It's actually extremely clever, IMVHO. I have found, so far, that the people I have spoken to, who didn' like it, generally didn't 'get' it. The whole premise was fantasic kind of a mix of Sliding Doors and Back to the Future, but on drugs... The real beauty is that the concept of the lucid dream does allow for anything to happen, which it did.
How many of the US critics were looking at his personal life, rather than the movie, when they wrote their review I wonder. Far from being stupid or depressing, I think it was more about how you can destroy yourself through guilt and how you can redeem yourself through self faith. He was given the option of the perfect life in the lucid dream, or the real life. It was a brave choice he made, in my opinion.
Actually Ush, I get the feeling that you'd probably find it quite a good flik. IMHO-OC
It's a film that requires you to think, if you want to understand. It certainly requires a certain degree of mental dexterity if you're going to get anything out of it. Certainly Mandy and I found that it did stretch our minds and make us focus in order to follow the flow.
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The critics here said that it tried to be smart, but was just sappy, with actors acting poorly. it got 1 point of 6 in Norways biggest newspaper, and about the same everywhere else.
im sick of critics ,all they do is go in to a movie with preassumtions and they try to keep their previous ideas of the movie (before they actually saw it)so they can give themselves this ego boost .movies dont need critics ,the people dont need critics ,if a movie interests you go see ,dont listen to a fat untalented waste of space person |hat tells you ,dont go see this ,go see this .make your own judgements . and the fact that a big newspaper says its a bad movie ,doesnt make it a bad movie ,i remember all the media saying 2001:aspace odyssey ,Dr.Strangelove and lolita were horrible movies ,and now they are known as some of the best films ever......0 give thm a decade and theyll reverse their judgement put on vanilla sky.
this is one of my favorite movies,i saw it 11 times before it was pulled from theaters i still want to see it again and again ,this is a movie i could watch hundreds of times ,every shot had meaning behide it ,this is movie where everyhing is great .and the fact that a few critics said it was bad started this rumor no to go see it (i hate that) is the soul reason vanilla sky isnt nominated for any acadmey awards(like the academy awards matter the people and movies that will win are only the most popular,not the most best of them just the most popular) .i cant wait till vanilla sky comes out .
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I'm with Dim on this film, half way through I wanted to get the hell out cus it was really depressing me. The twist at the end made it worth staying though. I'll buy it when it comes out but it's one to watch when your in a dark evil mood.
Great soundtrack though and for those that saw it....do you rememeber the club scene with that really bangin' tune in the background? Well that was Leftfield and the name of the album is Rhythm & Stealth.
i love the soundtrack of the movie . i alsodsoundtrack version ,thought i ws disappointed that they dont put the song where hes running through the empty streets and the song in the club where the cool light show is going on and david (cruise) is waving his hand up in the air and that song in LE good vibrations if they would just add these songs to the cd version ,it would be awesome ,ike remak the cd to have like 20 songs instead of 16
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''This is the pretty-Cruise, the laughing-Cruise, victim-Cruise, the suffering Cruise, drunken-Cruise, killing Cruise, mask-Cruise.
All presented in a confused, confusing and totally incomprehensible package.
'Vanilla Sky' is a mess to puke of.''
Isn't that the point? Once the final twist in the plot is revealed, everything above is explained. It is clear that the reviewer didn't understand the twist at the end - IMHO.
I can't really get myself to believe that all those who didn't like it didn't understand it, cause it is strange if all the ones who have film-viewing as a job understands less than a normal viewer.
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