Groundhog Day is Loops of fun! First Time Watching

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  • @andreshernandez1180
    @andreshernandez1180 10 місяців тому +222

    Chances of watching this reaction...100%

    • @holddowna
      @holddowna  10 місяців тому +20

      HAHAHAH!!!

    • @77marioland
      @77marioland 10 місяців тому +8

      @@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.

    • @tamberlame27
      @tamberlame27 3 місяці тому

      ​@@77marioland aww man I really wanted to visit that place when I was in the states. Never got around to it.

  • @miamivicefanatic9736
    @miamivicefanatic9736 10 місяців тому +88

    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.

  • @KennethSorling
    @KennethSorling 10 місяців тому +3

    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.

  • @tomw324
    @tomw324 10 місяців тому +32

    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.

    • @danrowe1453
      @danrowe1453 Місяць тому

      Thanks for sharing your story. Really cool to get an inside look add things the actors did and cool that you recognized the streets of the town you lived in

  • @SG-js2qn
    @SG-js2qn 10 місяців тому +60

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

    • @holddowna
      @holddowna  10 місяців тому +6

      Soo true!I love it!

    • @4thlinemaniac356
      @4thlinemaniac356 10 місяців тому

      Hard Eight moto phone word change

    • @AidenLS
      @AidenLS 4 місяці тому +1

      top 5 movies for sure. its perfect.

  • @patrickmessinger7040
    @patrickmessinger7040 10 місяців тому +52

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

  • @charlize1253
    @charlize1253 10 місяців тому +355

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

    • @mijreed
      @mijreed 10 місяців тому +28

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

    • @follow_the_money_trail
      @follow_the_money_trail 10 місяців тому +1

      Hold my beer.

    • @Pixelologist
      @Pixelologist 10 місяців тому +4

      I've heard that,@@mijreed

    • @mordanthubris6516
      @mordanthubris6516 10 місяців тому +8

      @@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
      @taylortyler1867 10 місяців тому +1

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

  • @MrBreezeLI516
    @MrBreezeLI516 10 місяців тому +29

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

    • @Nekotaku_TV
      @Nekotaku_TV 10 місяців тому +1

      *there

    • @dr.juerdotitsgo5119
      @dr.juerdotitsgo5119 2 місяці тому

      One of the greatest movies ever made. You only find meaning when it's about someone's else. "Is there something I can do for you... Today?"

  • @jumpman83
    @jumpman83 10 місяців тому +146

    "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
      @andreshernandez1180 10 місяців тому +2

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

    • @baddayoverdosed
      @baddayoverdosed 10 місяців тому +15

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

    • @highstimulation2497
      @highstimulation2497 10 місяців тому +1

      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
      @tophernates 10 місяців тому +4

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

    • @Melancthon7332
      @Melancthon7332 10 місяців тому

      @@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.

  • @robertwest4596
    @robertwest4596 10 місяців тому +13

    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.

  • @joshuawells835
    @joshuawells835 10 місяців тому +93

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

    • @holddowna
      @holddowna  10 місяців тому +12

      Loved it!

    • @davidbennett1357
      @davidbennett1357 10 місяців тому +5

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

    • @turnermarius4471
      @turnermarius4471 10 місяців тому +1

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

    • @spirit1600
      @spirit1600 10 місяців тому +1

      @@turnermarius4471 that makes more sense to me

    • @turnermarius4471
      @turnermarius4471 10 місяців тому +1

      @@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.

  • @mikeRedMDK2032
    @mikeRedMDK2032 10 місяців тому +65

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

  • @timd.3837
    @timd.3837 10 місяців тому +34

    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
      @4thlinemaniac356 10 місяців тому +1

      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
      @mordanthubris6516 10 місяців тому +2

      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
      @Nekotaku_TV 10 місяців тому +1

      She needs to read and love this comment.

    • @KevinLyda
      @KevinLyda 10 місяців тому +1

      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
      @jerryward3311 8 місяців тому +7

      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.

  • @cornman313
    @cornman313 10 місяців тому +52

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

    • @steveclapper5424
      @steveclapper5424 7 місяців тому +1

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

    • @roberto2568
      @roberto2568 5 місяців тому

      if he was making horkrukses :D

    • @JMUDoc
      @JMUDoc 4 місяці тому +2

      @@steveclapper5424 Harold Ramis always said ten years, when asked.

