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Title: Bill Murray
Post by: BusterKeaton on 01 Aug 2005, 16:14: Is bill murray not the coolest muthefucker around these days, Lost in translation, A life aquatic, That segment he did in coffee and cigarretes, Hes in a upcoming jarmusch joint called broken flowers. He's 55 years old and hes doing the best wok of his life, Im starting a band called the murrays and were gonna write the most clever songs in the fucking world.
Title: Bill Murray
Post by: Gryff on 01 Aug 2005, 16:16: Bill Murray is superb.
Title: Bill Murray
Post by: Sythe on 01 Aug 2005, 16:17: w00t! What genre are you planning on doing?

On another note, Russel Crowe is so much cooler than Bill Murray. He threw a phone at someone! Yeah, thats it...
Title: Bill Murray
Post by: Switchblade on 01 Aug 2005, 17:29: That is the first time I have EVER seen those four words together in that order.

I pray it is the last time.
Title: Bill Murray
Post by: Hostile on 01 Aug 2005, 18:30: Best work of his life?

Dude, Ghostbusters.
Title: Bill Murray
Post by: chupones on 01 Aug 2005, 18:31: Bill "Groundhog Day" Murray.

Coffee & Cigarettes = pure genius.

(Any movie with Bill, RZA, GZA, Cate Blanchett, Tom Waits and Iggy Pop can't be bad.)
Title: Bill Murray
Post by: Inlander on 01 Aug 2005, 19:00: What? Nobody's mentioned Rushmore yet?!
Title: Bill Murray
Post by: I is Grammar on 01 Aug 2005, 19:37: Nobody's mentioned Rushmore because Ghostbusters trumps it. And stomps on it. And burys it. And spits on its grave.

GHOSTBUSTERS RULES THE WORLD
Title: Bill Murray
Post by: Kid Modernist on 01 Aug 2005, 22:56: Dude, Rushmore is the shit, soundtrack up.

Ghostbusters is pretty good too... the conundrum

How about both rock?
Title: Bill Murray
Post by: happybirthdaygelatin on 02 Aug 2005, 09:28: Caddy Shack.

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If you're following that logic, then Sean Penn is God.

Hilarious!
Title: Bill Murray
Post by: LiterSize on 02 Aug 2005, 10:33: (http://www.cyber-cinema.com/gallery/Stripes.jpg)

C'mon people!
Title: Bill Murray
Post by: I is Grammar on 02 Aug 2005, 12:47: Quote from: Kid Modernist
Dude, Rushmore is the shit, soundtrack up.

Ghostbusters is pretty good too... the conundrum

How about both rock?

Fine. Truce, Inlander?
Title: Bill Murray
Post by: Inlander on 02 Aug 2005, 15:07: I am more than happy to live in a world in which we acknowledge that Bill Murray has had more than one career peak.
Title: Bill Murray
Post by: Maui on 02 Aug 2005, 16:13: Oh man. Bill Murray most definetely rocks. I have yet to see the life aquatic, but ive heard some really good things. I love both Ghostbusters and Rushmore equally, i dont think you can compare one over the other.....
Although everytime someone asks "Who ya gonna call?", you cant help but think of the Ghostbusters............
Title: Bill Murray
Post by: KharBevNor on 02 Aug 2005, 17:17: I seem to only have seen 'Ghostbusters' of his films.

Meh *cat yawn*
Title: Bill Murray
Post by: Coolhanderik on 03 Aug 2005, 22:59: Whenever Groundhog Day is on I have to watch the whole thing, I love that movie too much, I can't wait for the Broken Flowers I watched the trailer and it looks great
Title: Bill Murray
Post by: Coolhanderik on 03 Aug 2005, 23:12: Whenever Groundhog Day is on I have to watch the whole thing, I love that movie too much, I can't wait for the Broken Flowers I watched the trailer and it looks great
Title: Bill Murray
Post by: Inlander on 03 Aug 2005, 23:25: Did . . . Did you just post the same comment twice, 14 minutes apart?

That's a little unusual.

EDIT: Ooooooohhhhh, Groundhog Day. Cunning!
Title: Bill Murray
Post by: Coolhanderik on 03 Aug 2005, 23:45: I have absolutely no clue how that happened...but since it goes with groundhog day, I'll uh...leave it?
Title: Bill Murray
Post by: Skibas_clavicle on 04 Aug 2005, 18:07: I'm really looking forward to seeing Broken Flowers. The Life Aquatic was such a fantastic movie, I love seeing Bill Murray now because every time he's got a new movie out, I love it.
Title: Bill Murray
Post by: Coolhanderik on 05 Aug 2005, 00:16: yeah I really wana see it, but the closest place it's playing to me is in the city, so I'm trying to find someone to see it with cuz I don't know how to navigate the city, nor would I want to alone
Title: Bill Murray
Post by: Johnny C on 05 Aug 2005, 09:42: Quote from: Inlander
I am more than happy to live in a world in which we acknowledge that Bill Murray has had more than one career peak.

