JAAAAAACK
;_;
― cross over the mushroom circle (La Lechera), Monday, 11 August 2014 23:29 (nine years ago) link
How does Aladdin hold up for you guys? To me it's a decent and fun G-rated synthesis of his standup routine.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 11 August 2014 23:29 (nine years ago) link
watched it within the past year w my daughter - it's okay (a portent of awful things to come in the voiceover industry, but that's not his fault)
― Οὖτις, Monday, 11 August 2014 23:31 (nine years ago) link
this is hitting hard.
way more than anybody who made an album.i guess it's an age thing, but robin as mork, hit home for me on a scale i had never experienced before and wouldn't again until 'cheers'.and then, every time, every SINGLE time i saw or heard him interviewed, i felt even more connected.he never ever came over as a movie star player, but a man with a passion and a love for his art and a need to make an audience laugh.
rip robin, thank you for the good times.
― mark e, Monday, 11 August 2014 23:31 (nine years ago) link
He was very funny stepping out of character during a commercial break on Larry Sanders (after doing manic stuff for a few minutes--I just wasn't a fan of that side of him): "Hey, it's a business, get used to it--blow me."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jG1YlnrQAnM
― clemenza, Monday, 11 August 2014 23:33 (nine years ago) link
he had a helluva of a nineties run: from Mrs Doubtfire through 2000 the guy was a huge box office star.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 11 August 2014 23:33 (nine years ago) link
I have mixed feelings about him overall - obviously talented, could be funny and moving on occasion (when the material suited him), but there was always this straining desperation about him, and a lot of his stuff was crap (90s blockbusters as noted). He's been a fixture since my childhood (Mork, Garp, standup comedy benefits); I feel like I always wanted to like him more than I actually did, his trying-too-hard-ness often seemed to get in the way.
xp
― Οὖτις, Monday, 11 August 2014 23:34 (nine years ago) link
Don't like Aladdin. Especially now, it feels like it inspired/anticipated much of the Shrek-style obnoxiousness that came to dominate too much animation in recent years. For years, it has been my personal policy to ask anyone who claims to like the film if they've seen the 1940 The Thief of Bagdad.
― You know something? He *did* say "well, yeah" a lot. (cryptosicko), Monday, 11 August 2014 23:34 (nine years ago) link
yeah that mawkish note he couldn't resist hitting. He was the textbook example of comedians who think they need Serious Roles
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 11 August 2014 23:35 (nine years ago) link
last 3 posts are where I'm at with this guy
― noballs (wins), Monday, 11 August 2014 23:36 (nine years ago) link
didn't like a lot of his work but always dug the guy rip
― Come and Heave a Ho (darraghmac), Monday, 11 August 2014 23:36 (nine years ago) link
suicide is devastating and i hope he rests in peace and that his family makes it through this okay. i have very mixed feelings about robin williams -- if it were just about him as a performer, that'd be one thing, but in his stand-up days he stole so many jokes from comedians that they didn't even want to go on stage if they knew he was in the building. that's stealing from the livelihoods of other creative professionals even when you could just fucking HIRE a joke writer = not cool.
i will chalk it up to mental illness.
― wapo tofu (get bent), Monday, 11 August 2014 23:37 (nine years ago) link
Just occurred to me: was he the only box office star who didn't mind supporting roles and cameos? I'm thinking of his awesome bit in Dead Again as this foulmouthed doctor.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 11 August 2014 23:38 (nine years ago) link
his missteps were all borne from very good intentions.
well said. he seemed like a wonderful man.
― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Monday, 11 August 2014 23:39 (nine years ago) link
xpost
Bill Murray did quite a few of these too, but yeah, its rare.
― You know something? He *did* say "well, yeah" a lot. (cryptosicko), Monday, 11 August 2014 23:39 (nine years ago) link
RIP - I musta saw Moscow on the Hudson at least 4 times in the theaters - it may have been the movie that put me on the road to loving film. Fisher King is sublime, and his raunchy stand up was in a class of its own. So sad he's not around to get the laugh out of us anymore.
― BlackIronPrison, Monday, 11 August 2014 23:39 (nine years ago) link
I don't think of Bill Murray as big box office by the mid and late nineties though. Williams just couldn't stop working.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 11 August 2014 23:41 (nine years ago) link
i wanna watch that one episode of louie where they are together in the strip club
― flatizza (harbl), Monday, 11 August 2014 23:42 (nine years ago) link
That dinner scene in The Birdcage is a masterpiece of sustained comedy ("And a man's wealth is measured by the size of his cock. Excuse me.").
