Anybody else love the movie "Groundhog Day"?

[Courtesy Flush]

I just watched it for the third time. When it was released I assumed it was just a dumb comedy, but it was such a great life-lesson movie, with great performances.

Thoughts?

Watch it here (you might have to register to watch)

http://www.hulu.com/watch/29027/groundhog-day

[BlueIris]

1. "Don't drive angry...don't drive angry..."

"Groundhog Day" rules.

[pokerfan]

12. "Be the hat."

A nice nod to Caddyshack where Chevy Chase's character tells Danny to "Be the ball."

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

2. Little known trivia.

In the original script, Bill Murray was trapped in time due to a voodoo curse placed on him by his ex-girlfriend.

The Andie McDowell character was supposed to be stuck in time with him.

The looping continued for thousands of years, Bill Murray time. They cut that bit out because they felt the audience would find it disturbing.

[BlueIris]

3. A voodoo curse?

Yeah, that would have...wrecked a lot of the humor.

[Courtesy Flush]

4. Thousands of years?

That wouldn't have worked. He'd have been a lot more perfect, or very jaded in that amount of time. I assumed it was a few years.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

6. According to the script...

he kept time by reading one page of a book every day and finished the local library.

[pokerfan]

9. On the DVD, Harold Ramis says...

that the original idea was for him to live February 2nd for about 10,000 years. Later he says that Phil probably lived the same day for about 10 years.

[BlueIris]

5. I read an interesting theory about "G-Day" on this board once: The movie is about addiction.

The message being that every day is the same until you change it. The only change that will make a difference is that which brings genuine purpose to your life, is self-loving, and allows you to love others.

At first I thought this theory was b.s., but I think the film can be interpreted that way.

[pokerfan]

8. Every day *is* the same

until you get Andie MacDowell in the sack. Then you want to throw away your career and move to Punxsutawney.

[Courtesy Flush]

13. Was she hot or what???? n/t

[pokerfan]

16. Well, she was a model...

She's often denigrated for not being a Meryl Streep, but I thought she was perfectly fine and natural in that role.

"Three hundred and thirty-nine dollars and eighty-eight cents!"

[pokerfan]

7. Read 'Replay' by Ken Grimwood

Groundhog Day is loosely based on Grimwood's 1987 novel.

http://books.google.com/books?id=3S37vpzASg0C

Jeff Winston, forty-three, didn't know he was a replayer until he died and woke up twenty-five years younger in his college dorm room; he lived another life. And died again. And lived again and died again -- in a continuous twenty-five-year cycle -- each time starting from scratch at the age of eighteen to reclaim lost loves, remedy past mistakes, or make a fortune in the stock market. A novel of gripping adventure, romance, and fascinating speculation on the nature of time, Replay asks the question: "What if you could live your life over again?"

[Lethe]

20. it would be even weirder if you couldn't remember you were in a time loop

cause then you wouldn't know if you were in a time loop. Hell, all of us could be in a time loop right now and not know it.

[Courtesy Flush]

23. Not me. I'd know it n/t

[Courtesy Flush]

24. Not me. I'd know it n/t

[Courtesy Flush]

25. Not me. I'd know it n/t

[Courtesy Flush]

26. Not me. I'd know it n/t

[pokerfan]

27. LOL n/t

[crim son]

10. Me, I love it.

I thought the same thing, that it was a stupid comedy until my bf asked me to watch it with him. Since then I've recommended it several times.

[BlueIris]

11. "Are you drunk or something?" "No, drunk's more fun."

[azmouse]

14. "So, did you go professional with that bellybutton thing?"....

:rofl:
I've seen the movie more times than I could count. I love it.
Bill Murray's best by a long shot.

[MissMillie]

15. good entertainment

and oh, yeah


don't drive angry

[elshiva]

17. I always let the groundhog do the driving.

[Lethe]

18. yeah i like it

good movie

seems like it took too many days to actually get her to like him tho. It takes a while to undo natural assholery.

[x-g.o.p.er]

19. Yep, great movie!

[fudge stripe cookays]

21. Filmed in Woodstock, IL

I need to make a visit for genealogy stuff, and to visit a cousin, and she shared this bit of wisdom with me.

:hi:

[SammyWinstonJack]

22. My life is the movie "Groundhog Day"

x( :rofl: Every darn day!