Team Zissou

gkbass13 · #1 09-14-2008, 05:04 AM

Here it is, as per request in the Nicholas Cage "appreciation" thread.

From Ghostbusters to Rushmore, a stint on SNL to Caddyshack, from serving the RZA and GZA some coffee and cigarettes, to hunting down lost loved ones in Broken Flowers, i give you, the long overdue..... Bill Murray appreciation thread!!!!

so if you'd like a cap and speedo and to join the team, ask for your Team Zissou number, or just feel free to post about the man himself and his work.

I'll gladly take #1.

DigMe · #2 09-14-2008, 08:03 AM

He's great...he's had his fair share of stinkers but some fantastic ones as well.

Just like Cage though he usually plays himself in movies too rather than transforming into the character.

bc

Benjamin Strange · #3 09-14-2008, 08:11 AM

He's in quite a few of my favorite movies: Lost in Translation, Groundhog Day, The Royal Tennenbaums.

He was also great on SNL. Really dig his Star Wars lounge act.

gkbass13 · #4 09-14-2008, 10:37 AM

i disagree about the being himself thing, as bill murray has had 2 really distinct phases in his career in my opinion. the first one was more of his straight comedy where he was usually a bit of a jerk in hsi films, but lately, as he does wes anderson films and such it seems like he is doing this laid back, non acting thing....and it is awesome! I love everythign he has done with wes anderson, even though he is barely in Darjeeling Limited, and lost in translation, ghostbusters, coffee and cigarettes and groundhogs day are all awesome movies.

gkbass13 · #5 09-14-2008, 10:39 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6EZkIaJcCI

brilliant.

any of his appearances on Dave Letterman are also worth checking out.

MakiSupaStar · #6 09-14-2008, 11:01 AM

I'm a fan for sure.

gkbass13 · #7 09-14-2008, 11:50 AM

a fan is great, but i would imagine you would be at the top of the list of people willing to toss on the Zissou garb and join the club, maki. you down, sir?

sarcastro83 · #8 09-14-2008, 12:07 PM

Stripes....

Count me in. You crazy, Bill Murray...

DigMe · #9 09-14-2008, 03:48 PM

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Originally Posted by gkbass13

i disagree about the being himself thing, as bill murray has had 2 really distinct phases in his career in my opinion. the first one was more of his straight comedy where he was usually a bit of a jerk in hsi films, but lately, as he does wes anderson films and such it seems like he is doing this laid back, non acting thing....and it is awesome! I love everythign he has done with wes anderson, even though he is barely in Darjeeling Limited, and lost in translation, ghostbusters, coffee and cigarettes and groundhogs day are all awesome movies.

I agree with all of that except that I haven't yet seen Darjeeling Limited. I agree that he has sort of had 2 phases but I think he was being himself in both phases...he's just changed as a person.

bc

**Vorago** · #10 09-14-2008, 04:05 PM

What is about the GZA and the RZA?

bongomania · #11 09-14-2008, 04:20 PM

He's friends with them and has appeared in some short scenes together with them.

I agree with the idea that the two phases "early-comedy-jerk" and "recent-non-acting-blase" are probably phases of his real life. That documentary of the early days of SNL showed him IRL to be very much like his characters at that time. And recent interviews are hard to distinguish from his acted roles.

I like him a lot, but only in small doses. After a while the persona becomes cloying.

MakiSupaStar · #12 09-14-2008, 07:13 PM

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Originally Posted by gkbass13

a fan is great, but i would imagine you would be at the top of the list of people willing to toss on the Zissou garb and join the club, maki. you down, sir?

I'll captain the boat.

Steve K · #13 09-14-2008, 07:16 PM

A Big Lebowkski thread and a Bill Murray thread in the same day. I didn't think TB had such great tastes in movies.

Steve K · #14 09-14-2008, 07:20 PM

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Originally Posted by gkbass13

i disagree about the being himself thing, as bill murray has had 2 really distinct phases in his career in my opinion. the first one was more of his straight comedy where he was usually a bit of a jerk in hsi films, but lately, as he does wes anderson films and such it seems like he is doing this laid back, non acting thing....and it is awesome! I love everythign he has done with wes anderson, even though he is barely in Darjeeling Limited, and lost in translation, ghostbusters, coffee and cigarettes and groundhogs day are all awesome movies.

I love his work in Wes Anderson's movies. Anderson is an amazing director and Murray is a great actor to compliment his style. I thought Bill Murrays part in Darjeeling was very interesting and integral even though it was so small.

Benjamin Strange · #15 09-14-2008, 07:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Steve K

A Big Lebowkski thread and a Bill Murray thread in the same day. I didn't think TB had such great tastes in movies.

There are some posts in the Nicholas Cage thread that threaten to negate all good taste on TB.

Steve K · #16 09-14-2008, 07:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Benjamin Strange

There are some posts in the Nicholas Cage thread that threaten to negate all good taste on TB.

Don't worry, I don't think I'm going to be heading over to that thread any time soon.

Benjamin Strange · #17 09-14-2008, 07:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Steve K

Don't worry, I don't think I'm going to be heading over to that thread any time soon.

Yeech... somebody actually said that The Rock and Face Off are their favorite movies. I guess there's no accounting for taste...

gkbass13 · #18 09-14-2008, 07:39 PM

hahaha...during a night ridden with insomnia, i started this thread sort of as a result of the Nicholas Cage thread....funny how that works.

Vorago- watch the clip i posted a link to, it is from the film "coffee and cigarettes", RZA and GZA go to a coffee shop, and bill murray is their waiter...good stuff.

Steve K-you're right about the cameo in Darjeeling, and i absolutely loved that movie...along with everythign wes anderson does...although Tennenbaums is hands down my favorite of the bunch. i actually met Noah Baumbach as a wedding, as we have some mutual family friends...so that was cool. he co-wrote the life aquatic, and has done 2 movies(that i knwo of) on his own...the squid and the whale, and margo at the wedding.

so a question to the murray fans thus far, should this be a "zissou club" with numbers and the such, as the title of the thread would make one think, or shoudl it just be a laid back appreciation thread? im pretty sure the Mak(i)-daddy and myself are alread down for some club ishhh.

Steve K · #19 09-14-2008, 08:00 PM

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Originally Posted by gkbass13

Steve K-you're right about the cameo in Darjeeling, and i absolutely loved that movie...along with everythign wes anderson does...although Tennenbaums is hands down my favorite of the bunch. i actually met Noah Baumbach as a wedding, as we have some mutual family friends...so that was cool. he co-wrote the life aquatic, and has done 2 movies(that i knwo of) on his own...the squid and the whale, and margo at the wedding.

so a question to the murray fans thus far, should this be a "zissou club" with numbers and the such, as the title of the thread would make one think, or shoudl it just be a laid back appreciation thread? im pretty sure the Mak(i)-daddy and myself are alread down for some club ishhh.

Thats so cool that you've met Noah Baumbach. I read he did a lot of behind the scenes work with Anderson. I really like the Squid and the Whale, but I haven't seen any of his other films. If this is going to be an official club, I want in. So when do I get my cap and speedo?

gkbass13 · #20 09-14-2008, 08:50 PM

haha...figurative cap and speedo. there are replica Zissou adidas sambas on ebay...way overpriced though, especially since they arent even real adidas!!!

lets do some numbers, im 1, maki 2 and steve k is 3 for now...feel free to post or pm me for your number!