Groundhog is a great movie ... Except its not quite an original story as Star Trek The Next Generation had a story in Season 5 One year BEFORE Groundhog Day, which the Enterprise is caught in a time loop. One of my fave eps too!
I always wondered if the "I am a god" line in Groundhog Day was a callback to the Ghostbusters "are you a god" question. Like Murray finally got the chance to be a god.
When I saw this in the theater, I thought it was so repetitive I would never be able to sit through it again. Over twenty-five years later, I look forward to watching this movie every year to celebrate a particular holiday. I still find it worth watching.
Kiki: That’s unfortunate. Of course, I was the same way with my ex-husband and “White Christmas”, one of his favorite movies. (I had a good reason for not wanting to have it on in the house.) I don’t think it’s why he left me, but I’m sure he’s happy he’s now free to watch it every year like he did before I banned it.
@@AnotherJenn42 WHITE CHRISTMAS here in Germany the song is and always was very populare but not the movie itself. It was banned from German TV up untill the days the private stations came up due to a TO MILITARISTIC CONTENT - refering to the Battle of the Bulge and the General´s birthday party.
I've been to Woodstock, IL. It is such a cool little town. They have plaques all over the place pointing out where scenes were filmed. I highly recommend visiting!
Murray actually visited Ramis at his home and the two finally reconciled their friendship shortly before Ramis passed away. So, while they never worked together again, the ending was at least an finale of kindness between them
Murray later presented an oscar for best cinematography and after the nominees were announced, he said "We forgot one. Harold Ramis for Caddyshack, Ghostbusters and Groundhog Day", Cue applause. Class Act
@@jeffreyrigged Yes, they're both in it, but doubtful they'd been in the room together (very few games are recorded with all performers in the room together; on some animated shows, they'll sometimes do that, but not often)
@@van8ryan game script was written by dan and harold so im sure there was some kind of reconcile of the two. possibly the visit you are mentioning game isnt very old.
I lived in Woodstock Illinois where the movie was made. I would go and watch them film before and after work. Met Bill Murray. Got a picture of me in the car they ran down the rail road tracks.
That would have been AWESOME! That was a great movie, couldnt imagine watching them make it, let alone meet B.M. ... Other than inside scenes. Did they have their own back ground ppl, for like in like the street scenes, etc...or Did the ppl That lived there get to be in the background any too, like yourself? Ive NEVER even met anyone famous like, actor/singers...(I live in southern WV) wich says it all why! 😆
@@JBowman-ps2ri they hired local for the background people. Murray was actually kind of a dick but rumor has it he wasn't happy at that moment I was in the alley one night when they were filming the cop chase seen. They would wet the streets down several times a day with a truck. One day they rolled snow out into everyone's lawn on the street where the hotel was blew my mind. I seen Harold, Andi, and Chris from a sorry distance. Got a bunch of pictures if my then 4 year old daughter in the main set in town. For the life of me I couldn't understand why they took bricks out of the road in sick an odd place. The road construction light and yellow tape blocking it off may be in one of the pics I took. I currently live two miles from the gravel pit where Phil drives the truck off the cliff with little Phil
I took my daughter to premiere night at the Woodstock downtown theater. A couple of teenagers sat down in front of us and were being obnoxious. I wanted it to be a fun night for me and my daughter and didn't want it ruined at the cost of unsupervised children so I did something very Bill Murray. I leaned forward and said very quietly to them in the manliest voice I could "if you run this for me and my daughter I WILL kill you...". Hahahahahaha it worked. They moved
We liked the film in 93, but it wasn't until rewatching it on DVD and cable years later that everybody seemed to realize how special the film is. I could rewatch it right now! Thanks for the show.
Mad respect to Stephen Tobolowsky as Ned Ryerson. Imagine how big you have to go when you're acting across Bill Murray in a comedy and you steal the scene every time.
Can confirm that it was filmed in Woodstock Illinois. When I was a kid in high school 13+ years ago, one of my best friends family was from Woodstock Illinois. They moved close by to the town we lived in when he was young. His mother told me how Bill Murray bought the entire town of Woodstock donuts and asked them if they wanted to be extras in the movie. Each year the town of Woodstock holds a groundhog day festival to commemorate the Groundhog Day movie. P.S. it’s pronounced il-uh-noi, not il-uh-noise.
I just saw this a couple of days ago and I had forgotten about how great it was! Bill Murray is one of my favorite comic actors and he absolutely shines in this movie! RIP Harold Ramis.
Ramis and Murray DID make amends on Ramis death bed. Netflix show “movies that we love” the Ghostbusters episode the last 2 mins Ramis daughter talks about Murray finding Ramis through the police dept and being driven to Ramis. Saying I love this movie is an understatement. I think it’s absolute perfection 👊🏻
Minty did get me with the double take in the intro. Murray and Ramis' feud was resolved before Ramis' death. He even paid homage to his old friend at the Oscar's the year after Ramis' death
I was gonna say, when he heard Ramis was incredibly ill, he went to the local police of the area he knew he lived in and asked them to find him for him, as told by his daughter in the Movies Tha Made Us on Netflix.
I think I read somewhere Bill Murray was going through a divorce or break up or something at the time. So he wasn’t in a good place, and that’s what caused a lot of problems.
They technically worked together on the Ghostbusters videogame that used one of the scripts Dan and Harold wrote for the third movie. I also heard that during all that Bill and Harold did end up making things right before Harold's death.
GOLD ??? pure DIAMANTS I say because Diamants are forever as the saying goes :::::::) Also the movie is KULT not ony because it was so well done made but also because it is so often quoted as in AKTE X and FRINGE for example.
Based on commentary I’ve heard before, (likely on my DVD), in regards to the filming, there were apparently some record-setting, bitter cold days, as well. So some parts were, in fact, filmed in very cold weather.
