Ah, the best Christmas movie ever made. And what pairs perfectly with Christmas?

Drink whenever:

1. A walkie talkie or radio is used for communication.
2. McClane kills someone.
3. A gun is fired.
4. McClane talks to himself.
5. Anyone speaks german.
6. There is a Christmas reference.
7. Anything explodes. 

Half the delight in movie drinking games is adulting-up classics from your childhood. If you don't shudder at the phrase 'true love' the next day – you weren't playing correctly.

The rules are as follows. Drink when:

1. Shrek burps or farts.
2. Anyone says 'ogre.'
3. Anyone says 'steed.' 
4. Anyone says 'true love.'
5. Anyone says 'Lord Farquaad.'
6. Anyone breaks into song. 
7. The ginger bread man talks.
8. The dragon breathes fire.

In Face/Off – possibly the greatest action movie of our generation – Cage and Travolta pretend to be each other, proving paradoxically that they are very talented mimics of bad actors. There are two simple yet devastating rules to the Face/Off drinking game: 

1) Drink whenever someone touches someone else's face. (This happens way more often than it should.)

2) drink whenever anyone says "face ... off."

This game should get you shitface(/off)-d in about twenty minutes. 

Despite what the poms-poms might signal, Bring It On a legitimately excellent film with a plot revolving around social consciousness. So, ruin it by drinking when:

1. Anyone says 'Toros.'
2. Cheer puns occur!
3. Big Red makes a cameo.
4. A new squad is introduced. 
5. Spirit fingers waggle.
6. Male cheerleaders are ridiculed.
7. Male cheerleaders are inappropriate, plz stahp. 

This movie is British and dry, like the world's worst wines. There's just one instruction: 

Drink whenever Withnail does. 

For those with liver to spare, drink whatever Withnail does. 

Reacquaint yourself with 1995's cutting edge CGI and try not to cry. 

Drink whenever:

1. Anyone says 'Andy.'
2. Anyone pulls Woody's string.
3. Anyone says 'claw.'
4. Jessie yells, 'Yeehaw!'
5. Buzs says, 'To infinity and beyond.'
6. Etch does a sketch.
7. Toys play dead. 

And for the ultimate challenge: waterfall when the song 'You've Got A Friend In Me' plays. Don't stop until the song ends or Andy comes back.

Clerks is a cult classic for a reason. There's something about drinking along with the movie that matches its black and white ennui and anti-service industry bathos. 

Drink whenever:

1. Anyone makes a hockey reference.
2. Jay or Silent Bob raise their fists.
3. Anyone buys cigarettes (very bad for you, do not do it). 
4. Anyone grunts / groans / goes 'Ugh!'. 
5. Anyone references Star Wars.
6. The register is slammed.
7. Silent Bob speaks. 
8. Jay offers someone drugs.

Yes, it's unimaginative to include a movie about drinking contests in a drinking game article, but despite that (and the movie's 41% Rotten Tomatoes score), Beerfest the most challenging title on this list.

One rule to rule them all: just drink whenever the characters drink. 

It may be the best film about pirates I've ever seen. Or the worst. Or both.

Drink whenever:

1. Jack says 'savvy.'
2. Anyone drinks rum or complains about rum.
3. A monkey or parrot is on screen.
4. Kiera Knightly gets wet.
5. Anyone is knocked unconscious.
6. Anyone says 'poppet.'
7. Anyone steals anything.

Another simple and deadly situation. Fear is the liver killer. 

Drink whenever:

1. Anyone says 'spice.' 
2. Anyone says 'worm.'

One of a few movies in Schwarzenegger's oeuvre that play with the incongruity of a hyper-competent everyman American with a thick Austrian accent, the Terminator continues to live in public consciousness. Play this game faithfully, and your speech might match. 

Drink when:

1. Anyone says 'Terminator.'
2. Anyone says 'Connor.'
3. The Terminator kills someone.
4. The camera's view is from the Terminator's perspective.
5. Something explodes. 
6. Time shifts to the future.

A repository of catch phrases only bested by RuPaul's Drag Race, Mean Girls owes part of its success to its clever lines and the deft use of repeated verbal and visual cues. You might come to hate that. 

Drink whenever:

1. Anyone says 'Fetch.'
2. Anyone says 'Regina George.'
3. Anyone says 'Africa.'
4. You see a miniskirt. 

Look, if you can't go to an actual showing of the movie with audience participation, your second best option is to get into the spirit with some spirits. 

Drink whenever:

1. People dance. 
2. Anyone swears.
3. Anyone smokes (don't do it, very bad for you, et cetera). 
4. You hear dogs barking. 
5. Confetti or rice is thrown. 
6. Rocky grunts.
7. Someone dies.
8. Someone copulates. 
9. "Antici..."
10. "...pation."

An absurdist contortion of film noir and a pessimistic but highly enjoyable look at the fruits of human action, drinking to The Big Lebowski is an embrace of its central themes and the vice/virtue of its protagonist. Y'know? The old school Lebowski rule was to 'drink a White Russian whenever the Dude does.' But we can do better than that.

Drink whenever:

1. The Dude drinks.
2. The Dude refers to himself in the third person.
3. Anyone swears.
4. Walter gets angry.
5. Walter mentions Vietnam.
6. The Dude's rug is mentioned.
7. Anyone speaks with an accent.
8. The Dude, Donny, and Walter bowl.
9. Donny is put down.

It can be painful to watch talented actors work through poor source material. Take some of the edge off and celebrate sip-for-sip the recurring shots of the film. This game theoretically work with any film in the quartet of vampire atrocities.

Drink whenever:

1. Bella stammers.
2. Edward looks uncomfortable.
3. Bella strokes her hair or bites her lip.
4. Vampires use vampire powers.
5. Edward sparkles.

Like The Big Lebowski, drinking along with this film is simple audience participation in the film's motifs, pure and simple. Be careful in particular with the swearing rule. 

Drink whenever:

1. Anyone drinks or smokes. 
2. Seth yells at someone.
3. Anyone says 'Dartmouth.'
4. Anyone says 'McLovin.'
5. The cops run a red light.
6. Anyone swears.

Perhaps the only film franchise in history to progressively improve, The Fast and the Furious nonetheless distills a particular moment of the 1990's. It's a story about men with rippling biceps and delicately frosted tips striving to obtain the approval of other men, with a lot of heated glances and punches traded, if that sort of thing gets your motor going. 

Drink whenever:

1. A punch is thrown.
2. Anyone says 'Dom.'
3. Anyone says 'bro.'
4. Cars are used as metaphors.
5. Car engines rev.
6. A gear shift has a close up.
7. NOS has a close up.
8. A bra is shown.
9. A car is driven backwards. 
10. A scene is arguably homoerotic.

Has it aged poorly? Is it still as epic as your ever-tween heart might remember? If you can still tell, consider that rule 10 and drink up.

Drink whenever:

1. There is a shot of beautiful scenery.
2. There is a close up of the ring.
3. The ring is referenced as 'precious.'
4. Legolas looks into the distance.
5. Legolas states the obvious.
6. Frodo wanders away.
7. Merry and Pippin get into mischief.
8. Gandalf uses magic.
9. The entire fellowship is onscreen at the same time. 

“Since the invention of the movie drinking game, there have only been five games that were rated the most passionate, the most pure. This one left them all behind.”

Drink whenever:

1. Anyone says 'farmboy.'
2. Anyone says 'true love.'
3. Anyone says 'inconceivable'. 
4. Anyone says 'boo!'
5. Anyone says 'as you wish.'
6. Anyone says 'Dread Pirate Roberts.'
7. Anyone is knocked out.
8. You see Fred Savage.