Adams Movie Reviews

Matt Dillon plays a high school counsler at a high school in South Florida. He is well respected and loved by the students. He is really loved by his student played by Denise Richards. She likes to him to a very dangerous point. She later accuses of him of rape to the local cop played by Kevin Bacon along with another student played by Neve Campbell. Matt's character is hated by the community and he hires a lawyer played by Bill Murray to defend him. However, the movie turns into a story of sex, murder, and betrayl that like I said earlier will leave you saying "WOW" and have you watching it again.

Denise Richards is absolutely crazy in this movie. I couldn't believe this was the sweet innocent girl I had seen in Starship Troopers. Denise, Matt, and Neve shoot a soft porn in the movie when they do a three some. I couldn't believe it. I think this is the best acting Denise has done in her young carear. She is a beautiful woman and I love her to death. Most guys become a fan of her from watching this.

Kevin Bacon has a nice role in the film. It's one of the better performances of his carear. I hate his character in the movie. He plays a huge role in the film though, and Bacon liked this movie so much he helped produce it.

This is a different kind of role for Matt Dillon in the beginning of the movie. However, by the end he won't disappoint his loyal fans as he returns to the kind of character he typically plays.

I liked Wild Things. It's an insane sexual thriller. If nudity is not your thing I would not get this movie. Nevertheless if you want to see a movie with a ton and twists and turns this is it. Men will really like Denise in the movie. But like I said this movie will leave you saying "WOW" and will have you watching at again.

Matt Dillon plays a high school counsler at a high school in South Florida. He is well respected and loved by the students. He is really loved by his student played by Denise Richards. She likes to him to a very dangerous point. She later accuses of him of rape to the local cop played by Kevin Bacon along with another student played by Neve Campbell. Matt's character is hated by the community and he hires a lawyer played by Bill Murray to defend him. However, the movie turns into a story of sex, murder, and betrayl that like I said earlier will leave you saying "WOW" and have you watching it again.

Denise Richards is absolutely crazy in this movie. I couldn't believe this was the sweet innocent girl I had seen in Starship Troopers. Denise, Matt, and Neve shoot a soft porn in the movie when they do a three some. I couldn't believe it. I think this is the best acting Denise has done in her young carear. She is a beautiful woman and I love her to death. Most guys become a fan of her from watching this.

Kevin Bacon has a nice role in the film. It's one of the better performances of his carear. I hate his character in the movie. He plays a huge role in the film though, and Bacon liked this movie so much he helped produce it.

This is a different kind of role for Matt Dillon in the beginning of the movie. However, by the end he won't disappoint his loyal fans as he returns to the kind of character he typically plays.

I liked Wild Things. It's an insane sexual thriller. If nudity is not your thing I would not get this movie. Nevertheless if you want to see a movie with a ton and twists and turns this is it. Men will really like Denise in the movie. But like I said this movie will leave you saying "WOW" and will have you watching at again.

Professor Grady Tripp (Michael Douglas) is a middle-aged writer and English professor, teaching at a small Pittsburgh university. Having found spectacular success with his first novel, he now suffers from a seven-year case of writer's block on his second, which has ballooned up to more than 2600 single-spaced pages. Compounding this professional crisis is an array of personal woes: his third wife has just left him; his young student Hannah Green (Katie Holmes) is constantly hitting on him; he's just discovered that his mistress, Sara Gaskell (Frances McDormand), is pregnant. She drops her little bomb on Tripp on the eve of WordFest, a writers' conference, which Tripp's editor Terry Crabtree (Robert Downey, Jr.) is attending in hopes of finally reading the professor's long-awaited sophomore novel. To boot, Sara is the chancellor of the university where Tripp works, and her husband Walter (Richard Thomas) is the head of the English department--Tripp's boss. In an effort to escape this morass of problems, but only exacerbating them, Tripp smokes pot more or less continually, as well as drinking and popping the occasional pill.

But no amount of self-medication helps when Tripp's brilliant, depressive student James Leer (Tobey Maguire) shoots Walter Gaskell's dog and steals his prize piece of memorabilia, sparking a chain reaction of improbable and hilarious events. In trying to shield his young protege from the fallout, Tripp is forced to deal with his own personal and professional shortcomings, and to decide once and for all what he truly wants from his life.

For the most part, the script is terrifically funny, offering up equal doses of dark humor and pathos. The university environment is lampooned particularly well, with all its swollen egos and artsy pretentiousness. Tripp is an imminently likable central character: gruff and crusty, full of mordant humor, but warm and compassionate despite his detached writer's irony. He's a nice guy who has managed to get his life completely screwed up, but his weaknesses make him all the more appealing. The viewer never stops wanting him to pull himself together and live up to his potential.

