Change Your Image
michelle-gilmore3
Reviews
Interview with the Antichrist (2020)
Powerful End-Times film about an interview with the Antichrist after the Rapture.
Powerful End-Times film about an interview with the Antichrist after the Rapture. Amazing film that will AWAKEN you to the last days we're living in.
The interview goes through the entire Bible showing how so many lost track of Jesus in the last days before the Rapture.
I go to Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa and I believe in the Rapture and the coming Antichrist who again may be alive right now.
What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993)
What's the Big Deal?
Gilbert Grape is a well-put together, but flawed film. The director obviously puts a lot of care into capturing such a deeply emotional story, and he paces his film fittingly. The film is very consistent, and this works throughout the film's entirety, but the minuscule variations in tone and pace drag the film down. The director does a nice job at showcasing the wide open rural setting the film is takes place in and he uses a lot of good country motifs to give the film its consistent mood. He no doubt shoots the film very well and makes the most out of what he is given.
There are a number of big stars in this film, and they all do a good job. Johnny Depp carries the film very well and is plenty believable. The character of Gilbert Grape teeters on the line between angry and sympathetic about his brother Arnie. He even makes the statement at the beginning of the film, "The doctor says Arnie could die any day. Some days you're glad Arnie's alive. Some days... you're not." This line sets the stage for a lot of Gilberts polarizing attitudes that he has to fight through to keep his family safe. He is a character a lot of people can surely relate to, making the whole story much more personal for certain audiences. For me, I understood the challenge of Gilbert, but obviously couldn't connect at the same level as some people might.
DiCaprio gets a lot of praise for his role as the severely mentally disabled Arnie Grape. I think that a lot of the acclamation he gets for this role is overrated. For the level at which DiCaprio plays his character, he does a good job. However, I wish Tropic Thunder could have come out about fifteen years earlier so that DiCaprio would have been enlightened by the infamous yet relevant phrase, "you never go full retard." I hate to say it, but DiCaprio went full retard. Like I said, for going full retard DiCaprio handled the role well, but the fact of the matter is you never go full retard.
Memento (2000)
Disturbing but Powerful Movie
Memento plays with our emotions using Leonard, as he often seems to be an emotional void with a very faint sense of hope that he will "solve" the murder of his wife. Eventually, the audience knows what has happened to her, and that people constantly try to tell him that her case has been solved, but Leonard knows nothing. He essentially sabotages his own mind in order to have that single, missing piece of the murder case continually hanging in the air, making for a very sad, desperate character for whom we feel great pity. The simplicity of the movie is also displayed here, in that the basic action of crossing out a few words means that Leonard must embark upon his desperate search again. He is deceitful to himself, and does not even know it - the audience is left with the mixed emotion of feeling sorry for Leonard, and being angry at him for double-crossing himself at every turn. We do not know what to think of him, meaning that such a character is a powerful tool. I remember that when I saw this in the cinema, certain parts amused the audience greatly, such as when Leonard found the empty bottle, without recalling why he was there in the bathroom, and thought, "I don't feel drunk....". I didn't find this funny at all, nor do I think Nolan was attempting to insert an element of comedy. I simply felt sorry for him, knowing that this is the continual path of his life. This reminds me somewhat of Shutter Island, just a hopeless ending to a good movie.