Vanilla Sky

[christina]

i saw Vanilla Sky this week...
after getting over my irritation with Tom for leaving Nicole (although I never thought he was straight, I do think she loved him) for Penelope, I rented the movie.
I heard people either love it or hate it...
His acting was very good, but not as brilliant as he was in Magnolia...
Penelope sucked...but she was great in an older Spanish movie, Jamon, Jamon, so I knew who she was long ago.
Cameron Diaz was as good as Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction.
Dh loved it...I'm mixed in my overall review, but, there's one line that I absolutely believed...
which I don't want to give away...
any thoughts? I'm sure I missed lots...:

[PumpkinSeeds]

We saw "Abre los Ojos" which vanilla sky was based on.

while the entire premise of the movie was very good, it moved waaaaay to slow for me. I missed some of the middle of the movie, so I won't comment about that except to say the movie did have me thinking

[ladylee]

I need to see it again, and I'm a bit embarrassed to say that. On so many levels I wanted to hate it, but in some ways it was incredibly profound. The last few scenes just totally blew me away on a visceral level. I thought it was really ambitious to go to some of the places it went, but it didn't quite work. Perhaps the person's vision (Crowe?) isn't fully actualized yet.

[khrisday]

I rebted it recently (or rather dh did) and it rally surprised me in a good way. It wasn't at all what the marketing had set me up for, and I was really taken aback with the plot twists. I do think that it dragged a bit in place, and that Penelope Cruz sucked (someone please get her an English tutor) but overall I thought it was a good film.

[faeriemom]

I liked it. But didn't love it. I'm all about the movies with puzzling twists and turns! I love the mental workout! This one was a pretty good puzzle, but not too difficult to figure out.

I really liked the questions it raised regarding reality. It's a subject I think about often -- What is real? What is reality? Do we create our own reality? Is there such a thing as reality?

It's kind of the same theme that ran through The Matrix, just wrapped up in a different package.

faeriemom

[dfoy]

I watched it last night....so was it *all* a dream? He wakes at the beginning with PC's voice on his alarm telling him to wake up. At the end, the same thing..."David, wake up".

I liked it. Thought it was VERY slow.

So, what was the line, christina? I'm curious!

[christina]

well, my favorite line was when Tom's character said "I lost you when I got in the car" (To Penelope Cruz, about when he got in the car with Cameron).
It's really a morality play in the old fashioned Shakespeare sense, I believe.
His greed destroyed his life...just that one little bj from Cameron...remember she said, "just bewtween you & I, I'll make it worth your while and won't tell anyone."
The small point that I enjoyed is the idea that our lives hinge on these sometimes brief, sometimes impulsive moments...especially in relationships/marriage. Life and love is fragile and can be smashed in less than a minute by one stupid choice...
Maybe some of our DADS here should chime in?




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[dfoy]

That's the part I liked, too.

For example, my dh & I are together because I asked him to dance one night. What if I decided not to?

Or are those "choices" predestined....fate?

Interesting.

[snailmama]

I loved it~!
I thought tom, penelope, and camron were great! I watched it about a month ago.

[TripkeHughes]

OMG... dh and I both sat there staring at the screen/blank faces/thinking what just happened. "Was that the movie?" Didn't like it, very strange... just didn't like it. KWIM? Anyone else left dumbfounded?

[Rachel Fox]

I actually liked it a lot. I thought the acting was good and I thought the plot was interesting and very well done.
I saw Penelope a couple years ago in a Spanish film "All About My Mother". I highly reccomend it.

[CosmicMama]

Rented it and fell asleep- better than counting sheep.

[Etoile]

Didn't like it. I didn't feel like I cared about any of the characters. Very slow & gave me wierd nightmares.

[christina]

Y...nice and honest.

[Greaseball]

I think the movie should have ended with Tom and Penelope both turning into cats and running off together!

[TripkeHughes]

Yammer, honest refelction. Now that you mention it... it got me thinking too. Wonder how many men it effected in the same way?