Luke, I think the biggest problem here is that you're analyzing a feel-good Robin Williams movie.

You have to keep in mind that until he inexplicably started playing villains, every drama starring him had to be feel-good. He, between 1982 ([i]The World According to Garp[/i]) and probably 1999 ([i]Jakob the Liar[/i]), played the same character in every drama he starred in (his "Garp" character); sometimes it worked ([i]Good Will Hunting[/i], [i]Good Morning, Vietnam[/i]) amd sometimes it did not ([i]Patch Adams[/i]).

/my two cents

Can't forget [i]Mrs. Doubtfire[/i], either.

Duuuuuuuuuude looks like a lay-day!

/air guitar

Mrs. Doubtfire was a comedy, not a drama; for comedies, Robin Williams generally took his standup comedy persona (off-the-wall, talking a mile a minute, seems like he's on cocaine or speed) and adapted it for his role.

/knows more about Robin Williams than any well-adjusted person should.

[QUOTE=Illmatic]Luke, I think the biggest problem here is that you're analyzing a feel-good Robin Williams movie.

You have to keep in mind that until he inexplicably started playing villains, every drama starring him had to be feel-good. He, between 1982 ([i]The World According to Garp[/i]) and probably 1999 ([i]Jakob the Liar[/i]), played the same character in every drama he starred in (his "Garp" character); sometimes it worked ([i]Good Will Hunting[/i], [i]Good Morning, Vietnam[/i]) amd sometimes it did not ([i]Patch Adams[/i]).

/my two cents[/QUOTE]

Heh, you're right. It's kind of a pain to know about the actual conditions of the time period when watching a movie that has placed such considerations into secondary roles. Still, feel-good movies about the Holocaust exist: Schindler's List, for all its graphic imagery, is basically one. I feel like if you're gonna do a historical drama about a subject as weighty as that, you don't trivialize it by molding and contriving a historic condition to fit around a more-or-less cheaply-constructed dramatic premise: instead you make the history serve your drama. It's not like there's any more drama to be had by downplaying the natural drama that would exist in a ruthless system like the Holocaust.

Meh. I think you're right though. That's just my take on it.

Bah! The bloody last.fm radio keeps logging me out of Audioscrobbler. Add that to the fact the tags are so inaccurate that Black Metal radio gives 1 BM song for every 20 pop-punk/modern rock/dance song, it's enough to make you cry.

I think Robin Williams does villains (or 'bad' characters, at least) rather well.

NP Upper Crust - Finished With Finishing School

Yes, I understand. I just wanted an excuse to play air guitar and sing an obnoxious song.

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[I]One Hour Photo [/I] was rather creepy, when I think about it. But then again, his character in [I]Death to Smoochy[/I] was pretty off-the-wall as well. Both were good movies.

[QUOTE=Illmatic]I'm buying a Pittsburgh Pirates cap and going to a party as Chuck D

laziness++[/QUOTE]
Well you can't go alone, you gotta get your very on Flavor Flav. :thumb:

[url=http://www.addictinggames.com/blackknight.html]The Queen needs a new swimming pool. The King calls upon you, The Black Knight, to go hither and bash as much taxes as possible from thy freeloading peasants.[/url]

Not really much skill involved, but it's fun and seems to keep me coming back for more.

[QUOTE=Jom]Yes, I understand. I just wanted an excuse to play air guitar and sing an obnoxious song.

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[I]One Hour Photo [/I] was rather creepy, when I think about it. But then again, his character in [I]Death to Smoochy[/I] was pretty off-the-wall as well. Both were good movies.[/QUOTE]

I really like d him in One Hour Photo.
the quiet nice guy psycho :p

I love almost everything with Robin in it actually.
he just has a certain way, and he seems such a nice guy.

favorite actors:
in no order
Robin Williams
Sean Connery
Anthony Hopkins

[QUOTE=Illmatic]

OMG STOP SPAMMING MY THREAD[/QUOTE]

Ahem. :mad:

EDIT:

1 Therapy? 41
2 Old Man's Child 15
3 Poison the Well 12
3 My Dying Bride 12
5 Death 10
5 Burzum 10
5 Arcturus 10
5 Weezer 10
5 Nirvana 10
10 Children of Bodom 8

[QUOTE=Superpeer]Ahem. :mad:

EDIT:

1 Therapy? 41
2 Old Man's Child 15
3 Poison the Well 12
3 My Dying Bride 12
5 Death 10
5 Burzum 10
5 Arcturus 10
5 Weezer 10
5 Nirvana 10
10 Children of Bodom 8[/QUOTE]

uh, what is this Audioscrobbler?:
in that case :p

1 Solefald 39
2 Arcturus 20
3 Radiohead 12
3 Diabolical Masquerade 12
5 Mr. Bungle 11
6 Pain of Salvation 10
7 Disillusion 9
8 Necrophagist 8
8 Borknagar 8
10 Sleepytime Gorilla Museum 5

Hi guys :)

/just got account back

sup? NP: Dragon force-Valley Of The ****ed

and i they are not really my cup of tea so me changes to metallica...

[QUOTE=Axe]Hi guys :)

/just got account back

sup? NP: Dragon force-Valley Of The ****ed

and i they are not really my cup of tea so me changes to metallica...[/QUOTE]


you choose Metallica over Dragonforce! :eek:
shame on you, turn teh Force back on ;)

np: Arcturus - Kinetic

just that song is bad

NP: Twilight Of The Gods- Helloween

Metallica > Dragonforce

I'd choose Dragonforce over Metallica anyday. The only thing I don't like about Dragonforce is that they get tiring.

The only thing i don't like about Metallica is the drummer who can't keep in time. Oh yeh, and the music.

[QUOTE=Superpeer]Metallica > Dragonforce[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=Arucard]The only thing i don't like about Metallica is the drummer who can't keep in time.[/QUOTE]

Both the truth.

[QUOTE=Superpeer] Dragonforce > Metallica[/QUOTE]

fix'd

[QUOTE=the2stranger]broke[/QUOTE]
fix'd

NP:Beethoven-Moonlight sonata

i guess no one on this forum likes sepultura :upset:
[url]http://www.musicianforums.com/forums/showthread.php?p=9876335#post9876335[/url]

I don't like them
but I'm sure there are people here that do

I don't really. So, i'm drinking a good old Fosters. Life is teh goodness.

I haven't drunk anything but water for a few weeks now (apart from an Irn Bru, last week). I bougth a Sprite out of a vending machine on my way home last night, just because I was desperate for a drink, but I haven't drunk it yet because it was warm. And not even "room temperature"-warm, but noticeably warm. Close to hot :-/

hot drinks are digusting unless they should be hot, and then they must be really hot
like Tea :)

np: Porcupine Tree - Piano Lessons

I prefer a lukewarm Coffee, when it burns my mouth it just annoys me.

NP : Aggaloch - A Desolation Song

Hot drinks that are meant to be cold > Cold drinks that are meant to be hot

To hell with both of them, though.

tr00f.

So we're having like a massive party in half-term. Me and some mates are building a bar for it, and we're thinking of getting a few kegs in too. Should be good stuff. I'm gonna dress as a ninja.