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<strong>Title:</strong> Road Trip<br/>
<strong>Year:</strong> 2000<br/>
<strong>Director:</strong> Todd Phillips<br/>
<strong>Plot:</strong> In this raunchy comedy, Josh (<a href="/players/P____48743/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Breckin Meyer</a>), a student at a college in Ithaca, NY, videotapes his one-night stand with beautiful sorority girl Beth (<a href="/players/P___235676/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Amy Smart</a>). A few days later, Josh discovers that one of his friends accidentally mailed the homemade porn tape to his girlfriend, Tiffany (<a href="/players/P___199757/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Rachel Blanchard</a>), who is spending some time with her family in Austin, TX. Josh and his friends Barry (<a href="/players/P___271305/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Tom Green</a>), Kyle (D.J. Qualls), E.L. (<a href="/players/P___270525/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Seann William Scott</a>), and Rubin (<a href="/players/P___277309/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Paulo Costanzo</a>) borrow a car and hit the road in a desperate bid to intercept the tape before Tiffany loads it into her VCR; Beth, however, wants Josh for herself and has her own plans to track down Tiffany. Road Trip is the first fiction feature from director <a href="/players/P___106394/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Todd Phillips</a>, noted for such edgy documentaries as Hated: G.G. Allin & the Murder Junkies, <a href=/films/135172/default.aspx style='text-decoration:underline'>Screwed</a>, and <a href=/films/116037/default.aspx style='text-decoration:underline'>Frat House</a>. The cast also includes <a href="/players/P____74620/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Fred Ward</a> and <a href="/players/P___195737/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Andy Dick</a>. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide<br/>
<strong>Times Tagged:</strong> 2<br/>
<strong>Number of Lists:</strong> 26<br/>
<strong>Number of blog posts:</strong> 4<br/>
<strong>Number of discussion threads:</strong> 1<br/>
<strong>SpoutRating:</strong> 2<br/>
</td></tr></table>]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 00:56:32 GMT</pubDate><spout:Title>Road Trip</spout:Title><spout:Year>2000</spout:Year><spout:Director>Todd Phillips</spout:Director><spout:Plot>In this raunchy comedy, Josh (&lt;a href="/players/P____48743/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'&gt;Breckin Meyer&lt;/a&gt;), a student at a college in Ithaca, NY, videotapes his one-night stand with beautiful sorority girl Beth (&lt;a href="/players/P___235676/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'&gt;Amy Smart&lt;/a&gt;). A few days later, Josh discovers that one of his friends accidentally mailed the homemade porn tape to his girlfriend, Tiffany (&lt;a href="/players/P___199757/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'&gt;Rachel Blanchard&lt;/a&gt;), who is spending some time with her family in Austin, TX. Josh and his friends Barry (&lt;a href="/players/P___271305/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'&gt;Tom Green&lt;/a&gt;), Kyle (D.J. Qualls), E.L. (&lt;a href="/players/P___270525/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'&gt;Seann William Scott&lt;/a&gt;), and Rubin (&lt;a href="/players/P___277309/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'&gt;Paulo Costanzo&lt;/a&gt;) borrow a car and hit the road in a desperate bid to intercept the tape before Tiffany loads it into her VCR; Beth, however, wants Josh for herself and has her own plans to track down Tiffany. Road Trip is the first fiction feature from director &lt;a href="/players/P___106394/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'&gt;Todd Phillips&lt;/a&gt;, noted for such edgy documentaries as Hated: G.G. Allin &amp; the Murder Junkies, &lt;a href=/films/135172/default.aspx style='text-decoration:underline'&gt;Screwed&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=/films/116037/default.aspx style='text-decoration:underline'&gt;Frat House&lt;/a&gt;. The cast also includes &lt;a href="/players/P____74620/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'&gt;Fred Ward&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="/players/P___195737/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'&gt;Andy Dick&lt;/a&gt;. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide</spout:Plot><spout:TimesTagged>2</spout:TimesTagged><spout:taglevel>Slightly Tagged (1-5)</spout:taglevel><spout:Numberoflists>26</spout:Numberoflists><spout:NumberOfBlogPosts>4</spout:NumberOfBlogPosts><spout:NumberOfDiscussionThreads>1</spout:NumberOfDiscussionThreads><spout:SpoutRating>2</spout:SpoutRating><spout:FilmCoverURL>http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/t09308rzw5x.jpg</spout:FilmCoverURL><spout:SpoutFilmDetailURL>http://www.spout.com/films/Road_Trip/140466/default.aspx</spout:SpoutFilmDetailURL><spout:type>Film</spout:type></item>
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      <title>Spout Post: 10 Virgins Who Lost It On a Road Trip</title>
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<strong>Post Date:</strong> 10/17/2008 2:00:43 PM<br/>
<strong>Body:</strong> As far as Hollywood is concerned, the best way to lose one’s virginity is on the road. Whether driving cross-country for a sure thing or making a weekend trip to the state university in an attempt to get laid, teens are always taking sex-seeking trips in the movies. Already this year, there was College, which featured some high school kids having sex on a campus far from home, and now this week sees the release of Sex Drive, a movie about a guy traveling 500 miles in order to hook up a girl he met online, just so he doesn’t begin college a virgin.
Though it may be wrong to celebrate movies that could possibly be encouragement for online predators and purveyors of sex tourism, we present some of our favorite cinematic virgins who lost it on a road trip:
(Warning: potential spoilers ahead.)


