Groundhog Day is Loops of fun! First Time Watching

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Original Movie: Groundhog Day (1993)
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[@charlize1253]

"God, he's insufferable." Nobody has ever been better at playing a sarcastic yet somehow likeable jerk than Bill Murray

[@mijreed]

It’s because he’s not acting. He’s like that in real life - actually worse.

[@kevinshelley2803]

Hold my beer.

[@Pixelologist]

I've heard that,@@mijreed

[@mordanthubris6516]

@@mijreed I seem to recall some trivia (someone may want to fact check this) that they shot the movie in 'reverse' more or less, because Murray is much more agreeable early on in a shoot and gets more and more obnoxious as the work drags on. Which...I can KIND of sympathize with, I know that actors DO go through a lot and often have very long days, but given the fame and compensation, it seems like it more than balances out. Plus you have actors who are by all accounts just fantastic, down-to-earth people like Robin Williams or Keanu Reeves and it really takes away the excuses.

[@taylortyler1867]

I don't find him likable at all. He was even worse in "Scrooged" I don't understand the appeal.

[@andreshernandez1180]

Chances of watching this reaction...100%

[@holddowna]

HAHAHAH!!!

[@77marioland]

@@holddowna I went on a bit of a road trip with friends on the northwest side of Chicago and we wound up in a little town, I knew I'd seen it before. I told my friends this is where they shot Groundhog Day. They all told me I was crazy; we were in the square and walking past the dinner, and there was a picture the Bill Murry on the wall... it was the town the movie was shot in. It was kind of special, I love this movie, and actually being there made it much closer to my heart. A story about change and redemption, selfishness and the chance to become a better person, loss and finding yourself again.

[@miamivicefanatic9736]

Notice how after Rita tells him, "Maybe it's not a curse", is when he starts the process of becoming a better person. I think that's a key line in the entire movie.

[@LoneCloudHopper]

Learning to lighten up is a great life lesson.

[@josephsarto689]

The way Chris Elliott delivers the line “well no, probably not now” is pure gold lol. Phil was such a jerk, his coworker isn’t really affected by watching him die a horrible death lol

[@holddowna]

😅

[@spenser9908]

"He was a really great guy. I really really liked him... a lot."

[@cornman313]

The line "I've killed myself so many times, I don't even exist anymore" always hits me hard.

[@steveclapper5424]

I always wondered how long he "lived" in that condition.

[@patrickmessinger7040]

The thing that gets me is How Ames thinks this is the first time she is watching this film. :D

[@jumpman83]

"That about sums it up for me." Such a telling and overlooked line in this movie (in response to "What would you do, if you were stuck in one place, and every day was exactly the same, and nothing that you did mattered?"

[@andreshernandez1180]

Btw the actor who says that, Rick Overton, is also the customs supervisor in Beverly Hills Cop.

[@baddayoverdosed]

This joke is the one that landed for me rewatching it as an adult

[@highstimulation2497]

and the OTHER dude ("Well I could have retired on half pay after 20 years...") was one of the two prison guards in SPACEBALLS, I think.

[@tophernates]

​@@highstimulation2497Ned Ryerson is in spaceballs. 'Youve captured their stunt doubles!'

[@Melancthon7332]

@@highstimulation2497 Rick Overton and Rick Ducommon are comedy legends, one or both of them were in pretty much every movie and television comedy made in the whole decade of the 90's.

[@joshuawells835]

This film is probably the most iconic time loop film, as everyone who gets stuck in a time loop references this film.

[@holddowna]

Loved it!

[@davidbennett1357]

@@holddowna word on the internet street is that Phil spent 32 years reliving the same day....makes my head want to explode....

[@turnermarius4471]

@@davidbennett1357 Actually it was hundreds maybe thousand years according to fan theories.

[@spirit1600]

@@turnermarius4471 that makes more sense to me

[@turnermarius4471]

@@spirit1600 I mean you need years of experience to be piano expert, ice sculpture and learn everyone backstory. Plus to get insane it has to be hundreds of times. But even 32 years is possible.

