Oh, man, this movie!

I mean, it starts and it's like BANG, ShOOOOOM! And then the terrorists arrive and they're all like "POWPOWPOW", and Bruce Willis is like "Fuck this!" and a bunch of people die, and there are cops that totally don't do anything because Bruce Willis is doing their jobs better, and then Alan Rickman's like "AAAAAAAH" and then Christmas music plays!

That makes it a Christmas movie!

Yeah, the world is divided in two on this movie, between people who've never seen it and people who consider it a Christmas classic. A franchise that launched Bruce Willis' career, that gave us the magic of Alan Rickman for the first time, and taught us all a little bit about the importance of ingenuity and good footwear, Die Hard lives up to expectations. There are already many drinking games for Die Hard floating around the internet.

But how many of those games were crafted while watching the movie for the first time?

Happy Holidays, everyone! Christmas is here, and we here at For Your Inebriation couldn't be more excited. We love a good Christmas movie as much as the next guy. But you know what we love just as much?

Random senseless violence.

That's right, our Holiday drinking games are going to involve the baddest, bloodiest movies that have ever graced the winter season (without going into campy territory. Nobody wants to play a drinking game to "Jack Frost", right?). We begin with a game for our favorite "Christmas" movie: In Bruges. The story of two hitmen who get sent on holiday by their potty-mouthed boss after an assasination gone awry, to the most magical town in all of Belgium. 

Never seen this movie? Experience the wonder and delight in Martin McDonagh's tight, beautiful story of guilt, friendship, and the beliefs people are willing to die for. All in fucking Bruges.

Is it just me, or has the action genre been a little weird this past decade or so? Maybe it has to do with the rise of CGI in feature length films, or maybe it's just as simple as a change in the aesthetics movie-goers look for when they see a film, but action lately movies have lacked punch. They feel the need to over explain, to drive exposition into the ground, dragging down the pace of the movie at the same time. Even Transformers, one of the highest grossing action movies ever, is bogged down by tedious dialogue-driven scenes; the movie doesn't get going until it's nearly over. 

It's not that Looper doesn't do this, but that it threads its exposition and "character driven" scenes pretty well together with the guns and blood. It delivers its plot to the audience at breakneck speed, and only gives you just enough downtime to catch up with it...mostly.

I guess what I'm saying is what makes it a successful movie, and makes our drinking game successful as well, is Bruce Willis and Young Bruce Willis (I mean, Joseph Gordon-Levitt). What bogs it down is...everything else.