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242 reactions from 4 sources (Bluesky, Mastodon, TMDB reviews, Lemmy) · newest Nov 3, 2026 · last updated Nov 3, 2026 · How this works
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Good Will Hunting is a 1997 drama film, directed by Gus Van Sant, starring Matt Damon, Robin Williams and Ben Affleck.
- 219 people have posted about this film on Bluesky, Mastodon, TMDB reviews, Lemmy
- posts span Nov 24, 2019 to Nov 3, 2026
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Good Will Hunting received widespread acclaim from critics. Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film three stars out of four, writing that while the story is "predictable", it is "the individual moments, not the payoff, that make it so effective". Duane Byrge of The Hollywood Reporter praised the performances of the cast, writing, "The acting is brilliant overall, with special praise to Matt Damon for his ragingly tender portrayal of the boy cursed with genius." Peter Stack of the San Francisco Chronicle was equally positive, writing, "The glow goes well beyond a radiant performance by Matt Damon ... Intimate, heartfelt and wickedly funny, it's a movie whose impact lingers." Owen…
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60 of 242 · most liked firstMe: holy shit, someone just called Good Will Hunting an old movie, whaaaat. Reality: it's 30 years old, ma'am. Me: *sighs heavily* That term should only be for movies from like, the 1940s that are in black and white, thank you. Reality: Ma'am.
neutral · AI labelView post →Just rewatched Good Will Hunting for the first time since it came out. I forgot how good of a movie it is. And it made me miss Robin Williams.
positive · AI labelView post →What do you think is the best speech in film? Sean's speech in Good Will Hunting? Chaplain's passionate monologue in the Great Dictator? When William Wallace roused his troops in Braveheart? Maybe Glengarry Glen Ross or A Few Good Men or- Me: Wrong. It's James Earl Jones in the rad dragon movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →Weinstein, of course, made such edgy, non-mainstream movies without stars like The English Patient, Shakespeare in Love, Good Will Hunting & Scary Movie 1-5
neutral · AI labelView post →Tonight's movie was "Grosse Pointe Blank" from 1997... I must say that I LOVE Minnie Driver in this movie! I also loved her in "Good Will Hunting". Honorable mention to Joan Cusack (Working Girl) and Alan Arkin (The In-Laws)
neutral · AI labelView post →I 100% believe, on some level, Affleck made The Accountant so he could have a movie where his character got to have "Super Math Powers" because Matt Damon got to have them in Good Will Hunting. (This only makes me like Ben Affleck that much more.)
neutral · AI labelView post →Ben Affleck guesses what film of his has the most fans on Letterboxd, while reminiscing with Matt Damon about making Good Will Hunting ✨ Watch Matt Damon guess his film with the most fans in the full video: boxd.it/ezO Affleck and Damon star in The Rip, streaming now on @netflix.com
neutral · AI labelView post →"You'll have bad times but it'll always wake you up to the good stuff you weren't paying attention to." Good Will Hunting, 1997 Director: Gus Van Sant 🙏🏼🌎🕊️ 📷 Movie Quotes | Existential Literature, Art, Music and Film
neutral · AI labelView post →“Fiona Apple described Paul Thomas Anderson’s temper, recalling how he threw a chair across the room after the 1998 Academy Awards, where Boogie Nights lost Best Original Screenplay to Good Will Hunting.”
neutral · AI labelView post →Oh, and Rob Reiner the movie exec also bought an early script for Good Will Hunting, and wisely told Affleck & Damon to ditch the action tropes to instead focus on character www.slashfilm.com/1618917/rob-...
neutral · AI labelView post →I thought that sounds a bit like GOOD WILL HUNTING I bet the movie stole that and I checked Wikipedia and they did.
neutral · AI labelView post →On the latest Rewatchables movie podcast about Good Will Hunting, Simmons said "Kelly's is gone now." Kelly's Roast Beef. It is not gone. One lies and the other one swears to it. Two frauds. I will gladly meet either or both of them outside the 99 in Charlestown to discuss our passions.
neutral · AI labelView post →I did a pal's movie podcast today and it was on Good Will Hunting. I kept putting off rewatching it until the last minute, thinking eh, I don't care to see this again after so many times. I fucking cried start to stop. What a picture! Robin Williams, Elliott Smith, Boston, all things that are gone.
positive · AI labelView post →Good Will Hunting is a great movie because it understands that remembering a guy (Carlton FIsk) is therapy for men
positive · AI labelView post →Good Will Hunting is, I think, the only great film in the genre of “let’s try to get Matt Damon to leave home”.
