Groundhog Day (1993) Gets better every year!

Tipsy McSwagger

Dirty Dingus McGee wrote: »

I don't think you got the joke.

He starts a fresh day every 24 hours so the repeat post should be made the same time each day not a load of them in a few minutes.

AnonoBoy

Dirty Dingus McGee wrote: »

I don't think you got the joke.

Willfully so.

johnny_ultimate

*Unsure if usual user or technical error or meta-commentary on inherent repetition of the film...*

Welsh Megaman

Tipsy McSwagger wrote: »

He starts a fresh day every 24 hours so the repeat post should be made the same time each day not a load of them in a few minutes.

I admit that it's not from my top draw of 'comedy' material...it's just that I might not be able to post at the same time tomorrow

AnonoBoy

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

I admit that it's not from my top draw of 'comedy' material...it's just that I might not be able to post at the same time tomorrow

Young people today. No dedication.

FloatingVoter

...sorry, I've just robbed a bank...can someone direct me to a piano teacher.

vidor

excessively sentimental at times

Something Chaplin was guilty of on many an occasion!

Skerries

The Strawman Argument

Saw this film for the first time when I was about 6 or 7 and absolutely loved it, so it's impossible for me to judge it impartially.*
I thought Bill Murray was as big with the kids in the 90s as Jim Carrey and Robin Williams until a few friends told me they had hardly any memories of him at all.

Does anyone else remember RTE repeating one of the Surf ads with Biddy from Glenroe over and over for an entire ad break during this once?


* Only time I ever got really annoyed with someone not liking a film was the time I showed it to an ex who had never seen it before; the idea someone might dislike it caught me totally off guard, that's how blinded I am with nostalgia here

Patty O Furniture

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

One of the best comedy films of all time

Bill Murray asks the B+B host, if she has ever had Dejavu, i dont' know she said, i'll check the kitchen, to see if i have any! lol!

Patty O Furniture

It only seems like y'day, well according to Punxsutawney Phil
he hasn't seen his shadow & it looks like an early spring:D

According to the website Wolf Gnards, Bill Murray spends 8 years, 8 months and 16 days trapped in Groundhog Day. The website Obsessed With Film claims he was trapped 12,403 days, just under 34 years, in order to account for becoming a master piano player, ice sculptor, etc.

Just in case you don't have time to see the film today, Sky are showing it all day from 6.40am for 24 hrs!
(it would have been smarter if it was 5.59am &13 times in total, unlucky no?)

But what if there were no tomorrow?

Enjoy!

GreNoLi

Check out the short film it's based on, pretty great.

adox

adox wrote: »

Watched it with the Mrs last night as we do every year on February 2nd.

We went to see it in the cinema when it was originally released and loved it so have a soft spot for it.

Its infinitely quotable and has fantastic re-watch value. Brings a smile to my face even thinking about it.

Watched it again together this evening, with dinners on laps in front of the telly.

We both know the film inside out at this stage but still laughed and laughed throughout.

MfMan

Bill Murray was an inspired choice for the lead. Day-in, film-out gives the same dull, smug, minimalistic performance. Watching him in movies is like being trapped in a never-ending day.

Arghus

The Strawman Argument wrote: »

Does anyone else remember RTE repeating one of the Surf ads with Biddy from Glenroe over and over for an entire ad break during this once?

YES!!!

It was TV3 though as I recall. It was an Ad break that consisted of Biddy shilling Surf and then an Ad for some Uncle Bens sauce that was new on the market and was going to revolutionize the taste of your antibiotic-filled fried chicken...... Over and over again. It was pretty surreal. The only way that I'm certain it was TV3 was that the break ran for what must have been a full ten minutes. Pretty on the nose from them that all they had back then to repeat continously was advertising: Uploaded was only a twinkle in some Ejit's eye in those days.

To this day I'm still not totally sold that it was intentional rather than extraordinarliy coincedental. It was very meta and all, but wouldn't that imply a bit of brains on TV3's part? Usually they make the lame-brains in Montrose look like the real geniuses in Irish TV-Land.

