To quote Hurting: "I mean the whole last 15 years or so of his career is sort of "I'm sorry, I don't even know why I'm Robin Williams""

http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTU0NDAzODU4OV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwNTAxMzg5Mg@@._V1._SY314_CR8,0,214,314_.jpg

The evidence:

The Prince of Providence (pre-production)

2011 Happy Feet 2 in 3D (post-production)
Ramon (voice) / Lovelace (voice)

2009 Old Dogs
Dan

2009 Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
Teddy Roosevelt

2009 World's Greatest Dad
Lance Clayton

2009 Shrink
Holden

2008 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV series) (1 episode)
Merritt Rook
– Authority (2008) … Merritt Rook

2007 August Rush
Maxwell 'Wizard' Wallace

2007 License to Wed
Reverend Frank

2006 Night at the Museum
Teddy Roosevelt

2006 Happy Feet
Ramon (voice) / Lovelace (voice)

2006 Man of the Year
Tom Dobbs

2006 Everyone's Hero
Napoleon Cross (voice)

2006 Runaway Vacation
Bob Munro

2006 The Night Listener
Gabriel Noone

2005 The Big White
Paul Barnell

2005 Robots
Fender (voice)

2004 Noel
Charlie Boyd/The Priest (uncredited)

2004 House of D
Pappass

2004 The Final Cut
Alan Hakman

2003 Life with Bonnie (TV series) (1 episode)
Kevin Powalski
– Psychic (2003) … Kevin Powalski

2003 Freedom: A History of Us (TV series documentary) (4 episodes)
Gen. Ulysses S. Grant / Josiah Quincy / Missouri Farmer / …
– A War to End Slavery (2003) … Gen. Ulysses S. Grant
– Liberty for All (2003) … Missouri Farmer
– Safe for Democracy (2003) … Wilbur/Oliver Wright
– Wake Up America (2003) … Josiah Quincy

2002 Insomnia
Walter Finch

2002 Death to Smoochy
Rainbow Randolph

2002 One Hour Photo
Seymour Parrish

2001 Artificial Intelligence: AI
Dr. Know (voice)

1999 Bicentennial Man
Andrew Martin

1999 Jakob the Liar
Jakob

1999 L.A. Doctors (TV series) (1 episode)
Hugo Kingsley
– Just Duet (1999) … Hugo Kingsley

1998 Patch Adams
Patch Adams

1998 What Dreams May Come
Chris Nielsen

1998 One Saturday Morning (TV series) (2 episodes)
Genie
– Tube Dwellers (1998) … Genie (voice)
– Host to Munger … Genie (voice)

1998 Disney's Math Quest with Aladdin (Video Game)
Genie (voice)

1997 Good Will Hunting
Sean Maguire

1997 Flubber
Professor Philip Brainard

1997 Deconstructing Harry
Mel / Harry's Character

1997 Fathers' Day
Dale Putley

1997 Friends (TV series) (1 episode)
Tomas
– The One with the Ultimate Fighting Champion (1997) … Tomas (uncredited)

1997 Great Minds Think for Themselves (TV series)
The Genie (voice)

1996 Hamlet
Osric

1996 The Secret Agent
The Professor (as Jeorge Spilvyn)

1996 Jack
Jack Charles Powell

1996 The Birdcage
Armand Goldman

1995 Jumanji
Alan Parrish

1995 Aladdin on Ice (TV movie)
Genie (voice) (uncredited)

1995 To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar
John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt (uncredited)

1995 Nine Months
Dr. Kosevich

1995 Aladdin and the King of Thieves (video)
Genie (voice)

has anyone ever seen World's Greatest Dad? That movie was kind of crazy.

Yeah, that was a good 'un

Robots was, I thought, a pretty great as far as non-Pixar animated films go, but it seems all but forgotten by time (and it's only five years old).

I have zero recollection of him in "Hamlet"

Birdcage and Deconstructing Harry are worthy films, at least in my faint memory.

oh haha that is because I am thinking of Mel Gibson's "Macbeth"

you've never heard that guy say "a hit, a very palpable hit" until robin does it

er "Hamlet"

Mel Gibson's MACBETH!

Actually the gaffe should have been Mel Gibson's "The Merchant of Venice"

World's Greatest Dad is fucking awesome.

xpost -- Too true.

Kenneth Branagh attempts to explain himself:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0IiFbpHi6w

And then there was:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXixlEy5Gfc

World's Greatest Dad is fucking awesome.

I loved the first half or so but by the time we've got Robin slo-mo skinny dipping to the entirety of "Under Pressure" I felt the train had derailed.

I am not a fan, but there are less bad movies here than I had thought. It just seems like he puts out crap like Old Dogs every three months.

Robin slo-mo skinny dipping

Words none of us needed to see in proximity to each other.

