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Summary: A can't believe I missed this one!
Review: When Good Will Hunting came out in theaters, I overlooked it. Didn't sound like my bag. Then I saw "Chasing Amy" Which piqued my interest in Ben Affleck. So I decided to check out Good will Hunting, and it's the best movie I've seen since Chasing Amy. I'm not trying to ruin my "JiggamanSpence-ism" or anything, but this was the first time since I was a kid that I began to cry during a movie. I was amazed at the writing, the directing, and the realism of the characters. Matt Damon steals the show here, this is his movie. Robin Williams and Ben Affleck are great supporting roles, and Minnie Driver is amazing as Damon's squeeze. Anybody who likes movies should see this. Just take my word for it, you'll love it.
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Summary: [Lame]
Review: Are we actually supposed to feel sorry for this obnoxious brat who is the star of this movie? I"m surprised anyone would put up with his [...] for even one day. His fatal flaw is that he had a traumatic childhood. Poor baby, do you want your pacifier? And then comes in the all-knowing, wise guru, Robin Williams. He thinks he can help Will, but there are many scenes where they just sit there and nothing happens. Even in the scenes where they do talk, its a bunch of nonsense anyway. To me, Will's character was not plausable. The mathematical magic just flows through him without any effort.
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Summary: Great writing = great movie.
Review: Damon and Affleck really hit the big time with this one, didn't they? This movie was extremely well written and the acting was also superb. Robin Williams finally receives his Oscar and it was well deserved.Why did everyone go nuts for this movie? It had a great balance of character development with a romantic twist. Watching this movie made you smile - Affleck and Damon worked very well together. Their off-screen firendship translated marvelously to their on-screen performances. The older professors (Lambeau and MacGuire) were adversaries with a goal in mind: Bring Will to his future. However, who chooses his own future? Will balances his fear of his own self-worth with the relationships around him. Great stuff that stands the test of time.
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Summary: Good, Good, Movie. Great DVD.
Review: Good Will Hunting is easily one of my favorite movies of all time. It's just one of those films that you can watch over and over again. The underlying message that is found in the film is the value of friendship. The characters in this film are as real as can be found in films, I am still shocked to this day that this was written by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck. Who, I might add, do a wonderful job of acting in this movie, the only time I will say that for Affleck. Robin Williams does also give the performance of his career as a psychology professor who learns through talking with Will Hunting, Damon, more about himself than ever before. Their friendship, along with that of Damon and Affleck, are both really touching. The dialogue is also something that cannot be ignored, the film is carried completely by the amazing dialogue. How this movie lost out to "Titanic" for Best Picture I will never know. Good Will Hunting has one of the best soundtracks ever to be found in a movie. It consists mainly of Elliot Smith with some of his best songs that create a terrrific mood for the film. The DVD extras are not to shabby either.
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Summary: Self Congratulatory and Ridiculous
Review: Misunderstood, sexy young "badboy" genius with a heart of gold? Really knows how to fight, too? Gets the chick in the end? Ugghh...like a bad romance novel. VERY puzzling why people went ape over this flick. But I was NOT surprised when Van Sant's "Psycho" remake turned out to be as hideous as it is.
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Summary: Brillant
Review: This is probably in my top twenty of all time best movies. There is no doubt in my mind that this movie should have beaten Titanic for the best movie of the year. It goes through the therapy and redemption of a diamond in the rough and you watch as he slowly makes some changes within himself and everyone around him. Everyone in this movie acted beautifully,espically Robin Williams who deserved the Oscar he earned for the role. This overall is just a fanatasic movie to be enjoyed over and over again.
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Summary: "How do you like them apples?" With more features, for one.
Review: Touted as a collector's edition, one would want more. Considering the brouhaha this film earned from the critics and awards circles, nevermind all the attention young authors Matt Damon and Ben Affleck earned over the saga they underwent to see the film get made, you would think this DVD would be packed with some of that behind-the-scenes stuff. Not to say the DVD is bare--by no means. A rare, telling video of Oscar-nominated songwriter, Elliot Smith, singing "Miss Misery" was worth the extra money for the edition. However, to be a "collector's" incentive item, it doesn't have much more to it. The film itself is clearly transfered, though I would have liked the sound to have been cleaned up a bit. Some of the bar scenes have just never sounded clear no matter what, and the dialogue gets muddled in the mix. Storywise, if you don't know the tale of the M.I.T. janitor genius wonderboy and his gang of average joe hooligans, then you've had your head in the sand since 1997. Without getting into it further, I will tell you the story is a moving one, and though heavily peppered with foul language, even younger teens will benefit from seeing the struggle of someone so bright yet so crippled. Universal truths will be seen widely by all who see the story. This Oscar winning film deserved more on its disc. A commentary with director Gus Van Zant and the writing duo is included, which sounds like three guys hanging out with a pizza and a six pack--laid back--just like the story. This edition isn't much costlier than the other "regular" version. This is a good enough film which you can easily tell yourself it is worth the extra cash, but don't expect to be too fulfilled by the extras.
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Summary: One of my favorite movies
Review: This movie does not contain the most original plot, but it contains something better, great characters. I'm not going to restate the plot, but one roots for Will Hunting, for he's a character that one envies, he's smart and cool. Same as this movie, it's smartly written and directed, yet it's really cool.
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Summary: somehow it just struck me right
Review: It is a set of circumstances I'm sure that makes this movie click for me; hit me very deeply, softly. I've run into many people who I respect who find this film cheesy or manipulative, which just goes to show that so much of our tastes and likes and loves are so particular. One detail here or there can send us in opposite directions. The first time I saw it I thought I loved it because of Minnie Driver, I've always had a warm crush on her. And her character is so appealing, so likable, lovable, the kind of woman you hope to meet in college and start the second chapter of your life with and you hope it'll be a long, lush chapter two. The second time I watched it was several years later and I watched it just before I moved to San Francisco and I thought, "A-ha! really i am so touched by this movie because I identify with Will Hunting: his quickness, his alienation and stretch between different worlds and just like me he's heading west." But, by the time I was done watching it I realized why I had loved it all along, because Robin Williams is a father and mentor that I've never had but so desperately, dearly want. "it's not your fault, it's not your fault, it's not your fault" they don't seem alive on the page, they seem like they might even be cheesy or maudlin, but when they come out of Robin's mouth in his room there...well, they work, they are real and good and right and any flaws this film has don't much matter to me, I can take that moment and tuck it away in me for later and it burns as hot and strong as the first time I felt it.
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Summary: one of my favorites...
Review: I really like this one. And I think it's Robin Williams best, non comic films, as well (agreeing with many reviewers). Yes, there is profanity but in my opinion, if there wasn't, the story wouldn't be completely there. I think it was put in the script because it shows people, who are perhaps in the dark, that just because those who SEEM to slack off and those who seem to be unintelligent punks...are really smart. Now I know, I know people are saying that if they use all of the profanity, they certainly are not showing their intellect level. Well, the real life reality is that many people do use such verbal use of profanity. Not to say it's right or wrong, but people do. So the use of profanity by an intelligent punk is nothing sort of reality. I recommend the flick...
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