What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993) first time watching movie reaction 

I feel like Gilbert at the beginning is stunted. He can't grow because he has so many responsibilities holding him down. Becky is the polar opposite and has no responsibilities. Gilbert's views are stark and honest. He loves his family and is devoted to them... while at the same time he loathes them for keeping him trapped. It's a real typical situation for many people. I don't think Gilbert minds Arnie. He loves him. At the same time, when you have someone in your family like Arnie it can be exhausting and draining. This is one of the best movies adapted from a novel, ever!

The weight of the mother (emotionally and physically) was keeping her children stuck in that town.

This was Leonardo DiCaprio's 4th movie, but it was the one that made him famous (his breakthrough). His first movie was Critters 3. Funnily, a lot of big actors' first movies are horror movies. Johnny Depp's first movie was A Nightmare on Elm Street.

One thing you have to remember is that their mother was an addict. Food addiction is probably worse than others because you have to eat. Any other addiction can be stopped by not using the product. She didn't intentionally keep her children stuck, for lack of a better word. She loved them, but she didn't love herself.

Johnny Depp and Leonardo DiCaprio are my favourite actors so this was incredible!

I love this movie, one of my favourite Johnny Depp and Leo movies. I would love to see you react to a movie called Mermaids(it’s not really about mermaids though lol) it has Winona Ryder and Cher and Christina Ricci in it, it’s a really great movie and it’s very underrated much like this movie and Mask is too

I think you could get away with burning down your own house out in the middle of nowhere like that in the country but not in like a suburb, it would piss your neighbors off with all the smoke and I'm pretty sure they would call the fire department on you before you could successfully burn down the house with your deceased mum inside. Lol Great reaction and analysis as always! 👍

When filming this movie, johnny Depp had a very hard time because of how many scenes there are about making fun of the mothers weight, and he said that she was one of the nicest people he ever met So he hated doing the fat jokes

This is one of my favorite movies. There is a lot of love, sadness, emotion and great wistfulness. And every performance is astonishing, right down to the most minor of characters. Very real, almost to the point it seemed it wasn’t fiction, but close to a documentary. Outstanding.

A Johnny Depp movie made by Tim Burton that I really enjoyed is Edward Scissorhands. If you haven't seen This Boys Life with Leo DiCaprio and Robert Dinero or Basketball Diaries, I highly recommend them.

Gilbert is the person he just wants his brother and family to be happy. I like Gilbert Grape character. Gilbert's family is good person and they work together just to make their crazy brother happy.

'His mom is gonna have to step up....' weeeeeellllllll

Leo should've won the Oscar for this film. It's a fkn crime

Such a wonderful film, it's very underrated, great reaction and review on it

At the end when you questioned if they were going to burn down the house. I thought you were about to ask if it was legal to burn down your house with your deceased Mom still inside. Because that’s what they actually did. Gilbert and his sisters didn’t want her to become a spectacle. Gilbert didn’t want her humiliated.

Those girls are old enough to help gilbert with There severely Autistic Helpless brother And they just let everything up to gilbert. They could of checked on Annie I would Have a bad feeling like something was wrong and check on my family dude there so Imature !

You *get some pop corn 🍿* me *gets dinty moore beef stew. Ps you can actually see Johnny depp pricing dinty moore beef stew in this lol I noticed it whenever the second time I was watching this and I also just so happened to be eating Dinty Moore that time whenever I noticed 😂

Just a tip, as much as I enjoyed your reaction, it would help if you increased the volume of the movie as it was quite low☺️

Love how you react to emotional movies not just with tears but you talk about the nuance. 👍🏼 It shows you really get into the film.

Well you see ye got it all wrong. Not everyone who is as big as Darlene in this film is someone who has just left herself or himself go and the eating habit is not always the Case. My aunt Cheryl on my mom's side was as big as the woman in this movie And it was Because of a problem with her body her body swelled out really big and there was nothing the Dr's could do she passed away 💔 like that.

You’re doing such a wonderful job reacting to this video

I loved the part of your analysis when you pointed out that family actually gives him purpose. Family actually does help and hurt him in different ways. I never fully put that together in my mind and I’ve seen the movie a bunch of times! Gilbert grape is so memorable

I don’t comments lot of videos but I have to say that you were spot on with what I was thinking after watching the movie. I wanted to watch the movie because I’m in a similar situation where I feel like the responsibilities of supporting a family are keeping me from enjoying my own personal life. I came to realize that I’m not the only one but it still reached home nevertheless. I agree with what you said about “life gives you a set of cards whether you like them or not. Life will still go on anyways”.. you caught other details about the movie that I didn’t think about like burning the house down. Anyways this was a great review.. really good movie and keep up the good work! 👍

It's very hard to hear the scenes that you show...I have to turn the volume way up but then when it switches back to you it's way too loud

Movie like this is called A Home of Our Own with Kathy Bates but don't read the synapse just go without knowing what's it about. Oh and Gilbert's older sister is very natural beautiful wow

Mad respect to you for choosing this great movie. I like your reaction style. Thank you.