    • @richardmahn7589
      @richardmahn7589 3 місяці тому

      @@steveclapper5424 They've said they imagined him being there for hundreds of years, if not a hundred, but they didn't want to imply it directly.

  • @digitalbegley
    @digitalbegley 10 місяців тому +15

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

  • @crewchief5144
    @crewchief5144 10 місяців тому +133

    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
      @holddowna  10 місяців тому +11

      Love it!

    • @DistractedArachnid
      @DistractedArachnid 10 місяців тому +2

      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
      @Stogie2112 10 місяців тому +5

      “I am a god. I am not The God.”

    • @davidsonchris737
      @davidsonchris737 10 місяців тому +1

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

    • @neutrino78x
      @neutrino78x 10 місяців тому +2

      @@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

  • @marcelopaolillo9848
    @marcelopaolillo9848 10 місяців тому +18

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

    • @4thlinemaniac356
      @4thlinemaniac356 10 місяців тому

      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.

    • @videostash413
      @videostash413 5 місяців тому

      bullcrap

  • @PatrickPrejusa
    @PatrickPrejusa 10 місяців тому +85

    RIP HAROLD RAMIS

    • @1ButtonDash
      @1ButtonDash 10 місяців тому +6

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

    • @bradleywood1984
      @bradleywood1984 10 місяців тому +3

      He was such a good writer and director!

    • @sweetnumb
      @sweetnumb 10 місяців тому +1

      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
      @1ButtonDash 10 місяців тому +2

      @@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
      @samirh2758 6 місяців тому

      @@1ButtonDash Harold Ramis died at 69

  • @guitarman8462
    @guitarman8462 10 місяців тому +20

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

  • @Kevonutube303
    @Kevonutube303 10 місяців тому +6

    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.

    • @Simon_p_9814
      @Simon_p_9814 10 місяців тому

      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.

  • @josephsarto689
    @josephsarto689 10 місяців тому +70

    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
      @holddowna  10 місяців тому +7

      😅

    • @spenser9908
      @spenser9908 10 місяців тому +13

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

  • @scipio7837
    @scipio7837 10 місяців тому +17

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

  • @Lepidopray
    @Lepidopray 10 місяців тому +13

    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!

  • @rogerd777
    @rogerd777 9 місяців тому +1

    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.

  • @BouillaBased
    @BouillaBased 10 місяців тому +46

    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
      @holddowna  10 місяців тому +13

      Love this

    • @_Shadoh_
      @_Shadoh_ 10 місяців тому +7

      @@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
      @BouillaBased 10 місяців тому

      @@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.

  • @CigarMick
    @CigarMick 10 місяців тому +18

    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
      @gregsager2062 10 місяців тому +4

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

    • @searcherer
      @searcherer 10 місяців тому +1

      Are you reliving the same day now😊?

    • @marauderdz
      @marauderdz 10 місяців тому

      @@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.

  • @themoviedealers
    @themoviedealers 10 місяців тому +230

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

    • @NoChance345
      @NoChance345 10 місяців тому +37

      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
      @yhctower 10 місяців тому +26

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

    • @Karadjanov
      @Karadjanov 10 місяців тому +3

      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
      @parrothd007 10 місяців тому +21

      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
      @nonconsensualopinion 10 місяців тому +5

      @@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.

  • @Grimm299
    @Grimm299 3 місяці тому +3

    For years my wife has wanted to rent a historic theater and advertise "Groundhogs Day: The Sequel" on the sign, and then show the original movie

  • @TheInfinityzeN
    @TheInfinityzeN 10 місяців тому +4

    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).

  • @joerenaud8292
    @joerenaud8292 9 місяців тому +1

    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.

  • @SmyrnaApostolicMission
    @SmyrnaApostolicMission 10 місяців тому +30

    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

  • @dejomatic
    @dejomatic 4 місяці тому +4

    One of my favorite scenes ever...
    Truck hits the ground..."he might be ok"
    Truck explodes..."well, probably not now."

    • @richardmahn7589
      @richardmahn7589 3 місяці тому

      I loved how that also showed, and then the morgue scene too, that time kept going even after he died, up to 6am the next day. That has me floored for some reason...that this wasn't just for him, but he was the only one remembering it.

  • @Paul-lf1bq
    @Paul-lf1bq 10 місяців тому +13

    Good catch getting Brian Doyle-Murray from his voice.

    • @michaeljacyna1973
      @michaeljacyna1973 10 місяців тому +2

      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!

