Saturday, February 2, 2013

OKAY, CAMPERS, RISE AND SHINE, AND DON'T FORGET YOUR BOOTIES 'CAUSE IT'S COOOOOOLD OUT THERE TODAY: It's February 2, so it's time to talk about the movie again. Do you buy the whole Buddhist thing, or should we just quote lines for a while and generally discuss its awesomeness?

Participate in this thread, or it's gonna be cold, it's gonna be grey, and it's gonna last you for the rest of your life. (Or maybe not: Phil tweets that he sees no shadow.)

18 comments:

  1. Danny Novo9:16 AM

    I have a point to discuss. Is any move better with Andie MacDowell in it?

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  2. The Pathetic Earthling10:06 AM

    No. But it's interesting in that this movie is so good that I don't even mind her.

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  3. Always and forever: Ned Ryerson.

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  4. Jordan10:29 AM

    This is easily one of my favorite features on the blog. Thanks for doing it.

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  5. Yes. This and Four Weddings and a Funeral being good examples.

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  6. So the day that he gives the homeless guy his entire stash of bills, he then buys coffee and pastries, then pays $1000 for a piano lesson.

    Did he rob the bank again, or was there an ATM in his network in Punxsatawney (in '93 that was still a thing) and Phil is just that loaded?

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  7. He doesn't have to be TOO loaded, right? He knows by that point that whatever he spends will be back in the account when he wakes up the "next" day.

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  8. I suspect that if you're an asshole weatherman you probably have cash reserves as well as credit cards. Even in 1993. Also, isn't he based out of Philly? If he is banking at a Pennsylvania based bank they may very well have a branch in town.

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  9. I actually kind of liked her in the Footloose remake, where she underplays what could easily have been a very overdone part.

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  10. J. Bowman8:39 PM

    Four Weddings definitely would be, but she's the best thing in Hudson Hawk.

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  11. J. Bowman8:42 PM

    Winter, slumbering in the open air, wears on its smiling face a dream... of spring.

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  12. Adam B.9:54 PM

    I thought Richard Grant was.

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  13. In fact, I never really thought about it (maybe it's addressed in the movie -- it's been a while), but so long as Phil has a credit card with a limit of a couple thousand dollars beyond his balance, he could really live pretty high on the hog for the whole time he's "there."

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  14. Well, yes, but the looming threat of tomorrow coming would keep a body from maxing out its cards, no?

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  15. Fred App11:53 AM

    I always reply to this question by singling out a movie that almost nobody saw, but which remains a favorite of mine, and terribly underappreciated: "Unstrung Heroes," directed by Diane Keaton, also starring John Turturro and Michael Richards. Andie MacDowell isn't particularly good in it, but she plays a dying woman, so she's easier to take, and it limits her screen time.

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  16. Well, once he figures it out, then it only limits him on days when he's trying to escape. In between those, he could just enjoy days of luxury. Maybe 5 days of trying to achieve perfection, two days of maxing out.

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  17. Adlai5:29 PM

    I always just assumed he robbed the bank every day.

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