Kyle Edwards (DJ Qualls) in Road Trip (2000)
This movie has to be the first on anyone’s mind when thinking about virginity loss on a road trip. Not necessarily because of the title, either. Kyle’s first time is simply one of the most memorable sexual initiations ever put on film. With all due respect to the large ladies out there, seeing Kyle shyly get it on with big girl Rhonda (Mia Amber Davis) is hilarious. Of course, much of the humor of the scene also comes from how scrawny, pale and dorky Kyle is.

Lucy Wagner (Britney Spears) in Crossroads (2002)
After deciding not to lose her virginity in the boring setting of home-territory, Lucy embarks on a trip that will see her meet her mother for the first time, enter a singing contest, and have her first sexual experience with a guy she’s just recently met. It’s a little more romantic than it sounds, though, as her chosen partner has just co-written a song with her, and he’s made sure to initiate the encounter near an open window providing a view of the ocean. Even if this guy turns out to be a jerk later on, it has to be worth it, because there’s no way a girl could have a more special first time than that.

Sherry (Ellen Page) in Mouth to Mouth (2005)
Before she became an icon of teen pregnancy, future Oscar-nominee Ellen Page appeared in this indie, which featured the following plot synopsis: “How Sherry loses her virginity, her illusions and her lip ring in one trippy road trip across Europe.” As you can see in the video above, it’s not quite as special a first time as Britney got.

William Miller (Patrick Fugit) in Almost Famous (2000)
One of the benefits of being a band on tour is all the road sex from groupies galore. But do tag-along journalists usually get such perks, too? They do if they’re virginal teenagers, and the groupies are as gracious as the typically non-intercourse-having “Band-Aides.” Based on director Cameron Crowe’s own first time while on the road with rock bands in the 1970s, young Rolling Stone reporter William manages the perfect teen male fantasy by being deflowered by three hot female rock fans.

Jeremiah ‘Jam’ Bruce (Sam Huntington) in Detroit Rock City (1999)
Another reason to believe that teens of the ’70s commonly lost their virginity while en route to rock concerts. In this movie, the experience isn’t as much a fantasy as the one in Almost Famous, though it is nearly as unbelievable. Jam and his buddies travel from Cleveland to Detroit for a Kiss show, and it just so happens that the kid’s crush, Beth, has apparently also made the trip and followed him into a church, where they do it in a confessional booth. And after Jam officially becomes a man, he has the strength to finally stand up to his mom.

