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Robin Williams character was a moron

posted 11 years ago by LaPfieffer92
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I don't get why the movie tried so hard to make him this likeable guy when the fact is he was a unlikeable annoying and arrogant dope who deserved everything he got in the end when he was told to leave. I mean he went overboard with the military bashing and constant garbage he was spewing on the radio. i actually love robin Williams but this movie i just disliked his character throughout the whole thing. everything, the humour seemed very forced and i was happy at the end when he was told to leavem, even though we the audience are suypposed to like him. i just couldn't, he was an annoying prick that deserved to be booted out with his over the top antics.

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[–] onaeronautilus 11 years ago

So you're the Lt. Hauk type, huh?

[–] joed1667 10 years ago

LOL - love the Lt. Hauk comparison

[–] MovieLover0967 10 years ago

Red necks are pathetic human beings.

[–] Maegnas 10 years ago

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[–] onaeronautilus 10 years ago

Cheers! :D

[–] caseyrook 10 years ago

You dont like M*A*S*H either, do you?

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[–] caseyrook 10 years ago

Honestly Adrian Cronauer was more believable than Hawkeye Pierce. Adrian was at least punished for his actions.

As for Adrian being sent home at the end, why in the Hell was he so sad? He was getting out of the service with a Honorable Discharge!

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[–] jjmn 9 years ago

Takes one to know one.

[–] Shonsu 9 years ago

Yes, he went a little over the top, but the military bashing was probably half of why the troops liked him. He was bashing it in a way that was only insulting the upper echelons of the military rather than the GI's in the field.

I will agree that he went way overboard at the end. I know that guy was his friend, but he was responsible for multiple bombings and will probably do more of them and he saved his life. Essentially he traded his life for future GI's which to me was way wrong.

Does history record any case in which the majority was right?

L. Long

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[–] Kawada_Kira 8 years ago

I will agree that he went way overboard at the end. I know that guy was his friend, but he was responsible for multiple bombings and will probably do more of them and he saved his life. Essentially he traded his life for future GI's which to me was way wrong.

And how many Vietnamese people would those GIs have killed? Probably one hell of a lot more. But of course only American lives matter. If they didn't want to be killed, they shouldn't have been occupying someone else's country.

[–] avortac4 (3483) 2 years ago

I am glad to see someone having a more human perspective on this kind of things, where usually it's just flag-waving patriotic nationalism (= psychopathy), 'support the troops' and complete normalization and understanding of standing armies that go around the planet murdering people in other countries, where they have no business even being.

I am looking at things from, for the lack of better term, 'planetary perspective', as I don't consider one slice of this planet to be more important or more valuable or 'better' than any other. Sure, better in some ways, worse in others, and so on, but not 'the best place that needs people to murder other people so these murderers can live there'-kind of 'better'.

We should think globally, planetarily, see this planet as s common whole that we share, not a slice we happened to be temporarily incarnate into as the 'best country in the world', no matter WHAT that slice is or where it's located (ironically, pretty much EVERY country's natioanlism has this kind of thinking implemented, and they can't ALL be the bests, can they?).

People shouldn't go murder people, no matter what, period. I'd rather BE choked by communistic tyranny than go murder even one innocent vietnamese teenager. We must learn to respect and value LIFE over capitalistic and communistic iceals, materialistic things like oil, and especially money, power and wealth.

[–] crockett_john 8 years ago

Are you a Dave Duncan fan?

I think part of his problem was that he was reading unauthorized news and broadcasting troop movements without authorization.

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[–] Druffmaul 9 years ago

You're in more dire need of a blowjob than any white man in history.