Movies and drink are the greatest combination since salt and vinegar, and the only reason anyone has ever enjoyed a SyFy original. We're rating classic drinking game movies on a scale of one to iloveyoumanserrusslyurmabessfren.
The Movie: Withnail & I
If you've never heard of Withnail & I, it's the UK's classic college drinking game. And they've been at drinking and education for centuries longer than North America existed. The U.S. has already imported their dominant language, religion and ridiculously backward units system* from England. It's about time you took something good instead.
*Here's a tip, U.S.: when even the original Empire gives up on Imperial units, it may be time to go metric.
Withnail & I is an entire college education in under two hours. It deals with terrifying drunkenness, even more terrifying sobriety, a desperate shortage of money, the importance of No meaning No, and the most important university lesson of all: just because somebody says they're your friend doesn't mean they're not a poisonous Emerson.
Anyone looking like this is dangerous, and probably suggesting this drinking game.
The Rule: Every time anyone drinks
The plot is a drunken weekend on fast forward, and every drink is so much sweeter because you're only watching someone terrorize teashops, face death by Irishman, beg, burrow, steal and face the most terrifying huge spherical threat in a movie since the Death Star.
He might look all Roald Dahl now, but that guy on the left could be your worst nightmare.
The game also has an Extreme Mode where you not only drink when they do but what they do, and it's a greater recipe for disaster than old nitroglycerine and jumping into a fireworks display. You'll need ale, red wine, cider, sherry, gin and whisky. Level 4 biocontainment labs don't mix such disastrous cocktails. The characters nearly die and they're doing it over a weekend, not an evening, and even the hardcore players usually skip Withnail's emergency bottle of lighter fluid.
Drinkmograph
The rapid changing of drinks twists your guts in more directions than superstring theory, and it'll be even harder for you to work it out afterwards.
Drinking Game Rating
Quantity: Dangerous
The quadruple whiskey and ale is a more direct attack on your liver than stabbing it.
Frequency: Staccato
The character's desperate thirst is matched only by their desperate poverty. You have some time between drinks, but you will desperately need it.
Urinary: Easy mode
One thing unemployed actors have is plenty of time. There are long stretches between drinks, so you'll have plenty of time to make room for them.
Talky: Silence
The only downside of this movie is that it's brilliant, and stuffed with cooler lines than the TRON universe.
If everyone's of the same mind, and drinking, it's no problem, but anyone opening their mouth is betting that their drunken ass is funnier than Richard E. Grant, Paul McGann, and Bruce Robinson. In other words, that person is an idiot and should sit their ass back down. Luckily, after there drinking game movies "sitting the hell down" isn't just our primary skillset, it's our ambition in life.
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