[@crewchief5144]

This movie holds the top #1 spot in pop culture references. The name itself. Whenever ANYONE I know or have met is having a monotonous, repetitive day, they refer to it as "Groundhog Day." That wins.

[@holddowna]

Love it!

[@DistractedArachnid]

Eh, I'm not sure about the top spot. The movie I hear references to the most is probably The Matrix. Seems like I constantly hear about people being red pilled and all that shit.

[@Stogie2112]

“I am a god. I am not The God.”

[@davidsonchris737]

I would like to talk to you too❤ ChrisDavidson​@@holddowna

[@neutrino78x]

@@DistractedArachnid "Seems like I constantly hear about people being red pilled and all that shit." hmm you might want to stop reading/watching that misogynist stuff out there lol

[@mike91mdk45]

"Hey! PHIL?! PHIL?! " "..NED?!?" 👊💥 😂. Hands down one of bill's best films. A must watch every yr

[@SG-js2qn]

IMO, this is one of those classic, hall of fame type movies. It's not just entertaining, it's a life lesson.

[@holddowna]

Soo true!I love it!

[@4thlinemaniac356]

Hard Eight moto phone word change

[@tomw324]

This was actually filmed almost entirely in Woodstock Illinois about 60 miles outside of Chicago. Only the first five minutes were in Pennsylvania. We actually moved to Woodstock from Chicago in the last month of shooting of the film. The sets were still up on the square and they were still using fake snow to get some of the last shots as it was moving into the spring. Lived there for the next 25 years, great town. They loved Bill Murray, he made a point of going to every shop on the square and buying something. Andie MacDowell could be seen most mornings just jogging around the streets. Every time I watch this film it's odd because I spent so much time there it feels like I'm driving in my car again for some of the street scenes.

[@digitalbegley]

Ned's face just after he gets punched is just fantastic. Perfect comic timing.

[@MrBreezeLI516]

" what if there IS no tomorrow???.. their wasn't one TODAY! " 😮

[@Nekotaku_TV]

*there

[@timd.3837]

Director Harold Ramis estimated that Phil was stuck in the loop somewhere between 10-40 years. The original script had it for 10,000 years, but was revised. Harold's estimation is based upon the presumption that it takes 10 years to become good at anything, and then you have to account for the years that he wasted away for various reasons. So, the final estimate that Harold shared before his death was between 30-40 years (10,950 - 14,600 days). No one has ever said with certainty as to what actually breaks the endless loop, but a good hypothesis (that I like) is when Rita buys Phil at the auction, it breaks the loop because now she owns him and thus he can't be taken away from her. Regardless, it's a fun and very rewatchable movie. Another takeoff of this storyline is Happy Death Day. Jessica Rothe & Israel Broussard do an excellent job with their characters.

[@4thlinemaniac356]

The 10,000 years based on the cosmic joke The Last Conversation You Had Before You Were Born - the length should one you tube it should be around twenty plus minutes And is based on Transmigration,Reincarnation,and the Metempsychosis as covered in An Introduction To Thinking And Destiny by Harold Percival @ the Word Foundation channel.

[@mordanthubris6516]

IIRC in the original script, or early drafts or something, Phil was cursed by a jilted ex-lover who cursed him to live the same day forever, unless he managed to truly fall in love with someone and/or get them to fall in love with him.

[@Nekotaku_TV]

She needs to read and love this comment.

[@KevinLyda]

Uh, not sure I like "purchasing a human being" as progressing plot point in a country that has a rather horrific history on that topic...

[@jerryward3311]

It's when Phil says that he didn't care what happened tomorrow and was happy at that moment that he could move on to a new day. He had been unhappy and self-centered and needed to think of others and be happy in the moment to break the loop.

[@SmyrnaApostolicMission]

In my earlier life I worked as a master control operator at a tv station and can say that news people that act like Phil were very common lol

[@Lepidopray]

Quotes: The term "Groundhog Day" has entered pop culture for boring, repetitive activities. I live in a cold weather state, so by February I think of the quote "it's gonna be cold, it's gonna be gray, and it's gonna last you the rest of your life". While watching your reaction I thought "gosh you're an upbeat lady!" 😆 Keep smiling!