It just seems like he puts out crap like Old Dogs every three months.

Yeah, that's the thing -- for a while there there was a reliable new batch of posters out for a horrible, horrible looking film, starring him. It was like he was on this bizarre workfare program.

I loved the first half or so but by the time we've got Robin slo-mo skinny dipping to the entirety of "Under Pressure" I felt the train had derailed.

― da croupier, Thursday, October 7, 2010 2:37 PM (27 minutes ago) Bookmark

^yeah...Bobcat Goldthwaite directed it!

this goes back a bit further, but i can pinpoint seeing TOYS in the theater when i was 9 or 10 as the moment when i realized that movies can truly suck.

Will anyone here defend the Branagh Hamlet? I'd like to hear from someone who liked it!

best/worst movie in this list, guys?

Insomnia/Death to Smoochy is probably a pretty predictable one, I'd guess...

I'd probably still put World's Greatest as my fave of what I've seen, Death To Smoochy I don't enjoy and I couldn't finish Insomnia having already seen the original. Skipped far too many to guess "worst"

Best: World's Greatest Dad or Birdcage
Worst: Wait a minute where is RV on that list

2006 Runaway Vacation
Bob Munro

(I was looking for that too.)

oh i see it is hiding as its classy title runaway vacation xpsot

This was thought up, written, filmed, edited and released:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UvBscCukg4

i actually really hate insomnia

I remember when Insomnia and One Hour Photo came out in quick succession and it was like, ooh, the dark side of Robin Williams. No more bullshit. Cue several years more bullshit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUrmRL6ImDE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8d_Irra0yI

Ned, stop it.

World's Greatest Dad is an honorable failure

One Hour Photo is a good movie and redeems Robin Williams to some degree I feel.

omg that RV "rap" scene, dude's eyes are crying for the nearest pill and/or gun barrel

just wait, Robin! make it another decade or two and you'll be a rappin' GRANDPA

One Hour Photo is very creepy, but intentionally so which is more than you can say for Old Dogs. I liked it.

I like it when stars embrace their creepiness, like Williams in One Hour Photo or Tom Cruise in Magnolia, but obviously that's not a long-term career plan.

does One Hour Photo have much of a rep, even retroactively? In the ad for Never Let Me Go they actually follow "from the author of Remains of The Day" with "and the director of One Hour Photo." Admittedly that's more fitting than "from the director of Lenny Kravitz' Are You Gonna Go My Way?" but it still seemed like a strange movie to bring up in your Oscar hopeful pedigree.

I've most enjoyed RW in DtoSmoochy, and The Aristocrats (in the last 15 years).

I wonder if he'll appear in Bobcat's Kinks musical.

holy hell @ the RV clips

There's a treasure trove (as such) on YouTube but I didn't want to kill Pleasant Plains there.

he was great in the secret agent.

didn't go too over the top in the Harry Nilsson doc intrvws

Barry Sonnenfeld had that gadgets column in Esquire where he's always depicted as this cowboy-hatted gizmo aficionado. And there for awhile, his little bio at the end of each story was something like Barry Sonnenfeld is the director of the new hit movie RV with Robin Williams and produced the upcoming series "Pushing Daisies" for ABC.

With judgement like that, why in the hell would I even think about buying a tom-tom that this guy suggested?

actually the best robin williams moment of the past 15 years is probably him interviewing/hanging out with Harlan Ellison in that Dreams with Sharp Teeth documentary

http://www.robin-williams.net/images/films/rv/original/image04.jpg

didn't he just get sober 2-3 years ago?

Have you seen this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFMZ-jvMNBE

I watched that tv movie, yeah. It was incredibly weird.

I actually really liked The Night Listener, no one else saw it though

i tried to watch it, don't remember much other than it being very solemn.

ned you are a very sick man

Forgive me. I must be cured by a doctor with a red clown nose.

god i've seen man of the year like three times altogether

Is there ILX consensus on Mrs. Doubtfire? I can't remember if that was actually good, but it seems to have been the last well-liked movie he did before the downfall.

Well maybe Birdcage or Jumanji

dude patch adams was a ridiculously huge hit. everytime i even remotely start to think about forgiving this man or reconsidering him i remember that movie. never forget.

i will still stan for Smoochy. and Robin in it tbh. i liked World's Greatest Dad. i know i saw Insomnia and One Hour Photo, but i really don't remember much about either.

"World's Greatest Dad" was pretty good, and he was pretty good in it. Same with "One Hour Photo."

I thought his quasi-serious turn in The Birdcage was actually pretty good -- anything to fight off Nathan Lane's screeching. Also:

HACKMAN: You have a...very forceful handshake, Mr. Coleman.

