Robin Williams Is Brilliant! Good Will Hunting (1997) Movie Reaction! FIRST TIME WATCHING! 

“It’s not your fault” was a line that served as healing for a lot of us. Extra powerful as it is delivered by earth angel Robin Williams.

Minnie Driver should have won an Oscar for her scene where he tells her he doesn't love her. That was the most accurate portrayal I've ever seen of someone's heart being shattered into a million pieces.

So, the reason why Robin repeats "its not your fault" is because he wants Will to acknowledge its not his fault from an emotional perspective, Will is smart enough to know the abuse wasn't his fault rationally, but emotionally he internalized the abuse as something that was at least somehow his fault.

Robin Williams really did bless us with all of his fantastic films this one included May he rest in peace ❤

This movie was written by Afflek & Damon! They won an academy award for the writing and brought their moms to the Oscars with them. The film & cast won awards at just about every ceremony that year.

If you like Robin Williams in roles like this, Dead Poet's Society is a must.

Seb: Is he, like, insanely smart? Me: No, my boy's wicked smaht.

"That might be the best acting I've seen." Yeah, that's how I've always felt about this movie. Its funny how you reacted to the fact that Matt and Ben wrote the movie. I once watched some video about how they went to the award ceremony for this movie and they were young guns of hollywood and felt completely out of place and unsure of themselves surrounded by "elite" company.

Just one of the many reminders of what a treasure Robin Williams was 🥲

10:54 My favorite scene of the entire film. Robin Williams and Matt Damon were both absolutely brilliant. Sean gave Will some hard truths and Will knew it. The way Matt Damon finally stopped all his cocky, smart mouth talk and just listened was really profound. You can tell what Sean was saying really resonated with him by the way he was looking down in silence with the occasional subtle eye movements. Outstanding scene.

I love that you commented on the spat between Sean and Lambeau that Will overheard, saying it might be a good thing. I think it was exactly what he needed: proof that two people cared enough about him to argue passionately about what was best _for him_ . And he knows it can't be a manipulation tactic because they don't know he is listening. Beautiful writing to have that be the precursor to him breaking down and crying in the "it's not your fault" scene, because he finally trusts Sean enough to be open with him.

Damon and Affleck well deservedly won the Oscar for writing this.

Robin Williams won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar. Damon & Affleck won the Best Original Screenplay Oscar. Matt Damon was nominated for Best Actor but lost to Jack Nicholson in As Good As it Gets. Gus Van Sant was nominated for Best Director but lost to James Cameron for Titanic.

18:11 That whole fight with Skylar is a clear sign that Will has been let down repeatedly by people he thought he could trust... every time, he hesitates but then he figures "THIS time, it will go well" and he gets taken advantage of and let down yet again which stings 20 times worse than when he was alone, so he went through life not letting anyone in. With a charming witty facade, dismissing it all. Skylar got him riled up cause her care felt real, which brought up the traumatic anxiety he felt back when he trusted and got betrayed, so he panicked and lashed out and figured _"I won't be able to handle if she betrayed my trust so it's best if I just not let her in like everybody else. It's been proven to work"_

This is easily one of my favorite movies of all time. I always try to watch it once in a while as it reminds me to live my life to the fullest. The writing is amazing and Robin Williams' acting is outstanding. No wonder he won an Oscar for his performance and Matt Damon and Ben Affleck won Oscars for the screenplay. Just a great movie.

Robin Williams entirely improvised the wife-fart bit in the idiosyncrasy speech . You can even hear a third person laughing (someone on the filming crew). You should watch his 90-minute stand-up comedy show from 2002, Robin Williams: Live On Broadway. I continuously return to it every now and again and always laugh my damn a** off.

This is one of my all time favourite movies 😭❤️ I alwayssss cry at the ‘it’s not your fault’ bit

The it’s not your fault scene you see will go through most of his defense mechanisms he plays it off like no big deal and then he laughs it off and then he gets violent and tries to push away like what he did with the girl. Then he finally broke down once the walls where down and begs Shawn not to let him down because everyone else does because he doesn’t have any walls left to defend himself

I can't watch this movie without breaking down. So powerful.

Robin Williams amazes me with his versatility as an actor cool channel thanks

This is one of my favorite movie of Robin Williams other than dead poet society . I'm glad you reacted to this🥰

Well cast, well directed, well conceived. It was authentic. Hurts because it's true. Even those who weren't abused, I think you can see the truth of it. Those of us who were, well, it's nice to know we are not alone. Ain't that why we watch these things. Extended family is just as important. Blood isn't important when your life is on the line.

"How do you like them apples?" Great movie reaction, Seb! You always do a great job!

I can watch this movie over and over again. such good acting! 🤩

Another Robin Williams treasure is The Dead Poets Society. An absolutely beautiful and profound film!

