GROUNDHOG DAY (1993) | FIRST TIME WATCHING | MOVIE REACTION
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- Groundhog Day (1993) First Time Watching Movie Reaction, Review, and Commentary for JL. Many threats of anger if this movie was about the weather, and the first real candidate for the Ain't Bill List were had in Phil Connors.
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My theory. Ned is the greatest salesman of all time. He trapped Phil in a time-loop until he finally bought insurance.
I work at a liquor store. Ned’s doppelgänger comes in. I wanna say something but I don’t
🤣
If you can control time, why be a salesman?
@@redsimonyt Maybe he's just getting revenge for Phil stopping him dating his sister. Or maybe it's just a joke lol
That is funny. All you need is State Farm as this movie’s sponsor!
The most honest thing Phil says before he begins his self-transformation is “I don’t even like myself!” It is through his post-suicidal improvement that he finally begins to like himself, and only then does the cycle of Groundhog Days finally end. It’s not just getting Rita in the end, but becoming a man who is truly content with himself.
Read @Kathy Astrom's comment once, and it seemed like too much. Read it twice more, and I think that she's correct. Her choice of words seems a bit overblown, but damn, she's right. Thank you darling.
Yeah, it took him awhile.
Re-watching this movie as an 18 year old in '96 wondering what I was going to do with my life and seeing him learn piano because he had all the time in the world to learn that skill... That made me think maybe I could learn to play an instrument since all I was doing at the time was going to work and back home, practically in a Groundhog Day loop myself. So I picked up a guitar and got to work on it. 27 years later that is my profession (I started getting paid to play after around 10 years of playing, but I quit my day job 5 years ago). So I hold this film in extra high regard, really happy to have been exposed to it at a young age.
Oh! That's wonderful! Good on you!
I feel like I'm getting too old but maybe I just need to adjust my expectations.
Like the kazoo or spoons.
This is the magic of film.
That's an amazing story, congratulations on your success!
@@EssEll9791 Cheers! Maybe it's late for making it a full-on profession, but it's never too late to start learning an instrument. My ex-gf picked up the guitar at 42, took a few lessons and then joined a "Girls Rock" adult music camp where they put her together with one other new musician and two other seasoned musicians to form a band and write a song together. They stayed friends and kept playing together after the camp ended and not long after they started doing small unpaid gigs together once a month at a local bar with her as the front-woman/lead singer/guitarist. She'll be 50 this year, and she's still at it, and is happier for having music in her life. AND another older woman that I met while I hosted an open mic for a couple of years had started playing the guitar at 65! She then almost immediately started going to open mics, and she was not very good. But she showed up every week, and she continually got better and better to where she is now doing small actual paid gigs a couple times a month. So, unless you're on your death bed it really never is too late. All you need is the drive to continue working at it.
@@d4mdcykey Cheers! Thanks for the kind words!
That. Is. AWESOME!!
"This better not be about the effin weather!!!" and
"I'm not going on with my sock wet...I'm goin' home!!!" are two of my favorite lines ever. LOL 😂😂
That song play every f---ing morning?
(Buddy. You have no idea.)
At the airport (KCI) I stepped in coffee someone spilt in the security line. My sock was wet and I had to fly to Germany.
I love the discussions about how long he’s been there. There’s a popular theory about having to spend at least 10,000 hours practicing something in order to master it. As a music teacher, all I can say is that to play piano like that - at least 10 years.
I like to think it was interminable, possibly hundreds of thousands of years. Mastering the piano is nothing compared to changing his soul.
@@gavinsheridan4680 - again, the discussion is wonderful 😊
I read
Question is, how long does it take to realize you are a selfish prick and turn your life around by actually start caring about other people?
I read a fan theory one time that had some funky calculations that said he was stuck there for 80 years.
i used to drive a taxi for about 10 years and every year on Feb 2 i would play this movie (audio only) in the cab all night and make people figure out what it was
The glass is always full. Sometimes it's only full of nitrogen and oxygen, but it's still full.
