Vanilla Sky | | Cast : | Tom Cruise, Penélope Cruz | | Director : | Cameron Crowe | | Studio : | Paramount Home Video | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby | | Released Date : | December 14, 2001 | | DVD Released Date : | December 29, 2004 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), French (Dubbed), English (Original Language), French (Original Language), English (Subtitled) | | Audience Rating : | R (Restricted) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | August 01, 2005 | | Summary | Weird movie but good in some parts | Content
 | Vanilla Sky is a okay movie because of David Aames (Tom Cruise)
has everything he ever wanted and more since he runs a big company he even has a lover (Cameron Diaz),but soon after he meets a new girl everything changes and not in the good way.The reason why it does is because of what his ex lover does to him for likeing another woman after that everthing completely changes i would explain it to you but the movie is to hard to explain but is worth a look. |
| Rating | | | Date | August 01, 2005 | | Summary | a new creation | Content
| ..meaning not only is it better than the "original" Open Your Eyes, but Vanilla Sky is its own original. It takes a movie with a great storyline, (Open Your Eyes,) and then adds all of the essentials, like perfect casting, and amazing music. Penelope Cruz was so much more playful in Vanilla Sky than in "Open Your Eyes" and the love was so much more magical. Plus, the music from Vanilla Sky really blew my mind. Honestly, having V Sky open with Radiohead's "Everything in Its Right Place" is so ironic but so evocative of this bizarre generation I'm from, overloaded with technology and media.
For those being wooed to watch "Open Your Eyes":::: The love was so much more passionate and flirtatious in Crowe's film. And the music was perfect and eclectic in Vanilla Sky. Under Crowe's direction, Vanilla Sky just hit me and toyed with my perceptions of reality. I give a friendly and generous nod to the movie that can do that. |
| Rating | | | Date | July 06, 2005 | | Summary | total trash presented as a "thinking" movie | Content
| This movie is the epitome of hollywood trash. The screenplay is so unrealistic because the characters are unrealistic. The guy that plays Cruise's friend says things that a friend never would, so you're left w/ thinking that he is just using Cruise's character for employment, which be assured was not the intention of the creator here. The way that the "friend" reacted at the party when his date became star-struck with Cruise's character(her ignoring the date), was just shallow. Plus the old guy at the magazine firm who is supposedly still loyal to Cruise's character says totally cheesy things, not to mention Penelope's worthless line about "I'll see you in the next life when we're all cats." I mean what a flawed attempt to be artsy fartsy here. The musical score is horrible especially at the dinner table. The new-found love between her and Cruise's character in the movie is supposed to represent some type of ideal love. But the things the 2 do together are so lame that you can't help but believe that these are the things that would be done according to the directors ideal date of new-found love. The way the two characters act at the apartment is so unrealistic that you have to wonder if the girl was just in it for the money (which also is not the character-development the creator intended rest assured). The possible conspiracy theory of the seven dwarfs is weak, which I believe was a failed attempt to appear modern, hip, and intellectual to the supposed business affluent in the audience. Plus the way Cruise's character acts in the halls of the business and board room is childish, which I think is in fact the intention of the director, which makes the movie all the more ridiculous. The guy that plays the interrogator is suppose to be Cruise's conscious, but if in fact this is true then why did his "conscious" say that he has a wife and kids? Don't tell me it is suppose to be his aspiration, because the more you stretch it and try to make the pieces fit the more illogical everything becomes. To top it all off there is a scene where Cruise, with his mask on, is talking to his "conscious" and all of a sudden bust on in the most retarded dance I've ever seen, out of nowhere too. At first I laughed, then I felt sad and disgusted in that someone of the same species as me would make such a thing. The creator of this film must live a very fake and secluded life. Yes, after seeing this movie, I felt ashamed to be a part of the human race. What a failed attempt to be intellectual. This movie is in no way a movie for the mind, as 90+% of movies aren't. Now I understand why this movie sells for so cheap. |
| Rating | | | Date | July 04, 2005 | | Summary | The chef prepares a special menu for your delight... | Content
| Vanilla Sky is directed by Cameron Crowe (Say Anything, Jerry Maguire, Almost Famous) and stars Tom Cruise (Top Gun, Rain Man, Jerry Maguire), Cameron Diaz (The Mask, Gangs Of New York), and Penelope Cruz (Blow)
Vanilla Sky is one of those movies that will take your head, spin it around a couple of a thousand times and drop it so hard you won't know what happened! With that in mind, don't expect to understand the plot to Sky from the first viewing. Give it some time and repeated viewing and once you understand exactly what happens, write a detailed review here on Amazon!
The movie starts out normal with Cruise's character, a young, spoiled huge corporation inheritor and owner named David Aames waking up to his playboy get-what-I-want life. He wakes up the first time in a dream that reveals his fear of loneliness. Anybody with so much money and prestige cannot be alone, that's what we learn from the first ten minutes. David's life is also quite eccentric; he has a sex buddy, a singer named Julie Gianni played by Diaz but he takes her unseriously while he begins flirting and falling for the spanish companion of his best friend Brian, Jason Lee, Sofia played by Cruz. Gianni goes over the edge with David's carefree and neglectant behavior towards her true love for him, gives him a ride in her car and plunges to her death (or is it their death?)
From this scene on, David finds himself stuck in one dream (or is it not) sequence to another. His fears of loneliness come true (or don't they?) as his face becomes deconstructed due to the near fatal crash, and he's on a drunken spree to try to bring back Sofia into his life while struggling to maintain his playboy-ish and prestigious image.
The movie is nice to watch while Crowes' now brilliant script writing doesn't fail you with his charming dialogue, funny moments, and a string of classic rock tunes to the soundtrack, including the new song by Paul McCartney with the same title.
The movie's special features include a shot by shot commentary by Cameron Crowe. I do recommend listening to him talk about the ending of the movie to help you get your final understanding of the movie in general.
Recommended
B-
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| Rating | | | Date | July 01, 2005 | | Summary | Gripping from start to finish! | Content
| It is very difficult to write this review without giving spoilers but I really enjoyed this movie. It is one of those types where you are not sure what is real and want is in Tom Cruise's mind.
Cruise is in some type of correctional facility telling his story to Kurt Russell who appears to be a psychiatrist for his defense in a crime. Cruise is wearing a mask and you suspect that he may be somehow disfigured under it. Cruise tells how he was the major shareholder of a corporation and he had his disagreements with the board. He also seems to have a lot of vivid dreams.
He also, tells about his relationships with Camaron Diaz and Penelope Cruz. He gets into a car accident with Diaz and she dies. The rest of the time you don't know what is real, what is a dream, or maybe in Cruz's mind.
Diaz and Cruz are both gorgeous and the movie held me from start to finish! |
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