Seaman Larry Meadows (Randy Quaid) in The Last Detail (1973)
It’s one thing for a guy to want to lose his virginity before he goes to college; it’s another for a guy to need to lose it before beginning an 8-year sentence behind bars. While being escorted by two fellow sailors (Jack Nicholson and Otis Young) to Portsmouth Naval Prison, Meadows is shown a good time on the road, and while he doesn’t manage to experience “the big one” in the sequence above, he finally does the deed courtesy of his buddies and a young prostitute played by Carol Kane.

The girl who does it in a shark tank in Cherry Hill High (1977)
While on a post-graduation long-distance bicycle trip, a group of girls hold a contest to see who can lose her virginity in the most creative way. If the prize went to the most dangerous deflowering, certainly the first girl to get it on would have sealed the deal, because her first time is with a shark wrangler in a shark tank. (to see a slideshow clip of the scene, click on the above still.)

Tenoch Iturbide (Diego Luna) and Julio Zapata (Gael Garcia Bernal) in Y Tu Mama Tambien (2001)
Best friends Tenoch and Julio are anything but virginal when they embark on a road trip with the beautiful, older Luisa (Maribel Verdu), but by the end of their little vacation, they do end up having an experience that could be technically considered a loss of virginity.

Anais Pingot (Anais Reboux) in Fat Girl (2001)
In one of the most shocking endings ever, 12-year-old Anais accomplishes her goal of the summer while traveling from her vacation home back to Paris. If you’ve never seen it before, I don’t want to spoil it (the above video is merely the film’s trailer), but I’ll say one thing: it may be the most startling intentional loss of virginity ever put on film. Originally posted on:SpoutBlog<br/>
</div>]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 18:00:43 GMT</pubDate><spout:postby>SpoutBlog</spout:postby><spout:postto>SpoutBlog on spout.com</spout:postto><spout:postdate>10/17/2008 2:00:43 PM</spout:postdate><spout:body>As far as Hollywood is concerned, the best way to lose one’s virginity is on the road. Whether driving cross-country for a sure thing or making a weekend trip to the state university in an attempt to get laid, teens are always taking sex-seeking trips in the movies. Already this year, there was College, which featured some high school kids having sex on a campus far from home, and now this week sees the release of Sex Drive, a movie about a guy traveling 500 miles in order to hook up a girl he met online, just so he doesn’t begin college a virgin.
Though it may be wrong to celebrate movies that could possibly be encouragement for online predators and purveyors of sex tourism, we present some of our favorite cinematic virgins who lost it on a road trip:
(Warning: potential spoilers ahead.)


Kyle Edwards (DJ Qualls) in Road Trip (2000)
This movie has to be the first on anyone’s mind when thinking about virginity loss on a road trip. Not necessarily because of the title, either. Kyle’s first time is simply one of the most memorable sexual initiations ever put on film. With all due respect to the large ladies out there, seeing Kyle shyly get it on with big girl Rhonda (Mia Amber Davis) is hilarious. Of course, much of the humor of the scene also comes from how scrawny, pale and dorky Kyle is.

Lucy Wagner (Britney Spears) in Crossroads (2002)
After deciding not to lose her virginity in the boring setting of home-territory, Lucy embarks on a trip that will see her meet her mother for the first time, enter a singing contest, and have her first sexual experience with a guy she’s just recently met. It’s a little more romantic than it sounds, though, as her chosen partner has just co-written a song with her, and he’s made sure to initiate the encounter near an open window providing a view of the ocean. Even if this guy turns out to be a jerk later on, it has to be worth it, because there’s no way a girl could have a more special first time than that.

Sherry (Ellen Page) in Mouth to Mouth (2005)
Before she became an icon of teen pregnancy, future Oscar-nominee Ellen Page appeared in this indie, which featured the following plot synopsis: “How Sherry loses her virginity, her illusions and her lip ring in one trippy road trip across Europe.” As you can see in the video above, it’s not quite as special a first time as Britney got.

