New Year’s Eve is a time for celebration, countdowns, fireworks, ball drops and more.

However, if you are looking for an alternative to the more traditional ways to count down to midnight, social media has gotten quite a buzz over the last couple of years with queuing up a favorite movie or ballgame to hit the crescendo right as the clock strikes midnight.

A Reddit thread posted a couple of years ago has some suggestions:

Start “Ghostbusters II” at 10:38 p.m., and Peter Venkman (Bill Murray) says, “Happy New Year’s” at midnight.

Begin “Back to the Future” at 10:19 p.m., and Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) returns to 1985 in the DeLorean at midnight.

If you start “Great Gatsby” at 11:29:57 p.m., Jay Gatsby (Leo DiCaprio) will toast you at, you guessed it, midnight.

Ramp up “Forrest Gump” at 10:38:57 p.m., and you can celebrate New Year’s with Forrest (Tom Hanks) and Lt. Dan (Gary Sinise).

Here are some others found on social media:

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