  • @EnviroSocial
    @EnviroSocial 10 місяців тому +5

    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!

  • @Stogie2112
    @Stogie2112 10 місяців тому +25

    "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
      @holddowna  10 місяців тому +3

      Love this movie!!!

  • @m.d.5463
    @m.d.5463 10 місяців тому +5

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

  • @bekindandrewind1422
    @bekindandrewind1422 10 місяців тому +3

    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....

  • @antoniozayas9822
    @antoniozayas9822 10 місяців тому +9

    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.
      @burtman. 10 місяців тому +3

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

  • @Gort-Marvin0Martian
    @Gort-Marvin0Martian 10 місяців тому +5

    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_
      @_Shadoh_ 10 місяців тому +1

      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.

  • @brianjay9811
    @brianjay9811 3 місяці тому +1

    This is in my top five all time movie list, because the simple lessons taught here could change the whole world for the better...

  • @halcromwell9030
    @halcromwell9030 10 місяців тому +8

    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.

  • @jeffgaboury3157
    @jeffgaboury3157 Місяць тому +1

    Awesome reaction. There are various speculations on how long he's stuck. But it's almost certainly decades, given how long it takes to become proficient at the various skills Phil demonstrates. It is and intense and deeply moving piece of film, courtesy of the directing (and writing) genius of Harold Ramis (and the writing of Danny Rubin, who wrote the first version of the script) and the acting talents of Bill Murray. It's the sort of movie you can watch repeatedly and never really tire of it, which speaks volumes considering that the film is a repetition of the same day.

  • @Googerstein
    @Googerstein 7 місяців тому +4

    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.

  • @LashLeRoux.1
    @LashLeRoux.1 7 місяців тому +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.

  • @jimponton693
    @jimponton693 10 місяців тому +8

    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
      @DC_Prox 10 місяців тому

      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.

  • @BalrajTakhar-u7u
    @BalrajTakhar-u7u 2 місяці тому

    Wonderful film. Two great messages. Be nice to people & make the most of every day. Living is a precious gift.

  • @BryanWhite77
    @BryanWhite77 10 місяців тому +6

    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
      @CuzDud 10 місяців тому +2

      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
      @blakerh 10 місяців тому

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

    • @marybicanic8269
      @marybicanic8269 10 місяців тому

      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
      @BryanWhite77 10 місяців тому +1

      @@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.

  • @acox132
    @acox132 10 місяців тому +1

    Good call on Sonny & Cher - from 1965!

  • @danielgriffin5035
    @danielgriffin5035 6 місяців тому +5

    If you want to see Bill Murray at his best you have to watch "What about Bob"

  • @chmod1777
    @chmod1777 3 місяці тому +1

    Groundhog Day is a perfect little jewel of a movie.

  • @kanteannightmare
    @kanteannightmare 10 місяців тому +3

    Don't drive angry😂

  • @makani9004
    @makani9004 Місяць тому +1

    I felt so bad that I started chuckling when you were crying over the old man. It just made me remember how many times this movie gutpunched me. It's probably my favorite movie, it or Forrest Gump.

  • @Scott-J
    @Scott-J 10 місяців тому +10

    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
      @Joker_JAK 10 місяців тому

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

    • @blakerh
      @blakerh 10 місяців тому

      Wrong

  • @EddieIsGreat
    @EddieIsGreat 10 місяців тому +2

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

  • @MLawrence2008
    @MLawrence2008 10 місяців тому +5

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

  • @StevenBanks123
    @StevenBanks123 10 місяців тому +1

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

  • @hisdudeness8328
    @hisdudeness8328 10 місяців тому +14

    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
      @_viper2c_562 10 місяців тому +1

      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
      @dnish6673 10 місяців тому +1

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

  • @peterhopqk
    @peterhopqk 10 місяців тому +2

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

  • @JamesASharp
    @JamesASharp 10 місяців тому +3

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

  • @jgt4862
    @jgt4862 Місяць тому +1

    Some have estimated Phil was stuck for 35 years!

  • @mrtomas0990
    @mrtomas0990 10 місяців тому +3

    My favourite reactor ❤ really enjoyed watching with you

    • @holddowna
      @holddowna  10 місяців тому +1

      Wow, thank you!

