Saturday, June 25, 2016

The Core Drinking Game

Take a drink every time...

  1. You witness "science" or "technology". Take a second drink if this "science" involves magnets.
  2. Conrad Zimsky (Stanley Tucci) is a douchebag (basically every time he has a line).
  3. We are introduced to a new character. Take a second drink when you realized that a previously introduced character who seemed important is never going to be seen or heard from again. Take a third drink if you took a second drink for a character that inexplicably reappears later.
  4. Aaron Eckhart is messy/disheveled/unkempt/frazzled/neurotic and it is, like, so unbelievable, because when is Aaron Eckhart ever any of those things?
  5. A new city or famous monument* is shown or mentioned.

Take a bonus drink every time an actor delivers a cheesy line, stupid joke, or awful quip with the sort of gusto normally associated with good writing.


Finish your drink as DJ Qualls cries while melodramatically hacking the government's servers.



*Take an extra good chug when THE COLOSSEUM EXPLODES.

Tuesday, May 31, 2016

The Do-Over Drinking Game

NOTE: This drinking game is intended as entertainment, but DGMania is not responsible for the psychological effects of watching this movie.

Take a drink every time...

  1. There is a sexual joke (or just a non-sexual disgusting joke).
  2. David Spade is sad/bad things happen to David Spade (like his career!).
  3. There is obvious exposition/back story/plot point discussion.
  4. A joke or situation repeats and becomes more and more ridiculous each time (feel free to take two drinks if it's also gross or sexual).
  5. There are reference to high school or to high school sterotypes (if you think Adam Sandler is just one big high school stereotype feel free to waterfall constantly throughout this movie - it helps).
As a continuation of drink 5, take a bonus drink every time Adam Sandler just obviously wrote a movie where he gets to do everything a high school boy would think was awesome.

Finish your drink when this movie passes the point at which it would be feasible for anything to end up making sense and you accept that that isn't going to happen.

Sunday, May 29, 2016

The Mummy Drinking Game

Take a drink every time...

  1. A whimsical joke or quip is made in a situation that should be utterly horrifying and/or life-threatening. Take a second drink if the joke or quip is about someone's death. (Ah, the '90s...how we miss you!) 
  2. Someone says "curse" or "Hamunaptra."
  3. American and British characters act like their respective stereotypes.
  4. Non-Western characters are jerks, money-grubbing jerks, and/or slobbering cowards.
  5. There is fire of some kind. (Oh, so much fire...)
Finish your drink for "he that shall not be named." (Let no one say this movie wasn't ahead of its goddamn time)


Wednesday, July 22, 2015

Face/Off Drinking Game

Take a drink every time...

  1. Someone says "Castor" or "Pollux" or you see them written.
  2. There are ludicrously unnecessary sparks.
  3. Someones dies because of John Travolta's character...or just anytime someone dies, really. It's always John Travolta's fault.
  4. There is face touching (someone touches his/her own face or another person's face).*
  5. There is ridiculously inaccurate (even for the 90s) use of technology and/or computers.
Take a bonus drink for Nic Cage and John Travolta method acting so hard and thinking they're so great.
Take a bonus drink for Nic Cage making a face you just. can't. believe.

Finish your drink for "I'd like to take his face...off."


*Be prepared for a lot of face touching.

Thursday, January 15, 2015

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles / Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze Drinking Game

Take a drink every time...

  1. You hear the sound of a weapon whipping through the air. Take a second drink if this sound is made by something that is not a weapon (like fingers, a soap dispenser, a can of radioactive ooze, etc).
  2. Pizza is mentioned or shown.
  3. Raphael is moody.
  4. Something that is stereotypically Japanese (e.g. flutey-gong-y-music, meditation, wise old master, someone saying 'master' or 'ninja', etc.) is seen or heard. 
  5. Tatsu doesn't speak when it would be normal to speak (or makes a weird Kung Pow grunting sound in lieu of speaking).
Take a bonus drink every time Splinter has spoken for ten seconds without stopping or being interrupted. Waterfall until he finishes.

TMNT I: Finish your drink for Raphael's tortured scream of anguish.
TMNT II: Finish your drink for "Babies! They're BABIES!!!"

