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Summary: May well be the best movie of all time
Review: This is quite simply a brilliant film. It just is. Remarkable script--written by ben and matt, how is that possible??? Just so honest and so brutally vulnerable, touching, heart breaking, funny, endearing, and hopeful all at once. Robin Williams gives what is quite possibly the best performance of his career--and that's no small compliment. Matt Damon is outstanding. Minnie Driver is convincing and likeable. Ben Affleck is perfect in his role. Casey Affleck does a terrific job as well. A standout is Scott Winters, who goes on to star in Oz on HBO, does a terrific job of playing a Harvard **shole grad student. This film is just so affective. I cannot say enough good things about it. If you have not seen this film, see it immediately. If you have, see it again.
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Summary: Best Movie I have ever seen
Review: This movie is one of if not my single all time favorites. This is saying an awful lot, as I generally don't favor dramas. However, the plot was fairly unique, the script was amazing, and the acting was great on all accounts, but highlighted by career-best performances from Damon and Williams. Edgy enough to keep you interested, and dramatic enough to truly move you. A fantastic movie.
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Summary: wonderfully original and inspiring
Review: Everything about this movie is just right. It really captured the essence of what it is to be a human being, something that many films that followed its formula did not quite get. Matt Damon's acting here is so natural, one really feels that he lived the role through his imagination many times. His and Afleck's creativity, therefore, not rendered through a director's mindset, simply shines in its authenticity. Williams, free from the comic constraints, gives a memorable performance of a learning mentor, who does not have all the answers, but sincerely tries. Minnie Driver is, as usual, just excellent.
There's so much talent assembled in this movie, it leaves one with a feeling that there's still hope for Hollywood. Highly recommended.
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Summary: amazing
Review: While lacking the intensity of the attributes of the main character, I look at him and see myself. Never really being challenged, never really caring...looking for pain. He finds change and perhaps that is why I like this movie so much. Matt Damon and Robin Williams played two of the best roles I have ever seen. The outer boundaries of the realm of human emotion are experienced each time I view this movie.
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Summary: My Favorite Movie
Review: This is my favorite movie of all-time. I don't care if there's a continued controversy regarding the validity of the script. Simply the acting of the entire cast warrants a long list of awards.
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Summary: "It's not your fault "
Review: I enjoyed this film very much, a powerful "see again and again" film. I am sure that there are a lot of Will Hunting's out there-tough guys who deep down inside are scared stiff and in great emotional pain. My favorite scene is when Robin Williams-Will's therapist- breaks through to Will's vulnerable emotions. "It's not your fault", he says. A very hard scene to do, for he had to say that line about seven times in a row-and yet he had to be believable. And he was! Great acting! Damon and Affleck are great actors in it-and bravo to their hidden writing talents. Minnie Driver was charming, all good roles in this film A must see film-language a bit too rough-but forgiveable. I would recommend it to anyone. I am going to school to be a counselor myself,and this was really something to see the patient-therapist repoire.
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Summary: I like them apples!
Review: Like everybody else, I appreciate knowing in advance if a film is poor so I can avoid it. However, I prefer to "discover" an especially enjoyable film rather than know much about it in advance. That was true of this film as well as of two others, My Big Fat Greek Wedding and Bend It Like Beckham. Although I consider none of them a "great" film, I thoroughly enjoyed all three but for different reasons. Directed by Gus Van Sant and co-starring Matt Damon (Will Hunting) and Minnie Driver (Skylar), with Robin Williams (Sean McGuire) and Stellan Skarsgard (Professor Lambeau) cast in important supporting roles, Good Will Hunting has three separate but related plot lines which involve Will Hunting's emergence as a genius in the field of mathematics, his romantic relationship with Skylar, and his patient-therapist relationship with McGuire. The most dramatic moments in the film occur when "baggage" from Hunting's or McGuire's past is opened up in the present as decisions must be made about the future. The exteriors in and around Boston are lovely, an area in which I lived for many years. There is also a great deal of humor in the script, co-authored by Damon and Ben Affleck who plays Will's closest friend, Chuckie. (They received an Academy Award for best original screenplay.) This film offers several "feel better" benefits but for me, its ultimate appeal is based on Damon's performance as a troubled young man who, "with a little help from his friends," can eventually chart a new course for his life. More often than not, Robin Williams is either miscast or out of control. His contributions in this film, however, are substantial and impressive. He received the Academy Award for best actor in a supporting role. Well-deserved.
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Summary: Great Movie
Review: This is an all around great film. Damon and Affleck are geniuses and leads me to ask the question "Why haven't they written any more movies?" If they won an Academy Award for best screenplay on their first try, shouldn't another one be no big deal? Damon and Williams steal the show. Williams portray perhaps his best character, next to John Keating of the Dead Poets Society of course, but that's beside the point. All around great film, keep the kids out of the room though! It is rated R for language mostly!
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Summary: Great movie..and a DVD with nice extras
Review: I loved the movie when I saw it years and years ago in a small theater in NYC before all of the press. It is funny to think about Matt Damon and Ben Affleck NOT being the stars they are today. This movie is a great look into their talent not only on the screen, but behind the words.
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Summary: DOC HOLLYWOOD
Review: Everything and more has been already written about GOOD WILL HUNTING, so I shall only transcribe here a few thoughts that has come to me after having seen this movie. It seems to me that GOOD WILL HUNTING is no more than the last of the multiple variations of one of Hollywood preferred themes : be yourself and the world will be yours. In the case of Will Hunting, it's a little bit easier because he's good-looking, white and smart. Furthermore, his problems are not so terrible ; in fact, give him a car and a psychologist and here we go. I know that I'm a little unfair to this movie, movie that I appreciate for different reasons but I'm pretty sure that GOOD WILL HUNTING will be forgotten in two years and will join the growing number of one summer's masterpieces that our dear critics elect each year. So let's do not fool ourselves : GOOD WILL HUNTING's screenplay is not a monster of originality and Gus Van Sant's cinematography is ultra-classical. Anyway I like this film because of the actors involved. Matt Damon and Minnie Driver's scenes are, in my opinion, of the highest emotional level. A DVD to appreciate for the right reasons.
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