William Miller (Patrick Fugit) in Almost Famous (2000)
One of the benefits of being a band on tour is all the road sex from groupies galore. But do tag-along journalists usually get such perks, too? They do if they’re virginal teenagers, and the groupies are as gracious as the typically non-intercourse-having “Band-Aides.” Based on director Cameron Crowe’s own first time while on the road with rock bands in the 1970s, young Rolling Stone reporter William manages the perfect teen male fantasy by being deflowered by three hot female rock fans.

Jeremiah ‘Jam’ Bruce (Sam Huntington) in Detroit Rock City (1999)
Another reason to believe that teens of the ’70s commonly lost their virginity while en route to rock concerts. In this movie, the experience isn’t as much a fantasy as the one in Almost Famous, though it is nearly as unbelievable. Jam and his buddies travel from Cleveland to Detroit for a Kiss show, and it just so happens that the kid’s crush, Beth, has apparently also made the trip and followed him into a church, where they do it in a confessional booth. And after Jam officially becomes a man, he has the strength to finally stand up to his mom.

Seaman Larry Meadows (Randy Quaid) in The Last Detail (1973)
It’s one thing for a guy to want to lose his virginity before he goes to college; it’s another for a guy to need to lose it before beginning an 8-year sentence behind bars. While being escorted by two fellow sailors (Jack Nicholson and Otis Young) to Portsmouth Naval Prison, Meadows is shown a good time on the road, and while he doesn’t manage to experience “the big one” in the sequence above, he finally does the deed courtesy of his buddies and a young prostitute played by Carol Kane.

The girl who does it in a shark tank in Cherry Hill High (1977)
While on a post-graduation long-distance bicycle trip, a group of girls hold a contest to see who can lose her virginity in the most creative way. If the prize went to the most dangerous deflowering, certainly the first girl to get it on would have sealed the deal, because her first time is with a shark wrangler in a shark tank. (to see a slideshow clip of the scene, click on the above still.)

Tenoch Iturbide (Diego Luna) and Julio Zapata (Gael Garcia Bernal) in Y Tu Mama Tambien (2001)
Best friends Tenoch and Julio are anything but virginal when they embark on a road trip with the beautiful, older Luisa (Maribel Verdu), but by the end of their little vacation, they do end up having an experience that could be technically considered a loss of virginity.

Anais Pingot (Anais Reboux) in Fat Girl (2001)
In one of the most shocking endings ever, 12-year-old Anais accomplishes her goal of the summer while traveling from her vacation home back to Paris. If you’ve never seen it before, I don’t want to spoil it (the above video is merely the film’s trailer), but I’ll say one thing: it may be the most startling intentional loss of virginity ever put on film. Originally posted on:SpoutBlog</spout:body></item>
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      <title>Spout Post: 10 Underrated College Movies</title>
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<strong>Post Date:</strong> 8/26/2008 6:01:05 PM<br/>
<strong>Body:</strong> 
I never went to a normal college, never lived in a proper dorm or experienced fraternity hazing or even rush week from an inside viewpoint. I went to an urban art school and then a commuter school. And though I grew up in a college town and later worked on the campus of another college I didn’t attend, I feel like I don’t have the proper perspective with which to judge most college movies and college kid characters as being true to life. This probably explains why I enjoy so many bad movies set in colleges and/or involving college students. I bet I could even check out a double feature of The House Bunny and College and have a good time at the movies.
Of course, I do have some semblance of good taste, and I also recognize that none of the following movies are anywhere near the quality of my favorite college movies (including Harold Lloyd’s The Freshman, the Marx Brothers’ Horse Feathers and the Frat Pack’s Old School), or even the beloved Animal House, which I regrettably find to be highly overrated (no, that doesn’t mean I dislike it or think it’s bad or unfunny). The ten movies on today’s list are merely guilty pleasures that I can’t stop appreciating no matter how hard I try or how old I get.