Sunday, January 4, 2015

The Hunchback of Notre Dame Drinking Game

Take a drink every time...
  1. There is a new song.
  2. Someone says "gypsy" (or "gypsies").
  3. Someone mentions how Quasimodo is deformed. 
  4. There is an exterior shot of Notre Dame.
  5. There is something feminine about Frollo (For example, he has lady fingers, lady rings, lady hand gestures...a lady nose...and lady hair...is wearing a muumuu...sounds like Cher...IS he a lady?)
Take a bonus drink every time you see Quasimodo's face and find yourself thinking, "Ughh, do I have to look at that the whole movie?!"

Take a bonus drink every time you think about how Esmeralda is the female Aladdin (and if you aren't thinking that, start, because she's totally the female Aladdin, you guys)*.

Finish your drink for "It's his face!"


*Examples include:

  • Wearing a disguise to fool guards
  • Parkour
  • Animal best friend/sidekick
  • Witty comments while performing parkour
  • Rooftop hideout
  • Having an imprisoned friend
  • Being way less dark-skinned and way more Western-looking than everyone else
  • Rescuing a love interest from a creepy old man

She's All That Drinking Game

Take a drink every time...

  1. Someone says "Laney".
  2. ART! happens or is discussed (paintings, spoken word, everything Laney touches has paint on it, etc.)
  3. It's the 90s!!!*
  4. Did the people who wrote this movie even go to high school?**
  5. Freddie Prinze, Jr. thinks he's so cute.
Take a bonus drink every time you notice a new thing they did to Rachel Leigh Cook to try to make her look nerdy and/or unattractive.

Finish your drink for "Everybody has a big Jimmy."


*90s examples: Plaid, flip phones, Lil' Kim, Usher, tube tops, high cut bikinis, The Real World, huge socks, hackey sack, Sega, overalls, the Jeep Wrangler, Sixpence None the Richer, breakdancing, Road Rules, whiny 90s rock, whiny female singer-songwriters

**Examples of questions one might ask of the movie writers when questioning whether they attended high school, ever:

  • Why does the school have its own radio station and a student DJ who provides narration from everywhere at all times?
  • Why does everyone seem to be walking around during school hours without a destination or purpose of any kind?
  • How can so much happen without there appearing to be any kind of class taking place?
  • Why are so many students wearing high heels and dresses?
  • How is the common area so nice? How are there picnic benches?
  • Why would Laney wear an apron to school?
  • Seriously, is there class? They've been watching people breaking up by picnic benches for so long.
  • Could it be more obvious that those backpacks have nothing in them? (Answer: No, it could not.)
  • How is the art room so big? Why does the teacher have a turban and a feather?
  • Does anyone have homework?
  • They go to the beach on what the movie clearly indicates is the day after they come back from spring break. Is there...not school again?
  • Is that kid doing a puzzle? How does he have time to do a puzzle?
  • Do they know you can't make someone eat pubes just by being popular? Also, aren't they in a school cafeteria right now? How is no one in any position of authority preventing students from loudly eating or making others eat pubes?
  • How is there a photoshoot in the school hallway?
  • What's up with the coordinated dance at prom? That doesn't happen, you guys.
  • The announcements/DJ guy is the prom DJ? We know he's Usher, but come on.
  • The art teacher is faxing art schools on a Saturday?
  • Paul Walker is supposed to be a senior and a virgin?

Saturday, January 3, 2015

Ghost Rider Drinking Game

Take a drink every time...

  1. There are flames.*
  2. There is a flashback.
  3. There is an instance of bad guy/devil magic (including gratuitous murder).
  4. Nicholas Cage is so weird and/or creepy.
  5. Young Johnny (Matt Long) is so a model trying to act.
Take a bonus drink every time Eva Mendes provides a strong supporting actress role with her butt and/or boobs.

Finish your drink for the magic 8 ball...in her purse.


*There are flames on pretty much everything in this movie. Examples include but are not limited to: 
  • The Marvel logo
  • A devil face
  • A hand
  • The moon
  • A circus ring thing
  • A creepy devil face
  • Johnny's dad
  • The inside of someone's head
  • Motorcycle ramps
  • Trees
  • The street
  • Motorcycle tires
  • Cops...and their motorcycles
  • Boots
  • Laughing Nicholas Cage
  • Skull heads
  • Skull hands
  • Magical chain whips
  • Demon people
  • Any road Ghost Rider drives on
  • The air?
  • Eyeballs
  • Punks
  • Air tornados
  • The ground
  • Horses
  • Lizards

The Addams Family Drinking Game

Take a drink every time...

