Was Good Will Hunting a good movie?

[aRTie02150]

Or is it because I'm a retard from Boston?

 

[The Shah of Iran]

 

[PogromStallone]

Best thing to come out of it is the Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back gag reel.

7:40 onwards.

 

[Confused White Kid]

Matt Damon is not a very good screen actor. He seems like he's more suited for the stage. His soliloquies are really off-putting, it feels like he's practicing it in his trailer instead of doing it with a film crew in front of him. It feels very unnatural.

I noticed this actually in Saving Private Ryan when he rants about how every other guy there has a mother and he doesn't deserve to go home - then again when he tells the captain the story from his childhood about his brother hooking up with the girl in the barn or whatever. Watching that I suddenly realized why I hate him in Good Will Hunting.

 

[wbgreen]

I've never seen it and at this point it's too late. However, I did see The Departed and have a hard time believing Good Will Hunting could have been more ridiculous.

 

[TorpidSloth]

Before William Goldman "advised" Damon and Affleck on the screenplay, it was basically that shitty Bruce Willis movie Mercury Rising - Will Hunting was a physics (not maths) genius who got entangled in an NSA code breaking conspiracy and had to go on the run.

 

[BakersfieldChimp]

Robin Williams is good in it but the rest of it stinks.

Minnie Driver has too much face.

 

[aRTie02150]

Robin Williams is good in it but the rest of it stinks.

Minnie Driver has too much face.

She also told that shitty blowjob joke that wasn't funny and delivered terribly.

 

[Dog Eater]

It’s neither good or will hunting.

 

[BUBBLER]

Yes

 

[Kinderman]

No. That movie blows. I’ve tried watching it multiple times and can never get past like 30 minutes. Matt Damon stinks.

 

[FalconeFanClub]

The fact that Damon and Affleck wrote it in their mid 20s always impressed me. As a fellow faggot Boston brotherman, it also shows Southie before it turned into 5th year college trust fund douchebag Mecca. Who knew gentrification could happen to white people?

Also, Harvey Weinstein deff got some good bussy from the boys after green lighting this one.

 

[aRTie02150]

The fact that Damon and Affleck wrote it in their mid 20s always impressed me. As a fellow faggot Boston brotherman, it also shows Southie before it turned into 5th year college trust fund douchebag Mecca. Who knew gentrification could happen to white people?

Also, Harvey Weinstein deff got some good bussy from the boys after green lighting this one.

I'm from Chelsea and remember thinking some of the Southie scenes were shot in Chelsea because how run down it was.

 

[DanFielding]

 

[FalconeFanClub]

I'm from Chelsea and remember thinking some of the Southie scenes were shot in Chelsea because how run down it was.

Looks like they literally used the L Street Tavern and then filmed a shitload in Toronto.

 

[JoeBrotheChildSpitGuzzler]

The fact that Damon and Affleck wrote it in their mid 20s always impressed me. As a fellow faggot Boston brotherman, it also shows Southie before it turned into 5th year college trust fund douchebag Mecca. Who knew gentrification could happen to white people?

Also, Harvey Weinstein deff got some good bussy from the boys after green lighting this one.

It was extensively rewritten by someone who didn't get credited

 

[Mick_Mickerson]

The fact that Damon and Affleck wrote it in their mid 20s always impressed me.

I enjoyed it and thought it was really well written.

Odd those two didn't continue writing extensively. You'd think 20 year olds who could shit that out would have the bug and constantly be writing

 

[TheGhostOfAbeVigoda]

I'm sure there are some, but I can't think of a Matt Damon movie I really like off the top of my head. I love Neill Blomkamp movies and the only one I haven't seen is Elysium because Matt Damon is the lead.

Also, does anyone remember Project Greenlight? It used to be on all the time, I could never figure out what the fuck was going on and I've never seen any of the movies that came out of it.

 

[NoBacon]

Matt Damon is not a very good screen actor. He seems like he's more suited for the stage. His soliloquies are really off-putting, it feels like he's practicing it in his trailer instead of doing it with a film crew in front of him. It feels very unnatural.

I noticed this actually in Saving Private Ryan when he rants about how every other guy there has a mother and he doesn't deserve to go home - then again when he tells the captain the story from his childhood about his brother hooking up with the girl in the barn or whatever. Watching that I suddenly realized why I hate him in Good Will Hunting.

Woah dude that’s a really interesting take, I wish I didn’t focus on stuff that doesn’t matter so I had time to dissect old movies this seriously!

 

[Andy Elliott]

I don't think that faggot Gus van Sant has ever made an entertaining movie