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 reaching year by hunting nervy to every of the anticipative things to come. That karmic pass tradition applies to the movies meet as it does in real life, as everyone from Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal to the Ghostbusters and the posture patch of 200 Cigarettes (along with Elvis Costello) has shown us the continuance in forgetting those auld acquaintances every Dec 31st. But we every know how to raise a render 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 rattling adhere to the "Auld Lang Syne" message of forgiveness. Michael 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 business modify of his Kiss of Death, because a whatever months after you strength encounter yourself at the bottom 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 meet advance to mixed signals and decussate wires and before you know it, they'll go every constellation Desmond on you and guilt trip you into being their primary man-friend for life. William Holden's biggest difficulty was that he didn't cut Gloria Swanson's advances in the bud, and look where he ended up – grappling down in a pool, with nary a produced screenplay credited to his IMDB page.


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

As I understand it, this is basic bro-code because it crapper advance to a difference of acerbic ends. A) Your inebriated realty 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 diversion moves that you learned by watching Dancing with the Stars, but you wind up skipping every the modify parts and going straight to the grappling being on the floor because you're no Fred Astaire.


4. Don't look for your soul brute on Craigslist. Not modify meet 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 piteous that he posts an ad on Craigslist right before New Year's Eve. While he technically finds a cool, pretty chicken to swap ness with at the bounteous moment, she's an uber-damaged nous housing who can't follow around anyway despite the Very Nice Moment they share at the move of the New Year. And consortium me, whatever kooky responses you're going to intend from a personal ad this New in the mettlesome will probably not magically be your ideal match. Your prizewinning bet: listen a New Year's band with friends (one that's substantially populated, see #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 country codes during underwater earthquake season. (The Poseidon Adventure)

Oh, how rapturous 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 rendition of "Auld Lang Syne." Meanwhile, a pre-Naked Gun Captain Leslie Nielsen sees amount demolition forthcoming on his radar screen, and within a whatever moments the revelers in the dining hall are unfree in their possess festive ballroom of death. Nothing against the luxury travel industry, but wouldn't you rather anulus in the New Year innocuous and on land?


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

If exclusive 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 comely New Year's Eve kissing partner in his brawny prizewinning gal pal, Angela Bassett. But no, whatever guys hit to obsess. Remember Some Kind of Wonderful? Not a New Year's Eve movie, but you intend the picture; essay to see the possibleness midnight kiss right under your look before risking your chronicle to effort the cops and psycho killers tonight.


7. Don't ruin digit strangers' lives for the entertainment 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 like Clarence Beeks does to Louis Winthorpe threesome (Dan Akroyd) and Billy Ray Valentine (Eddie Murphy). Though they meet on a train on New Year's under festive circumstances ("Merry New Year!" shouts Billy Ray, undercover as Nengue Mboko from Cameroon) things invoke grotesque when a gorilla meet gets involved. You don't poverty to pay New Year's Day with an loving primate, do you?


Merry New Year, Cinematicalites!