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offline VLetr from London (United Kingdom) on 2004-06-03 04:16 [#01220675]
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what would you do first, once you were sure you were
experiencing groundhog day?

i'd take a shitload of drugs, knowing that there would be no
adverse consequences. if you can't get addicted, i reckon
heroin's a right lark.



 

offline pOgO from behind your belly button fluff on 2004-06-03 04:21 [#01220687]
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find out where all the celebs live and go freak them out


 

offline VLetr from London (United Kingdom) on 2004-06-03 04:26 [#01220701]
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I must admit, I'd be tempted to use the intel-gathering
strategy Bill Murray uses in the film to trick ladies
lovelier than i to bed me.



 

offline marlowe from Antarctica on 2004-06-03 04:31 [#01220710]
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Groundhog Day rocks... I would just let my imagination go
crazy and wing it from day to day, doing crazy fun things!


 

offline KEYFUMBLER from DUBLIN (Ireland) on 2004-06-03 05:00 [#01220744]
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heres a thought..... imagine meeting somebody who was
experiencing g-day. They'd be acting really strange after
say, 100 g-days - listless, bored, excited, annoying,
"knowing" etc.

weird!



 

offline VLetr from London (United Kingdom) on 2004-06-03 06:33 [#01220828]
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listless, bored, excited, annoying,
"knowing" etc.


so basically it'd be like being around a chronic cokehead!

even more fucked up: what if the entire world
experienced g-day at the same time? some crazy shit would go
down. it'd be anarchy, people killing their neighbours
knowing that they'd come 'back to life' the next day
anyway... in fact there'd be a new world order based on who
woke up first and was located closest to a cache of
weapons.

wouldn't it be weak if you were hungover on your g-day?
every day, waking up with a banging headache, all dehydrated
and shit.


 

offline Mertens from Motor City (United States) on 2004-06-03 06:40 [#01220845]
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I think Bill Muray pretty much covered the whole spectrum in
that movie. Frustration, Despair, Liberation, Apathy,
Contentment.


 

offline Matvey from Kiev (Ukraine) on 2004-06-03 06:46 [#01220849]
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What about groundhog week?
Every monday it starts all over again
morning crowded subway transports me to job, where I
participate in this MB.
Saturday, don't know what to do.
Sunday, I'm sad because aware of tomorrow's monday.
Monday... ^


 

offline KEYFUMBLER from DUBLIN (Ireland) on 2004-06-03 06:56 [#01220863]
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the sometimes amazing series, "Stargate SG-1" had an episode
where 2 of the characters get stuck in a temoral loop that
amounted to g-day for months and months.

Unluckily for one of them his loop started thje moment he
banged his head of a roof beam while jack found himself
forever starting off munching into fruitloops.

In order to break the loop they both had to study up on the
physics, languages and technology of the aliens that caused
it and it showed them getting really into it, learning to
juggle, spend whole days pissing about etc. it was
hilarious....


 

offline VLetr from London (United Kingdom) on 2004-06-03 06:58 [#01220867]
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hmm that changes things somewhat.

for example, it's no biggy to be in a prison cell for a
night, but for a whole week? might have to show some
restraint with the illegalities. which is no fun at all.

if the week was turning out boring you could just kill
yourself and be instantly transported to the next monday.


 

offline VLetr from London (United Kingdom) on 2004-06-03 07:01 [#01220875]
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i reckon if it was just me and a few other people
experiencing g-day, with the rest of the world oblivious,
it'd just turn into a great big deathmatch played out on the
city streets. if you know your mate's gonna wake up fine the
next day it'd be kind of fun to kill them in an amusing and
preferably humiliating manner.


 

offline KEYFUMBLER from DUBLIN (Ireland) on 2004-06-03 07:04 [#01220879]
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how did g-day end in the movie anyway?

just suddenly or was there some sort of rule?


 

offline VLetr from London (United Kingdom) on 2004-06-03 07:07 [#01220883]
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he made her fall in love with him by doing loads of good
stuff for everyone in the town. bit cheesy but murray pulls
it off, you can tell that he's still the same cynical cunt,
but posing as a pillar of the community. and he gets the
girl anyway!


 

offline KEYFUMBLER from DUBLIN (Ireland) on 2004-06-03 07:10 [#01220885]
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oh yeh..... it was a love thang

its a very Kaufman kind of story isn't it really. imagine he
got his hands on it first - it'd be alot darker and
visually more appealing probably.


 

offline Matvey from Kiev (Ukraine) on 2004-06-03 07:11 [#01220888]
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by the way... I don't like this movie, if you don't mind.


 

offline VLetr from London (United Kingdom) on 2004-06-03 07:40 [#01220903]
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i don't think the script needs much tweaking (except perhaps
the cheesy ending), it's kaufmanesque enough as it is.

could have done with some darker direction though, a bit of
michel gondry perhaps. my favourite bits are the really dark
bits when he's an absolute wreck and keeps trying to kill
himself.

what does that say about me?


 

offline zazen on 2004-06-03 08:19 [#01220943]
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what would you do first, once you were sure you were
experiencing groundhog day?


 


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