positive · AI labelView post →He convinced his brother to do the janitorial work and spent his nights teaching himself hard sciences, and if you're thinking "This is the inspiration for Good Will Hunting!" you might be right if anyone involved in writing that film had ever read a book.
neutral · AI labelView post →Finally watched The Town last night. Good, fun film that’s like 3x better if you pretend it’s a sequel to Good Will Hunting.
neutral · AI labelView post →Watched Good Will Hunting last night, and that movie is still amazing.
positive · AI labelView post →Which is the best Good Will Hunting sequel?
neutral · AI labelView post →Choosing to believe this film takes place in the extended Good Will Hunting cinematic universe.
neutral · AI labelView post →#DavidsMonthofMusic #MusicChae #MusicSky 27 • From a movie you saw at the cinema Elliott Smith Say Yes Miss Misery is probably the most famous song from Good Will Hunting but this is the one that bowled me over & I bought the CD the next day & never stopped listening💙 youtu.be/8bxmk09lCzk?...
neutral · AI labelView post →BTS by their movie choice for us to watch during Movie Week: TH: White Christmas YG: Good Will Hunting NJ: March of the Penguins JK: K-Pop Demon Hunters JM: Toy Story 3 HS: The Devil Wears Prada SJ: Clue (and the ending you get is random depending on when you click the link)
neutral · AI labelView post →unlocked memory: back in the 90s we were hangin out with Mary Lou Lord & she said, "my friend Elliott Smith just got on the soundtrack for this new movie called Good Will Hunting."
neutral · AI labelView post →Insert a movie into another movie: When Dirty Harry Met Sally The Empire Strikes Back To The Future The Good Will Hunting, The Bad Lieutenant And The Coyote Ugly
neutral · AI labelView post →Here's my new poster for @spoke-art.com, for the amazing film Good Will Hunting! Shown at Mass Mini Con in Boston, it'll be available from their website very soon :) spoke-art.com/blogs/news/m...
neutral · AI labelView post →I rewatched Good Will Hunting with my family last night & realized that the film is Ben Affleck's & Matt Damon's best work. They peaked early. Sure, the movie has its flaws & they have been in lots of things since, but it stands head & shoulders above everything else they've done IMO.
positive · AI labelView post →In fairness, Good Will Hunting is a dreadful movie and there is no hero
negative · AI labelView post →Do you have a soul mate? Shakespeare, Nietzsche, Frost , O'Connor, Kant, Pope, Locke- ...That's great. They're all dead. Movie 🎥: Good Will Hunting (1997) Director: Gus Van Sant 🍂 💜 🌸 🎶 🎶 🎵 (Photo by Kirpal)
neutral · AI labelView post →Just about any good Damon movie, too. Dogma? Dogshit. Good Will Hunting? Bad Will Hunting. Talented Mr. Ripley? Untalented Mr. Ripley, you get the idea
neutral · AI labelView post →TV & Film that's been done in Canada: The X-Files The Revenant My Big Fat Greek Wedding The Shape of Water Good Will Hunting Brokeback Mountain Titanic Rambo Fear Suits Schitt's Creek The Handmaid's Tale The Boys. etc. But sure, Trump'lefucks, tariff that...
neutral · AI labelView post →[we watch GOOD WILL HUNTING for Movie Night] SteelyKid: [Googling] Wow, Matt Damon is such a GEEZER now... Reader, Matt Damon is a year older than me.
neutral · AI labelView post →Re-watching Good Will Hunting. "Do you like apples? Well, I got her number. How do you like them apples?" might be my favorite burn in any movie ever.
positive · AI labelView post →Good Will Hunting is a great movie but you can tell it was written by actors because they think memorizing a page of a book is easier than paraphrasing the basic point.
neutral · AI labelView post →And I’m sorry I know it’s basic or whatever but Good Will Hunting is still such a good movie
positive · AI labelView post →Add “between my legs” to a movie title "Good Will Hunting Between My Legs"
neutral · AI labelView post →Finally got to watch Good Will Hunting God what a beautiful movie. Felt myself getting ripped apart by it in the best way.
positive · AI labelView post →Good Will Hunting An amazing Movie That you can take hope from Rest in Peace, Mr Williams
positive · AI labelView post →#SeptemberMovieChallenge #Moviesky Day 12. Somebody rides, drives or walks away at the end of a movie. Good Will Hunting (1997) youtu.be/49TeSoo4Sx8?...
neutral · AI labelView post →Movie pitch: "Good Will Hunting," but he is terrible at math.