[@marcelopaolillo9848]

When you change internally, truly, the world around you changes. Lesson learned.

[@4thlinemaniac356]

When You change your thoughts You change your frequency ie vibration which activates dna to divine nature activation & awakening opening One's Pineal gland Gateway to the God within The Higher Future Self @ Genesis 32:30 Jacob meets God face to face names the place. @ William Donahue channel videos #1004 before #514.

[@BouillaBased]

I watch this movie every Groundhog Day. I started to imagine that the bartender is immune from the looping and knows exactly what Phil is going through. Really puts a spin on his voiceless performance.

[@holddowna]

Love this

[@_Shadoh_]

@@andreshernandez1180 That's the joke, that she's so proud although only having given him one lesson, imo it's just that, not meaning she's in on it.

[@BouillaBased]

@@andreshernandez1180I blame Nietzsche, or whoever read too much Nietsche before creating or sharing the idea for the script. Nietsche’s thought experiment on “eternal return” is laid out clearly in his book, Ecco Homo: How One Becomes What One Is: What if some day or night a demon were to steal into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: “This life as you now live and have lived it you will have to live once again and innumerable times again; and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and sigh and everything unspeakably small or great in your life must return to you, all in the same succession and sequence - even this spider and this moonlight between the trees, and even this moment and I myself…” Phil gets this chance to see his life and the consequences of his choices culminating on February 1 through not only his own eyes, but the hypothetical demon’s, Rita’s, Nancy’s and on and on. With this information and new perception, he can create a life that he can accept. Most importantly, one where he can’t say, “I don’t even like myself that much,” and can’t say to Rita that he doesn’t deserve her.

[@scipio7837]

We're only 14 minutes in... his relationship with the homeless man always makes me cry

[@robertwest4596]

The real genius of this movie is Phil going through the entire list of the 7 stages of grief and it's done in a seamless and amazing way.

[@holddowna]

Wow!

[@TheInfinityzeN]

The most recent estimates are that he was trapped for nearly 34 years (12,383 days). The Director originally stated that he had been trapped for over 10 years, but in 2009 he admitted the estimate was far too short. He said: "It takes at least 10 years to get good at anything, and allotting for the down time and misguided years he spent, it had to be more like 30 or 40 years." He became an expert in French poetry, ice sculpting and the piano, along with picking up all sorts of other skills (medicine, card throwing, etc).

[@guitarman8462]

Now you can watch this movie over , and over , and over , and over , and over , and over again😂😂😂😂😂

[@hisdudeness8328]

Everyone thinks that it was Rita finally kissing Phil that broke the time loop, but me personally, I believe it was Phil finally buying the full life insurance package from Ned that freed Phil.

[@_viper2c_562]

I think the loop ended when Phil stopped pursuing Rita, and Rita dropped it all to pursue Phil, because everyone seemed to love him, along with the fact that he did things for others, not himself.

[@dnish6673]

Cut scene. He lets the kid fall and it breaks the cycle.

[@PatrickPrejusa]

RIP HAROLD RAMIS

[@1ButtonDash]

the amount of people that I think miss he cameo'd as the doctor is off the charts I think

[@bradleywood1984]

He was such a good writer and director!

[@sweetnumb]

I wonder why people say things like this, and what the timeframe is on it. When someone reacts to The Wizard of Oz from 1939 you don't see RIP x, y, z, l, g, b, t, q, etc... I like to just enjoy whatever movie I'm watching and not dwell on whether or not who I'm seeing is still alive or not. Heath Ledger for example is just a superb actor. It's sad to hear about such a talented guy dying particularly after his Joker portrayal, and it's sad to think about Chris Farley and all the amazing comedic roles he could have done. But would they want us to focus on the fact that they're dead, or would they rather we appreciate their work. RIP Shakespeare btw, just heard the news a couple weeks ago.

