I like Robin Williams. Toys, Fisher King, and What Dreams May Come are wonderful. So there.
It's because you didn't have a strong father figure isn't it?
Joyce ,'Chosen'
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Connie Neil - Nov 16, 2009 1:01:47 pm PST #5007 of 30000
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Polter-Cow - Nov 16, 2009 1:06:13 pm PST #5008 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I, too, am a Robin Williams fan.
§ ita § - Nov 16, 2009 1:07:50 pm PST #5009 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Hives. The man gives me hives. I understand there's a talented comedian lurking somewhere there, but it's been forever since I could see that far.
beekaytee - Nov 16, 2009 1:14:05 pm PST #5010 of 30000
Compassionately intolerant
Like the remake more than the original: Thomas Crowne Affair. GUH.
Oh, so totally this. I love that movie. Rene: "How are you feeling?" Pierce: "Popular." And sex on the stairs and oh yes, all of it. Cheesy? Yup. But so, so fun.
Despite its low reputation, I love the Italian Job remake and Ocean's 11 too.
After seeing the original Alfie (yes, I know, iconiccakes) I could not for the life of me see why they remade it with Jude Law. Didn't see it, but if ever a film begged to not be remade, that was it.
erikaj - Nov 16, 2009 1:39:19 pm PST #5011 of 30000
Always Anti-fascist!
Dead Poets is good too.
Beverly - Nov 16, 2009 1:56:18 pm PST #5012 of 30000
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Nathan Lane was wonderful, and Calista Flockhart was surprisingly good in a tiny and mostly thankless role, but the entire rest of the movie was, to me, a bucket of meh. Except Williams, who was a bucket of STABKILLRAGE.
Hank Azaria!
Oh goodness, yes. Just give me Nathan and Hank, and everybody else can go home.
Atropa - Nov 16, 2009 2:26:00 pm PST #5013 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Hives. The man gives me hives. I understand there's a talented comedian lurking somewhere there, but it's been forever since I could see that far.
I am as one with ita.
Typo Boy - Nov 16, 2009 2:38:58 pm PST #5014 of 30000
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
My take has always been Robin was at his best when he was on cocaine and delivered 20 jokes a minute. You don't like his last punchline? Wait 5 seconds another will come up. And then he got off coke, and he did not lose his talent. But he ended up with hyper-SNAG self presentation/ self image ex-substance abuser males sometimes end up with. And it ends up in most of the roles he plays, not all, but most.
evil jimi - Nov 16, 2009 3:19:47 pm PST #5015 of 30000
Lurching from one disaster to the next.
R.I.P. Edward Woodward. :-(
Volans - Nov 16, 2009 5:52:59 pm PST #5016 of 30000
move out and draw fire
Since Terry Gilliam was the famousest alum of my college (up until recently), we pretty much had Mandatory Gilliam Studies. Fiona's diss would've fit right in.
/still has a crush on Michael Palin
My annoyance with the 2012 previews was the inability of the airplane pilot to find the climb controls so they can get above all the collapsing buildings.
That, and...Santa Monica Airport! Why are they flying back inland? (and the plane engines wouldn't be able to handle the amount of debris in the air, and...Not My Movie.)