This is my favorite movie of all-time. I've watched it several dozen times and I still find new things to love about it.
My fan theory is that the Bartender is God and knows damn well what Phil is doing but lets him shoot all his shots anyway. The whole reason for the infinite time loop is for Phil to better himself, so he's gotta walk the path himself...including making the humorous mistakes.
Great reaction. Some fun facts about this film. The entire movie was shot in reverse. Harold Ramus knew from working with Bill in Stripes and Ghostbusters, that as the filming days went on Bill would become a total asshole. So Ramus shot the scenes in reverse.
Also there were major changes made to the script. In the original script it was written that Phil was trapped in the time loop for 10,000 years. The studio cut out any mention of time because they felt it would put a gloomy outlook on a comedic movie. However the line is actually really sweet and heartfelt. The line is Phil's final confession to Rita before the day changes. Phil says to Rita, "I've been waiting for you every day for 10,000 years. I dream of you every night of my life. You are my constant weapon against total despair, and just knowing you exist has kept me alive."
Ramus mentions in the DVD commentary that he imagines Phil was stuck living the same day for 10 years, so roughly 3,650 repeats. He later changed that estimate to 30 to 40 years due to how many skills we see Phil learn throughout the movie. The website WhatCulture apparently did some investigating using movie clues and put the spent time at 33 years and 350 days which would be 12,395 repeats.
Can't wait for this one as someone who lives in Punxsutawney this film represented our groundhog day celebrations pretty well and with groundhogs day just upon us this a perfect movie to start the week with!
nice
I LOVE PHIL!! HE'S THE BEST! People say he's not accurate but honestly over the course of his lifetime I believe that his record shows he's actually been like 94 or 95% accurate! #NYGenXBIKERLady
@christinegelabert1651 the groundhogs accuracy rate is 39% over the years. Also, a groundhogs life span is 3 years.
@@garylee3685 that's in the wild in captivity they can live up to ten years or more,
@@Yawnzee_ it's still good accuracy for a dude who lives only 3-10
Bill was stuck in the loop for 33 years and 350 days. That means he was left repeating the same day an incredible 12,395 times.
I think the director (Harold Ramis) said Phil was stuck there for over 30 years. He just picked up skill after skill and matured as a person without ever getting older. Ultimate do-over. Some have called this movie spiritual. It has a lot more depth than just a comedy. Cool movie.
There's a video on UA-cam calculating exactly how long, the bare minimum was three-and-a-half years and an upper limit of about twenty-seven years, just in what was shown. Goodness gracious.
A metaphor of life. Circle-spiral.
I've read that the original script had it be far longer and it would have had Phil read a page in a book a day to help track time and he eventually runs out of books that he hasn't read yet. It's original plot was way more dark than what we ended up getting.
“I would have a stroke trying to spell that” 😂😂😂😂😂😂
...how do you think they came up with the name in the _first_ place?
🤔😏😉😁🤣
"That's right woodchuck-chuckers, it's GROUNDHOG DAY!"
This was such a fun sleeper to find at the video store and on cable. I already know this'll be a great reaction!
Dig out your hats and booties because it's COLD OUT THERE TODAY
How much wood woodchucker chuck IF a woodchucker could chuck wood? LOL!!! 😂😂😂 🪵#NYGenXBIKERLady
Do video stores still exist?
@@SummerSolstice621 ? That's a $64,000 question.
That groundhog bit Bill Murray when they were filming the truck scene.
You at the end going on about his morning breath had me laughing my a** off.
This was not the movie I expected him to find anything gross.
There is a Jeep Superbowl commercial from several years ago featuring Bill Murray, the groundhog and several of the actors from the film reenacting the groundhog kidnapping scene from the film. It is hilarious. You can view it on UA-cam.
This movie has my favorite line from any movie, when he asks, "what if there is no tomorrow, there wasn't one today? "
Can't wait for this reaction 😆
Ned: "Hey!! Phil? Phil? Hey!! Phil Connors!"
Phil: "Ned?"
:: Punches Ned in the face::
So. Satisfying.