  1. There is a reference to death (verbal or written).
  2. A bad thing is good to the Addamses.
  3. A character tries to kill another character. (Or do they? No, seriously... Are they immortal? Do they not ever actually intend to kill each other? I don't freaking get it.)
  4. A parent corrects or gives orders to his/her child.
  5. Someone has random illogical powers, often with disturbing implications (e.g. unbelievable acrobatic skill, telekinesis used to flip calendar pages [...only?], holding people upside down by their throats, flipping people impossibly, hearing so well they know what a model train is doing in the next room, creating life...so there can be living people on a model train, making magic waltzing parties with instruments made of a cobra, magic books).
Take a bonus drink for ridiculous, over the top Mel Brooksian jokes or puns, especially when delivered by Anjelica Huston.

The Emperor's New Groove Drinking Game

Take a drink every time...

  1. Someone says "Kuzco".
  2. John Goodman (Pacha) is such a good guy it's unbelievable... no really, I don't believe it.
  3. Kronk fails.
  4. A physically impossible thing happens (size proportions included.) Take a second drink if it is impossible even by standards of animated movies.
  5. Yzma's triangular, lopsided boobs (yes, those triangles on her tummy) distract you.
Finish your drink for "Wrong LEVERRRR!"

Wicker Man Drinking Game

Take a drink every time...

  1. Anything bee-related is shown or mentioned (e.g. honey, hives, Nicholas Cage being killed by bees [Note: spoiler alert.]
  2. Someone says 'sister'.
  3. A woman who is old or pregnant appears*.
  4. There is a horror movie trope, but awful**.
  5. Nicholas Cage is the worst cop ever***.
Take a bonus drink every time the village is super suspicious.

Finish your drink for the collection of fetus jars...or, the jar fetuses? The fetus jar...collection? Finish your drink for all the feti.


*If you aren't drinking enough (we'll save you some time -- you aren't), take a drink every time the camera pans to a woman who is old or pregnant.

**Examples include (and cut us some slack, because we were really drunk for this movie) hang-up phone calls, someone dying in front of you, seeing visions of creepy children being creepily killed, wiggling mysterious bags with blood dripping from them...we guess, creepy innkeeper, the past coming back to haunt one, an elderly person warning the protagonist about the creepy place they're in, nightmares, creepy chanting, a mysterious barn...left open...mysteriously, eerie wind chime sounds, eerie whispering sounds, creepy old photographs, disturbed children's drawings, visions of dead bodies, cemeteries, coffins, creepy twins, masks, pigeons, fatal bee allergies, and falling through floors.

***Examples include:
  • Cursing in front of children
  • Ignoring search warrants and other procedural whatnots
  • Making idle threats
  • Yelling at children/people
  • Traumatizing the public
  • Ignoring dead bodies
  • Wearing really tight pants
  • Holding up pictures for no reason (sorry - we were really drunk for this one)
  • Elbow patches
  • Pretending to have jurisdiction
  • We wrote something that looks like 'face prelim'. If anyone can figure out what that might be, leave a comment and you win a prize! The prize is a dollar, and you can claim it by coming all the way to us and having us hand it to you. Leave a comment!

Friday, December 12, 2014

Scrooged Drinking Game

Take a drink every time...

  1. Someone says 'Frank'.
  2. Frank (Sir William Murray) finds a new way to be a douchebag to those around him*.
  3. A TV screen is shown.
  4. A bad thing happens to Bobcat Goldthwait (Eliot).
  5. Karen Allen stares somewhere off camera, creepily, without blinking.
Take a bonus drink every time Bobcat Goldthwait tries to rein in that Bobcat Goldthwait thing he does.
Take a bonus drink every time Bill Murray sarcastics his way through this movie and/or finds himself far too charming.

Finish your drink for "Awww...knives!"


*Examples include sitting on people, emotionally manipulating, sexing ladies with his eyes, telling his employees what he would have done, intimidating, firing, insulting children's artwork, enjoying others' despair, pandering to his boss, yelling unnecessarily, stealing from old ladies, lying, being conceited, screaming at children while in the midst of flirting, having terrible priorities, etc.

