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Groundhog Day (1993)

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Repetiveness gets a little bori ...
by The_MOW in The_MOW Blog

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""Phil" (Bill Murray) is a Pittsburgh TV weatherman with a bad attitude. On Groundhog Day, he has to go to Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania to cover the Punxsutawney Phil ceremony. However, this Groundhog Day is unlike any other. And it gives "Phil" a chance to change his ways. Let me say first, even though there are slight differences each time, the repetitiveness of the scenes gets boring real quick. Only Murray's sense of humor saves these scenes, especially when they are shown back-to-back. Out of the entire cast, Murray is the best. When we first meet "Phil," Murray makes him arrogant but pretty comical with some quick wit. He has some pretty good chemistry with Andie MacDowell, especially when her character starts to fall for "Phil" (each time he experiences the day). The supporting cast had very little development in this movie. The only time they had any development was when "Phil" was memorizing what they told him. A lot of the development is mostly repeated when "Phil" interacts ... " [More]

Groundhog Day
by lmstanley in lmstanley Blog

is neutral about it.

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"Groundhog Day is a classic. I've seen this movie countless times and upon watching it recently, I still found it entertaining. If you've never seen it, you should take some time and rent it. It's just purely fun, fun stuff! " [More]

10 Most Romantic American Films ...
by SpoutBlog in SpoutBlog on spout.com

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"Is romance dead? David Carr seems to think so, at least in American cinema (both Hollywood and “Indiewood,” as he inclusively clarifies). While celebrating the subway station meet-cute from the beginning of Milk, a scene he claims to be of an increasingly rare sort, Carr states that American filmmakers “can do romantic pathology and entropy, but the kind of love for the ages, a big-movie kind of love? Not so much.” If you agree with him, blame the back-to-back Best Picture winners Titanic and Shakespeare in Love for feeding us the kind of romance that’s so cheesy it clogs our arteries and gives us a coronary. Left with a burst heart and a lack of quality Nora Ephron movies, most of us have been cynics when it comes to love stories these past ten years. Yet cynics can still be swept off their feet, and American filmmakers h " [More]

10 Most Depressing Holidays in ...
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"I saw Christmas decorations in a storefront Sunday, so I guess it’s already time to break out the holiday movies. And it’s evidently time for distributors to release holiday fare to theaters, even if Desplechin’s A Christmas Tale (Un conte de Noël), which hits theaters this Friday, isn’t exactly the latest crowd-pleasing installment of the Santa Clause franchise. In fact, with such ingredients as estrangement, mental illness, alcoholism and cancer, it doesn’t seem like a very happy holidays kind of film. Even if it is actually a comedy. But then how many holiday movies are completely void of depressing themes and scenes? I’m sure to have grown up thinking more about the homeless, suicide and family dysfunction from films set at Christmas and Thanksgiving than I did thinking about the happiness that comes with these holidays. One of the most tearjerking moments for me as a kid was certainly seeing Mickey Mouse crying over his dead son in [More]

10 Underrated Bill Murray Roles
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"Everyone loves Bill Murray, but only the die hard fans recognize the majority of his work. The rest, unfortunately, concentrate too much on his greatest films, such as Stripes, Ghostbusters, Groundhog Day, Lost in Translation and all of his collaborations with Wes Anderson. Yet while each of these films, and Murray’s roles and performances in them, are certainly deserving of their preferred and predominant praises, Murray is the kind of actor who is so talented and entertaining that he can be enjoyed in even the worst movies on his resume. In fact, he’s probably the only A-lister who could lend his voice to a bastardized CG version of a beloved cartoon character and get away with barely any contempt from his devotees. This week, Bill Murray makes an appearance i " [More]

Movie Journal: Caddyshack and G ...
by ChrisThilk in ChrisThilk Blog

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"When I saw that Groundhog Day was available on Hulu.com it was more or less a given that I would be watching it eventually. It is, after all, a modern day classic and one of Bill Murray’s best performances. It’s interesting to consider that when it came out in 1993 it was just four short years since Ghostbusters II. I don’t know what that means other than I couldn’t stop thinking about it while watching the flick. Thinking about Harold Ramis as a director, though, put me in the mood to watch Caddyshack for the umpteenth time as well. It’s not all that shocking that both films hold up pretty well, especially since they’ve become two of the most quoted or referenced movies of all time.

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AFI's 10 Top 10: Fantasy
by ShaunHuston in ShaunHuston filmblog

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"As with Moonstruck's appearance on the romantic comedy list, I found myself charmed by many of the selections on the fantasy list, even where I may not have made the choice myself. I was particularly happy to see Groundhog Day (1993) on this Top 10, but, like a number of other films here, the more I thought about the idea of “fantasy”, the more I began to wonder if some weren't misplaced or mis-categorized. Groundhog Day, alongside Harvey (1950), Miracle on 34th Street (1947), and It's a Wonderful Life (1946), may be fantasies, but they are more accurately described as “fables”, that is, as stories that are essentially about life lessons rather than the fantastic, though they may use fantasy elements to tell their stories. Where the three older films are concerned, there are questions that clearly can, and are, raised about what the protagonists have experienced or who they actually are. Is George Bailey (Jimmy Stewart) actually v " [More]

Political Groundhog Day
by Karina in Karina on SpoutBlog

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"Your Blogger is having some computer issues this morning. While I get sorted, check out this blog post from Roger Ebert , in which he ponders the never ending Democratic primary in cinematic terms. “It must have been a species of torture for the anchors at CNN, who seemed caught in a Groundhog Day loop…The problem with a screenplay based on these events is that there would be a merciless sameness.” That quote brought to mind two things. First, this has probably been done already, but someone should do some kind of linguistic/historical study, charting the evolution of references to that movie as a universally identified synonym for eternal recurrence. Also: YouTube! The above clip, Groundhog Day in 5 Seconds, which reduces the Bill Murray classic to nothing but merciless sameness. Also: Originally posted on:SpoutBlog » Karina Longworth " [More]

Political Groundhog Day
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Films of the 90s
by gambrel83 in gambrel83 Blog

liked it.

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"Ever since joining Spout.com a while back, I've come to learn a lot about film in general and my movie watching habits. One of the more prominant things is how the Movies I've Watched By Decade chart. Since I first starting watching movies at a high rate 2+ years ago, it's not surprising that most are from this decade. They seem to be more accessible, and more prominant on my mind as being ones I want to see. Plus, when deciding what to watch with my wife or with friends, we usually decide on something recent, as most casual movie watchers prefer. Nothing wrong with that. But I've found that because about 50% of the films I've seen are from this decade, I'm missing out on a lot. Of course I'm trying to watch the classics from each decade--it's a slow process but I'm getting there. But there are a lot of good ones out there I'd never stumble across unless forced to in a way, which is why I've decided to focus on one decade at a time, for now anyway. Since I've seen a fair sh ... " [More]

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