teri tait wrote:I can't stand Robin Williams, I don't just mute the commercial for that movie I have to turn the channel. He is sooooo annoying to me
Khrushchev's Other Shoe wrote:teri tait wrote:I can't stand Robin Williams, I don't just mute the commercial for that movie I have to turn the channel. He is sooooo annoying to me
Don't much care for Robin Williams either. Most Robin Williams films seem to me to follow the same pattern.
Cyndi wrote:Khrushchev's Other Shoe wrote:teri tait wrote:I can't stand Robin Williams, I don't just mute the commercial for that movie I have to turn the channel. He is sooooo annoying to me
Don't much care for Robin Williams either. Most Robin Williams films seem to me to follow the same pattern.
You guys really don't see the 'creative' genius of Robin William?
I'll agree he has had a tendency to be type cast in very 'similar' types of roles. But if you consider in most everything that he does that between 50-80% was all ad-lib on his part. That takes some pretty quick fast creative thinking on ones feet.
After all, have you ever tried to add-lib quickly? It isn't easy to do. I don't remember which of his movie this was about, but I saw an interview with the director about 'directing' Robin Williams. In a nutshell the Director stated that it was having the basic scene layout as to what they wanted to accomplish in the scene, and what you saw was all Robin - not a script.
That type of acting takes real talent. Talent that ranks right up there with some of the greats like Jim Carrey, (who works the same way, mostly ad-lib), John Ritter, John Belushi, Lucille Ball, Red Skelton, and even Charlie Chaplin to name only a few that come to mind.
Now, having said all that, I will be the first to admit there may be a few pieces of Robin Williams' work that I have not enjoyed... but as you all know, in the finish product that you see in any movie theatre or on TV, there can be so many variables contributing factors of the finished product of what you see... Writing, acting, directing, editing. If a movie or TV show is not well received, It is not only the actors fault.
[unless you are the actor who is jumping up and down on Oprah's sofa]
Sorry - I'll get off my Theatre Acting Appreciation soapbox now.
8)
teri tait wrote:I just don't like him, nothing about him is appealing. His energy seems spastic and disturbing, his voice grates on my ears, he is not physically appealing, and he dresses like a dork both on and off the screen.
If he would change all of those things I could possibly tolerate him. Maybe
teri tait wrote:I can't stand Tom Cruise for practically the same reasons. Tom Hanks is edging into that category also... And George Clooney but I don't like his political views on top of everthing else about him.
teri tait wrote:I can't stand Tom Cruise for practically the same reasons. Tom Hanks is edging into that category also... And George Clooney but I don't like his political views on top of everthing else about him.
Khrushchev's Other Shoe wrote:Don't much care for Robin Williams either. Most Robin Williams films seem to me to follow the same pattern. There are three types of characters:
a) Robin Williams, who demonstrates that there are no real or difficult problems in the world, everything can be solved simply by being weird and wacky enough
b) A group of people who follow Robin Williams everywhere he goes, fawing all over him, you're so incredible, why can't we be more like you
c) Some guy who has to stop Robin Williams, because he's the good guy and therefore a threat to the evil order.
Lonewulf wrote:There was another movie he starred in that I don't know the title of, about the "romances" throughout time, from caveman age to modern age, that Robin Williams' character went through (either through reincarnation, or to show that the more things change, the more they stay the same).
Lonewulf wrote:Doesn't this totally ignore "24 Hours" and "Insomnia"?
Those were two major movies, with very good acting. Williams didn't show any of these three things you talk about.
Khrushchev's Other Shoe wrote:Lonewulf wrote:Doesn't this totally ignore "24 Hours" and "Insomnia"?
Yes it does, as I haven't seen either of them.
KOS wrote:Those were two major movies, with very good acting. Williams didn't show any of these three things you talk about.
It's entirely possible that my opinion of Robin Williams would change if I had seen more of his films. The ones I've seen so far, I haven't much liked...
teri tait wrote:I notice nobody stuck up for Clooney, except for Cyndi in the general sense that you should respect the art form.
Robin Williams has been in some movies that were good in spite of him being a part of them... That's about the nicest thing I can say about his acting.
teri tait wrote:Robin Williams has been in some movies that were good in spite of him being a part of them... That's about the nicest thing I can say about his acting.
MM_Dandy wrote:I think Will Smith is a poor actor, and, so far, have only enjoyed a couple of the movies in which he acted.
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