Beautiful reaction, Seb! Thank you for letting yourself be surprised.

So looking forward to this one. 😊 This is one of my favorite Robin Williams films.

Such an amazing film. And the soundtrack with lots of Elliott Smith songs is absolutely fantastic.

Another unsung hero of Robin Williams filmography: What dreams may come. Visually insane, especially for the time made, it's a rollercoaster of an emotional gut-churn.

Im new to your channel but tbf I feel like you have a better vibe than half the youtubers out there!! Seriously I never skipped anything while watching your video and I usually just skip a lot of parts but I don’t do that to yours haha but seriously keep the amazing work and you deserve the absolute best!! Don’t ever stop doing what you be doing!! That’s all I hope you have an absolute amazing and a blessed day!! 💕

I love how you talk about close-ups. An amazing channel called Cinema Therapy regularly says that the best special effect in Hollywood is the close-up. "It's not your fault" scene really shows that Will, in that moment, is a scared, hurt child in a man's body.

Watched it yesterday for the first time. Balled my eyes out

We are all Will Hunting. We know it all, but we don't have the faintest clue.

I just found your channel last night and I've spent all day in quarantine watching your videos.. how you view movies and how you understand movies is the same as I do when I watch them.. keep up the good work ❣❣

Robin Williams won the best supporting actor Oscar for this movie. Another Robin Williams classic you should check out is Dead Poets Society.

That is the best monologue I've ever seen. Blows me away every time.

Sean is the first friend and father figure that didn't give up on him. At the end, when he says "good luck son".....just wow

21:00 yes his friend was saying that out of "i want you to do better" he was giving will some much needed tough love.

Excellent reaction!! You read these characters perfectly. Your appreciation for Robin's talent was wonderful. You'd love Awakenings and The Fisher King. Even deeper and more emotional.

Serious Robin Williams is my favorite Robin Williams 💜

Don't forget that Damon and Affleck were very minor figures in Hollywood before this movie came out. That all changed when they won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. The dialog they gave Robin Williams won him the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor, the only Oscar he ever won (thought he was nominated three other times.) Damon and Driver were both nominated for Oscars as well.

One of my favorite movies of all time. Great to see you react to it for the first time.

Seb, great reaction to this movie which is one of my faves. Some others I would recommend are The Sixth Sense, Silence of the lambs, Kill Bill Vol 1 & 2 and Inception - all groundbreaking movies in the genre. And if you want to see the brilliant Robin Williams in more things, you should watch Dead Poets Society and to see his comedic chops on full display, watch Mrs Doubtfire and Aladdin where he plays the genie - he riffed the entire thing and they animated around what he did.

It's been a while since I last saw it, I almost forgot how great it is. Awesome writing and amazing acting!

WOW! My favorite movie ever and i never caught the "Good Luck, son!" until just now. BRILLIANT MOVIE!!! crazy that they wrote that. RIP Robin Williams.

The best movie ever♥️💔..I have seen it a bunch and just now, I started crying as soon as Robin Williams' first scene. It's because I haven't been able to watch this movie since he died. Thanks for bringing it back to me😊

I've watched a lot of people watching movies I really love and you did a wonderful job. Look forward to seeing more.

To be honest, I forgot how good this film was. Thanks for sharing your reaction with us.

"Why won't you come? I'm sorry. That's not funny" - LMAO!

Great video, Seb. Nice work, my guy. BTW, "the writing" for this was awarded an oscar, and one of the songs by a sometime friend/associate was nominated, but lost to Celine Dion (James Horner, really) for Titanic. Great job.

I appreciate that it ended before he even reached California, because the romantic love story is only a support to the ultimate point of the movie: his journey to love himself. It hardly matters if they get back together. He got back together.

All the actors did a great job in this movie.

Robin Williams performance in this gets more amazing the more times I see this movie.

The fart story Robin Williams tells was improvised on the spot. The camera shaking, is from the camera men genuinely laughing.

Such a beautiful movie. Several gut punches of emotion.

Driver is the unsung hero of this. Wonderful performance

Great reaction man, you really understood the movie and what makes it great keep it up :)

Trivia - Matt and Ben wrote a treatment and it got the green light. They kept writing a great script BUT they wanted to see how far they could push the studio. As they continued to write, they would put in more sexual innuendos and got crazier and crazier. The studio kept saying yes to everything. Matt & Ben were beginning to think that no one was really reading it. So, they put in the script that one of them gives the other oral sex. The studio said yes to everything but said they might be going a little too far with that scene. So, yes! They were reading it. And they won Oscars for Best Original Screenplay.

Robin Williams won for Best Supporting Actor in this movie... one of my all time favorite movies. Thanks for reaction.