[@1ButtonDash]

@@sweetnumbbecause it was people that were alive in their life time that they grew up watching or maybe have met IRL so it's sadder to see some people not around anymore. Especially since Harrold Ramis for example died very young. Much different than someone that was alive decades or centuries ago.

[@samirh2758]

@@1ButtonDash Harold Ramis died at 69

[@Stogie2112]

"Today is tomorrow! Anything different is good. It was the end of a very long day." Those three lines at the end are quite profound. We can use them to reflect on just one day or an entire lifetime. A multi-level existential epiphany!

[@holddowna]

Love this movie!!!

[@Googerstein]

This was filmed in a small little town called Woodstock Illinois. Just a little bit north of Chicago. My friends and I drove up there on a whim in 2002 and the people there were so awesome, so welcoming, and so proud of their friend Bill. (Bill Murray even joined a softball team while they were up there.) People literally opened their homes to us when they found out why we were there. If anyone reading this has the means, I highly recommend you spend a weekend there.

[@themoviedealers]

Somebody estimated he was stuck in the loop for 30 to 40 years.

[@NoChance345]

I was just reading something where in the original draft he was supposed to be stuck in the loop for thousands of years. That would have blown my 12 year old mind when i first saw it. Also, Harold Ramis gave several answers to the question of how long Phil was looping. The first was 10,000 years, then 10 years, and then finally the 30 or 40 years as you stated. All are crazy to me but i would have liked to have seen a version where he spent 10,000 years learning everything he possibly could.

[@yhctower]

Yeah it does seem the 30 to 40 yr estimate is the accepted timeframe now

[@Karadjanov]

It really is a fascinating thing to think about but considering how many scenes we saw for the first time that he has already been through unknown number of times it truly is rather impossible to determine.

[@parrothd007]

The film’s director Harold Ramis said back in 2009 that the character would have been trapped for decades, saying: “It takes at least 10 years to get good at anything and allotting for the downtime and misguided years he spent, it had to be more like 30 or 40 years.”

[@nonconsensualopinion]

@@NoChance345 I can't remember if it was just a spoken remark by a member of production, or possibly in the initial script, but I remember hearing that he walked into the town's library each day and read one page from one book. Eventually he had read all the books. That would make it thousands of years. That is just an interesting notion though. I personally subscribe to the idea that it was on the order of a few decades.

[@Kevonutube303]

12,395 days had been configured, by means of comments in the movie, learned skills, all occurrences and inteteractions with the towns people, really make for a very long day. Just under 40 years. So glad you enjoyed it. Amazingly, everytime you rewatch it, you learn something new.

[@petermenya8411]

True, it's under 40 years, but I'd say it's just under 34. 40 years is 14,600 days and 34 years is 12,410. So much closer to 34 than 40.

[@MasterBiffpudwell]

I was delivering a load near Punxsutawney when I was driving trucks. This event was happening while I was laid over waiting to deliver so I went to it. WOW! The place reminded me of a county fair there were so many people and vendors. I really didn't ever think this event was that big of a deal. Boy did I get a surprise. I had fun though and the people were awesome and very nice.

[@gregsager2062]

The interesting thing is that the movie was actually shot in Woodstock, IL, not in Punxsutawney.

[@searcherer]

Are you reliving the same day now😊?

[@marauderdz]

@@gregsager2062 Yeah, and Punxsutawney was so upset about it that they refused to let them film the real Phil (they caught a wild groundhog instead). But then the movie's popularity overwhelmingly boosted their Groundhog Day tourism, so they kind of dropped their complaints after that.

[@Paul-lf1bq]

Good catch getting Brian Doyle-Murray from his voice.

[@michaeljacyna1973]

Fun fact: the radio voice is not Brian Doyle Murray. I always thought it was too, along with Harold Ramis, but I found out two other people are credited as the radio DJs. Crazy!

[@m.d.5463]

One of the most funny movies ever. "Morons, your bus is leaving!" - best quote from the movie.

[@holddowna]

Love it!

