Which Bill Murray movie is the best?

channel 5 (UK) has been showing Bill Murray films all week.

and I got to thinking...which is the best.

I think his best performance was as the eccentric millionaire Herman Blume in 'Rushmore'.

Yeah, you know, a looper, caddy, looper, you know...a jock. So I tell em I'm a pro jock and who do you think they give me...the Dali Llama himself..12th son of the Llama. The flowing robes...the grace...bald....striking. So I'm on the 1st tee with him, hand him the driver, he hauls off and wacks one..big hitter the llama...looong, into a 10,000 ft grevace at the base of this glacier. And do you know what the llama says to me.

"No"

"Gunga la gunga....gunga gunga la gunga. So we finish 18 and he's gonna stiff me. So I say 'Hey llama how about a little somethin, you know, for the effort'. So he says, 'there will be no money, but when you die, on your death bed, you will receive total conciousness'. So I've got that goin for me.....which is nice"

Dalai Lama.

CADDYSHACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Groundhog Day. I can never get tired of it.

that one because it was at the dollar movie and I wanted to go see something. What a pleasant surprise. I love it.

they would probably be numbers 2 and 3 on my list respectively

I still think I laughed hardest at him in Ghostbusters.

...are my three er..4 favorites! :D

...."MY GOD...What kind of CLOWN are YOU?...."...the kind that laughs on the inside I guess!" :7

able to get through Caddie Shack. Maybe I give it one more try.

That would be Kingpin.

:evilgrin:

q: are either of you homosexuals?
a: no, but we're willing to learn.

:D

It was Oscar worthy. I'm still amazed that Bill Murray of all people turned out to be one of America's finest actors.

and the atmosphere.. It's just perfect, a Wes Anderson trademark scene.

I mean, they could have just put Bill in a normal bathing suit and the scene would have still been good, but they went the extra mile and had him wearing a cheesy Budweiser swim suit! Damn, I'm going to have to break out the DVD again tonight. It's such a great movie.

At his comedic best, IMO.

I'm leaning towards Ghostbusters but I'm biased... I loved the movies, cartoons, and had the action figures when I was a kid. :)

Peter Venkman is the essential Bill Murray character.

I kind of liked it, Dreyfus and Murray together were a pretty good team.

insulting and irritating and stupid

What about Bob is a classic. I love that movie

where the buffalo roam ??? very funny movie..

I havent seen that for ages

I pulled it out the other night -- when I hear about Hunter's suicide.

He's great in it.

Ned Ryerson????



whack

I'll probably never want to hear "I've Got You Babe," ever again.
I LOVE GROUNDHOG DAY.
Love it so much, we got married on Ground Hog Day.
I watch the movie at least once a year -- right around Christmas.
YK.... on... Ground....Hog....Day!

What a brilliant movie. I read a while back that there are Zen Buddists who use Groundhog Day in classes as an example of portions of their philosophy.

Contrarian that I am, I thought this was a well-done film that people had the wrong expectations about. Akin to Jim Carrey doing drama and hoping to be taken seriously... check it out.

after his stunning performance in "Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind". He's a real actor now. :)

I love seeing people go from wacky comedy type to truly talented actor. Murray did it, Carrey did it. It's really refreshing.

Haven't seen it in ages, though.

hes awesome.

The internet now belongs solely to you. Enjoy!

Best. Role. Evar.

Groundhog Day is wonderful and so is Rushmore. I also liked Lost in Translation very much. He's a terrific actor and his sort of snide, sly but not too mean humor just kills me every time.

followed by "What About Bob?." But he is funny in any movie he is in. Those two happen to be my favorites with him in them.

'Quick Change', with Gina Rowlands. Some brilliantly funny parts.

but it's Geena Davis.

What kind of clown are you?

I dunno, the crying on the inside kind I guess.

all her films I've seen.

But I loved Murray's telephone conversation with the police chief, Jason Robards (perfectly cast, too!), musing aloud about what name he would like Robards to call him! "Skip! Yeah, Skip! that's what I want you to call me...", etc.

And of course, the classic scene in the public lavatory at the airport, where the two lads were in the same cubicle, concealing the bank notes, while an old boy washing his hands recoiled in ever greater horror, at what must have been - in the cirumstances -sexual "double entendres". "I'll never come back to this terrible city again", he cursed, or something like that.

Then, on the aeroplane, a bag falls from the rack, above the old boy, onto his head! (only a glancing blow)

"Do you accept Jesus as your lord and saviour?"

"Sure."

Helllloooooo?

:beer:

absolutely

n/t

Great movie!

:toast:

but one thing I love about his work is that he's not above getting an uncredited part for fun.

For that, I love his smaller or uncredited roles in Wild Things, and his performance in Tootsie.

For "starring" roles, I love him in Ghostbusters, Caddyshack, Groundhog Day, Stripes and Meatballs.

but you beat me to it. :)

Still Caddyshack is *it* for me.

I can watch it over and over and over and...

:evilgrin:

Sgt. Hulka is like our big toe.

Great movie. The whole concept/premise. Wonderful.

I love that movie :D

with a very slight edge over "Groundhog Day."

"Stripes" and "Caddyshack" received consideration as well.

I have the soundtrack. It is the one CD I would need on a deserted island.

that can stop me worryin' 'bout that girl ...

here she come now

"Walking with a love, with a love that's all so fine,
Never could be mine, no matter how I try-iiiii-iii-i."

That is my favorite song on the CD!:toast:

Rushmore, Ground Hog Day, What about Bob?, and Stripes.
But I've never seen Quick Change of Caddy Shack, so what do I know?

Also totally ruled in SNL especially playing opposite of Gilda Radner.

What is better-Caddyshack, Meatballs, Stripes, Ghostbusters? How can you limit yourself to just one?

Bill Murray is amazingly funny

HANDS DOWN, What About Bob was the best flick he ever done!

....Death Therapy!"

Ghostbusters is awesome too.

I really need to see The Life Aquatic.

Bill is awesome.

Murray played a masochistic dental patient to Steve Martin's ultra-sadistic D.M.D. They worked beautifully together!

the perfect face for comedy, hasn't he? I can't actually define why, but it's most apparent when in repose and serious! But, credit to the author of "Quick Change", too. He must have had a wicked sense of humour in the first place.