I was 14 when 1999's American Pie arrived in theaters.
SKULL AND BONES PRESIDENTS MOVIE
He's so good, in fact, that he somehow makes the impossibly corny final line in the movie my absolute favorite, delivered so overearnestly it would make his perpetually sunglassed CSI counterpart David Caruso blush: Joshua Jackson plays Luke McNamara, a lowbrow townie enrolled at an unnamed Ivy League school who gains acceptance to the "The Skulls," an elite club whose members apparently spend their time smoking cigars, attending vague, swank parties in big oak rooms and engaging in other forms of WASP porn.īut The Skulls is composed exclusively of rich white guys and run by politicians, so inevitably McNamara soon discovers the organization is a corrupt, murderous cabal and sets out to free himself from the society's clutches with the help of his hot girlfriend ( Popular's Leslie Bibb) and a silver-haired Southern sentator with a velvet voice played by William Petersen easily the best part of The Skulls. It's a thriller based on the real life Yale secret society Skull and Bones, a kind of mysterious rich kids' club whose former members include politicians, billionaires and according to The Good Shepard an anti-Semitic Robert De Niro. The Skulls, released in March 2000, is the second installment of Joshua Jackson's trilogy of college-set thrillers based on the wickedness of Generation Y, following 1998's Cruel Intentions and preceding Gossip (released a month later). Spawned numerous straight-to-DVD sequels (see: Bring it On, Wild Things, American Pie) Stars of two WB dramas ( Popular and Dawson's Creek) Concerns elderly rich perverts in robes (see: Eyes Wide Shut, The Ninth Gate) The site gives a look at random films on the occasion of their 10th Anniversary, giving them way more consideration than they probably need a decade later. It's our little way of saying "We forgot to write something today." This week, we have an update from Patrick Cassels's movie review site, 10-Year-Old Movies.
SKULL AND BONES PRESIDENTS CRACKED
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