GROUNDHOG DAY [the best, most intelligent and deeply layered films of the last decade]

National Review online ^ | January, 2005 | Jonah Goldberg

[Roscoe Karns]

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.

[Roscoe Karns]

Dude!

[iconoclast]

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)

[QuiMundus]

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!

[redfish53]

ditto

[Hildy]

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.

[Rebelbase]

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.

[Roscoe Karns]

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)

[Fiddlstix]

That is one of the few movies i have ever bothered to watch more than once. It is a very good movie.

Ditto.

[dead]

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.

[BJungNan]

One of my very favorite movies.

[Roscoe Karns]

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!

[Roscoe Karns]

I thought you were dead.

[Diva]

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.

[Atlas Sneezed]

Great review of a great movie.

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

[Atlas Sneezed]

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

[Atlas Sneezed]

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?"

[EllaMinnow]

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.

[Roscoe Karns]

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!

[Rightly Biased]

"and some flapjacks"

lol