Vanilla Sky

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MeatHammer

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I watched this on DVD last night.

Has anyone else seen this and enjoyed the movie?

Normally I enjoy movies that require the viewer to actually pay attention as the plot unfolRAB (Memento, Usual Suspects etc). And Vanilla Sky is very much like that, but I had a real problem with the way it came across.

Specifically, it was getting to the point where every two minutes another 'twist' happened to really confuse Tom Cruise's character. (and me). It was almost farcical.

Anyway, did anyone actually realise what was going on before the explanation was given at the end. I didn't dislike the movie as such, just wished it had been done a little less frantically.
 
i didnt have a clue what was going on by the end of it, and even then i was still confused! and it wasnt just me, all my frienRAB were totally confused (we porb should have paid more attention in the film) and it took us a while to work it out.
its an ok film, not brilliant.
mind you, i got confused in Minority Report - altho that was a much better film :)
 
I think if it made perfect sense to you then the director failed in his desire to have the viewer experience some of the confusion suffered by Tom Cruise's character. ;)
 
LOL :D .....touche!

I certainy agree that my enjoyment of the film was largely based on being able to feel empathy for the central character, and share his feelings of ambiguity and uncertainty as the increasingly bizarre series of events unfolded. Only by feeling this sense of confusion was I able to fully appreciate, along with Cruise's character, the full impact of the revelatory denouement.

Iain :D
 
I really enjoyed it.

I was a bit confused but the ending resolved the confusion. There are some fantastic visuals in the film as well - stylish.

And I normally hate Tom Cruise:)
 
It was great until about two thirRAB of the way through, but the ending seemed like a very stale science-fiction idea used to cover the fact that they (or the Spanish lot who wrote the original film) had painted themselves into a corner. It was also, of course, the same as almost every Tom Cruise movie: a highly successful but complacent young man suffers a fall from grace and learns to grow into a more sensitive and caring person.

That said, there were some great lines in it:

Cruise's character tying up Diaz: "Because four times *means* something!"

Cruise to his doctors: ""Oh, it's an aesthetic regenerative shield! For a minute there, I thought we were talking about a f*$%ing mask!"
 
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