Groundhog Day

Classic comedy, glad you found it, possibly many other superb films that may have slipped under your radar?

I've been watching quite a lot of movie reactions on YouTube, good to see an honest similar reaction to how you may have also enjoyed the same film....

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I watched this film for the first time the night before last, and I have been thinking it over and over since. What a spectacular film, I feel ashamed to have only seen it for the first time so recently. It really touched me in a very soft place, and I felt great come the end of the movie. :p

Oh, and we are so lucky to have Bill Murray in our lives. :D

What do you all think of Groundhog Day?
 
It was around 2008 when I watched Groundhog Day and really enjoyed it. The idea was to repeat the same day, but to play it out differently each time. One day I remembered was where the main character bumps into a stranger and pretended that he knew her based on information that he accumulated from a previous instance of that day. They ended up hooking up for the day (for that day/instance only).

Groundhog Day was one of a few films that got recommended to be because I was asking for DVDs of films that had a strange idea, so Groundhog Day was one of the films that got given to me.

Other films with strange ideas:

The Butterfly Effect - this is how the main character's life unfolds based on decisions that he has made early on in his life. It's kinda like Groundhog Day except that the dude is repeating his life based on decisions instead of him repeating 1 day based on decisions.

Related: Sliding Doors - again, a Groundhog Day / Butterfly Effect, but instead what happens to the main character when they miss a certain train and how life unfolds if they did catch that train vs not catching it.

The Truman Show - the idea of someone living out their life inside of a TV show and he doesn't know that he is on TV. He thinks that the life he is living out is his normal life.

The Lawnmower Man - a guy with learning disabilities is operated on to make him really intelligent. This is based on Flowers for Algernon (book) and its film Charlie of the same book written by Daniel Keyes.
 
Werewolf said:
I really enjoy it :)
It's basically a rom/com with a bit of a twist*.

Half the fun is trying to spot the minor/understated differences that occur every go round.

He's also very good in Lost in Translation, and even his very short part in Zombieland:)
I think Murrey is great abd one of the fairly small number of Hollywood actors who can pull of both great comedy, and more serious roles (and send himself up as well), and I can't imagine things like Ghostbusters or even Caddyshack without him:)


*I have an odd soft spot for good, not overly gushy rom coms:p
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Bill Mirray is who Will Farrell would love to be but overcompensates (in a comedy way).

Murray always wants to be a serious actor - this film demonstrates his acting (with the humour inbuilt in his character along with the depression etc).

Certainly a 9 on my ratings.
 
I never got this from the movie, but people who worked on the movie claimed Bill Murray's character was there about 1000 years to learn all those skills he had.

Surely he would have gone insane?
 
VincentHanna said:
I never got this from the movie, but people who worked on the movie claimed Bill Murray's character was there about 1000 years to learn all those skills he had.

Surely he would have gone insane?
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I think he did in the film at one point (kidnapping the groundhog and driving into the quarry), then learned to just go with it/try and do something different within the realms of what he could.
Remember there is no indication of how long any of his "days" represented in terms of how long he spent at each phase, for all we know his kidnapping the furry critter could have been one of hundreds or attempts to end the cycle by dying, or the culmination of hundreds of cycles of trying ever more extreme ways to do it.

I can actually imagine some people for whom a thousand years of roughly repeating the same day but being able to change what they were doing would be potentially enjoyable, for a start these days you could watch almost every major film made, you could read entire libraries, learn all sorts of skills (the piano for example) try out all the foods and drinks available that you wouldn't normally do.
 
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