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.” Thats about how long he was there.
Soon as I saw this on the channel, been waiting for the reaction to this part 38:03 lmao 😂😂😂💀
Man spent 33 years, 350 days seeing the same thing over and over and once he's free and he's like, "f it, let's live here!". 😂 Definitely my favorite Bill Murray film.
What About Bob is another Hilarious movie to check out too with Bill in it:)
I'm sailing!
What,? about bob?
@@josephblow3581 … Hilarious movie with Bill Murray in it
@@jasongilbert2379 baby steps
@@TheGavrael I Sail now....
My favorite wild theory about this movie is that Ned is the devil and when Phil buys the insurance he is actually selling his soul🤔
The director has said that Phil was stuck there for roughly 10,000 years.
That was an orginal idea he bounced around when making the film... but eventually Ramis settled on about 10 years.
@@michaeljacyna1973 Ramis was a sweetie, but gross underestimation. A whole Century would be a few months short.
@Cyborganna Not necessarily... I tend to agree with the 30-40 year club. His work day every day was probably an hour or two? Each of the skills shown can be developed simultaneously. Hour or two a day for piano. An hour or two a day ice sculpting. Probably doesn't take long to perfect the heilmlech. How many times does it take to figure out tire changing? He doesn't really have any real responsibilities to tend to anymore. The way we mortals look at developing skills can probably be significantly condensed.
@@michaeljacyna1973 But those are just the activities we were shown.
It is truly amazing that you had no idea at all what it was about. I mean in general terms, like he repeats days. Hard to believe as old as this movie is that someone wouldnt even know that part of it. Love it, genuine reaction. This was great. one of my favorite movies.
Reactor should never judge a book by it's cover or a movie by it's title. A title has nothing to do with whether a movie is good or not. By the way, the doctor who was looking at xrays of Bill Murray's head was Harold Ramis, the director of this movie and was writer and actor of Ghostbusters.
I love how the first time you saw Ned Ryerson you are already ready to knock him out. And everyone watching just said to themselves, just wait a bit. It's coming.
I want a sequel to this movie that gets a huge hype and face trailers and when people go see it it's the same movie
🤣 you watch, some studio exec will think that's brilliant
This movie is super special to me. I loved this movie when I first saw this in an old fashioned theater. This movie is so deep and amazing!
I did an English report on this movie, I think our whole class did. This movie is like peeling an onion.
Another great reaction video. I've watched so many of your videos now that I can accurately guess the tone in which you'll say "Shut the eff up" based on your facial expression and what's happening on screen. Your dog's eyes at 30:22 was really adorable.
I've heard people calculate it out that he was in the loop from anywhere between 200 and 20,000+ years in order to have learned everything about everybody and skills at proficiency. And then considering he didn't have a build plan, just going day by day. He was in there a LONG time!
Yeah, but you have a lot of time on your hands if you don't have to work, and no other important things to do.
You can get a good night's sleep and still have 15 hours of doing whatever you feel like.
OMG Thank you for the "where the glass started" talk! I have been telling people this forever and they look at me like I am crazy.
i watched a theory video of this film the other day, the guy was trying to figure out how long he was stuck in the loop for. guessing by all the different things he was able to learn, piano lessons, ice carving lessons. he guessed 40 years, but one of the producers said he was in the loop for 54 years. Fifty Four years he was stuck living the same day over and over,.. crazy. another great reaction! 👍
'The man who knew too little' and 'Where the Buffalo roam' are both top tier Bill Murray movies
The Man who knew Too Little is greatly under rated!!
@@stanleyfranks9891 100% facts
Jay I’m only four minutes in and already laughing my butt off off at you! Love you, buddy! Give the co-pilots a scratch for me!
The fact that j didn’t even know the concept of this movie is hilarious to me. I thought everyone knew what Groundhog Day was about. I was yelling at my phone lol dude what are you missing here??? Then I realized he had no clue about the concept of the movie lol so funny
22:00 I died. One of my best friends growing up relied EXCLUSIVELY on the Ho Tactic. And I never stopped being shocked at how often it worked.
