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Summary: A HUGE disappointment!
Review: I generally like unusual movies like this one -- this movie, though, was a disappointment of gigantic proportions. The main character played by Tom Cruise is a selfish magazine owner born with a silver spoon in his mouth. That's OK, even though he's not a very likeable character, he does have enough redeeming qualities to make you care what happens to him. Penelope Cruz is a sweet, enthusiastic character who doesn't fall for his tricks, but falls in love with him and he falls for her. A stellar performance by Cameron Diaz as a woman used by the main character for sex, takes the ultimate revenge and scars him for life. What ensues after that is a twisted maze of continuously changing storylines, leaving the viewer completely confused at what's going on. Worst of all, you don't even care. I agree with the other reviewer who said this movie is disjointed. It's so disjointed that half-way through the movie I almost shut it off. Still, I stuck it out. My persistence wasn't rewarded as the story became more and more convoluted. At the end you are left with an even more disjointed ending that leaves you saying to yourself, "what the hell was that all about!" Worst of all, the characters you grew to care about at the beginning of the movie, no longer matter -- you just don't care what happens in the end. This was the biggest waste of two hours of my time.
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Summary: Vanilla Sky is like Vanilla Ice Cream , refreshing !
Review: A cool , sexy , screw with your head kind of film brought to you by director/writer Cameron Crowe (Almost Famous). I thought I would hate the film because it had the two worst actors in the world (Tom Cruise , Penolope Cruz). But , I didn't. I liked the fact you never new what was happening to Tom Cruise untill the last two minutes of the movie. Cameron Diaz gives a good performance , that should havee got her an academy award nomination. If you are looking for a good movie , rent Vanilla Sky! Starring: Tom Cruise , Penolope Cruz , Kurt Russel , Jason Lee , Noah Taylor , Timothy Spall , and Cameron Diaz.- ...
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Summary: I really, really liked it!
Review: I am surprised. I really enjoyed Vanilla Sky. I quite expected to like parts of it but leave feeling a little irritated because it was difficult and I would be left swimming in ambiguity and pretense. But I thought Vanilla Sky was one of the most original movies I have seen in a long time and I had fun watching it. Its twilight zonish but it doesn't spin the movie on its ear like revelation in "The Sixth Sense". However the movie is almost as fun to watch a second time around when you know what is really happening. Everything is very clear at the end so I didn't feel jerked around. Or if I was being jerked around I really enjoyed the experience. I wish I had seen it during first release because it would have been on my top ten list for the year. This is the kind of movie I enjoy liking because I know everyone doesn't. It will be fun meeting other people that liked it too.
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Summary: Intense, mazelike for mature sophisticated moviegoers
Review: Vanilla Sky is a tapestry of how interelated people are to each other and how our lives are interrelated to our existence.
Tom Cruise has two gorgeous, strong & determined women pursuing him or vice versa.
Carmen Diaz and Penelope Cruz are gorgeous in appearance and offer substansive value in the film showing demarcation points in Cruise's life.
The art gallery scene must be listened to with determination.
This phrase is a hint to understand/enjoy the movie-our choices signify who we were, are and will become.
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Summary: Tried to Watch it Twice, Both Times I fell Asleep
Review: When this was originally released in the theaters, I was quite intrigued to see what Cameron Crowe had put together and how Tom Cruise would deliver. I must say that I am happy that I didn't go and see it at the theater. BORING!!!!!!!!!! I have tried my darndest to get all the way through this movie but I have fallen asleep each time before I even got halfway through it. One day I will probably TRY and give this one another run. I really do want to see how it all "comes together." Prior to doing this I will need to stock up on a case load of Stay Awakes, 10 pots of coffee and toothpicks for the eyes (ala Fred Flintstone); all of this AFTER I have slept for 72 solid hours.
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Summary: What just happened to my TV?
Review: Very few movies being made any more are even worth the time spent to write a review, let alone watch them. That said... I plugged this DVD in, I was expecting something along the lines of a murder mystery. Thankfully, it wasn't. Well, it kind of was... But not a "whodunit" film. I like the idea that I didn't know when he was dreaming or not. I like the idea that this movie plays with the line between dreams and reality, then throws them both away in the end. The ending kinda seemed out of place per the movie formula, but the formula needs to be put out of its misery anyways. Suspension of disbelief is a must with this flick. I love what this movie explores, though. It seems (to me) to be a reminder to appreciate what we have now.
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Summary: Not CRAZY enough about this MOVIE to watch it twice.
Review: Immediately after watching this movie on DVD...I threw up...so to speak. Afterwards I started exploring the special features and learned a few insights from the short films included on the DVD. It was enough to get me to start to watch the movie again with the director's (Cameron Crowe)commentary. Then I thought that's a little crazy since it made me throw up after the first time. However, listening to the commentary one learns that the movie is full of "clues" and while you might pick these out of the movie it is still difficult to determine their significance. While the movie might appear to be cleverly choreographed it is actually open to the viewers individual interpretation.
After digesting the movie, I liked it a little more.
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Summary: Another dud from Cameron Crowe
Review: Even worse than "Almost Famous" Crowe's excruciatingly bogus paen to a sixties that only existed in his imagination, Vanilla Sky (the title means nothing) wanders around pointlessly for an hour and a half pretending to be a noir thriller, fails, and then decides it's really a science fiction movie; which also fails, wasting another half hour with some stupid plot about how Tom Cruise is in "Life Extension" cryogenic freezing or some such nonsense. Make sense to you? No? Well, don't worry. I doubt it made any sense to anyone other than Crowe and his therapist. First half with Diaz/Cruz/Cruise was worth glancing at from time to time, even if it didn't go anywhere other than to scene after arty scene of Cruise running around various dreamscapes. At least you got to see a couple of hot actresses. But the rest? Let me put it this way: remember all the great ideas for movies you had while you were stoned? Well, Cameron Crowe does. He made a whole movie out of those pseudo-intellectual ramblings. Hopefully, this will be his last major Hollywood release. He, and his pop-culture jerking around, are about as pointless as the Beatle's Revolution #9, and just as unbearable. Blech. RstJ
Albany, Oregon.
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Summary: A Waste...
Review: Skip Vanilla Sky and rent Open Your Eyes (Abre Los Ojos). I don't know what Cameron Crowe was thinking when he decided to remake a recent, intelligent movie. Tom Cruise basically plays himself: a self-centered rich guy who sleeps with women and runs away when he's done with them, which gets him into trouble when Cameron Diaz ends up driving her car off a bridge with him in it. She's dead, he's disfigured. Penelope Cruz plays the woman who transforms Cruise into a "good man". Then all hell breaks loose, and the plot becomes insane and the film begins to try to hard to be cool and impress the viewer with bizarreness. It's almost obvious that Crowe used this movie as an excuse to put his favorite songs to film. He also uses so many pop-culture references in the finale that it's ridiculous. And the sci-fi ending, which actually makes sense in the original, is over the top and completely stupid in this movie.
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Summary: Confusing
Review: This movie emphasizes the shallowness of people - Tom Cruise's character and his friends are self-absorbed yuppies. If you are not young, good looking and rich, you are pathetic. Nothing in the second half of the movie made sense. David Aames' face is disfigured, then reconstructed - after which he keeps his mask on - was it because the ugliness within reflected on the outside and was too much for him to face? Ending was a disappointment. Made less sense than the whole movie!
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