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GROUNDHOG DAY [the best, most intelligent and deeply layered films of the last decade]
National Review online ^ | January, 2005 | Jonah Goldberg

Posted on 01/23/2005 3:44:28 AM PST by Roscoe Karns

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To: RepoGirl
personal favorite: Don't drive on the rail road tracks... well, I personally agree with that one...)

That was funny!

I liked the scene just before that one. Bill Murray was trading storeys with two drunks in a bar when all of a sudden one of the them starts in with the old cliched glass half- empty/half-full speil.Irony galore! The look on BM's face was priceless.

101 posted on 01/23/2005 9:25:36 AM PST by Roscoe Karns
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To: iconoclast

Dude!


102 posted on 01/23/2005 9:31:10 AM PST by Roscoe Karns (Whoa! Like, take it down a notch!)
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To: Elle Bee
You should hafta pay more for your movie ticket than I do.

I've obviously been gettin screwed and you're REALLY gettin your money's worth!. ;o)

103 posted on 01/23/2005 9:41:57 AM PST by iconoclast (Conservative, not partisan.)
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To: Roscoe Karns

One of my favorite movies, along with Local Hero, I love stories of transformation. Kinda reminds me of my transformation to being a conservative and a card-carrying Republican!


104 posted on 01/23/2005 9:46:59 AM PST by QuiMundus (Learn, Act, Educate, Repeat - http://www.smithism.com)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

ditto


105 posted on 01/23/2005 9:48:43 AM PST by redfish53
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To: Roscoe Karns

Did you see the movie "THE HOUSE OF SAND AND FOG." Saw it last night and it's still haunting me. How Ben Kingsley did not get the Academy Award is beyond me. I've never seen a movie where you go back and forth from liking and disliking characters. It was so real it hurt. Depressing, yes. Brilliant, ABSOLUTELY.


106 posted on 01/23/2005 9:51:37 AM PST by Hildy ( To work is to dance, to live is to worship, to breathe is to love.)
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To: Roscoe Karns
GD is a great movie!

The concept of being trapped in a repeat loop worked well in probably the best Stargate SG-1 episode too.


107 posted on 01/23/2005 9:59:59 AM PST by Rebelbase (Who is General Chat?)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
In addition to Groundhog Day, my top five are:

1. Casablanca
2. Caddyshack
3. Bonnie & Clyde
4. My Fair Lady

1 Casablanca (Now I want to watch it again)
2 Rear Window( beautiful story telling by the masters camera)
3 Hitchcock's Vertigo, North by Northwest, the first hour of The Birds and Frenzy , all for the same reason(great camera shots). As long as I'm cheating I'll throw in Dial M for Murder:)
it's hard to narrow it down to five but here goes:
4 The Bridge on the River Kwai
5 The killing ( an early kubrick movie)

108 posted on 01/23/2005 10:00:15 AM PST by Roscoe Karns
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To: Always Right
That is one of the few movies i have ever bothered to watch more than once. It is a very good movie.

Ditto.

109 posted on 01/23/2005 10:03:23 AM PST by Fiddlstix (This Tagline for sale. (Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: Mad Dawg
Buffy was very good, but it faltered badly in later seasons. Seven thousand mopey shots of Tara feeling hurt about something or another was enough to knock it out of contention.

I'd go with The Shield or Millenium. Comedic nods to South Park and The Odd Couple.

110 posted on 01/23/2005 10:07:47 AM PST by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: Roscoe Karns

One of my very favorite movies.


111 posted on 01/23/2005 10:09:04 AM PST by BJungNan (Cut government spending 3 percent, get the same job done.)
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To: Rebelbase

I like that still from GD.

If I'm not mistaken, it looks like the left nut of Ned "Needlenose" Ryerson is about to be sent back in time with a 4 wood.

4 wood, good call mate!

112 posted on 01/23/2005 10:11:22 AM PST by Roscoe Karns
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To: dead

I thought you were dead.


113 posted on 01/23/2005 10:14:35 AM PST by Roscoe Karns (stop me if you've heard that before)
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To: EllaMinnow
Cold Comfort Farm is definitely in my top 5 movie list, and on my top 5 book list.

Some of my favorite lines are in this movie..."I saw something nasty in the woodshed." My family knows this movie well but very few people get it when we start waxing lyrical about the "golden orb!"

Groundhog day has to be up there in my top ten as well.

114 posted on 01/23/2005 10:26:44 AM PST by Diva
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To: Elle Bee

Great review of a great movie.

It is the "It's a Wonderful Life" of our time.


115 posted on 01/23/2005 10:32:14 AM PST by Atlas Sneezed (Your Friendly Freeper Patent Attorney)
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To: JennysCool
ELKO, NEVADA -- OUR NATION'S HIGH AT 79.


Of course, around Groundhog day, Elko can expect a high of about 40F.

And the record high in early February in Elko is in the low 60s. If you want a record high of 79, you need to wait until February. ;-)

http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/cgi-bin/cliMAIN.pl?nvelko
116 posted on 01/23/2005 10:38:29 AM PST by Atlas Sneezed (Your Friendly Freeper Patent Attorney)
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To: AnneFrank

It's not just that GHD is one the best movies ever made, it's that Bill M. is one of the best comic actors of this generation.



Indeed. He was brilliant in Tootsie in a small but essential role. "Good shower?"


117 posted on 01/23/2005 10:41:34 AM PST by Atlas Sneezed (Your Friendly Freeper Patent Attorney)
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To: Diva
Drain the well. There's a neighbor missing.

We do that, too. I've never seen Groundhog Day, but I'll make a point of renting it this week.

118 posted on 01/23/2005 10:41:56 AM PST by EllaMinnow (Every time a leftist cries, an angel gets its wings.)
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To: dead
I thought you were dead.

Dude! I can't believe that you're not rolling on the ground over that one!

C'mon man! Let it out!

119 posted on 01/23/2005 10:55:14 AM PST by Roscoe Karns (Or are you too jealous to laugh? Those ARE some wicked one liners!)
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To: PoliticalVirgin

"and some flapjacks"

lol


120 posted on 01/23/2005 12:32:43 PM PST by Rightly Biased (Ecclesiastes 10:2 (don't be lazy look it up))
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