The Bill Murray Appreciation Thread

[Faustus]

Just bought the "Ghostbusters" box set for a tenner! :biggrin:

[Christianlfc]

He's fliming in belfast right now the new tom hanks directed flick called city of ember and a guy I used to work with has a small part. He got my ghostbusters dvd signed by bill murray just yesterday, I'm still tryna convince him to get us all out for a pint.

[Newport]

It can't be that hard. These celebs love to make themselves look like their regular people.

[Thants]

No-ones mentioned Rushmore. Shame on you all. It was the first return to form dead-pan Murray film. My favourite Wes Anderson film too.

He's the Don. Shouldnt have done the voice for Garfield 2 though.

[Sut]

Wild Things is ace as well. Murray rules as that lawyer.

[RJ Fan club]

Broken Flowers (another marmite, I loved it)

 

Murray killed it in Broken Flowers, his deadpan is so superb.

 

 

I enjoyed Broken Flowers, then it all seemed to end abruptly and I was at a loss. I wasn't sure if I missed something?, but nothing really seemed reconciled.

[Jose Jones]

No-ones mentioned Rushmore. Shame on you all. It was the first return to form dead-pan Murray film. My favourite Wes Anderson film too.

He's the Don. Shouldnt have done the voice for Garfield 2 though.

 

I prefer the wise-cracking Murray of Ghostbusters and Groundhog Day than Deadpan Murray I think. Although deadpan Murray does rule also.

[Stouffer]

Watched "Groundhog Day" the other day and I have to say, this fella rules. Probably my favourite actor of all time, along with Kevin Spacey. Can't get over how good his performance in "Lost In Translation" is.

[Stouffer]

Stripes was originally written as Cheech and Chong join the army.

[BENIRL]

I hate him.

[Sut]

I hate him.

 

 

Those words mean so much to a man who scrubs garbage cans. Look, if you don't want me in your Army, kick me out, but get off my back.

[gazelle]

KingPin is my all time favourite...

[Stu Monty]

Sometimes a bowler just has to face the music....and that bowler is you, Roy!

 

The king of double-crossing sleaze.

[Son of L8]

I enjoyed Broken Flowers, then it all seemed to end abruptly and I was at a loss. I wasn't sure if I missed something?, but nothing really seemed reconciled.

 

You didn't miss anything... It's Jim Jarmusch, he's weird and the absence of resolution is kinda the point. With the spinny camera thing isolating him from the world out in the middle of the road, Murray's character is supposed to have been severed from his womanizing past that defined his existence through a forced realization that the past is gone and unreachable, and is now floating awash in a disconnected sea of identity-less nothingness.

 

Or something like that.

 

He totally nicked the ending from Istvan Szabo the robbing cunt.

[Paco]

he's currently filming "City of Ember" in Belfast. I was working with an actor who was in a scene with him the other day.

[Sut]

 

"A looper, you know, a caddy, a looper, a jock. So, I tell them I'm a pro jock, and who do you think they give me? The Dalai Lama, himself. Twelfth son of the Lama. The flowing robes, the grace, bald... striking. So, I'm on the first tee with him. I give him the driver. He hauls off and whacks one - big hitter, the Lama - long, into a ten-thousand foot crevasse, right at the base of this glacier. Do you know what the Lama says? Gunga galunga... gunga, gunga-lagunga. So we finish the eighteenth and he's gonna stiff me. And I say, "Hey, Lama, hey, how about a little something, you know, for the effort, you know." And he says, "Oh, uh, there won't be any money, but when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness." So I got that goin' for me, which is nice."

[Lee909]

Legend

[Sut]

I loved his role in that.

[Guest davelfc]

Hasn't he finally signed up for Ghostbusters 3?

 

Loved him in Groundhog Day and of course his cameo in Zombieland.

[Get Carter]

Ian Poulter tells a good story about Bill Murray

 

He had been playing with him at a pro-am down south and was at the dinner afterwards murray turns to him and asks him to take him to a couple of london boozers. Walking between two of the pubs they walked passed a house party. So Bill Murray turns to Poulter and says lets go in. They walk in and its full of students all pissed and stoned dancing around and the music blearing. Poulter and Murray headed straight for the Kitchen (as you do at a house party) and grabbed a beer. They then turned and looked at the sink which was over run with week old dirty plates and mugs. Murray turns to Poulter and says come on lets do the dishes. So there they are Murray washing all the dishes and Poulter drying and putting them away. When they had finished all of them they walked out of the party and on to the next Pub........

 

Tickled me when i heard it. How stoned would you have thought you were the next day thinking you had seen Bill Murray doing the dishes.

 

I still think Poulter is a cock mind but a funny story none the less

[Sut]

I read that when he's in New York he likes to sneak up behind strangers to tap them on their shoulder. When they turn around he just says "nobody will ever believe you" and then walks off.

[Carvalho Diablo]

I can't believe that nobody has mentioned Maddog and Glory.

 

A brilliant, brilliant film, where Murray and Deniro are brilliantly cast against type. Uma Thurman get's her tits out too.

 

Bonus.

 

Big Ernie McCracken in Kingpin was piss your pants funny.

[brucespanner]

Great shout. Him and Wu-tang in Jim Jarmush's 'Coffee and Cigarettes' is cinematic genius: "Bill muthafuckin' Murray. Who ya' gonna call"!

 

Put him and Gene Hackman in the same film and I'm in celluloid virvana.

 

Brilliant film in places, absolute dross in others.

 

Stand out? Of course it's Bill 'fuckin ass' Murray.

 

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[Unrighteous]

He's fucking ace, is Bill.

[PestiRed]