The Sci-Fi/Action/Disaster Movie Drinking Game

• Title gets quoted in the movie
• Nameless character dies at beginning of film
• Creaking weather vane
• Leading man named after verb or mineral
• Leading woman named after sex act or animal
• Leading lady's clothes torn off or come off during/due to disaster
• Hero has a questionable reputation
• Cameo by porn star
• Cameo by B actor (not drinkable if you know they are in the movie before you watch it)
• Geeky sidekick character
• Bad/dirty cop character
• Use of a power ballad (including credits)
• Computer hacking scene
• Death of a minority (2 drinks if this is a nameless minority)*
• Vehicle chase scene
• Childhood flashback
• Death of meaningful family member (one drink for each one dead) (two drinks if they die due to the same disaster the movie is about)
• Ridiculous explosion
• Child in peril/child saved
• Silly technical acronym or jargon
• Kid sneaks out of the house
• Name of fictional government agency
• Evil/Rival scientist (use a broad definition of scientist)
• Renegade scientist
• Sex scene anywhere other than a bedroom
• Tour group at dangerous location/facility
• Someone is overheard saying something insulting or stupid
• Evil clown/mime/street performer
• Looting/robbery/crime after or because of the disaster
• Character "coming back" from the dead
• Someone is sacrificed or sacrifices him/herself
• Missed warning message
• Communication goes down
• Someone hangs up in an attempt to fix a cut phone line
• Bad matte painting or blue-screen
• Animals sensing danger
• Escape route blocked
• Ridiculous talking computer or countdown
• Person swears at machine
• Rescue team gets trapped/ambushed/lost/killed
• Past/unused/random job or skill comes in handy
• Technology used in a way differently than how it actually works in the real world (prime example from Twister: duplex communication over CB's as if they're telephones)
• Something doesn't work because of budget cutbacks
• Somebody points out the obvious
• Trying to outrun/drive/fly the disaster
• Dolly counter-zoom
• Meal interrupted
• Someone pulls rank
• Someone is asked to do the impossible
• Using untested invention to save the day (by broad definition, equipment that hasn't been used in X years counts)
• A self-destruct device is used
• If you need to flip/change DVDs/tapes/hard drives
• If you talk to the screen/TV
• If you look anything up on IMDB or Google during the movie
• Singing in a foreign/alien language
• Chanting
• Ridiculous use of English (e.g. Bedouins talking to each other)
• Hero contemplates suicide
• Character drops/breaks something while realizing/learning something shocking
• Character refers to something as, "The Device"
• Evacuation (not the bathroom kind)
• Gratuitous use of a robot
• sci-fi light tunnel effect (e.g. Han gets the Hyperdrive working)

• "I was out of line"
• "We're going to need all the manpower we can get."
• "We need to bring the [system] back online."
• "What's going on?" + one additional drink for each cuss word/phrase added (e.g. "What the fucking god-damned hell is going on!?!?" = 4 drinks).
• "It's/that was a long time ago."
• "It's not responding - I don't know why."
• "I need some help in/over here!"
• "Stay with me."
• "We're not out of this yet."
• "Not by a long shot."
• "There's not enough time!"
• "We're losing it/him/her!"
• "No! It's too dangerous!"
• "Don't you understand? We're/you're/they're all going to die!"
• "Just hang on - I've got you!"
• "There's only one MAN who can help us" (2 drinks)
• "There's only one PERSON who can help us" (1 drink)
• "It's quiet - too quiet."
• "It's coming right for us!"
• "It's like nothing I've ever seen before."
• "Armageddon."
• "I'm not leaving you!"
• "But that's impossible."
• "Worst/biggest [insert disaster or event here] ever."
• Are you coming back alive?"
• "I'm gettin' too old for this crap/shit/stuff/whatever." (2 drinks at least)