 
Teen Wolf Too - Certainly basketball is overused in high school and college sports movies, but following hoops with boxing gloves was an odd choice for this Teen Wolf sequel. It was almost as bad as having the popular jock character be on the wrestling team or, worse, a diver (see Back to School below). But despite the change of sport, the repeat of plot and the unfortunate recasting of the character “Stiles”, Teen Wolf Too has at least one enjoyable element: Jason Bateman. Even before he won our favor with Arrested Development and roles since, Bateman was quite a likable presence here. Sure, it’s not as good as the first movie, but does it really deserve that paltry 2.6 rating on the IMDb?

Back to School - Having gone back to college after a long hiatus, I have a very special place in my heart for this movie. But I’ve had multiple levels of appreciation since first seeing it 22 years ago. Originally, as a kid, I just liked Rodney Dangerfield. In high school, my favorite character was “Derek,” the freaky friend played by Robert Downey Jr. Later, I got into Oingo Boingo/Danny Elfman and favored their appearance. And almost finally, when Kurt Vonnegut became my favorite writer, his cameo was the coolest thing in the world (as an added bonus: Keith Gordon, who plays Dangerfield’s son in the movie, went on to direct an adaptation of Vonnegut’s “Mother Night”). In a way, the movie isn’t too underrated; it has a decent 6.1 rating on the IMDb and a very good 87% on Rotten Tomatoes. Still, I’m always shocked that more people aren’t huge fans.

PCU - I’ve already claimed my pre-hip appreciation for Jason Bateman (I even loved Valerie/Valerie’s Family/The Hogan Family, so there!), and now I must admit to having been a fan of Jeremy Piven since the beginning, too (Lucas has always been one of my favorite teen movies). I don’t know how often it’s watched these days, but looking back on it now, PCU seems to be a great souvenir from its time. Also, I’ll always remember it as the movie that taught me not to wear a band’s t-shirt to their concert and informed me of the fact that at any given time, there’s either a Michael Caine or a Gene Hackman movie being aired on television.

Midnight Madness - I know it’s considered a cult classic now, but it truly deserves to be an actual classic. Is it not as popular or as widely seen as other college movies because it involves a college activity that isn’t centered around drinking or sex (there is at least the Pabst brewery)? When I first went away to college, I was nailed to the X (meaning I was straight-edge and didn’t drink or do drugs), so I would have loved it if there’d been scavenger hunts instead of keggers (actually, where I went, there wasn’t either), even if I’d already been arrested while participating in a hunt in high school. By the way, speaking of underrated scavenger hunt movies, where’s the DVD release of Scavenger Hunt already?

Up the Creek - I guess not everyone has an appreciation for movies featuring Stephen Furst, despite his prominence in the king of college movies, Animal House. He followed that by appearing in both of my beloved scavenger hunt movies (see #4) and then later reuniting with his Delta brother Tim Matheson in this movie, which as a kid I always thought of as like a live-action, R-rated remake of Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown.

Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise - It lacked the boobs and the bush, and its premise was pretty weak, even for being something of a redo of the first film’s plot. However, if you’ve ever seen the subsequent sequels, it’s clear that it could have been worse. Personally, I like the parts with James Hong, Bradley Whitford (always a well-played snake) and the song “No on 15″ (see the video above).

Higher Learning - I tend to hate movies that so categorically divide the supposed social hierarchies of high school and college — maybe I just went to an abnormal high school, but it never seemed that distinct to me — and I don’t especially like the way this movie defines people by the music they listen to, but I have as much appreciation for Higher Learning as I do for The Breakfast Club and Crash, each of which I consider to be more about using thin characters as vehicles for ideas rather than about real people and a narrative story.

Happy Together - No, I’m not referring to the Wong Kar-Wai film. Rather, the 1989 movie starring Patrick Dempsey and Helen Slater. Maybe it’s just the fact that my only college roommate was a girl. But that was intentional, unlike the scenario of this movie. Prior to its relevance to my life, though, it was merely great for featuring Supergirl (and Billie Jean) topless.

