YMMV / The Skulls

• Designated Hero: Ames Levritt's good deeds throughout the movie are supposed to make us overlook the fact that his mistress is a 19 year old girl (who he may very well have been bedding when she was even younger). Not only that, despite his good intentions, his methods are just as underhanded as the bad guys.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: The film stars Paul Walker, who would later become famous for The Fast and the Furious franchise, plus it also features Shaw Madson and Noah Danby, who would later appear in Need for Speed: Carbon, part of the Need for Speed racing video game franchise, famous for taking many cues from the Fast & Furious series.
• Ho Yay: Luke and Caleb. During initiation, they and the other recruits are put in pairs explicitly described as "soul mates", a term typically applied to heterosexual couples.
• Idiot Ball: Litten Mandrake and Martin Lombard decide to kill the seriously injured Will Beckford (and stage his suicide) in order to hush up the fact that he was ever in the ritual room... when it would have much easier to call 911, get Will medical aid, and then turn Will over to the police and let him face the legal and civil consequences of his actions. Will would have been entirely discredited, and would only have a few notes on the decor of the empty ritual room to show for it.
• Unintentionally Unsympathetic: Will Beckford, Luke's best friend, is supposed to be viewed as a dogged and righteous journalism student on a noble quest to expose the elite secretive and exclusive Skulls. Although nothing he does justifies his brutal fate (he's murdered by one of the Skulls), in his last days he breaks several laws and and rules of journalism. In addition to disgustedly berating his best friend for joining the Skulls, Will breaks into Caleb's car, steals his book and key and trespasses on private property. (This is before The Skulls have done anything nefarious that we the audience know of). Will didn't deserve to die, but had he lived he would have been looking at serious criminal charges and a likely roadblock to a journalism career. See Idiot Ball above.