Groundhog day

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Op dinsdag 16 september 2003 21:09 schreef Tokus het volgende:
he er zitten zelfs 2 Ghostbusters in die film!

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De sfeer is niet super serieus, dus daarom 'voelt' het aan als comedy... ofzo..

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Op dinsdag 16 september 2003 21:34 schreef blieblie het volgende:
Damn, ik wil ook zoveel kansen .

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Op woensdag 25 december 2002 18:47 schreef FallenAngel666 het volgende:
Geweldige film!
Nu op Nederland 2.

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Op dinsdag 16 september 2003 22:30 schreef italy het volgende:

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Prachtige en briljante film (qua concept) de film was trouwens op V8 en niet op nederland 2 of sbs6.

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Op dinsdag 16 september 2003 22:31 schreef __Saviour__ het volgende:

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Kijk eens naar de datum van die post

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Bij X-files is trouwens het concept van deze film ook een keer gebruikt. Was ook erg leuk.

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Op woensdag 17 september 2003 09:39 schreef Thunk het volgende:
Ook bij Stargate SG1

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Ik moet minstens een keer per jaar de film bekijken

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Op woensdag 17 september 2003 08:04 schreef Da hopman het volgende:
Ik zie deze film iedere dag.

Bij X-files is trouwens het concept van deze film ook een keer gebruikt. Was ook erg leuk.

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[Dit bericht is gewijzigd door Da hopman op 18-09-2003 15:27]

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Op woensdag 17 september 2003 10:19 schreef SunChaser het volgende:

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Welke afl. was dat, dan zoek ik 'm ff op.

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At Cradok Marine Bank, police cars rush to a stop. Security lines are up. Assistant Director Skinner hurries up and a police lieutenant tells him a silent alarm went off 30 minutes earlier. A young woman, later identified as Pam, slips past the police line and shouts, "Skinner, don't let this happen," but he doesn't know her and an officer removes her. Skinner thinks two of his agents might be in the bank. Inside, Scully is on the floor with Mulder, who has been shot. The bank robber, Bernard, has explosives strapped to his chest. As a police squad in riot gear storm the bank, he hits the switch and the explosives destroy the bank.

On Monday morning, Mulder wakes up in his waterbed to find it leaking. Nothing goes right - the floor is wet, his alarm clock is shorted out by the water, the downstairs neighbours call to complain about the water, his cell phone is soaked. At the X-Files office, Scully enters and tells him he is late for a meeting, but he has to make a bank deposit to cover the check for damages he gave his landlord. The bank is just down the street. Near the bank, Pam and Bernard are in a car. He says he has a quick errand to do and will be right back, entering the bank. Mulder walks by and jaywalks across the street. Pam says to herself "he never did that before." Mulder is waiting in line in the bank when Bernard begins the robbery. Mulder is on the floor with the other customers when Scully enters, looking for Mulder. She quickly draws her gun and in the commotion, Mulder is shot. Scully drops her gun to help Mulder. She is trying to "talk down" Bernard when riot police enter, and Bernard fires the explosive.

The events of Monday repeat themselves, slightly differently. This time the phone in Mulder's apartment rings a second time, but Mulder does not answer because he is busy with the leaking waterbed. It is Pam, trying to warn him. When she hangs up, Pam's boyfriend, Bernard, tells her that he is not going to work today, that there is no future in sweeping floors. He has a plan to make things better. In the X-Files office, Mulder and Scully talk about fate and about how nice it would sometimes be to rewind a bad day and start it over. Scully says she will deposit Mulder's check so he isn't late for the meeting, but a few minutes later he realises he did not endorse the check. On his way to the bank to catch up with Scully, Pam stops him, saying that every day he passes her and every day everyone dies. Mulder hears a gunshot and rushes into the bank. Scully and Bernard have guns on each other and the three have a face-off. When Bernard realises that the silent alarm has been tripped, he sets off the explosive.

Monday begins again, again with small variations on the events we have already seen. This time, Pam approaches Scully at the FBI building before she finds Mulder in the X-Files office. Pam warns, "if you walk into that bank you'll die." Scully is bemused, and heads off to find Mulder. Mulder is feeling a powerful sense of deja vu. Wnat if deja vu is really a memory of events somehow being repeated? Scully is surprised when Mulder says he is going to the bank, and tells about what Pam said. Mulder agrees to use an ATM, just to be safe. He finds the ATM outside the bank is out of service. He sees Pam and she tells him that they have probably talked 50 times, but Mulder always runs into the bank to stop the robbery and everyone dies. Pam thinks something went very wrong the first time, and the events will keep repeating until Bernard does not blow up the bank. Mulder does not go into the bank, but when he gets to the meeting he is told that Scully has gone in search of him. She is in the bank when the robbery begins. Mulder comes in and shoots Bernard, but he manages to throw the switch that fires off the explosives. Seeing that he cannot prevent it, Mulder keeps repeating to himself, "time bomb, time bomb."

