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Drinking Games

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This is a very good film with some excellent special features. The film is about friends who get together after the suicide of their friend and drink to disassociate themselves from the strong feelings they are experiencing. Their conversation runs from theology to raunchy sex and is witty and thought provoking.

As for the special features, the interactive drinking game (Drink-O-Vision) was a fantastic time. My friends and I could barely walk after the film. There was also director's commentary that gave great advise on how to make an independent film, an interview with the filmmakers, and a library of drinking games. There were other special features, however these were my favorite.

Check out this disc, it was excellent.

This movie was terrible. A Gen-X version of "The Big Chill" sans the great music or good acting, for that matter. I don't have much more to say about the movie other than it was BAD.

The only redeeming quality of this DVD (which is obviously absent from the VHS tape) is that it has a feature with drinking games on it. Kind of a neat little library, if you ask me, to keep on hand for a party (or a private or personal binge, though I don't recommend that). They even make the movie itself into a drinking game in that you identify yourself with a character (each character drinks more or less than the others on average) and drink whenever that character drinks. There are also other rules for when you have to drink (ie, whenever anyone mentions sex).

Frankly, I am not one for independent movies, really, but some have blown me away. This, unfortunately, didn't come even close to that, and I wanted to pull my own hair out one by one by the end of the movie. If I could get this DVD super cheaply, I would buy it for the drinking games library, but I would much rather play a drinking game with another movie or a TV show. I'm sure you can find great ones on the internet.

This was a great movie - the acting is a bit awkward at times, but that almost makes the characters more real and that much more appealing. They reminded me of people I know...and of those twisted conversations you can only have with your closest friends (usually while under the influence).

If you a Gen-Xer, or even a veteran of late night quarters campaigns, this movie is for you. With a collection of some very good Pacific Northwest bands, the movies soundtrack keep time with the ebb and flow of the picture. Going from serious to aloof in a single scene, Drinking Games will keep you interested throughout. I dare anyone to keep up with these people during the movie, and if you do, don't plan on driving. If you are a child of the 80's, we finally have a movie to call our own.

I loved this movie - so very portland. we even saw it at the mission theater. Funny and well written, could have been better acting - but it was a great movie anyway. Do I know these people - it seems like I do.

This movie even though slightly grainy you are endured by the character development and you kind of root on characters as they talk about anything and everythingto keep their minds off a passed away friend. It came out the same time as clerks and has a same dialogue. "beer run" Kind of resembles the big chill.

If you live in Portland, Or and are 20-30, you must see this film. That's what you do, you get together with your friends and play drinking games till you all pass out somewhere. I related to it and so could you if you've ever been in this drunk situation. Although the acting was not top notch, it sure did make me miss my home. Oh, yes, and the sountrack is to die for... hmmm... I think I hear another search coming on. :)

I had a hard time staying interested in this movie. If you can't get to sleep, here's your remedy.

I must say right off that I'm over 30...so perhaps "I just don't get it".

That said...this film has done for me what all the sleeping aids in the world have failed to do. I rented it from Blockbuster and tried to watch it for 3 nights in row only to have the same thing happen...zzzz. This Big Chill Wannabe has some fantastic production values going for it as well as some (please note: NOT ALL) good acting to it's credit. But the screenplay is a whinefest that never really works it's way out of the "Feel Sorry For Us" mode. It's plunging the depths of young adulthood problems reveals only an old boot and some seaweed.

I was pleasantly surprised by this one. Its offbeat characters, witty dialogue, and daring humor make this low-budget Big Chill an entertaining forerunner to the Something About Mary line of movies. Unlike the Chill, though, Games cleverly skewers its subject by revealing the shallowness and self-dramatization of the X-Generation. The production quality is first-rate; Games looks like it came from a major studio (i.e., 1000 times better than Clerks).