Obviously, Crowe overestimated audiences...

Rating: Null/10 (15 December 2001)

I just saw Vanilla sky. As I walked out of the theater, I realized just how stupid American audiences have been trained to be. With craptacular hits like The Lost World : Jurassic Park, and the new Star Wars movies in the top ten grossing movies of all time, people can't accept a movie that is new and different (Even if it is adapted). Maybe this is why no one goes to see the Coen Brothers' movies.
I'm glad that Tom Cruise is in it. Let's not think about his wonderful and true performance, but rather his drawing power. He has the power to bring audiences to a movie, no matter what it is. Thanks to his star power, I think this movie will gross a lot of dough, even with it's strange content. This means, perhaps, that the producers of this movie will let Crowe make more films. Maybe we're witnessing the birth of one of the great writers of American film.
Then again, that's me. Maybe the movie is "Stupid" and maybe you "Have to be on drugs to understand it". But maybe not. Maybe the teenage girls that "didn't like it because he was ugly" aren't the best critics of movies. I don't think so at least.