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I need a #Meatballs oral history. It is so aggressively mediocre, and Bill Murray repeatedly risks a hernia trying to save it.

sep 1, 2025, 1:03 am • 10 0

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It is not a “good” movie, but it is charming as heck, it has some genuinely funny bits, and Murray’s two moments of vulnerability (once with Chris Makepeace, once with Kate Lynch) really make the movie.

sep 1, 2025, 2:03 am • 0 0 • view

The first movie I recorded off of HBO after we bought our first VCR. I watched it approximately a bajillion times. But yes. Murray is basically the only part that works. Though did you spot character actor Matt Craven as Hardware?

sep 1, 2025, 1:19 am • 8 0 • view

It isn't a great movie, but its major problem is a conspicuous lack of aliens, which was subsequently corrected.

sep 1, 2025, 1:22 am • 9 0 • view

It isn't a great movie, but I saw it in theaters and I watched it on HBO so many times that it made my list of "most watched movies" in the Globe. Plus, it has "Makin' It" by the American Werewolf in London! C'mon! C'mon! www.bostonglobe.com/2024/07/18/a...

4. ‘Meatballs’ (1979) OK, so HBO had another PG-rated movie they ran 57 million times. For many years, I thought this goofy Bill Murray summer-camp movie was the film I’d seen more than any other. But, as I was putting this list together, I realized I hadn’t seen it in about 20 years. So it got demoted. As Murray chants in the movie, “It just doesn’t matter.” But trust me, I saw it enough to cement its place in the top 5. (Available on Tubi)

sep 1, 2025, 1:31 am • 3 0 • view

It just doesn't matter

sep 1, 2025, 1:25 am • 0 0 • view

Also every time I hear a cop on a UK show say he's from the CID, I hum the CIT song in my head

sep 1, 2025, 1:26 am • 1 0 • view

When we were CITs at Camp White Pine, we just... sang the song.

sep 1, 2025, 1:27 am • 1 0 • view

Bill Murray deserved an Oscar for the “It just doesn’t matter” speech. I am only half-kidding.

sep 1, 2025, 1:25 am • 6 0 • view

Sometimes, endless repeatability is Oscar enough. I've never repeated a single line from "The Artist," but Jean Dujardin has an Oscar.

sep 1, 2025, 1:27 am • 5 0 • view

one of the first movies I watched a billion times as a kid was Meatballs II on vhs and we just referred to it as Meatballs so I didn't know there was a first one until I was much older and tried watching it and I'll stick to 2 thank you very much

sep 1, 2025, 1:26 am • 0 0 • view