Harold Ramis original idea was to have Phil live groundhog day for about ten thousand years, but the movie should have been about 10 years. It takes about 10,000 hours to become an expert in something and he learned piano, ice sculptures and everything else
12:05 "Is the glass half empty or half full..." As an engineer I can tell you that the definitive answer is that the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
You left out one of my favorite exchanges of all time:
Phil: What would you do if you were stuck in one place and every day was exactly the same, and nothing that you did mattered?
Ralph: That about sums it up for me.
Every glass starts out empty
@5:51 I completely agree, when one walks with a wet sock and shoe in frozen conditions one could get frostbite and that's never a good thing.
I love this movie. The way he changes from being a scumbag to being depressed and then just says fuck it and starts learning everything he can because he's either bored or genuinely curious is such a fun arc. Also inspired a bunch of other groundhog day type movies. Happy Death Day is a horror movie version of this. And Palm Springs is another with a similar premise but at a wedding. In the dvd commentary the writers said that in some versions of the script Phil spent hundreds or even thousands of years stuck in the town so that's how he learned everything and met all those people.
Love how you call things as they are. He is toxic and manipulative the whole movie - till he changes and breaks the loop
The song Phil plays in the bar is part of 'Cleaing Up the Town,' which was also featured in 'Ghostbusters."
You're going to have a stroke trying to spell Punxsutawney? I can't stop laughing at that comment!!! :)
Before I even start the video I have a big smile on my face because I know it is going to be a good one.
Oh man, I'm so pumped for this! You're gonna love it MW! Catch ya at the end...
Smooches to da Pooches, let's go!
you know what's a little disturbing? no one knows really how long phil was trapped in the loop, so it could have been 100s or even 1000s of years. eventually he would have no fear of death and would probably have learned to live in a way that had no regard for potentially deadly things happing to him. then one day he suddenly has to be careful about not dying. if living dangerously had become second nature for him, he could easily kill himself permanently by thoughtlessly doing something reckless that he he'd done a million times during the loop.
About to watch. This is one of my husband’s all time faves. I’ve seen it a million times. You should love it.
Man. Half Empty. Half Full. GENIUS LEVEL 100
I like the "how the glass started" take on half-empty or half-full!
My personal answer is "halfway to the next glass".
18:27 I have never heard of someone that would rather wipe a baby's poopy butt than wipe off a baby's nose.
Bill Murray may have mastered ice sculpting, but I'm more impressed that your dog has learned to spell "O-U-T". 😉😂 This movie is a Phil-osophical fable, here are a couple of takeaways......If you don't grow, you are doomed to repeat the same day. & You never wake up tomorrow, so you might as well make the best of this day. 😉
The Director orginally said that he wanted Bill to be stuck there for 10,000 years but eventually changed his mind that Bill was stuck in the Groundhog Day loop for 10 years!
Someone worked it out that given all the skills that Phil mastered (ice sculpting, playing piano like a pro, learning a new language), he was stuck for about 33 years and 350 days. Oh, and the guy playing the mayor is one of Bill Murray's actual real-life brothers :)
It's been calculated that Phil was there for 33 years and 350 days.
Its been estimated, partly based on the concept that it takes 10,000 hours to master a skill, i.e. playing piano, ice sculpting, that Phil re-lived groundhog day for around 33 years. But, that is just one of the many theories that has been thought up.
Loved your reaction! I looked it up and he spent 33, almost 34 years stuck in that time loop.
I've always thought about that no matter how long he's been stuck, he's spent a significant amount of time away from his family, friends, and job. He probably has parents back home that he hasn't seen in decades.
I'm sure he escaped the city several times over the 30 to 40 years he was stuck in the time loop!!
@@stanleyfranks9891 They made it a point to say that he was physically stuck in Punxsutawney as well.
@stanleyfranks I don't think he did. In his despair and confusion stage, he remained. You can't make an assumption, you can only go off of what the movie gives you
@@michaeljacyna1973 They Did in the evening when they tried to leave... what if they left earlier?
