pink.tutu95
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I just watched it on BBC1, probably for the third time over as many years - such an excellent feel good film. Love it.
Good Will Hunting
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Dtcenter77
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watched it for the first time a few weeks back, great
chazzychef
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Great film, very moving. 
Rebelled Devils
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Good enough to win an OSCAR obviously.
Fred Weasley Lives
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I refused to watch this for so long after it won an Oscar (don't as me why lol).
Then when I actually did watch it, I loved it! I have seen it so many times, yet whenever it is on, I still sit and watch it all the way through.
Then when I actually did watch it, I loved it! I have seen it so many times, yet whenever it is on, I still sit and watch it all the way through.
Personally I don't believe they totally wrote it themselves. In fact, watching it again the other day, they just DIDN'T. Maybe they came up with the story and wrote some of it but there's no way in hell that it wasn't scripted secretly by someone else, a brilliant screenwriter, and they just used the angle that it was written by Matt and Ben to give it more hype (which it DID, that's all anyone seemed to talk about).
No-one can persuade me otherwise on this. It's just too good a screenplay.
No-one can persuade me otherwise on this. It's just too good a screenplay.
Wouldn't surprise me if they got a lot of input from other writers (including Kevin Smith - he originally took the script to Miramax) but fairly certain they did most of the hard work themselves - I think they deserve the praise as it's a stunning film.
Found this on the trivia section of IMDB:
At a WGA seminar in 2003, William Goldman denied the persistent rumor that he was the actual writer of Good Will Hunting: "I would love to say that I wrote it. Here is the truth. In my obit it will say that I wrote it. People don't want to think those two cute guys wrote it. What happened was, they had the script. It was their script. They gave it to Rob [Reiner] to read, and there was a great deal of stuff in the script dealing with the F.B.I. trying to use Matt Damon for spy work because he was so brilliant in math. Rob said, "Get rid of it." They then sent them in to see me for a day - I met with them in New York - and all I said to them was, "Rob's right. Get rid of the F.B.I. stuff. Go with the family, go with Boston, go with all that wonderful stuff." And they did. I think people refuse to admit it because their careers have been so far from writing, and I think it's too bad. I'll tell you who wrote a marvelous script once, Sylvester Stallone. Rocky's a marvelous script. God, read it, it's wonderful. It's just got marvelous stuff. And then he stopped suddenly because it's easier being a movie star and making all that money than going in your pit and writing a script. But I did not write [Good Will Hunting], alas. I would not have written the "It's not your fault" scene. I'm going to assume that 148 percent of the people in this room have seen a therapist. I certainly have, for a long time. Hollywood always has this idea that it's this shrink with only one patient. I mean, that scene with Robin Williams gushing and Matt Damon and they're hugging, "It's not your fault, it's not your fault." I thought, Oh God, Freud is so agonized over this scene. But Hollywood tenRAB to do that with therapists."
Found this on the trivia section of IMDB:
At a WGA seminar in 2003, William Goldman denied the persistent rumor that he was the actual writer of Good Will Hunting: "I would love to say that I wrote it. Here is the truth. In my obit it will say that I wrote it. People don't want to think those two cute guys wrote it. What happened was, they had the script. It was their script. They gave it to Rob [Reiner] to read, and there was a great deal of stuff in the script dealing with the F.B.I. trying to use Matt Damon for spy work because he was so brilliant in math. Rob said, "Get rid of it." They then sent them in to see me for a day - I met with them in New York - and all I said to them was, "Rob's right. Get rid of the F.B.I. stuff. Go with the family, go with Boston, go with all that wonderful stuff." And they did. I think people refuse to admit it because their careers have been so far from writing, and I think it's too bad. I'll tell you who wrote a marvelous script once, Sylvester Stallone. Rocky's a marvelous script. God, read it, it's wonderful. It's just got marvelous stuff. And then he stopped suddenly because it's easier being a movie star and making all that money than going in your pit and writing a script. But I did not write [Good Will Hunting], alas. I would not have written the "It's not your fault" scene. I'm going to assume that 148 percent of the people in this room have seen a therapist. I certainly have, for a long time. Hollywood always has this idea that it's this shrink with only one patient. I mean, that scene with Robin Williams gushing and Matt Damon and they're hugging, "It's not your fault, it's not your fault." I thought, Oh God, Freud is so agonized over this scene. But Hollywood tenRAB to do that with therapists."
justice4jcc
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Since when has winning an Oscar been any indication of how good a film is? I'm in agreement with the poster who said it was self indulgent rubbish!