I can't believe I was impressed by his ''intelligence''...

It's only a film of course, but i remember seeing the bar scene especially with him arguing with the Harvard brat and thinking ''wow, he sure showed him''. I'm sure other audiences had a similar reaction. But he was an absolute idiot. All that time reading books, speed reader or not, and he was still working construction and starting fights on the street instead of putting the information to good use. Arguing with a man in a bar was a waste of time.

Why didn't Will head over to Wall street and throw his weight around there if he was so smart? you don't need a college degree for that and he would have gotten rich before he was 25. Very peculiar