The Monday events happen again. This time, walking toward the bank, Mulder sees Pam waiting in the car. He asks if she knows him, but she won't talk. In the bank, Mulder is suspicious of Bernard, who is writing his robbery note. He phones Scully and gets her out of the meeting, telling her to get Pam from the car. Mulder intercepts Bernard before the robbery, trying to talk him out of it, but Bernard begins the robbery anyway. Scully and Pam enter. Mulder has Scully put down her gun and tells Bernard he and Pam can walk out of the bank and nobody will get hurt. Bernard hears police sirens approach and realises the silent alarm has been activated. He aims at Mulder and fires his gun, but Pam jumps in front of Mulder and is shot. Mulder and Scully take Bernard into custody. As Pam is on the floor, bleeding, she smiles and says "this never happened to me before."

On Tuesday morning, Mulder wakes up on his sofa. Scully calls and says Mulder still hasn't explained how he knew there would be a robbery. The newspaper, delivered to Mulder's door, has the headline "woman dies in robbery attempt.


Rating: 8 out of 10
It seems anything Vince Gilligan touches these days turns to gold. And John Shiban is quickly becoming the second best writer on the show, something I would never have guessed a few years ago. So when they team up, this is exactly what you get. A wonderfully scripted and exciting episode that for once, is actually serious! Yes!!!

Sure I had my doubts when I first heard about it. I mean come on, a 'Groundhog Day' style storyline is a little too "out there" for this show. And unlike past episodes about aliens or government conspiracies where they could actually make you believe that this stuff was actually true, I think fate is something you either believe in or not. Personally, I don't but it didn't stop me from enjoying this.

If you didn't know this was The X-Files, you'd think this was a really good, short movie. The directing is the best for absolutely ages - especially in the teaser and that highly sophisticated montage. And Mark Snow's music is back to its best in this. There seems to have been a real lack of spooky, atmospherical music this season. It all seems to have suited the comical side of the episodes. I remember years ago when I was watching Small Potatoes and my sister walked in the room and said, "That's not how The X-Files is supposed to sound". She was absolutely right (for once we agreed on something!) but I forgave him because it was a one off. But at last the score is great. Oh and I thought the guest stars were pretty good too. I thought Carrie Hamilton did a really good job as a woman in absolute hell and David and Gillian were really good in this too. It must be really hard to actually get upset at something happening over and over again.

But I have some gripes with the episode. Perhaps they could have made the recurrent scenes a little bit more different instead of practically the same thing happening over and over again. And that water bed joke got a bit tiresome too if you can actually call it a joke. May I remind the writers that comedy isn't always slapstick you know. Ha, he knocked his mobile phone on the floor. That's funny. Ha ha. Ahem. David seems to enjoy doing those scenes though. I also find it really hard to believe that Mulder could actually start to figure out what was going on when no one else around him suspected a thing. And the fact that the problem was solved by Mulder repeating the same word over and over again is just too big a convenient leap for me.

Bad points aside, this is a fantastic episode. In fact, I think I'll just go and watch it again now.

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Op zondag 29 augustus 2004 14:58 schreef Echoes het volgende:
wat gebeurd er als ie een nacht wakker blijft? denk ik dan...

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1. Weatherman - Delbert McClinton ListenMusic ListenMusic
2. Clouds ListenMusic ListenMusic
3. I Got You Babe - Sonny & Cher ListenMusic ListenMusic
4. Quartet No. 1 in D - The Ground Hog - Bruce Duvok ListenMusic ListenMusic
5. Take Me Round Again - Suzie Stevens ListenMusic ListenMusic
6. Drunks
7. Pennsylvania Polka - Frankie Yankovic
8. You Like Boats But Not the Ocean
9. Phil Getz the Girl
10. Phill Steals the Money
11. You Don't Know Me - Ottmar Liebert
12. Kidnap and the Quarry
13. Sometimes People Just Die
14. Eighteenth Variation from "Rapsodie on a Theme of Paganini" - Elizabeth Buccheri
15. Medley: Phil's Piano Solo/Eighteenth Variation from Rapsodie on a The - Terry Fryer
16. Ice Sculpture
17. New Day
18. Almost Like Being in Love - Nat King Cole

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Op zaterdag 4 september 2004 15:14 schreef PDOA het volgende:
Waar is die Andie McDowell trouwens gebleven?

