Wednesday, January 18, 2017

F This Movie! 369: Good Will Hunting

Patrick and Doug still like them apples.



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Also discussed this episode: Jackie (2016), Doctor Strange (2016), Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016), Nocturnal Animals (2016), Love Actually (2003), Band of the Hand (1986), Joysticks (1982), Fresh Meat (2012), Zoolander 2 (2016)

28 comments:

  1. VIDEO TO THE MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAX!!!!!

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    1. Also, on a more serious note, please remember that "where you are" right now is a position as the podcaster-in-chief of one of the most kickass podcasts on all of the internet. I don't know enough about this sort of thing to know if it helps or not, but just know that you are important and you are loved! :)

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  2. Not to get personal but you shouldn't take yourself for granted either, your work gives me and I'm sure many others the big time Happy's.

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  3. Also Sean Maguire would be a great Halloween costume. Beard, tweed, call people Chief, then randomly choke people out against a wall

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  4. Holy shit. Ordered Band Of The Hand on Blu like an hour before I listened to this. Crazy!

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  5. I know I'm mostly alone of this, but I absolutelty love Fantastic Beasts. I'm a very moderate Harry Potter fan (haven't even seen/read them all) but that movie warmed my heart so much. I found it so joyful and so devoid of cynicism. I saw it twice. I cried both times. I adore the characters. It made my Top 10. It might be a movie only for me, but it was the only big blockbuster last year that I really loved.

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    1. Not completely alone. For me it was a comfort thing, I always felt comfortable in that world and fantastic beasts felt like big blanket. And it was one my my favourite block busters of last year. Again I am one of the few people who liked it more than Strange, though it hit more of my buttons.

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  6. Love this podcast so much! You inspired me to do 29 horrors films in October. Rad!
    This episode was particularly great. Long too!
    A lot of people deal with depression, if not most in one way or another. So glad to hear about it on the podcast.
    We react to art/film in a purely personal way, so why not talk about it that way?
    Happy to have y'all in 2017!

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  7. My favorite scene from Good Will Hunting is probably when Matt Damon puts this whole town in his reahview.

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  8. I didn't get a chance to listen to the whole episode yet but I'm totally with Doug on Love Actually. Doug is sane.

    I'm waiting for a girly, teen-y fantasy series worthy of a Florence and the Machine soundtrack. I thought Beautiful Creatures was an interesting effort. The questions in the story like Can you stop yourself from becoming your mother and hurting the ones you love - are my kind of questions. I liked a lot of the visual choices (though not the interior of her house-that was horrible). Alden Eherenreich is amazing movie-boyfriend material. But I thought the major campiness, though fun at times, made it unable to transcend and be a really good movie or one that people could say they liked without being embarrassed. It is delightful and cringeworthy at the same time, which is...unique, at least.

    Our Snow White and the Huntsman series just gave up.

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    1. Cutie pies. Your friendship -like being able to listen to the words that are truly intimate and supportive in a real relationship- feels insanely touching and meaningful..

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  9. Patrick, this podcast is a great achievement. More important to me and many others than many movies out there by people who "made it" and got to write scripts, etc. You have achieved so much in the 20 years since Good Will Hunting. Your perseverance with this podcast has been a source of inspiration when I feel like my own efforts are not worth it. Keep it up!

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  10. Hey Patrick, been listening to your guys' show for a few years now and never really participated in the community other than downloading the podcast, but I wanted to say how much I really enjoy it and this episode specifically hit home. Thanks for getting so honest about what your going through and how it feels watching 20 years slip by and wondering what you've done. I think we all feel that way at some level, I know I do on a regular basis.

    Anyway, it was an awesome moment and I hope you guys keep doing what you do for a long time to come. I disagree with some of your reviews once in a while, I mean nobody's perfect, but It's pretty inspiring to see how much work you guys put into this because you really are passionate about all kinds of films. Lots of respect coming from over here.

    Thanks!

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  11. I was having a pretty bad day. I don't like my job and don't feel like I'm doing what I love. Someone backed into my car after work and we're reorganizing our storage cupboard so our place is a MESS. I was feeling really down and then I listened to this episode. It's one of the most honest things I've ever heard and I'm so happy that you were willing to put yourself out there like that, and have done so ever since you started this amazing podcast. This podcast and your website brings me and many others joy almost every day, and that ain't nothing. It may not have the audience that Good Will Hunting has but that's part of what makes it so special. And also keep in mind that Matt Damon's most recent films are Jason Bourne and The Great Wall, and Ben Affleck's were Batman V Superman, Suicide Squad, and Live By Night ;) F This Movie, on the other hand, just keeps getting better and better!

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    1. Good heavens, what a horrifying realization about Matt and Ben. That's rough.

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  12. Eddie Redmayne DOES have a punchable face. And I didn't even realize it until listening to this week's podcast.

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    1. He looks like he's always sniffing up a snoot full of snot.

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  13. I'm glad I wasn't alone in having reservations about revisiting Good Will Hunting. That movie meant a great deal to me and I share in the fear that I might not like it now, it's been several years since I last visited it, and that would really suck! After listening to the pod I'm excited to give it another visit. Alamo Drafthouse is Denver is screening it on Jan. 22nd if anyone else on here is from the big square.

