What’s Aged the Worst?
I'm Your Weatherman theme song; the unexplored stay-awake option; global warming undercutting the groundhog ritual
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- The "I'm Your Weatherman" theme song is called terrible; the hosts say it was written for the movie and co-written by Ramis.
- It is called one of the last theme songs about a movie's lead, tacky and early-90s in a bad way compared with grunge, West Coast hip hop and Beck, though maybe right for a corny small Pennsylvania town.
- One view says the movie feels too late 80s, as if it could have come out in 1989, with Chris Elliott a cliched 80s choice though good; for one participant it was ground zero for Chris Elliott.
- Also a nit: no scene explores why he never stays up all night past 6:01 a.m.; a 13-year-old version of a host pushed this on friends who told him to shut up.
- Nothing in the movie is explained, like It's a Wonderful Life; it is a teaching device to be taken as fantasy.
- A host's 15-year-old daughter, the least nitpicky viewer, asked why he did not just stay up all night, so it is judged a pretty big flaw; maybe a scene was filmed and cut.
- Otherwise the movie is said to have aged really well and to be timeless without phones or internet; one of a couple of small dated things is the satellites joke about long-distance lines being down.
- Living in L.A. makes winter and the groundhog's shadow irrelevant, so global warming has ruined Groundhog Day, which is called fair; in 25 years at 111 degrees the movie will seem 300 years old.