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Miami Poetry Review's Top 10 beer movies

As many Slashfood readers must know by now, I truly love a good beer. I also enjoy good films, which is probably while I'll be skipping Beerfest.

In honor of that film, which seems to be in the same traditionof such classics as American Pie, The Miami Poetry Review, just posted a list of the "10 Greatest Beer Movies Of All Time." Without further ado:

  1. The Fatal Glass of Beer (1933)
  2. Three Little Beers (1935)
  3. The Lost Weekend (1945)
  4. Leaving Las Vegas (1995)
  5. National Lampoon's Animal House (1978)
  6. Blue Velvet (1986)
  7. Smokey And The Bandit (1977)
  8. Beer (1985)
  9. American Beer (2004)
  10. Sideways (2004)
I haven't seen all of these, but I'm particularly keen to watch the documentary American Beer and the comedy Beer, which chronicles a struggling brewery.

I was quite surprised by some of the ones I have seen that made the list. Sideways comes to mind. The logic for including it on the list: If you substitute beer for wine it becomes a beer flick. Fair enough.

Another surprise is Blue Velvet. Guess I forgot how many insightful lines about beer were uttered by Dennis Hopper. Among my favorites: "That beer's gonna get warm. One thing I can't fuckin' stand is warm beer! It makes me fuckin' puke!" A man after my own heart.

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DanGarion

9-12-2006 @6:31PM DanGarion said... Honestly, Beerfest wasn't that bad. For it was it was well worth seeing. There aren't many R comedies nowadays since the production companies want everything PG-13 so kids can see it.
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Dmnkly

9-12-2006 @7:08PM Dmnkly said... Anybody who can explain how Strange Brew doesn't make a top ten list of beer movies should win something. I mean, there are oversights and there are OVERSIGHTS.
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Colin

9-12-2006 @7:15PM Colin said... I really think Guy Madden's The Saddest Music in the World needs to be on this list. It is one artfully hillarious movie.
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mr. O

9-12-2006 @7:37PM mr. O said... I second the overwhelming outage over Strange Brew's absence from this list.
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Drew

9-12-2006 @8:33PM Drew said... I like how you trashed Beerfest as a bad movie and then put Smokey and the Bandit at 7.
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Donald Kovach

9-13-2006 @7:01PM Donald Kovach said... Strange Brew, Dude! -- what's up with that?
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Adam

9-12-2006 @9:54PM Adam said... "Subsitute beer for wine and it [Sideways] becomes a beer movie"...?

That's about the stupidest thing I've ever seen.

Substitute beer for Chocolate and Chocolat becomes a beer movie.

Substitute it for baseball and you can make "The Bad News Beers".

Shows what the farking Poetry Review knows about beer. Or movies.
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Dan Tannenbaum

9-13-2006 @12:04AM Dan Tannenbaum said... Dmnkly and mr. O have it right! How can the greatest Beer movie of all times be left off this list? The comedy of the Mackenzie Brothers and Second City TV has rarely been matched, and seldom equaled. Who can forget that famous line: "Ah Geez! I really gotta take a leak!" CLASSIC, I tell you!
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