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Summary: What's the point?
Review: I am a huge Tom Cruise fan, but I must be honest. I did not enjoy Vanilla Sky. The story line flip flopped between dream, therapy and reality...which left me quite confused until the very end. Curiosity is what kept me hangin on...wanting to know what's the point? At any rate Cruise plays David, a handsome and rich womanizer. His womanizing gets him into serious life altering situations. The only thing that stayed on my mind from this movie was the statement that his sex buddy (who was really in love by herself) made, "When you sleep with someone your body makes a promise whether you do or not!"
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Summary: Not that long of a wait after Magnolia...
Review: ... for an increadible journey. Vanilla Sky is so sad, so true, so brilliant. I saw the original, which is raw, sloppy with a lot of mediocre choices and solutions. Vanilla Sky is a beautiful tale, a message so rarely received: ... well, I shouldn't tell my version, it's best told in the movie.
I join the long line before me: I never was a fan or admirer of Tom Cruise. That all had changed with Magnolia. In Vanilla Sky, both him and Cruz act so credibly, they redefine and reset the standards of acting in a few minutes of the movie at the end and after that very night they spend together. Their expressions are so subtle, their sadness is so true that it's hard to believe it is "just" acting. Well... the love story part isn't as we know.
Last note: This is a good case study comparing Open Your Eyes and Vanilla Sky. The latter is modern, easy to connect to and to be moved by, the original misses the point: the audience. E.g., showing someone angry doens't make the viewer angry, it makes them uncomfortable. What's wrong with contemporary European art?Trying to make a profit on a movie is not a sin. It may even help the cause, gives you a "down-to-Earth" attitude.
(I was born and raised in Europe, and I hope they will once again return to continue making great movies. They somehow skipped the last 15 years.) 1st Hollywood bought their scripts and made [odd] versions of it, now they make them work.
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Summary: Vanilla Sky is a Masterpiece!
Review: Vanilla Sky is a masterpiece and Tom Cruise a master at his game!
I believe That Cameron Crowe and His Wife the great musician from
Heart are on the right track and have successfully mixed good music with great acting in this new drama. The more you watch it the better it gets. Cruise should have won an acadamy award for
this movie in my book.Kurt Russell is also fantastic. What a ride! Even the other Cruise was fantastic in her part. All the
actors were great. It reminded me of an Oliver Stone kind of
movie. Tom Cruise was so good that you knew what this guy was thinking with just a look. He did not have to utter a word to
draw you in. You knew just what this guy was thinking with just a
facial expression! His laugh behind the mask was errie especially
when he was telling Kirk Russells charater about the secrets to
his dating rituals. It was perfect!!! Fantastic, cannot get enough, five stars across the board. Not what I would expect from
Cameron Crowe and that is great too. Keep up the fantastic work
Cameron and Nancy. A Masterpiece!...
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Summary: Sorely dissapointed
Review: I had high hopes for Vanilla Sky. I ususally hate Tom Cruise, but the plot seemed interesting and it looked like something really deep. Well, unfortunately, it gets to be too deep for its own good. You think that you understand what's going on after the car crash that Cruise's character, David, gets into, but eventually it turns into a big spinning illusion with women that are dead, alive, carrying two different names and faces and doing it all at the same time. A good movie with this kind of plot line allows the viewer to piece together the confusion in their own way that somehow gets them to the end of the movie, but in the case of Vanilla Sky you'll want to punch the wall in anger because they do such a bad job of confusing you. Cameron Diaz and Penelope Cruz are outstanding, particulary Cruz, who steals the show with her spunkyness and beauty. What's more, though, is how Cameron Crowe (who I'm very dissapointed in, after the wonderful Almost Famous) tries to make this a sci-fi movie, with cryogenically freezing companies that prolong life, a la Austin Powers. By the end of it all, you just wish someone had included Cliff Notes.
