Groundhog Day
Today, “About Chocolate Parfaits” is going to list 638 films I have seen ever since the inception of this blog. It’s not like this is a special number, I just happened to check it today. We learn that I have seen roughly 100 movies per year and that would thus take me roughly another 3-4 years to get to the infamous 1000 mark. I will be 30 by then! Terrifying.
Onto the topic, it appears that I have been enjoying fairly recent Hollywood films a lot. Besides whatever comes in theaters right now I have a tendency (almost like everyone else I suppose) to watch films which are either foreign and/or at least as old as the seventies. Most recently, I felt that “Paper Moon” was an incredibly old movie… yet it is so strangely timeless?
It doesn’t happen very often that I stumble upon a film which most people I know have seen in their childhood. It is entirely possible that I already saw this before on TV, perhaps around the age 12-14 or so. I vaguely remember seeing Sleepless in Seattle, Amadeus and the like – Groundhog Day feels like one of those films which appear on TV.
In fact, when I was younger, I used to watch the Muppet’s Christmas Carol every single year. Strangely enough, I could totally see myself watching Groundhog Day again and again. I might not have felt like crying and dancing around while seeing the film, but I derived a calm enjoyment from the film. It’s one of those films that make your heart go all warm and fuzzy, and it features one of those “bad guy turns good guy” kind of stories that I have loved ever since I saw the Muppet’s Christmas Carol for the first time. “Groundhog Day” could totally become one of those films I would enjoy watching with a small crowd, because it’s just so universally nice.
The only point of criticism of the entire film is probably Andie McDowell and her amazingly lame character. She’s the lovely Catholic French poetry loving girl who is kind towards everyone – eww. Of course it is nice that the main character only gains her heart after he was able to genuinely change (and not by wooing her with empty gestures), but did this female character really have to be so generic?
If you ever want to watch the film with me, let me know.