Hollywood version of a "mind blowing" experience

Rating: 8/10 (23 January 2002)

HEY!!!! *POSSIBLE SPOILERS*
I'm all about dreams and questioning reality and knowing that there is nothing to know. and I'm all about art that deals with those and other subjects. Unfortunately, in the city I live in, there isn't much of a chance for exposure to art of that nature. So, if I want to see art like that in the theater, I have to settle for Vanilla Sky. Any film that includes the lines "This is a revolution of the mind" and "Oh I'm sorry, I'm blowing your mind" isn't really doing anything to your mind.
It's easy to throw out the ideas that are thrown in this movie if you pad them with 15 minutes of explanation and "lubby-dubby" dialogue.
I have a hard time understanding how anyone could not understand this movie seeing that they spend forever explaining the concept that wasn't that incomprehensible in the first place.
On Jay Leno, Cameron Crowe said that this is a "love story" and that is what is wrong with this movie. In someone else's hands, this film could have been great, but it also could have been much worse. Cameron should stick to movies like "jerry maguire" and "almost famous" and "say anything" he is good at those.
If you mixed up the most outrageous art house film you ever saw
and the sappiest, stupidest love story you ever saw, you would get Vanilla Sky. We only need so many lines that "sum up the human condition in one phrase" before they sound tired.

I definitely liked this movie enough to recommend it, though. It proposes ideas and questions that wouldn't be proposed to the general audience if it didn't have so many stars in it. and the final minute is well done for impact. generally every song fit (except for "good vibrations")There were a few really good scenes now that I think of it.
But, of course, how could you pass up any movie that includes the funniest thing you can ever include in a movie ........................................................... PEOPLE CHANGING INTO OTHER PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
7 out of 10
(If the paragraphs on this seem odd, it's because now matter how hard I try I can't get them to go right!!!!)TECHNOLOGY!)