Robin Williams at his most annoying in this movie

This is the 'Good Morning Vietnam' board, not the Robin Williams board.

I tried watching this movie for the first time, mainly because of the recent death of Williams.

I could not get through this movie because he is so annoying.

You didn't find him funny, I did. Who's right?

I think Robin was hilarious in GMV. I also think people had a problem with Adrian for two reasons.
1. Robin wasnt playing himself, he was playing the real Adrian Cronauer yet taking creative liberty.

2. Look at the setting and the time period of the movie. Robin had a limited arsenal of jokes that he could use that would appeal to the older generation who experienced the Vietnam War and could remember it, and the younger generation who wouldnt get any good jokes and historical references that Adrian would make.

AIRMAN CRONAUER REQUESTING YOU TO ELABORATE SIR-Adrian Cronauer

"Annoying" is an opinion, not a fact.

You can be annoyed by your houseplants if you so choose, it means aboslutely nothing. It's just an opinion. You should learn to base your opinions on something.

I think Robin Williams was a unique genius, a sort of poor man's Jim Carrey, but very good at outdoing himself sometimes, very wacky, a bit crazy, and very witty as well. You have to be witty to be able to pull off what he has done.

However, I think he sometimes tries too hard, and other times, it doesn't seem very organic. The crux of the matter is, BEYOND 'annoyance', is he funny or not.

I think he's a VERY mixed bag. Because he is able to rapidly fire so many jokes, antics, imitations, and ideas in a succession, chances are, at least some of those are funny and land, even if others aren't. He was never AFRAID to try some joke out, whether people laughed or not. Just the fact that he's DOING an unfunny joke can be funny in itself.

I never found him annoying in Mork & Mindy, he's PERFECT for the role of an Extra-Terrestrial outsider, and his intonations and compassion for comedic expression shine through very well. He's not always funny about things, but he shows what is humanly POSSIBLE, if people would lighten up a little. He makes other people look stiff and boring by comparison, and I for one always wanted to be like him in the show, because he dares to be completely original, he dares to be himself, and he is not afraid to be quirky and 'weird', even when it's not funny.

Also, you can see the other actors trying to not laugh (and failing) many times, so it's a bit of an exaggeration to simply slander him as 'annoying', when he was CLEARLY funny to even the people he worked with, let alone the audiences, and to condense his MASSIVE body of work even with just that show to just one insult is neither rational nor fair.

You try being funny in every single episode for an extended period of time with hot studio lights trained at you and a dull script in hand!

I agree. Never liked him. Yet he is so praised