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Posting an old pic of mine here because... Robin Williams. ;_;
No matter how many great movies he was into (Mrs. Doubtfire is still my favorite), curiously I'll always remember him as Popeye.
Yeah, the movie is abysmal, even Robin used to say: "if you watch it backwards, it has a plot." But Popeye was my main childhood hero, there's something magic on his role on that movie. Seeing Robin Williams perfectly as Popeye in flesh and bones was one of the greatest moments in my kid's life.
He will be missed. A LOT.
No matter how many great movies he was into (Mrs. Doubtfire is still my favorite), curiously I'll always remember him as Popeye.
Yeah, the movie is abysmal, even Robin used to say: "if you watch it backwards, it has a plot." But Popeye was my main childhood hero, there's something magic on his role on that movie. Seeing Robin Williams perfectly as Popeye in flesh and bones was one of the greatest moments in my kid's life.
He will be missed. A LOT.
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There are those who remember the spinich eating Sailor ( like me) for his voice, his mannerisims, and the way he "talked under his breath'...
It was fun in black and white.. but when Robin Williams stepped onto the big screen and breathed REAL LIFE into the character... it went from two demensions to three demensions and became something beyond "mere fun"..
He and all his comic gold will be missed, but the legacy he left behind will ( I hope ) be cherished for decades and more.
I first got to watch Robin back when I was I child watching televison. He portrayed Mork from "Mork and Mindy". a wacky alien character he started in a dream sequence in "Happy Days". I enjoyed his sense of comedy. He was also very excellent in "Alladin" as the Genie.
I wasn't aware of what happend since I slept though most of the evening, missing the evening news boradcast. It wasn't till I got up and found the living room left on where "Nightline" was brodcasting a specail report about him. Very depressing.
I wasn't aware of what happend since I slept though most of the evening, missing the evening news boradcast. It wasn't till I got up and found the living room left on where "Nightline" was brodcasting a specail report about him. Very depressing.
The movie was weird - they dropped the coin on it - Williams was great - there was a great fight scene where he beat up seven brothers, they actually put a giant octopus prop on a catapult and bunged it over the island - and I sat there and went - 'this movie is terrible - why?'
It's an odd one for sure, Robert Altman's Popeye movie -- an ill fit between auteur director and pulpy, silly subject matter (as Ang Lee would later discover with his attempt at a Hulk movie). Certainly Shelley Duvall is perfectly cast, but the songs are unnecessary and personally I could never get past Williams' freakish prosthetic forearms.
Robin Williams was a great Popeye. He was almost the only good thing in a dud movie (And the reason Popeye is such a dud was because Robert Altman was snorting "coke" while he was directing it). Robin Williams... His tragedy was that for all the fun and laughter he gave us all, he couldn't keep any for himself. Goodbye, Robin, thank you, and let our laughter become the strong horse that carries your troubled soul to Heaven and peace.
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