# What Robin Williams movies did you see in the theater? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 12, 2014, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-robin-williams-movies-did-you-see-in-the-theater/695347 "2014-08-12T02:44:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2014, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-robin-williams-movies-did-you-see-in-the-theater/695347/1 "2014-08-12T02:44:31Z")
Pretty much everyone is still reeling from the death of Robin Williams. It got me thinking about which of his movies I saw when they were in the theater. I find the movie theater experience very powerful and the freshest, obviously newest way to see an actor or director’s work. For Williams, I saw: Mrs. Doubtfire Jumanji Aladdin Hamlet The Birdcage Good Will Hunting A.I. Pretty good track record. I wasn’t a fan of the Birdcage and Mrs. Doubtfire is more cute than great, but the reset are quite solid. ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2014, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-robin-williams-movies-did-you-see-in-the-theater/695347/2 "2014-08-12T02:59:20Z")
Good Morning Vietnam The Adventures of Baron Munchausen Awakenings The Fisher King Hook Toys Mrs. Doubtfire Jumanji AI (Seen a bunch of others but not in the theatre) ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2014, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-robin-williams-movies-did-you-see-in-the-theater/695347/3 "2014-08-12T03:03:59Z")
Popeye was one of the first movies I ever saw in a theater. I was around six. ---
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Popeye Club Paradise Good Morning, Vietnam The Adventures of Baron Munchausen Dead Poets Society Hook Aladdin Mrs. Doubtfire Jumanji Flubber Good Will Hunting Patch Adams Bicentennial Man Night at the Museum ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2014, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-robin-williams-movies-did-you-see-in-the-theater/695347/5 "2014-08-12T03:39:24Z")
The Survivors Moscow on the Hudson Good Morning, Vietnam The Fisher King Jumanji What Dreams May Come Night at the Museum ---
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Jumanjii, Hook, and Bicentennial Man. I still haven’t forgiven him for Bicentennial Man. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2014, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-robin-williams-movies-did-you-see-in-the-theater/695347/7 "2014-08-12T03:44:07Z")
Not that many really. Popeye, Good Morning, Moscow on the Hudson and Jumanji. He had two distinctions for me – Moscow on the Hudson is one of very few films I paid to see several times and Popeye one of the very few I lost interest in and left. I was more into his comedy routines and commentary than his films. I can still see his “three-headed baby fish” pollution routine in my brain and I maybe saw it twice on Carson reruns way back when. ---
**Author:** ![Spud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spud/32/347_2.png) [@Spud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spud)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2014, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-robin-williams-movies-did-you-see-in-the-theater/695347/8 "2014-08-12T03:52:32Z")
Most of the above plus The World According to Garp. I’m sure if I looked up IMDB I’d realize there are many more. ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2014, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-robin-williams-movies-did-you-see-in-the-theater/695347/9 "2014-08-12T05:33:44Z")
Hook and Popeye, but my favorite was Toys. ---
**Author:** ![Nema98](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d2c977/32.png) [@Nema98](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nema98)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2014, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-robin-williams-movies-did-you-see-in-the-theater/695347/10 "2014-08-12T05:53:15Z")
Jumanji in 1995 at age eight, rest were on video. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2014, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-robin-williams-movies-did-you-see-in-the-theater/695347/11 "2014-08-12T06:38:09Z")
_Patch Adams_ _Jumanji_ _Aladdin_ _Good Will Hunting_ _The Birdcage_ _Mrs. Doubtfire_ _What Dreams May Come_ _Toys_ _Hook_ _AI_ ---
**Author:** ![Vashbul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Vashbul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vashbul)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2014, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-robin-williams-movies-did-you-see-in-the-theater/695347/12 "2014-08-12T06:59:42Z")
The Night Listener The Big White Insomnia One Hour Photo Deconstructing Harry Hamlet To Wong Foo Aladdin The Fisher King Dead Again Awakenings Dead Poets Society Baron Munchausen World According to Garp Popeye ---
**Author:** ![panamajack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/47e85d/32.png) [@panamajack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panamajack)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2014, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-robin-williams-movies-did-you-see-in-the-theater/695347/13 "2014-08-12T07:27:18Z")
Insomnia AI Bicentennial Man Good Will Hunting Hamlet Jack To Wong Foo Nine Months Mrs. Doubtfire Toys Hook The Fisher King Dead Poets Society Not even my favorite roles of his, but some good and some bad in there. ---
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Popeye Baron Munchausen Fisher King Hook Aladdin Toys Mrs Doubtfire Jumanji What Dreams May Come AI Robots Happy Feet ---
**Author:** ![lawoot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/35a633/32.png) [@lawoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lawoot)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2014, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-robin-williams-movies-did-you-see-in-the-theater/695347/15 "2014-08-12T10:51:12Z")
The World According to Garp Mrs. Doubtfire Jumanji Aladdin Hamlet Good Morning Vietnam The Adventures of Baron Munchausen The Fisher King Hook Toys Night at the Museum The Survivors Moscow on the Hudson What Dreams May Come Dead Again August Rush Nine Months Club Paradise Popeye ---
**Author:** ![Mr\_Shine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr_shine/32/464_2.png) [@Mr\_Shine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Shine)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2014, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-robin-williams-movies-did-you-see-in-the-theater/695347/16 "2014-08-12T10:56:06Z")
Good Will Hunting only ---
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Not many. I did see _Good Morning Viet Nam_. That movie has a prime example of why the theater experience is so much more powerful than watching a movie at home. The scene where he gets on air and starts telling the real news and not the fluff they were made to say. When they cut off the signal it is only reaction shots and complete dead silence…silence…silence… It seems to go on forever. Watching it at home there is little impact in that scene. Sitting through that sudden silence in the movie theater made me feel the weight of it pushing down on me. Brilliant acting and directing. ---
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Hook Mrs. Doubtfire The Birdcage Good Will Hunting Popeye (I think, I was very small) A.I. One-Hour Photo Insomnia Dead Poets Society Baron Munchausen (I think – may have been video) ---
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The only one I can really recall is Popeye because I took my young daughter, which didn’t work out too well. She was too young to appreciate it. I’ve seen lots of his films, but I can’t think of another one that was actually at the cinema. But I don’t go to the movies too often. ---
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Cadillac Man (I’m the only one it seems) Dead Again Good Morning Vietnam Good Will Hunting [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-robin-williams-movies-did-you-see-in-the-theater/695347.md?page=2)