Haven't watched this movie since 2004 or so and watching it now it feels really dumb and honestly insulting to both educated and un-educated people.
I don't even like apples
>>215631777To the person reading this:It’s your fault
I found a poster for this at Goodwill once
>>215631777esl here, i never understood the title. is it meant to be a pun? will is good and he's hunting? or hunting at a goodwill?
>>215631777do you like apples, OP?
>>215631777Yeah but they won an Oscar, so what do YOU know
>Matt Damon wrote a movie where he's a badass chad who's secretly a genius and gets the girl with his quipy lines
>>215631777>it IS your fault, FUCKFACE, and now I'm gonna rope.
>>215631841just a cool sounding name, don't overthink it>or hunting at a goodwill?don't be a smartass either. hunting for good will
>>215631777It's even dumber and more full of shit when you realize that the guy ragging out the Harvard students for paying a high tuition to be educated is himself a real-life Harvard grad.
>>215631777>"Wood drastically underestimates the impact of social distinctions predicated upon wealth, especially inherited wealth..."This quote does not seem to appear in Daniel Vickers' book - which, by the way, is not titled "Work in Essex County" but "Farmers and Fishermen: Two Centuries of Work in Essex County, Massachusetts, 1630–1850". Neither does the quote appear on page 98, nor anywhere else in the book.Page 98: https://books.google.at/books?id=N1jUaJR5becC&pg=PA98Mentions of "wood" throughout the book: https://books.google.at/books?id=N1jUaJR5becC&pg=PA98#q=WoodAnd the kicker? Whereever a guy with the last name "Wood" DID get mentioned in the book, it was William Wood, not Gordon Wood.Clark could have torn Will to shreds then and there.
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>>215632632Damon said in an interview once that he knows the quote is wrong, and even had it right in an earlier draft, but decided to intentionally mess it up to waste the time of the kind of people who'd bother to check
>>215631777I've never been insulted by this movie. Sounds like a personal issue.
>>215633818Lol based
>>215631777Yep. The main character is unsympathetic, because his specific combination of problems and talent are not the sort of thing that the average person can relate to. I also hate the bench scene with Robin Williams, and I've said so on this board on multiple occasions. I understand that the point of the scene is for Robin Williams to goad a tough case into opening up, pre-empting every retort he's got ready with "wisdom", but in the end he's still a boomer who's subtly humblebragging that he himself once got to do a grand tour of Europe and actually see the beautiful paintings and sculpture in person, for himself (presumably with his dead wife), rather than in a book. He is not actually in a position to lecture anyone for being unable to have similar experiences, and even if he knows that and is again goading the other character, this still doesn't let him off the hook, doesn't excuse his chosen method of engagement. The surrogate father relationship between the two characters is also annoying becuase they're both knowledgeable about typical manly stuff (lifting, baseball etc, building trust via this) in addition to the egghead stuff. I won't say it's lazy writing, but it's extremely contrived. Everyone has a snappy comeback and even if the point of the movie is to get past snappy comebacks to sincerity... it's still loaded with snappy comebacks.
>>215634105The point is that Damon thinks he knows everything because he's read a bunch of books, but there's value in actually experiencing things. Hint: Robin isn't actually talking about paintings and sculptures
>>215634428he’s just trying to trick will into being farted on by a woman
>>215632064>It's even dumber and more full of shit when you realize that the guy ragging out the Harvard students for paying a high tuition to be educated is himself a real-life Harvard gradHe got real life experience to know education is waste of time.
>>215632830Kek
>>215631777So what did I think? I'm holdin' out for somethin' better. I figure, fuck it. While I'm at it, why not just shoot my buddy, take his job, give it to his sworn enemy, hike up gas prices, bomb a village, club a baby seal, hit the hash pipe and join the National Guard? I can be elected president.
>>215632830It's very simple. Will Hunting the character is good. And then it's otherwise intentionally confusing. It makes the average person wonder if it's a phrase that means something specific that educated people use...maybe?
>>215631777Yeah it kinda is. A Beautiful Mind is a much better math movie.Also it's quite funny how the original math problem that they supposedly struggle to solve is just basic algebraic graph theory.
>>215631777The Ben Affleck character is actually the hero of the movie.
>>215634105Most disjointed post I've read.>this movie is dumb>Yep. The main character is unsympatheticHow does this relate to the op at all?>but in the end he's still a boomer who's subtly humblebraggingIn the end you're still a zoomgroid who's seething about boomers non-stop.>lecture anyone for being unable to have similar experiencesNo, you had it right the first time. It's about opening up. Will is dismissing Robin Williams because he thinks he's too smart for therapy. He's making a case for why Will's books won't help him here, nor will books help Robin Williams understand Will without his cooperation.>The surrogate father relationship between the two characters is also annoying becuase they're both knowledgeable about typical manly stuff>being a father is about knowing manly stuff>Everyone has a snappy comeback and even if the point of the movie is to get past snappy comebacks to sincerity... it's still loaded with snappy comebacks.That's not a contradiction. In fact, it's one of the most basic principles of empathy. You meet people at their level. If snappy comebacks is part of that, then so be it.Your post is almost too dumb to follow and I think I know who you are from previous threads.