The performances are almost uniformly excellent. Douglas is great as the decidedly unglamorous Tripp: bleary-eyed, unshaven, limping about in an old bathrobe, smoking joint after joint. Maguire is his usual brilliant self, bringing exactly the right touch of intelligence, charm, and confusion to the troubled Leer (a scene where he gets drunk and stoned in Tripp's in-laws' house is a highlight of the film). McDormand also shines in her role as the university chancellor; she and Douglas have an effortless chemistry together, their body language and facial expressions communicating the long history of the characters' love for each other. Downey provides a lot of smarmy fun as Crabtree, but he's equally effective in the character's more introspective moments--the viewer easily sees his concern for Tripp and the professional toll that the writer's sophomore slump has taken on his editor. Thomas is fun in his small role as the stereotypical pompous university administrator, and Holmes, while mostly there to provide some eye candy, has a nice scene where she tries gently to advise Tripp on what's wrong with his second novel.

The film's greatest stylistic flaw is that it goes way overboard in its efforts to be quirky and off-beat; screenwriter Steve Kloves and director Curtis Hanson try to create an entire stew from an ingredient that should ideally be used as a spice. While it's certainly true that academia is known for having its fair share of eccentrics, it seems that nobody in this story can be an ordinary, normal person. Crabtree brings a tuba-playing transvestite to the party; Hannah always wears red cowboy boots; Walter is obsessed with the Marilyn Monroe-Joe DiMaggio marriage; the dog is blind; James can recite celebrity suicides in alphabetical order; Tripp lounges about in a long, pink bathrobe; the pregnant waitress at the bar is married to a James Brown lookalike; an English professor (Rip Torn) calls himself "Q." While all this oddball stuff is undeniably amusing, at times it threatens to be distracting; Kloves and Hanson really needed to dial the weirdness down a few notches.

The main problem in terms of character is that seemingly nobody has to face the consequences of their actions. Everyone is let off with a literal or figurative slap on the wrist, and the ending, while very sweet on one hand is a little too pat on the other. The characters are sympathetic enough for the viewer to want things to work out for them, but nobody seems to learn or change or grow as a result of their misadventures. This robs most of the characters of any real development, and the story's conclusion loses some punch as a result.

For all that, however, Wonder Boys is a solid, enjoyable film, one that handles a number of potentially thorny topics (drug use, unexpected pregnancy, adultery, homosexuality) with a commendably deft touch. In particular, Crabtree's pursuit of the sexually confused James is depicted amazingly well, resulting in a sweet and funny romantic interlude that is presented in a remarkably straightforward manner. Kloves and Hanson thankfully refrain from the embarrassing "gay acceptance" grandstanding that less able writers and directors might feel obliged to include. For this reason, and many others, Wonder Boys is definitely worth checking out as a rental or even adding to one's permanent DVD collection.

That aside, it's a fine movie. You don't know what to expect. It's more of a character piece than an action movie, but it keeps you entertained from start to finish. The characters are nicely drawn, and there's plenty of humor. The acting is excellent throughout. Tobey MacGuire is particularly good, as is Robert Downey, Jr. (even in spite of the fact that they play those dreaded gay characters!). Michael Douglas also gives one of his better performances in many years. He's actually not even annoying in this one.

His wife left him, his lover is the chancellor of the college, his publisher wants his next book that he can't seem to finish and above all else a student needs his guidance and attentions. What else could go wrong you name it its in here.

I loved the characters all flawed but in a touching gonna be alright sort of way and lots of laughing with a little heart ache to keep you interested.

I loved this film and wondered about the novel it was based on. I will more than likely read the novel but definetly see the movie ..top notch acting and great story...........

BASIC PLOT:
In this film, Sandler plays the role of a man who is in his thirties, and has done nothing with his life. He works only one day a week - in a toll booth! Through an odd twist of events, he ends up looking after a child, and the two become very close thanks to his unique (but certainly awkward) parenting choices. Unfortunately, he quickly learns there is more to parenting than just fun and games.

FILM OPINIONS:
This is an excellent film, since it's more than "just another Adam Sandler movie." Perhaps this is due to the drama that you don't get in most of his films. It's not an outrageous film (like many of his previous ones), but it's still a good one nonetheless, and more likely than not, you'll be pleased. The film contains a variety of excellent songs - most of which are covers (remakes.)

DVD:
The DVD gives you all the basic features you'd expect - scene selections, trailers for this and other films, commentary, behind-the-scenes footage, etc. And unlike a plethora of DVD movies out there today, this one contains full screen and widescreen on a single disc! I was hoping for deleted scenes too, but I'm not complaining.

OVERALL:
This is one of the best films in Sandler's catalogue. If you want to watch a good comedy film, as only Sandler could do, I strongly suggest seeing this movie.

