RIP Robin Williams

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

― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, August 13, 2014 6:57 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

talking 'bout my generation

i've seen mrs. doubtfire probably a dozen times

i've never seen popeye or good morning vietnam but i plan on watching both soon!

why would anyone watch mrs. doubtfire

we were young, man

not everybody on ilx was voting age in 1993, shocking i know

i was < 15yo and it was on TV a lot!

Top two movies of that year were Jurassic Park and Mrs. Doubtfire. Never saw either of them, was busy voting.

mod edit

http://i.perezhilton.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/hello-mrs-doubtfire.gif

oh whoops

I do remember an unfortunate double-feature on the VCR of "Man On the Moon" with Reese Witherspoon and "Toys".

Kids don't wanna learn about dinosaurs, man, if you wanna appeal to kids you have to do impressions of people they've never heard of

Man in the Moon isn't bad.

man i was soooo psyched for toys before it came out, convinced myself it was genius at the time

It wasn't.

Toys, on the other hand....

written by Barry Levinson and his wife, costarring LL Cool J, what could go wrong

the references to the toys trailer in the springfield film festival episode of the simpsons must be one of their most obscure ref points now

spring Smoochy on yr kids, they'll grow up fast