WILLIAMS: Well, you have to in Greece.

willy lobot!

mrs. doubtfire did yield mrs. featherbottom and i can sorta admire that in a kids movie about divorce the parents don't get back together at the end. if i'm looking to watch a heartwarming chris columbus movie w/ a trannie and a few laffs i'm probably sticking w/ rent truth be told.

Sally Field should've been beaten with a nail-encrusted plank though.

what are you a pinkerton agent?

yeah night listener and one hour photo are both supposed to be pretty good. RW doesn't seem to much give much of a shit how good his movies are. He was sober for a long time but had to get sober again a few years ago.

http://videogum.com/img/thumbnails/photos/twmoat_bicentennial_man/jaw.gif

This gif from the other thread is seriously blowing my mind. It's this hypnotic loop of "how the fuck did someone decide the world needed a Robin Williamsbot?"

Has anyone seen Bicentennial Man?

god that is mesmerizing

So I mentioned RV to some coworkers and student workers and I learned:

* Nearly everyone had seen RV

* Nearly all of them expressed deep remorse that they had done so.

* There was a clear generational divide -- the coworkers were regretting watching Robin Williams act the way he did, the student workers were all "RV, with JoJo?!"

what are you a pinkerton agent?

A humanitarian.

Toys is such a weird movie that tries to do so many different things and doesn't really accomplish any of them. I kind of like watching it try though. I mean, it obviously is a shitty movie, but there's this part of me that doesn't want to admit that it is, just to reward it for its screwy pluck.

Oh and a further frightening detail about a certain scene:

At their destination, Carl and Cassie meet three young gangsters at a playground, who act in a threatening manner. Bob scares off the gangsters by imitating their talking style (in the alternate DVD version, Bob imitates the stereotypical kung-fu master), leading them to regain respect for their father, and eventually the entire family begins to enjoy their vacation.

it's crazy to think of the streak barry levinson was on (not that i like it all but still he was thought of as an oscar cailber important director, homicide was kept on the air by having his name attached to it)(which reminds me robin williams was pretty good in that one homicide), and then he pulls some shit like toys and jimmy hollywood back to back and pow just another hack.

Jimmy Hollywood, good god. Repressed memory therapy happening now.

He wrote both those movies.

Remember this:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cudK8MwW64I/ShjaQEU1bcI/AAAAAAAARoo/USVY44zsiyk/s400/11reydj.jpg

Hahahaha that thing.

things i don't miss about the 90s: crichton movies

You're going to hurt Morbz that way, making fun of dinosaur films.

Sphere was one of those multi-star movies from the late nineties that don't get maid anymore because they're expensive and they suck.

Wow, seems like such a weird combo of actors in retrospect.

*made

maaaaan i forgot all about this

http://img842.imageshack.us/img842/6084/blki.jpg

when all hope

was lost,

he invented it.

Jacob the Liar is, seriously, one of the biggest excrescences unleashed on ci-ne-mah.

life is beautiful / day the clown cried triple bill

it is so weird how comedians keep coming back to the holocaust like its the ultimate challenge to their life-affirming comedic skills

they must be like "if i can pull this off..."

Carrot Top as Anne Frank

but by the time we've got Robin slo-mo skinny dipping to the entirety of "Under Pressure" I felt the train had derailed.

Whoa, whoa whoa that isn't the sound of a train derailing but of me frantically popping the film in a DVD player

Carrot Top as Anne Frank

Now hmmm. Just what other prop comedian could play Hitler?

http://www.kaitaia.com/funny/g2/d/13878-1/hitler-watermelon.gif

Williams is the weakest element of AI, Insomnia, Happy Feet, Hamlet.......

I am fine with him doing movies like Jumanji and Night at the Museum.

who'd he play in hamlet again? polonius? ophelia?

World's Greatest Dad is an honorable failure

Yeah, I wanted to like this one way more than I did.

happened to catch the first twenty minutes or so of License to Wed the other week on tv before i plucked my eyeballs out - RW is a groovy priest w/ an adorable kid sidekick - i hear it was a big hit in ireland

now that just isn't true

aw, I liked Sphere

granted I only saw it once in the middle of the night while assembling/wrapping Christmas presents for my cousins, but still

i think i may have confused it with event horizon in my head

who'd he play in hamlet again? polonius? ophelia?

Both at the same time. (He played Osric, the goof towards the end overseeing the duel.)

I really liked Sphere as a book, and was bummed when it became a film.

sphere was easily one of crichton's more entertaining books and could have made a cool movie if done right.

what it needed was...robin williams

like, they crack open the "sphere" and it's Mork from Ork in his egg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygqR3fDBhe4

Back...to TV

http://gawker.com/5939554/robin-williams-to-return-to-tv-in-new-sitcom-from-ally-mcbeal-creator

he was great on louie