You mean aside from "The Deer Hunter"?

Hear, hear. Horrible film. Lame plot and frankly it ruined Robin Williams. Now every damn film, he turns preachy and wants to change the world, save the world or transform our thoughts (Patch Adams and What Dreams May Come).

Wait a minute. You can't blame Good Will Hunting for ruining Robin Williams.

He got into that Dead Poets Society / Awakenings sappy shit long before GWH.

What's this Citizen Kane I keep hearing about?

I never saw 'The Deer Hunter'. Was it 'critically acclaimed'?

I never saw 'The Deer Hunter'. Was it 'critically acclaimed'?

Winner of five Oscars, including Best Picture. Cast included Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, and Meryl Streep.

One great scene, the rest tedious beyond belief. It's three hours long and feels like six.

the 45 minute wedding scene at the beginning of the deer hunter feels like 6 hours in and of itself.

Why are you so down on Good Will Hunting? Granted, the stars/screenwriters haven't exactly acquitted themselves well since then, and the fact that Will was such a fan of Chomsky/Zinn is a bit off-putting, but I really liked it.

Sorry.

Deer Hunter, on the other hand, is great. I mean, that Russian Roulette scene is one of the greatest action/drama scenes ever.

My son came home on college break and was gurgling about GWH so I watched it. It sucked. You got a guy that cleans all day, parties at the local bars all night and still has time to memorize every volume at the library?
Like I said to my son: Get real.

I didn't like GWH when I first saw it. It seemed contrived. I caught it tonight and just despised it. It seemed like self-indulgent pap. Williams repeating 'it's not your fault, it's not your fault' until Matt Damon has a breakthrough, complete with crying, was just beyond ridiculous.

Being a math-type person, I refuse to watch any "serious" movie that has "mathematicians" in it. Drives me nuts.

Well, maybe I'll see "Proof" when it comes out as a movie. My friends said it was fine as a play. But, I think "Fermat's Last Tango" was a realistic enough portrayal of a mathematician.

Joey:

It was really predictable, for starters. How'd that screenplay get such acclaim?

Other than godfather ii, I saw each of the movies Ace mentioned as a kid; and i am pretty sure i am only a year or so older than you - a better queston might be just what kind of movies were you watching growing up?

Ok, fine, make fun of me for being an immigrant. :-)

But, really, I'm 28. How old are you?

I know I will become the target of scoffing disbelief but "Godfather" did nothing for me. I turned it off.

Nobody better be bashin' Charlie Kane, you hear?

It's even better post-Rathergate.

KANE ELECTED!

FRAUD AT POLLS!

I'm a month or so older than Evil Dawn (with the various birthday seasons the past several years I no longer have any idea when her birthday actually is) - my guess is you (or your parents) weren't nerdy enough for many of those movies - what that says about Ace is left for you to decide :)

on a completely unnrelated note, Ace and Ari were the first two blogs (that I visit every blue moon or so) banned under my firm's new internet decency policy for their adult content...

Robin Williams' proto-preachy persona emerged in "The Fisher King", which, coincidentally is in the running for the most overrated movie of all time.

Leftie College students are in awe of Matt Damon's rapid-fire, gibberish-filled, put-down of the rich kid in the college bar. When they call Rush and try it themselves, the results are quite humorous.

most overrated flick of all time- "do the right thing." no doubt.

This thread is over rated. You all wouldn't know a good or for that matter bad movie if it smacked you all in the ass. There are at least 25 more overly rated films than GWH and at least 25 films better than Godfather. Of course it depends on what you mean by overrated. As for overrated, critically acclaimed but no box office and sucked or huge box office w/o critical acclaim and sucked. Examples? More overrated? Lost in Translation had no b/o and sucked and Phantom Menace which had a monster box office and just absolutely sucked. Most underrated films? (or at least better than GF) I at least can watch each of thesse on a 10 to 1 ratio GF to : Goodfellas, Full Metal Jacket, The Great Escape, Mister Roberts.
Probably the biggest piece of crap ever which won the academy award was Marty (1955)(which incidently beat Mister Roberts) If you haven't seen any of these and watch them I'd be curious as to your opinions.