I love this movie a lot and I love all your reactions Seb! I was hoping for The Green Mile to win the poll but this is definitely not a bad choice either 😀

Robin Williams will forever be my all time favorite actor ❤❤

Great film. Another good one from this year (‘97) is As Good As It Gets.

11:11 mesmerised by the dialogue got you a sub. This was my favorite scene in one of my favorite movies.

It's not fair Seb. Some of us have been watching RU-vid for years, & we just found you. It's not your fault. Hey, almost 20k 🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳.

Important Historical Note: We had not really seen these two before. They wrote this thing and then became Gigantic. It a little crazy.

I can’t believe that you reacted to this. I recently found your channel and this is legitimately my favorite movie ever. Well. Fucking. Done.

Three REALLY good Robin Williams movies that not a lot of people talk about are: What Dreams May Come - World’s Greatest Dad - One Hour Photo. I would recommend you react to all of them. Extremely emotional movies and brilliant acting by Robin Williams.

Rip Robin Williams. One of the best performances

Two small lines that say the most about what will values, are passed over by most people. In the scene where Robin asks will about people that are in wills life that challenge nad inspire him. Will says he has Chucky, Afflecks character. Robin says chuck is family, he would lay down in traffic if will asked him to. The second is when Robin and the professor are arguing about wills future. The professor says will should have more than hanging around with mindless gorilla's, Robin tells him that if will asked anyone of them would take a bat to the professors head. Loyalty is most important to will. He wants to keep a small circle with no new friends.

"My boy's wicked smart!"

Been waiting for this…. Thank you so much

I've been waiting for these apples.

That first therapist was George Plimpton, who was a writer known for his patrician accent and bloodlines. He was known for participating in events and then writing about them. Probably most famously, he tried out for the Detroit Lions football team and wrote about the experience in the book "Paper Lion", which was made into a movie. He also pitched half an inning of baseball against Major League players and wrote about that in "Out of My League". In 1985 he wrote an article for Sports Illustrated magazine about a young up and coming pitcher named Sidd Finch, who was known for his ideosyncracies. It was only later that it was revealed that it was all an April Fool's stunt,

I've been watching you all night: You're the best, Seb.

This is my favourite movie of all time

One of my favorite movies of all time. If you haven’t seen them yet, you might want to check out “The Color Purple” and “The Joy Luck Club.” The first had universal acclaim. The second is more of a hidden gem, and it might particularly resonate with me because my mom is Asian.

I have like top ten movies that I actually bother to have on DVD and just watch and rewatch and are my favorite movies. This is one of them

This movie underrated

I love this movie , it’s really one of my favorites

I love this movie too much and it's one of my favorite of life! ❤️

There's a trio of movies that always make me think of each other "good Will Hunting", "dead poets society" and "school ties (1992)" Not sure anyone has reacted to school ties before hint hint, nudge nudge

W-What winds your clock? S-Working with you.

Was just going to watch Marvel reactions in a queue and come back to random stuff later, but I cannot bypass this absolutely brilliant film (one of my all-time favourites). Excellent cast, amazing writing, and so much heart. 👍❤

Another Robin Williams dramatic role to check out is "Insomnia".

Robin Williams is the GOAT.

I don’t think I’ve seen anyone react to this movie yet! I love this movie, last time I watched it I was like 13, so been quite a few years, think I need to rewatch it

Great reaction! You want to watch another great performance or possibly the greatest performance of all time is Daniel Day-Lewis in "There Will Be Blood."

Matt Damon said that Robin Williams improvised the "he stole my line"...he wasn't supposed to say anything...Robin will be missed by all...

Fantastic movie!

@7:24 That dude is Harmony Korine and is weird in real life. He directed a fucked up movie called Kids when he was young and he’s been famous and weird ever since.

Awards? Dude, Matt and Ben won the Oscar for their screenplay!

This movie is a masterpiece

I recommend The last samurai, Green mile and Schindler’s list. Great movies!!!!

another amazing robin williams movie is dead poets society, i really recommend that one

You need to do Patch Adams. You will love it!!!

I’m not sure that you caught it at the start but Matt Damon and Ben Aflac (ha) actually wrote this movie together.. so they really handled it on all areas with this movie

"I hope they're still together by the end" They immediately break up "Don't credits me" Mid-sentence credits you

You should check out Finding Forrester it was director Gus Van Sant's follow up to this movie, it is also Sean Connery's 2nd to last role before retiring and he does a brilliant job with the role. Not quite as good as Good Will Hunting but still a wonderful film and worth a watch.

Louis CK has a hilarious bit about this movie, especially the “how do you like them apples” scene.

This movie had so much great dialogue in it, it’s just tragic that you had to talk through the most important scenes.