[@Gort-Marvin0Martian]

Love this film. You start out really not liking Phil but as loops keep changing him you begin to like him more and more. Because he's learning what he missed his entire life before this happened to him. Actually he's a very lucky man that this happened for him. Watching you react to this was lifting, just like the first time watching the film. Be safe lady.

[@_Shadoh_]

Absolutely. How many people are like he is in the beginning and never "wake up" from it and improve as a person. AND he also got his dream woman in the end, so it's the best that could ever have happened to him.

[@antoniozayas9822]

Bar none, the best reaction to this movie, hands down! I totally got sucked in as soon as you noticed and commented on details EVERYBODY else missed! I gotta say, you reminded me of the first time I caught this movie. And I so appreciate that. I mean, that's why we're all here, right? Awesome, man! Thank you so much for that. Great reaction! Great Channel!!

[@burtman.]

Yeah a fantastic reactor who also keeps so much in her YT edits. Gotta love that.

[@SongJLikes]

Everyone always misses the main point of ‘Groundhog Day’… which is Bill Murray is a comedic genius.

[@KennethSorling]

A nice little easter egg is when Phil starts playing a romantic tune which soon turns into a swinging jazz tune. The initial melody is from the movie "Somewhere In Time", where the hero unwittingly goes back to the past to meet and woo the love of his life.

[@bekindandrewind1422]

absolutely love when he says, "Let's live here".. --- Phil knows everything and everyone in town.. He's a local hero from everything he did "yesterday." -- (What was yesterday for everyone, but was every day for him.) Why wouldn't you want to live in a place where you know literally everything....

[@EnviroSocial]

For me it's the "I bought you, I own you" line that really encapsulates her different view on who he is. In the all the reboots where he is trying to sleep with her, even when the day goes "perfect", there is a lot apprehension on her part for obvious reasons. The next day it feels very much like she is pursuing him. Such a lovely ending and movie!

[@jimponton693]

Terrific movie. Some have speculated on how many replays it would take to do what he did...a least a few thousand to play the piano, alone.

[@DC_Prox]

In the original draft, there was a line when Phil indicated he'd been looping for 10,000 years. It wasn't clear if it was literal or not. Harold Ramis himself said in interviews after the final draft that Phil was looping for at least 10 years. And if you want a more definitive answer, a blog took the time to calculate everything he learned and did, and they came up with a figure of just under 34 years.

[@peterhopqk]

Poor Phil got slapped by Rita several times. The next morning Rita goes: "What happend? Rough night?" 😂

[@EddieIsGreat]

This and "The Man Who Knew Too Little" are my favorite movies.

[@joerenaud8292]

I believe this story was written by Harold Ramis who was the guy who played the medical doctor looking for tumors in Phil's head. He also played Egon in Ghostbusters and was a regular comedian on a Canadian TV sitcom called SCTV back in the 1970's.

[@kanteannightmare]

Don't drive angry😂

[@holddowna]

🤣🤣🤣

[@cshubs]

Stephen Tobolowski, who played Ned Ryerson, has an awesome story about Stevie Ray Vaughan.

[@rogerd777]

For anyone old enough to remember before this 1993 film came out, it totally redefined what Groundhog Day (the annual tradition) meant. When people talk about it now they refer to the time loop, which of course was never associated with the the annual tradition prior to 1993. It simply was about a superstition regarding a groundhog predicting the length of the winter.

[@MLawrence2008]

Brilliant reaction! I am so glad you loved this film, it is a favourite of mine! :)

[@halcromwell9030]

If you check in the background of the hospital scene you'll see the kid who fell out of the tree with a broken leg.

[@BryanWhite77]

I used to live near Woodstock IL where they filmed the square scenes. I was able to walk through the park after filming wrapped. They still had all the fake snow the groundhog hole still set up. The building that is used as the hotel where Rita stays at and where Phil jumps off to try to kill himself is the Woodstock Opera House.

[@CuzDud]

I live in a house that can be seen when Phil looks out his window and year round it's common to see people posing for pictures in front of the B&B. I was heartened today (Feb. 3) to see what must have been 100+ people on a walking tour.