Tuesday, November 18, 2014

Turner & Hooch Drinking Game

Take a drink every time...
  1. Someone says 'Hooch'.
  2. Turner does something OCD. Take a second drink if he does a totally not OCD thing later in the movie once he becomes a loose cannon with no valid explanation other than that there is a dog.
  3. It's, like, SO TOTALLY 80S*!
  4. Tom Hanks does his Tom Hanks Yell.
  5. Turner threatens to kill, attempts to kill, or suggests something that would kill, Hooch.
Finish your drink for On top of Old Smokey = Sex.


*Some examples:
-A NordicTrack
-80s workout shorts
-The chick from St. Elmo's Fire
-Reginald VelJohnson
-Tighty briefies - every time you see them (you might find them on Tom Hanks 700,087 times in this movie)
-Tom Hanks's tie
-The chick's loose button-up
-Basically anything else in this movie

Sunday, October 5, 2014

Flubber Drinking Game

Take a drink every time...
  1. SCIENCE!!!! (This includes machines, robots, zany experiments, random tools, flubber somehow being a sentient being that can be cut up into tiny shoe pads and glued to a dozen feet without causing it any pain, etc.)
  2. Weebo (the robot) plays a video clip to communicate or express emotion. Take two drinks if it's a really complex emotion.
  3. Professor Robin Williams can't remember something or is otherwise absent-minded/a space case or this is discussed by the other characters.
  4. There is physical "comedy" involving Wil Wheaton's dad's henchmen.
  5. Shooter McGavin says something evil.
Take a bonus drink every time Professor Robin Williams does something only the worst scientist ever would do. Examples include:
  • Opening something that just exploded and sticking his face in it
  • Touching substances without gloves
  • Never wearing protective gear in general/lack of safety precautions
  • Sneezing on his experiment
  • Jumping out of a window
  • Endangering society
  • Inhaling gas/chemicals
  • Wiping flubber water on his ass
  • Kissing flubber-coated objects
  • Leaving beakers of chemicals just sitting around
  • Flying a car into the lower atmosphere
  • Making a robot sidekick out of metal so thin it can be broken with a baseball bat
  • Telling a robot sidekick to focus and then letting it die without doing anything
  • Making a robot daughter with his robot sidekick and naming it 'Weebette'

Varsity Blues Drinking Game

Take a drink every time...
  1. Someone says 'Mox' or 'Moxon'.
  2. They're so country (examples include every time they pronounce 'coyote' 'KY-ote', pigs riding in vehicles, dipping pancakes in unknown substances and eating them while driving, mooning people, shots of corn fields, riding in pickup truck beds, unnecessary guns, etc.). Take two drinks if it's Billy Bob. Take three if Billy Bob is drinking syrup.
  3. Coach Kilmer yells. Take two if he's cartoonishly evil.
  4. Moxon is so sensitive and smart and oh, so reluctant about football, the poor dear.
  5. There is an instance of bad parenting.
Finish your drink for the greatest line ever spoken on film, "I DON'T WANT...YOUR LIFE."

Thursday, October 2, 2014

Frozen Drinking Game

Take a drink every time...
  1. You hear a new song.
  2. Someone says 'ice' or 'frozen'.
  3. Someone talks to something that is not a human*. Take two drinks if they do a silly voice and pretend to respond.
  4.  Anna is super quirky/excitable/spunky about life.
  5. A door or gate is shown opening or closing, or people discuss the opening and closing of doors or gates**.
Take a bonus drink every time Disney has no idea what happens when people get cold/doesn't understand that people will die of hypothermia if their clothing freezes to their body in sub-zero temperatures because every single person who was involved in this movie is from Los Angeles and only sees cold in a refrigerator.

Finish your drink when a snowman sings a song about how much he wants to know what it feels like to be warm and dramatic irony ensues.


*Note: It's relatively hard to keep track of this one, so remember that things that are not human include things like reindeer, paintings, anthropomorphic snowmen, and trolls that are made out of rocks.

