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Bill Murray

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Berck

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We like Bill Murray.

We recently watched Rushmore, which I’d give an A-. Joanna liked it “a whole lot” as well. Ben should enjoy it, if he hasn’t already seen it.

Next we watched Ed Wood, which wasn’t really a Bill Murray film (he only had a small part), and wasn’t that good. considering that it’s the story of the worst film director of all time, I’m not sure how good it could have been, anyway.

We also watched Broken Flowers, which wasn’t in any way bad. But I was expecting really good. And it just wan’t really good. It’s done by the same dude who made Coffee and Cigarettes which helped explain things a bit. I do like the generally unresolved note of the movie. It has a tendancy to come off as just a slight pompous, which is not a good thing for a movie insisting that it’s ordinary. I’m not sure anyone who reads this would like it, but maybe.

Ghostbusters is coming up next because Jonah’s never seen it. Her parents were afraid that if she saw it, she’d wind up marrying a non-christian. As a result, she’s almost 32 years old and is culturally deficient.

9 responses to “Bill Murray”

  1. nana Avatar
    nana

    “Her parents were afraid that if she saw it, she’d wind up marrying a non-christian.”
    Her parents didn’t want her to have nightmares! Her parents didn’t see it either.
    ” As a result, she’s almost 32 years old and is culturally deficient.”
    In whose estimation? Not by Hirsch’s definition, I’ll wager!
    There! You were fishing for a reaction… you got one!

  2. Berck Avatar
    Berck

    It’s a comedy, not a horror movie. It wasn’t even very scary to me when I was a kid– and I was very scared of scary movies.

    Nathan agrees with me:)

  3. Nathan Avatar
    Nathan

    I agree that Ghost Busters was a comedy. The things that Louis and Janine turned into are the scariest part of the movie and shouldn’t be shown to really young kids. It came out in 1984, so I was 9 years old when dad took me to see it. I wouldn’t have taken a 6 or 7 year old to it.

    But, being scared is part of the fun…As long as you realize that being scared is part of the fun.

  4. nana Avatar
    nana

    Thank you, Berck, for filling in the gaps in J’s deprivation.

    But you gotta know, that fear is a somewhat like alcohol….. for some
    people, it’s a “grabber,” so that when others think it’s all in fun,
    this child internalizes a lot more and it doesn’t go away. There wasn’t any
    fun for me in having nightmares for months about giant spiders
    when at nine I saw “Tarantula.” That was such a stupid movie, but it
    didn’t feel stupid to me. So scary stuff was something we were really careful
    about with our offspring. See? Now they can watch all the scary stuff they want!

  5. Berck Avatar
    Berck

    But I bet you’ll show it to your kids when they’re 10 or so:)

  6. Berck Avatar
    Berck

    Oh, I’m all for not showing kids scary movies. In general, I don’t get the scary movie thing– they’ve never interested me. I was easily scared when I was young, but I don’t remember being scared by it. It was so popular when *I* was a kid (probably because of the release of ghostbusters2), I’m amazed that Joanna never saw it.

    I mean, I wasn’t allowed to watch most movies my peers were when I was young. I didn’t get to see Forrest Gump until I was old enough to drive to the rental store and rent it myself.

    Still, we watched Ghostbusters. I’m pretty sure we had it on LaserDisc, which probably means its in your living room:)

  7. nana Avatar
    nana

    Then I’ll have to watch it!

  8. Berck Avatar
    Berck

    I dunno if you’d like it or not. Jonah can make a recommendation after she watches it:)

  9. Jonah Avatar
    Jonah

    I was pretty good at the Ghostbutsters computer game my neighbor had.

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