Listen, Robin Williams made almost exclusively terrible movies. It’s only his being dead that makes you think patch adams and licensed to wed are watchable.
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I just look up his discography and he has a lot of great movies he was part of and mediocre movies made better with him in them. Patch Adams is terrible though and a disservice to the real guy. Haven't see the other one.
I'll happily re-watch the good ones, avoid the bad ones (I never saw Patch Adams etc, cuz they don't interest me) but most careers are bumpy and good movies are rare & hard to make.
I don't know. Fisher King, Awakenings, The Birdcage, Good Will Hunting....
He has been in some shit ones, but so has everyone in Hollywood at one time or another. : )
I'll go even further and say I don't much care for a lot of his stand up. Hit or miss at best. But he was good at lots of shit and seemed totally awesome. He could do amazing shit. World's greatest dad is one of the funniest fucking things I've ever seen.
He made a lot of good movies but he also made a LOT of movies, so when you pick up a Williams movie it could be terrible hackwork. Usually wasn't his fault at least.
I think most of the really awful stuff was either paycheck or "wouldn't it be fun to hang out with Billy Crystal for 6 months?" And yeah, I'd do that too.
"Dead Poets Society" is like "Catcher in the Rye". You watch/read it in just the right year of your life, you think it's incredible. You revisit it later, and you're embarrassed and hope no one remembers how much you raved about it.
Why are so many people bad at reading Catcher? It’s about a boy who is having a breakdown because his brother died and his parents ditched him at a private school rather than deal with it. Holden is incredibly sympathetic as soon as you realize that he’s acting out because his parents ditched him.
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An RV?
He has been in some shit ones, but so has everyone in Hollywood at one time or another. : )
Think about it, Joe. Think about it.
I loked one hour photo, awakenings, and a few others too....but there's a lotta shite.
Fisher King is my personal, sentimental favorite film, period.
& The Final Cut (2004)
also an easy & fun watch
i liked when he was able to get into the drama stuff & away from the comedy
Good Will Hunting,, ☕😏
https://youtu.be/JOWR57K2ga0?feature=shared
You can at least argue about authorial intent for it. Dead Poets Society? Would be very difficult to argue it's not very very sincere.
But the film technique is also very much the same.
I prefer to do without either.