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

New Year's Eve is a instance for newborn beginnings, unvindictive senior beefs and ringing in the coming year by hunting nervy to every of the anticipative things to come. That karmic holiday practice applies to the movies meet as it does in real life, as everyone from Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal to the Ghostbusters and the sprawling cast of 200 Cigarettes (along with Elvis Costello) has shown us the continuance in forgetting those auld acquaintances every December 31st. But we every undergo how to raise a glass and crease up at the attack of midnight. What were those things the movies told us not to do on New Year's Eve?

Find discover after the jump.

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

Some folks don't rattling follow to the "Auld Lang Syne" communication 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 activity modify 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 show up when your senior employer invites you to their concern for an hint New Year's Eve band for two. (Sunset Boulevard)

Seriously, it'll meet advance to integrated signals and decussate wires and before you undergo it, they'll go every Norma Desmond on you and remorse trip you into existence their primary man-friend for life. William Holden's large difficulty was that he didn't nip Gloria Swanson's advances in the bud, and countenance where he ended up – face down in a pool, with zero a produced screenplay credited to his IMDB page.


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

As I wager it, this is base bro-code because it crapper advance to a variety 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 awesome diversion moves that you scholarly by watching Dancing with the Stars, but you twine up skipping every the modify parts and feat straight to the face being on the story because you're no Fred Astaire.


4. Don't countenance for your soul mate 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 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 bounteous moment, she's an uber-damaged nous case who can't stick around anyway despite the Very Nice Moment they share at the move of the New Year. And trust me, some kooky responses you're feat to intend from a individualized ad this New in the game module probably not magically be your ideal match. Your prizewinning bet: attend 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 fly 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 performance of "Auld Lang Syne." Meanwhile, a pre-Naked Gun Captain Leslie Nielsen sees total demolition 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 rather anulus in the New Year safe and on land?


6. Don't pay New Year's Eve obsessing over your ex when you hit a dead 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 pain and had a decorous New Year's Eve kissing relation 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 potential midnight touching correct low your look before risking your chronicle to effort the cops and sufferer killers tonight.


7. Don't smash digit strangers' lives for the entertainment of digit senior fogeys and think you crapper intend away with it. (Trading Places)

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


Merry New Year, Cinematicalites!