  • @Infamous1991
    @Infamous1991 18 днів тому +1

    I had the same reaction 25 years ago to the scene with the old man

  • @nomis
    @nomis 10 місяців тому +10

    Great movie and great reaction! It's always funny to see people reacting to the selfish version of Phil when I know by the end you're gonna love him. 🥰🥰🥰

  • @Sadarsa
    @Sadarsa 8 місяців тому +1

    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.

  • @branislavmelis6568
    @branislavmelis6568 10 місяців тому +9

    💜💜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! 💜💜

  • @FooDogDat
    @FooDogDat 10 місяців тому +1

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

    • @holddowna
      @holddowna  10 місяців тому

      Love it so much ! Thanks for hanging out !

  • @christopherbako
    @christopherbako 10 місяців тому +4

    Loved❤ it. Thank you I smiled tonight.

  • @jonboll-LGM
    @jonboll-LGM 4 місяці тому

    IT'S FUN WATCHING THESE CLIFF NOTES VERSIONS OF MOVIES WITH YOU. THANKS FOR THE LAUGHS & TEARS.

  • @jordancrosno9711
    @jordancrosno9711 10 місяців тому +7

    Haha your chipmunk was nuts ;p !

    • @holddowna
      @holddowna  10 місяців тому +6

      Lolol!! My Groundhog face lol

    • @martiantexan7632
      @martiantexan7632 10 місяців тому

      A chipmunk doing a groundhog impression! Funny stuff!

  • @christopherhamlet734
    @christopherhamlet734 10 місяців тому +1

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

    • @holddowna
      @holddowna  10 місяців тому +1

      Thank you! You too!

  • @RichardM1366
    @RichardM1366 10 місяців тому +6

    Bill Murray is a great actor and he pulls no punches. Imagine repeating the same day over and over again. The incomparable Bill Murray took this and he delivers the goods! A great one to watch on what else, Groundhog day!

  • @cliveklg7739
    @cliveklg7739 10 місяців тому +1

    "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.

  • @davidpoole5595
    @davidpoole5595 10 місяців тому +8

    After Phil gives his speech to the camera signing off Rita says "lets try it again without the sarcasm"
    And his loop begins
    It only ends when he gives a heartfelt sign off

  • @dangroom8695
    @dangroom8695 10 місяців тому +1

    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.

  • @ZbigniewZiggyCzachor
    @ZbigniewZiggyCzachor 10 місяців тому +13

    The exact duration of time Phil spends repeating the day is not specified in the film, but estimates suggest he experiences the same day for about 10 years.

    • @lolmao500
      @lolmao500 10 місяців тому +6

      10 years. Lol. You forgot a couple zeros. The original script said 10 000 years.

    • @nmt2k2
      @nmt2k2 10 місяців тому +4

      Producers said 10,000 years also.

    • @ZbigniewZiggyCzachor
      @ZbigniewZiggyCzachor 10 місяців тому

      @@lolmao500 yeah, but this movie is NOT the original script.

    • @ZbigniewZiggyCzachor
      @ZbigniewZiggyCzachor 10 місяців тому

      @@nmt2k2 that was in the original script, not the one they went with.

    • @seriousnesstv7902
      @seriousnesstv7902 10 місяців тому +5

      @@lolmao500the actual number was closer to 33 years since 10,000 would mean he would forget everything that had ever happened in his past

  • @GreatCollapsingHrung
    @GreatCollapsingHrung Місяць тому +1

    One of my top 5 favorite movies of all time

  • @Belleplainer
    @Belleplainer 10 місяців тому +7

    There's always been people trying to figure out how many times Phil repeated the day during the movie. The estimates generally revolve around 10,000 days based on what is seen in the movie, which is around 27 years.

    • @_Shadoh_
      @_Shadoh_ 10 місяців тому

      Sounds good.

  • @ThistleAndSea
    @ThistleAndSea 10 місяців тому +1

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

  • @TCENTARUS
    @TCENTARUS 10 місяців тому +3

    Ground hog Day is an Updated version of A Christmas Carol, Brilliant Idea.

  • @carlchiles1047
    @carlchiles1047 6 місяців тому +1

    Haven’t check if you have checked out..Jack and Helen Hunt in As Good As It Gets..both won the Oscar..and Greg Kinnear is priceless..a really fine actor..after starting out as a sports talk show host..

  • @AlohaTrev
    @AlohaTrev 10 місяців тому +6

    After watching this film over 25 times, I think I’ve figured it out. It’s like when Homer couldn’t have sold his soul to Satan-Flanders (for a donut) because Homers soul belonged to Marge in their vows. My guess is this explanation is given with Rita’s first words on Feb 3, “I own you.” From the moment Rita buys Phil at the Groundhog Day action, he’s free from the spell.