    I'm glad you guys brought up the Elliott Smith song as well, that's always been one of my absolute favorite songs that was written for a movie. There's so many good ones out there, (Live and Let Die, Mrs. Robinson, etc...) but "Miss Misery" is such a heart-breaker. The opening line, "I'll fake it through the day with some help from Johnny Walker Red" gives me goosebumps every time I hear it. It's so haunting.

    Great episode guys!

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  14. Wonderful yet heartbreaking episode, thank you so much for sharing Patrick. I want you guys to know that the podcast means a lot to me. I want you guys to know that for the last few years you guys have been my true friends. Every single time you post a new podcast, it brings a smile to my face. I wish and hope in the most desperate way that you find peace and relief from your depression. It is the hardest thing in the world to describe but you held a mirror and truly reflected what it means to suffer from depression. It was the most touching thing I've ever heard in relation to this illness. Patrick, please keep writing screenplays, I think the creative process can really help you work through and hopefully come to peace with what you may be struggling with inside. My buddy and I have been writing songs together since we were in 6th grade (almost 15 years), trust me we suck, I realized that I'll never be a famous musician a few years ago, however I feel that without that creative outlet in my life I may not be here anymore. I truly feel you have the taste and sensibility to truly touch and entertain people. I know this because you've already been doing this through your podcast for a long time.

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  15. I like the family structure imposed upon the characters around Will. In Will's friends, he's got brothers who will do anything for him but will also kick him in the ass when he needs it. In Skarsgard he's got a father who is encouraging his career and trying to push him out of the nest. And in Robin Williams he's got a mother who's looking out for his emotional health and personal growth. Even the way Williams and Skarsgard argue is like a bad marriage or a divorced couple rehashing the same old arguments. I feel like Boogie Nights got a lot of credit for creating a surrogate family out of its ensemble (deservedly so, it's a great film), and Good Will Hunting is pretty successful employing that same conceit.

    I think F This Movie has pulled off a similar accomplishment. Patrick, Doug, Erika, JB, Adam, and everyone involved with F This Movie feel like a family. A unique, movie-centric family that Patrick created, nurtured, and loved. This is why us fans are ... well, fans. We respond to your honesty and openness. We're the extended family, kind of like the cousins and aunts and uncles that you barely know but are somehow in your life anyway.

    Patrick, thank you for F This Movie.

    Doug, thank you for the Adam Sandler goat sketch reference.

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  16. This wound up being my favorite episode of the podcast you guys have ever done. For a number of reasons. Great job, and thank you.

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  17. I know there have been a ton of people up above me that have already said this, but don't feel like you opening up on the podcast was a bummer. The crews personality is one of the reasons I've stuck with the p-cast for so long and your genuine, sincere reaction to the film and how it puts a mirror to your life is one of the reasons we all adore the medium.

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  18. Great film.
    Great podcast episode.

    Honest and true podcasting.
    Hadn't seen this film in over a decade.
    Glad I listened to this.
    The honest reaction was so... I don't know.
    Earnest.

    I cried.
    For Elliott, Robin, for the unaware version of me at 19.
    Doug's joke was perfect, BTW.

    The limitlessness potential of youth, and the path that life takes is a quagmire for the depressive mind.
    It is a non question. Retrospect is good for assessing growth.
    It is pointless, because well- talk to a 19 year old.

    Do not dismiss the beauty of now.
    Admire your self.
    I do.
    Keep up the good work!

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  19. What a great show. Patrick really tapped into some old memories for me in this one. It has always been my dream to write screenplays or just one, and get it made. Just be a writer in general would be fine. That has always been the be all, end all for me. I would love to have been able to read your screenplay Patrick. Don't you wish you hadn't thrown it away?

    When I was about 8 or so, in 1997, I saw 'The Blues Brothers' for the first time. I became completely obsessed with this movie. I had my mom buy me the soundtrack and other Blues Brothers CDs. I thought it was brilliantly funny and just a movie that made me feel happy in a way that no other movie had made me feel up to that point. I was so obsesses with it that I started to watch it and write the dialogue and actions down as I watched it, basically re-creating the screenplay as I saw it. I didn't think there was anything strange about all of this, I just thought, this is a perfect movie and I love the dialogue and the comedy. I wrote the entire movie out, and it took a lot of rewinding, lol.

    I've tried writing scripts and novels, never finished any of them. I'm too shy to let the world see, or basically to afraid that my work wouldn't be good enough, which it probably wasn't and isn't. I think it's a great triumph for you to finish your screenplay Patrick. Most people don't even make it to the end, I've been there.

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  20. Not sure what you guys were saying about the secretary in Love Actually (Martine McCutcheon). Did you or did you not like her?

    Other than that good ep.

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    1. We both really like her and are offended that in the warped reality of the film we're meant to accept that she is somehow not incredibly beautiful. It's ludicrous.

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    2. Ah I get you. Yeah she's sort of treated like an ugly duckling.

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