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By: sooz
Date: 1/6/99 7:29:11 AM
# Replies: 12
Has anyone seen "Patch Adams" yet? I adore Robin Williams, but the reviewers are trashing this movie soundly. Yet, people still flocked to it over the holiday. What gives?
Yeah, I know Williams has played a doctor 400 times, a caring goofball 700 times, and someone in a teacher/student setting 3,281 times. But other than that, how is it?
Response #1
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 1/8/99 3:14:12 AM
People flock to sucky movies all the time. It's inexplicable. Like those meteor-hitting-the-Earth movies that were out last year. And Godzilla. Williams was in 'What Dreams May Come' and no one went, which doesn't make sense in that it *does* make sense, given my point earlier.
Hmm.
I sense another TessNote(tm) coming on.
Response #2
By: rorschach
Date: 1/23/99 10:06:39 PM
i saw "what dreams may come" and rather liked it.... but perhaps that only proves the rule. things i dislike everybody loves and things everybody loves i generally don't..... even my WIFE was not terribly impressed with it.... and she generally likes what i like.....
Response #3
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 2/25/99 3:19:01 AM
Will the real Robin Williams please stand up?
Response #4
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 4/30/99 3:39:03 AM
My housemates came home with 'What Dreams May Come,' which they had rented. We watched it. I went to the pharmacy and ordered some insulin. My lips are now blue and I've lost feeling in my feet. Maybe the insulin will arrive soon...
Here's a plot synopsis: Patch Adams' kids die, then he dies, leaving a mourning widow. He wakes up in an amorphous place which he decides is heaven, since it's made of paint. Heaven, while being whatever we wish it to be, is removed from the regular 3D world we know and love. It's also removed from hell, because when Good Citizens Of Heaven go visit hell, they tend to get sucked into it, which makes it all pretty arbitrary anyway. The bereaved wife eventually commits suicide, and therefore ends up in a hell of her own making, since that's how heaven and hell work, it turns out. BUT... Patch Adams, not content with heaven, goes to hell and has an encounter group moment with the tormented soul of his wife. Then his own desire to free his wife from herself becomes his own hell, which she pulls him out of. And they all live in the happily ever afterlife. The end.
I've never seen a movie about souls which was so soulless.
Response #5
By: Capt. Spastic
Date: 4/30/99 10:11:20 AM
Oh come on Homer! It was a sappy love story, but that's why sappy love stories are suppose to be!
I thought it was pretty good, if no other reason than the special effects.
And as love stories go, I thought the premise was interesting.
Just remember, it is ONLY a movie, and it is ok to turn your mind off once in awhile. :)
Response #6
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 5/2/99 2:19:04 PM
I like my mind to be in the 'on' position, kinda like my libido. Muaaahahaha.
The movie is more than a sappy love story; it's a commercial concession to the goofy NewAgers, poorly written and poorly executed. At the end, I felt as though I had just attended a Crystal Healing Dolphin Rainbow Seminar Workshop, which is *my* idea of hell. I had to listen to my Mr. Bungle CDs over and over to get out of it.
Response #7
By: Ralf
Date: 5/2/99 3:02:53 PM
"Crystal Healing Dolphin Rainbow". Heh.
Response #8
By: Capt. Spastic
Date: 5/3/99 1:12:44 PM
HTB: "The movie is more than a sappy love story; it's a commercial concession to the goofy NewAgers, poorly written and poorly executed."
I don't know, I think you're reaching a bit there. (Good gawd, this is starting to sound like Siskel and Ebert!) If it was such a commercial consession, why did it do so badly at the box office? I think for the type of movie it was, and the subject matter, it was done well. Not the best in the world, grant it, but not the worst either. I thought the direction was adequate, the holes were few, and some of the performances were even notable.
And I didn't hear ONE mention of tofu weiners, nor did I see one pair of Birkstocks worn throughout the whole thing! :)
Response #9
By: sooz
Date: 5/4/99 1:48:55 PM
I've never been with a guy with a tofu weiner. What's that like?
Response #10
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 5/5/99 3:53:14 AM
Well, their attitude is usually all wrong. They tend to have quite a tempeh.
Response #11
By: sooz
Date: 5/6/99 7:30:22 AM
You deserve a point for that, Homey!
Response #12
By: Ralf
Date: 5/7/99 9:04:04 AM
Badda boom.