Good Will Hunting (1997) Wife's First Time Watching! Movie Reaction!



Good Will Hunting (1997)
I just slid my ticket across the table, and I said, “Sorry, guys; I gotta see about a girl.”

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49 thoughts on “Good Will Hunting (1997) Wife's First Time Watching! Movie Reaction!”

  1. A great reaction to a great movie! My favorite therapist/client movie is Ordinary People (1980). It won Best Picture and was directed by Robert Redford (his first directorial film!). All aspects are top notch, and Mary Tyler Moore is especially chilling playing a role so opposite her popular TV character at the time. Definitely recommend it for reaction.

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  2. Also, Casey Affleck is and always has been head and shoulders above Ben Affleck when it comes to performative range & character depth. (When Casey goes hard in the paint, as opposed to being relegated to the this film’s “class clown,” you start smelling onions REAL QUICK. I have so much respect for his work over the last decade or so.)

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  3. Yeah, Gus Van Sant is one of the more…”interesting”(?)…[I think this film and “Milk” are both genuinely AMAZING pieces of modern American Cinema, (whatever the hell that means), but with regards to some of his other stuff, let’s just say I have ”a lot of notes & feedback” to put it lightly]. This is why the slow motion fight scene with those randos (and a few cops) feels a bit like a “Tone Salad” before the film can actually take off. If I had to guess, I imagine that Gus thought that scene could be disguised well enough for most people, I think the homage to that early scene in Kubrick’s “A Clockwork Orange” when Alex (Will) and his Droogies (Afflecks) get wasted while drinking (A Clockwork Orange’s weird drug-milk = liquor/beer) before prowling around the neighborhood looking for some people to inflict that proper jolly Ultraviolence upon, my dear & leal droogies. (Sorry, I got wrapped up in the bit, but hey, so did Gus Van Sant, as was the entire point of this comment. So…yeah. Nailed it.)

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  4. Fun fact about the scene with the Dog Race: Minnie Driver made a real Bet and the Dog that she picked really won. So that was true and real suprise and happiness!!

    And after Robin Williams died, hundreds of people from Boston came together and stood in silence at the Bench were they filmed that monoluge to pay respect to Robin Williams.

    The only death of an actor that made me cry. He is deeply missed!

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  5. If you come from a stable and loving upbringing, I can understand why Will’s self-sabotaging is frustrating or confusing.

    If you come from an abusive background, a fatherless environment or a broken home, Will’s self-sabotaging makes perfect sense.

    If you haven’t experienced the latter, you’ll never understand it.

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  6. Killer soundtrack for this movie too with lots of Elliott Smith songs, great cues from Danny Elfman, and so on. It was the ultimate road-trip cd for me (and many others) in the late '90s.

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  7. Love the channel. You guys are awesome. Please watch Prisoners, Blade Runner 2049, Sicario, Wind River, and Hell or High Water. All amazing movies. If you've already got them on your channel just ignore obviously lol.

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  8. The line "NOBODY studies it for fun" hits me every time. This is more true that most general classes, and the reason chemical engineers get a pass to be a more abstract & difficult discipline than even advanced electrical engineers. (exception is quantum computing.)

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  9. This is such a heartfelt and incredible classic that I'm super glad to see you both watch and enjoy. This is a movie I sincerely believe everyone should be shown in school, especially psych 101.

    Great choice!

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  10. Watching (and reading) this movie was a big part of my creative writing class in high school when we studied screenwriting, they did such a good job with this script

    The Talented Mr Ripley is another early Matt Damon film that gets pretty dark, definitely recommend it

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  11. I love the reaction but you cut certain scenes and monologues short that makes the film seem incomplete, someone who may be seeing this movie through your reaction for the first time probably wouldn’t be able to understand or keep up with the storyline. Just something to maybe keep in mind

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  12. One bit I liked about the 12 brothers lie, and it's a detail: While he does switch up the order of the brothers, the names are all the same. So matt would've had to learn two nearly identical lines that have to done AT speed, and hit it in a way that looks completely off-the-cuff.

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  13. Although the professor is a pompous ass at times, he is instrumental in the development and change in Will. He gets him out of prison and tries to get him help. He also is also the bridge to Will and Shawn. Without the professor, Will would never have met Shawn, who understood Will better than any therapist.

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