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Groundhog makes it official: We haven't had our Phil of winter
Associated Press
February 2, 2005 PHIL0203

PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa. -- Punxsutawney Phil has spoken, and the news isn't good.

The world's most famous furry forecaster saw his shadow Wednesday on Gobbler's Knob, suggesting another six weeks of wintry weather.

The chubby critter delivered the prediction after he was pulled from his burrow in an oak stump at 7:31 a.m. by a top-hatted handler, and his prediction was greeted by boos from the thousands in attendance.

``He's only the messenger!'' one of the members of the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club - the volunteer group in charge of Phil and the town's Groundhog Day festivities - reminded the crowd braving the frigid weather.

In the years since The Punxsutawney Spirit first carried word of the groundhog's failing to see its shadow in 1886, this town of 7,500 people about 65 miles northeast of Pittsburgh has been dubbed the ``Weather Capital of the World.''

The tradition stems from the Christian holiday of Candlemas, and the belief that if a hibernating animal sees its shadow, winter will last another six weeks. If there's no shadow, spring will come early.

That was the forecast from Lilburn, Ga., groundhog, Gen. Beauregard Lee, who did not see his shadow when he emerged as light rain fell Wednesday morning. Beau made his appearance with a female groundhog their handlers at Yellow River Game Ranch hope will produce offspring to continue the tradition if the aging prognosticator retires this year.

In Punxsutawney, an energetic crowd of about 2,000 people was already assembled by 3:30 a.m. Most were bundled against the cold, but at least one young woman braved the weather in a bikini top.

Nikki Wehrmann and her 9-year-old daughter, Arianne, had on layer upon layer as they huddled over coffee and hot chocolate. Arianne was taking the day off from school to see Phil, her mother said. They live in nearby DuBois.

``We considered this an educational purpose,'' said Wehrmann, who told her daughter about the history of Groundhog Day and plans to have Arianne do a project on the event.

``And anything that brings 20,000 or 30,000 people on some years we have to do it at least once,'' Wehrmann said.

Resident Sue Lingenfelter said the annual frenzy, and just how famous Phil is, still amazes her.

``I just placed a catalog order yesterday and the guy said to me, 'Is your town ready to go crazy?''' she said.

Ward Brown, 50, and his sister Suzy Fulkerson, 41, came from Sparta, Ill., although they tied the trip in with a visit to their sister, who recently moved to nearby DuBois.

``It was a good excuse to visit her,'' said Brown, who was toting a $75 stump of wood a craftsman had carved into the shape of a groundhog sporting a top hat.

According to the Punxsutawney club, Phil saw his shadow for the 95th time. He hasn't seen his shadow 14 times; nine years have no record of the outcome.

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Wisconsin groundhog begs to differ with Phil
Associated Press
February 2, 2005 GROUNDHOG0203

SUN PRAIRIE, Wis. -- Jimmy the Groundhog could not see his shadow Wednesday because it was cloudy, and he thus predicted an early spring.

The more famous Punxsutawney Phil, however, did see his shadow at Punxsutawney, Pa., indicating there will be another six weeks of wintry weather there.

The groundhog predictions are rooted in a German superstition that, if a hibernating animal casts a shadow Feb. 2 - the Christian holiday of Candlemas - then more bad weather is in store. If no shadow is seen, legend says spring will come early.

Ted Chase of the Sun Prairie Chamber of Commerce, which organizes the Jimmy the Groundhog event, said 800 to 1,000 people turned out Wednesday morning at the Colonial Club Senior Activity Center for this year's event, which included a breakfast.

Jimmy also predicted an early spring last year and was correct, Chase said.

In fact, Chase said, Jimmy and his eight predecessors - also named Jimmy - have been right 80 percent of the time since they began making such predictions in 1948.

``I wish I was so consistent,'' he said.

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Op zaterdag 22 juli 2006 14:06 schreef Fir3fly het volgende:
Ik heb hem al zo vaak gezien dat ik precies weet na hoeveel keer hij Ned neerslaat