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 11 August 2014 23:43 (nine years ago) link
Only dramatic roles I dug of his were Good Will Hunting and Fisher King, but yeah, he struck me as fairly one-note (that one note being a pensive soft-spoken "ohh"). Haven't heard his standup in ages, but I remember finding it hilarious at the time. I also remember it being refreshingly and shockingly (for the time) anti-Reagan/conservative.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 11 August 2014 23:44 (nine years ago) link
shit. RIP
― mattresslessness, Monday, 11 August 2014 23:45 (nine years ago) link
Williams just couldn't stop working.
Kinda like Updike, maybe.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 11 August 2014 23:46 (nine years ago) link
He was the textbook example of comedians who think they need Serious Roles
i have to disagree with this. dude was a classically trained actor, not just somebody who came up through the chuckle-huts and then got pretentious. he had a mawkish side, also had a "i need to be working constantly" side, and between the two there's a lot of dross. but i don't think you get to like Moscow On The Hudson AND look at him as someone who didn't accept his station.
― da croupier, Monday, 11 August 2014 23:46 (nine years ago) link
Mum took me to see Popeye when it came out in the theaters, so I was maybe 4 or 5 (underwater octopus scene scared the CRAP out of me). I loved Mork & Mindy from the moment I was old enough to talk, I think. I put this on FB but there's something about the sound of his voice, just hearing him talking is like hearing my childhood. And when he can make me laugh as an adult, it's like revisiting that place. I think that's why I liked his Teddy Roosevelt, corny as it was. It just felt good that he could make me laugh still.
― SEEMS TO ME (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 11 August 2014 23:47 (nine years ago) link
I've always resented The Birdcage for reasons that were not at all the fault of the film: watching a film teeming with flamingly gay caricatures with your parents and the hetero best friend who you were nursing a huge secret crush on was not the most comfortable way for a closeted 15-year-old to spend an evening. I should give it another shot.
― You know something? He *did* say "well, yeah" a lot. (cryptosicko), Monday, 11 August 2014 23:48 (nine years ago) link
i've avoided the birdcage but mostly cuz i hate the visual style of later mike nichols movies
― da croupier, Monday, 11 August 2014 23:49 (nine years ago) link
well, I meant "Hollywood's idea of a serious role." I know Olivier starred in a few Jacks of his own.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 11 August 2014 23:49 (nine years ago) link
RIP King of the Moon
― Van Horn Street, Monday, 11 August 2014 23:51 (nine years ago) link
honestly for the last 20 years i'd rather see him in a "dramatic" role than one that's distinctly "comic".
― da croupier, Monday, 11 August 2014 23:51 (nine years ago) link
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, August 11, 2014 7:43 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
That scene is amazing. They're all great. Agador Spartacus! Also, "it looks like they're playing leap frog!".
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Monday, 11 August 2014 23:52 (nine years ago) link
FUCK THE SOUP
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 11 August 2014 23:52 (nine years ago) link
Of all the things Williams worked in, I think it's his Louie episode I'm going to watch tonight.
― Van Horn Street, Monday, 11 August 2014 23:53 (nine years ago) link
i'd really forgotten how much i liked him being around. hadn't seen him in anything since one hour photo which i thought was pretty decent.
― mattresslessness, Monday, 11 August 2014 23:54 (nine years ago) link
I remember in 2002 when One Hour Photo and Insomnia came out it already felt like Williams time had past and he needed comebacks when, like, Patch Adams was only four years earlier.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 11 August 2014 23:55 (nine years ago) link
*Williams' time had passed rather
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 11 August 2014 23:56 (nine years ago) link
I was fine with his family films like Mrs. Doubtfire and Jumanji. Didn't like him in films for grown-ups, especially his 2000s serial killer run.
― alanbatman (abanana), Monday, 11 August 2014 23:57 (nine years ago) link
I remember being weirded out when I found out he was a big fan of first-person shooter games at the same time I washttp://www.theninhotline.net/meatpers/img/e3.jpg
― mh, Monday, 11 August 2014 23:58 (nine years ago) link
man...like everybody here it seems, I was conflicted about him - like, deeply talented dude, but also sort of incapable of checking himself at the door, no matter the role - though I thought he really worked hard at that in One Hour Photo. the first guy along with Steve Martin of whose ascent I was aware; in my sixth grade class, recaps of the most recent Mork & Mindy episode were de rigeur and the teacher would sometimes talk about the "deeper" ones - he really thought it was great, worthwhile television, but at the same time, it was just a TV show - watching dude go on to be Mr. Box Office was, like, I remember seeing this guy as a brand new thing, now he's everywhere.
while it's true that a lot of his schtick seemed to spring from some depths it's pretty shocking to me that he got so low -- though I know nothing about his personal life. it is always really troubling to me when somebody who has all the success in the world ends up too deep in the hole to climb back up, anyway. scary to me. hope his family finds some way to cope.