Pumpkin - After so many high school and college movies in which the handsome guy or pretty girl ultimately falls for the “ugly” guy/girl, it was quite an interesting concept to have the “ugly” one be a mentally handicapped, as well as socially handicapped, person.

Road Trip - Thanks to Martin Lawrence and Raven-Symone, I now have to specify that I don’t mean College Road Trip. I also have to note that I think it would be a much better movie if Tom Green wasn’t in it. Also, compared to Old School, which was also written by Scot Armstrong and Todd Phillips and directed by Phillips, it’s got about a tenth of the laughs, if even that much. Surprisingly, however, Andy Dick is actually tolerable in Road Trip and not in Old School. Is it just me, or should DJ Qualls be doing better for himself these days?
 Originally posted on:SpoutBlog<br/>
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I never went to a normal college, never lived in a proper dorm or experienced fraternity hazing or even rush week from an inside viewpoint. I went to an urban art school and then a commuter school. And though I grew up in a college town and later worked on the campus of another college I didn’t attend, I feel like I don’t have the proper perspective with which to judge most college movies and college kid characters as being true to life. This probably explains why I enjoy so many bad movies set in colleges and/or involving college students. I bet I could even check out a double feature of The House Bunny and College and have a good time at the movies.
Of course, I do have some semblance of good taste, and I also recognize that none of the following movies are anywhere near the quality of my favorite college movies (including Harold Lloyd’s The Freshman, the Marx Brothers’ Horse Feathers and the Frat Pack’s Old School), or even the beloved Animal House, which I regrettably find to be highly overrated (no, that doesn’t mean I dislike it or think it’s bad or unfunny). The ten movies on today’s list are merely guilty pleasures that I can’t stop appreciating no matter how hard I try or how old I get.

 
Teen Wolf Too - Certainly basketball is overused in high school and college sports movies, but following hoops with boxing gloves was an odd choice for this Teen Wolf sequel. It was almost as bad as having the popular jock character be on the wrestling team or, worse, a diver (see Back to School below). But despite the change of sport, the repeat of plot and the unfortunate recasting of the character “Stiles”, Teen Wolf Too has at least one enjoyable element: Jason Bateman. Even before he won our favor with Arrested Development and roles since, Bateman was quite a likable presence here. Sure, it’s not as good as the first movie, but does it really deserve that paltry 2.6 rating on the IMDb?

Back to School - Having gone back to college after a long hiatus, I have a very special place in my heart for this movie. But I’ve had multiple levels of appreciation since first seeing it 22 years ago. Originally, as a kid, I just liked Rodney Dangerfield. In high school, my favorite character was “Derek,” the freaky friend played by Robert Downey Jr. Later, I got into Oingo Boingo/Danny Elfman and favored their appearance. And almost finally, when Kurt Vonnegut became my favorite writer, his cameo was the coolest thing in the world (as an added bonus: Keith Gordon, who plays Dangerfield’s son in the movie, went on to direct an adaptation of Vonnegut’s “Mother Night”). In a way, the movie isn’t too underrated; it has a decent 6.1 rating on the IMDb and a very good 87% on Rotten Tomatoes. Still, I’m always shocked that more people aren’t huge fans.

PCU - I’ve already claimed my pre-hip appreciation for Jason Bateman (I even loved Valerie/Valerie’s Family/The Hogan Family, so there!), and now I must admit to having been a fan of Jeremy Piven since the beginning, too (Lucas has always been one of my favorite teen movies). I don’t know how often it’s watched these days, but looking back on it now, PCU seems to be a great souvenir from its time. Also, I’ll always remember it as the movie that taught me not to wear a band’s t-shirt to their concert and informed me of the fact that at any given time, there’s either a Michael Caine or a Gene Hackman movie being aired on television.