My take from this film, it shows how that we are all in our own repetitive groundhog day no matter if you have an exciting job, hobbies, friends, family, etc. Eventually we all get into a rut and everyday is truly the same and 30-40 years pass by just like that. The lesson is what Bill did in this which was to realize this and learn new things with those days and build your life skills. Or you can be like the sad sacks in the bars, etc., in this film that don't realize that and never change and they're just stuck while Bill Murray becomes a bitchin' blues piano player.
One of my top five favorite movies. It is very philosophical, and has a great message. Everyone has the same amount of time in their life. What you do with that time is what's important.
Unfortunately we don’t all have the same amount of time. But it almost doesn’t matter. Some of the worst people have had miserable & long lives & Some of the best people have done an enormous amount of good with very short lives
The very concept of "Groundhog Day," in of itself, auto-compels a viewer to watch this movie over and over again, and the viewer will never grow exhausted of watching the movie, regardless of how many times the viewer has already viewed the movie. The reality is, you've never actually viewed the end.
One of my favorite films. You mention how hot it was; and clearly there are set pictures that show Harold Ramis and crew behind the camera in summer attire, with Bill in the overcoat. But I’ve heard commentary that mention the opposite, as well, (perhaps in the early part of the filming?). The scene where Larry stops the van at Rita’s hotel and Phil is complaining that it’s a dump, before finding out he’s staying elsewhere, was one that was filmed in bitter cold weather. It’s been documented that Andie MacDowell’s face was so cold from the freezing wind and temperatures that she had trouble delivering her lines. And there were similar scenes that were obviously filmed in cold weather. So the filming clearly took place from the tail end of Winter and extreme cold, through Spring, and into the heat of Summer. It is a great movie. I saw it more than once in the theater in 1993, and I watch it every year on Groundhog Day, as well as once or twice more throughout the year. It’s fun, it’s funny, it’s heartwarming; and I never tire of watching it. I’m glad you covered this one!
This is my favorite movie of all time. I actually love to atch it more than once each year on Groundhog Day. It's nuts, but I'm happy doing it as the one mindless thing I get to do. This was a great review of it. Well done.
Doozy is right, GD is one of the great movies I saw with my kids when they were young. We still will watch it together over the holidays. Thanks for the video.
@@arikwolf3777 some of us can even pronounce ovver fings correctly. I guess we are all different. I watched a doco recently that suggests mispronounced language is formed while still in our baby brain
@@godsinbox: I know, but mispronouncing Illinois is a special pet peeve of mine. My father was born and raised in Chicago. Let's just say I learned to pronounce Illinois properly early on in my life. There are a lot of words Minty says differently than me, but that's just the differences in British and American English. I can ignore those. Illinois is not one of them.
@@arikwolf3777 we (as Australians) have anglicised most native placenames and so dont profess to understand each tribes special pronunciation of 'their' space. Most first inhabitants language has been lost sadly
I spent a new-year’s eve in Woodstock - friends of my wife lived there. My great grandmother also lived there years before I was born. Cute little town. Oddly enough, I now live in Hollywood and one of my best friends was in this movie - and some others. He loved making this movie and had nothing but love for Bill Murray.
I'd love to see a 10 things about "What About Bob?" someday. I always liked that one better and I think it's because I prefer seeing Bill Murray as an instigator and not the put-upon character.
Yes that would be great. Dressed up like Bob for Halloween one year. Made a boat out of a kids wagon had the life vest on screaming IM SAILING neighbor's loved it. Ah great memories
1 thing -- Bill Murray drove Richard Dryfuss crazy during filming. And the more Dryfuss got angry the more annoying Bill got. In real life Dryfuss can't stand Bill Murray anymore and haven't spoken since.😄
@@jonathanpasch6604 If true, this means casting these 2 actors in these roles was nothing but a strike of genius jobs. Although Lucy Liu may then have filled in the role as well.
The alarm was always set to 6 am. If he just turned it off and went back sleep, his co-workers would come knocking before noon. There were no cell phones back then so he couldn't just call or text em, unless he rang the station but that may be a lot of work.
It’s amazing how a down to earth midwestern guy from Illinois can dominate comedic movies for over 40 yrs. Amazing dramatic performances in Rushmore and Lost in Translation seal his place as one of our greatest actors.
Lets hope it repeats at least one more time in 2020 election..then i believe(or hope Trump swuashes this Covid-19 hoax once and for all..and we can get on with life and get the. Economy going and MAGA..MAGA2020 now more than ever..
There was a TV movie that had the same concept of the same day repeating because a scientist kept running the same experiment with a reactor of some type. The movie was called 12:01. Every night at 12:01, the reactor would run and the day would restart. It came out the same year, 1993... The full movie is on youtube . It stars Jonathan Silverman.
I am from Punxsutawney, PA. We SO wished it would have been filmed in our Town. But the groundhog actually comes out of his stump outside of town in the woods. I guess they wanted it IN town. Well done, Minty!!!!!
Some internet geek calculated how long Phil was stuck in the time Loop. He calculated how long it would take him to become a master of each of the things that he did, like learning the piano and some of the other skills. It equaled up to about 80 years or something like that
My wife is originally from Woodstock so we got a kick out of the scenes around her home town. We were working near Rockford, Illinois at the time and followed the filming. The gravel pit was north of Rockford because it was the only place at the time that actually had snow.
Love that movie. Stephen Tobolowsky pays Ned Ryerson and he does a wonderful podcast. He's an incredible storyteller and has lived something of a life. GHD is an absolute classic and often garners interest religious people whom either interpret it as purgatory or samsara. It's of course influenced series like Russian Doll.