― Now I Am Become Dracula (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, 12 August 2014 00:00 (nine years ago) link
https://twitter.com/sesamestreet/status/498975277331267585
― Merdeyeux, Tuesday, 12 August 2014 00:03 (nine years ago) link
and don't forget "Homicide"
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 12 August 2014 00:04 (nine years ago) link
I remember being weirded out when I found out he was a big fan of first-person shooter games at the same time I washttp://www.theninhotline.net/meatpers/img/e3.jpg
God you can just picture him playing one too
― 龜, Tuesday, 12 August 2014 00:04 (nine years ago) link
^
― i'm elf-ein lusophonic (imago), Tuesday, 12 August 2014 00:05 (nine years ago) link
on MSNBC Chris Hayes just played his first "Tonight" show appearance and mentioned that sense in which the guy wasn't totally sure how far he was going to go in the act of improvising
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 12 August 2014 00:06 (nine years ago) link
xps that sesame st pic almost made me cry at a drive through fuck you the internet
― building a desert (art), Tuesday, 12 August 2014 00:10 (nine years ago) link
the thing i thought of instantly was the first thing i ever saw him in -- as the frog prince in an episode of shelley duvall's 'faerie tale theatre.'
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 12 August 2014 00:12 (nine years ago) link
A half dozen of his films were on constant rotation in my childhood. Could never feel any great antipathy to even his worst material due to that + the fact that his missteps were all borne from very good intentions.
― Merdeyeux, Monday, August 11, 2014 6:25 PM (31 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i probably listened to the good morning vietnam soundtrack like 100000 times as a kid
― gbx, Tuesday, 12 August 2014 00:13 (nine years ago) link
Mork & Mindy was a beacon of fun in the 3 channel era in the UK. This was a time when the only people I knew who had colour tv's were putting 50p's into a slot meter to rent them and most domestic tv entertainment seemed to be aimed at our shitty parents. It was beautiful at the time.
― autumn reckoning faction (xelab), Tuesday, 12 August 2014 00:13 (nine years ago) link
man...like everybody here it seems, I was conflicted about him - like, deeply talented dude, but also sort of incapable of checking himself at the door, no matter the role
This is the problem I have with him in everything where he's bad, but on the other hand when he did manage to check himself, I think he was capable of conveying tremendous feeling, alongside or through the comedy. He let himself down when he coasted on his own brand or his shtick - "hey, it's Robin Williams, here he is! Laugh now!" type roles, a la A.I., where all you can see is Robin Williams doing Robin Williams. But... we're actually halfway through watching The Birdcage, and while there's a lot about it that really bothers me, Williams is excellent. So much restraint and dignity and anger and nostalgia and love to his character. I was really bowled over by it to be honest, he feels like such a complete, real person, which makes the funny parts funnier. That's real skill there, both for a comedian and an actor.
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 12 August 2014 00:14 (nine years ago) link
RIP.
My wife is not taking this well, as I imagine is the case for everyone with depression or bipolar.
― Harper Valley PTSD (WilliamC), Tuesday, 12 August 2014 00:15 (nine years ago) link
the frog prince in an episode of shelley duvall's 'faerie tale theatre.'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57kw6I_ULDM
― polyphonic, Tuesday, 12 August 2014 00:15 (nine years ago) link
Funny timing, my son was watching the original Jumanji this morning and was telling me how much he likes Robin Williams (I think he really mostly knows him from the Night at the Museum movies and Mrs Doubtfire). He asked me if I thought he'd ever do another Museum movie and was really sad when I had to break the news.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 7 August 2020 20:02 (three years ago) link
Pharrell Thicke otoh
Can hear Sylvester saying this to Tweety Pie tbh.
― Udo Starmer (Tom D.), Friday, 7 August 2020 20:04 (three years ago) link
oof
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=258xga9HsjE
― piscesx, Friday, 7 August 2020 20:24 (three years ago) link
At the beginning of "quarantine" we took a drive around to check out some of Chicago's most notable murals, which resulting in this gem of a shot of one kid who is most definitely posing against her will:
https://i.imgur.com/qyZU47f.jpg
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 7 August 2020 20:31 (three years ago) link
pic.twitter.com/me6uYzmtQF— SNL Hosts Introducing the Musical Guest (@snlhostsintro) October 13, 2022
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 15 October 2022 22:12 (one year ago) link
Why was he never on STar Trek
― | (Latham Green), Saturday, 15 October 2022 22:42 (one year ago) link