WHY does nobody like this movie?

i'll tell you one of my absolutely MASSIVE problems with this hokum: the absolutely DIRE musical score, which is only ever interested in two modes - wackily comedic or absolutely, one hundred percent, shockingly rancid cheese. i understand that it was nominated for an oscar. words fail. (williams' "rebel" character totally up heaving the whole medical profession sure doesn't help things for me, either)

I love it!!! I CRY EVERYTIME I WATCH AND I ABSOLUTELY LOVE IT!!!

I LOVE the movie and I'm with you, I for the life of me can't understand why so many people dislike this movie and bash it. It makes no sense to me. It's a TRUE story and I find it to be a touching one. What's wrong with a movie about a real guy that was a fantastic doctor & wanted to make ill people happy and smile? I thought it was incredible what he did and I think the movie portrayed the man very well and the acting was incredible as well. The movie had everything, sad parts, happy parts and drama. It just makes me think that a lot of the people that didn't like it have no hearts or like Robin Williams said in the movie to some of the doctors/professors, "dead from the heart up".

i know i don't really like this movie because of the hard left it takes when a certain someone is at home playing piano and invites someone over. movie was fine, then a tangent occurs which is completely out of place.

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You are not the only one Bridget or one of three people. I absolutely loved this movie.
It made me feel so may emotions: happiness, sadness, empathy etc.
Definitely one of the most beautiful movie I have seen (and I have seen a lot). It touched me very deeply. And like you said the acting was great and Robin Williams (RIP) was perfect for the role. I adore him.
I found this movie very inspiring and could identify myself to Robin William's character in the movie.
All in all, an absolute gem :)

I watched this last night. I didn't hate it but I didn't overly love it either. It was watchable and I enjoyed parts of it, but I just found it way too overly sentimental. I don't mind movies being sentimental but they need to do it right, this film just pushed it's point too much that it made it obvious. I like Robin Williams as a dramatic actor and I think if he put a more subdued performance in this film would have worked better, his over the top comic style really didn't work for me in believability.

Overall I give this film a 6/10 which is a pass mark for me, that's higher than I expected given what I'd heard about it prior to watching it.

I think the reason why you love this film yet very few others do is summed up in your second paragraph when you say "I'm one of those people that cry at everything". You're the kind of person that enjoys sentimental movies, no matter how over the top and corny they are, and if you like movies like that that's perfectly fine... but don't judge others because they expect more out of films.

A lot of us don't like sappy films which are over-sentimental. I respect your right to enjoy movies of this kind, but in return respect my right to prefer films which would handle the subject matter and story a bit more tactfully.

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I love this movie, actually.

https://lebeauleblog.com/2013/04/25/what-the-hell-happened-to-robin-williams/9/

During Williams’ career, he has worked with some of the best directors in Hollywood. He also worked with Tom Shadyac who is best known for making movies with Jim Carrey. Shadyac decided to stretch with the medical comedy-drama, Patch Adams. And the end result is one of the worst movies ever made.

Everything that is wrong with the movie is pictured above. Williams plays a doctor who just wants to make people laugh. So he puts on a clown nose which is really more annoying than funny. The big, mean establishment frowns on Williams’ unconventional bedside manner. So Williams has to fight the system so that doctors everywhere will be allowed to put brightly colored rubber on their noses.

The movie has the gall to use actual kids with cancer in order to pull at the heart-strings. But it doesn’t stop there. Patch Adams will do anything to emotionally manipulate the audience including an awkwardly handled plot twists which moves the film into melodrama.

Everything about this movie is hacky. In Roger Ebert’s review, he noted, “Patch Adams made me want to spray the screen with Lysol. This movie is shameless. It’s not merely a tearjerker. It extracts tears individually by liposuction, without anesthesia.”

Reviews were deservedly terrible. And yet, the movie was still a hit with audiences who had not yet tired of Williams’ mix of crude humor and pathos.