Can someone tell me what Vanilla Sky was about/

[FunkyRooster]

I had seen that movie a little while ago with a bunch of friends and no one really could explain what just happened. Can anyone explain just a little about what happened in that movie so that I'm not completely clueless about it. Thanks in advance!!

 

[TIdoublegaER]

Well, I watched it and didn't get it either, so I'm of no help. I don't like movies where the story line is as clear as mud - which is why I haven't watched Mulholland Drive yet.

 

[shamrock bunch]

Can't help you either. I turned it off halfway through. It ranks up there as one of the dumbest movies ever made.

 

[aahmom1]

Tom Cruise's character was in a bad accident. He turned into a miserable recluse who was always in pain. So instead of living his life in pain, he commited suicide and lived in something like a dream like state, except he was dead, they called it a 'lucid dream'. In the end, when he figured out that he was really dead and it was all just a bad dream, they told him he could go back and get un-frozen (it was 150 years later) or he could continue with the dream. He chose to be un-frozen and live a real life.

I actually really enjoyed this movie, it took a little thought to keep up but once I figured it out, I was very into it. On the other hand, I got DH to watch it with me the other night and he hated it.

 

[Karista]

This was one of those movies that when it was over I looked at my husband and we both went "huh?" Same thing with Magnolia

 

[Itsanalias]

Vanilla Sky was about the biggest waste of 2 1/2 hrs I've ever seen. Even worse than Magnolia, IMHO.

Actually, it was a good premise, just a dreadful script.....

 

[JoNo]

I liked the original version the best, but they did a really good job in translating & bringing it to the american audience.

 

[MickeysMommy]

I'm starting to hate all of Tom Cruise's latest movies....Hated this movie and Eyes Wide Shut and started to watch Magnolia and gave up. Why can't he do another "Cocktail" when he looked adorable and everyone loved his movies?

 

[FOJMO]

Originally posted by MickeysMommy
I'm starting to hate all of Tom Cruise's latest movies....Hated this movie and Eyes Wide Shut and started to watch Magnolia and gave up. Why can't he do another "Cocktail" when he looked adorable and everyone loved his movies?

I hope you've seen "Minority Report", because it's TERRIFIC! We watched it again yesterday for about the 4th time and really loved it!

 

[Itsanalias]

Originally posted by MickeysMommy
I'm starting to hate all of Tom Cruise's latest movies....Hated this movie and Eyes Wide Shut and started to watch Magnolia and gave up. Why can't he do another "Cocktail" when he looked adorable and everyone loved his movies?

Eyes Wide Shut was bad. Minority Report was pretty good. Jerry McGuire was a great movie. Mission Impossible 1 and 2 were good as well. I think he wants to take the edgy roles, but it doesn't seem like he knows how to identify a good script.

 

[grinningghost]

I was spooked when I read the title of this thread. Just this morning, an old co-worker of mine called me and asked if I had ever seen "Vanilla Sky". I haven't. He told me I HAVE to rent it because he was creeped out about how much Penelope Cruz reminded him of me. Her mannerisms, her looks (I wish, I think he might have been imagining that), etc. So now I have to rent it.

He did say it was a seriously weird movie though.

 

[Shannon G]

Another person here who turned it off halfway through...

 

[manchurianbrownbear]

I'm pretty sure after watching Vanilla Sky I knew what was going on, but some of the details have escaped me.

One movie that I really enjoyed, but would like to have someone explain to me is Memento!

 

[catsrule]

I hated Vanilla Skye also. I understood it at the end, but I still thought it was dumb. Maybe I was too concerned with how Tom Cruise managed to be so much taller than Cameron Diaz.

I did love Minority Report.

 

[SideshowBob]

SSB loved "Magnolia"... especially the music... wowsers!

However, the only redeeming thing in Vanilla Sky was Penelope Cruz ...

Perhaps SSB missed this part, but I thought that he was just "frozen" this whole time, in a "state"... though not really "dead". Kind of lame-o, in parts.

Surprisingly, the only one mentioned that I walked out of (only three even in my life), was "Minority Report"... just thought too cutsie with flames from back pack thrusters cooking the burgers, and such. Only other two that I have left part way through were "Blazing Saddles" and "Twin Dragons", a horrific Jackie Chan film. (ISSB'sHO)

 

[kinlaw6450]

I'm with aahmom1, once I figured out what was going on I really liked it! But then I liked Eyes Wide Shut and Magnolia too...

 

[BibbidiBobbidiBOO]

We actually liked Vanilla Sky and Minority Reports. I don't remember all of Vanilla Sky, but we did figure it out and liked it in the end. It is very different though!

 

[Micca]

I thought VS Was cool. I bought the DVD and have enjoyed it.

 

[Disney845]

Another person who though VS was a huge waste of my time. The premise was ok but the movie itself just stank. I am with SSB though...I though he was just cryogenically frozen, didn't think he was actually "dead" although maybe I just missed something there...it wouldn't have been hard to do with a movie like this. I spent most of the time trying to explain to SO what was going on in the movie. He absolutely HATED movies like this.

As far as Memento goes, I didn't even bother trying to explain that one to him I think the idea behind that movie, for the person who asked, was that the main character had a serious short term memory loss problem due to a head blow he suffered during his wife's murder. He is trying to solve the "mystery" of who killed her, but since he can't remember anything that has happened since the attack he must write down notes, take pictures, and tattoo his body with the clues he is learning. The movie is sort of told backwards with each scene being what happened "before" the scene you just saw. Rather confusing to explain so I hope you understood what I was just saying!

 

[JoNo]

Well, here's a summed up & good explaination of vanilla sky once & for all...

Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz are in the car. When it goes over, he is very very disfigured & close to death. That's when in "real time" they cryo him & he starts his "dream time", which is the whole movie. Skipping through most of the movie, things get really bad for him in his brain in "real time" and he starts having nightmares, or really bad problems in "dream time". At the end, he had to jump off the building to face his fear of heights and falling as a security way for him to be unfrozen and brought back into "real time". Of course the "dream time" is only a few weeks long, but in "real time" it was 150 years long.