@stanleyfranks I get the impression the storm moved in much earlier than the evening. The first day he wrapped up his report as soon as he was able and they hit the road and got stopped on the highway. He likely would have hit road closures at any time, would probably not make it all the way to Pittsburgh
I 100% agree with you about the glass half full thing. I tell people that myself.
so according to Harold Ramis Phil was originally stuck in the loop for 10,000 years which is how long it takes for a soul to evolve to the next level in Buddhist doctrine (Ramis was a Buddhist)
I the DVD commentary Ramis estimates 10 years. He later said that 10 years was too short considering how long it'd take to get that good at his skills and be more like 30-40 years.
personally I like the 10,000 year loop. it's nice thematically.
In real life, the mayor is Bill Murray's brother!
Your gonna love this movie buddy:)
Possibly the cutest reaction to one of my all-time faves, ever!
Thank you!🥰
"We gotta slow down. You don't even know my favorite color!"
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
"Does the same song play every morning? That would be so aggravating."
You had NO idea... XD
When you talked about the morning breath, I nearly lost it. And they say he was there about 40 years or so.
Yay yay yay! Another reaction by Jay! I drop what I’m doing and spit out what I’m chewing the moment he posts each day!
Hope you enjoy!
@@EOMReacts For your own viewing pleasure: ua-cam.com/video/tECuzH5_Kuc/v-deo.html&pp=ygUcY2luZW1hIHRoZXJhcHkgZ3JvdW5kaG9nIGRheQ%3D%3D (17min)
Hi Murder Whistle, as a reminder, the Mayor of Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, a cowboy & Indian word name, is Brian Doyle Murray. He is Bill Murray's older brother. They were excellent in the movie " Razor's Edge ".
So, crazy story about this movie, but first, a little background story: my dad has severe OCD. He had all kinds of insane rules that he'd force upon us as literal toddlers. Every news story about some rare occurrence became cause for instilling fear in us. A kid on the news fell off a trampoline and broke his neck. My dad never allowed us to go on a trampoline-- ever. The E. Coli outbreak at Jack in the Box happened, and not only did we NEVER visit Jack in the Box, but every. single. burger. We ever had, from anywhere, had to be inspected by him: any pink in the middle=throw it away. He used to ask us multiple times, every time after we used the bathroom, if we'd washed our hands. For years. By the time I was 6 years old, I was burning the skin off of my hands with scalding water, and my mom had to fill plastic bags with lotion, and secure them onto my wrists with rubber bands before bedtime. I was so terrified of everything. Halloween candy? Every piece broken in half to make sure there weren't any razor blades or poison in them because it happened ONE TIME, from a father to his own children. This brings us to Groundhog Day. My dad was so freaking paranoid, that he REFUSED to let his TODDLER DAUGHTERS watch it, because he genuinely thought that if we saw Phil's suicide attempts, we would do it. As toddlers. 🤣🤣🤣 I love my dad. I love him very much. He's changed a lot over the years, but my insomnia and anxiety remains to this day-- I am now a 35 year-old woman. But, the first chance I got, I jumped on a trampoline! Even though I have insomnia and anxiety, I've spent my life doing things that absolutely terrify most people. And guess what? I don't regret a single risk I've ever taken, and I will continue to live life, doing things that I never thought I could. I'm happy. I thank my dad for making me so petrified of everything, that now, almost nothing scares me. God bless you, may He keep you and yours in safety and good health, and may He fill you with a spirit of courage! Amen! Hallelujah! 🙌😘🤗
In all my times seeing this, I've never noticed that Phil was in his pajamas during every attempt at self-deletion. Excellent reaction, JL, it was great discovering other things that disgust you. 😂 God bless you with excellence!
He actually spent over 30 years in the loop. That must be maddening.
"I'm happy now..." That was the change.
Waking up to Sonny and Cher every day would surely be the end of me
You have done all the best movies I can't wait to binge them all! Love hearing you talk about how you would treat a kid if you had one. They would be the luckiest! Your such a kind soul!