If I remember correctly, the original script had Murray's ex put a hex on him creating the timeloop. Fortunately they dropped that as the mystery of it is much more compelling.
You'd be correct. Murray found out Ramis was extremely ill, went and visited Harold and even brought donuts. True, it's too bad the duo never worked again professionally, but at least they made peace with one another.
Groundhog Day corresponds with Imbolc, the Pagan Celtic first day of spring. In fact, the Celts began all the seasons roughly six weeks earlier than modern convention, which is perhaps why, paradoxically, some calendars call the winter solstice, conventionally the first day of winter, ‘midwinter’s day’ and ditto the summer solstice as ‘midsummer’s day’. The Welsh for July is Gorffenhaf, which means ‘end of summer’ evidence that for the Welsh autumn begins in August. Similarly, Halloween, the day before November the fist is called Calngaeaf, which means winter’s eve. And THAT is why Mayday is a festival - it is the first day of Celtic summer!
The musical was awesome & it was showing more recently. We just saw it between Christmas & New Years at the San Francisco Playhouse (less than a block from Union Square). I'd say the musical was darker than the movie, but still a ton of fun - the printed programs had a note about the seriousness of depression and included a depression / suicide hotline #. The guy who played Phil was excellent and the music was great. My family and I still sing "Nobody Cares" to each other if someone is complaining!
The true answer to how long Phil was stuck there is .... 1 day Yes he repeated the one day over and over, but when he breaks the loop at the end of the movie, the rest of the world is not 10 years, 30-40 years or even 10,000 years further on, the rest of the world is only 1 day further on. You have to remember that Phil was not the only one stuck in a time loop, everyone in the town was as well (as far as we see in the movie), so it's reasonable to extrapolate that to the whole world or even the whole universe.
here in italy we had a remake of it in 2004 with our great funny actor and comedian Antonio Albanese, called "è già ieri" but was not a great success, much more a good remake\homage to this masterpiece.
I really enjoy your reviews and deeper looks at movies... your production value, your humor are much appreciated in these challenging times. thank you .
The dead Phil scene suggests he is experiencing a form of quantum immortality wherein a version of his always moves past the time loop or dies and one remains. It's also possible the ending is just another Phil leaving the time loop while the other Phil is possibly trapped there infinitely which is terrifying to think about
Not me. I'd be convinced that the first time I did that would turn out to be the last time everything reset and I'd end up getting hit with a paternity suit. 😂
From what I'd once heard, Murray and Ramis were (at least SOMEWHAT) able to bury the hatchet - at least, to a point - to where they were able to work together to reprise their iconic roles for the Ghostbusters video game. (I know their respective lines were most likely recorded separately, but what little optimism I have left still likes to think that SOME compromises and small reconciliations were made between the two.)
Full on addicted to your channel. Love learning random facts about movies from my childhood. Thanks for all your hard work! Now I’m off to learn all the things I don’t know about “Scrooged”!
After living the same day for so long you'd think he'd have a mental breakdown when the loop finally broke. He's gone at the very least decades without any change or any real repercussions for any of his actions. Setting him free in a chaotic world after all that time could make him totally shut down and not know how to cope!
Groundhog Day is indeed one of the best comedies of all time! I really do love this movie! As a extra trivia bonus, much like every Christmas Eve when they play a Marathon of A Christmas Story, mostly every Groundhog Day they play a Marathon of the Groundhog Day film too! Which is pretty damn ironic lol considering the plot of the movie being in a endless loop. Great movie! Thank you Harold Ramis! Rest in peace!
I also read that in the original script that the reason the day repeated was because of a curse put on Phil by a woman he broke up with, which is why you hear a sound effect after he kisses Rita at the end of the movie, signifying the breaking of the curse. Also, if you want to see a dramatic version of this movie, check out a movie called 12:01 with Jonathan Silverman and Martin Landau or the more recent Happy Death Day and Happy Death Day 2U for a slasher/comedy/drama version of this same story. Tree's boyfriend even compares her experience to Groundhog Day at the end of the first movie.
I always felt that if he left town then he would escape that time loop he was in. He could of left earlier before the blizzard came and trapped him there.
The idea for this movie was taken from 1973 short story by Richard Lupoff called "12:01 pm", then adapted into a short film in 1990 starring Kurtwood Smith (Clarence Boddicker from RoboCop), which was much darker.
@@pashvonderc381 - Helen Slater was in a full feature TV film called "12:01 pm", released the same year as "Groundhog Day". But the version I was referring to was a short film (about a half hour), from 1990, that was taken directly from the short story published in 1973. The 1993 version (with Helen Slater), had the same "time bounce" premise, but was quite a different story. The '90 version (with Kurtwood Smith), was much darker and more nightmarish. More like an episode from The The Twilight Zone. So, you're half right. 😊
I agree with Murray that the movie should have leaned more towards the philosophical though it should have done this without losing the charm and whimsy of the finished product. The scene where Phil tells Rita about his experiences and how he believes he is a god and shows her he knows everything about her and the audience feels the pain and tragedy of his unrequited love really gave the film depth. Then Phil, inspired by his love of Rita, chooses the Good Life, the philosophical life, the Path of Perfection, the journey to becoming a Bodhisattva, and rather than a meaningful exploration of this choice and the journey it entails we get a montage of him becoming a better man, albeit a heartwarming one. Phil had, in his damnation, chosen a fundamentally different approach to his existence and his relationship to all things. He embodied the duality of choice between the unexamined life and true philosophical life. This is profound, but it was glossed over in the film. To me, this is the point, where he chooses to become a better man and uses his curse to master himself and instill peace and harmony into his world, where the movie truly begins. When I watch the film I either skip directly to this point or watch the whole thing waiting until this point finally comes. I think Ramis dropped the ball and should have heeded Murray's input in this regard. At the very minimum Murray's additions should have been filmed and whatever worked could have been added to the finished film in post-production. The editing is where a lot of the magic happens but you need to have filmed everything you needed first. Such a direction could have made Groundhog Day a timeless masterpiece on par with The Shawshank Redemption and It's a Wonderful Life. The film is still a feel-good classic but it could have been much much more. Either way, the real tragedy is that it ended a friendship and a fruitful professional relationship between Ramis and Murray.
