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Summary: I think that the movie was great.
Review: I tink that this was one of the best movies that I have seen this year and I saw it about 10 times when it was in the therters I just could not stop going to see it.
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Summary: Undeniably excellent, award-worthy
Review: I found Will to be a product of his environment, and quite comfortable in his present one. Why an embarassed math professor has to pick on this kid is quite beyond me. I do, however, feel that Damon and Affleck deserved that Oscar nod, as Williams certainly did. Adding the token romance to the equation proved to make the movie's solution grossfully obvious, but all in all, this was definitely one worth the money.
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Summary: A movie that degrades human creativity
Review: Why is Matt Damon's character a mathematical genius? I'll tell you why: math is incomprehensible to the average person. This makes it believable to most people that an ill-educated janitor can instantly understand advanced mathematics simply with a glance. However, even recognized geniuses such as Ramanujan had to work at math constantly.Also most people don't comprehend why mathematicians do what they do. Damon and Afleck don't either. They put mathematicians on the same level as success-conscious corporate fleas. For example, the 'Nobel Prize' of mathematics featured heavily in this movie as the ultimate goal. But most mathematicians don't give a damn about awards. They do it because of the beauty of numbers. And what about the bar scene, when Hunting first meets Minnie Driver and astounds everyone with his book knowledge? Is that even the least bit realistic? Does he go home and read those books? Apparently not, but maybe he browsed through them in the bookstore... I find it interesting that everyone pushes Will Hunting to become a mathematician because he can become 'great,' even though he has no such desire. I bet most people accepted this as natural; I find it demeaning. How many children are told, "You're not good at that so go do something that the standardized test showed you were good at." In the end, all this movie does is misrepresent the world of mathematicians and insult their efforts. Not just mathematicians, but all those who pursue their dreams for the sake of their Art.
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Summary: This is a great film about a not too hard to believe premise
Review: So many of your reviews are written by self-proclaimed literary geniuses that I want to puke having reviewed the reviews. This is a film about a bunch of guys who grow up in Southie. One of them has a gift that may (or may not) lift him from the very friendly and very comfortable neighborhood where white kids rule to who knows where. Does he take the chance? Is it (that other world) worth the chance?? That is what this film is about. SORRY FOLKS - disect this frog any way you want. T'aint no intricate deal. It is reality in Southie.
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Summary: Will (average) Hunting
Review: I certainly didn't think this movie was worth nine oscar award nominations. It was, however, a movie worth watching. The viewer is treated to some descent acting and a unique (if somewhat predictable) story. Don't examine this one too closely, and you may enjoy watching it.
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Summary: Great, touching movie.
Review: One of the best movies I have seen ever. Way better than Titanic which was released at the same time. I could relate to the characters, the acting was excellent, and the overall story line perfect. Definately 2 thumbs up to the actors, writers, and the other people who brought us this beautiful movie.
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Summary: Excellent
Review: Unfortunately the powers that be in the Academy Awards business were blinded by the money generated by that worthless movie, TITANIC. If any of the voters had any sense they would have opened their eyes and noticed the brilliance of Good Will Hunting.Good Will Hunting was funny, emotional and intelligent. That other movie was long, cheesy, predictable, and lame. Good Will Hunting had an exceptional cast, great writing, a good story, and something to think about. If that's what you are looking for in a movie than Good Will Hunting is your movie.
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Summary: Boring, Pointless, and Plotless
Review: Would have been a much better movie if it had focused on the older characters, Robin Williams and the other older guy. Who cares about a gifted brat? There are plenty of disadvantaged gifted kids who would have jumped at the opportunity Will could only turn his nose down at. Maybe if he could act...When learning Damon was a co-writer, it was clear where the self-absorbance of the movie came from.
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Summary: Timid but reasonably good
Review: Reasonably good movie about the role of the genius in our world. Although the film was at times timid and hampered by the Hollywoodian necessity of the happy ending, it raises some interesting questions about the status of intellectual perfoarmance and the associated system of rewards in our society. The fact is that the guy is a genius. The revelation of his genius is treated a bit superficially (oh... the problems on the blackboard at MIT are trivial problems in graph theory that any sophomore should be able to solve), but we can consider it symbolic and, at any rate, it is not really necessary to know how comes that the main character is found out to be a mathematical genius. The interesting question is: what happens if the world discovers that you are a genius? Given the our social reward system, it is considered somewhat immoral that a mathematical genius should be content cleaning the halls at MIT and hanging out with his proletarian friends. The intellectual divisions in our society do not allow that. It is a more or less implicit assumption that a mathematical genius *must* desire to compete with other mathematicians for the highest honors in the field. I don't know how much this reading is consistent with the intentions of the authors, but I found it very interesting (and it is certainly a merit of the film having suggested it). Unfortunately, the development of the theme is too much between the lines and the ethic judgment on the practice is too ambiguous. Instead, the film prefers to delve into the contact with the institutional phychiatrist (which tries to force the young boy to follow the rules codified for him and implicit in his newly acquired "genius" status) and the mandatory love story (the reward for any outstanding talent being, of course, money and women). All in all, a nice film, made even better by the comparison with the rest of the squalid Hollywood production. At first I was sorry that Ben Affleck went from the delicious "Chasing Amy" to this film that I consider inferior. Then I saw that he was in the cast of "Armageddon" and understood that maybe "Good will hunting" is more autobiographic than even him realized. We have seen too many good actors/directors start their carreer with good independent movies, only to be dragged into the glittering Hollywood circus of mediocrity in exchange for money and women.
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Summary: I tried to give the film no stars.
Review: I can not believe that movies like this get made when they are simply a contrived work, that panders to the lowest common denominator of emotionally void and intellectually starved consumer who apparently knows no better. What time in cinematic history are we living in, when this is considered an original, insightful, Oscar worthy?!? motion picture?
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