<3 <3 <3 <3
Title: Bill Murray
Post by: thew on 08 Aug 2005, 14:59: I saw Broken Flowers this weekend. It was interesting. Moodier then I expected with less humor then hinted in the trailer. But there are about 5 major laughs in the movie (major for the movie, minor when compared to all out comedies). Best way to describe it is the slowest portions of Lost In Translation and Bill Murray's sad-clown face cranked to 11. If you like those then you're golden. I ate it up. Jim Jarmish does some unique editing as well, it's a very deliberate, methodically paced film. I recommend it if you're in an partly cloudy mood.
Title: Bill Murray
Post by: thehoopiestfrood on 09 Aug 2005, 17:55: He is the daddy.
Title: Bill Murray
Post by: TheToon_Ashtoon on 09 Aug 2005, 23:49: Bill Murray + Willem Dafoe in The Life Aquatic are the shit. that's all.
I thought Bill Murray was a bit of a flake because of that Osmosis Jones business.. man, was I wrong. How he got through filming The Life Aquatic without dying of laughter in the process is beyond me. So many awkward silences.
Title: Bill Murray
Post by: Gryff on 10 Aug 2005, 16:13: Bill Murray is the king of awkward silences.

I was going to see Broken Flowers this weekend but I'm not gonna be able to make it... 'twas a film festival showing too, so I'm going to have to wait until it gets a general release. This makes me sad.
Title: Bill Murray
Post by: LiterSize on 11 Aug 2005, 11:04: RENAISSANCE OF BILLY MURRAY FTW!

Seriously. I still have to go see that movie.
Title: Bill Murray
Post by: Deticui on 16 Aug 2005, 15:30: Dont get me wrong here, Life Aquatic was the shit, but I just like Lost in Translation better.

"More mysterious? Sure I can do that, I'll just wonder where the hell the whiskey is."

I'm surprised no one mentioned What About Bob?, since seeing Richard Dreyfuss go berserk and try to blow Bill Murray up with 20 pounds of black powder was priceless.
Title: Bill Murray
Post by: rive gauche on 19 Aug 2005, 09:25: yes, What About Bob? is the cat's pajamas! i love that movie. my brother and i went to see Broken Flowers last night, only to find that it doesn't open until today. we drove for an hour. needless to say, we were crushed.
Title: Bill Murray
Post by: LiterSize on 19 Aug 2005, 14:15: Do we really need to dig up Mad Dog and Glory? DeNiro FTW!
Title: Bill Murray
Post by: Cpt.Fantastic on 20 Aug 2005, 18:32: I watched Lost In Translation tonight. Hella funny.

Also ruling are Groundhog Day and Ghostbusters, of course.
Title: Bill Murray
Post by: offcitylimits on 21 Aug 2005, 12:28: Quote from: LiterSize
(http://www.cyber-cinema.com/gallery/Stripes.jpg)
C'mon people!

I picked that up on DVD yesterday, it's very funny. Weird seeing Harold Ramis in the making-of though, he's no longer skinny Egon Spengler.

I really can't choose between his earlier comedy and what he's doing now, but one thing i will say is that it's weird seeing him play Polonius in Hamlet (an excellent adaptation actually).

Has anyone seen Where the Buffalo Roam? I'm curious to see Murray as Hunter S. Thompson.
Title: Bill Murray
Post by: happybirthdaygelatin on 22 Aug 2005, 08:38: I actually kind of prefer Murray as Hunter S. Thomson.
Title: Bill Murray
Post by: Earthbound Misfit on 18 Sep 2005, 15:51: I'll just say that just about everything I'd have to say about Bill Murray has already been said on this post, so I'll just sit back and enjoy.
Title: Bill Murray
Post by: Spike on 18 Sep 2005, 19:18: Quote from: I is Grammar
Nobody's mentioned Rushmore because Ghostbusters trumps it. And stomps on it. And burys it. And spits on its grave.

Not only that, but it crosses the streams.
Title: Bill Murray
Post by: JLM on 18 Sep 2005, 22:48: "Send him a red cap and a speedo."

Anyways...I don't feel like going too far into the details of why I detested Coffee and Cigarettes (there were maybe three good segments in the whole film, and the one with Bill Murray, RZA and GZA wasn't one of them), so I'll just rehash some comments I made on another website:

Iggy Pop, regardless of how hard he may try, will never be an actor. Tom Waits, is a bit better, but both they and the White Stripes were there to give the movie credibility amongst hipsters.

And speaking of the White Stripes, the whole "seemingly dumb musicians who are actually brilliant" thing was done to death with Waynes World.

Finally, what's the point? I mean, I get the paper thin message of the random connectivity in all of our lives, regardless of whether or not we realize it. But it's been done better before, and Jarmusch would do well to stick with other writers.

Anyways, not to steal thunder away from the greatness of Bill Murray. I thought he was the best thing about Lost In Translation, which I think failed on a basic level because Coppola decided to leave Japan itself as a two dimensional backdrop, and resorted to tired stereotypes when dealing with the Japanese characters for the most part. The story could have easily taken place in any other non-english speaking country inhabited by mostly not-white people.

He deserved the academy award for that performance, and got hosed. A shame.

I still liked him better in Rushmore, and in most of what he's done.