This movie was bad, not for the style or the directing. It is bad because of the terrible dogmatic hippiness of its message. This "fight the establishment" [material] wasn't useful in the 60's and it is equally trite and puerile now.

It's definitely worth watching!

What has incited me to add my two pence here is a comment from one of the earlier reviewers (David Von Pein) -

>> And the final nail in the coffin is the last scene, during which we get to witness Patch's bare hind quarters during graduation festivities! Why, oh why, would anyone do such a vulgar thing! Even the unorthodox Mr. Adams!! (Somebody, PLEASE tell me the real Patch didn't do this in this thing we refer to as "real life"!) <<

I run a humor discussion list and had the good fortune of having a Health Humorist on my list who was a part of a delegation that visited China along with Dr Patch Adams. Naturally I asked her about her recollections of the trip and here's a paragraph that might of interest to David. :-)

"I don't recall him doing too many really silly things. I do, however recall that he and some of the other clowns mooned from atop the Great Wall. As you may know, he is known for his 'mooning' in the darnest places. For instance, at a convention of the AATH."

Oops. Did that Pain ? Don't look at 'The Dark Side of the Moon' and it Von' Pein for too long David ! ;-)

This movie was bad, not for the style or the directing. It is bad because of the terrible dogmatic hippiness of its message. This "fight the establishment" [material] wasn't useful in the 60's and it is equally trite and puerile now.

It's definitely worth watching!

What has incited me to add my two pence here is a comment from one of the earlier reviewers (David Von Pein) -

>> And the final nail in the coffin is the last scene, during which we get to witness Patch's bare hind quarters during graduation festivities! Why, oh why, would anyone do such a vulgar thing! Even the unorthodox Mr. Adams!! (Somebody, PLEASE tell me the real Patch didn't do this in this thing we refer to as "real life"!) <<

I run a humor discussion list and had the good fortune of having a Health Humorist on my list who was a part of a delegation that visited China along with Dr Patch Adams. Naturally I asked her about her recollections of the trip and here's a paragraph that might of interest to David. :-)

"I don't recall him doing too many really silly things. I do, however recall that he and some of the other clowns mooned from atop the Great Wall. As you may know, he is known for his 'mooning' in the darnest places. For instance, at a convention of the AATH."

Oops. Did that Pain ? Don't look at 'The Dark Side of the Moon' and it Von' Pein for too long David ! ;-)

This movie was bad, not for the style or the directing. It is bad because of the terrible dogmatic hippiness of its message. This "fight the establishment" [material] wasn't useful in the 60's and it is equally trite and puerile now.

It's definitely worth watching!

What has incited me to add my two pence here is a comment from one of the earlier reviewers (David Von Pein) -

>> And the final nail in the coffin is the last scene, during which we get to witness Patch's bare hind quarters during graduation festivities! Why, oh why, would anyone do such a vulgar thing! Even the unorthodox Mr. Adams!! (Somebody, PLEASE tell me the real Patch didn't do this in this thing we refer to as "real life"!) <<

I run a humor discussion list and had the good fortune of having a Health Humorist on my list who was a part of a delegation that visited China along with Dr Patch Adams. Naturally I asked her about her recollections of the trip and here's a paragraph that might of interest to David. :-)

"I don't recall him doing too many really silly things. I do, however recall that he and some of the other clowns mooned from atop the Great Wall. As you may know, he is known for his 'mooning' in the darnest places. For instance, at a convention of the AATH."

Oops. Did that Pain ? Don't look at 'The Dark Side of the Moon' and it Von' Pein for too long David ! ;-)

This movie was bad, not for the style or the directing. It is bad because of the terrible dogmatic hippiness of its message. This "fight the establishment" [material] wasn't useful in the 60's and it is equally trite and puerile now.

It's definitely worth watching!

What has incited me to add my two pence here is a comment from one of the earlier reviewers (David Von Pein) -

>> And the final nail in the coffin is the last scene, during which we get to witness Patch's bare hind quarters during graduation festivities! Why, oh why, would anyone do such a vulgar thing! Even the unorthodox Mr. Adams!! (Somebody, PLEASE tell me the real Patch didn't do this in this thing we refer to as "real life"!) <<

I run a humor discussion list and had the good fortune of having a Health Humorist on my list who was a part of a delegation that visited China along with Dr Patch Adams. Naturally I asked her about her recollections of the trip and here's a paragraph that might of interest to David. :-)

"I don't recall him doing too many really silly things. I do, however recall that he and some of the other clowns mooned from atop the Great Wall. As you may know, he is known for his 'mooning' in the darnest places. For instance, at a convention of the AATH."

Oops. Did that Pain ? Don't look at 'The Dark Side of the Moon' and it Von' Pein for too long David ! ;-)