    • @holddowna
      @holddowna  10 місяців тому +1

      Oooooo

    • @nonconsensualopinion
      @nonconsensualopinion 10 місяців тому +6

      I think it was his statement of "I'm happy now" is what did it. He finally stopped trying to escape. At first he wasn't happy and didn't like himself or others. Then he began helping others to be happy. Then eventually he found true happiness in that pursuit.

  • @charlesfarmer5749
    @charlesfarmer5749 10 місяців тому +1

    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.

  • @SongJLikes
    @SongJLikes 10 місяців тому +6

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

  • @smexijebus
    @smexijebus 10 місяців тому +1

    Couldn't help but notice a little "Eternal Sunshine" poking over your shoulder and I have to recommend a movie that was written and directed by the same one who wrote Eternal Sunshine, and what I believe to be the late great Phillip Seymour Hoffman's magnum opus role, "Synecdoche, New York". Exquisitely one-of-a-kind philosophical dark comedy.

    • @holddowna
      @holddowna  10 місяців тому +1

      I’ve never seen that!!!

  • @maximelepage7664
    @maximelepage7664 10 місяців тому +6

    I DARE YOU to reupload tomorrow!!!!

  • @cshubs
    @cshubs 10 місяців тому +2

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

  • @ericturner2477
    @ericturner2477 10 місяців тому +3

    Director Harold Ramis estimated Phil was stuck in Groundhog Day for 30 to 40 years. You would absolutely go crazy.

    • @nonconsensualopinion
      @nonconsensualopinion 10 місяців тому +1

      Maybe. Depends on the person. For instance, you could spend a decade just spending each day meeting one new person in the town, talking to them, learning about them, etc. Then if you had hobbies, like piano, reading, ice sculpting, etc. That could also take a lot of time. Not to mention a fair amount of debauchery if you chose.

  • @Hail_To_The_King
    @Hail_To_The_King 10 місяців тому +8

    Life is what you make it
    You can look at the glass as half-full and be grateful for what you have, or half-empty and be resentful you don't have more

  • @JackieEco
    @JackieEco 9 місяців тому +2

    March 20th is the first day of spring 😅💚

    • @tommythompson9565
      @tommythompson9565 9 місяців тому

      Usually. Sometimes it's the 21st.
      This year it was the 19th.

  • @Arthur_King_of_the_Britons
    @Arthur_King_of_the_Britons 10 місяців тому +10

    Well it's Groundhog Day...again

  • @Capt_Cannabiz
    @Capt_Cannabiz 10 місяців тому

    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"

  • @TomCat777
    @TomCat777 10 місяців тому +5

    Just a little movie trivia, Andie McDowell actually slapped Bill Murray full force right from the first slap. They liked how it looked on camera so they had her keep doing it. In an interview years ago Bill Murray talked about how much it hurt

  • @coletrickle-km7cl
    @coletrickle-km7cl 10 місяців тому

    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.

  • @jd-zr3vk
    @jd-zr3vk 10 місяців тому +3

    I've seen estimates of a few to thousands of years for the time Phil was in the time loop.

  • @HH-hd7nd
    @HH-hd7nd 10 місяців тому

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

    • @holddowna
      @holddowna  10 місяців тому

      So glad I finally watched the original!

  • @Stogie2112
    @Stogie2112 10 місяців тому +3

    I'm in love with Rita, but Nancy Taylor is still pretty hot. 😍

    • @theradicalginger3060
      @theradicalginger3060 10 місяців тому +1

      Nancy? NANCY TAYLOR?! I sat next to you in Mrs Wallace's English class

  • @mattfinleylive
    @mattfinleylive 10 місяців тому

    Nice start! The groundhog teeth/lips!!

  • @Take_Me_Back_To_The_1980s
    @Take_Me_Back_To_The_1980s 10 місяців тому +8

    Didn't I just watch this?

  • @mso4433
    @mso4433 6 місяців тому

    During the scene where Phil is driving the truck with the groundhog in his lap, the groundhog actually took a bite out of Bill Murray. Groundhogs have a big set of teeth and a wicked bite; they're the biggest member of the squirrel family. Thanks for the review.

  • @guitarman8462
    @guitarman8462 10 місяців тому +1

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