Bill Murray

Not by connoiseurs.

Dan OTM, I hadn't thought about him in possibly years, but he made Lost in Translation watchable (and I really enjoyed it, but it had to be him).

xpost, how could I have forgotten Rushmore.

uh

And Scrooged is one of the best Christmas movies I've ever seen.

but tennenbaums and rushmore another sort of peak.

Thank god.

also: he's said that playing HST in WTBR affected his entire career for years because he had a really hard time getting out of the character. I think I'm seeing similar issues with Depp, too, anybody? Funny. Nevermind.

What's that supposed to mean?

Venkman: "Everything was fine with our system until the power grid was shut off by dickless here."

Mayor: "Is this true?"

Venkman: "Yes, it's true. This man has no dick."

I've watched that movie with the commentary nearly 3 times, which is also way too many.

what does this mean?

"I'm a celebrity IN an emergency"

"I know your face so well I could have done it with my eyes closed"

'Bark like a dog for me Mrs. Anderson.'

'It's the Vietcong - Varmintcong.'

Actually, sod it. I'm off to start it.

Angry Cop: "What kind of clown are you?"
Bill Murray: "The cryin' on the inside kind?"

I brought Rushmore home with me one year when I went to visit my parents and my dad watched it like six times in a row.

Agreed.

I am not sure it was well-paced for Netflix. As many have noted (here and elsewhere), the viewer can get bored fast and either wander off or switch to something else. They feel it's not going anywhere, so if it's not grabbing them immediately, why stick with it to see if it gets better? I have heard a lot of people saying they found it dreary and switched away early. So they never experienced the redemptive jump into brightness and (comparative) fun.

May have worked better as live broadcast, or in a theater, where the viewer has committed more intentionally and may therefore be more likely to stick with it until it gets going.

And, just asking here because I can't think of where else to ask, when did the formula "A Very (X) (Y)" start? I see this all the time nowadays.

Was it the Brady Bunch? Or were they copying something else?

I associate it with jiminy cricket & the disney christmas special that's on every year here in Scandinavia.
"From all of us, to all of you, a very merry christmas."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXWiCpnt9WE
(apparently from 1958)

the modern IRONIC (?) use of it was probly pioneered by Brady Bunch

"very merry" was standard midcentury US usage

Yeah, I don't mean like "very merry Christmas," I mean like A Very Brady Christmas, A Very Vegimals Christmas, A Very Kardashian New Year's, A Very Murray Christmas, A Very Buffy Special, etc.

I hope achy breaky heart made it into scott's history lesson

in hindsight this was awful

Cloon's backup though

won't lie, Fairytale of NY made me well up

Me too. And Maya Rudolph was awesome in this, I knew she was Minnie Riperton's daughter, but I didn't know she could sing so well. They should've given her character a backstory though... They could've even applied the story of "Fairytale" to her and the guy with glasses and greaser hair. Who was that guy, anyway?

I knew she was Minnie Riperton's daughter, but I didn't know she could sing so well

did you never watch SNL while she was on

guy with glasses and greaser hair. Who was that guy, anyway?

also: never change, Tuomas

https://images.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmedia-cache-ak0.pinimg.com%2F736x%2F90%2Fa9%2Fe8%2F90a9e87c2cb369877a85d3cef90efc76.jpg&f=1

no one outside America watches SNL

that's not the real tuomas, is it?

Gaz coombes iirc

in hindsight this was awful

Seriously, Jesus Christ

Well not so much with the hindsight but fucking hell at this interminable circlejerk

I sort of half watched it while doing chores while really relaxed and after having a couple of beers, so I was really amenable to it and didn't subject it to too much scrutiny.

Then I was thinking about it the other day, my wife hadn't seen it and was asking if I thought it was worthwhile watching, and then I realized that no, it is absolutely not worthwhile watching and should in fact be avoided like the plague/shunned/deplored for being deeply shit and ponderous and cringe-inducing and puzzling.

puzzling as in 'who thought this was a good idea?' could say this about most elements of it.

http://mlb.mlb.com/assets/images/8/7/0/164443870/cuts/murraypants_wezf5o8o_i2r334of.jpg

http://m.mlb.com/cutfour/2016/02/13/164443874/photo-bill-murray-golfs-in-cubs-themed-pants

i really hope he had those custom made

66 today!

golf clothing line!

http://www.golfdigest.com/story/bill-murrays-new-golf-clothing-line-is-what-youd-expect-from-a-bill-murray-golf-clothing-line

everything about that article is contemptible

"Bill is not going to be out there doing commercials for us," Resig said. "But he is going to sneak up to you as the lifebomber he is, pat you on the shoulder and say, 'Nice shirt.'"

Enjoying Gavin Edwards' The Tao of Bill Murray. Didn't know The Squid and the Whale was written with him in mind--as much as like him, hard for me to imagine Murray instead of Jeff Daniels.

