ChromeFox wrote:
Oh Lord. We had to watch "Patch Adams" at school because -- so says my teacher -- it deals with "medical ethics." Right.
This is the lamest tearjerker of a movie I think I've ever seen. My fellow classmates fell for it, but I'm way too cynical to be pulled in by this "Professionalism is bad! Rules are EVIL!" BS. A few examples of this idiocy:
Patch Adams (Robin Williams), who appears to be a wrinkled 50, falls for a blonde student who looks to be about 19. When they made-out, I felt like puking all over my desk. If a guy that age started hitting on me, I would have had the campus police over in three minutes flat.
Halfway through the film, this afforementioned girlfriend is murdered in a thoroughly ambiguous way. Despite the heavy piano music, I wasn't sad, just in a state of oh-my-god-what-just-happened. It went straight from the girl having tea at some dude's house to the friggin funeral.
An especially cheesy scene after the chick dies involves Patch contemplating suicide over a cliff. As he looked down hundreds of feet below, I shouted "DO IT!" The whole class heard me, the guys cracked up, and the girls chided me for it. "Sorry, but I hate this movie." They couldn't understand how anyone wouldn't fall in love with this crap...anyway, a butterfly -- which evidently represents the chick -- flies onto his hand, and of course he gains a blooming sense of hope and sets out on his quest once again. Lord.
Basically, this movie is about one moron running around making an idiot of himself in order to make some cancer-riddin children giggle. He puts a clown nose on, dances with some old hag in a pool of spaghetti, and throws balloon animals at a sleeping geezer. This is the worst movie I've ever seen. If you ever catch a glimpse of it at Blockbuster, run fast and far.
Here's another crappy Robin William during "serious" movie phase, What Dreams May Come.
Talk about tediously slow & boring and at times nausiating (?). It has some cool visuals. I want my two hours back.