Midnight Madness - I know it’s considered a cult classic now, but it truly deserves to be an actual classic. Is it not as popular or as widely seen as other college movies because it involves a college activity that isn’t centered around drinking or sex (there is at least the Pabst brewery)? When I first went away to college, I was nailed to the X (meaning I was straight-edge and didn’t drink or do drugs), so I would have loved it if there’d been scavenger hunts instead of keggers (actually, where I went, there wasn’t either), even if I’d already been arrested while participating in a hunt in high school. By the way, speaking of underrated scavenger hunt movies, where’s the DVD release of Scavenger Hunt already?

Up the Creek - I guess not everyone has an appreciation for movies featuring Stephen Furst, despite his prominence in the king of college movies, Animal House. He followed that by appearing in both of my beloved scavenger hunt movies (see #4) and then later reuniting with his Delta brother Tim Matheson in this movie, which as a kid I always thought of as like a live-action, R-rated remake of Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown.

Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise - It lacked the boobs and the bush, and its premise was pretty weak, even for being something of a redo of the first film’s plot. However, if you’ve ever seen the subsequent sequels, it’s clear that it could have been worse. Personally, I like the parts with James Hong, Bradley Whitford (always a well-played snake) and the song “No on 15″ (see the video above).

Higher Learning - I tend to hate movies that so categorically divide the supposed social hierarchies of high school and college — maybe I just went to an abnormal high school, but it never seemed that distinct to me — and I don’t especially like the way this movie defines people by the music they listen to, but I have as much appreciation for Higher Learning as I do for The Breakfast Club and Crash, each of which I consider to be more about using thin characters as vehicles for ideas rather than about real people and a narrative story.

Happy Together - No, I’m not referring to the Wong Kar-Wai film. Rather, the 1989 movie starring Patrick Dempsey and Helen Slater. Maybe it’s just the fact that my only college roommate was a girl. But that was intentional, unlike the scenario of this movie. Prior to its relevance to my life, though, it was merely great for featuring Supergirl (and Billie Jean) topless.

Pumpkin - After so many high school and college movies in which the handsome guy or pretty girl ultimately falls for the “ugly” guy/girl, it was quite an interesting concept to have the “ugly” one be a mentally handicapped, as well as socially handicapped, person.

