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Bill Murray (1 Viewer)

Best Movie

  • Stripes

    Votes: 13 17.8%

  • Groundhog Day

    Votes: 21 28.8%

  • Caddyshack

    Votes: 12 16.4%

  • Ghostbusters

    Votes: 6 8.2%

  • Kingpin

    Votes: 4 5.5%

  • Ed Wood

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • What About Bob

    Votes: 5 6.8%

  • Quick Change

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Scrooged

    Votes: 1 1.4%

  • Razor's Edge

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Rushmore

    Votes: 4 5.5%

  • Meatballs

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Life Aquatic With Steve Issou

    Votes: 1 1.4%

  • Lost In Translation

    Votes: 6 8.2%

  • Other

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    73
Went with What About Bob. Classic Murray, his most rewatchable movie to me.

Kingpin might be the best/funniest movie listed, but his role in it is too small for me to vote for that as his best movie.

I dont get why Where the Buffalo Roam and Royal Tenenbaums werent options (especially the latter since 2 other Wes Anderson movies are listed, and both were worse than Royal T's)

 
Lots of good ones - Caddyshack, Groundhog Day, Kingpin and Stripes :blackdot:

Thought Rushmore and Lost In Translation totally sucked. :confused:

 
Doctor Detroit said:
One other really good role was Quick Change, had a couple of all-time great lines in that one. ...and he said to Miss Cochran here "up your butt with a coconut." But I saw no coconut, no there was no coconut to my knowledge..
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:wub: A ton of great lines in that movie.
 
Something about Groundhog Day which sucks me in every time. If I am flipping through channels on catch it, I have to watch. Very few movies are like that.

 
Groundhog Day is a masterpiece of American cinema. Check out this National Review article on it from a few years ago.

Excerpt:

When the Museum of Modern Art in New York debuted a film series on "The Hidden God: Film and Faith" two years ago, it opened with Groundhog Day. The rest of the films were drawn from the ranks of turgid and bleak intellectual cinema, including standards from Ingmar Bergman and Roberto Rossellini. According to the New York Times, curators of the series were stunned to discover that so many of the 35 leading literary and religious scholars who had been polled to pick the series entries had chosen Groundhog Day that a spat had broken out among the scholars over who would get to write about the film for the catalogue.
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Ministry of Pain said:
Also like to add that I didn't know until recently that his brother is an actor too. Most notable roles include the mayor in Groundhog Day and the CEO in Christmas Vacation who is kidnapped at the end of the movie. Also was in the original Vacation as the Camp mgr too I believe. I really didn't know the back story but apparently he pushed Bill to get into acting.
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Don't forget John Murray, star of Moving Violations. Oh wait, maybe you should forget about him. Makes Jim Belushi's career seem epic in comparison.Brian Doyle Murray is worthy of his own poll, with Sixteen Candles, Seinfeld, Cabin Boy and Get a Life (Gus) under his belt. Plus he wrote Caddyshack, so he's get that going for him. Which is nice.
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and Joel Murray.http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0615063/bio

 
A movie I found humorous, but not really all that mainstream was The Man Who Knew Too Little.

However, I voted Ghostbusters. I'm a huge Groundhog Day fan, but I just feel he was at his "peak" in Ghostbusters.

"Yes it is true............ this man has no ****."

"They go up!"

:suds: :lmao:

 
KarmaPolice said:
Caddyshack [ 9 ] ** [28.12%]

Kingpin [ 1 ] ** [3.12%]

More proof that the FFA has terrible taste in comedy.
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I voted Kingpin. Tragically underrated movie, and Murray shines like a supernova in it. NO ONE else could have played "Big Ern" McCracken. That was one of the great comedic performances in movie history.
 
Ministry of Pain said:
Also like to add that I didn't know until recently that his brother is an actor too. Most notable roles include the mayor in Groundhog Day and the CEO in Christmas Vacation who is kidnapped at the end of the movie. Also was in the original Vacation as the Camp mgr too I believe. I really didn't know the back story but apparently he pushed Bill to get into acting.
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He's been in a ton of Bill's and Chevy's movies.Some notables:Caddyshack - LouModern Problems - BrianVacation - Clerk at Kamp KomfortScrooged - EarlGhostbusters II - PsychiatristChristmas Vacation - Frank ShirleyGroundhog DaySNL connectionWayne's World - Noah
 
Evilgrin 72 said:
KarmaPolice said:
Caddyshack [ 9 ] ** [28.12%]

Kingpin [ 1 ] ** [3.12%]

More proof that the FFA has terrible taste in comedy.
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I voted Kingpin. Tragically underrated movie, and Murray shines like a supernova in it. NO ONE else could have played "Big Ern" McCracken. That was one of the great comedic performances in movie history.
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Seems like there are plenty of us here that are not tragically hip. I love Kingpin. But to proclaim a love for Caddyshack (and especially Bill Murray's role) as the example of poor taste in comedy is way off base. Sure it has lame parts, but it has so many quotable lines that it has to be recognized as a solid all-time comedy. You don't have to be a golfer to think its good funny, but as a golfer then and now, it carries a special significance. Every "more-than-casaul" golfer knows every line and uses them liberally on all occasions. Murray's improv was incredible and so was Rodney - being Rodney. Not a huge Chevy fan - but he has some good stuff as well. Brian Doyle Murray's line "Pick up that blood" - one of my favorites.

And yeah, before it comes, this is coming from someone who likes the way under appreciated Shakes the Clown. Last 15 minutes is pretty bad like most comedies but the rest is rich with quoteable lines.

 
A Bill Murray story I love is that he was on line at a fast food place and took a French fry from the person who got their order in front of him and said "your friends will never believe this" :lmao:

 
That was a hard choice.....caddyshack vs ghostbusters....and then there is stripes.......I chose caddyshack but could easily be talked out of it.....

 
Best movie he is in, or best performance? I think he's pretty consistent with his performances so kind of splitting hairs with that.

Best movies:

Lost in Translation, followed by Caddyshack, then Rushmore, then Kingpin, then Ghostbusters, then Groundhog Day, then Stripes... then the rest

 
What About Bob? and Groundhog Day are very close. Went with Bob.

I also liked him in The Man That Knew Too Little. An underrated flick IMO.

 
I went with Rushmore simply because the poll question asked "Best movie?"

So many winners on here. Rushmore was very funny and hip and cool in my twenties. Lost in Translation made sense in my thirties. Love Groundhog Day. That might age the best as I do the same. But I just remember how cool and different and bold Rushmore was, so I went with that.

 
I think the part when he bowls his 2nd strike at the end when he turns around and his hair is all crazy and yelling............that part got puts it over the top for me.

 
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