My favorite 2020 Super Bowl commercial was Bill Murray re-creating his role as Phil once again stuck in Punxsutawney, except this time he has a great time every day doing something new in a Jeep Gladiator with the groundhog. Even better was the behind-the-scenes making of the commercial in which you can see Bill enjoyed doing the re-creation.
"What if there isn't a tomorrow? There wasn't one today." My favorite line in the movie, and one I feel I relate with a bit too much.
My favorite line is
"I've killed myself so many times,
I don't even exist anymore."
Groundhog is a great movie ...
Except its not quite an original story as Star Trek The Next Generation had a story in Season 5 One year BEFORE Groundhog Day, which the Enterprise is caught in a time loop.
One of my fave eps too!
one of my favorites out of any movie
Is it too late for flapjacks?
Right? (Although, I think it would have been more technically correct if he said "What if there isn't a tomorrow? There wasn't one yesterday.")
I always wondered if the "I am a god" line in Groundhog Day was a callback to the Ghostbusters "are you a god" question. Like Murray finally got the chance to be a god.
I mean, it could be a wink, after all they were both written by Ramis..
If he said no. Dan said no and everyone got mad at him lol
He's just "a" god, not "the" God. ;)
Yes, that's what happened
If someone asks you if you are a god, you say YESSSS!
"This is one time where television really fails to capture the true excitement of a large squirrel predicting the weather."
When I saw this in the theater, I thought it was so repetitive I would never be able to sit through it again. Over twenty-five years later, I look forward to watching this movie every year to celebrate a particular holiday. I still find it worth watching.
Kinda like how I would watch any adaptation of "A Christmas Carol" every Christmas
This movie is currently banned from being watched in my house. My wife hates it 😐
Kiki: That’s unfortunate. Of course, I was the same way with my ex-husband and “White Christmas”, one of his favorite movies. (I had a good reason for not wanting to have it on in the house.) I don’t think it’s why he left me, but I’m sure he’s happy he’s now free to watch it every year like he did before I banned it.
@@AnotherJenn42 WHITE CHRISTMAS here in Germany the song is and always was very populare but not the movie itself. It was banned from German TV up untill the days the private stations came up due to a TO MILITARISTIC CONTENT - refering to the Battle of the Bulge and the General´s birthday party.
I've been to Woodstock, IL. It is such a cool little town. They have plaques all over the place pointing out where scenes were filmed. I highly recommend visiting!
Plus they have that huge mural down the one alley by the theater. Because this is also where the creator of Dick Tracy is from
I loved near Woodstock and I have been to their historic opera house and of course the gazebo
Every aircraft carrier I was on would play this movie 48 hours straight (repeating a day) when we crossed the international date line on our way back.
Murray actually visited Ramis at his home and the two finally reconciled their friendship shortly before Ramis passed away. So, while they never worked together again, the ending was at least an finale of kindness between them
Murray later presented an oscar for best cinematography and after the nominees were announced, he said "We forgot one. Harold Ramis for Caddyshack, Ghostbusters and Groundhog Day", Cue applause. Class Act
they did work together on the ghostbusters game iirc.
@@jeffreyrigged Yes, they're both in it, but doubtful they'd been in the room together (very few games are recorded with all performers in the room together; on some animated shows, they'll sometimes do that, but not often)
@@van8ryan game script was written by dan and harold so im sure there was some kind of reconcile of the two. possibly the visit you are mentioning game isnt very old.
@@jeffreyrigged Yes, they did in 2009, with the script written by Aykroyd and Ramis.
The movie is a classic. Phil punching Ned in the face is one of the film's funniest moments.
Groundhog day: there's a film you can watch again and again.
First
And again
@@jeffinthefalls2212 and again
For sure
I feel like I have read this comment before
I lived in Woodstock Illinois where the movie was made. I would go and watch them film before and after work. Met Bill Murray. Got a picture of me in the car they ran down the rail road tracks.
@Minty Comedic Arts. . Contact me at Facebook by the same name if you'd like to talk hear about what I remember of the filming.
I live in the area too (McHenry though lived in Woodstock for a while)
That would have been AWESOME! That was a great movie, couldnt imagine watching them make it, let alone meet B.M. ... Other than inside scenes. Did they have their own back ground ppl, for like in like the street scenes, etc...or Did the ppl That lived there get to be in the background any too, like yourself? Ive NEVER even met anyone famous like, actor/singers...(I live in southern WV) wich says it all why! 😆
@@JBowman-ps2ri they hired local for the background people. Murray was actually kind of a dick but rumor has it he wasn't happy at that moment I was in the alley one night when they were filming the cop chase seen. They would wet the streets down several times a day with a truck. One day they rolled snow out into everyone's lawn on the street where the hotel was blew my mind. I seen Harold, Andi, and Chris from a sorry distance. Got a bunch of pictures if my then 4 year old daughter in the main set in town. For the life of me I couldn't understand why they took bricks out of the road in sick an odd place. The road construction light and yellow tape blocking it off may be in one of the pics I took. I currently live two miles from the gravel pit where Phil drives the truck off the cliff with little Phil
I took my daughter to premiere night at the Woodstock downtown theater. A couple of teenagers sat down in front of us and were being obnoxious. I wanted it to be a fun night for me and my daughter and didn't want it ruined at the cost of unsupervised children so I did something very Bill Murray. I leaned forward and said very quietly to them in the manliest voice I could "if you run this for me and my daughter I WILL kill you...". Hahahahahaha it worked. They moved
We liked the film in 93, but it wasn't until rewatching it on DVD and cable years later that everybody seemed to realize how special the film is. I could rewatch it right now! Thanks for the show.
