How do they communicate that he’d rather just be a nobody from Southie? He literally works as part of a fucking demolition crew. We get it, Will Hunting could have any incredible job in the world but doesn’t want one.
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I think people get a little self serving and believe themselves to be intelligent for watching and appreciating this movie which is crammed full of scientific jargon when in reality those are script flourishes and what we are really watching is a pretty standard melodrama about a tough-guy, boy-genius, and his sensitive therapist.Ī little more nuance would have been nice. It’s easy to get caught up and identify with Will Hunting because deep down, we’d all like to believe that we have some super special talent that separates us from everyone else (when in reality we don’t). It’s great that this movie gave us Damon and Affleck and they should be immensely proud of what they’ve accomplished but looking at this without nostalgically-tinted sunglasses, this is pretty run-of-the-mill Mirimax fare. Here’s the thing though, watching it for the first time now, isn’t as impressive. If this movie comes out in 2018, it makes a few million at the box office and becomes just another Oscar-bait, feel-good movie that gets nominated for a couple awards and then is never thought about again but because it came out of nowhere in ’97, before movies of this ilk had taken over, it became a smash hit, made stars out of Damon and Affleck and snagged Robin Williams an Oscar. A pair of fresh faces in Damon and Affleck, Boston movies not really being a “thing” yet and the emergence of the Mirimax machine all came together to deliver a whallop on audiences that they never knew they wanted. Part of the reason it became so iconic right off the bat in 1997 is because it took everyone by surprise. Yeah, being told this movie is incredible for two decades did not do it any favors.
The answer is simple: I thought it was okay. So now that I’ve actually seen it, did it work? Is it harder for a movie to win you over if you’ve been told for 21 years that it’s one of the greatest of all time? I knew the gist of the story: a genius boy would rather hang out with his bonehead Boston friends than help change the world so now he has to go to therapy in order to squeeze out some emotional scenes that could land him an Oscar nomination. In fact, hearing people drop “my boy’s wicked smaaahhhht” into conversation every time someone says something marginally coherent probably deterred me from watching this movie more than anything else for all these years. I felt like I’d seen it already from the onslaught of references to it that are dropped in casual conversation. Everyone has some gaps: one of those movies that has been deemed a “classic” that everyone but you has seen and you get shamed as soon as you admit that you haven’t seen it, even though they probably have gaps of their own that they aren’t admitting to.Īnyway… one of these gaps for me had always been “Good Will Hunting.” I’ve had ample opportunities to watch it in the past, but I just never had the urge to. Luciana has an adult daughter from a previous marriage, Alexia.I recently had some time off of work and wanted to see if I could fill in a few of my cinematic gaps. The film, which had its world debut at the Cannes Film Festival in 2021, will be released in theatres on July 30. Isabella, Gia, and Stella are the three daughters of Matt and Luciana. Matt, who was in there to promote his new feature 'Stillwater,' stated that before shooting it, he held a family meeting to ensure that everyone was on board with him being away from home. He summed it up by saying, "She keeps my feet firmly on the ground."
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My daughter said, 'Yeah, remember that movie you did, The Wall?' I said, 'It was called The Great Wall.' She goes, 'Dad there's nothing great about that movie.'" Matt cracked up as he finished recalling this. He stated, "She just likes to give me s-t. She doesn't want to see any movies that I'm in that she thinks might be good," he said. When asked to clarify what he meant, the actor used Isabella's view on his 2017 film 'The Great Wall' as an example. You know, my 15-year-old refuses to see it. "You know, younger people don't know it as much. Sure, yeah-fewer and fewer, Matt responded to the query. Matt Damon's daughter refuses to watch 'Good Will Hunting' His reaction contained an unexpected revelation regarding his daughter, Luciana Barroso, whom he shares with his wife. Matt Damon recently explained why his 15-year-old daughter Isabella refuses to watch the Oscar-winning film 'Good Will Hunting,' which he and co-screenwriter Ben Affleck made. According to E! News, the 50-year-old 'Ocean's Eleven' star was questioned whether fans still link him with 'Good Will Hunting' while appearing on a news show.
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