The First One
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It's a movie drinking game! Perhaps not as famous as the "Withnail & I" drinking game, where you drink whatever the characters drink, when they drink it - but then, that may be because I invented this one.
Tonight on Channel 4 in the UK they're showing Ice Cold In Alex, a British movie made in 1958 by J. Lee Thompson. It stars John Mills, Sylvia Sims, Anthony Quayle and Harry Andrews. It follows an 8th Army ambulance crew commanded by Mills as they try to get back across the desert from behind enemy lines, dodging the Akrika Korps and the like. Sims is the nurse, Andrews the grizzled sergeant and driver, Quayle a mysterious South African officer they pick up along the way. It's a terrific tale of derring-do, in my mind a Great British Movie to rival The Italian Job - but why is it a drinking game?
Because of the title. Mills, a recovering alcoholic, tells them they'll drink a cold beer when they get to Alexandria. It's not giving away too much to say they do, and the scene is brilliant. They troop into the bar, get the barman to pour four glasses of beer, and then solemnly watch as Johnny Mills sinks his in one. It's gotta be Heineken, BTW - that's what it clearly is in the film (the scene was even used as a TV ad in the 1980s). And you drink too. The greatest beer scene ever in a movie, probably The Shawshank Redemption is the only one to come close.
So that's what I'll be doing shortly before 11pm tonight. 8)
The First One
A lovely little thinker, but a bugger when he's pissed
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No, you have ONE beer. That's it. It's a surreal drinking game. For my serious drinking, I don't watch movies. There's too much danger that you will wake up the next moring and think that The Flight Of The Navigator actually happened to you. . . God, that freaked me out.
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Scary. Especially since it happened to me too.
But even more scary was the time a 100-foot tall man made out of mashmellow tried to kill me and my mates. And for some reason, the only way we could kill him was by crossing our pee-pee.
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Well, I played the Withnail and I drinking game slightly differently. Namely, I drank BEFORE watching the movie, then continued to drink while watching, and therefore considered it to be an incredibly hilarious movie.... one which I cannot remember the last hour of. *LOL*
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Ah.. the antithesis of the "Who Wants to be a Millionaire" Drinking Game.... drink every time someone says "Final Answer".
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I still prefer the "Wizard of Oz" drinking game. Drink ( a swallow) anytime anybody says "Dorothy," "Witch," or "Wizard." The game starts off pretty slow.. but by the time you get through "Ding-Dong, the Witch is Dead" and "We're off to see the Wizard"... I did this in grad school with a trailer full of women. Joy! Bliss! Rapture!
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I prefer the "Days of Our Lives" drinking game. It's more of my style. But then again, I don't use alcohol for this game, just sparkling cider...
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