To this day my wife and I will occasionally look at each other and say "Don't drive angry!"
Don't tell that Nic Cage.
Mad respect to Stephen Tobolowsky as Ned Ryerson. Imagine how big you have to go when you're acting across Bill Murray in a comedy and you steal the scene every time.
Can confirm that it was filmed in Woodstock Illinois. When I was a kid in high school 13+ years ago, one of my best friends family was from Woodstock Illinois. They moved close by to the town we lived in when he was young. His mother told me how Bill Murray bought the entire town of Woodstock donuts and asked them if they wanted to be extras in the movie. Each year the town of Woodstock holds a groundhog day festival to commemorate the Groundhog Day movie. P.S. it’s pronounced il-uh-noi, not il-uh-noise.
Whenever I'm feeling down & need to be uplifted, I just come to this channel.
Thanks for all you do to bring a little joy to us all, Minty!
"Let's not spoil it" is a much better line because it is ambiguous - it can mean both "you'll ruin it" and "it's a surprise"
I just saw this a couple of days ago and I had forgotten about how great it was! Bill Murray is one of my favorite comic actors and he absolutely shines in this movie! RIP Harold Ramis.
Ramis and Murray DID make amends on Ramis death bed. Netflix show “movies that we love” the Ghostbusters episode the last 2 mins Ramis daughter talks about Murray finding Ramis through the police dept and being driven to Ramis. Saying I love this movie is an understatement. I think it’s absolute perfection 👊🏻
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Minty did get me with the double take in the intro. Murray and Ramis' feud was resolved before Ramis' death. He even paid homage to his old friend at the Oscar's the year after Ramis' death
Bill did go see Harold before he died and made amends.
That's good to know, thanks 8)
I was gonna say, when he heard Ramis was incredibly ill, he went to the local police of the area he knew he lived in and asked them to find him for him, as told by his daughter in the Movies Tha Made Us on Netflix.
His brother Brian asked/insisted bill go to harolds death bed.is what I've heard
at least Ramis didn't have to live long enough to see GB16
Ramis and Murray struck gold so much together. Sad they never did another together after this :'(
I think I read somewhere Bill Murray was going through a divorce or break up or something at the time. So he wasn’t in a good place, and that’s what caused a lot of problems.
They technically worked together on the Ghostbusters videogame that used one of the scripts Dan and Harold wrote for the third movie. I also heard that during all that Bill and Harold did end up making things right before Harold's death.
GOLD ??? pure DIAMANTS I say because Diamants are forever as the saying goes :::::::) Also the movie is KULT not ony because it was so well done made but also because it is so often quoted as in AKTE X and FRINGE for example.
Yeah, we're frikkin' living in Groundhog Day now with our sheltering in place. What day is today? March 105th?
6:54 - ok, I'm really impressed, it always looked cold to me
So much so that I've seen it on more than one "greatest _Christmas_ movies" list, no kidding.
That's what they call "Movie Magic"
Because I was convinced that it was shot on some really cold days too
Based on commentary I’ve heard before, (likely on my DVD), in regards to the filming, there were apparently some record-setting, bitter cold days, as well. So some parts were, in fact, filmed in very cold weather.
My take from this film, it shows how that we are all in our own repetitive groundhog day no matter if you have an exciting job, hobbies, friends, family, etc. Eventually we all get into a rut and everyday is truly the same and 30-40 years pass by just like that. The lesson is what Bill did in this which was to realize this and learn new things with those days and build your life skills. Or you can be like the sad sacks in the bars, etc., in this film that don't realize that and never change and they're just stuck while Bill Murray becomes a bitchin' blues piano player.
One of my top five favorite movies. It is very philosophical, and has a great message. Everyone has the same amount of time in their life. What you do with that time is what's important.
Unfortunately we don’t all have the same amount of time.
But it almost doesn’t matter.
Some of the worst people have had miserable & long lives
&
Some of the best people have done an enormous amount of good with very short lives
I thought the message was a guy wants to get laid and will when he gets it right with the girl
Groundhog Day and Ghostbusters are easily in my top 10 comedies.
Scooter must have seen "Caddyshack"
Thx, I was looking for this comment.
Scooter and the gopher jamming out to "I'm all right."
That was a gopher in caddyshack
@@karlsmith2570 oh gee really? Thanks buzzkillington
😂😂😂
the old homeless man still breaks my heart everytime
There was nothing he could do. He was old as dogshit anyway, so who gives a fuck overall.
The very concept of "Groundhog Day," in of itself, auto-compels a viewer to watch this movie over and over again, and the viewer will never grow exhausted of watching the movie, regardless of how many times the viewer has already viewed the movie. The reality is, you've never actually viewed the end.
One of my favorite films. You mention how hot it was; and clearly there are set pictures that show Harold Ramis and crew behind the camera in summer attire, with Bill in the overcoat. But I’ve heard commentary that mention the opposite, as well, (perhaps in the early part of the filming?). The scene where Larry stops the van at Rita’s hotel and Phil is complaining that it’s a dump, before finding out he’s staying elsewhere, was one that was filmed in bitter cold weather. It’s been documented that Andie MacDowell’s face was so cold from the freezing wind and temperatures that she had trouble delivering her lines. And there were similar scenes that were obviously filmed in cold weather. So the filming clearly took place from the tail end of Winter and extreme cold, through Spring, and into the heat of Summer.