Road Trip - Thanks to Martin Lawrence and Raven-Symone, I now have to specify that I don’t mean College Road Trip. I also have to note that I think it would be a much better movie if Tom Green wasn’t in it. Also, compared to Old School, which was also written by Scot Armstrong and Todd Phillips and directed by Phillips, it’s got about a tenth of the laughs, if even that much. Surprisingly, however, Andy Dick is actually tolerable in Road Trip and not in Old School. Is it just me, or should DJ Qualls be doing better for himself these days?
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      <title>Spout Post: Re:Weekly Theme for July 21: Road Trip!</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/groups/Weekly_Theme/Re_Weekly_Theme_for_July_21_Road_Trip/625/32854/1/ShowPost.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div><img align='left' src='http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/t09308rzw5x.jpg' hspace='10' style='height:80px;' />
<strong>Post By:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/members/121669/default.aspx'>leeroy711</a><br/>
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<strong>Post Date:</strong> 7/21/2008 5:25:55 PM<br/>
<strong>Body:</strong> My kids liked RV and Are We There Yet a lot. This theme seems to be commonly used for comedies. (I know Road Trip is just too obvious for Mercurial to mention so I'll leave it out too.) The newest Wes Anderson, The Darjeering Limited is somewhat of a road trip, only without the road, and you can't forget about Tommy Boy, "Brothers don't shake hands.......................brothers gotta HUG" Then there's the road trips that don't end so well, such as House of 1000 Corpses, Freeway, Themla &amp; Louis, and one of my favorites: Kalifornia. And I can't leave out Ingmar Bergman's Wild Strawberries. The road trip in this film was paralleled by the main character's life story.<br/>
</div>]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:25:55 GMT</pubDate><spout:postby>leeroy711</spout:postby><spout:postto>Weekly Theme</spout:postto><spout:postdate>7/21/2008 5:25:55 PM</spout:postdate><spout:body>My kids liked RV and Are We There Yet a lot. This theme seems to be commonly used for comedies. (I know Road Trip is just too obvious for Mercurial to mention so I'll leave it out too.) The newest Wes Anderson, The Darjeering Limited is somewhat of a road trip, only without the road, and you can't forget about Tommy Boy, "Brothers don't shake hands.......................brothers gotta HUG" Then there's the road trips that don't end so well, such as House of 1000 Corpses, Freeway, Themla &amp;amp; Louis, and one of my favorites: Kalifornia. And I can't leave out Ingmar Bergman's Wild Strawberries. The road trip in this film was paralleled by the main character's life story.</spout:body></item>
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      <title>Spout Post: Haven't We ALL Accidentally Sent Porn Tapes To Our Girlfriends?</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/blogs/jakestevens/archive/2007/11/19/21816.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div><img align='left' src='http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/t09308rzw5x.jpg' hspace='10' style='height:80px;' />
<strong>Post By:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/members/98071/default.aspx'>JakeStevens</a><br/>
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<strong>Body:</strong> What a retarded movie...and yet, it&#39;s pretty damn funny. Normally, I wouldn&#39;t care for a film like this, but it was done with some really funny actors - and there are some really raunchy, comedic situations in the film. I STILL laugh at (God, I hate to even say his name) Seann William Scott&#39;s &quot;ejaculation&quot; scene and the car-jumping scene, and the wrong girlfriend beating up her non-cheating boyfriend AND his car, etc. For dumb laughs, this is your better-than-average flick.<br/>
</div>]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2007 04:35:32 GMT</pubDate><spout:postby>JakeStevens</spout:postby><spout:postto>JakeStevens Blog</spout:postto><spout:postdate>11/19/2007 11:35:32 PM</spout:postdate><spout:body>What a retarded movie...and yet, it&amp;#39;s pretty damn funny. Normally, I wouldn&amp;#39;t care for a film like this, but it was done with some really funny actors - and there are some really raunchy, comedic situations in the film. I STILL laugh at (God, I hate to even say his name) Seann William Scott&amp;#39;s &amp;quot;ejaculation&amp;quot; scene and the car-jumping scene, and the wrong girlfriend beating up her non-cheating boyfriend AND his car, etc. For dumb laughs, this is your better-than-average flick.</spout:body></item>
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      <title>Spout Post: Do you want to jump over the bridge?</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/blogs/seektv/archive/2007/6/14/11109.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div><img align='left' src='http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/t09308rzw5x.jpg' hspace='10' style='height:80px;' />
<strong>Post By:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/members/41857/default.aspx'>seektv</a><br/>
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<strong>Post Date:</strong> 6/14/2007 4:39:51 PM<br/>
<strong>Body:</strong> When you send a tape to your girlfriend having sex with someone else by mistake...funny things are about to happen. So hang on tight because you are about to meet four guys who are going to take you on the ride of your life. Josh, E.L., Rubin and Kyle are going to face with you life in a very delightful way. So just sit, relax and jump over the bridge of excitement. Tom Green in this movie is very unique at telling you this fabulous story. Enjoy. Ah, prepare yourself for some uncomfortable scenes....so hang tight.<br/>
</div>]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2007 20:39:51 GMT</pubDate><spout:postby>seektv</spout:postby><spout:postto>seektv Blog</spout:postto><spout:postdate>6/14/2007 4:39:51 PM</spout:postdate><spout:body>When you send a tape to your girlfriend having sex with someone else by mistake...funny things are about to happen. So hang on tight because you are about to meet four guys who are going to take you on the ride of your life. Josh, E.L., Rubin and Kyle are going to face with you life in a very delightful way. So just sit, relax and jump over the bridge of excitement. Tom Green in this movie is very unique at telling you this fabulous story. Enjoy. Ah, prepare yourself for some uncomfortable scenes....so hang tight.</spout:body></item>
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