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Summary: A 'Sweet and Sour' Masterpiece
Review: Like other non conventional movies before it, "Vanilla Sky" takes a few viewings before its true impact sinks in.Once it does, you realize the film is a multi-textured masterpiece that offers,underneath it's bizarre style and fractured time structure, a number of deeply felt life lessons about love, friendship, sex and dreams. Tom Cruise gives the best performance of his career (the scene in which he phones Sofia (Penelope Cruz) and leaves the "our old friend 'Benny the Dog' message on her machine, is perhaps Cruise's finest piece of acting to date.. The monolouge given by Cruise's Life Extention Tech Support representative (brilliantly played by Noah Taylor) in which Taylor explains how Cruise's dream life was fashioned by the pop culture icons of his youth, is moviemaking at its finest. The entire supporting cast (Penelope Cruz, Cameron Diaz, Jason Lee, and Kurt Russell) is simply sensational. I've avoiding discussing actual details of the plot since "Vanilla Sky" is a movie that has to be seen and digested to be fully appreciated. Cameron Crowe directs from his own screenplay (based on the Spanish film "Abre Los Ojos") and does a masterful job. The properly eclectic soundtrack features, among others, Bob Dylan, REM, Paul Mc Cartney, Radiohead and the Beach Boys. ******
The DVD presentation is excellent and includes two featurettes
("Prelude to a Dream" and "Hitting it Hard" ("Hard" is 10 minute documentary that covers the 'Vanilla Sky' American-European press tour in which Cruise is shown being worshipped by adoring fans from the UK to South Korea). Note--there is also a "hidden" special feature that contain a 6 minute "gag" reel of outtakes...to acccess it: go to the "still photos" section...highlight "special features" and then click on the Tom Cruise mask.) Crowe owes fans of the film a special edition DVD sometime in the future that might include a video commentary by the director and stars (ala the new Jerry MacGuire DVD) and the full length "Hitting It Hard" which shows why Cruise is today's quintessential movie star).
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Summary: A beautifully flawed masterpiece
Review: A friend of mine recommended Vanilla Sky to me, saying that it is so mind-trippy its great, so with that recommendation I honestly didn't know what to expect. Another friend of mine told me it's reminiscent of The Matrix and Dark City in terms of questioning reality, so I took in Vanilla Sky not knowing what to expect, and I was happily surprised at the results. Tom Cruise plays a self-conceited, wealthy, handsome, playboy who has the world at his fingertips (he's really playing himself), but one day his world comes crashing down when he is left horribly scarred and disfigured in a car crash involving his suicidal ex-lover played devilishly by Cameron Diaz. Eventually, his face is seemingly repaired by a miracle of new age plastic surgery, and he is reunited with his one true love played by Penelope Cruz. But soon, things start falling apart even more so, and Cruise discovers that all is not what it seems, and there is a higher power in control. Tom Cruise is rather good in this film, as is the other Cruz, both of whom give off great chemistry together, and Jason Lee (alumnus of many of Kevin Smith's films) is good as Cruise's best friend, but I thought that Kurt Russel was wasted in his role. All in all though, the ending of the film may have been the biggest flaw, which is why some people absolutely hated the film, and while Vanilla Sky isn't perfect by any means, it is clearly worth a look.
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Summary: the original in spanish is much better!!!
Review: first of all, i saw the original film in spanish "abre los ojos" a few years ago; so my opinion os going to be biased-"vanilla sky" is nothing less the than a "predictable" re-make with "big" actors of a great original; to me, it's like blasephamy to rave about how great and original this film is-the soundtrack is lame; the film is overdone and polished-with no semblance to the asthetic quality of the original film by Alejandro Amenebar whose quiete atmosphere gave the film a dreamy eerieness.....certain scenes are totally ruined in their remake...cameron crowe and all those lousy american directors who have too much money like spielberg would do well to take a lesson from the spanish director who made "abre los ojos".....sometimes less of a budget, lesser known actors adds to the excittement of a film...if the damage were'nt enough now tom cruise is wrecking a a great philip k dick story called "minority report" which is another example of holllyood wrecking great story...i would give the film a zero stars if it weren't for the dreamy title song....which sums up the only good thing about the film....and that's just not enough...sorry...my recomendation...see the original first, and don't even bother with this one, unless you are curious enough....
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Summary: Save your money
Review: This movie was terrible. Save your money.
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Summary: AMAZING AND UNDERAPPRECIATED
Review: THIS MOVIE IS AWESOME. TOM CRUISE GIVES A GREAT PERFORMACE
BUT CAMERON DIAZ WAS THE BEST. I DON'T USUALLY LIKE PENELOPE
CRUZ BUT IN THIS CASE HER PERFORAMCE WAS AMAZING. SEE THIS MOVIE AND THEN SEE IT AGAIN BECAUSE IT NEEDS TO BE APPREACIATED
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Summary: you guys are morons
Review: This movie is not that great, takes over 2 hours to get to anything. its just a dream that he lives through, talk about predictable. go rent another movie.
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