OT, Schmo-Tea: Will Hunting Returning for 3rd Year

Submitted by kdhoffma on December 5th, 2022 at 9:31 AM

Great news, our greatest post-COVID year pickup: MIT graduate transfer and Larry and Lucinda Page Director of Data Analytics, Will Hunting, is returning for a 3rd year.  Hunting (shown below cracking the OSU play calling codes at halftime) turned down a lucrative position with the NSA to return to the Wolverines.

 

When reached for comment, thee Ohio State football coach Ryan Day had this to say: "I don't like dem apples!"

NotADuck

December 5th, 2022 at 9:34 AM ^

Getting tired of everyone and their grandma thinking they need to post something... but at least this one looks like some effort was put into it.  Even made me crack a smile!

GRBluefan

December 5th, 2022 at 9:53 AM ^

did you really think that this was (a) funny, (b) a good idea and (c) likely to be well received?

Although, I guess I did actually find the 2nd picture to be pretty funny, so there's that!

kdhoffma

December 5th, 2022 at 9:55 AM ^

Frinkiac - S05E18 - BUT MY MOM SAYS I'M COOL.

 

Maybe I didn't hit the mark, but it was an attempt at a ridiculous reply to the latest OSU fan theory to explain our latest victory and 2nd half performance overall, that we have an advanced play call sign stealing operation.

Also, do I get no point for using the background from the Annexation of Puerto Rico scene from Little Giants?  Yeah, ok, obviously if I need to break it down then it's not funny.

goblu330

December 5th, 2022 at 10:08 AM ^

Hawt take.  The film just does not hold up.  With a critical eye, it is, in fact, preposterous.  People do not have "smart-offs" in bars.  Never before in the history of the world has such an occurrence played out.  On a recent watch, it occurred to me, it is a fantasy movie.  Scene after scene after scene of circumstances and situations that simply do not occur, to anybody, in real life. 

As always, Robin Williams elevates the material, but this movie fooled me for a long time.  It is funny, that remains. (Chucky "negotiating" in Will's absence is great stuff).  But it is not the deep, sophisticated film it purports to be. 

dragonchild

December 5th, 2022 at 11:13 AM ^

Well it depends.  I feel there's an obligation to set expectations as to what sort of work you're presenting to the audience.  Itchy and Scratchy waste no time diving into mutilation comedy, so joke's on the neckbeard picking it apart.  Low expectations, low standards.  Saving Private Ryan wants you to take it seriously so it deliberately chose Omaha frickin' Beach as its opening scene in a re-creation that embellished some details but was nonetheless researched well enough to send WW2 veterans walking out of the theatre and back into therapy.  High expectations, high standards.  Then you have something like Tommy Wiseau's The Room.

If as a filmmaker you're a preachy egomanic that pratfalls in your magnum opus, no, you don't get to fall back to the "it's just a movie" excuse.

goblu330

December 5th, 2022 at 11:33 AM ^

With Goodwill Hunting, I just don't think it earns what it thinks it does.  Aside from deciding to "see about a girl," what breakthroughs does he make?  Will was not merely an "underachiever" or somebody with tremendous talent who was wasting it, he was a fricking sociopath who participated in gang beatdowns of a dude after a baseball game without a hint of remorse.  Were they going to get to any of that, at some point?

It cannot decide what it wants to do with the character, and in the end, he literally drives off from a job he just committed to taking (like the whole point of his therapy, apparently, from the beginning) to find a girl who may or may not want anything to do with him anymore.

Weird.

FauxMo

December 5th, 2022 at 10:33 AM ^

This is a truly awful hot take. Your claim that "people do not have "smart-offs" in bars" is, simply put, wrong. If you've ever been a graduate student, you will know that there are student bars that cater to or become popular with these advanced students from various disciplines. And there is NO ONE more arrogant or self-assured than a graduate student in the 3rd semester of their Ph.D. program at a top school after a few beers showing off. And yes, this often manifests as "I'm smarter than you" contests between these folks and both other graduate students and random strangers in a bar. In fact, when this movie came out I was a graduate student, and the "asshole Harvard Ph.D. student in History" struck me as an almost perfect representation of dozens of people I was interacting with at the time. 

bighouseinmate

December 5th, 2022 at 10:15 AM ^

Anyone thinking this is a bad post just needs to put up the phone, tablet, or computer for awhile and go meditate. This is funny, while also being informative. A solid effort deserving of a quire s few upvotes.