers for an hour or two and arranging various outings. His ringtone is his house brothers shouting their little cheer. The guy's pushing forty and the rest of his life has suffered for his steadfast refusal to grow up. This is the sort of fellow who, were he a character in a horror movie, most people would cheer his gory demise.</p><p></p><p>Having said that, I reiterate that I don't see the frat-boy connection with this movie. These twentysomething people don't seem particularly obnoxious or spoiled or possess any of the other arrested-development traits that make the stereotypical frat boy so deserving of violent death. There is nothing inherently wrong with partying and scoring a home run with another consenting adult. It's when people ignore that there's more to life than partying that they become the sort of shallow and insipid 2D characters that we can't wait for some monster to munch on. All things in moderation.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Felon, post: 4014061, member: 8158"] Well, to be sure, fraternities don't just exist for immature males to party non-stop and endlessly try to hook up with girls that suffer from low self-esteem. They also provide a way for said immature males to do professional networking after graduation when they have to sober up and move on to the next phase of their pre-programmed existence: landing a job and trophy wife and rugrats and a house in the burbs and a couple of gas-guzzling SUV's. Frat boys wind up as VP's all the time. If anything, that fact bumps up resentment a notch or two. I've got a manager in my workplace whose office is located near mine. His primary daily activity is calling up his brothers for an hour or two and arranging various outings. His ringtone is his house brothers shouting their little cheer. The guy's pushing forty and the rest of his life has suffered for his steadfast refusal to grow up. This is the sort of fellow who, were he a character in a horror movie, most people would cheer his gory demise. Having said that, I reiterate that I don't see the frat-boy connection with this movie. These twentysomething people don't seem particularly obnoxious or spoiled or possess any of the other arrested-development traits that make the stereotypical frat boy so deserving of violent death. There is nothing inherently wrong with partying and scoring a home run with another consenting adult. It's when people ignore that there's more to life than partying that they become the sort of shallow and insipid 2D characters that we can't wait for some monster to munch on. All things in moderation. [/QUOTE]
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