PLEASE REACT TO EDWARD SCISSORHANDS

Annie finding his mom dead was one the saddest things I've ever seen.

One of my favorite movies

I have always really loved this movie. The performances were all so great. Well, mostly. And I did wonder about that too. I am assuming people would believe that she died of natural causes, given her large size. But they would still have to explain the whole arson thing. Maybe the local authorities would just let it slide due to their circumstances? Oh well, still a great film.

Burger Barn!

Deeply gorgeous film - hurts so much to watch but so relatable :)

I went to see this film in the theater when it first came out (in 1993) for two reasons - the director (Lasse Hallström) and Johnny Depp. Johnny was a young up-and-coming actor, and there was a big buzz around him. And as for Lasse Hallström - a few years earlier, I saw his film "My Life As A Dog" (1985). When you said that the mother had an "eating problem", it reminded me of the character in "My Life As A Dog" who has a "drinking problem." I highly recommend the film - check it out when you can. The character of Arnie - I did not know of Leonardo DiCaprio's earlier acting career - I thought he stole the show. And one final comment about the film -- whenever I go to a large shopping mall now - I think of the scene where Gilbert had to walk in the mall, past those doors - priceless.

Such an amazing review in the end. Of course, i love deep emotional movies like this, due to there being so much to ponder over, sigh draining yes; i keep bringing it up cause i find it interesting not anything else, but i hear you in the review and never thought you sounded low energy, idky i just didnt see that. it may have been the case in reality but it came off to me like you had been completely idk how to word it but it looked like you were refreshed to me lol idky great reaction of course. Cant wait for more!

If I remember correctly. Leonardo was nominated for an Oscar as Best Supporting Actor for this role.

Gilbert and his sister support the family. However, since their father died they should be getting some Social Security benefits.

I am only 8 minutes into your reaction and I love how open you are with your feelings. This is the first video of yours I've seen. Thank you.

You missed the best part, at the funeral when Arnie starts yelling about the burger barn coming down the road.😂

It’s about arrested development and why it happens. We all reach a pinnacle where we have to choose

Hey! Nice vid, love this movie… Do one for Mystic River

The mother reminds me of Tammie from 1000 pound sisters

The mother reminds me of Tammie from thousand pound sisters

Great review! 👍

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Almost kind of forgot what a fantastic movie this was. Thanks for bringing it back! As a fan of Leonardo Dicaprio, you may be interested to know there is a theory among a few of my friends and I that this film is actually the reason he was snubbed by the Academy for so long. I know it sounds unlikely on the surface, and my explanation is a little complicated, so please bear with me: It goes without saying that learning disabilities are a touchy subject for a lot of people. Not only it is incredibly difficult to play a part like this convincingly for even the most talented of actors, it is also more or less universally considered obscene to even try it. For an ESTABLISHED actor it's the equivalant of career suicide. Robert Downey Jr. has a rather twisted but insightful monologue about this in TROPIC THUNDER. To summarize, Tom Hanks in FORREST GUMP and Dustin Hoffman in RAINMAN are deliberately drawn exceptions to this rule, as their respective characters are both incredibly competent in spite of their afflictions, and are therefore far more relatable to most audiences (as is reflected by the overwhelming popularity of these films and performances). Consequently, by OBJECTIVELY DESTROYING this role before anyone knew who he was while, at the same time, going on to enjoy extraordinary success and acclaim for his abilities, Dicaprio unwittingly shone a spotlight (as it were) on the Academy and its increasingly political nature (the term "oscar bait" was coined to describe films which, while fulfilling the required political criteria are, in fact, considered substandard films by most critics and viewers). And he's been paying for it ever since in the form of a childish vendetta by simple-minded, populatiry-obsessed "cool kids" in a vulgar abuse of professional position. My humble opinion: never in the history of cinema has an actor played a role like this so brilliantly and it's very likely that none ever will. The tragedy of this, of course, is that most people (with the exception of the most dedicated film/acting students and Dicaprio fans) aren't even aware that this film exists. P.S. If you're looking for a toure-de-force by Johnny Depp, I suggest his portrayal of the eccentric journalist Hunter S. Thompson in FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS. If you look up video of the man himself (there's plenty of it out there) and then watch and compare Depp's performance, it will BLOW YOUR MIIND. Another dangerously underrated pretty boy. ;)

Johnny Depp used to be cute. My grandma had a crush on him back in the 21 Jump Street age

I don't know about you...but I did NOT like Gilbert and Arnie's sisters at ALL.

he literally predicted every part of the movie 😭