It is a great movie. I saw it more than once in the theater in 1993, and I watch it every year on Groundhog Day, as well as once or twice more throughout the year. It’s fun, it’s funny, it’s heartwarming; and I never tire of watching it. I’m glad you covered this one!
This is my favorite movie of all time. I actually love to atch it more than once each year on Groundhog Day. It's nuts, but I'm happy doing it as the one mindless thing I get to do. This was a great review of it. Well done.
Doozy is right, GD is one of the great movies I saw with my kids when they were young. We still will watch it together over the holidays. Thanks for the video.
Minty: *Pronounces Punxsutawney correctly*
Me: Superb.
ill a noise👌
@@michaelleahy123: That irked me, but since Minty is Australian, I guess he can be forgiven.
@@arikwolf3777 some of us can even pronounce ovver fings correctly. I guess we are all different. I watched a doco recently that suggests mispronounced language is formed while still in our baby brain
@@godsinbox: I know, but mispronouncing Illinois is a special pet peeve of mine. My father was born and raised in Chicago. Let's just say I learned to pronounce Illinois properly early on in my life.
There are a lot of words Minty says differently than me, but that's just the differences in British and American English. I can ignore those. Illinois is not one of them.
@@arikwolf3777 we (as Australians) have anglicised most native placenames and so dont profess to understand each tribes special pronunciation of 'their' space. Most first inhabitants language has been lost sadly
I spent a new-year’s eve in Woodstock - friends of my wife lived there. My great grandmother also lived there years before I was born. Cute little town.
Oddly enough, I now live in Hollywood and one of my best friends was in this movie - and some others. He loved making this movie and had nothing but love for Bill Murray.
@关羽 So does your mom.
I'd love to see a 10 things about "What About Bob?" someday. I always liked that one better and I think it's because I prefer seeing Bill Murray as an instigator and not the put-upon character.
Yes, one of his greatest movies. It's pretty unfortunate that's mostly forgotten. He's just brilliant in it (just like Richard Dreyfuss).
I think Frank Oz directed it too; he has a dark sense of humor
Yes that would be great. Dressed up like Bob for Halloween one year. Made a boat out of a kids wagon had the life vest on screaming IM SAILING neighbor's loved it. Ah great memories
1 thing -- Bill Murray drove Richard Dryfuss crazy during filming. And the more Dryfuss got angry the more annoying Bill got. In real life Dryfuss can't stand Bill Murray anymore and haven't spoken since.😄
@@jonathanpasch6604 If true, this means casting these 2 actors in these roles was nothing but a strike of genius jobs. Although Lucy Liu may then have filled in the role as well.
It's the "It's a Wonderful Life" of the grunge era. A total, eternal (lol) classic.
If I was in Groundhog Day, the first thing I would change is wake up at Noon!
The alarm was always set to 6 am. If he just turned it off and went back sleep, his co-workers would come knocking before noon. There were no cell phones back then so he couldn't just call or text em, unless he rang the station but that may be a lot of work.
I would try just staying up through the night.
Well, maybe that's what he did in the jail cell and the loop still obviously continued
I still find it hilarious that they called it Gobblers Knob.
Guess like that deleted scene where he was a Pro Bowler eventually led him to his Ernie "Big Earn" McCracken character in Kingpin.
Is that true?
Munsoned
Phil!!!!! Phil Conners!!!!! Don’t say you don’t remember me, cause I sure as Heckfire remember YOU!!!!!
Ned? Ned Ryerson?
@@chuteboxegod BING!
It’s a dooooozie
@@jonesy3million26 Double bing!
love the scene where he actually hits on Ned lol
Edit to say not where he hits Ned, but makes a pass at him 8)
It’s amazing how a down to earth midwestern guy from Illinois can dominate comedic movies for over 40 yrs. Amazing dramatic performances in Rushmore and Lost in Translation seal his place as one of our greatest actors.
I feel like we're living groundhog day presently.
Lets hope it repeats at least one more time in 2020 election..then i believe(or hope Trump swuashes this Covid-19 hoax once and for all..and we can get on with life and get the. Economy going and MAGA..MAGA2020 now more than ever..
@@gebronthomasson6960 that’s cute.
"Well, it's groundhog day...again."
Gobblers Knob, what a sketchy name for a place.
Loooooooool
Welcome to Pennsylvania. We also have Bird in Hand, Virginville, Blue Ball, and Intercourse....all in the same area...
@@hippiefreak66 so then it would be a highly sexed place then? Got all sorts of sexual activities going on involving everyone in that area lol
@@benconway9010 Oddly enough, not really. Those areas have a high Amish population.
Look up Schitt's Creek lol (Eugene Levy series)
Love this film from when I was a kid
And so many TV shows since then try their hand at a Groundhog Day episode.
They worked together in 2006 on the Ghostbusters video game. The spoke to each other during then. I love these videos and what you do. Thank you.
I can't believe no one mentioned how absolutely adorable Andie MacDowell was in this movie.....
Shes beautiful. Dont tell my wife
There was a TV movie that had the same concept of the same day repeating because a scientist kept running the same experiment with a reactor of some type. The movie was called 12:01. Every night at 12:01, the reactor would run and the day would restart. It came out the same year, 1993... The full movie is on youtube . It stars Jonathan Silverman.
Originally it was going to be revealed that he had scorned a witch, and she was the one who cursed him.
@Wally Prichard Thank you!
This will be uploaded again tomorrow in keeping with the film.
I am from Punxsutawney, PA. We SO wished it would have been filmed in our Town. But the groundhog actually comes out of his stump outside of town in the woods. I guess they wanted it IN town. Well done, Minty!!!!!
