I was engaged in this movie from minute one....just the soundtrack mixed with the images makes you want to see where the story goes. Jamie Foxx does all that it's required from him in the main role with a great, Oscar winning, performance from Christoph Waltz who can be charming, funny, and charismatic all in a role that you don't necessarily root for in the beginning. Their chemistry is what drives this movie and it does it rather well. The cinematography here is top notch and Tarantino proves he's probably the director that most wisely chooses songs for his movies... What takes this movie in my opinion to epic status is Leo's surprising role as a villain who most couldn't see Dicaprio do...but he excels in this role. Overall is a movie that doesn't bore you for one minute and it's part of my personal favorites!!
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What's Eating Gilbert Grape
(1993)
A warm blanket of emotions, with simple story telling...
19 March 2016
What's Eating Gilbert Grape is for sure an underrated picture,Johnny Depp does a competent enough job but because of his choice of playing Grape as a numb individual could have made the movie a real snooze, but Depp's performance is actually a plus in the movie thanks to the show stealer performance from young Leonardo Dicaprio as Arnie a mentally challenged kid in the most believable, and in my opinion, best performance of his entire career. I've seen this movie after all the other Dicaprio's movies and if it wasn't for this I would not be able to believe that Dicaprio himself wasn't a mentally challenged kid because he brings so much to the table in this movie in such a simple way. I'm glad that he got an Oscar nod over this, because without that nod I probably wouldn't even know that this movie existed. The remaining characters are competent as well. Not the best movie ever made, not a masterpiece in my opinion, but a solid story that excels because of Leo's performance.
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