Oh my gosh, the look on your face when he woke up on the 2nd day with the radio playing the same song... "Isn't that the same song?" I'm thinking, Oh, just you wait, J. 😉 I am so glad that you watched this movie! So many great parts to this movie, another wonderful reaction to watch... now PLEASE tell me someone directed you to the 2020 Groundhog Day Super Bowl commercial so you could see it -- it's BRILLIANT!
Bill was stuck in the loop for 33 years and 350 days. That means he was left repeating the same day an incredible 12,395 times.
“How long has he been stuck there?”. Yup, that’s the whole ball of wax.
Not only did the groundhog do a better job predicting the weather than he did, he had to keep reliving that defeat over and over again.
If I remember correctly some people figure out if you add up all the repeated days in the movie it comes out to something like 43 years he was stuck in the loop.
"I'd hate to live in Groundhog Day"
Thing is, most people do live in it.. work 5 days a week, do the same things every weekend.. every month, every year...
“Am I supposed to cheer for this?!”
Good for you!! And the answer, of course, is “Not yet.”
I've seen this 30+ times and I could watch it again and again and..........
The town is real puxatony Pennsylvania is known for groundhog named Phil if the animal sees his shadow there will be 6 more weeks of winter if the shadow doesn't show that means spring is early around the corner as the folklore states
i got one too JL. The Pessimist sees the glass as half empty, the optimist sees the glass as half full. The Engineer sees the glass as twice as big as it needs to be.
It's been carefully estimated that Phil relived Groundhog Day for about 34 years.
"How was that for y o u t w o ?"
Movie: The Golden Child (1986)
Starring: Eddie Murphy
@JL glad you liked this comedy classic.
12,395 times Phil is said to have relived the same day. 33 years plus
I love this movie, rewatch it every single year.
"Have you ever seen anybody's lips so chapped you just be waitin' for'm to bleed?" No sir, I have not, but that's a hilarious image.
A realist answers the glass half-empty half-full thing with "The glass is twice as big as it needs to be."
I went to Punxsutawney for Groundhog Day when I was in college in upstate NY in 1999… 1. Heard ‘I Got You Babe’ more times than I could count. 2. Worst discovery: movie was filmed in Illinois(?) so the Tip Top Cafe DID NOT EXIST😫 3. Almost got frostbite on my feet, so crazy cold! 4. It really was like 20,000+ (mostly stoned) people gathered together to worship a rat 😂 5. Interesting experience but it really wasn’t a cute lil town like the movie depicts- you had to take a tram/trolley thing to get to the site (not walkable).
Thanks for the info. I always wanted to go, but now . . . Not so much😂
@@Notsosweetstevia Aw, honestly, you never know how it’s changed since ‘99! I wouldn’t want to keep people from giving it a try… but it just really depends on your expectations!
"That man spent 20thousand... and the day really ended..." Never thought of that, damn! 😕
“How long has he been stuck there??”
I think he was there for hundreds of years.
It was 11,931 days 🤓🤣
Such a good movie.
Side note. You put the chick gremlin and put Cardi-B on there and I’ll buy it that day……. 🤣
The groundhog lives at the library in town. You can visit anytime. That was what I remember when is went to Punxsutawney to visit.
Imagine Rafael from TMNT sayin in his Italian accent..."Yo gobble this knob....ohhhhh...."
"How's that for you two" not youtube.
The mayor, Buster is Brian Doyle Murray, Bill's older brother.
The Guy who plays Buster the head Groundhog guy and the one that Bill saves from choking is his older Brother Brian Doyle- Murray
40:23 You can do it too! I think that's the point of the movie. We all get stuck in our routines, our own loops. Breaking out of them and bettering yourself is a good thing to do whenever you can. If I'm not mistaken the writer was/is a Buddhist, so he wrote it with that philosophy in mind, of our continuous cycle of death and rebirth and how we grow through each life we live (if you believe in reincarnation that is) until one can ultimately reach enlightenment (or "total consciousness" as Bill Murray put it in Caddyshack 🙂).