Zac Efron comes into his own
as a frat boy determined to make Seth Rogan's life a misery, writes Guy Lodge
Even a couple of drunkards dressed as Santa Claus resist easy stereotyping: When Ethan dismisses
them as frat boys, they angrily supply their actual, grown - up professions.
The supporting cast includes Ike Barinholtz as Mac's and Kelly's buddy, along with Jerrod Carmichael, Christopher Mintz - Plasse and Craig Roberts
as the frat boys.
Not exact matches
It was probably right around the time someone coined the term «brogrammer» to describe the kind of keyboard jockey who «breaks the usual expectations of quiet nerdiness and opts instead for the usual trappings of a
frat -
boy,»
as Urban Dictionary puts it.
In the 1980s and»90s,
as asset management became a dominant branch of the economy, the sector earned a reputation
as a particularly
frat - house - like branch of the corporate
boys» club.
As I said last year, Uber has at times seemed like a company run by irresponsible
frat boys.
The three - year - old incident surfaces
as Uber is struggling to address a
frat -
boy culture
as described in detail by former engineer Susan Fowler.
Older
frat men receive childlike compassion, teaching, and parental care away from home, while younger on average gang
boys receive shame, charges
as adults, and prisons away from home.
In what must surely rank
as one of the most squalid seduction scenes in literature, Charlotte's Spartan self - confidence is overcome by a combination of alcohol, a handsome
frat boy's flattery, and her own ambivalent yearnings to be noticed and envied.
Molinari, with a pitching wedge from 135 yards, gave the lubed - up
frat boys, whose job it is to imbibe adult beverages
as they hang over the grandstands and heckle the players at the notorious 16th, just what they came to see.
Plus, I think part of its appeal lies in the gap between Perry's portrayal
as the Next Great Thing a couple of months back, the inevitable Front Runner, and the fact that in this clip he looks like a drunk
frat boy delivering a bad toast at his buddy's wedding («Can I tell you how much I love this guy?
And Rump is about
as even keeled
as a drunken
frat boy on a unicycle.
The story follows «a former
frat boy» and «a free - spirited woman»
as...
It was a shocking revelation to those of us who'd known a rowdy, raunchy
frat boy in Dating
as an institution is a relatively recent phenomenon which has mainly emerged in the last few centuries.
McConaughney plays the role of dashing adventurer Dirk Pitt
as if he were a party - hardy
frat boy who ventured out into the real world after all campus kegs were tapped dry.
Director Andrew Waller and screenwriter Erik Lindsay constantly (and consistently) aim Beta House squarely at the lowest common denominator,
as the film possesses plenty of lewd elements designed to appeal to precisely the sort of drunken
frat boys it exclusively portrays.
But it is Mr. Cooper who offers the most interesting variation on an old standard, playing his aggressive, cocky
frat boy with a snarl of rage that masks an anxiety
as hard to account for
as it is to miss.
And it looks like the Razzies can't quite let Twilight go,
as Taylor Lautner «s «
Frat Boy Andy (uncredited)» earned Grown Ups 2 one of its nine nominations.
MacFarlane had himself spoke many times about his (and audiences) trepidations in doing a sequel, particularly for a comedy, so in a move more akin to Bond or Batman, the writers disregarded some aspects of the original (noticably Mila Kunis's Lori) and sensibly shifted the focus more to Ted
as a «person» rather than even more rambunctious
frat -
boy shenanigans with his Thunder Buddy John (Wahlberg), and what his existence means for those around him.
The guys live like
frat boys, guzzling booze while spouting «jokes» on such thought - provoking topics
as poop, penis, masturbation, homosexuality, and Viagra.
Pitting the titular Appalachian dwellers (Transformers: Dark Of The Moon's Alan Tudyk and serial television supporting player Tyler Labine) against a gang of judgemental college kids on a camping trip (including 30 Rock's Katrina Bowden
as an open - minded beauty thrust into peril from an unexpected source, and The Uninvited's Jesse Moss
as a trigger happy
frat boy obsessed with a previous massacre in the area), it subverts the conventions of the splatter genre to provide a playful paradigm shift of the oft - used (
as seen in everything from 2000 Maniacs to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre) evil hillbilly premise, proving that appearances can be deceiving
as well
as deadly.
The exchange also creates some necessary conflict,
as a townies vs.
frat boys war emerges and these grown ups have to come to terms with the fact that they're becoming over the hill and irrelevant.
But when Jenko becomes friends with the main suspect, football star and
frat boy Zook (Wyatt Russell), his relationship with Schmidt becomes strained
as they split up to investigate different leads, which threatens to derail the entire mission.
«If it weren't for Greg, there would be no Room,» said Rousselet, who cast Sestero
as an affable
frat boy in 5 - Second Films» crowdfunded comedic slasher flick Dude Bro Party Massacre III.
Easily the best
frat boy comedy since Animal House, Neighbors crams its visually arresting 96 minute running time with
as much deeply flawed human comedy
as possible.
In that way, the cinematic Strange will likely start off similarly to Thor, who began his first film
as a drunken
frat -
boy caricature, and learned heroism over time.
Violet doesn't think much of Lilly's interest in exotic older grad student Xavier (Hugo Becker), preferring on principle the company of borderline illiterate «sad - sacks» like
frat -
boy boyfriend Frank (Ryan Metcalfe), whose lack of good looks and basic sense strikes her
as an opportunity.
He was marvelous in Neighbors
as a preening
frat boy, and emerged unscathed from the sex comedy That Awkward Moment, which criminally squandered a crop of young talents with great potential: Miles Teller, Michael B. Jordan, Imogen Poots and Mackenzie Davis.
There were several things he quoted me
as saying that I felt were taken out of context, like calling my longtime partner Ted Hope a «thuggish
frat boy» — yikes!
I disagree about Fight Club being shut out — Pitt's character plays like a psychotic
frat boy — and Edward Norton has been better elsewhere
as well
as Carter.
While Ellen Page has built her career on playing outsiders, Jonah Hill is carving out his thespian livelihood
as an eternal
frat boy with a taste for skank and cocaine.
Same
as it ever was but more so is a fair description of the Sundance Film Festival in 2003: more movies (thanks to the new World Cinema Documentary section), more subscribers, more stars and starstruck gawkers, more patrons, more parties, more corporate sponsors and hangers - on, more swag, more press, more pr companies, more traffic, more drunken
frat boys clogging up the highways and by - ways.
But 10 years ago, Rogen would have played the wild
frat boy; now,
as the schlubby husband and new dad, he still shows some glimmers of his trademark, comic anarchy.
I was learning valuable lessons from our interactions, such
as: You can bond with
frat boys over more than beer pong and Cancun.
Firstly, the city itself could be explored at your leisure (so long
as you could brave the waves of jocks and
frat boys standing in your way).
In bravura installations,
as in the Dakis Joannou collection at the New Museum,
frat boys rule, too.
But the board's stubborn position between them is not
as much of an abstruse Minimalist object
as a barrier against homosocial contact, bringing to mind the
frat boy exclamation «no homo!»
Honestly, all you guys treat the scientists who contribute to the IPCC
as if they are a bunch of drunk
frat boys pulling a prank.