Cinematical Seven: How Not to Spend Your New Year's Eve

New Year's Eve is a instance for new beginnings, unvindictive senior beefs and sound in the coming year by looking forward to every of the anticipative things to come. That karmic pass practice applies to the movies foregather as it does in real life, as everyone from Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal to the Ghostbusters and the posture cast of 200 Cigarettes (along with Elvis Costello) has shown us the continuance in forgetting those auld acquaintances every Dec 31st. But we every undergo how to improve a glass and pucker up at the attack of midnight. What were those things the movies told us not to do on New Year's Eve?

Find out after the jump.

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1. Don't play you didn't untruth to your brother. Especially if he's a ingroup dress and you're the kinsfolk f*** up. (The Godfather Part II)

Some folks don't really follow to the "Auld Lang Syne" communication of forgiveness. archangel Corleone is digit of those folks. Where you definitely do not poverty to be at the attack of midnight on New Year's Eve is at a band receiving the activity end of his Kiss of Death, because a some months later you strength encounter yourself at the lowermost of Lake Tahoe. (Hopefully your kinsfolk is much more forgiving.)


2. Don't exhibit up when your senior employer invites you to their house for an hint New Year's Eve band for two. (Sunset Boulevard)

Seriously, it'll foregather lead to integrated signals and crossed wires and before you undergo it, they'll go every constellation Desmond on you and remorse trip you into existence their special man-friend for life. William Holden's biggest difficulty was that he didn't cut Gloria Swanson's advances in the bud, and countenance where he ended up – grappling downbound in a pool, with nary a produced screenplay credited to his IMDB page.


3. Don't arrive inebriate to your prizewinning friend's band and dance with the digit chicken he likes. (Holiday Inn)

As I wager it, this is base bro-code because it crapper lead to a difference of acerbic ends. A) Your inebriated land scares or offends the another band goers. B) Your BFF totally thinks you're hitting on his girl, which is so not modify modify though you didn't discern her at every because you were so drunk. Or C) you essay to wow the gathering with your awing dance moves that you scholarly by watching Dancing with the Stars, but you wind up skipping every the modify parts and feat straightforward to the grappling being on the floor because you're no Fred Astaire.


4. Don't countenance for your feeling brute on Craigslist. Not modify foregather to hit someone to make-out with at midnight. (In Search of a Midnight Kiss)

Wilson (Scoot McNairy) is a lonely-but-still-hip 29-year-old Los Angeleno so miserable that he posts an ad on Craigslist correct before New Year's Eve. While he technically finds a cool, pretty chicken to swap ness with at the big moment, she's an uber-damaged nous housing who can't stick around anyway despite the Very Nice Moment they deal at the move of the New Year. And consortium me, some kooky responses you're feat to intend from a personal ad this late in the mettlesome module belike not magically be your ideal match. Your prizewinning bet: listen a New Year's band with friends (one that's substantially populated, wager #2 above) to encounter someone equally anticipative and azygos (but not, well, Craigslist-crazy).


5. Don't go on a trans-Atlantic voyage on an ocean liner with uncomplete safety codes during underwater seism season. (The Poseidon Adventure)

Oh, how joyous are the band goers onboard the SS Poseidon. Confetti is thrown, Grandpa Joe from Willy Wonka kisses Shelly Winters, and Carol Lynley leads the gathering in a stimulating performance of "Auld Lang Syne." Meanwhile, a pre-Naked Gun Captain Leslie Nielsen sees total annihilation forthcoming on his radiolocation screen, and within a some moments the revelers in the dining hall are unfree in their possess festive room of death. Nothing against the wealth movement industry, but wouldn't you kinda ring in the New Year innocuous and on land?


6. Don't pay New Year's Eve obsessing over your ex when you hit a dead nice prizewinning friend/bodyguard who loves you. (Strange Days)

If only Ralph Fiennes wasn't so hung up on his skanky ex in Kathryn Bigelow's twelvemonth thriller Strange Days, he'd hit ransomed himself a ton of trouble and had a decorous New Year's Eve kissing partner in his brawny prizewinning gal pal, Angela Bassett. But no, some guys hit to obsess. Remember Some Kind of Wonderful? Not a New Year's Eve movie, but you intend the picture; essay to wager the possibleness midnight touching correct low your look before risking your chronicle to effort the cops and psycho killers tonight.


7. Don't ruin digit strangers' lives for the recreation of digit senior fogeys and conceive you crapper intend absent with it. (Trading Places)

Not that you were modify intellection of doing such a thing, but we'd advise against activity with strangers' lives same Clarence Beeks does to Louis Winthorpe threesome (Dan Akroyd) and Billy Ray Valentine (Eddie Murphy). Though they foregather on a train on New Year's low festive circumstances ("Merry New Year!" shouts Billy Ray, undercover as Nengue Mboko from Cameroon) things invoke grotesque when a gorilla suit gets involved. You don't poverty to pay New Year's Day with an loving primate, do you?


Merry New Year, Cinematicalites!