Internet Movie Drinking Games

DOWNTON ABBEY: THE DRINKING GAME

Just in time for Season 2!

 

Drink Whenever:

- Miss O’Brian eavesdrops.

- Mr. Bates speaks in absolutes.

- Thomas successfully carries out a scheme; drink twice if he fails.

- Someone is horribly disfigured by the war. Drink twice if the disfigurement is emotional.

- Anyone complains about having an improper person serve.

- The Dowager Countess gets her way; drink twice if she’s scandalized.

- Anyone is blackmailed.

- Daisy is lying.

- Edith decides to trust someone blindly. Drink twice if that person is not to be trusted.

- Drink when anyone dies. Drink twice if they die on the grounds of Downton Abbey.

Bonus

Drink when there is cleaning.

Drink when someone learns a secret.

MOMMIE DEAREST: the drinking game

This drinking game is my friend Brian’s brainchild. We may or may not have played this game in a rented-out theatre for his birthday one year.

• Drink every time Joan drinks.
• Two drinks every time Joan is drunk (even if she denies it).
• Drink every time Joan says “Christina” lovingly.
• Drink every time Joan shouts “Tina!”
• Drink every time Joan shouts “Christopher!”
• Drink every time Joan shouts “Damn it!”
• Drink continuously every time Joan is cleaning or berating someone else for not cleaning enough, until she stops.
• Drink every time Joan rhapsodizes about her “fans.”
• Five drinks when you hear the following phrases:

 “CLEAN UP THIS MESS!”
 “BRING ME THE AXE!”
 “Christina, COME ON!”
 “THIS IS WONDERFUL!”

• Finish your drink when you hear:

 “NO WIRE HANGERS! EVER!”

• Drink every time Joan overreacts to any situation.

HANNA: The Drinking Game

Drink whenever:

- Cate Blanchett obsesses about her teeth. drink twice if you notice when she’s wearing Prada.

- Tom Hollander whistles a lullaby

- There is an overt visual or spoken reference to the brothers Grimm (baby sips, please)

- Hanna talks about bullets or recites something she’s learned by rote

- Anything on screen is pierced with an arrow

BONUS: Two sips whenever you want to celebrate the birth of New Gay Icon Jessica Barden (Sophie) as she steals the scene

TWELVE: the drinking game

Drink Whenever:

- You think you might be in a perfume ad

- 50 cent acts shifty

- Someone takes Twelve

- Anyone breaks something expensive

- There is slow motion in a scene with Esti Ginzburg

- The scene shifts to a blank white screen

- Chase Crawford makes a sale

BONUS:  If you attended an elite private school, finish your drink before this movie starts.

I AM NUMBER 4: the drinking game

Drink whenever:

- Kevin Durand (Mogadorian Commander) speaks Mogadorian

- Theresa Palmer (Number 6) kills a Mogadorian

- you see a gecko or a dog

- Sam says ‘start the car’

- Timothy Olyphant has dialogue facing away from camera

- Dianna Agron (Sarah) takes pictures that are clearly going to be terrible

- John Smith doesn’t know his own strength - two sips if someone else doesn’t know what he’s capable of.

BONUS: Drink whenever you hear the soundtrack say “Lorien” behind someone
turning to ash.

THE TOWN: the drinking game

Drink whenever:

- You’re surprised someone as tricky as Ben Affleck’s character is willing to be so affable and forthcoming (/expositional) about his innermost problems to a girl he’s just met.

- Jon Hamm could be confused with one of his SNL characters and it’s hard to remember to take him seriously

- Rebecca Hall really ought to just move already

- Jeremy Renner starts a fight or behaves in a transgressive way

- Whenever someone puts on a costume

- Whenever Blake Lively drinks or uses drugs

STARSHIP TROOPERS: the drinking game

My love for Paul Verhoeven knows no bounds. 

Drink whenever:

- A bug cuts someone in half. Drink twice if a bug is cut in half.

- There is Propaganda onscreen - drink twice if it feels fascist

- You see boobs / butts

- Someone makes a hard career decision instead of listening to their emotions

- Neal Patrick Harris thinks / drink twice if NPH is disappointed

- You see someone reciting an oath

- You hear the phrase,  ”Would you like to know more?”

Bonus:

- Finish your drink when someone says, “The mobile infantry made me the man I am today.” 

LAW AND ORDER SVU: the drinking game

This drinking game is the refined product of about 6 years of trial and error by my friends Brian and Zoe. 

Please drink whenever:

- A case is ripped from the headlines

- Ice T says “That’s messed up” - finish your drink. 

- Ice T makes a street smart comment (loosely defined)

- Someone pleads insanity

- Elliot references his troubled family life

- A judge says, “I’ll allow it”

- BD Wong spouts pop psychology

- Olivia brings up being a child of rape

Important:

- 20 minutes in, everyone must pick who did it, even if you don’t know yet what “it” is. Whoever guesses correctly may assign a drink. 

- Any time the “dun-dun” noise sounds, the last person with their finger to their nose must drink.