neutral · AI labelView post →Watching Good Will Hunting again. Robin Williams is truly incredible. When I first saw this film I was on a plane to New Zealand - it hit me very hard, like a bulldozer. It helped me start to heal. 💔❤️
positive · AI labelView post →I have a movie idea that I think would piss everyone off Remake of Good Will Hunting Zendaya plays the Matt Damon character Matt Damon plays the Robin Williams character Ben Affleck plays the Stellan Skarsgård character Tom Holland plays the Minnie Driver character Casey Affleck as Ben Affleck
neutral · AI labelView post →i watched To Die For tonight for the first time, and it’s insane that Gus Van Sant directed that film, My Own Private Idaho, and Good Will Hunting all in the same decade.
neutral · AI labelView post →Mindy Kaling wrote an off-Broadway play based on the premise that Matt Damon and Ben Affleck didn’t actually write Good Will Hunting (for which they won Oscars at 19 and proceeded NOT to write a second feature-length film until Affleck allegedly wrote Argo), and I believe her
neutral · AI labelView post →Introduce yourself with: One book: The Green Mile ~ Stephen King 📚 One movie: Good Will Hunting 🎥 One album: Songs in the Key of Life ~ Stevie Wonder 🎶 One TV Show: Justified📺
neutral · AI labelView post →Pick a movie, keep them human, insert one Muppet. Good Will Hunting, except Matt Damon is now The Count.
neutral · AI labelView post →Do the cleaning staff typically know the patirnts’ conditions and other medical details? I suppose they can read the charts on the walls. Is that a hipaa violation? Or maybe they also have some hipaa training / certification. This would make a good shitmovie premise, like Good Will Hunting meets House, where the best doctor in the hospital is actually a janitor. Maybe he reads patient charts and secretly treats them for the real disease the other doctors haven’t found.
neutral · AI labelView post →Hey dont lose hope. Getting into this kind of darkness is part of the world. It happened throught history and mankind survived. And in fact we need people like you, with knowledge and skills. Just imagine what would happen with all these issues you described. The world will be thrown off balance. There... Lot of people, I mean a lot will need help as a society to move on. There you can shine light to many. Support many. I know this may sound boring but it is true. I too gone through what you…
neutral · AI labelView post →I dunno how to answer “without saying your age what is your favorite movie from the year you turned 18” as that’s a fave “variety of cool ass movies” year. Selena Con Air Face/Off Hoodlum B*A*P*S Soul Food The Game Love Jones Men In Black Air Force One Good Will Hunting My Best Friend’s Wedding
neutral · AI labelView post →RIP Gordon Wood: "His name may have been most widely known, though, for being included in a memorable monologue that Matt Damon’s title character delivers in the 1997 film 'Good Will Hunting,' skewering a Harvard student’s academic pretensions." www.nytimes.com/2026/06/08/b...
neutral · AI labelView post →Tonight’s Film 🎥 Selection: Gus Van Sant’s absolutely amazing “Good Will Hunting”, because I need some Robin Williams tonight. Gone ten years as of yesterday.💔
positive · AI labelView post →He is a major Hollywood screenwriter, producer, director and actor. He has won an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay (Good Will Hunting) He also won an Oscar for Best Picture and BAFTA for Best Director (Argo). He co-owns a film production company with Matt Damon that has made 16 feature films.
neutral · AI labelView post →Last night's family movie night was Good Will Hunting. I would actually love to read a novel about what happens when Will appears on Skylar's doorstep.
positive · AI labelView post →ok ok, I'll rewatch Good Will Hunting soon
positive · AI labelView post →I am now being told that Good Will Hunting is a classic movie, but does not qualify as a "tear jerker" and I'm feeling a little crazy because I still cry during that movie So what say you all?
positive · AI labelView post →#JulyMovieChallenge #Moviesky #Filmsky 21. Favourite Robin Williams movie. Good Will Hunting (1997)
neutral · AI labelView post →Good Will Hunting by a big margin. without his performance, it's a good but forgettable film. with him, it's iconic
positive · AI labelView post →I made a point when I was in Boston to sit on the bench from Robin’s monologue in Good Will Hunting. Fav movie all time. RIP
positive · AI labelView post →My friend insisted that I watch Good Will Hunting with them because I’d never seen it and biiiiiiiissssshhhh I can’t believe I hadn’t seen this movie before
positive · AI labelView post →#JuneMovieChallenge #FilmSky 25: A movie about an underdog Good Will Hunting - 1997
neutral · AI labelView post →Nicholas Galitzine reveals in V Man Magazine that he’s set to produce and star in an [unannounced] film by Gus Van Sant next year! Van Sant is famously known for films such as “My Own Private Idaho” and “Good Will Hunting”.
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