Wednesday, February 2, 2011

OKAY, CAMPERS, RISE AND SHINE, AND DON'T FORGET YOUR BOOTIES 'CAUSE IT'S COOOOOOLD OUT THERE TODAY: It's February 2, so it's time to talk about the movie again. Do you buy the whole Buddhist thing, or should we just quote lines for a while and generally discuss its awesomeness?

Participate in this thread, or it's gonna be cold, it's gonna be grey, and it's gonna last you for the rest of your life.

added: So, how long did Phil Connors spend in Punxsutawney?  We only see 38 days, but learning every skill he mastered takes a very, very long time.

42 comments:

  1. The Encore channel is running the movie all day.  

    I always drink to world peace.

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  2. calliekl8:58 AM

    Somebody asked me today, "Phil, if you could be anywhere in the world, where would you like to be?" And I said to him, "Prob'ly right here - Elko, Nevada, our nation's high at 79 today." Out in California, they're gonna have some warm weather tomorrow, gang wars, and some *very* overpriced real estate. Up in the Pacific Northwest, as you can see, they're gonna have some very, very tall trees.

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  3. Paul Tabachneck9:28 AM

    Ned Ryerson for President. 

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  4. ctoan9:37 AM

    My husband and I went to see this movie on our first date, so it always holds a special place in my heart. :)

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  5. Maybe he can be head of some secret super-hero-related agency instead.

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  6. Paul Tabachneck9:51 AM

    I think if you can make a living selling insurance in Punxsutawney, you can probably get any economy back on track.

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  7. patricia10:20 AM

    One of my Facebook friends is having a Groundhog Day movie quotes competition, but it's not quotes from this movie- it's any quote from any movie, changed to reflect something about groundhogs, Groundhog Day (the holiday), Groundhog Day (the movie), or the competition itself.  It's been a really entertaining game so far.  He claims he did it to head off the inevitable quote deluge.  One of my current favorites: "Leave the groundhog.  Take the cannoli."

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  8. Joseph J. Finn10:28 AM

    But sadly, there is no new Tobolowsky File podcast this week.

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  9. The Pathetic Earthling10:29 AM

    Bing!

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  10. This is pitiful. Groundhog Day used to mean something in this town. They used to pull the hog out, and they used to eat it. You're hypocrites, all of you!

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  11. Apparently you can stream it off of Netflix. I just figured out what I'm doing tonight.

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  12. Oooh, me too!

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  13. Quentin the Quahog disagrees:

    <span>
    <p>Nantucket's answer to Punxsutawney Phil, Quentin the Quahog squirted to the left Wednesday morning when he was opened by Harbormaster Dave Fronzuto inside the Marine and Coastal Resources Department, a sure sign that we're in for a longer winter this year. He then paid the ultimate sacrifice and was consumed by Fronzuto.
    </p><p>"You know you can't trust a groundhog, but you can trust a quahog," Fronzuto said. "I think it's going to be a long winter."
    </p></span>

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  14. Benner11:37 AM

    It's funny because it's the Encore channel.

    "And oh yeah, no driving on the railroad tracks."  "That's a rule I happen to agree with."

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  15. Leslie11:37 AM

    Hotel guest:  Do you think it will be an early Spring?
    Phil:  I'm thinking March 21.

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  16. Watchman11:59 AM

    Well we (Tulsa OK) have 15 inches of snow piled on the ground at the moment.  Our groundhog came out this morning and would have seen his shadow, but he was blinded by the glare of the sun on the snow.  Hopefully that means we're about done with all this.

    "We'll rent to start."

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  17. Slightly paraphrased, I think, but my favorite:

    "This is the one time when television can't really capture the excitement of a large squirrel predicting the weather."

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  18. In my head, DQ's comment read as "Ferb, I know what we're going to do tonight." Apparently I let my kids (and me) watch way too much P&F.

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  19. I think I'm going to let Lucy watch it finally.  It's a pretty tame PG, isn't it?

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  20. Paul Tabachneck12:22 PM

    Aside from the multiple suicide attempts....

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  21. Eric J.12:25 PM

    "That's no moon - it's a groundhog!"

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  22. Meghan12:44 PM

    Many FB friends are posting Groundhogs Day quotes as their statuses.  This means that it's a veritable Groundhogs Day of Groundhog's Day quotations.  'Cause they're all the same ones.

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  23. Alan Sepinwall12:46 PM

    Yeah, my wife and I watched it last night on Netflix Instant, and her immediate reaction to the suicide sequence was "This isn't a movie for kids, is it?"

