Revisiting Good Will Hunting

I watched Good Will Hunting again last night. The movie has major problems, such as the contrived mature of scenes like the academic barroom brawl between Will Hunting and the Harvard Stiff:



Having actually read some of that material, I found it absolutely ridiculous that anyone could be among the greatest mathematical minds of all time and still have the capacity to embarrass a well read History grad student. Nevertheless, the movie still works for me, after all these years.