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September 19, 2005
How I Spent Talk Like a Pirate Day
"You must swear, legally swear that you will not kill that shark, or whatever it is, if it exists."
"I'm going to find it, but I'll let it live. What about my dynamite?"
I can't believe that once in my life I actually thought Bill Murray was a Chevy Chase wannabe.
In celebration of Talk Like A Pirate day, we all sat down to watch The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou, since it has, like, actual pirates in it. Although they're all Filipino and carry machine guns, so not a lot of arrrrrr.
This movie is indescribably awkward and charming and funny and sad. Almost reminds me of Boogie Nights, in the way it portrays a grouchy but loving father-figure running a dicey business venture with a bunch of eccentric strays who he treats like family. Including a guy whose main activity consists of sitting in the background singing old Bowie songs, in French, with an acoustic guitar. Bowie does for this film what Kevin Shields did for Lost in Translation. Bowie is good.
I am now suddenly consumed with the desire to rent every single movie Bill Murray has ever made.
This was the second R-rated movie for each of the kids...Cass has seen Lost in Translation and loved it, and since when I first watched this one the other night it seemed obvious the R was mostly for the rare naked boobies and liberal cussing, we figured it was OK for her to watch. Liam just kind of tagged along because there was popcorn, but after we figured out that he was totally bored with the movie and only hanging around for the novelty of all the unbleeped F-bombs, I yanked him out and took him upstairs to watch some baseball.
The Astros were playing....
...wait for it....
the Pirates.
A complete day.
Posted by ray at September 19, 2005 9:07 PM | Permalink
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I spent the day on a boat. Swilling cheap grog. And waterskiing. Do pirates waterski? Arrrrrgh!
Posted by: Mikey J. at September 19, 2005 10:11 PM
Chevy Chase wannabe? I forgive you.
Yes. Another one over to the Wes/Murray Dark Side. Drink the Kool-Aid, my dear, for it is sweet. The Royal Tenenbaums is one of my all-time favorite movies. The same awkward beauty about it and Murray, although a secondary character, is brilliant. Rushmore is also faboo, but without the fragile eloquence that makes Royal and Aquatic so compelling.
And, for a Murray treat sans Wes, if you haven't seen Quick Change lately then set your TiVo. It is one of the most underrated comedies - I've never understood how it tanked at the box office.
Posted by: Doxy at September 19, 2005 11:24 PM
I dunno. I got 2/3 of the way through Zissou and gave up waiting for the movie to start. It didn't even make me smile.
I think Murry's funny in the right parts, but - he mostly fails to charm me. Must be a character defect of mine. B^)
Posted by: Karl Elvis at September 19, 2005 11:55 PM
Dox, honey, I was talking about when Bill replaced Chevy on SNL, which was probably before you were born. It was a common sentiment at the time.
Lost in Translation was what won me over to Bill, but this one makes me realize that it wasn't a fluke. So I need to go back and watch Groundhog Day and others with a new point of view, and I need to see the new one as well (as if Gina and I ever get to see movies in the theatre.)
Posted by: Ray at September 20, 2005 9:46 AM
Yeah, Ray, that's how I tend to think of Murry also. Those of us old enough to remember the original run of SNL remember when Murry was the annoying new guy. I know he's much more than that but that memory sticks...
Posted by: Karl Elvis at September 20, 2005 10:16 AM
I liked him as Hunter S Thompson in "Where the Buffalo Roam." And that was before I knew who Thompson was.
Posted by: whirlbrain at September 20, 2005 7:59 PM
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