So this douche says to Matt Damon: "Yeah, but I'll have a degree, and you'll be serving fries to my kids at a drive-through on our way to a skiing trip."
Damon replies: "That may be, but at least I won't be unoriginal."
I mean, I get where he's coming from, since the guy was plagiarizing various authors to impress chicks and embarrass his friend, but working at a drive-through when you don't have a degree is one of the most unoriginal things you can do with your life, so his point sort of falls flat.
Am I the only one who has this issue with this particular scene?
My issue with the whole entire movie was how the fuck did Matt Damon ever get so smart? All he ever does it seems like is get drunk with his friends.
And it would be such an easy fix just one scene with him reading a book. Just show him reading a book one time the movie would have been so much better. Ben Affleck walks up to his house bangs on the door and cut to Matt Damon closing a book shut and getting up to leave there I just fixed everything.
Parker Powell
It's been some time since I watched the movie, but are you sure there's no scenes like this? Seems obvious that they should've added at least one like that.
Jeremiah Foster
Yeah but you realize this is the beginning of the film and the plot is that this is exactly Will's problem. His character arc is him coming to terms with this and changing.
Aiden Russell
I'm pretty sure he read everything he needed to long before the movie took place. He'd already exhausted what conventional education had to teach him.
Anthony Flores
If he was plagiarizing couldn't he just report him to the dean? He'd be kicked out of school for that.
Luke Flores
You have to realize that with a psued like the one in question, a guy who has to plagarize in order to sound smart, one of his greatest insecurities is that he won't ever be able to do something truly smart or original with his life. The superiority complex is just a facade to hide some really deep insecurities, and Matt Damon is fully aware of that which is why the insult has so much power.
Also being a super smart, well-read drive-through worker isn't exactly common.
Jose Lewis
They explained that when Maguire and Lambeau are having lunch together at that fancy restaurant when were talking about that Indian mathematician. Sometimes smarts is blessed on people with no real training. Also Hunting has a photographic memory and yes they showed his reading various books in his room, also showed stacks of read books in his room. Re-watch the movie dumbass.
Luke Cooper
Funny thing is though, that most college graduates will be working flipping burgers or pours coffees...the degrees have very little value these days...
Aiden Ramirez
He quotes directly from text several times and can do high tier level math in his head in seconds. I'm pretty sure it's implied he's studied before
Also he blatantly says at one point that you can learn everything you could ever want at the public library
Jaxson Phillips
fuck off Cyril you retard
Blake Robinson
Neither getting a degree or skipping college is a particularly original option. It's not meant to be a form of self-expression.
Sebastian Lewis
Smart answer, I'd upboat it if I could.
Mason Hernandez
Isn't the very first scene in the movie him reading a book?
Charles Price
as a low IQ evolutionary dead-end it was hard to relate to this movie and Will's problems seemed very petty.
Chase Perez
when the struggle for food and shelter has ended can't we turn our attention to other sources of pain and truth?
Lincoln Robinson
I"ve drank in that bar. It's on odd mix of townies and tourists
Nicholas Mitchell
I stopped watching the movie after he said "do you like apples? HOW YA LIKE THEM APPLES!?" and I don't feel like I missed out on anything. Am I right or wrong?
Leo Harris
it's not going to change your life but you should finish the movie, it's pretty good.
David Scott
OP, I used to love Good Will Hunting but then you realize that it's the wish fulfillment of middle-upper class trust fund babies like Damon and Affleck who fantasize about being tough guys from the wrong side of the tracks but smarter than everyone else who can just walk into a higher income bracket whenever they feel like it. Oh and then hook up with another trust fund baby studying to be a doctor who wouldn't piss on him if he was on fire if he was a regular working class slob.
Mason Baker
It's a pretty silly movie, but it's comfy. The best thing about it 20 years later (Jesus Christ I'm old) is Robin Williams. It's a truly great performance from him. Damon was much better a few years later in The Talented Mr. Ripley.
Jacob Ross
That scene literally exists.
He's sitting on his bed reading then gets up and does equations on the mirror.
Connor Hill
>OP doesn't comprehend the human ego
Isaac Gutierrez
LE EGO IS A SPOOK LMAO /LIT/ TOLD ME SO
P L E B
Cooper Murphy
Are you retarded?
Jack Ward
Why tho?
Lucas Brooks
What was this guy's deal? Why did he want to humiliate Affleck? His character is never adressed again in the movie, so there's nothing that leaves us to assume he has a relationship of any sort with the girls in the first place.
Joshua Bell
the guys insult was rather baseless anyway, as damon is obviously a smart guy, so no reason to get butthurt over a hypothetical
Caleb Bell
He's just trying to get a reaction and oh gee he did.
Brayden Campbell
How do ya like dem apples
Michael Barnes
SCOTTY'S GOTTA GO
Matthew Butler
This desu. When life doesnt work out, you will become cynical like this lad and I. Its inevitable
Xavier Scott
My boys wickhhed smarrt
Gabriel Perez
college kids vs townies basically
Lucas Allen
That maths problem they put on the blackboard in the hallway is fucking easy.
Dylan Diaz
Hunting is a self-insert kind of character.
They also go extra mile of making him look cool when he somehow has time to read every book on every subject and recall the exact page while being drunk.
The entire premise is outdated. In the current year, you'll have a degree AND you'll be serving fries at the drive-through
Owen Martinez
>it's the wish fulfillment of middle-upper class trust fund babies like Damon and Affleck who fantasize about being tough guys
It's about trust fund babies Damon and Affleck going against everybody's wishes and running off to California to be in movies.
