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Well it's Groundhog Day...again...

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Right, I'm going to sleep, if I wake up and it's 2nd Feb again, I swear to god Bill Murray! I need the days until the Switch to be less, not stay the same.
 
The Hamburglar said:
This thread makes me want to watch it as I've never seen it. Is it that good? Better than the thread?
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Not trying to over hype it, but its pretty good dark comedy movie. Phil Murray's character basically repeats February 2nd for thousands of days and does some crazy and funny shit. It's my favorite movie, and my birthday happens to be on Groundhogs Day also.
 
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I am watchin the film here in the UK on GOLD+1, it is just at the part where he makes it through the night.

Has anyone here ever been to the actual event, would like to know what its really like.
 
If you're looking for a different movie with the living the same day catch gimmick, you can watch Edge of Tomorrow.

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Fun fact: Harold Ramis originally suggested that Phil was stuck in the loop for 9-10 years, but later decided it was closer to 30 or 40.

In the original script (which was much darker), it was closer to 10,000 years; Phil tracked time by reading a page of a book each day and had managed to read through the entire public library.
 
waveuponwave said:
In Spain the movie is officially called "Atrapado en el tiempo" (Trapped in time), but the majority of people still call the movie the name El Dia de la Marmota (The Groundhog Day). Strange fuck up by the translators that thought the new Spanish name for the movie would work better for marketing that translating the original English name as it is.
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Did you steal this post from last year's thread? I could swear I've seen it before.
 
King Awesome said:
It's one of my favorite movies of all time. It manages to be a surprising philosophical film as well as a very smart, somewhat dark 80's comedy.
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90s. Was actually 1993, even if it has the feel of an 80s movie being Harold Ramis-directed and starring Bill Murray.

It does feel like a Buddhist allegory or something, except that the way to get out of the reincarnation loop is not to stop caring and detach, but to embrace self-improvement and live for everything that makes life worth living.
 
Just watched this at work today... for the first time ever.

I really liked it and I can't believe it took me this long to even see it!

EDIT: Just read through this thread. This is too much.
 
HeySeuss said:
You may be right it's been so long since I checked out an actual book at the library. I was thinking you meant overall not just sections.
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Ah, yeah. That's how it is at the library I go to, anyway.

After 10000 years it would definitely get a little confusing, I imagine.

How does the brain process all of that information, anyway? Isn't "learning" necessitated by a physical manifestation in the brain, whereby synapses strengthen and create associations?

Hence, it would reset every day as well and you'd have no idea that you were actually in a loop.

This isn't very realistic!
 
waveuponwave said:
In Spain the movie is officially called "Atrapado en el tiempo" (Trapped in time), but the majority of people still call the movie the name El Dia de la Marmota (The Groundhog Day). Strange fuck up by the translators that thought the new Spanish name for the movie would work better for marketing that translating the original English name as it is.
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Just like you said: this is to increase interest in the audience. It's not a fuck up at all, it's a marketing strategy.

Remember what Rosemary's Baby title was in Spain when it came out?. "La Semilla del diablo" (The devil's seed) although it somewhat spoils the movie, the average audience would rather see something with that title than the original. This is just to make a movie more interesting and add more ticket sales. and just like you said, it doesn't really help and people go for a more literal translation. In later home media re-releases the movie was retitled "El bebé de Rosemary". This happened quite a bit in Mexico.
 
Just watched this at work today... for the first time ever.

I really liked it and I can't believe it took me this long to even see it!

EDIT: Just read through this thread. This is too much.
 
In Spain the movie is officially called "Atrapado en el tiempo" (Trapped in time), but the majority of people still call the movie the name El Dia de la Marmota (The Groundhog Day). Strange fuck up by the translators that thought the new Spanish name for the movie would work better for marketing that translating the original English name as it is.
 
Right, I'm going to sleep, if I wake up and it's 2nd Feb again, I swear to god Bill Murray! I need the days until the Switch to be less, not stay the same.
 
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