Vanilla Sky [VHS]
starring: Tom Cruise, Penélope Cruz, Cameron Diaz, Kurt Russell, Jason Lee
directed by: Cameron Crowe
directed by: Cameron Crowe
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Vanilla Sky reunites director Cameron Crowe (Jerry Maguire) with über-playboy Tom Cruise, adds another sexy Cruz (Penélope) and Cameron Diaz for good measure, and delivers a wildly entertaining, bizarre venture into erotic science fiction. Adapted near exactly from Spanish filmmaker Alejandro Amenábar's 1997 romantic thriller Open Your Eyes, the film follows David Aames (Cruise) as he falls from his graceful Manhattan perch of inordinate wealth, good looks, and newfound love with Sofia (Cruz) because of severe facial disfigurement in a car accident caused by a suicidal ex-lover (Diaz). What at first promises to be a conventional allegory of redemption via true love is turned on its head as Cruise's character, reduced to wearing a latex mask and spurned by his friends, wins back his princess only after a miracle of plastic surgery restores his former beauty. A series of plot twists follows as waking life, technological advances, and nightmares flip-flop to dizzying effect and David ultimately comes face to face with his own mortality. Despite a final conceit to some vague morality, the appeal of the film is the wonderfully callous message conveyed by the rest of it (money and physical beauty equal happiness) through an unabashed vanity perfectly embodied by Cruise and Cruz. A delicious, decadent treat. --Fionn Meade
Vanilla Sky reunites director Cameron Crowe (Jerry Maguire) with über-playboy Tom Cruise, adds another sexy Cruz (Penélope) and Cameron Diaz for good measure, and delivers a wildly entertaining, bizarre venture into erotic science fiction. Adapted near exactly from Spanish filmmaker Alejandro Amenábar's 1997 romantic thriller Open Your Eyes, the film follows David Aames (Cruise) as he falls from his graceful Manhattan perch of inordinate wealth, good looks, and newfound love with Sofia (Cruz) because of severe facial disfigurement in a car accident caused by a suicidal ex-lover (Diaz). What at first promises to be a conventional allegory of redemption via true love is turned on its head as Cruise's character, reduced to wearing a latex mask and spurned by his friends, wins back his princess only after a miracle of plastic surgery restores his former beauty. A series of plot twists follows as waking life, technological advances, and nightmares flip-flop to dizzying effect and David ultimately comes face to face with his own mortality. Despite a final conceit to some vague morality, the appeal of the film is the wonderfully callous message conveyed by the rest of it (money and physical beauty equal happiness) through an unabashed vanity perfectly embodied by Cruise and Cruz. A delicious, decadent treat. --Fionn Meade
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- Abre los Ojos
Clearly, this movie isn't for everyone. As many people love it as hate it. But I think it's amazing. It's a great love story that seems to defy genre classification. To me it's more than a rent and I'm glad to own it, but I'd recommend anyone who hasn't seen it to rent it first; you may hate it.
Rating: - It's an amazing movie!!And maybe just what you've always hoped to see.
I've loved Vanilla Sky since the first time I saw it.I instantly fell in love with it, so I'm definitely part of the "love it" camp.I'm not going to go too much into the details of the plot in this review as 788 people have said probably all that could be.I must caution potential viewers to please NOT allow your opinion of Tom Cruise to affect your opinion of this movie.He plays this role quite well and convincingly, as the David Ames character he plays might not be so different from the ... Read More
Rating: - A really weird film
Vanilla Sky
A really nice romp into the world of the mind. It gives you alot to think about when it's over.One of Tom Cruise's best performances not to mention Ms'Cruz's beauty.They are electric on screen together.
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- Chocolate Rain
"Vanilla Sky" is a quirky sci-fi thriller starring Tom Cruise, in his saner, handsomer days. Cruise stars as a gazillionaire torn between his psycho ex-girlfriend (Cameron Diaz) and the beautiful Sofia (Cruise's then-girlfriend, Penelope Cruz) Sofia also happens to be the girlfriend of his writer friend (Jason Lee) Diaz ends up driving Cruise crazy--literally. She dies in the crash;he ends up disfigured (he looks like he was in a bad brawl,not the Elephant Man) He gets locked up, with psychotherapist ... Read More
Rating: 
- Original concept with meaningful personal implications.
Although this movie seems to draw much debate and controversy whether a person "liked" it or not. I thought it a good movie; memorable in fact. If you still haven't watched it, do so. Then you will know why my review is so short.
Basically Cruise in this one is trying to find out what bleep is going on, and you are just as helpless as he is. Consider it a part mystery, part psycho-drama. The ending will leave you wondering what you would choose...
- Abre los OjosClearly, this movie isn't for everyone. As many people love it as hate it. But I think it's amazing. It's a great love story that seems to defy genre classification. To me it's more than a rent and I'm glad to own it, but I'd recommend anyone who hasn't seen it to rent it first; you may hate it.
- It's an amazing movie!!And maybe just what you've always hoped to see.I've loved Vanilla Sky since the first time I saw it.I instantly fell in love with it, so I'm definitely part of the "love it" camp.I'm not going to go too much into the details of the plot in this review as 788 people have said probably all that could be.I must caution potential viewers to please NOT allow your opinion of Tom Cruise to affect your opinion of this movie.He plays this role quite well and convincingly, as the David Ames character he plays might not be so different from the ... Read More
- A really weird filmVanilla Sky
A really nice romp into the world of the mind. It gives you alot to think about when it's over.One of Tom Cruise's best performances not to mention Ms'Cruz's beauty.They are electric on screen together.
- Chocolate Rain"Vanilla Sky" is a quirky sci-fi thriller starring Tom Cruise, in his saner, handsomer days. Cruise stars as a gazillionaire torn between his psycho ex-girlfriend (Cameron Diaz) and the beautiful Sofia (Cruise's then-girlfriend, Penelope Cruz) Sofia also happens to be the girlfriend of his writer friend (Jason Lee) Diaz ends up driving Cruise crazy--literally. She dies in the crash;he ends up disfigured (he looks like he was in a bad brawl,not the Elephant Man) He gets locked up, with psychotherapist ... Read More
- Original concept with meaningful personal implications.Although this movie seems to draw much debate and controversy whether a person "liked" it or not. I thought it a good movie; memorable in fact. If you still haven't watched it, do so. Then you will know why my review is so short.
Basically Cruise in this one is trying to find out what bleep is going on, and you are just as helpless as he is. Consider it a part mystery, part psycho-drama. The ending will leave you wondering what you would choose...