I'm having the opposite reaction to the book. Boring and mostly consists of the same "bill crashed my party" story over and over.

Why would you read that book of all books?

in hindsight a very Murray Christmas is p great, v low-key charm throughout.

Initially, rapper Rick Ross was scheduled to sing "Santa Claus Wants Some Lovin'" with Murray, but when Ross became unavailable, George Clooney filled in.

We rewatched the special tonight, IMO it holds up very well on a second viewing (except for one dated Pitt/Jolie joke). Maya Rudolph especially is amazing in this, so sympathetically world-weary (and she complements Murray's similar sensibility nicely). I don't know much of her roles besides Bridesmaids, has she done anything as good elsewhere?

i tried watching it last year and shut it off during the part where he made Chris Rock sing "Do you hear what i hear?". felt like they were dangerously tip-toeing the line between ironic lo-keyness and completely not giving a sh*t and the energy just wasn't there to steady that balance. found the performances not very charming and 100% reliant on "oh this person's famous/who else famous will show up?"

i may give this another chance. the least i can do is sit through the whole thing.

it does get better
but you just barely avoided the date rape song

I tried to compile all the nepotism in AVMC.

Sofia Coppola has her more famous and talented father, Francis Ford Coppola.

Phoenix lead singer Thomas Mars is Sofia's husband.

Jason Schwartzman's mother is Talia Shire, who is Francis Ford Coppola's sister. He is a first cousin to Sofia.

George Clooney is the nephew of Rosemary Clooney. His father Nick Clooney was also a TV newsman of some note.

Rashida Jones is the daughter of Quincy Jones and Peggy Lipton.

Maya Rudolph is the daughter of Minnie Riperton and songwriter Richard Rudolph.

Miley Cyrus owes her chance and her abominable career to her father, Billy Ray Cyrus.

Murray, David Johansen, Jenny Lewis, Michael Cera, Paul Shaffer, Amy Poehler, Chris Rock, and Julie White are all commoners.

Did I miss dynasties?

Maya Rudolph is also married to Paul Thomas Anderson.

There is a difference, surely, between nepotism and having famous parents? Maya Rudolph certainly didn't coast to stardom on the name of her long-passed mother.

No, this 2015 online comedy special definitely only got made due to the influence of TV newsman Nick Clooney

Did I miss dynasties?

I don't know why you'd overlook Joel Murray, Brian Doyle-Murray, and That Bloke Out Of Moving Violations

found the performances not very charming and 100% reliant on "oh this person's famous/who else famous will show up?"

Chris Rock is pretty much the only actor in the special who's used that way... All the other famous people are playing characters (and aren't super famous to begin with), except for Miley Cyrus and George Clooney; and the former's appearance is totally justified, since a show like this should obviously have a famous singer do Christmas tunes (and she handles that duty really well), while the latter's cameo is actually quite funny. I agree that Chris Rock is kinda cringey in this, but like Abanana says, it gets much better after his bit.

yeah it did get better but the middle really sags. i enjoyed the final 10 minutes or so when they just went Hollywood and ditched the storyline. Jenny Lewis was great and Maya Rudolph was really great, i had heard things and she did a really great job. the part where Jason Swartzman sings the really hip Todd Rundgren song just felt like a waste of time. ditto Phoenix. ditto Michael Cera. felt like half the special was either self-depreciating jokes about how bad the special is or yeah here's a famous guy/girl singing a song that is maybe Christmas related.

the ending was great. Miley did good even if she over sings, everything she does kind of has this fake Disney sheen to it for me, but at least by then the set actually looked like a Christmas show. Clooney was pretty funny, peeping out from behind the trees. Amy Poehler and especially Paul Shaffer are the MVPs on this one.

pretty decent thing to have on in the background while wrapping presents.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/29/entertainment/bill-murray-p-f-changs/index.html

Two things about this

1) I'm sick of Bill Murray and his cutsey little excursions into the pop culture
2) I ate at PF chang's the other day and it fucking sucked

Being interviewed on a subscription-only streaming-only audio talk show is a “cutesy intrusion into pop culture”?

(excursion, apols, on zing)

so sick of ppl intruding into the pop culture

A Very Murray Christmas is the only Netflix-produced content that bears repeated viewing (The Irishman possibly its only competition tbh)

Bill has made an enemy.

Bill Murray receives a legal demand from the Doobie Brothers. And it’s everything you’d want it to be... pic.twitter.com/R1L99yZSBj

— Eriq Gardner (@eriqgardner) September 24, 2020

Good Long interview on Rogan

unlikely

no one will ever believe you

lol

must be some fucking shit pubs you go to

Well, yeah

This bit was good https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDK2EgmW4iQ