Arghus

MfMan wrote: »

Bill Murray was an inspired choice for the lead. Day-in, film-out gives the same dull, smug, minimalistic performance. Watching him in movies is like being trapped in a never-ending day.

I think that's why people like him to be honest: you know what you're going to get. Bill Murray is a welcome presence in any movie as far as I'm concerned but I'd never say he's got great range.

Maybe his real skill is that he's able to modulate his essential Murrayness depending on what the film demands - Smug, but likeable = Ghostbusters. Smug/Anti-Christ = Kingpin. Kind of similar performances in one sense, but they feel fairly different in each case.

You could make the case that he's at his best in Groundhog Day because he manages to occupy both sides of the Murray scale in the movie.

Patty O Furniture

"No prizes for guessing what day it is" :)

​Punxsutawney Phil's prediction or "prognostication" depends on the small woodland animal observing his shadow and then, based on his movements, a forecast is made on whether winter will last an extra six weeks or if spring is on its way.:(





At 7:25 a.m. Eastern time on a hill outside Punxsutawney, Pa., known as Gobbler's Knob, the seemingly immortal Phil — the same rodent who launched the tradition in 1887, if you believe his handlers — looked for his shadow.:P


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Liam McPoyle

Lighthouse Cinema is screening it this evening.

Hector Savage

Dirty Dingus McGee wrote: »

I thought it was good when I watched it first but wasn't completely blown away by it like other seem to be , its funny for me it seems to be a film that is completely over rated.

Maybe I need to watch it again.

Agreed, I think it's one of these movies that the nostalgia factor is what makes it good.

For people that saw it first in the 1990s they love it.

I saw it for the 1st time last year after people telling me its so good (so expectation was high) - and was distinctly underwhelmed by it.

Franz Von Peppercorn

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

The collected works of Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin and Jacques Tati would beg to contest this hyperbole.

Nobody really likes that slapstick ****e. Good for the day is all we can say.

Franz Von Peppercorn

The Groundhog Day itself is a version of st Brigids day which has a similar myth.

seamus

I think you really have to appreciate Murray's style to love the film.

It's a very distinctive sarcastic, cocky, misanthropic, completely apathetic character. He almost seems to have one foot inside the story, taking part in it, and a foot outside the story, making pithy observations on it.

The character was first introduced in Ghostbusters, built on in Scrooged, and really pinnacled in Groundhog Day.

I don't think it's an "of its time" movie, but if you don't appreciate the type of character Murray plays (and it's easy to see why someone wouldn't), the movie will be much more inaccessible because he just dominates the whole thing.

Also, Andie McDowell is just...awful.

pixelburp

Hector Savage wrote: »

Agreed, I think it's one of these movies that the nostalgia factor is what makes it good.

For people that saw it first in the 1990s they love it.

I saw it for the 1st time last year after people telling me its so good (so expectation was high) - and was distinctly underwhelmed by it.

I didn't see it until well after its first release IIRC, I don't think nostalgia factors into it that much; it's a genuinely funny movie whose elements came together beautifully - even the presence of Andie McDowell couldn't tarnish things. It has aged quite well, remaining a pretty timeless movie, IMO nostalgia is only a factor when its lamenting times or things long past gone.

However, I do think it's part of the internets continued deification of Bill Murray that accounts for a lot of the hype: Murray has been elevated into this infallible comic god, as if his every utterance or action is comedy gold, so naturally any of his better movies are immediately ramped up way beyond being merely 'good' movies. Groundhog Day's the same. Murray's cynical apathy works perfectly in the film, but generally I think he himself is the overrated one.

billyhead

Relevant to current times I watched this again. What an absolute classic. Murray is brilliant in it. One of my all time favourite movies.

babybuilder

billyhead wrote: »

Relevant to current times I watched this again. What an absolute classic. Murray is brilliant in it. One of my all time favourite movies.

Great fun. Bill Murray being Bill Murray. Saw it recently showed to the family. Everyone enjoyed it.