Vanilla Sky

This is unique and different! I really enjoyed it! It had me guessing the whole way though!

No review can sum this movie up with words. It has to be watched to be experienced.

This is an intelligent, well-written psychological drama. It is not fast-paced but makes you experience the film rather than just watch it. Tom Cruise's character - a fun loving, irresponsible billionaire - is one that would appeal to many, but underneath he is shallow and very lost, although he dashes through his life at such a speed he doesn't realize it. The story is well-written and well-paced and it leads the viewer to an unexpected place. So why do I not like it? Because it takes me on a journey that is foreign to me and it makes me experience what life for one certain irresonsible, shallow, young billionaire - someone I would not admire – might be like. The journey is poignant and with a few bruises. Fortunately, it ends in the right place - a place were few people are willing to go - and with a reward that few people are willing to claim. In other words, it's a great movie.

This movie is about nothing. Watching this movie is a waste of time and is like a bad dream.

One of my favorite movies.

a taste of everything that paints a picture of what we really are. Humans

15 years later and i still don’t understand the true meaning behind the film…no one does..thats why its so good

Beauty, complexity, suspenseful, funny, everything. Should be in everyone's Top 3. Classic

There are few films remakes that are adapted for the English language that bring a deeper view of a fictional reality. Like the tagline suggest for this film the combing of “LoveHateDreamsLife WorkPlayRelationshipsSex” will welcome you the movie Vanilla Sky, (2001). Director Cameron Crowe wanted to bring a different vision for this film as he rewritten and co-produced this remake of Director Alejandro Amenabar’s 1997 Spanish film Open your Eyes. This science fiction thriller has an odd sense of romance and reality warp to give a viewer an odd sense of misunderstanding for the film but an enjoyable one none the less. Vanilla Sky centers on David Aames, played by actor Tom Cruise, as a wealthy owner of a publishing firm in New York City. He has a life that most can only dream of having with fancy clothes, cars and of course women. But with all the vast fortune and fame he was given David is not happy. His former girlfriend Julianna "Julie" Gianni, played by actress Cameron Diaz, is to attached to him which drives David away from her. This all changes when he has a starry encounter at a party when he meets a woman by the name of Sofia Serrano, played by actress Penélope Cruz, which the two of them hit it off. David feels happy again while Julianna, who is also at the party, becomes jealous of the two. After a few days Julie takes David for a ride in her car while listing to a song she wrote for him. She explains to him she wants nothing more than to be with him to which he refuses. In response to being rebuff to the answer, Julie drives the car off a bridge in a suicide attempted, in which David survives. David, now disfigured and broken, must attempt to fix himself and the events around his life. As He wants nothing more than to be with Sofia. David’s other problems start to worsen. He is losing the company to his board, His best friend and trusted employee are thinking he is losing his mind, His real encounters with Julie, whom is presumed to be dead and lastly dealing with a murder that everyone believes he has committed. Director Cameron Crowe’s take within this film explores the possibility of how far and deep David is willing to go in the rabbit hole within his life. With rich detail and the moving music composition helps bring this story more to life. Also within the film, if you can really find them, are hidden “gems” that one might have to take a second viewing of it? In the end Vanilla Sky is a wonderful movie to watch and might leave a person guessing a few things. But all one has to do is just “Open your eyes.”

I still come back to this movie again and agian. My wife won't watch it with me anymore and I can't watch it with others because they either don't get it or I come off as weird so, I watch it alone and just let it wash over me. I have slow motioned throught all the billboards in the Times Square scene to see what was on them all. some strange, some funny , some of cast as kids and worth it if the movie got to you like it got to me. The scene in the elevator and the one in the park with Sofia get me every time man. Fruer, Doot Doot and Nancy's Elevator Beat were hard to find but, I got all the music in the film and it, like the movie will give me pause no matter where or when I hear it. This movie never sleeps in my mind, The shard is in there and I think it always will be.