Good friends are there for you.
But the best of friends care more about you than they care about the friendship.
Best friends want you to live your greatest life possible.
Having another human being care about you that much is rare.
Having that person not even be related to you is priceless.
Will (Matt Damon) has that with Chuckie (Ben Affleck).
Them actually being friends makes this feel so authentic.
It’s one of my favorite scenes ever.
Gerald is a shitty friend who is obsessed with jealousy and image.
The incredible screenplay by Damon and Affleck doesn’t take a shortcut to make Gerald a traditional movie villain.
He has the right intentions for Will.
It’s a fantastic juxtaposition to seeing how much Chuckie cares for Will.
For all of Gerald’s brilliance, he’ll never understand that.
It’s this theme of friendship that make Good Will Hunting timeless.
The theater has long been torn down but the movie still is in our zeitgeist.
It doesn’t hurt that both Damon and Affleck have had great careers.
But even saying that, they haven’t reached quite this peak again in their careers.
It wasn’t just winning the Oscar.
It was what felt like an unlimited future for these guys.
Minnie Driver is perfect as Skylar.
She’s a great counterbalance to Will Hunting, who truly doesn’t think he deserves her.
He chases after her in the end and I bet they do date when he gets out there.
But, I don’t see that being an eternal love story.
That’s not what this movie is.
I’m not the biggest Robin Williams fan of his comedy.
His stand-up was too frantic and zany for me.
But, he was one Hell of an actor.
Even in Mrs. Doubtfire, you care about that family so much simply because he cares.
Not many actors get nominated for four acting Oscars.
One of the greatest actors of the 1990’s is first thought of as a comedian by many.
That’s pretty impressive.
You feel like you know these characters.
They feel like people you could meet in real life.
None of them are perfect but none are truly bad either.
They are people in very different circumstances doing the best that they can.
It takes one Hell of a screenplay to make you care this much.
Affleck and Damon may never reach quite these heights again, but who could?
Good Will Hunting
5.
The Silence Of The Lambs
8.
The Sixth Sense
10.
A Few Good Men
14.
The Truman Show
16.
There’s Something About Mary
20.
Schindler’s List
22.
Saving Private Ryan
25.
Dumb & Dumber
27.
Terminator 2: Judgement Day
31.
Out Of Sight
36.
Carlito’s Way
37.
Wayne’s World
45.
Back To The Future Part III
47.
A Bronx Tale
48.
The People Vs. Larry Flynt
49.
Eyes Wide Shut
50.
The Green Mile
54.
Man On The Moon
55.
Boyz N The Hood
56.
Grosse Pointe Blank
57.
The Talented Mr. Ripley
63.
The Usual Suspects
65.
In The Line Of Fire
66.
My Cousin Vinny
67.
The River Wild
79.
What’s Eating Gilbert Grape?
Stir Of Echoes
82.
Mission: Impossible
83.
For Love Of The Game
86.
Being John Malkovich
87.
Men In Black
88.
Glengarry Glen Ross
92.
Die Hard With A Vengeance
93.
The Blair Witch Project
94.
Any Given Sunday
99.
The Wedding Singer
100.