[@blakerh]

That is cool. I live in Indiana, so I am going to visit someday.

[@marybicanic8269]

I used to live in McHenry, just up the road(120), from Woodstock. Plays are still produced at the Woodstock Opera House. Just before moving to Florida, I saw an Agatha Christi. Great area to live.

[@BryanWhite77]

@@marybicanic8269Cool. I grew up in McHenry. My parents would take us to Angelo's restaurant in Woodstock Square on occasion. I was also fortunate to be in a musical that played at the Woodstock Opera House.

[@LashLeRoux.1]

This movie has special meaning for me because I was born on Groundhog Day. Not only that but I lived for two years in Woodstock, Illinois, where this movie was actually shot. Gobblers Knob was actually the Woodstock town square. The Pennsylvanian Hotel was the Woodstock Opera House. The bed and breakfast where Bill Murray’s character was staying is an actual B&B in Woodstock. The place where Phil Connors drove to his death was a gravel quarry between Woodstock and McHenry, Illinois. Every Groundhog Day since the movie’s release the City of Woodstock celebrates by placing signs to mark each spot in the town square where significant scenes were actually shot. The Woodstock Theater plays free showings of “Groundhog Day” all day. It was a great place to call home.

[@cliveklg7739]

"That sums it up for me." The look on his face, that one hurt. People calculated how long he was in by the different things he learned to do and estimated to be around 12-34 years. Director Harold Ramis original idea was Phil was stuck in the time loop for about 10,000 years, before settling on 10 years.

[@francisco5434]

I loved her reaction. She was very observant and surprisingly good at predicting the plotline. It’s always a treat to see someone watch this classic for the first time. There is always discussion about how long Phil was stuck in the temporal loop, but we’ll never know, because we don’t know how long it took for him to exhaust his curiosity and hedonism before he entered his fatalist stage. It’s at that point people start adding 10K hours of training time per skill. The movie showed quite a few skills but that doesn’t mean the movie covered all of them. But, take piano for instance. I’ll assume his instructor took the formal approach with a mix of sight-reading sheet music, technique drills, and scales drills, playing simple songs with hand coordination, notes, block chords, split chords, music theory with chord progressions, and voicing through cord inversions. Then add more time to create a strong foundation that you can then perform improvisation on stage. It definitely would have taken well over six to eight years of dedicated study to get there. The levels of skill go something like this: Beginner, elementary, intermediate, and advanced, each of which have subcategories of early-level, mid-level, and late-level. Just graduating from beginner to elementary level with basic skills takes a year or longer, depending on the student and instructor. And it just gets harder after that.

[@agadorspartacus650]

No doubt about it... masterpiece touching comedy. Murray is excellence

[@FooDogDat]

Yes! My annual tradition too, if I don't forget it. A Harold Ramis masterpiece that stand the test of time.

[@holddowna]

Love it so much ! Thanks for hanging out !

[@charlesfarmer5749]

I never before noticed the snow starting on that last night; signaling the end of the very long day! And I’ve seen this movie a dozen times. Thanks for pointing it out.

[@aahz42]

One of the best movies ever made. The original idea for the script came from the Hindu/Buddhist idea of reincarnation, and the writer had posed 1,000,000 days of returning to achieve nirvana.

[@donaldduncan7095]

This is a "Phil"- ospysical fable, just two takeaways are... "If you don't grow, you are doomed to repeat the same day". & "You never wake up tomorrow, so might as well make the best of today". 😉

[@christopherhamlet734]

It’s so good to see you again and your in for a treat so enjoy and have a really Nice day 🫠❣️⏰

[@holddowna]

Thank you! You too!

