Happy Groundhog Day!

It's Bill Murray's best movie other than Caddyshack, right?

Harold Ramis Day yesterday at Navy Pier with the cast of Groundhog day in attendance, including Bill and Brian Murray.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0tVFtwAjyY

Bill starts speaking at 13:50.

Rushmore is Bill Murray's best movie.

Next is Lost in Translation or possibly Stripes, I would think.

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Good answers but all sadly incorrect.
Quick Change is his best movie ever. Only First Ghostbusters comes close

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Quick Change is a good choice and a pretty interesting movie.

It's source material seems to be Scorsese's After Hours, which helped spawn Hollywood's Black Like Me subgenre of "urban otherness" films in the mid-80s and early 90s.

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The 1st half of Quick Change is great. The second half, not so much. Same with Stripes really.

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Anyone else got a taste for flapjacks?

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I don’t think Murray did anything really special in that movie though. I feel a lot of actors could’ve played that part whereas in something like Stripes, Ghostbusters, Caddyshack, I feel he made those rules his.

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It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

as far as his downbeat roles, i think "broken flowers" was one of his stronger ones.

He was the only reason groundhog day became an all time classic. There is zero other people in that movie that anyone remembers at all.

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GD would have appreciated the full frontal woman scene.

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I really loved his work in The Royal Tennenbaums.

I thought he and Ramis had a falling out in the second half of their lives.

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Yeah, he's great in The Royal Tennenbaums, too.

Of course, neither Rushmore nor TRT is a "Bill Murray" film per se, as Rogue was implying.

But they, along with Lost in Translation and perhaps Razor's Edge certainly rank among the best films in which he appears.

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I find him tedious in Bill Murray Films, like he is when he plays in pro am golf outings. He's always on and overdoing it. There are times in Stripes, where he lets himself play the character and it is brilliant comedy but other moments where BILL MURRAY smothers the role. I use the scene where he is the cab driver as an example of the former and the scene where they present to the general as the later. I understand that he is beloved by some for that over the top.

I think he became more comfortable as an actor as he aged.

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He's been trading off of being Bill Murray for at least 30 years. If someone else played those roles in the Wes Anderson movies, with the exception of The Life Aquatic, I don't think they would have missed a beat. Now, if you take Gene Hackman out of TRT, that's another story.