    Also, Phil does have his way with the unwitting Nancy Taylor, but there's nothing more graphic than a heavy makeout session.

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  24. Who says we're not?  With a little Peter Luger sauce, it's great.

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  25. Hmm.  Can I skip those sequences?

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  26. Alan Sepinwall1:21 PM

    The parade of suicides both goes on a long time and also is kind of integral to the third act of the movie. He only starts to become a better man when he realizes he can't escape his fate through death.

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  27. Robin1:24 PM

    I am hosting friends for the Groundhog Day drinking game tonight. There are two ways to play: drink every time the day changes, or drink every time someone sayd "groundhog." I don't know which is more dangerous. My friend Sean Donaldson put together a drinking cue audio track that will help us play, but anyone who can follow directions and is of legal drinking age (and doesn't have to drive anywhere) can play along!

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  28. Paul Tabachneck1:45 PM

    Oh, man.  Muppet Groundhog Day.  I hate being dead sometimes!

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  29. bella wilfer1:55 PM

    Fun link someone just posted on Facebook - can you imagine Tori Amos in the Andie McDowell role??? http://www.buzzfeed.com/billmurray/things-you-probably-didnt-know-about-the-movie-g

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  30. Robin1:59 PM

    Groundhog Day is also my Pittsburgh anniversary!  It's a special holiday to me.

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  31. calliekl2:18 PM

    As someone who watched this as a kid, I didn't find it disturbing at all. It was more funny- the reality of suicide wasn't really apparent. I remember not thinking he was trying to die to actually die, he was trying to get out of the loop. I was too young to see it from the metaphorical point of view.

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  32. Benner2:19 PM

    The only thing that could make that movie better?  Replace the George Fenton score with one by Philip Glass.  (Pandora just deduced somehow that Philip Glass's violin concerto no. 1 is "baroque.")  It wouldn't actually improve the movie, so much as be kind of funny with the theme (ha!) about things happening over and over again. 

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  33. Unrelated to the movie--NPR's Glenn Weldon on Twitter has been looking for various formation of Punxsutawney Phil--e.g., Phillip J. Fry, Phil Hartman, and my Punxsutawney Felicia Day submission.

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  34. J. Bowman3:59 PM

    "I am big. It's the groundhogs got small!"

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  35. Anonymous4:37 PM

    "I wrote sixty-three songs this year; they're all about groundhogs."

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  36. Watts4:37 PM

    <span>"I wrote sixty-three songs this year; they're all about groundhogs."</span>

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  37. patricia4:48 PM

    My entry:
    <span> </span>
    In less than an hour, groundhogs from here will join others from around the world. And you will be launching the largest weather prediction in the history of groundhogs. "Groundhogs." That word should have new meaning for all of us today. W<span>e can't be consumed by our petty differences anymore. We will be united in our common interests. Perhaps it's fate that today is Groundhog Day, and you will once again be fighting for our freedom... Not from tyranny, oppression, or persecution... but from winter. We are fighting for our right to live in springtime. To exist in warmth. And should we win the day, Groundhog Day will no longer be known as an American holiday, but as the day the world declared in one voice: "We will not go quietly into the winter!" We will not vanish without failing to see our shadow! We're going to live on in spring! We're going to survive in sun! Today we celebrate... our Groundhog Day!</span>

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  38. Jordan6:21 PM

    Somehow, this makes the Juan Castillo move make more sense.  But not much.

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  39. christy in nyc9:30 PM

    It's not funny because I don't have Encore :(

    But it's on Neflix Instant! :)

    But I won't have time to watch both Groundhog Day and episode 3 of Downton Abbey :/

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  40. Marsha12:24 AM

    Given that I live in Chicago, this year's key quote has to be "We'd better get going if we're going to stay ahead of the weather."

    Watched it (out of sequence) on Encore tonight - perhaps my favorite bit of acting Murray does is in the snowball fight sequence that begins the slapping montage. I love how clear it is that he's manically going through the motions, trying to get to that fall into the snow and get his kiss. And that all they need to do to show you that Phil is failing in is plan is to show you that each successive slap is earlier in the day.

    Lordy, do I love this movie.

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  41. Paul Tabachneck1:31 PM

    ...LOVE.

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  42. Anonymous8:18 AM

    When GD first came out on HBO it played ALL the time and whenever I tuned in and caught it I would say to myself "I'll just watch until (fill in scene here)."  Two hours later I would still be watching.  I must have seen it, rented it, streamed it and dreamed of it at least 50 times over the years.  And I will still watch it tonight.

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