Does Anybody Else Think That GROUNDHOG DAY Is One Of The Best Movies Ever?

No, I thought it was corny and the premise got old after 30 minutes. But you go ahead and enjoy your movie. I'm not gonna tell you to stop watching it.

I wish they would advertise a sequel and then just release the original movie again.

Yep. Ya gotta love Bill Murray's transition from narcissistic asshole to decent guy.

Ahh, you might have missed the point of the movie, but since you didn't tell me to stop watching it, I won't try to learn ya.

Yuppers. You got it!!

I watched a rip off of Groundhog Day, but it was better. It's called 12:01 -- a Jonathan Silverman film.

That is awesome!!

I beat off everytime i see it, that little gopher is so cute

Sorry, my mistake... GHog Day in fact ripped off 12:01.

Watch 12:01, it is much better.

Okay, will do. Thanks. But if I like it, I'll have to watch it every day at 12:01. Yikes

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I'm watching it right now! One of Bill's best movies.

Saw them both years ago. Groundhog Day is rerun constantly. 12:01 evaporated into the ether. I liked them both, but the high tech criminal plot of 12:01 isn't as interesting to me. I find Groundhog Day much more memorable and endearing. Lot's of great humor in it.

I'm with you on that, one of my favorites. It's one of my top five.

Same here on comedy central

Love Bill Murray in this movie!

Definetely a good movie.

Gotta love Bill Murray.

Endearing. A very good adjective for this movie.

Out of curiosity what are the other 4?

This is Jill (points to waitress). She makes noises like a chipmunk when she gets excited.... HEY!!

are you a Stoner OP?

LOL. Nooooooo. wtf

Great movie

No. The girl who makes noises is the one he asked all of the questions about in advance at the diner. He then met her at the gazebo at a later time, knew about her, and made her believe that he had known her in high school.

Thread: "Okay campers, rise and shine!" Exploring the brilliance of the Ramis and Murray classic, Groundhog Day.

Aahahah! That would be hilarious!!

Really enjoyed it, and its a metaphor for soul evolution and what we're actually doing in the multiverse.

Uh huh. And so few get it. Most just simply get annoyed with the "repetition."

I get a new lesson in life from it every time I watch it.

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Groundhog Day:
Breakthrough to the True Self


What is so powerful about Groundhog Day is the way it lets us experience what it would be like to make a breakthrough like this in our own lives. The movie shows us a character who is like the worst in ourselves. He is arrogant and sarcastic, absorbed in his own discomforts, without hope, and cut off from other people. Like us, he finds himself in an inexplicable situation, seemingly a plaything of fate. But, unlike us, he gets the luxury of being stuck in the same day until he gets it right. Whereas most of us go semi-automatically through most of our (very similar) days, he is forced to stop and treat each day like a world onto itself, and decide how to use it. In the end, he undergoes a breakthrough to a more authentic self in which intimacy, creativity and compassion come naturally - a self that was trapped inside him and that could only be freed by trapping him. Like many of the heroes of fiction, he can only escape his exile from himself by being exiled in a situation not of his choosing.

In telling this story, the movie hits on a message that is commonly found elsewhere and that appears to express an essential truth. When we get beyond denial and resentment over the conditions of life and death, and accept our situation, it tells us, then life ceases to be a problem and we can become authentic and compassionate. Murray's character makes two such breakthroughs: first he accepts being condemned to being stuck in the same day, then he accepts the fact that everyone else is condemned to die.

Inevitably, the movie also has mythic resonances and literary counterparts. Murray's character is like all kinds of saviors and heroes in well-known stories, secular and religious, who experience some combination of suffering and courage, until they go through a transformation to a new state of knowledge. Among the religious and mythic elements we can recognize in the story: he fights off his demons; he is changed by an encounter with death; he experiences a kind of rebirth; he appears to people to exist in time but he also exists outside of normal time; he manifests deep compassion; he is in the world but not of it, suffering with a special knowledge that he uses to save those around him; and he is given a second chance in life by the love of a beautiful woman.

good movie.

Whoa. Who wrote that? It's awesome.