RIP Robin Williams

What do they mean by "robot talk"?

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I'm kind of gratified with the knowledge that I'll doubtless be hearing RW's voice in years to come in the kids movies my currently-three-months-old daughter will be watching again and again and again

my mum, who is not a natural facebooker and usually just uses it to follow my brother and i and see what we're up to, posted a very sad message about RW, and it reminded me of when we went to see Mrs Doubtfire together when I was a teen. She'd just split up with my dad, and left us in his custody, and I just remember her being in proper floods of tears throughout in the cinema, dealing with lots of latent guilt she was feeling and so on.

Mrs. Doubtfire is 100% one of those movies that depends on an excess of charisma from the lead - if you have no compulsion to like the reckless, unhelpful guy who responded to his long-suffering wife's belated divorce by verbally harassing her on the phone, imitating an elderly maid and nearly killing her kind, responsible new boyfriend (after telling him you have an std) for the sin of not thinking highly of the deadbeat she was married to, it's as dark as Fatal Attraction.

telling him she has an std, i mean. Though those crabs jokes probably went over the head of 50% of the audience

I lasted 2 mins into Mrs D, about the point where he refused to do the voiceover of the happily smoking mouse. Like, "Hey, the guy has principles" sure but that cartoon would never have been allowed to air anyway....

I think we always knew that RW's awful films were awful despite his efforts, not because he 'ruined' them.

Unless you can think of some where the opposite applies...

mrs doubtfire is christopher columbus, all his movies are bizarre fantasies

I think we always knew that RW's awful films were awful despite his efforts, not because he 'ruined' them.

Unless you can think of some where the opposite applies…

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he is terrible in every movie he made between 1998 and 2000 (haven't seen WDMC).

Alimony, kids, not keeping a small nut.

I watched Popeye last night for the first time since Mum took 4yo me to see it in the theater when it came out

and seriously lol that 4 year old me was afraid of the octopus wrestling scene (which was the only thing I remembered) because it could not look more fake and rubber now to 38 yo me

it's such a strange, beautiful, weird little movie. and Williams commits all the way to this popeye guy to the point where I forgot it was him. I'm glad I rewatched it. I would definitely watch it agian.

I have been trying to get my daughter to watch it with me for like a year to no avail

this is little me with my popeye record

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that is the best

I saw it for the first time since 1980 recently, in the last couple of years. Stuff I had no way of even catching... the boxing scene alone made me go, Damn, this really is a Robert Altman movie, isn't it?

This has a happy ending, but

My family was in an awful car crash a week before Christmas 1980, coming home from a school play I'd been the lead in. My four-year-old sister, riding in the front seat with no seat belt as you did in those days, nearly sliced her tongue off from left to right. Doctors stitched her up and she was home for Christmas, although temporarily mute.

For some reason, she laid on the couch and with her fingernail, scratched all of the black off of Shelly Duvall's dress on that album cover, humming to herself the whole time. She healed up and was able to speak again, but years afterward, we'd pull out that Popeye record and seeing that scratched-up dress always reminded us of something.

Her birthday was Monday, so as her older brother, I was obligated to post on her Facebook something like, "Happy birthday. Bet you wish you hadn't ruined that Popeye record NOW, right?"

lol

some nice stuff here

http://thedissolve.com/features/tribute/703-the-dissolve-remembers-robin-williams/

i still have my popeye record on my shelves
that tongue thing will probably give me nightmares
good lord
glad she's ok

pplains story weirdly has a parallel with part of the plot of The World According To Garp (the novel, anyway, still haven't seen the movie)

that's in the movie

oh
still that's gross

lol I forgot about that part

Ha! Well, Mom's boyfriend wasn't with us that day so it wasn't that parallel.

And yeah, she's ok. Good lord, she hasn't shut up since 1981.

Otm about the dad in doubt fire

being a shit, that is. I'm with the judge!

re that Dissolve piece, look it's fine if Mrs Doubtfire is your favorite childhood touchstone but calling it a masterpiece of screwball comedy is just

cmon

Youngs, what can ya do.

His early scenes leap off the screen with infectious energy; his final ones, when Aladdin grants him his freedom, brim over with genuine emotion. Early in the film, the Genie tells Aladdin he’s never had a friend like him, and he was right.

re that Dissolve piece, look it's fine if Mrs Doubtfire is your favorite childhood touchstone but calling it a masterpiece of screwball comedy is just

cmon

― SEEMS TO ME (VegemiteGrrl),

yeah but Doubtfire's fake tits get set on fire

it's kind of unfathomable now with dvr/netflix/etc, that if there was nothing on tv when i was a kid we'd pop in a movie like mrs. doubtfire for the eighteenth time

today it's a great honor if i bother to see something twice, but back then if you were a halfway tolerable comedy you were in the vhs player probably every three months

hell, in college too. I burned out my used Blockbuster copies of JFK and Husbands and Wives.

I've only seen the last 15-20 minutes of Mrs. Doubtfire, so I never got invested in the plight of the character. It just always looked corny enough to me that I had no urge to see the whole movie.

very few "bad dad redeems himself through insane/magical bullshit" movies from the '90s i can see playing well today

If nothing else -- IF NOTHING ELSE -- it gave us David Cross's amazing Mrs. Featherbottom on "Arrested Development."

plus with Sally Field as Mom I wonder why the court took her side

today it's a great honor if i bother to see something twice, but back then if you were a halfway tolerable comedy you were in the vhs player probably every three months

i just really don't like Pierce Brosnan

also croup otm

there's no good explanation for why I can now recite the entire script of Big Business

I have never seen a minute of Mrs Doubtfire, and that will continue to be so.

RW's awful films were awful despite his efforts because he agreed to do them

(ok, at least in some cases, huh)

Thanks to his mullet I'd call Pierce Brosnan a sociopath if Mrs Doubtfire didn't exist

back then if you were a halfway tolerable comedy you were in the vhs player probably every three months

nope

let us lower life forms have our fun

there was an early special of his where he starts to lose the audience and does this "into the mind of a comedian who's bombing" bit where he's running around inside his own head pulling switches and turning nobs and finally says "ok, we have to do it -- no! we can't do it! -- yes, we must... release, the id!" and he comes crawling out of an invisible box like a horror movie creature. can't find it on youtube.

I went looking for 'Reality, What A Concept' on YT and somebody had just posted it up, he does the comedy hell bit on this record, which I love so much.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StPjkm1bbbY

Then I found a lot of the same material on this insane TV special, really wish I had seen it earlier.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsIh5z7oYyY

wow, good find there

back then if you were a halfway tolerable comedy you were in the vhs player probably every three months

nope

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