[@branislavmelis6568]

💜💜The director knew the actor Bill Murray well! Bill is a very moody person! That's why the happy scenes were shot first and the ones where the main character was depressed and sad last! So the actor's expression was really exactly how Bill felt during the filming! Brilliant tactics from the director! 💜💜

[@GyorBox]

Back in the DVD days, one of the special features had an interview with the director where the director said that he wanted to convey that Phil was stuck in that loop for 1,000 years, not 30-40 years. For him learn all those skills, relearn his morality, having his "fun, no rules" phase, having his depression phase, learn the life experiences and pasts PERFECTLY of all those people in the town, including Rita, know how they would react to every situation and everything they could possibly say, know where everyone is going to be every second of any given moment that day, committing literally everything to memory... I absolutely believe it would take no less than 1,000 years. People learn a lot in 30 years, 40 years, 50 years. But to learn everything he did would take much longer.

[@Capt_Cannabiz]

One of my favorite memes i have saved is the scene with the toaster in the bath tub phil looks into the camera and smiles 😀 with the caption "happy monday"

[@ThistleAndSea]

Fun one, Ames! It's a favorite of mine too. Thanks for sharing it. 🙂

[@MauriceCalis]

AMES! So glad you liked it! One of my all time favorites. Glad to hear you’ll be watching it every year. To be honest, when you started this channel, it seemed like you were already familiar with many of the classics. So it’s been great to see so many of the greats making the cut on your channel. Wait, didn’t I already say all of this?? Now back to yet another binge of Continuum (a great Canadian time travel sci fi).

[@holddowna]

Hi Maurice! Heheh! Continuum! Heard it’s good! There are a lot of classics I haven’t seen! So I am very excited to share them! Thanks for being here M! Love seeing ur comments !

[@acox132]

Good call on Sonny & Cher - from 1965!

[@Sadarsa]

Dude was stuck there for years, decades probably, possibly a lifetime. I mean, he learned to play piano, speak French, Ice sculpting, and studied poetry. On top of learning the name, routines, hopes and dreams of every person in town.

[@markjuarez1791]

Delightful reaction, Ames. Bill Murray at his finest, and it's not close. No one can play this type of character better than Murray.

[@dangroom8695]

I wrote a 10 page paper for a movie criticism class in college a couple years after this first came out. I have seen this movie more times than any other, watching it countless times while I wrote the paper. It is very funny, but it is alsophilosophically very deep. A lot of themes to dig into.

[@mynameisnotearl4383]

Phil was in a loop for 33 years according to the filmmakers

[@JamesASharp]

I saw this movie in the theater. It was a good experience. Great reaction! 👍🏿

[@callac]

I must have watched this film at least 40 times. I don't know the "official explanation" for him being trapped in time, but what I imagine is that Phil unintentionally irritated some entity by imitating the groundhog and being pretentious towards everyone. Another possibility that I imagine is that he, also unintentionally, cast a type of spell imitating the groundhog as it left the door.

[@mrtomas0990]

My favourite reactor ❤ really enjoyed watching with you

[@holddowna]

Wow, thank you!

[@Tigermania]

Alternate theory for fun. Ned is the devil and trapped Phil in time until he signed away his soul in the numerous insurance documents.

[@holddowna]

OMG haha!

[@blakerh]

The sad thing about this movie is that Bill and Harold were arguing about the movie all during the filming, and were no longer friends after.

[@bekindandrewind1422]

The bed and breakfast is a real place and you can stay there. But don't try to book Phils room unless you have a few years to wait.. It's the "Cherry Tree Inn" - Woodstock IL which stood in for Pennsylvania. :)

[@guitarman8462]

The actor who played the doctor Harold Ramis was in many movies like: Ghostbusters - wrote & directed Caddyshack. And many other movies.

[@StevenBanks123]

It was a perfect movie. I would not change a frame.

[@kevinjekyll1521]

I first watched this years ago, and I laughed, the got the underlying story. Such a heart warming movie.

[@revengeneutral8164]

There's actually a pretty good theory out there that calculated how long Phil was stuck in the loop based on the time it takes to learn the skills he learned/mastered, and it was years.

[@issadad]

All things considered, Hold Down A may be the smartest film critic on YT, beyond brilliant.

[@chenryrex]

This is one of my favorite movies. Another is "Blast From the Past". I love watching people enjoying a movie that I love. Thanks for your videos. I used to be a casting director, though I was non-union so I only got credit on one made-for-tv movie in the 80s.

