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 Word  (http://www.chud.com/news/may03/may28garf.php3) has it that Bill Murray is going to do the voice of  Garfield  (http://us.imdb.com/Title?0356634) in the coming "comedy" flick of the same name.  Thus the "witty" title for this topic.*

I like Murray.  He's a good actor.

His presence in this film makes me very, very sad.  With the exception of his presence** I have yet to hear anything good about the movie.  Another turkey is not what he needs right now.

He's turning into Chevy Chase.  I just know it...
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* I so much wanted to make the title "Garfieldballs", but that would have be tasteless.

** Jennifer Love Hewitt is also in the film.  Whether that is good or not depends upon my mood at any given time...
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Post Edited (05-29-03 16:12)

except chase was never funny, and murry is hilariously devilish. It all depends on the script mate, all depends on the script.

I just can't see Murray's delivery style in Garfield's attitude

I suppose Bill Murray's voice is somewhat similar to that of Lorenzo Music, Garfield's original voice. That might have had something to do with the choice, considering that Music has been dead for a couple of years.

Kind of ironic that Murray is going to do Garfield in a movie, when Music voiced Peter Venkman on TV for a couple of years.

Dunners wrote:

> except chase was never funny, and murry is hilariously
> devilish. It all depends on the script mate, all depends on the
> script.

I don't quite agree with you there.  Chase has had some good moments, such as the Word Assosiation skit with Richard Pryor on Saterday Night Live , or Caddyshack .  Not very many, I admit, but they're there.

(Of course, all of this is a matter of taste.)
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Fearless Freep wrote:

> I just can't see Murray's delivery style in Garfield's attitude

He might be able to do it...  I don't know...  I waver here and there...

Might be intersting to find out.

Once it has come to cable, of course.
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I also liked the original National Lampoon's Vacation.  Not great, but amusing.

I saw the Comedy Central roast of Chevy -- last year I think.  Didn't realize how much of a cokehead he had become, basically forcing him out of movies.

His stuff on the National Lampoon Radio Hour in the early 70s (before SNL) was pretty good, too, but nowhere near as good as the contributions of Christopher Guest, Michael O'Donoghue, and John Belushi.

I hope Murray's talk  show lasts more than 6 weeks.  And Chevy wasn't a cokehead.  He was addicted to back pills. ;)

One word for Chase these days....Afflak!

I was going to ask why anyone would want to make a Garfield movie. I mean, the character has pretty much sucked since he lost his edge back in the 80s. Just going through the motions. The strip is mostly a lot of the same old boring crap, and the animated show was pure kids' stuff. When I was in about the fifth grade, well over 20 years ago, I was a big fan. My older brother put me onto it when there only two Garfield books around. The cartoon was less refined, Garfield was fatter and uglier, and the humour had more of an edge. The ironic thing is that when I'd go to school in my Garfield t-shirt, all the other kids would inevitably tell me how much better Heathcliff was. Heathcliff, by that time, was a tired old comic full of tired old jokes, but it was more familiar. I, however, was into something fresh and new. It's ironic because after a few years of popularity, Garfield got to be just as lame.

As I said, I was going to ask why someone would want to make a Garfield movie, but then I remembered that Disney has made heaps of money from Inspector Gadget. Nuff said.

They're casting Breckin Meyer as John Arbuckle!!!???

What!!??

I think Bill Murray would make for a much better John Arbuckle.

Isn't Meyer a little young to play that role?

Man oh man......leave it to those clueless Hollywood execs to muck it up.



Post Edited (05-31-03 16:36)

"Garfield" lost the edge a long time ago and he's just rehashing the same humour

"Dilbert" isn't that funny and more either.

With me, "Dilbert" goes in stages.  Most times I find it mildly amusing at best.  But there are times when it's damn funny.

To each his own, of course.  
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Foxtrot has also gone downhill if you ask me. Here are some I like though.

The Boondocks
Zits
Sherman's Lagoon

How did Charles Schultz  always keep Peanuts seeming so fresh.

"Dilbert" used to be very funny most of the time.  However, now a lot of the humour feels very forced, like he's running short of ideas nad is just going for a quick joke , minus a lot of the subtlety and cynicism of his early work

this is going to be a very bad movie.
and not in a good way either.
i have seen some shots of it and i am less than impressed.
Bill Murray's talent is going to waste with this one.

...why not Zippy the Pinhead?

Can you imagine how amazing that movie would be (provided it was done right), especially inflicted on the "live action Scooby Doo" audience? Of course, Bill Griffith would have to write the screenplay, and play Griffy.

It's a shame Bill Watterson felt so protective over Calvin And Hobbes. I'm sure a wonderful cartoon show could have been made as long as they didn't water down Calvins anarchic sensibilities.

I read some of Bill Watterson's reasons behind not being willing to license "Calvin & Hobbes" for other media and as much as I'd love to more "Calvin & Hobbes", I have to agree with his reasons.

Actually, the same goes for the strip itself.  I would love to have more cartoon's, but he largely used the comic to talk about things he was thinking about and it seems he kinda ran out of ways to say the same things within that context, so he seemed to just let the strip end rather than keep it going and let it go stale.