Benjamin Gutierrez
Which only proves that Oscars are dumb too.
Daniel Thomas
Theres nothing wrong with being a trust fund baby
Brody Wood
they were always garbage
Colton Richardson
fuck you
Aiden Gray
Has nobody itt actually met a genius-level IQ? I've only met one but after haphazardly graduating college at 16 he just fucked around and joined Lulzsec. Being incredibly naturally gifted doesn't require much work on their part to be smart, and it certainly doesn't mean they aren't lazy and petty like everyone else.
Bentley Lee
the whole concept of the movie is completely grandiose, absurd and artificial, but it still works as a story about a young underachiever who lacks a father figure. i went the other direction - hated the movie at first for the mary sue aspect but then i started to enjoy it. you can't really argue with the 'it's not your fault' scene for a cheap bit of vicarious therapy
Nathan Thompson
So Matt Damon was too smart for a normal wage slave job or to start his own company? Or did he only get smart after working as the janitor
Easton Nguyen
He's an idiot savant.
Liam Russell
isn't that will's main flaw though? like at this point in the film he still thinks doing nothing with his life is fine but as the film goes on he matures and learns that he needs to commit to appreciating his intelligence and using it wisely etc etc, that moment kinda shows that he uses his intelligence to maintain superiority over threats and still lacks a lot of maturity
Ayden Diaz
he was genius with no direction
Ian Richardson
No he's not, you stupid fuck.
Jacob White
gets mad at gramer on a website about kinos. just kill urself
Gabriel Sanchez
You really have to be trying hard as fuck to not like this movie.
Ethan Sanders
You kill you'reself you tryhard
Aiden Smith
why dont u? why should u care how anyone types
Cameron Gray
...
Jaxon Jenkins
He was an idiot savant.
Ayden Wright
not too smart, too bitter and insubordinate
Angel Scott
>idiot savant >website about kinos faggots like you are what ruined this place, you should also learn what words mean.
Benjamin Perez
So your getting mad that people are trolling? welcome to Sup Forums?
Ethan Collins
You all gave a similar unoriginal reply. I am sorry.
Liam Cooper
the movie isn't about intelligence, it's about wasting your potential
Easton Hill
there's a difference between trolls and legit morons
Gavin Nguyen
good will hunting is one of the worst movies ever made and i feel like you have to be an absolute subhuman or a woman to like this flick. it's actually insulting watching this movie. almost every scene is trying so fucking hard to hit your emotions that it's just completely ineffective. i feel like i'm being manipulated and bombarded when watching it and it makes me angry that the retard who wrote this thinks so little of his audience. there's no subtlety and no thinking. the film tells you exactly how it wants you to feel and it does this the entire time, it never lets up. what an infuriating piece of garbage
Caleb Hall
thing is how do u really know whos srs and whos not. ur a legit moron if u just presume what people are.
Xavier Brooks
Why was robin williams such a whiny cunt? What do you amercians like about him so much?
Gabriel Gomez
>i feel like i'm being manipulated and bombarded literally every movie in the world
Nicholas Reyes
you were exposed faggot
Xavier Williams
They couldn't manipulate me in to thinking that ugly bitch was hot
Adam Diaz
>this entire post
It's O.K., it's not your fault.
Leo Turner
that i dont care what some retard online thinks about me? thanks for the validation
Jonathan Taylor
>Why was robin williams such a whiny cunt? What do you amercians like about him so much? I dont. I abhor him. I think its just nostalgia because the dude is not funny.
Samuel Williams
you care enough to keep replying moron
Luke Morris
this nigga mad
Carter Edwards
if u say so. same to u?
Ethan Kelly
garbage scene. fuck you
Wyatt Gonzalez
He clearly stated he doesn't care.
Mason Myers
why don't you look up those words you misused instead of embarrassing yourself further?
Jaxon Murphy
u? so? same? u? to? if? say? keep trying plz this is amusing
Jason Watson
Is getting a degree any more "original" than working fast-food?
Chase Adams
I feel like there were a few movies around that time that made the same mistake.
Patch Adams literally made the same mistake you just described.
Carson Gray
So he was literally Sup Forums?
>genius level IQ >spends his day doing nothing
Austin Anderson
Sup Forums is Casey Affleck.
Wants the double burger, can't afford it.
Noah Roberts
Shame that Dean Winters didn't get a a bigger career after Oz :(.
I wish Ryan O'Rielly was my older brother :(.
Tyler Green
I have a genius level IQ and I work as an English teacher in Japan where I have to clean schools. Will I enjoy this movie?
Christopher Ross
>tfw when our old scholars public school basketball team beat a private school basketball team in the grandfinal tonight
Private school babbies are literally the worst
Caleb Miller
Robin Williams killed himself 3 years ago.
Robert Fisher
>you can learn everything you could ever want at the public library Thats not true though. Most libraries often don't have specific scientific textbooks. He'd have to go to a university library and even then its definitely not guaranteed.
Kevin Moore
Not from fucking Harvard
Charles Edwards
It's about them running off to go make movies in Hollywood. Why do you think he goes to California at the end?
Jack Harris
No. I have a 150 IQ myself and met several mensa level people, but none of us were geniuses, just smart average people.
Nicholas Mitchell
>tv >genius level IQ lol'd according to themselves maybe. I mean there was a thread few months ago where online test were posted and I'm the only one who scored 160. Even on online tests the average of this board is like 110