[@Scott-J]

Favorite fan theory: Ned Ryerson is the devil, torturing Phil with repeating days. Not to make him a better person, not to teach him to love Rita, but get him to buy insurance. We never see him buy insurance from Ned until the last day. Phil takes his own life out of despair multiple times. Yet the solution to end his suffering is fiendishly trivial.

[@Joker_JAK]

In the original script it was an ex-gf who cursed Phil.

[@blakerh]

Wrong

[@Majoofi]

The Right Stuff is a great movie that starts in the clouds.

[@sayiansweet]

Probably the best reaction of 'Groundhog Day' I've seen. You really are one that enjoys every genre of cinema!

[@holddowna]

I really do!!! I love movies so much! Thanks so much for watching !!

[@coletrickle-km7cl]

Emagine that train engineer flipping out trying to swerve the train! That would of been too funny.🤣!! 15:34 i'm not gonna live by there rules anymore!! Theee best line in the whole movie!i love that line! FREEEDOM! he was stuck in a loop but yet had more freedom than anyone.

[@flarrfan]

Not just a weird rom-com, but a deeply philosophical and challenging film.

[@holddowna]

Totally!

[@SetZor666]

they don't write smart movies like this anymore. everything has to be explained because most people "don't get it" and give bad reviews.

[@HH-hd7nd]

Whenever you see a timeloop episode in a show - it's an hommage to this movie.

[@holddowna]

So glad I finally watched the original!

[@bossfan49]

Bill Murray, Brian Doyle Murray (festivities emcee Buster Green), Chris Elliott (Larry the camera man) and Robin Duke (Doris the waitress) were all Saturday Night Live cast members at different times. Chris Elliott had his own sitcom for 2 years called Get A Life. Brian Doyle Murray played his neighbor on the show.

[@seiya123]

0:33-0:53 Finally a First Time Watcher who laughs at the comical weather forecast puns. One of the best reactions to this film on KZbin.

[@holddowna]

Love a good PUN! Thanks so much for watching!!

[@alexspindler1]

Didn't you just watch this movie? : ) A perfect movie all around. It's really brave to get so dark in the mid section with good own mortality and trying to save pops. But it leads to one of my favorite journeys of personal growth in a movie. His last day is like a real life video game speedrun of altruism and selflessness. Now you're ready to watch Happy Death Day!

[@javi-sama]

Woodstock, Illinois.

[@mostaley5049]

New follower, great reaction. A Classic. 😊🥰👏😂

[@jonadabtheunsightly]

Two of my sister's favorite movies also start with clouds. (The Sound of Music and Cool Runnings.)

[@AironExTv]

According to the film makers, Phil spent about 40 years in that loop. Still fun watching this every so often, even after 30 years.

[@holddowna]

😅

[@thunderstruck5484]

Best romcom ever! Thanks

[@JGComments]

You could say it’s a movie you can enjoy over and over.

[@mattfinleylive]

Nice start! The groundhog teeth/lips!!

[@matthew6427]

Hey, what's wrong with a dadbod?! 😂 Stupid time. Time's a thief, for sure.

[@edinscot56789]

"It was the end of a very long day" - geez, no kidding!

[@goldean5974]

I watched this in the cinema on the day it premiered back in 1993. Nobody back then really appreciated this movie, but I knew I had seen something truly magical: a movie that forces the viewer to realize just how much we take life for granted, and Bill Murray was cheated out of the Best Actor Oscar.

[@jamesbattista1466]

I waited over 30 years before I saw this movie. At first, I thought it was just a silly movie about a groundhog, but after watching it, it turned out to be a very PROFOUND movie that shook me. I enjoyed your reaction very much. I’ve now seen this movie probably five or six times, and it still chokes me up at points.

[@cherylhurst7093]

I live near Puxatawney. I have always loved this movie - it is hysterical. Bill Murray is a great comedic actor. Andie McDowell was one of my favorite actresses in the 90s. She used to be a model.