** This totally happens more than you'd think.

Jumanji Drinking Game

Take a drink every time...
  1. The game does something magical (including pieces moving by themselves). 
    • Take two drinks if the magical thing involves an animal. 
    • Take three drinks if the animal wrecks stuff.
    • Take four drinks if the animal tries to kill someone. 
    • Take five drinks if the animal tries to kill someone with a knife...or steals a TV.
  2. Someone says 'Parrish' or you see it written.
  3. Kiersten Dunst screams
  4. Things get worse for David Allan Grier (or, equivalently, every single time David Allan Grier is in a scene)
Take a bonus drink every time there is a horror movie trope (tinkly piano theme, old person tells horrific story he couldn't possibly have known, stuff jumps out unexpectedly, there is a creepy flashback with back story information, a troubled family moves to an old, abandoned mansion in a seemingly charming location, a mysterious attic, people's fears and insecurities manifest and chase after them, Bebe Neuwirth shows up, etc.)
Take a bonus drink, if you have the background knowledge, every time Robin Williams' character in this movie shares something with a Robin Williams character in a different movie (he rediscovers a forgotten childhood like in Hook, he wears leaves like in Hook, he needs to save two kids from evil magic that is his fault like in Hook, an old nemesis returns and does a really bad job of trying to kill him like in Hook [we like Hook. Play your own game.], etc.)

Finish your drink for "May God have mercy on his soul."

Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Gladiator Drinking Game

Take a drink every time...

  1. DEATH!!!! (or CORPSES!!!!)*
  2. You want to punch Joaquin Phoenix in the balls because he's cowardly or crafty or creepy or crazy or just generally can't do the right thing to save his sad little life.
  3. Connie Nielsen** is just in her own little soap opera, man. Like, the whole time.
  4. There is sad drooling and/or snot.
  5. Someone says 'Caesar' or 'Rome' (actually, people say those a lot, so you might want to pick one)
Take a bonus drink every time the music in this movie is EXACTLY the same as the Pirates of the Caribbean music.
Take a bonus drink every time Oh get on with it! How long until someone gladiates, or, like, kills a lion or something?
Take a bonus drink every time there is a weird/crazy/unnecessarily artsy camera shot, like weird dream sequences, random close-ups or blurring, arbitrary flower petals, etc.

Finish your drink for "You sold me queer giraffes. I want my money back."

*Go ahead and waterfall at appropriate times. You'll know when.

**Don't know who Connie Nielsen is? She plays Lucilla, and more importantly she is the only woman in this movie who is alive.

The Karate Kid Drinking Game

Take a drink every time...

  1. Mr. Miyagi speaks in a one- or two-word sentence. Feel free to just keep drinking if he keeps doing it (e.g. "No fight. Fight bad. No good. Don't do." is four drinks*)
  2. Someone says 'Daniel'.
  3. Someone rides in or drives some sort of vehicle (including bikes, DANIEL). Take two drinks every time someone is on or in a vehicle but is just kind of lounging on it.
  4. Daniel is bullied, intimidated, mocked, derided, or generally scared to live his life.
  5. The cute little racist Asian flute refrain plays for Mr. Miyagi (if you've seen this movie multiple times and never noticed that this happens, take an extra drink every time you can't believe it).
Take a bonus drink every time Mr. Miyagi makes a wise or proverb-like statement**.

Finish your drink for "Take em off...I wanna see your baby browns."


*He absolutely doesn't ever say that

**Our [likely incomplete] list:
-"If come from inside you, always right one."
-"To make honey, young bee need young flower, not old prune."
-"Smell bad, heal good."
-"No such thing as bad student. Only bad teacher."
-"Belt mean no need rope pull up pants."
-"Karate here. Karate here. Karate here. Karate never here."
-"Not everything is as seem."
-"Man who catch fly with chopstick accomplish anything."
-"Look eye. Always look eye."

The Mighty Ducks Drinking Game

Take a drink every time...

  1. Someone says 'duck' (note: this definitely also includes 'ducks' and 'Ducksworth'). If you're a bit of the way in and slowly realizing that this movie is way less good than kid you thought it was, add 'quack', but don't say we didn't warn you*.
  2. Emilio Estevez (or whatever his name is in the movie. Is it still Emilio Estevez?) has a flashback, or someone mentions his past. Apparently nothing happened in this guy's life between peewee hockey and now.
  3. Emilio Estevez (seriously - he must have a character name, right? Wait. It's Gordon.) is just SUCH A DOUCHE [for the first half of the movie] or is just SUCH A NICE GUY WHO OH MY GOSH HE JUST LOVES KIDS SO MUCH [after his heart-changing lay-down in the snow].
  4. Mysterious Wise Old Man is Mysterious and Wise.
Take a bonus drink every time the kids are such wholesome rapscallions**.
Take a bonus drink for Disney sanctimoniousness.

Finish your drink for "Hey! I'll decide who sucks around here!"

*WARNING

**Cute little hooligans, if you will***

***Just the sweetest little troubled preadolescents you could care to meet