Favorite Bill Murray Movie/Role?

I keep seeing Lost in Translation on here, and I am confused. I liked but did not love that movie, and I really haven't had the desire to see it again after my initial watch. I wish Bill Murray would make some more straightforward comedies again, cause I am kind of tired of "sad old man" Bill Murray. I get that he's older, but really, he is still hilarious when he wants to be.

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Agreed.

After GHOSTBUSTERS, Bill Murray could have collected huge pay cheques the rest of his career appearing in whatever ho-hum comedies Hollywood offered him, yet he chose to make smaller, more idiosyncratic films with original scripts instead. It's one of the things I love most about the man, and it's what has separated and elevated his career from contemporaries such as Chevy Chase and Dan Aykroyd.

BROKEN FLOWERS is wonderful. His roles in FANTASTIC MR. FOX and MOONRISE KINGDOM are small but memorable.

The only Wes Anderson film i enjoyed was Rushmore, i thought Bottle Rocket was ok. The rest i hate except from Fantastic Mr. Fox and Moonrise Kingdom which i haven't seen yet.

Broken Flowers isn't Wes Anderson but i enjoyed it.

John from Stripes is one of my favorite characters ever-

I know it isn't. Poor phrasing on my part I guess.

Broken Flowers is a great understated dramatic performance. He was great in that. His brief cameo in Zombieland is epic as well.

Murray was superb in LOST IN TRANSLATION, but I really didn't care for the film itself.

I didn't know Murray and all of his brothers appeared together in SCROOGED. I actually didn't even know he had brothers other than Brian. I also loved him in GHOSTBUSTERS, GROUNDHOG DAY, CADDYSHACK, TOOTSIE, KINGPIN, and WHAT ABOUT BOB?

Either Groundhog Day, or just Bill Murray in reality. The man's amazing.

Groundhog Day is my favourite comedy thus my favourite film from Bill Murray

Lost in Translation is terrific,among my all time favourites.
Also liked Broken Flowers and Groundhog Day.

I did finally get to see Bill Murray's latest, St. Vincent, this weekend. Really good stuff, if not terribly original material. There is a nice tone throughout, and the cast is wonderful top to bottom, headlined by Bill. There is "Oscar buzz" around his performance, at this still early stage in the game, and I hope he does manage another nomination. To date his only nod from the Academy came for Lost in Translation, which was already a decade ago.



I say I "finally" got to see the movie because I got to visit the set for a few days, last summer. I'm even an extra in one scene, quickly visible if you know where to look for me. Here's the scene in the finished film....



That's me, over Bill's shoulder, at Belmont Park...




For realzies.

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I got this cool opportunity because my best friend, Chris Brandt, worked on the film. He did the storyboards for the director, Ted Melfi. Ted and the producers invited Chris up to the set for a few days in the second week of July, last year, and I got to tag along. Two days in the Brooklyn neighborhood where the houses of the main characters are, and one day at Belmont race track, where we got to be extras in the scene with Terrence Howard and Bill Murray.




Here is Chris' cameo, from the same scene. We were sitting next to each other, three rows back from Bill. We were acting our ASSES off. Happily, none of that can be seen.

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Well that is pretty damn neat. You get to meet Murray at all? He is so freaking cool, I'd just want a little of his cool to rub off on me.

Groundhog Day for me. Don't know if it would have worked quite as well without him.

Also his best cameo was Space Jam. Guy cracked me up in it for the little he was in it.

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Ridiculously awesome, obviously.

Just how happy are you that this happened? I imagine it must rank pretty high up there for a cinephile (and Bill Murray fan) like yourself.

wow that's brilliant Holden!

Woah! Somehow, now Holden is even cooler than he was previously, which I didn't think was possible!

I still miss the old avatar, though...

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