I love how this came out for me a 6am. Mountain time rules.
Phil? Phil Connors???
Punxsutawney Phil maybe? The name given to the groundhog for whom the holiday is named?
Some internet geek calculated how long Phil was stuck in the time Loop. He calculated how long it would take him to become a master of each of the things that he did, like learning the piano and some of the other skills. It equaled up to about 80 years or something like that
My wife is originally from Woodstock so we got a kick out of the scenes around her home town. We were working near Rockford, Illinois at the time and followed the filming. The gravel pit was north of Rockford because it was the only place at the time that actually had snow.
Love that movie. Stephen Tobolowsky pays Ned Ryerson and he does a wonderful podcast. He's an incredible storyteller and has lived something of a life. GHD is an absolute classic and often garners interest religious people whom either interpret it as purgatory or samsara. It's of course influenced series like Russian Doll.
Tobolowsky was also in
"Single White Female" & "Memento".
@@laustcawz2089 and Spaceballs. "You idiots! This isn't them, you've captured their stunt doubles!"
6:37 The "S" is silent in Illinois.
Ive heard it said both ways
the v is also silent in other
YES! YES! Silent “s” on Illinois....
@@stumphole8217 Well there is maybe no v in Illinois, but the more important question is anyhow: is there a Haddonfield in Illinois ?
@@frankschneider6156 i was picking on the british accent instead of other its ovaa
If I remember correctly, the original script had Murray's ex put a hex on him creating the timeloop. Fortunately they dropped that as the mystery of it is much more compelling.
One of my favourite movies of all time. It's just impossible to imagine another actor for the role of Phil Connors.
I thought Harold Ramis and Bill Murray reconciled when it was discovered that Ramis was dying. No?
Yes, that happened.
They did. Near the end, Murray showed up with a police escort, and box of donuts. They made peace.
Yes they did before Harold Ramis passed away but a shame they didn't reconcile way before that
You'd be correct. Murray found out Ramis was extremely ill, went and visited Harold and even brought donuts. True, it's too bad the duo never worked again professionally, but at least they made peace with one another.
That's what harold's daughter says
Love your vids, mate! Have learned so many things about my fave fliks that I never knew. Keep it up!
Groundhog Day corresponds with Imbolc, the Pagan Celtic first day of spring. In fact, the Celts began all the seasons roughly six weeks earlier than modern convention, which is perhaps why, paradoxically, some calendars call the winter solstice, conventionally the first day of winter, ‘midwinter’s day’ and ditto the summer solstice as ‘midsummer’s day’. The Welsh for July is Gorffenhaf, which means ‘end of summer’ evidence that for the Welsh autumn begins in August. Similarly, Halloween, the day before November the fist is called Calngaeaf, which means winter’s eve. And THAT is why Mayday is a festival - it is the first day of Celtic summer!
I hope the musical do get revived. It is BRILLIANT. If you get a chance to view it, you won't regret it.
I really enjoy each episode that you put so much time and effort into making. They’re always informative and enjoyable.
Am I right or am i right, or am I right... that Back to The future hoodie is awesome!!
Ive said this for as long as I can remember, but didnt realize I picked it up from ground hog day.
Right, right, right. 👍
Your mom is awesome!
The musical was awesome & it was showing more recently. We just saw it between Christmas & New Years at the San Francisco Playhouse (less than a block from Union Square).
I'd say the musical was darker than the movie, but still a ton of fun - the printed programs had a note about the seriousness of depression and included a depression / suicide hotline #.
The guy who played Phil was excellent and the music was great. My family and I still sing "Nobody Cares" to each other if someone is complaining!
Thanks Minty, one of my favorite all-time movies!
The true answer to how long Phil was stuck there is .... 1 day
Yes he repeated the one day over and over, but when he breaks the loop at the end of the movie, the rest of the world is not 10 years, 30-40 years or even 10,000 years further on, the rest of the world is only 1 day further on. You have to remember that Phil was not the only one stuck in a time loop, everyone in the town was as well (as far as we see in the movie), so it's reasonable to extrapolate that to the whole world or even the whole universe.
U deserve more likes
here in italy we had a remake of it in 2004 with our great funny actor and comedian Antonio Albanese, called "è già ieri" but was not a great success, much more a good remake\homage to this masterpiece.
I really enjoy your reviews and deeper looks at movies... your production value, your humor are much appreciated in these challenging times. thank you .
One of my favorite comedies too. It's like a long and funny Twilight Zone episode. In fact, I'm surprised Rod Serling never did a plot like this.
You can say that again
My brilliant idea for your next episode is please do 10 things you didn’t know about What About Bob? (1991)
10 Things You Didn't Know About Backdraft (1991)
That would be AWESOME great idea love that movie
"Winge" has got to be the most Australian word I have ever heard in my life!
Another Aussie CZcamsr I follow also says that word, I love it haha
The dead Phil scene suggests he is experiencing a form of quantum immortality wherein a version of his always moves past the time loop or dies and one remains. It's also possible the ending is just another Phil leaving the time loop while the other Phil is possibly trapped there infinitely which is terrifying to think about
What every guy would do in Phil Conners situation..... “oui”
Not me. I'd be convinced that the first time I did that would turn out to be the last time everything reset and I'd end up getting hit with a paternity suit. 😂
Saying the quiet part out loud. Please accept this 🏆.
Palace Of Wisdom lolllll good point
Shane haha
I awoke in bed with a feeling I had done this before, it's call Duvet-vu
no
Chuckle.
i get vuja de....the feeling ive never done anything
no
That Duvet-vu feeling is not a comforter.
Sorry, that pun was a difficult pillow to swallow.
It was good to hear Bill and Harold kinda reconciled just before Harold’s passing when Bill found out he was sick.
