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Summary: Enjoyed!!
Review: Wow! I did like this movie. It suprised me as to what I thought was happening and going on. I think its a must-see!
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Summary: PREPARE TO BE BLOWN AWAY
Review: This is it,in my opinion this is the finest,most amazingly mind blowing film ive ever watched,n i've seen quite a few.
I didnt go and watch it at the cinema for some stupid reason but recently got the DVD.I've heard mixed opinions of the film,one of my close friends loved it and a few liked it and the rest thought it was ok.Having watched it a few times now,and bought the spanish original and watched that its up there with fight club,usual suspects,seven and meet joe black (strange mix i know).
I think tom cruise is one of the best actors at the moment,along with brad pitt and he is fantastic in this.Penelope Cruz reminds me of a mexican girl i know and this film makes me want to fall in love with her.
After watching it the first time i walked around in a daze with a permanent grin on my face (bit like Tom),wanting to fall in love and dream and also wanting to watch it again straight away.
All i can say is watch it,everyone should before they die.If you like it as much as me then thats great that theres someone else out there who got blown away on the 6 millionth level of heaven like me.If you dont like it then dont put other people off watching it,let them decide cos they might just change after watching it.
Every passing minute is another chance to turn it all around.
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Summary: best movie ever .. but DVD is lacking
Review: Vanilla Sky is my favourite ever movie, just pipping Jacob's Ladder to the top spot. The Jacob's Ladder DVD had a brilliant series of extras. The best part for me was the deconstruction of the film in the form of a 'making of' featurette. Vanilla Sky has two similar featurettes, both of which are awful. One is this press tour thing, and the other is probably the worst documentary I have ever seen.The original music video 'Africa Shox - Leftfield' was awesome and directed by a great up-and-coming director called Chris Cunningham who no doubt will be making waves in the movie arena soon. But the DVD version of this music video was awful - just clips fom the film with dodgy editing and effects out of the 80s!! The good things on the DVD are:
(1) TheFilm
(2) Cameron Crowe's directors commentary which is very insightful. A mixed bag that really could have been a lot better.
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Summary: Unreal Epic
Review: First of all, I'd like to say to those who did not like this movie, I don't hold it against you. But I can not let this great film be stifled by degenerative reviews. Not only is the plot engaging, it presents a precipice, an edge where a seemingly romantic movie becomes deeper, engulfing love, dreams, fears, desire into a surreal vision. To those who dislike the seemless genre mixing, I say that this movie has no exact genre because life can not fit into one classification. This movie, in a great paradox, is about life through dreams and reality, love and hate. A great movie to watch over and over, until you understand it one way, and then you see it a new way... a great movie to discuss with friends the meaning you get from it. Don't miss it
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Summary: "Every Passing Minute That Goes By..."
Review: "Every passing minute that goes by is another chance to turn it around." Direction- Fantastic
Cinematography- Brilliant
Performances- Everyone delievered, especially Cruise.
Score/Soundtrack- It's Crowe...it's perfect. This film will make you think...think about your life, think about the decisions you make...think about the little things that count. It will make you think about your job, friendships, relationships...LIFE. If you love twists...this is for you.
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Summary: Life Is But A Dream
Review: Vanilla Sky was a great movie that when I first watched it it got 3 out of 5 stars. But when I watch the movie a second time I got what was being conveyed. The title of my review above is what I got out of it. The entire movie was a dream as some think this life we live is a dream. Sophia was the dreammaker (or god) in this movie not LE. "Open Your Eyes" This movie teaches vanity to the max. It also teaches that looks do matter. I think this movie made fun of the audience in the sense that we glorify Hollywood and only love Hollywood actors for what they are..pretty, handsome, rich..rather than who they are..regular individuals put on a pedastal. Finally it teaches that the things we do in this life will affect others. "Open Your Eyes" said in the voice of Sophia twice. Once in the beginning of the moive and at the end.
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Summary: I'm frozen and you're dead...and I love you..
Review: The unfortunate thing about the film Vanilla Sky is that many will watch but so few will understand. This film is about conscience, and it is one of those rare films that happens to come out of hollywood every great once in a while. In fact, it is rather unconventional. The ephemeral romance between Cruise and Cruz is subdued and simple, and the moments they share together on the screen are tender without being too sentimental. Who can forget the genuine expression of humility on David's face in the elevator after being told about the possibility of true love with Sofia? The imagery is vivid and lucid, much like the dream David is in, and the Vanilla Sky near the film's conclusion is eccentric, yet memorable. One could learn much from this film if one keeps an open mind ( hence, Open your eyes ). Finally, Vanilla sky does exactly what it wants: make you think. It makes you think about the importance of little things, the precious nature of love and the consequences we endure because of our actions. As Edmund Ventura puts it,"Consequences David, it's the little things."
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Summary: What was that all about!?!?!
Review: All of the reviews who liked this, please explain to the rest of us why?!?! Throughout the whole movie you as a viewer have no earthly idea what the heck is going on. It totally makes no since at all. That is until the last ten minutes when everything is explained. So pretty much the whole time you are left asking yourself and others questions like " Why did that happen?" or commenting on the lack of since its making. Please if you have any curiousity about this movie, rent it or better yet, have a friend rent it. Its not even worth the rental price.
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Summary: Open Your Eyes to the Symbolism
Review: This film was full of symbolism. You had to watch it that way to "get it." This film brought so many questions to the surface. Do you need money to be happy? Who is the real you? Is it the one face you show to others or is the one face you see of yourself? If you had a second chance, how would you live your life? Vanilla sky is a movie that makes you think. You must watch it carefully to catch the nuances of each character's attitudes and reactions. Cruise pushes the envelope from happy oblivion to paranoia. Diaz's psychotic stalker scared me with her realism. Cruz played her part as a "prop" well. This film didn't do her justice. The surprise character was Kurt Russell. Quite a change from his usual characters. Open your eyes. Watch for the symbolism. You may need to see this movie more than once to understand it.
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Summary: Good visual film that has lofty ideas and no concrete answer
Review: Many people who have talked to me about this film have said that they didn't like it. Not only did they not like it, but it was 'stupid' and 'it wasn't what I(they) were expecting. The reason why they thought it was stupid was because they said that they couldn't understand it, which doesn't reflect on the movie's intelligence, but the viewer's. And the other people were expecting a Tom Cruise romantically charged love affair with Penelope Cruz. There were also others who couldn't come to grips with the ending of the film. Films are made and you don't have to like them, but that doesn't necessarily mean that they are bad and it's not necessary, or smart to rip apart a film based on your preferences. Cameron Crowe made this highly visual film after his previous four films displayed his writing talent from his music journalism career. Fans of those films need to accept the fact that he wanted to remake a film that accentuated a world outside of reality, but spoke about real world problems. This kind of dream logic that he employs is usually stuff that you only find in films by David Lynch, but I believe that Crowe pulls it off. He deals with lofty (sci-fi) ideas in a visual way instead of lecturing and still handles human problems like the effects of casual sex in a world of matierialism and stylization(Times Square sequence). The main idea that is posed in the movie(in my opinion) is that technology and matierialism may seem to serve and help an individual, but they actually isolate them from everyone else and can be harmful as well. Overall, it's a very sharply lighted film and that helps to suggest which events actually happen, although that's left up to interpretation of the individual. This is also a touchtone of some of Lynch's work. Many people don't like this possibility and find non-concrete films like this sloppy, amateurish, and contrived, but those with an open mind to these types of entertainment will be satisfied because this isn't all gloss and no meaning. It does make statements about the characters, it's the nature of film that people don't like.
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