From what I'd once heard, Murray and Ramis were (at least SOMEWHAT) able to bury the hatchet - at least, to a point - to where they were able to work together to reprise their iconic roles for the Ghostbusters video game. (I know their respective lines were most likely recorded separately, but what little optimism I have left still likes to think that SOME compromises and small reconciliations were made between the two.)
i heard harold and bill made up right before he passed, so everything's good
My man MINTY at it again!
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Despite it being called ground hog day, this movie always felt like a Christmas movie to me because of the scenery / snow / cold weather
Full on addicted to your channel. Love learning random facts about movies from my childhood. Thanks for all your hard work! Now I’m off to learn all the things I don’t know about “Scrooged”!
I know everyone.
Really? Who's that?
Minty. He makes videos and makes noises like a chipmunk when he gets really excited.
That's Ryan. He's constantly talking to himself and finds everything to be super easy, barely an inconvenience.
i love this movie!
After living the same day for so long you'd think he'd have a mental breakdown when the loop finally broke. He's gone at the very least decades without any change or any real repercussions for any of his actions. Setting him free in a chaotic world after all that time could make him totally shut down and not know how to cope!
It's just a movie
@@ericross441 It's just fun to consider. Maybe What About Bob is actually what happens to Phil later as he fails to adjust to the real world. :-P
When it comes to time loop movies, I'll watch this over Happy Death Day any day
I live right next to Woodstock,IL where this was filmed
Last time we were this early we had to put a toaster in the tub and start the day over... Last time we were this early we had to...
I grew up 20 miles away from woodstock Illinois and just last year 2023 I visited the filming the location again. Fun movie
Groundhog Day is indeed one of the best comedies of all time! I really do love this movie! As a extra trivia bonus, much like every Christmas Eve when they play a Marathon of A Christmas Story, mostly every Groundhog Day they play a Marathon of the Groundhog Day film too! Which is pretty damn ironic lol considering the plot of the movie being in a endless loop. Great movie! Thank you Harold Ramis! Rest in peace!
What would it be like to come out of a 30-40 year "same day" life? That could have made a good sequel.
Then put your, little hand with mine.
There ain't no hill or mountain we can't climb.
I also read that in the original script that the reason the day repeated was because of a curse put on Phil by a woman he broke up with, which is why you hear a sound effect after he kisses Rita at the end of the movie, signifying the breaking of the curse.
Also, if you want to see a dramatic version of this movie, check out a movie called 12:01 with Jonathan Silverman and Martin Landau or the more recent Happy Death Day and Happy Death Day 2U for a slasher/comedy/drama version of this same story. Tree's boyfriend even compares her experience to Groundhog Day at the end of the first movie.
I always felt that if he left town then he would escape that time loop he was in. He could of left earlier before the blizzard came and trapped him there.
The idea for this movie was taken from 1973 short story by Richard Lupoff called "12:01 pm", then adapted into a short film in 1990 starring Kurtwood Smith (Clarence Boddicker from RoboCop), which was much darker.
morlockmeat weren’t Helen Slater in that film ?
@@pashvonderc381 - Helen Slater was in a full feature TV film called "12:01 pm", released the same year as "Groundhog Day". But the version I was referring to was a short film (about a half hour), from 1990, that was taken directly from the short story published in 1973. The 1993 version (with Helen Slater), had the same "time bounce" premise, but was quite a different story. The '90 version (with Kurtwood Smith), was much darker and more nightmarish. More like an episode from The The Twilight Zone.
So, you're half right. 😊
morlockmeat nice one, never realized that there was a short story,, will check it out. Thanks.
@@pashvonderc381 - You can see it here: czcams.com/video/jv0HtT75KnI/video.html
morlockmeat cheers just watched it , defo Twilight Zone material too
This list would work better with "I Got you Babe" as the background music. Copyright issues?
I despise that song to this day. I don't like Sonny and Cher to begin with and this movie gives me an even greater dislike for them.
I agree with Murray that the movie should have leaned more towards the philosophical though it should have done this without losing the charm and whimsy of the finished product.
The scene where Phil tells Rita about his experiences and how he believes he is a god and shows her he knows everything about her and the audience feels the pain and tragedy of his unrequited love really gave the film depth.
Then Phil, inspired by his love of Rita, chooses the Good Life, the philosophical life, the Path of Perfection, the journey to becoming a Bodhisattva, and rather than a meaningful exploration of this choice and the journey it entails we get a montage of him becoming a better man, albeit a heartwarming one.
Phil had, in his damnation, chosen a fundamentally different approach to his existence and his relationship to all things. He embodied the duality of choice between the unexamined life and true philosophical life. This is profound, but it was glossed over in the film. To me, this is the point, where he chooses to become a better man and uses his curse to master himself and instill peace and harmony into his world, where the movie truly begins. When I watch the film I either skip directly to this point or watch the whole thing waiting until this point finally comes.
I think Ramis dropped the ball and should have heeded Murray's input in this regard. At the very minimum Murray's additions should have been filmed and whatever worked could have been added to the finished film in post-production. The editing is where a lot of the magic happens but you need to have filmed everything you needed first.
Such a direction could have made Groundhog Day a timeless masterpiece on par with The Shawshank Redemption and It's a Wonderful Life. The film is still a feel-good classic but it could have been much much more.
Either way, the real tragedy is that it ended a friendship and a fruitful professional relationship between Ramis and Murray.
My favorite 2020 Super Bowl commercial was Bill Murray re-creating his role as Phil once again stuck in Punxsutawney, except this time he has a great time every day doing something new in a Jeep Gladiator with the groundhog. Even better was the behind-the-scenes making of the commercial in which you can see Bill enjoyed doing the re-creation.